Fate Chooses You (佳偶天成) drops viewers into a fierce scramble for Gong (宫) Mountain Jade Tablets—tokens that promise the Immortality Pill. Every sect lies about how many they hold, from Ling Ji Shan (灵寂山) claiming four when they have ten, to Tianyuan Sect (天元派) boasting five while hoarding twenty. Yet amid all the greed, Xin Mei (辛湄) does nothing. She ends up with ten tablets.
Worse for those fighting tooth and nail, she smashes them one by one when questioned. That moment shakes Bai Zongying (白宗英). He finally sees a truth: he and Xin Mei share the same magic artifact despite her falling three times in cultivation level. It’s not because both were born on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Something else is at work.
The Mad Daoist’s Prophecy
Years ago, a Crazy Daoist (疯道人) foretold that a child born on the ninth day of the ninth month would save the world. So Bai Zongying, Xin Mei, and Jin Lun (金轮) all began training young, weighed by high hopes. Bai Zongying grew into a star disciple. Jin Lun earned respect too. But Xin Mei? She stayed unknown, her strength invisible, her reputation nonexistent.
Bai never considered her a rival. When he approached her in the valley, he had cold motives: to dig for secrets about a past siege in the capital, and to learn about Lu Qianqiao’s origins. He let a servant buy pastries and claimed they came all the way from Tianyuan Mountain. Not once did he greet her like an old acquaintance. He assumed her Moonlight Artifact came from being a top disciple of Xinxie Manor (辛邪庄). He thought a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator posed no threat.
What he didn’t see was the immense power hidden inside her. That power let her drop three entire cultivation realms and still achieve what others would kill for. Not through tricks or luck. Through something far simpler—and far harder to copy.
The Jade Tablets Secret
Xin Mei got ten Gong Mountain jade tablets without lifting a finger. While others schemed, fought, and died for even one, she simply received them. On the surface, Lu Qianqiao handed them to her. But Lu despises the ruthless greed for immortality—the stealing, the killing, the loss of all moral ground. He would never reward someone who chased eternal life by any means.
Xin Mei wanted the Immortality Pill, yes. But not for herself. She wanted it so her master could have hope again. So her aunt could live longer and keep helping people. When she lost her only tablet, she admitted it openly. She didn’t care if someone else had twenty or thirty. No anxiety, no desperate schemes. She just kept doing what mattered to her.
That’s why Lu Qianqiao helped her. That’s why Su Taiyi never worried about her misusing the ten tablets. They saw her clear heart. Meanwhile, Bai Zongying mastered every technique his师父 taught him, but he never formed his own judgment. He swallowed the doctrine: “Great tasks belong to the capable; rare treasures go to the strong.” A mind like that cannot become immortal. Cannot save anyone.
The Power of Non-Contention
Bai Zongying’s three falls from grace should have taught him humility. Instead, he grew more certain that raw power decides everything. He never asked why his artifact—meant for a top genius—worked just as well for a “failed” cultivator like Xin Mei. The answer was right there: the artifact responds to something deeper than cultivation level or birth date. It responds to purpose.
Xin Mei never fights for status. She steps into human conflicts not to overturn fate, but because she can’t stomach injustice. She applies true Dao—not the kind written in manuals, but the kind that hears a cry for help and moves. Dao De Ching (道德经) says it plainly: “By not contending, no one under heaven can contend with you.” She doesn’t compete, so she has no rivals. She doesn’t hoard, so she receives everything.
Bai Zongying will likely never understand this. He will keep climbing, falling, plotting—always measuring himself against others. But Xin Mei walks a different road. She doesn’t need to be the strongest. She just needs to stay true to the quiet voice that others drown out with ambition. And that, more than any prophecy or pill, is what makes her unstoppable.