[Two male leads + supernatural + wild imagination + mildly scary + lighthearted comedy + a thousand-year wait]
[A cool-seeming but kindhearted young Taoist devoted to uncovering the truth, the pursuing lead, vs. a sunny, direct, mysterious puppy-like young man with many identities, the pursued lead]
Chi Yu is having another nightmare. In it, a monster with a human face and a snake’s body is about to eat a little girl.
He repeatedly strikes the snake’s body with an iron rod, but it doesn’t budge.
After the monster devours the girl, its human face opens wide, baring sharp snake fangs as it lunges at him. Then he jolts awake.
He thinks it’s all just a dream, but the enormous scale in his hand digs painfully into his skin, as if constantly reminding him that it’s all real.
So Chi Yu becomes a little Taoist priest and pores through all kinds of ancient texts, hoping to find the real answer.
Then he encounters the nine-tailed white fox from the books, whose tail is used to make candlewicks that don’t sway in the wind. He meets the black spirit that makes everyone gloomy, and watches mental patients line up to jump from a rooftop.
Chi Yu realizes that more advanced beings exist in this world, or rather, that ancient civilizations have appeared in the modern age, trying to compete for resources.
But the further he investigates, the stranger the people he meets and the more unbelievable the things he experiences: a bear with a human face kneeling to beg for help, a town where everyone can only lie, and a soul-devouring bird...
As he keeps hunting monsters, strange memories sometimes surface in his mind. Sometimes he is a general; sometimes he is a child with the mind of an innocent.
And in all these memories, there is always a blurry face, smiling as it calls his name: “Little Fish.”
