He transmigrates into the world of Journey to the West as an abandoned baby, with no golden finger or lucky encounters for ten years. At three, he enters an orphanage and learns to read, only to discover that written language and spoken language are two entirely different systems. I’m crouched in a corner, leafing through a primer, when the System pops up: There is a boundary stone in the orphanage’s back courtyard, inscribed with the four characters “Dongsheng Shenzhou.”
