What does it mean that destiny cannot be defied? During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a man named Shao Kangjie. Mr. Shao was the author of the *Plum Blossom Divination*. One morning, he cast a divination and discovered that a vase in his house would break at noon. He was very curious— How exactly would the vase break? Why would it break? So he spent the entire morning guarding the vase, sitting on the table, staring intently, as if protecting a precious treasure. His wife called him for lunch, but he didn't respond. He was afraid that if he left, the vase would break. At noon, his wife entered the room, and saw him still there, motionless, staring at the vase. Finally, his wife couldn't bear it any longer and angrily said: "You haven't done anything all morning, just staring at this broken vase! You haven't eaten, you haven't done any chores!" With that, she grabbed the vase and slammed it to the ground. *Crack*—It shattered. So we often say: To peer into fate, to try to defy fate, but how can we know that the act of "peeping into fate and then going against it" might itself be a part of fate's predetermined plan?