How hospital in China stop unreasonable superstition, they often have an older gentleman as a security guard.

A pregnant woman showed up at the hospital, her huge belly leading the way with a whole posse of relatives in tow.

She found the doctor and said: I'm giving birth today, and I want a C-section.

This doctor had done her prenatal checkups before, so they knew each other.

He said: Your baby's still got a ways to go—it's a whole month from the due date.

The pregnant woman replied: No way, it has to be today. Why, you ask?

She said: We consulted a master fortune-teller, and he said if our child is born today, in the future, they'll be filthy rich, destined for an emperor's life.

The doctor, hearing this, thought, Isn't this just feudal superstition? So he tried to talk her out of the early C-section.

Right then, her pack of family members—who she'd brought along—saw the doctor wasn't on board and lost it, starting a huge ruckus right there in the hospital. Things were at a total standoff when, out of nowhere, an old man watching the spectacle piped up: "You folks better think this through, the due date's still a month away; a month from now is when this child's fate kicks in.

If you force the birth today, you're defying heaven and rewriting destiny—defying heaven demands a sacrifice."

The relatives perked right up at that, crowding around the old man in a flash, demanding to know what the sacrifice was and insisting they had to get their hands on it.

The old man chuckled and said: "What’s the sacrifice, you ask? Go look up history, every one of those who defied heaven, rewrote their fate, and made it to emperor, didn't have their parents drop dead and relatives wiped out? The most famous case is Zhu Yuanzhang."

Still not clear on what the sacrifice is? And just like that, the room went dead silent those relatives wheeled around and started persuading the pregnant woman to just let nature take its course.