He opened to the latest page, revealing a line of elegant regular script.
[Twenty-Seven Arts of Fate Changing: Do not pursue perilous deeds to indulge in dangerous thrills, for this greatly damages your fortune. That you escaped unharmed before was only because your fortune had not yet run out.]
Wang Xiaoliang sounded it out word by word, muttering under his breath.
When he finished, he was dumbfounded.
What the hell was this supposed to mean? Did it have anything whatsoever to do with him?
He guided himself along with his finger, reading it several times, word by word, before he began to get the gist.
The first line, "Do not pursue perilous deeds to indulge in dangerous thrills"... probably meant not to go looking for things dangerous enough to kill you just for fun.
The second line, "For this greatly damages your fortune." Doing those things would damage your fortune.
The third line, "That you escaped unharmed before was only because your fortune had not yet run out." You had been fine before not because you were some badass, but because you were lucky and hadn't squandered all your fortune getting yourself killed yet.
Then what if your fortune ran out?
The consequences were obvious without even thinking about them.
At best, injury or disability. At worst... your life was over!
An old saying popped into Wang Xiaoliang's head: A wise man does not stand beneath a crumbling wall.
Wasn't the Book of Fate explaining that very saying?
It explained why you shouldn't stand beneath a crumbling wall.
Every time you wandered beneath that wall and it didn't collapse on you, it wasn't because the wall was sturdy. It was your fortune holding it up. Once your fortune ran out one day, there would be a crack, and you would