In 1926, Beiyang was in troubled times, and the dragon's veins were about to be broken.
She is Shen Zhiwei, the last female official in the Qintian Prison. She holds a thirty-six-layer compass, which can measure the fate of the country, determine life and death, and change feng shui. When it comes to six-line divination, she can calculate it accurately; when it comes to flying stars in the mysterious sky, she can determine good or bad fortune at a glance. Although she could calculate the world, she could not calculate her own fate - the third generation of the Shen family had died young, and she would not live to be thirty-five.
He is Lu Mingxiu, a reporter for Shenbao and an intelligence agent of the Southern Revolutionary Party. I don't believe in Feng Shui, I don't believe in fate, I only believe in guns and doctrine. It wasn't until she said, "It's not appropriate to go north during the peak season" that she saved his life. From then on, his materialistic worldview cracked.
Duan Hongye, the Beiyang warlord, wanted to force her to join the "Emperor Bureau" to change the dynasty. Bai Jiuye, the leader of the Qing Gang, wants to seize Shanghai Dragon Vein to save his life and use her as a sacrifice. She dealt with warlords, gangs, foreigners, and revolutionary parties, using feng shui as a sword and wisdom as a shield to survive in the cracks of all forces.
"I don't care about the national destiny," she said. "The national destiny is not something that an individual can bear."
"Then I will protect you," he said, "until the day you can bear it."
From Beiping Liulichang to Shanghai Paramount, from Dry Well Town to Huangpu River Dragon Vein, she used the blood of descendants of Qin Tianjian to break the "luck-seizing technique", reverse the "Emperor's Game", and take one step and count three steps on the chessboard of destiny. But when the truth about her grandfather's curse was revealed, and when the "Three Life-Changing Needles" were pierced into her acupuncture points, she finally understood that what Qin Tianjian was looking at was not the celestial phenomena, but the human heart. Those who know fate are wise, and those who protect fate live. Only those who do not accept fate can change the world.
