The story centers on the romance between Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, a love between a human and a demon. But at its core, it has been completely reimagined as a “survival guide to the demon world” and a “panorama of human society,” blending cyber xianxia, workplace jargon, internet memes, and subversive comedy.
The plot revolves around “repaying a debt of gratitude,” but the process is utterly absurd. Bai Suzhen is no longer the gentle snake immortal of tradition. Instead, she is a Versaille-style diva and master strategist, skilled in the demon world's hacking techniques and well versed in human society's rules. To repay her debt, she stages a deeply implausible “heiress” persona, but Xu Xian ends up under arrest when she uses stolen government silver as her startup capital.
With wildly exaggerated satire, the novel deconstructs the romantic myths, official corruption, and human greed found in traditional stories. Through Bai Suzhen's perspective as an overwhelmingly powerful demon who can “beat humans at their own game from a higher dimension,” it pokes fun at all sorts of absurdities in the human world. The result is a hilarious fantasy about schemes and counter-schemes, calculation and genuine affection, and doing your best to “manage” your life in a chaotic world.
