Author’s Note

High-profile Statement:

In this text, specialized professional terms and formulas related to astrology and fortune-telling—like Ziwei Doushu—appeared with high-frequency references taken from some books, Baidu Encyclopedia, and compilations of formulas. Some citations had been marked during serialization, some might have been missed. Thus, let it be stated first that all these professional matters had been quoted! Quoted! Quoted!

This story was purely fictional and possessed no real-world reference value. Please do not embrace superstitions; long live socialism!

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This work entered V on February 13, 2021, and there had been three updates upon entering V. Thanks for the support.
In the new year, nothing else needed to be said—wishing everyone to make a fortune!

PS: Don’t ask anymore, I truly didn’t know Feng Shui; I simply borrowed from the classics and then made things up, got it! It was the kind where the book had one sentence, I slapped my head, “Oh oh oh oh!” Then I began using that sentence as the core to start inventing a Feng Shui setup… as long as it could be justified, that was fine.

By the way, I remembered that the biggest difficulty in writing this book was, damn it, how to create that setup. Often, I wrote right up to the setup part yet still hadn’t found which example to use. Then I would frantically flip through books, pick a badass one, and start making it up. Some setups only had a single sentence, no diagram for reference, so I went crazy searching for images on Baidu. In the middle of the night, I even stumbled upon some eerie cemetery pictures that scared the hell out of me.

2021-4-25 Supplement
I suddenly remembered that I wanted to talk about Yu Ning’s character design. Many people felt that a twenty-five- or twenty-six-year-old adult who acted like a giant baby, clinging to his master and grandmaster every day, was unrealistic. Actually… this came from the character’s logical progression. Yu Ning’s setting was that his parents divorced when he was young, and he lived with his grandparents. Later, those two passed away, leaving him alone. Overall, he yearned for familial affection. He wasn’t someone who had never been out in society. He had enough life experience to understand what behavior the people who valued him preferred. People subconsciously presented the side that others wanted to see.

Mr. Mei and Yu Ning had already known each other for nearly a year before the story began. Judging from Mr. Mei’s behavior in the latter half, he also quite enjoyed having a junior who was affectionate. Some people, as they got older, happened to like younger folks being clingy. It was not a particularly rare psychological state. Everyone could think back on whether, in front of very close elders from another generation, we sometimes unconsciously acted spoiled or silly, just to make them smile.

As for why he acted so cool, arrogant, and flamboyant outside, that was actually a result of his personality plus his status. Comparing it to reality, it would be roughly: “You are somewhat of a big shot in your industry, you have savings, people beg you to do work, and unfamiliar HR staff or project managers come knocking every day, practically kneeling to ask, ‘Big shot, do you have time to take this assignment? Big shot, are you job-hunting?’ Would you then show extreme humility in such a situation?”

People naturally had subtle differences in their attitudes toward relatives, colleagues, friends, or strangers, and those could sometimes be huge. A close example was my best friend, who was a minor manager at a state-owned enterprise. Her subordinates secretly complained that she was super strict and difficult. But when she came out with me to eat, she was just a normal crazy woman—she joked around and laughed without missing a beat, looking exhausted while drinking with me and complaining about her subordinates being a real handful. Did that mean she had a split personality?

Whether someone stepped into society or not, people naturally had different faces that changed with the environment, time, events, and the people involved. It was that simple.

Hence, Yu Ning’s attitude and personality showed subtle differences when interacting with various people. That was normal, nothing else.