Geography: Dustforget ManorAI

Where the vast sea surges and golden gates stand towering, there lies Dustforget Manor.

The great merchants of the Four Seas all gather here. Amid a scatter of pearls and jade, every last hair's breadth of profit is reckoned; climbing the steps, one sinks by degrees into gold-melting pleasures. Adrift on a sea of desire, none knows where it will end. All the bliss under heaven is gathered within this manor.

When I first heard of it, I took it for idle gossip from the backwoods. Let gold and silver be strewn on the ground and pearls fill the hall, I thought; my resolve weighs a thousand jun, and I shall stand unmoved as a mountain.

Then I came in person, and saw merfolk performers dancing, illusions of rare wonder, and pearl boats in splendid array; my eyes were dazzled and my spirit reeled.

I went in when it was barely dawn; when I came out again, who knows how many days had passed. I walked the streets alone, looking about me in dismay, every coin in my purse long since gone with the eastward-flowing stream.

All say that the whole of Weiyang City is nothing but illusion. Gazing forlornly at the waves, I came at last to see that the illusion lies not only in its many marvels. The chasm of desire is ten thousand zhang deep and vain longings are hard to curb; Weiyang's art of illusion is in truth an art of weighing men's hearts and steering their greed.