A thousand years after becoming the Victorious Fighting Buddha, Sun Wukong has spent ages trapped in the desolate stillness of Spirit Mountain. He's long grown sick of oil lamps, Buddha statues, and monastic rules.
One restless thought tears open the void, and he unexpectedly tumbles into the mortal world of Dream of the Red Chamber.
With his Fiery Golden Eyes, he sees the truth at a glance: Lin Daiyu, frail and gifted beyond compare, living in the Bamboo Lodge, has already had her fate written by Heaven. She's destined to die young, her tears exhausted and her soul extinguished.
The gods and Buddhas say: Fate is ordained by Heaven and cannot be defied.
The Jia family says: The union of gold and jade is predestined.
The rules of propriety say: A woman must know her place. That's only proper.
But Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong was born to defy fate!
He sweeps through the Grand View Garden with his Golden Cudgel, exposing the scheme behind the union of gold and jade;
He wreaks havoc in the Rong and Ning mansions, tearing apart the hypocrisy of feudal morality;
He storms the underworld's Hall of Yama and strikes her name from the Book of Life and Death;
He confronts Fairy Disenchantment in the celestial realm and smashes the Register of Ill-Fated Beauties with a single blow.
What of the karma that fills the heavens? What of the rules of the Three Realms?
From this day on, with Old Sun here, no one will lay a finger on Miss Lin.
She won't be allowed to shed tears, suffer mistreatment, or perish in the bloom of her youth.
When the eternally tragic lament of Dream of the Red Chamber meets the defiant Great Sage Equal to Heaven,
Every regret is turned by the Great Sage into a life of complete happiness and freedom.
