My master said: “Never cast a divination on a whim, but learn to follow your heart as well.”
Sun Yansheng was born on a Ten Spirits Day. Bright from childhood, he simply had no interest in exams. An encounter aboard a green-skinned train led him to be taken in by a school of esoteric arts, where he studied for years and mastered a range of mystical skills.
The first rule his master taught him wasn’t to seek good fortune and avoid disaster, but to first verify the people and events, then study the divination chart.
As an adult, Sun Yan didn’t set up a fortune-telling stall. Instead, he entered the film and television industry, working behind the scenes in publicity. When equipment went missing during a shoot, he used Qimen symbolism to narrow down the search area, and director Zhang Zhaowei realized who his master was.
One was born on a Dingyou day, gentle and reserved, never showing his joys or anger; the other was born on a Jia Wood day, forthright and steadfast, with every emotion written on his face.
They thought it would be a simple collaboration, but the family heirloom chart Zhang Zhaowei brought out bore an inscription strikingly similar to those of Sun Yan’s school.
Starting with a fragmentary destiny chart, the two gradually become entangled in one puzzling affair after another in the film industry, and step by step uncover long-buried secrets from their families’ traditions.
Divination can point the way, astrological charts can reveal temperament, and Qimen can forecast the times.
But the crucial step fate lays before us must always be taken by our own feet.
Yes, it is a different kind of urban literature, metaphysics adapted to daily life