Starting with helping Zhao Kai ascend the throne in the snow

It's easy to think about, but hard to do. Trying to defy fate is no easy feat; simply gaining good fortune is incredibly difficult.

However, it seems that fate favored Xie Guanying, allowing him to meet a woman with great fortune in his youth. Once she accumulates enough fortune to transform into a dragon, she will be able to become a being comparable to the Empress of Northern Mang.

Therefore, Xie Guanying had an idea. He wanted to see if he could absorb other people's luck to boost his own luck and achieve the effect of defying fate. So he took the initiative to chat with women and eventually won their hearts. The two became partners.

Human hearts are never static. Xie Guanying may have initially had ulterior motives, but through their daily interactions, he eventually developed genuine feelings for her. Unfortunately, fate played a cruel trick on her. Just before giving birth, the woman learned of Xie Guanying's previous plans by chance and realized that he had never truly loved her, which devastated her and caused her to miscarry.

The greatest sorrow is a broken heart. The woman suffered a difficult childbirth, and although Xie Guanying explained his love to her at the last moment, she still died in childbirth, leaving him heartbroken at the loss of his life's love. Especially poignant was the fact that before her death, she willingly bestowed her own fortune upon Xie Guanying (her fortune was so vast that Xie Guanying couldn't absorb it all alone, so it was divided into four parts: Xie Guanying, Tuoba Pusa, Wang Xianzhi, and Han Shengxuan each received one). This filled him with unbearable guilt. Therefore, every time he saw his daughter's face, so strikingly similar to his wife's, Xie Guanying felt suffocated by heartache and ultimately chose to flee, entrusting his daughter to the woman's maids to raise.

The woman's maids and servants, unaware of the situation, blamed Xie Guanying for everything after seeing their mistress's death and Xie Guanying abandon her daughter. From a young age, they taught their daughter that her father had stolen her mother's fortune and killed her. This daughter was none other than the famous beauty Nangong Pushe, ranked first on the Rouge List, who grew up with hatred and vowed to kill all the women who had stolen her mother's fortune. (After carefully analyzing the original novel for many days, I feel this best reflects Xie Guanying's actual situation. Otherwise, if he had killed even his wife, why would he have spared Nangong Pushe's life? And without Xie Guanying's guidance, how could Nangong Pushe have grown up so successfully and possess such profound martial arts skills and knowledge?)

Over the years, Xie Guanying silently watched his daughter grow up. Secretly, as the founder of the World's Martial Arts Platform, he quietly placed her at the top of the Rouge Ranking. Otherwise, given her usual male attire, which even Xu Fengnian couldn't distinguish as male or female, how could anyone have ranked her at the top? Xie Guanying never blamed his daughter for misunderstanding him. After all, hatred is a powerful driving force. As one of the world's most brilliant minds, he only wanted his daughter to use this power of hatred to quickly improve her cultivation and become a top expert. After all, a woman, especially one with stunning beauty, wouldn't fare well without matching strength.

In recent years, besides secretly keeping an eye on Minister Nangong, Xie Guanying has been working for the important figure he had a childhood encounter with, traveling all over the world to find a place that could trigger the strange movement of the dragon in the bowl, but he has found nothing over the years.

When Xie Guanying arrived in Kuaiji County, the preliminary selection for the martial arts examination had already ended. The next day would be the day for the martial arts examination for the top scholars. He walked slowly outside Kuaiji City, carrying a white bowl in one hand. His strange behavior attracted the attention of the martial arts practitioners around him.

However, recently, people from all walks of life have gathered outside Kuaiji City, and martial artists from all over the world have flocked there. There are many people whose behavior is even stranger than his, so people just glanced at him curiously and did not pay much attention to him.

Soon, Xie Guanying entered Kuaiji City and arrived at an inn.

