[Journey to the West: The Money-Making Bible] In 2025, inside a seven-square-meter subdivided flat in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong, mold creeps across proof sheets of Buddhist scriptures. Proofreader Wu Cheng'en shines his phone's flashlight on the floor, where the “life ledger” of his 48 years as a mainlander in Hong Kong lies scattered: rejection stamps from the writers' association, a SARS ICU bill, his son's expired fever patch, and the despair of being unable to afford even a shared burial plot after losing his wife and child.
The moment his fingertips brush the mold, he becomes one with the self who wrote Journey to the West four hundred years ago. Armed with a dog-eared copy of Capital, the money-making instincts he honed as a mainlander in Hong Kong, and a determination to restore his wife and child's dignity, he sets out on the pilgrimage once more. The Golden Cudgel becomes a bargaining chip, the tightening spell turns into a partnership clause, and the Eighty-One Tribulations become money-making quests that can rewrite his fate.
Sun Wukong thinks Bimawen is a dead-end job? Wu starts a security company with shares, using Fiery Golden Eyes to check for poison and the Somersault Cloud for cross-border deliveries, and teaches him how to turn traffic into cash. Tang Sanzang preaches that all things are empty? Wu throws a ledger of Hong Kong's cost of living at him: “First, make sure ordinary people have enough to eat and wear!” Pork isn't selling at Gao Village? He teams up with Zhu Bajie to start a fresh-food chain. The Banana Leaf Fan is monopolized at Flaming Mountain? He drafts an antitrust agreement and promotes the sharing economy. Every monster in their path gets a makeover: the Black Bear Monster opens a charitable clinic, the Yellow Brow Monster manages public facilities, and man-eating lairs become logistics hubs...
The painful memories of Hong Kong's subdivided flats become the key to solving the challenges of Journey to the West. When the Golden Cudgel lays aside its fury and monsters pick up their ledgers, can this wildly imaginative journey of capitalist cultivation win back a dignity long overdue? Clutching a photo of his wife and child, Wu Cheng'en writes along the pilgrimage route: “The best scripture is one that lets every struggling soul dare to hope for tomorrow's dawn.”
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