Lai the Fortune-Teller said someone had set me up with an inescapable fate spanning three lives and seven incarnations: three calamities and seven failures. Even reincarnation wouldn't let me escape.
The only way to break the deadlock is to steal fate from Heaven.
Find the main incense burners from eight City God temples and eight Taoist temples. Make three life-size paper figures and two mirrors. On the only yin year, yin month, and yin day in nearly a century, hold my own portrait and bow to myself.
Heaven and Earth bow to me. My past and future selves bow to me. I bow to myself.
If I succeed, I defy fate. If I fail, my soul will be scattered.
I have eight days left.
I don't want to die. I'll defy Heaven and steal my fate!
