Are you also looking for "tacit understanding"? Are you often not recognized by others? Do you also think that "feeling" determines likes and dislikes?
After Wukong learned the art, he only became Bimawen and caused trouble in the Heavenly Palace, but he was still not recognized. Now start seeing others without being attached to being seen...
The masters and disciples in this book. Not seen by heaven, but they see each other. The words written in blood on the leaves, sitting by the river and looking at the water. These are all "contracts". Same root, different flowers.
The intersection of fate.
Forgotten kingdoms, broken hearts?
Some people who have been ignored by the world see each other.
The monsters you meet along the way are all yourself. When they reached the foot of Lingshan Mountain, they did not go in and took a detour of their own. The sutra is at your feet and the road is ahead. Whether you become a Buddha or not is not important. How you live is the problem.
Use "Sha Seng", the most insignificant character, to do the most outrageous things (beating people, gambling, cheating)
It may offend readers' presuppositions and offend the traditional Journey to the West narrative.
But this is not "Journey to the West", it is a real projection of the human world.