A Case of a Competitor Crippling Herself

A piece from 2011, originally written on Sina Blog and moved here.

Last year, while this humble priest was minding an online shop, the Wangwang messenger suddenly pinged. A woman came and asked for a divination—whether her ex-boyfriend would receive retribution. Ordinarily such readings are refused, but she begged so earnestly that he opened the casting. It turned out she ran a foreign-trade online store, doing some business online. She had pressed her boyfriend to work hard for money; he took all she earned and then left her.

After she opened the store, however, she was often attacked by competitors who maliciously flood-negative-reviewed her shop, and she asked for a way to deal with them. Methods for breaking petty people always somehow hurt someone. The woman first came asking whether her ex-boyfriend would receive retribution; human hearts are hard to fathom, and he could not guess the true situation. He therefore suggested a method to prosper her wealth fortune: he had her commission a Heavenly Master Wealth-Attracting Talisman and gave her quite a few suggestions.

Later the woman reported back that when she burned the talisman there was an external sign—a child nearby was singing the ABC song. Over the following months they kept in touch from time to time. Business did indeed pick up for a while, but in the end she was still buried under competitors’ flood negative reviews. The pressure was severe and her shop could hardly go on, so she again asked for a talisman. Having exchanged words over several months, he knew her situation fairly well and knew she was truly kind; she never sold any fake goods online (her competitor sold real and fake together).

The competitor’s pressure was too extreme—even ordinary commercial competition should not go this far. In February, after obtaining his master’s permission, he suggested she commission one Talisman for Severing Harm and one for Attracting Wealth.

At first the talismans’ effect had not shown; during their exchanges he gave some advice, and along the way there was a small mix-up.

By June the woman suddenly vanished. After some time they got in touch and learned that she had stumbled on a method, business was booming, and she no longer cared about the flood negative reviews.

By August, the competitor was using a friend abroad to leave malicious reviews, and the situation shifted again. He sent a lawyer’s letter stating that if the random bad reviews continued he would sue at any cost; afterward the bad reviews were simply removed.

Just into September came another piece of news. The competitor who had been flooding bad reviews suddenly stopped opening her own shop: because she sold fakes, she got a bad review, assumed it was from her rival, and erupted in a furious tirade—unaware the customer was overseas. In a rage the customer reported the matter to the platform authorities. With factual evidence and various other factors, the store was immediately and permanently frozen from trading; all of the rival’s previous efforts went down the drain.

From then on there was no more trouble from competitors. Those who do good will surely receive good retribution.