Fortune's Way

Wealth Luck is an urban supernatural novel by the web author Jianghu Zuiyu. Serialized online since 2014, the main text comprises 840 chapters and is set against the backdrop of modern city life, interwoven with elements of feng shui, fate calculation, and cultivation. The protagonist, Zhao Zhiqiang, inherits a ancestral bronze shell. Once the shell becomes linked to his bloodline, he gradually acquires the special abilities to "observe wealth luck, alter wealth luck, and seize wealth luck": he can see the rise and fall, thickness and thinness of the wealth aura above a person's head, can step in to change someone's fortune and add blessings and longevity, and can even transfer another's good luck for his own use. The story begins with his entanglement in a gambling game, then extends to the village committee election in Chang'an Village, poverty alleviation and rural construction, business rivalries, gambling on raw jade and antique trading, and maneuvering through official circles; in the latter half, the scope is raised to the cultivation conflicts and immortal-demonic showdowns of the Xuantan Sect. Zhao Zhiqiang styles himself "this director," is a wisecracking sort, greedy for money yet never without a bottom line, and uses the power of the bronze shell to help those around him out of trouble while pushing himself all the way from a rustic village fellow to a figure whom all sides must treat with respect. The book, written in a light and humorous tone, deals with wealth, fortune, and human dealings, and tells of the karmic cycle that "blessing, prosperity, wealth, and longevity are inherently one": the luck seized through ability must ultimately be repaid through virtue. This entry is an electronically proofread full text of the book (a version circulating online) and is not a formal publication.