Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

Chapter 1135 Zhang Zhiwei, the Weaver of Fate

The fate of an ordinary person is an ever-extending curve.

The general direction of this curve is clear, but at some subtle bends, variables may arise, giving rise to one future after another.

In most cases, these futures will not be drastically different, but rather will intertwine and move forward like a winding snake within a certain range.

Therefore, many people have a feeling that their fate is predetermined.

Because no matter how many lines are branched out, their direction follows the initial inertia.

No matter what changes you make, if you don't completely reverse that inertia, it will eventually return to its original position.

Zhang Zhiwei saw through Duanmu Ying's fate. He touched one of the lines at a bend, changing its course and making a deduction.

He allowed Duanmu Ying, who should have been caught at her doorstep, to escape by mistake and then travel overseas by ship.

Even so, her result was still not good.

Not long after, she was caught.

The reason she was captured was because of her compassionate heart as a healer. There was also a war overseas, and in the process, she would witness many human tragedies, and she couldn't help but use her ability.

Her ability is quite striking; she can bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded. Once she uses this ability a few times, it will inevitably attract attention.

She had no ability to protect herself and wasn't very smart, so she was arrested quickly.

in the country, being arrested usually results in imprisonment and torture.

But abroad, she will experience some even more terrifying things.

From Zhang Zhiwei's perspective, her path overseas was particularly tragic.

Zhang Zhiwei re-examines the trajectory of Duanmu Ying's fate.

Overall, before acquiring the Dual Hands, her fate was quite smooth. Judging from the trajectory of her fate line, she would have a relatively good future.

However, her originally promising fate took a sharp turn after she obtained the Dual-Handed Technique, deviating from her original trajectory and veering off into the distance.

This change can absolutely be considered defying fate.

But this change was not spontaneous; it was driven by external forces. The inertia of her lowest-level fate remained unchanged.

Therefore, even though her fate has been defied and she is being pulled along by this momentum, she will still slowly return to her original position.

This is undoubtedly a disaster.

Because the roads are different now.

In Zhang Zhiwei's eyes, Duanmu Ying's original fate was like a slow, green train.

After she met Wugensheng, she was forcibly dragged onto the high-speed rail track by Wugensheng's fate.

She is now moving forward at the speed of a high-speed train, but at its core it is still a green train.

This old green train core not only can't drive the high-speed rail, but it's also trying to pull the high-speed rail back onto the old green train track based on its original inertia.

The most direct manifestation of this lack of virtue and ability is a decline in intelligence; she will do things that are not in line with her own character.

Her virtue was merely that of a doctor, but after acquiring the double-edged sword, she became more than just a doctor; she rose to a higher level.

She needs to improve her character, broaden her horizons, and focus not only on medical skills but also on the study of sex and life, so that she can be worthy of her position.

However, Duanmu Ying cannot reach this level. Her focus is only on doctors, so she can only do minor things like treating people and changing their appearance. Faced with emergencies, she is powerless to fight back. Even with her incredible skills, she can be easily captured.

But in fact, the Dual-Handed Technique has potential. If someone else were to master it, almost no one could catch him, such as Qu Tong in the original story. However, Duanmu Ying did not realize this.

Zhang Huaiyi previously lamented that she turned this ability from acquired to innate, thus stifling her potential.

Duanmu Ying denied it, saying that the ability was already perfected and had no more potential; the rest depended on how well it was used.

But this is a very wrong idea.

Zhang Huaiyi saw the potential, but Duanmu Ying did not.

Duanmu Ying only saw its potential as a medical technique.

One can repair the soul, and the other can repair the body. As long as there is still a breath left, it can save lives. In terms of saving lives, it has indeed reached its limit.

However, in other aspects, it remains a blank slate, with a great deal of room for exploration and improvement.

However, Duanmu Ying didn't see any of this; it was just a sudden whim that led her to do it blindly.

What drives her to do this is the inherent inertia of her fate, which gives people a sense of intellectual impairment.

Therefore, as long as this inertia remains unchanged, Duanmu Ying's fate is predetermined. No matter how many paths her destiny takes, they all point to the same destination.

Unless her fate is once again twisted by a powerful external force, pulling her back to her original, level position.

