Publisher's Synopsis
"This novel records the stories that the emperor has heard since he was a child, as well as those who told the stories for the emperor; and until the end, the emperor himself finally became a part of the story..." When Kangxi was six years old, his father-in-law, Ji Ren, would tell him a story about a fox demon every day. Nearly 30 years later, the stories he heard when he was a child haunted the emperor who was in power, and he dreamed of those foxes every night. In order to solve the emperor's worries, Ji Ren found him an artist Geng who could paint everything--every story began when the skilled artist Geng painted his own soul into the painting. This painting triggered a tragic stampede in Taiwan hundreds of years later...
