In the first year of Qingli under the Northern Song, unrelenting rain shrouds Bianliang.
Bao Zheng, a young scholar traveling to the capital for the imperial examinations, takes shelter from the rain in an abandoned mountain temple. There he finds a girl in red curled up in the Buddha hall, blood at the corner of her mouth, trembling like a startled deer.
Her name is Qing Li. She claims to be a fox from Qingqiu, hiding in the human world to escape a heavenly tribulation.
When a thunder god storms through the temple doors and accuses her of "defying Heaven to change her fate," Bao Zheng steps forward to protect her, and somehow makes the deity retreat. A crescent-shaped birthmark on his forehead glimmers faintly: a sign that he is the reincarnation of the Star of Literary Arts.
The human and the demon set out together for the capital:
She is innocent and carefree, yet carries the mystery of her clan's annihilation. The "Moonspirit Pearl" in her bundle conceals the shocking truth behind the fox clan's destruction during the tribulations of the past three hundred years.
He cares for all living things, yet does not know that he is a celestial star lord descended to the mortal world. His supernatural ability to see the realms of yin and yang when solving cases is quietly awakening.
