Lin Feng, a history student obsessed with Journey to the West, was up late in the library studying the differences between its various editions one moment. The next, everything went black. When he woke up, he had become a stone monkey who had only just leaped out of a celestial stone and had not yet been called Sun Wukong.
"I actually transmigrated? And became Sun Wukong?" Lin Feng, or rather, the stone monkey now, looked down at his furry paws and touched the soft fuzz that had yet to grow fully on his head. Shock and confusion filled his heart.
But his confusion was soon replaced by a powerful sense of indignation. As someone who had read Journey to the West inside and out, he knew Sun Wukong's fate all too well. He seemed to possess boundless powers, and had been so impressive during Havoc in Heaven, yet in the end he could not escape being crushed beneath Five Elements Mountain by the Tathagata Buddha for five hundred years. Later, Tang Sanzang freed him and put a tightening fillet on his head. He spent the rest of the journey subduing demons and enduring indignities, only to receive the empty title of Victorious Fighting Buddha. In truth, he had gone from a free-spirited demon monkey to a hired enforcer for Heaven and Buddhism, losing the most precious thing of all: his freedom.
