Destiny is a tendency, not a destiny. Only those who understand can choose; those who do not understand can only be chosen.
Lin Beidou, 34 years old, is a Taipei teahouse numerologist and the seventh generation successor of Ziwei Dou Shu. There are three words on the birth chart: Tiansha Lone Star. The master said that when the curse broke out at the age of thirty-five, he had only one solution - to push people away. The teahouse is open and business is going on, but no one is around.
Until Su Wanqing walked into the teahouse. As a psychological counselor, her client asked her "Is fate real?" She couldn't answer scientifically, so she came to see a numerologist. Beidou told her to leave, but she refused. Abacus, the black cat in the teahouse, has never been close to anyone in twelve years, but he jumped off the window sill the moment she walked in. This reading made it impossible for him to continue pretending.
Chen Tuan, a Taoist priest of the Northern Song Dynasty, gave him a task in his dream: every time he read a palace, he would travel through time and enter a historical scene. Hongmen Banquet, Xuanwumen Incident, Zhaojun's Exodus from the Fortress, and the Siege of Gaixia. But there was one iron rule - he couldn't change anything.
History cannot be changed. But the meaning can be reread.
Xiang Yu let Liu Bang go at the Hongmen Banquet, not because of miscalculation, but because he chose to be himself. Zhaojun's departure from the border was not a sacrifice, it was her choice of the only independent path in her destiny. Every time he came back, Beidou was increasingly unsure whether he was protecting her by pushing the person away, or whether he was protecting himself from having to face that problem.
The ending is not about the hero defeating the curse. It is a person who stops checking every day whether the wound is still there.
Intention: Fate is a tendency, not a destiny. People can choose how to understand their situation.