A fox shapeshifter with red hair, Ah Xuli, lives in Moscow under a fake passport in the name of Alice Lee. She works as an escort, and despite her respectable age—nearing two thousand years—she looks at most fifteen. While foreign bankers, under the influence of hypnotic obsession, are completely sure they’re having love affairs with Alice, the girl happily reads Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” and philosophizes about the structure of the world…