A Snowy Night Pact: Raising Sacred Beasts on the Frontier

Princess Sang Sang is on the run, carrying Dudu, a sacred beast the size of a tangerine, when she blunders straight into the camp of Prince Jun Moli, commander of the northern forces of the Golden Scale Kingdom. When a three-zhang-tall white tiger charges into the wounded soldiers’ camp with a basket of medicine on its back, when a pack of wolves shows up to beg for an antidote after eating poisonous mushrooms, and when pangolins dig up a life-saving underground river in the middle of the night, the scar-faced, cold-faced prince grabs the culprit, now shrunk down to the size of a tiger cub. “You’ve contracted a princess? Why not contract me too?”

From that day on, the frontier camp takes on a whole new character:

Warhorses line up for the princess to brush their manes, while carrier pigeons chase the prince for millet.

Wolves become the mountain patrol, and bears take on beehive management.

Even the fiercest red-flame horse learns to fan Sang Sang with its tail.

“Your Highness! The sacred tiger has stolen fruit wine again and is making General Zhao dance with it!”

“Never mind. That saves us from having to prepare a performance for the victory banquet.”

“Report! The princess has taken a snow eagle chick to the cliff to teach it to fly!”

Jun Moli snaps open his cloak and leaps onto his horse. “Get a net ready, the strongest one we have.”

In this frontier fairy tale woven from blizzards and sunshine, a princess who can command a hundred beasts and a prince who commands a hundred thousand troops join forces with a white tiger that can grow and shrink at will and loves stealing honey. Together, they create the most extraordinary daily routine in the army. Who says protecting the realm can’t involve petting wolves, cuddling tigers, farming, and raising eagles?

[A heartwarming frontier farming story + an arrogant, proud prince and a princess who speaks to animals + a whole crew of adorable animal workers]