My grandfather went up the mountain to gather firewood and, by a twist of fate, saved a nine-tailed fox. But when he returned home, he dropped dead.
With a smile, he said before he died that the nine-tailed fox had promised a sage would be born into the Lin family one day.
A year later, I was born.
I was born amid wondrous signs: three pupils in each eye, eight-colored eyebrows, arms that reached below my knees, and a voice that spoke in beautiful verse.
After I was born, everyone in my family had good luck, and we soon grew rich.
A mysterious old man arrived with a breathtakingly beautiful young woman named Luo Qingwan, saying she would become my concubine.
But Luo Qingwan tricked me into taking a pill, making my wondrous signs disappear and turning me into an ordinary person.
Soon, disaster struck my family, and my grandmother was close to death. Before she died, she told me I must not leave the village for ten years, or disaster would surely befall me. I spent ten years guarding the village, mocked and bullied by everyone.
Everyone thought I was an idiot.
Ten years later, I left the village.
I knew I wasn't a fool anymore.
Those who stole my fortune would pay for it.
