Lu Ming has two problems.
First, he scored 47 in math, third from the bottom in his class. After staying up late for a week, he got 43, an even worse score.
Second, he has no idea why Grandpa Su, his grandfather’s old army buddy, insists on teaching him the I Ching.
Sixty-four hexagrams, sixty-four tools for thinking. The Qian hexagram teaches him, “Don’t rush into the sky.” The Kun hexagram teaches him, “Learn when to keep quiet.” The Zhun hexagram teaches him, “Start by cleaning up.” Grandpa Su says it isn’t a book about fortune-telling, but one about finding the right pace.
Lu Ming learns fast. So fast that even he finds it frightening.
Because he discovers that Zhou Yan, the school board chairman’s son who makes his life difficult every day, is secretly studying it too.
They use the same hexagrams, but follow completely opposite paths.
One starts out as a hopeless case and finds his rhythm through trial and error. The other, driven by the need to “win at all costs,” struggles to find himself. Their two journeys of growth intersect, clash, and unfold in their own ways through the wisdom of the sixty-four hexagrams.
And the final hexagram is “Before Completion,” meaning that what you think is the ending might not be the ending at all.
Open this book and join Lu Ming in becoming an interpreter of life’s hexagrams. You’ll discover that the sixty-four hexagrams aren’t just in a book. They’re in everyone who takes life seriously.
