Lu Ping'an did not believe in fate; he was actually quite repulsed by the so-called predestined destiny.
However, he did not deny the existence of the "power of fate."
On the contrary, he even actively researched and made use of this force.
"To despise the concept of fate is not a rational act. If regarded as a kind of invisible operating mechanism, it's merely a variable with special features, the most unique aspect of which is probably just its name – 'fate'...."
Unlike those who shout "My fate is in my own hands, not heaven's" while blindly charging forward, only to end up as the so-called protagonists subject to the whims of fate.
Lu Ping'an saw it as a tool, a resource that could be used – perhaps this truly was blasphemy.
"The fate I remember should be the torrential history constructed by people's choices, not this maliciously playful trick...."
When the existence of this world's so-called World's Will was perceived, a certain foreigner felt a severe aversion to it.