Not many people can do this. Zhang Zhiwei could, but he doesn't plan to leave seclusion now. Besides, he's already comprehended this ability; it would be a waste to take it back.

Immediately, he recalled the Minghun Technique of the Lü family in the original storyline.

Zhang Zhiwei flicked his fingers, and the intricate details of Lü Ci's fate appeared before his eyes.

Lu Ci's fate has more twists and turns than Duanmu Ying's, some even leading to the unknown, because that's the part where her fate intersects with Zhang Zhiwei's. This part cannot be observed; forcibly observing it will only turn it into a huge fireball that backfires.

Zhang Zhiwei combined the fate lines of Lü Ci and Duanmu Ying.

He suddenly realized that the fates of these two people should have been infinitely intertwined.

Many other branching lines even emerged from the two people's fate lines.

These branching lines formed what later became Lüjia Village.

One of them was the later Lü Liang.

"So that's how Lü Huan's death and the Lü family's Soul-Clearing Technique came about. I was wrong before," Zhang Zhiwei murmured.

He had previously speculated that Duanmu Ying had made a deal with Lü Ci, using the Double-Handed Technique to tamper with the bloodlines of the Lü family women, enabling them to give birth to children with innate abilities.

But unexpectedly, Duanmu Ying was even more ruthless; she used herself as a test subject. Moreover, it wasn't just the women of the Lü family who tampered with her; both men and women were involved.

She even left a small gift among them, leaving behind her lifelong resentment and bitterness in the lives of her descendants.

"Shame on you, Hedgehog. You call yourself a mad dog? When it comes to madness, you're nowhere near as good as Doctor Duanmu Ying. You're only fit to wash her underwear."

Zhang Zhiwei smiled. In fact, from God's perspective, looking at the scenes and stories that arose from the intersection of these two lines of fate, it was difficult for Zhang Zhiwei to attribute all the blame to one side.

All he could say was that Lü Ci was truly inhuman.

But Duanmu Ying herself is not innocent either.

Although Lü Ci was pressuring her, he also gave her limited choices.

She had a backup plan: to be a family doctor and live a quiet life.

By making this choice, she could gain stability and even a certain degree of freedom. For example, she could leave the village with Lü Ci, disguise herself, and visit her family, or even just chat with them.

From this perspective, Duanmu Ying is actually much luckier than Chen Duo. Chen Duo has no right to choose between heaven and hell; she is the one whose fate is chosen.

At least Duanmu Ying still had a choice.

Zhang Zhiwei really likes a saying: "Do as you please without overstepping the bounds."

The original meaning of this sentence is that after one has aspired to understand the Way, one's actions will not transgress the rules.

But in Zhang Zhiwei's view, when you discover rules and order, but you have no power to ignore them, choosing to do whatever you want within those rules and order is also a wonderful kind of freedom.

If you lack the ability but constantly try to overcome it, you will inevitably live a very painful life.

At this point, the most important thing is to improve oneself within the bounds of limited freedom.

As you improve yourself, the boundaries of the rules that confine you will also expand.

Some might argue that even if you expand the boundaries, you're still within the rules, and you still have more than just those boundaries.

But boundless, absolute freedom does exist.

If you think there is, it's only because your strength is too weak, you haven't reached the edge of this rule, or you're limited by your perspective, seeing but not knowing, or you're limited by your status, not qualified to touch it. It's like many people who go abroad say that there are no social niceties abroad, but in fact, they can't get their hands on recommendation letters.

Although rules always exist, the bottom line of rules that bind a person will continue to expand as that person improves.

For example, when Zhang Zhiwei was at the Celestial Master's Mansion, he never deliberately violated his master's rules; he only focused on improving himself.

When he becomes powerful enough, he looks back and suddenly realizes that, without realizing it, his master has stopped using rules to bind him.

Even his master liked listening to his arrangements.

Having reached this level, he even felt that heaven and earth and fate no longer bound him.

Do as you please without overstepping the bounds. When you can't escape the rules, you can calm down and enjoy the freedom within those rules, ultimately finding peace under their constraints.

This is a state of mind of non-action.

If Duanmu Ying had this mindset, her life would be very different.

She could quietly be a doctor in Lüjia Village, and then improve her own abilities along the way.

Although this ability has changed from acquired to innate, greatly reducing its potential, there is still room for improvement.

