Feng shui in this world is never supernatural or all-powerful. It is woven into the everyday lives of ordinary people.
Born into a family of feng shui practitioners, Chen Jiu spent his childhood following his grandfather through the bustling streets and alleys. He learned no fanciful arts of subduing evil spirits from afar or flying through the heavens. Instead, he mastered the practical, time-honored folk arts of yin-yang geomancy: changing one’s fortunes, warding off evil, dispelling malign influences, and bringing peace to a home.
On his deathbed, Chen Jiu’s grandfather urged him again and again: a feng shui master must never exploit the poor, deceive the kindhearted, defy the laws of heaven, or profit from ill-gotten gains. Guided by this ancestral creed, Chen Jiu keeps a dilapidated fortune-telling shop in the old neighborhood and sees through the fortunes and misfortunes of countless families.
A mansion may not bring wealth, while a humble home can still offer shelter. An ancestral grave may fail to bless its descendants, but a settled heart can determine one’s fate.
He has seen the rich lose everything chasing feng shui schemes, and good people lose their homes and families because of flaws in their burial sites. He has also seen countless ordinary families suffer chronic illness and declining fortunes because of misaligned doors and windows, beams pressing down from above, or clashing yin energy.
There is no fantastical cultivation, no power to defy heaven.
Only feng shui grounded in everyday life, the warmth and coldness of human relationships, and the cycle of cause and effect.
An ordinary master of yin and yang, with perceptive eyes that can read qi and a geomantic art passed down through generations, Chen Jiu walks the mortal world, inspecting homes, locating auspicious sites, dispelling malign influences, and guiding people through calamity. He untangles the world’s countless yin-yang dilemmas and uncovers the roots of fortune and misfortune in everyday life.
