The Girl with the Heavenly Eye: Feng Shui Destiny

Gu Laoma's name is Luo Wenfen, and Gu Yuanjiang is her youngest son, so she usually dotes on him more. Gu Yuanjiang has an older brother, an older sister, and a younger sister. Luo Wenfen had been taking care of him for half a month but was starting to feel impatient. She complained to Gu Yuanjiang, "What's wrong with your wife? The man's still in the hospital, is work more important than you? Hurry up and call her back to take care of you. I've got things to do and can't keep staying here looking after you."

"She's on a business trip, didn't I tell you?" Gu Yuanjiang was also irritated. Things hadn't been going well lately, and he had been feeling cold and unwell for days. He had been having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night. He had lost a lot of weight in just a few days.

Luo Wenfen said, "How much can she earn at work? Didn't you say your business is starting to make money? Why not just have her quit her job and stay home to take care of you and Jia Jia? Jia Jia is about to enter high school; she needs someone to look after her."

"Enough, stop talking. I need to rest." Gu Yuanjiang was becoming more irritable. He couldn't bring himself to tell Luo Wenfen that his business had failed. Half of the money he invested in the business was borrowed from her.

"Alright, alright, I won't say anymore," Luo Wenfen said, pretending to be understanding. But once she turned around, she went to the hallway and called her daughter-in-law. When the call connected, she immediately started scolding, "Cheng Yinxiang, what's wrong with you? Don't you know your husband has broken his leg? Yuanjiang's business was starting to make money, and you're still working? I think you should just come back and take care of Yuanjiang and Jia Jia, who's about to enter high school..."

On the other end of the phone, Cheng Yinxiang laughed a little. "Mom, didn't Gu Yuanjiang tell you that we got divorced a while ago? His business failed, and the debts were split. The two kids are now living with me," she said, then hung up the phone with a click. Luo Wenfen stood still for a moment.

After a while, Luo Wenfen's face turned pale as she returned to the hospital room. "Yuanjiang, I just called your wife, and she said you two have already divorced. She also said your business failed. What's going on?"

Gu Yuanjiang's face turned black. "That's right, my business failed, so we got divorced."

Luo Wenfen scolded, "What's wrong with your wife? She's leaving just because the business failed! I'm going to call her and scold her again. And the kids—why did you let Jia Jia stay with her? Even Qin Qin doesn't have anything to do with her. Why let Jia Jia go to her..."

"Mom, enough already." Gu Yuanjiang was feeling more and more frustrated. "Don't get involved in this. I'm almost better. You go ahead and take care of my discharge paperwork."

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Yinxiang was still a little dazed, staring out the window. She and Gu Yuanjiang had been in a love marriage. Back then, the Cheng family and the Gu family both lived in the outskirts of Daishan City. Later, Cheng's father decided to move to Liangping City in the neighboring province, and the Cheng family moved there as well.

At that time, Gu Yuanjiang was gentle and well-mannered, and he was good to her. But after marriage, things changed. They lived with the Gu family in a large house. The whole family lived together: the married older brother, the unmarried younger sister, and the rest of them, making it a very lively household. When she married into the Gu family, she did everything, including washing her sister-in-law's clothes. If she didn't do it well, Luo Wenfen would scold her.

Every year during the New Year, Luo Wenfen wouldn't let her return to her own family. She said that once she married into the Gu family, she was a member of the Gu family—alive or dead. She could never go back to her own family during the New Year. So, for all these years, she had never returned to her own family during the New Year. She could only visit after the holiday. Even then, Luo Wenfen was dissatisfied and complained constantly.

She felt wronged and told Gu Yuanjiang about it, but his response was no different from his mother's. He told her that since she married into the Gu family, she shouldn't keep thinking about her own family.

Later on, she realized that Gu Yuanjiang was arrogant and had a macho mindset. Eventually, they moved out of the Gu family's large house. They built a small two-story house in the outskirts of Ningshui, though the land still belonged to the Gu family, so the house was registered under her mother-in-law's name. Gu Yuanjiang's father had long passed, and the money to build the house was saved by Cheng Yinxiang through her hard work.

Cheng Yinxiang felt like she had been humiliated for so many years, and she couldn't continue living like this. For the sake of Qin Qin, she knew she could no longer allow herself to be bullied by the Gu family.

Gu Qin wanted to help her family, but she couldn't do much else. She was under eighteen and couldn't get a part-time job. Even if she tried, the pay was too low. So, she decided to try her luck in another way. The next day, she went to the antique street, but none of the antique stalls had real items; everything was fake. Even the antique shops had some real items, but their prices were too high, and she couldn't make much profit by reselling them. The shop also mixed in a lot of fake items.

It seemed there was no way to get lucky with antiques, and she didn't know any other fast ways to make money. The only option left was fortune-telling. In her previous life, her master had a great reputation, so she started with a high starting point. People knew she was his disciple, and they came to her for face reading, feng shui, and grave site consultations. Her readings were accurate, and her reputation grew. Over time, people stopped referring to her as "Master's disciple" and simply called her "Master Gu Qin."

In her past life, she had followed her master's surname, Gu.

Gu Qin also knew two royal tombs. One of them was discovered when her master found it during a feng shui consultation, and the other was a tomb the emperor had sought her out to find after her master passed away. Imperial tombs always had distinguishing features. These two tombs seemed to remain undiscovered, and whatever was inside must be worth a fortune. However, attempting to enter them would be illegal, and she didn't have the strength to do so yet. Therefore, she had to give up on this idea.

It seemed her only option was to go back to her old profession and become a feng shui master.

A feng shui master needed to be skilled at fortune-telling. Fortune-telling was essentially the art of predicting one's fate, using one's birth date and time and the five elements. In simple terms, it's about predicting the major events in a person's life—what has already happened and what will happen in the future. Of course, it isn't as detailed as clairvoyance; it only offers a rough idea, especially about important events.

The most famous methods for fortune-telling include the Four Pillars of Destiny (Ba Zi) and Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology). The Four Pillars of Destiny relies on the ten heavenly stems, twelve earthly branches, and the five elements to predict one's luck and misfortune. Zi Wei Dou Shu uses constellations in combination with twelve palaces to predict a person's fate. There are other methods too, but these two are the most well-known and widely used. Gu Qin usually used the Four Pillars of Destiny.

Furthermore, skilled feng shui masters must also be able to do face reading, palmistry, bone reading, and mole reading. As for feng shui, they must be adept at both residential and burial site feng shui. Real feng shui masters could easily use the feng shui of living or dead spaces to help or harm others.

Finally, a feng shui master must also know divination. This evolved from the ancient art of Zhou Yi, using methods like tortoiseshells, coins, bamboo sticks, paper slips, or astrology to predict future events. Many books cover this, such as "Meihua Yishu," "Najia Duanyi," "Liuren Shenke," "Taiyi Shenshu," and "Qimen Dunjia." Some schools even include prophetic dreams, dream interpretation, and numerology in their divination practices.

Gu Qin knew all of these, though she didn't plan to use her clairvoyant abilities frequently. For her, fortune-telling with birth dates and face reading was enough to help others.

Gu Qin vaguely remembered there was a large bridge in Daishan City, and underneath it were many fortune-telling booths. The locals all knew where the fortune tellers gathered, though they could only be called fortune tellers and not true feng shui masters. Gu Qin, with no reputation now, had to start from scratch.