This book is a retelling, in easy-to-read Chinese, of the legendary story of how a little stone monkey was born, became king of his troop of monkeys, left his home to pursue enlightenment, received the name Sun Wukong (literally, "ape seeking the void") from his teacher, and returned home to defend his subjects from a ravenous monster.Sun Wukong, the Handsome Monkey King, is one of the most famous characters in Chinese literature and culture. His legendary bravery, his foolish mist...

The royal banquet ends in darkness, black water, and a question no city is permitted to ask: what if an ancient king's return is not a miracle, but a system waking beneath the stones?Namsin, a young scribe trained to trust clay more than memory, escapes the ruined banquet hall with a damaged record fragment and half of the stolen seventh seal. What he has seen cannot be written safely. What he carries cannot be surrendered. Beside him, Cassandra reads the city through gates, pressur...

The boat stops without striking stone, sand, or timber. Beneath the black water, something has closed around the keel—and at the center of the current, a white foundation rises from the Flood, blank, wordless, and forbidden to name.Namsin, a young scribe carrying fragments of dangerous evidence, has already learned that some records do more than remember. They can open doors. They can summon kings. They can turn the dead into procedure and the missing into numbers. When the ruined b...

A clay tablet enters the archive with one impossible flaw: its weight is wrong.In the Tablet Library of Uruk, every debt, death, offering, boundary, and royal name is preserved in fired clay. Namsin, a junior scribe trained to trust the record above all things, discovers an older text buried beneath an ordinary tribute account. A dead king's name has been written again and again across centuries. Beside it are water-gate numbers, erased seals, and the quiet arithmetic of missing peo...

"Apocalypse Awakening" takes you on a heart-pounding journey into a post-apocalyptic world filled with mystery and terror. Sean, our protagonist, suffers from sudden hallucinations that warp his perception of reality. After a four-year self-imposed exile from the world, an invitation to a high school reunion prompts him to venture out of his safe haven.Upon arrival, Sean is horrified to find his classmates transformed into monstrous beings, with only Layla appearing untouched by th...

"Weiliao" is a series program that tells the story of the world, it created by Wei Yi Culture and Media AB, and launched in 2020. The content touches on history, science, technology, astronomy, geography, music, and more.The "The History of Ancient Egypt" is a series of books to tell the historical stories of Ancient Egypt, and the stories run through the whole of Ancient Egypt. This book "The Early Dynastic Period...

Things begin to unravel for Sun Wukong as he sees the consequences of his outrageous actions. While trying to defend his troop of monkeys, he manages to offend the underwater Dragon King, the Dragon Kong's mother, all ten Kings of the Underworld, and the great Jade Emperor himself. Finally, goaded by a couple of troublemaking demons, he goes too far, calling himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and setting events in motion that cause him some serious trouble.This is the ...

An orphan girl gets help from a goose. A poor family receives a magical gift. A boy is stranded alone on a ship in a storm. And two magicians perform a deadly trick.Believe it or not, it's possible for you to read and understand the four wonderful stories in this book even if you start off not knowing a single word of Chinese! We won't lie to you and say it will be easy, but with time and patience you can certainly do it.Each page of Chinese faces a page of pinyin ...

China, 1057 B.C. The foolish king of the Shang Dynasty has gravely insulted a goddess. In revenge, the goddess sends a thousand-year-old fox demon to extinguish the soul of the beautiful young Daji, inhabit her body, and seduce the king into taking her as his chief concubine. Daji slowly gains control of the king and his kingdom, leading the Shang Dynasty towards chaos and disaster. But gods and demons are all watching closely and try to take matters into their own hands.This book ...

Once again the Monkey King's unlimited ambitions and uncontrolled appetites land him in deep trouble. He is given a job in heaven taking care of the Emperor's Garden of Immortal Peaches, but he can't stop himself from eating all the peaches. He impersonates a great Immortal and crashes a party in Heaven, stealing the guests' food and drink and barely escaping to his loyal troop of monkeys back on Earth. And in the end, he battles an entire army of Immortals and men, and discovers that ...

The Golden Pyramid was built to make death obey. But beneath its sacred stone, something older than Egypt has begun to answer.After escaping the Chamber of Silence, scribe Kai Nefer and former mortuary attendant Tawi Meret carry proof that the official story is already being written against them. Survivors are being renamed as contamination. Failed bodies are being sealed away as samples. A damaged record points toward a forbidden place beneath the royal city: the Hall Without Light...

A name is still knocking from inside the stone.Beneath the rising Golden Pyramid, a buried maintenance level has begun to answer a man the kingdom tried to erase: Besa, a quarry craftsman classified not as a father, not as a worker, but as material. His daughter has the right to witness what was done to him. Kai, a scribe carrying fragments the archives should have destroyed, and Tawi, a former mortuary attendant who knows how bodies are made silent, must reach him before the royal ...