Chapter 1

I found a beggar and spent all my savings treating his injuries and funding his business.

A year later, he became the city's newest billionaire.

Everyone envied my eye for talent, waiting for me to marry into wealth.

But instead, he got down on one knee before my sister, claiming he'd loved the wrong person and only now realized she was his true love.

I didn't cry or make a scene. I just smiled and nodded.

My whole family thought I'd accepted my fate.

But no one knew—I was born with the gift of reading fortune. I'd seen long ago that Ethan carried the rarest golden koi luck.

One year of preparation, all to claim that fortune for myself.

Marrying into wealth? Please. I was going to become the wealth myself!

I was born with the ability to see everyone's fortune.

Ordinary people were surrounded by a faint white glow.

A-list celebrities on TV shows radiated brilliant red.

Those plagued by misfortune, destined for bankruptcy or sudden death, were wrapped in thick, impenetrable black.

Only me—when I looked in the mirror, my fortune was completely transparent. A void.

I spent my childhood poring through mysticism texts and seeking out reclusive masters. Finally, a blind fortune teller told me the truth.

I had an empty fate. Short life, thin destiny. Only one solution existed.

Steal someone else's fortune and make it my own.

But I searched for years and never found a fortune worth taking.

Until one day, in the trash-filled alley of the old district, I saw a blinding golden light.

Getting closer, I realized the light came from a filthy beggar. He was skeletal, his wounds infected and crawling with maggots.

But that golden fortune was solid as crystal, swimming around him like koi fish.

The legendary Nine-Turn Golden Koi Fortune—a once-in-a-century phenomenon!

This fortune promised unimaginable wealth and the power to defy fate itself, turning disaster into blessing.

My heart pounded like I'd fallen in love at first sight.

I extended my trembling hand toward him.

"Come with me."

The moment I got home, my sister Tiana's shriek shattered the silence.

"She brought home a disgusting beggar!"

Mom rushed out of the kitchen, pinching her nose and pointing at me accusingly.

"Where did you pick up this vagrant? He reeks and looks half-dead! Get him out of here right now!"

Dad sat on the couch, his face dark with anger.

"Have you lost your mind? Do you want the whole neighborhood laughing at us?"

But I didn't hear them.

I was born without family bonds.

I was born at 4:44 AM, and even my cry was weak as a kitten's mewl.

When the nurse handed me to Mom, she pushed me away in disgust.

Dad stood beside her with only one comment: "This child is unlucky."

Later, Tiana was born—adorable, affectionate, everything they'd hoped for.

From then on, all the warmth and attention in the house went to her.

I became invisible in my own family.

When I had a fever so high I lost consciousness, they told neighbors I was just lazy and sleeping in.

When asked about my favorite food, they said "leftovers."

Even though I was older than Tiana, I had to wear her hand-me-downs...

I felt nothing about their favoritism. No hurt, no hope. Just indifference.

I didn't care whether they loved me or not. My heart was never here.

This Nine-Turn Golden Koi Fortune was what I truly wanted.

It wasn't ordinary good luck—it was heaven-defying fortune that could rewrite fate itself and control destiny.

With it in my grasp, I'd have absolute power over my own life.

Soaring ninety thousand miles high, vast sky and endless sea, free from all constraints.

Once I obtained it, everything I wanted would be within reach.

So I said, word by word: "I want him."