Xu Ye was an unemployed 25-year-old in the 21st century when he fell off a cliff. As he searched for a way out of a cave, it seemed as if he had journeyed through past and present, as if he had stepped into another time. When he finally came to, he found himself transformed into a boy of twelve or thirteen. Looking up at the sky, he saw that the moon, unchanged since time immemorial, had become seven moons, hanging among the stars like a rare alignment of seven celestial bodies. Their dazzling radiance made all the stars in the sky seem like mere decoration.
