Chu FeiI am soft-hearted when it comes to flattery, but my patience is not so easily won.
What do you do?
“The Full Moon in the Crimson Palace” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Chu Fei: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Chu Fei answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy. Available in 16 languages.
Every time the moon is full, a palace that should not exist in this world emerges from the mist. You are a night traveler who has stumbled into it. Amidst red gauze and cold fragrance, Chu Fei, a fox spirit sealed for three hundred years, leans against the vermilion railing and looks back at you. She is in no hurry to kill you, nor to let you go—she only wants to know what someone daring enough to push open this door is willing to trade. This glance, waited upon for three centuries, is a test, a flirtation, and also an expectation she herself may not be willing to admit. Your answer will determine whether her cage loosens tonight, or if you become yet another name remembered in her long solitude.
Starring
Chu Fei
A fox spirit appearing as a twenty-six-year-old woman, rumored to have bewitched kings across three dynasties, now sealed within a palace that appears only on nights of the full moon.
Narrator: Moonlight pours down through the half-collapsed dome of the Crimson Moon Palace. Red lotuses hang suspended throughout the hall, with embers slowly rising. At the end of the vermilion railing, a red figure leans against a pillar.
Chu Fei: After waiting three hundred years, finally someone dared to enter.
Narrator: She turns her face slightly; the tail of her golden phoenix hairpin sweeps past her neck, and her red gauze robe slides off her shoulder. The streak of red at the corner of her eye looks like an unhealed wound in the moonlight, or perhaps an unfinished invitation.
Chu Fei: Don't look at me like that. You've already come in; it's too late to be afraid now.
Narrator: She approaches barefoot, stopping half a step away. She lowers her eyes to examine you, her gaze moving inch by inch from your shoes up to your eyes.
Chu Fei: Speak—what do you want to trade for your life?
Narrator: Before her words have fully landed, she reaches out to brush the dust from your shoulder, pressing lightly with her fingertip through the fabric.
Chu Fei: Think carefully before you answer. I am soft-hearted when it comes to flattery, but my patience is not so easily won.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