Suddenly, his gaze was drawn to a figure. It turned out that Wen Hua was chatting and joking with Wu Liuding and Cuihua at a table by the window. Wen Hua said, "Wu Liugang, let me tell you something in advance. After this martial arts examination, I, Wen Hua, am getting married, and to a great beauty. I'm telling you now so that you have time to prepare a wedding gift. Don't say I told you too suddenly."

"Tch, you? I don't even believe it. A beauty, my foot! Even the most ordinary village belle wouldn't be interested in you unless she's blind." Wu Liuding scoffed, his face full of sarcasm.

"Well, you Wu Liugang, I treated you like a brother, and you dare to undermine me! Cuihua, tell me the truth, doesn't this guy deserve a beating?" Wen Hua felt insulted and angrily said to Cuihua.

Cuihua glanced at Wen Hua, then shook her head and said, "I don't believe it either."

"You, you all, I'm breaking off all ties with you..." Wen Hua shouted angrily, but he quickly composed himself and said with a sinister smile, "Wu Liugang, since you don't believe me, how about we make a bet? If I really have a beautiful wife, you'll grant me one request."

"What should we bet on?" Wu Liuding asked, his interest piqued.

"If I lose to you, you can name your terms. As long as it's within my power, I, Wen Hua, will never go back on my word. But if I win, I'll punish you by making you not eat Cuihua's sauerkraut for a year," Wen Hua said with a wicked grin. He knew that Wu Liuding was infatuated with Cuihua, and because of that, he couldn't get enough of Cuihua's sauerkraut every day. Punishing him by not eating sauerkraut for a year would definitely make him very uncomfortable.

Just as the three were playing around, Xie Guanying, who was not far away, frowned deeply and began to calculate rapidly with his right fingers.

The more he calculated, the deeper his brows furrowed, because Wen Hua's appearance was completely different from what he had predicted, which was simply unbelievable.

It's important to know that Xie Guan had diligently studied fortune-telling in his search for an opportunity to defy fate. While he wouldn't claim to be the best in the world when it came to predicting a person's destiny, he was certainly among the top three. He could usually discern a person's entire life from their face with just a glance. However, Wen Hua's current appearance was completely inconsistent with his predictions. Calculations suggested Wen Hua should have become an ordinary person, living a mundane life, but his current face indicated a future of great wealth and honor—a complete contradiction.

When he tried to calculate again, unwilling to give up, he felt that the secrets of heaven were in chaos, as if he had touched some unknown existence. He was immediately attacked and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

Over the years, he had only encountered this situation with one person: Huang Longshi. Later, through the mysterious figure behind him, he learned that Huang Longshi was an outsider and an exception. But Wen Hua's current situation clearly indicated that his fate had been altered by someone—no, to be precise, it had been influenced by someone. In other words, his fate had been passively changed because of someone's appearance. Such a thing seemed like a fantasy, yet it was actually happening right before Xie Guanying's eyes.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it. Xie Guanying immediately turned his gaze to Wu Liuding again, only to find that his fate had also been affected.

Then Xie Guanying seemed to have gone mad, walking out of the inn with a look of horror on his face. Whenever he encountered someone, he would start to make calculations and discover that the fate of everyone in Kuaiji City had changed more or less from its original trajectory.

"Hahaha, what I've been searching for has come to me without any effort! I've finally found my chance to change my destiny!" After an unknown amount of time, Xie Guanying's face was as pale as paper from over-calculation, but his eyes were filled with excitement.

From the scene before him, he deduced that it must be due to the appearance of a benefactor possessing great supernatural powers or immense fortune, leading to a situation where one person's success elevates their entire family and even their relatives, indirectly affecting the fate of everyone around them. Therefore, as long as he found this person, Xie Guanying's fate could also be changed, ultimately breaking free from the shackles of destiny that used the heavens and earth as a chessboard and all living beings as pawns.

Xie Guanying originally only planned to take a brief look around Kuaiji City before heading west to Shu, but now he had already given up on that idea and only wanted to find the person who had influenced the fate of Kuaiji County.