Content Warning: This section of the guide features descriptions of rape, incest, child sexual abuse, abortion, and animal cruelty and/or death.

While traveling through a mountain forest, a trader finds a fox trapped in a snare. The fox asks the trader to release it, but the trader notices that the fox’s blood is gold. He takes the fox home to harvest its blood for as long as he can. The man becomes a respectable member of his village. He soon builds a house, where he moves the fox, but by then the skin of the fox has calloused, preventing the trader from drawing any more blood. Soon, the fox dies.

The trader’s wife gives birth to twins, one boy and one girl. When they are toddlers, the boy starts biting the girl to draw and lick up her blood. When he separates them, the trader sees that the boy, who has been scratched by his sister in self-defense, has gold in his blood as well. The trader experiments with feeding the blood of other animals to his son, then wounding him to draw his blood. The boy’s blood is normal at first, even when the trader feeds him his own blood. Desperate to increase their family’s dwindling wealth, the trader takes both of his children to a warehouse while his wife is asleep.