Heavenly Monster

On the day when lightning flashed and the moon turned purple, when the wind tried to tear skin from bones, and the rain lashed harder than any executioner, at the Palace of the Third Heavenly Emperor’s Brother, the servant Minzhu went into labor and gave birth to a monster… This story has been told from mouth to mouth for a thousand years. Only I intend to tell you a different one—my story, because I am the Heavenly monster.