The Ancestors Won't Hand You a Meal

Tan Yangyang's ancestors were fortune-tellers who read faces and destinies for a living. She started studying birth charts as soon as she learned to count. By the age of ten, she could make bold, accurate predictions about a person's fate and divine the future. The entire Tan family thought she would become their finest successor. Unfortunately, even at eighteen, Tan Yangyang's eyes were still bright, with not the slightest sign that she was going blind. Grandpa Tan took away her rice bowl. "Go take the exam to become a public school teacher. The patriarch isn't granting you a living in this trade, so don't pursue it anymore." ...Many years later, Tan Yangyang, a public school teacher with a secure job, met her own ancestor. An old saying goes: At eighteen, your eyes go blind and your celestial eye opens. At twenty-seven, your eyes and four senses are lost. At thirty-six, all five senses are extinguished, and you lose all ties to your family. And so Tan Yangyang became a proud public school teacher, living a happy life taking her cat for walks, playing with dogs, and teasing her students. * Tan Kai is a professor at Southwest University of Architecture and Technology. On one occasion, he visited a middle school in a third-tier city to help advise on the design of the school building at the school where Tan Yangyang worked. Tan Yangyang was carrying teaching materials and paperwork when she passed Tan Kai. Their eyes met, and they recognized a fellow practitioner! [Please Read Before Starting] 1. This story involves fortune-telling and the supernatural. There are ghosts, but it's not scary. 2. Ninety-five percent of the occult knowledge in this story is made up. The author reserves the right to interpret it. 3. The author does not eat ginseng. Theme: Personal effort matters more than the will of the occult heavens. Human determination can overcome fate.