Stick #99: Utter Despair (Very Unfavorable)

绝望至极夜最深,黎明总在后面等。熬过今夜明天日,太阳依旧东升升。

Plain reading

Despair is deepest at the darkest hour of night — yet dawn always waits behind it. Endure this one night; tomorrow the sun will rise in the east as it always has.

Interpretation

This is a very unfavorable lot titled "Utter Despair." Night is deepest — yet dawn waits behind. "Endure tonight; tomorrow the sun rises east" shows at utter despair, hold one night and day appears.

Advice

Live with despair "for one night only" — set an alarm; reassess at dawn. The sun still rises — tonight you need only reach morning.

From tradition tied to the Records of the Grand Historian: "Darkest before dawn" — those who endured one night often saw day — the sun still rises east.

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