Houyi the archer and Chang'e lived as husband and wife on earth after Houyi was stripped of his divinity, until Chang'e drank the elixir of immortality alone and rose to the moon, leaving Houyi to gaze at her cold palace from below for the rest of his mortal days.
Chang'e dwells alone in the Guanghan Palace on the moon, the cold silver realm she inherited when the elixir of immortality carried her skyward from the earth she shared with Houyi.
Wu Gang chops endlessly at the self-healing cassia tree on the moon, his axe-strokes echoing through the Guanghan Palace where Chang'e dwells, two exiles sharing the same cold realm but separated by their different fates.
Chang'e consumed the elixir of immortality that Xiwangmu had given to Houyi, ascending to the moon and becoming its immortal inhabitant.
Yutu pounds the elixir of immortality beside Chang'e in the Guanghan Palace, the only living companion in her cold lunar exile, visible from earth as the dark shape on the moon's bright face.
Zhu Bajie drunkenly harassed Chang'e at a heavenly banquet, which led to his banishment from Heaven and reincarnation as a pig-demon on Earth.
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