In this chapter, we learn that chu-qing's future is likely to be "blank" because she will die of a "serious injury" . This is because her future is "full of variables" , which means that she can't predict it. The other possibility is that the dead will have no future at all, because they have no way to know what will happen to them in the future. The only girl who can predict the future is tao-tao, because she's the chosen one. This girl can "rewrite" the future, but it's full of "variables," meaning that she has no way of knowing what's going to happen to her. Ooh, that's kind of weird, right? Well, it doesn't seem like there's any other way to predict a person's life, either. So why did taotao use his magic rod instead of his feline jade one? Ooh. It's because wang-yunshao sent him a letter asking him to exchange the magical rod for his daughter . Aww, suck it up. He's about to give her the magic rod when he hears a knock on the door. It must be from a girl named tao, who wants to exchange her magic rod for siao-mei. He promises tao that he'll