The Patriarch's words made me hesitate.
I had to make a choice about the event encompassed by this hexagram: whether to get involved or stay out of it.
Only if I got involved would this hexagram give a conclusion. That meant the course of this event would have something to do with me, and I would have a major influence on it.
But if I stayed out of it, the whole event would have nothing to do with me, so this hexagram would have no meaning, and there would be no need to interpret it.
Suddenly, I wasn't sure anymore.
The Seventh Master had already told me to stay out of it.
I had thought about it for a long time, and very seriously. Perhaps staying out of it was the best choice.
But whether I got involved or not, my mother would meet a bad end.
Then what course of events would I actually be influencing?
Could it be whether the Seventh Master and Song Xiaotian lived or died?
At that thought, I immediately grew worried.
"I'll get involved!"
"I want to interpret this hexagram!"
Only after hearing my answer did the Patriarch turn to look at me and ask for confirmation. "Have you thought this through? In life, different endings often come about because people make different choices."
I shook my head. "But so many choices in life don't leave us any room to choose for ourselves."
I had barely decided to stay out of it when I was given a revelation.
To unravel that revelation, I had to get involved. Wasn't that forcing me to make a choice?
No one had ever truly asked whether I wanted this, not even Heaven.
People should indeed live for themselves.
But this was the Seventh Master.
But this was Song