Chen Mo graduates only to find himself unemployed. While sleeping on a park bench, he finds a battered copy of The Metaphysics Laborer's Guide to Self-Rescue beside a trash can.
With nowhere else to turn, he reluctantly tries a formula from the book, moving the breakfast-stall owner's trash can and adjusting the direction of the sign.
To his surprise, business really does pick up.
“Master!” The owner excitedly presses five hundred yuan and two baskets of buns into his hands.
Chen Mo looks at the greasy bills, then at the ridiculous book in his hands. A daring thought forms in his mind:
Could this thing... actually make money?
From then on, a materialist who firmly believes in science (the female lead, Su Xiaoran) and a half-baked feng shui laborer (Chen Mo) team up to run an utterly unreliable “Fortune Adjustment Agency.”
Their services include, but are not limited to:
Helping a couple who share an apartment resolve a “breakup crisis caused by the toilet facing the wrong way.”
Advising an influencer on how to set up a “lighting formation that makes viewers unable to resist tipping without bankrupting them.”
Designing an office layout for business owners that “attracts wealth without making employees feel oppressed.”
Every layout is a hilarious collision between science and metaphysics;
every fortune adjustment is a delicate balancing act between human nature and desire.
And Chen Mo gradually realizes that the best feng shui isn't arranging formations or performing rituals. It's this:
“Only when you start taking life seriously will life start taking you seriously.”
[This is a story about using a compass to measure laughs, serving up chicken soup with the Eight Trigrams, and helping ordinary people laugh their way to a new destiny amid the melodramatic realities of life.]
