In AD 1054, the sixth year of Huangyou's reign in the Northern Song Dynasty, a civet cat named Xiaoli lived in Bao Zheng's Mansion in Kaifeng Prefecture. Because of its merits in catching rats and protecting the country, envoys from the Xiliang Kingdom were retaliated by the Xiliang Kingdom's thugs.
Xiao Li narrowly escaped death and was hunted down again by Xiliang Kingdom thugs, and was shot to death with darts.
Later, the body was picked up by thugs from Xiliang Kingdom and hung on an old locust tree in the mountains.
The hanging cat corpse was air-dried, and its soul hovered in the deep forest. After 900 years to 1954 AD, it was finally reincarnated as a human. It was reborn in a family named Lin in Lingquan Village at the foot of the southern foothills of Qianli Gang in western Zhejiang, and named Lin Zimei...
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.