Book of Weiji

Many years later, Chi Weisheng would still think of what Chi Laime said: "The dead return to their homeland, and the living return to their homeland." He didn't know at that time that in Gua Tu, a person's first cry after birth was not considered truly alive. Every baby has to be held on the rooftop to have their divination measured, naturalized and their fate determined. Once the destiny card is made, it will remain unchanged for life. Some people have reached high positions because of it, while others have been sent to borders, prisons, and altars because of it. In the winter of the 13th year of Tianjing's reign, the rooftop was burned down in the heavy snow. Sixty-four fortune cards were shattered. Historians said it was a sign from the sky, but the Taidivination Sect kept it secret. Only the old man in Dead Man's Valley remembered that it snowed heavily that night, heavy enough to bury many unclaimed bones. Also that night, a baby emerged from the ashes. The old hexagram master made a hexagram for him, and the hexagram became "Weiji". He said that nothing in this son's life would be successful. So the child was put back into the snow, like a typo that should have been erased by heaven and earth. But when a bone picker passed by the Dead Man's Ditch, he heard his faint cry. The strangest thing about Chi Weisheng's life is that everyone says that he can't achieve anything, but wherever he walks, those fates that have been written for a long time will quietly crack. The snow will stop, the fire will go out, and the pages of the book will turn yellow. But there are always some people who refuse to live on the page that is written.