As long as Duanmu Ying doesn't keep thinking about passing on this ability and frantically seek external solutions, wasting time on trivial matters like human body research, but instead focuses on seeking internal solutions and exploring the essence of this ability, there is still much that can be accomplished.

Look inward for ten or eight years, improve your self-cultivation, and master your skills. Then who can hold you back?

At that point, your rules will be the rules. You can make Lü Ci wash your underwear for the rest of your life, kneel and beg for your company. You can even change Lü Family Village to Duanmu Village.

But Duanmu Ying's fate was heavily influenced by inertia, and her obsession ran too deep.

Or perhaps she wasn't a very intelligent woman to begin with, and couldn't see that.

She refused to accept her fate, yet lacked the ability to escape it. She struggled constantly, writhing in impotent rage, which made her life miserable.

Under such suffering, due to the inertia of her fate at the bottom, her vision was always limited to the perspective of a doctor, so she made the worst choices time and time again, pushing herself into an irreversible situation.

Even after reaching that irreversible point, though she finally passed on the Double-Handed Technique, fulfilling her initial wish and gaining freedom.

But when she suddenly looked back, she found that everything was irreversible.

At this point, what was holding her back was no longer the Lü family, nor Lü Ci, but herself.

Having achieved his goal, he couldn't accept his sinful self, so he chose to imprison himself, dying in agony filled with hatred.

Zhang Zhiwei described her as a silly and crazy woman, but with a kind heart at her core.

Zhang Zhiwei didn't like this ending.

However, because of his intervention, the fates of these two people have begun to diverge.

Lü Ci had a happy ending.

However, Duanmu Ying's ending was still not good.

Zhang Zhiwei felt that Duanmu Ying deserved a better ending. It wasn't that he was biased towards the Thirty-Six Thieves, but rather that Duanmu Ying had accumulated a lot of good karma. She had been taken to the battlefield by Lu Jin's wife and served as a field doctor for many years, saving many lives.

Based on this alone, Zhang Zhiwei decided to defy fate and change her destiny.

As for how to change it...

Zhang Zhiwei thought of the original plot, where the fates of Duanmu Ying and Lü Ci intertwined, giving rise to various branching paths.

On a whim, he contacted Lü Ci, who was far away in northwestern Shanxi.

Since the inertia of Duanmu Ying's fate is hard to change, let it remain as it is.

Let her be herself again, and focus on being a doctor, the best doctor at the time, and use all the potential of that ability on her medical skills.

Instead of studying the workings of "sex" and "fate," because she lacks both the wisdom and the destiny, she's content to be a cheerful doctor.

To expect her to be herself when she has the ability is tantamount to forcing a high-speed train to have the core of a slow, old-fashioned train.

The engine of a green train cannot power a high-speed train, so it needs an external engine to assist it.

Lü Ci was the external engine that Zhang Zhiwei chose.

Zhang Zhiwei thought that Lü Ci would be quite willing to become Duanmu Ying's protector.

As for Wang Zizhong, he is just a doctor, just like Duanmu Ying. In fact, his medical skills are no better than Duanmu Ying's.

He simply cannot protect Duanmu Ying now; their union would be a tragedy.

Moreover, at this time, although Prince Zhong still admired Duanmu Ying, the two were not engaged and were still in the process of meeting for marriage.

Duanmu Ying originally planned to visit her family and meet her blind date when she returned home this time.

However, before they even met, they encountered Wugensheng's affair.

Therefore, Prince Zhong's love was unrequited.

Duanmu Ying didn't even have much of an impression of him.

Zhang Zhiwei examined Wang Zizhong's fate chart. Because he didn't marry Duanmu Ying, he was burdened by her.

His fate is on a good trajectory. Although he can't forget Duanmu Ying, the white moonlight he secretly loves, he will also meet a female doctor who admires him greatly and has eyes only for him. The two get to know each other, fall in love, and live out their lives in harmony.

Life was simple and uneventful, but very happy. In the end, there was no dramatic scene of "I don't want to die, I'll wait for you even as a ghost."

Zhang Zhiwei thought this ending was good; simplicity is true happiness, and simplicity is a blessing.

Meanwhile, having received a tip from Zhang Zhiwei, Lü Ci set off from northwestern Shanxi. (End of Chapter)