Understanding the Twenty-Four Histories, you will discover a terrifying truth: good people don't necessarily get good rewards, and bad people don't always face retribution. Only the strong are rewarded; as long as you are weak, you will suffer misfortune.

From a nation to a small country, and down to every individual, a weak country has no diplomacy; the poor are disliked; weakness is the original sin, and poverty invites beating. As long as you are weak, you will live in dire straits; as long as you are strong, you will thrive.
In the cycle of life and death, the world is a game of chess. When busy, competing for fame and fortune; in leisure, just watching a play. History constantly repeats itself, cycles of rise and fall, human nature unchanged for thousands of years, disasters always eerily similar.
History is the family history of emperors; the world is the prey of the strong. The Twenty-Four Histories repeat in cycles, mainly telling how to seize the throne and consolidate power.
The law of the jungle—predators prey on the weak—is the unspoken rule of history. Our ancestors already said, “Natural selection favors the fit,” and this truth hits hard but is undeniable. After reading the Twenty-Four Histories, which page isn’t about the strong setting the rules and the weak following them?
Your idea of “rewards for good and evil” is just the strong winning and labeling it as their own glory; the weak’s “goodness” is meaningless before power, only serving as stepping stones to be trampled on.
Don’t believe in the comforting phrase “Good will be rewarded,” that’s just chicken soup for those too weak to resist. When you are weak, even breathing is wrong—helping others is seen as “flattering,” honesty is considered “being easy to bully,” and even if you have no malicious intent, the strong will see you as a “soft persimmon” to squeeze.
On the other hand, those so-called “bad people,” as long as they have power and money, can turn black into white, wrong into right, and eventually gain fame and success.
Ultimately, history is never a textbook for “encouraging kindness,” but a survival manual for “teaching people to defend against weakness.”
“Rich in remote mountains with distant relatives, poor in bustling cities with no one to ask,” this is not human warmth, but the essence of the law of the jungle.
When you are strong, the whole world treats you kindly; when you are weak, even those around you can step on you.
Don’t rely on “the cycle of heaven’s way” to help you—what cycles in reincarnation are never about good and evil, but about strength and weakness.
The only way to avoid being bullied or seen as “prey” is to make yourself stronger—strong enough to set the rules, strong enough that no one dares to look down on you.
This is not utilitarianism; it is the most practical lesson that history has taught us for thousands of years.