"You cast the hexagram using Tao Xiaoyu's name, so she's the subject of the entire reading."
Seventh Master looked at me and said, "This reading is mainly about Tao Xiaoyu. Since Little Meng is her boyfriend, it can tell us a little about him along the way, but not about anything major concerning him."
I immediately felt a little disappointed.
I had thought Seventh Master's earlier words meant Meng Yifan wouldn't go to prison.
"Seventh Master, why don't you use your own method to do another reading for Meng Yifan?"
Song Xiaotian said, "Use the method you specialize in. With your skill, you'll surely be able to work out his ultimate outcome."
Seventh Master looked solemn. "Yes, that's how it should work in principle. But the problem is that I'm the diviner, and Little Meng is the person involved. If I don't get involved in his affairs, I can do the reading. But if I get involved in the future, I'll become part of the karma too, and my reading won't be accurate."
"I use Yin Pan Qimen. In Qimen, we call it setting up a chart, not casting a hexagram. If my karmic involvement in this chart is substantial, the chart becomes meaningless, and there's no point in interpreting it further, because this is Little Meng's chart, while I'm a changing variable."
Song Xiaotian looked utterly bewildered, as though he were listening to some incomprehensible scripture.
Never mind him-I hadn't understood it either.
Although Qimen and the Six Lines both developed from the Eight Trigrams, they had different systems, so naturally their reading procedures and methods differed too.
That was why I couldn't quite understand what Seventh Master was saying.
"I'll give it a try first. Just take the conclusion as a reference. Don't trust it completely."
Seventh Master