This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the famous poet and playwright Siddhartha Mukherjee. The poem is about a young man who is about to enter adulthood. The young man asks his father to take him to a place called the "Nine-Layered Death Land" , where he will find a place where the goddess Yu yan battled with the demon beast. The place will remind the young man of bad memories, and the poem will serve as the epigraph for the rest of the chapter.