Others Use the Eight Characters of Your Birth to Tell Your Fortune; I Use Them to Subdue Ghosts and Gods

[Destiny] + [Folk Customs] + [No Female Lead] Believe in science and reject superstition. All destinies described in this book are fictional and exist solely for the story. Please don’t take them as referring to you. Eight Characters fortune-telling is an ancient method of prediction. Many people are probably familiar with it. Those who have tried using it to read someone’s destiny may have noticed that readings based on the Eight Characters are sometimes accurate and sometimes not. Why are they inaccurate? The fortune-teller may lack skill, but there might be another explanation... A book called The True Interpretation of the Eight Characters, left behind by his maternal grandfather, brings Zhang Xing face-to-face with the unnatural side of the world while he’s telling fortunes. He never imagined the Eight Characters concealed far more than predictions, including all manner of bizarre phenomena...