The bonus discussed in January never appeared. A promising project went quiet before anyone signed. Looking at Di Kong in your Wealth Palace, you might think: that explains why the money fell through.
It gives you a question to explore, not a conclusion. Di Kong has traditional associations with emptiness and things failing to materialize. You still need to establish what was promised, what was earned and what was actually lost.
Where did the process stop?
Consider a freelancer counting on work that a potential client mentioned casually. Compare that with someone who completed agreed work but has not been paid. Both feel disappointed, yet the underlying situations are different. Neither can be explained adequately by calling the person a dreamer.
For a useful discussion, identify whether the gap appeared during planning, negotiation, delivery or payment. These are hypothetical distinctions to clarify the question, not events a single star can reveal about a stranger.
Does Di Kong cancel the main stars?
No such conclusion follows from the word emptiness. If Tian Ji is also present, the reading may explore planning and skills alongside the conditions needed to carry out an idea. It should not automatically say that your ideas never earn money, especially if you have spent years being paid for technical or creative work.
Di Kong together with Di Jie does not guarantee bankruptcy. Nor does a favorable combination guarantee that unfinished work will be rescued. Even the association some readers make between Di Kong and creativity cannot establish artistic skill or commercial demand.
Bring one past event, its year and its outcome to the chart. Check whether you are discussing a natal placement or an annual-cycle palace. If your income has been steady and agreements usually work out, that history matters too. Feeling that you could have earned more is not enough to turn every successful year into an example of emptiness.