[Forty-Four Arts of Yi Fate: When misfortune strikes, first seek a way to turn it into good fortune.]
It meant: when something bad happened, your first reaction should not be to accept defeat, but to consider whether you could turn it into something good.
Wasn't that exactly what he had done with this crisis?
So he smiled.
The day the inspection group arrived, his first reaction had been that it was all over.
The night market was finished. All that work for nothing. Might as well turn it back into a parking lot.
Just like when he had been forced to pull out of Jiangchuang Supermarket.
But he hadn't accepted it.
He had calmly thought of solutions. They passed the fire safety inspection, solved the parking problem, improved the quality of the stalls, and got the deputy district chief onto the ribbon-cutting stage.
Misfortune?
Good fortune.
And this good fortune was greater than what he had had before. The original night market had been bustling, sure, but it had been full of hidden problems with cleaning, order, and fire safety. Now this street had been personally vetted by a team led by the deputy district chief.
Wang Xiaoliang closed the Book of Fate and tucked it back into the drawer.
He lay down, both hands behind his head.
He kept turning those two experiences of handling crises over in his mind.
If nothing else, his state of mind had been vastly different.
This time, he hadn't been anxious or angry.
Last time, faced with a problem that seemed impossible to solve, he had gotten angry first, then thought of solutions once his anger had passed.
Even the solutions he came up with had felt rushed.
This time had been completely different.
When he encountered a problem.
He thought about something