No living thing dared to stay in the mansion of nine thousand year old Qi Yanzhou without permission, until the snake demon who called himself Jiang Xianyue broke in.
He is the palm of the powerful Superintendent of Ceremonies, with Buddhist beads twirled in his fingertips and a gleam of swords hidden in his eyes, playing with the power of the dynasty; he is a snake demon who has practiced for thousands of years.
An accident during the investigation of a monster case caused two people who had no intersection to suddenly become entangled. Qi Yanzhou regarded Jiang Xianyue as a controllable weapon and imprisoned him in the palace, using his demonic power to eliminate political enemies; Jiang Xianyue behaved in a cynical manner, but late at night he caught a glimpse of the fragility of this powerful eunuch when he touched old scars, and for the first time in a thousand years of Taoism, his mind was disturbed.
In the glare of swords and shadows in the court, they are allies who use each other, and they are also each other's only flaw. When the Taoist priest's spell burned Jiang Xianyue's scales, Qi Yanzhou tore up the carefully laid chess game for the first time; when the political enemy's poisonous arrow shot at Qi Yanzhou, Jiang Xianyue protected him with his true body, and his burnt scales mixed with the fragrance of plum blossoms became a secret mark between the two.
The field of power is like the cold snow, and the demonic nature is like the fiery scales. When Qi Yanzhou made an exception and left the non-flowering plum tree for Jiang Xianyue, and when Jiang Xianyue always returned to the mansion during the plum blossom season, this bond that started with suspicion had already quietly grown roots called "concern" in the shadow of the decadent dynasty.
Humans and monsters have different paths, and power and position are like prisons. They may never be "fellow travelers" in the secular sense, but in each other's coldness and heat, they find their own little warmth in the world, which is fleeting like winter snow falling on the scales.
