Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West, the famous Ming Dynasty adventure novel/coded alchemical treatise, is rightly regarded as one of the four great literary classics of ancient China. This is not that book. This is the story of Rabbit, an (almost) ordinary architecture student having an extraordinary day in the modern business capital of Hangzhou. Her journey is in search of a vitally important number that holds the key to a universal numerological mystery, though she's really just looking for an excuse to skip some classes. Her companions are an immortal fighting cricket, a garbage collector versed in geomancy, and an epicurean bicycle thief. In their way stand a crazed cola kingpin, the underwater army of the Great Golden Buffalo, and the single most powerful ancient relic in China. It's going to be a long day....

This work of classical Chinese Taoist adventure-fantasy in the tradition of Barry Hogart was written in the first 22 days of November 2004 through participation in National Novel Writing Month. It was almost entirely created at the Jingshan Tea House in Hangzhou, China. It is followed by a sequel written in November 2005, The Legend of White Snake Inc., though the two can be read in any order.

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