Everyone Here Exists Outside the Painting

[Romance + Daily Life + Catgirls + Fox Spirits + Plant Girls + Multiple Female Leads] After graduating and losing his job, with rent weighing on him, Lin Che lives a hand-to-mouth existence in a shabby apartment in Nancheng, with no end in sight. The one bright spot in his life is Yuanbao, an orange cat he rescued. Then a barefoot young woman knocks on his door, just to borrow a bag of cat food. Lin Che: “I thought my roommates were just reclusive. Later, I found out they were nonhuman in the most literal sense.” The light-averse older sister Yun Mo speaks in a cool, detached tone, but always takes his side. Her curious younger sister Yun Ling is fascinated by everything in human society, from food-delivery apps to human emotions. It all begins with a bag of cat food, and soon my rental apartment becomes a temporary shelter for supernatural beings from the city. A cat demon delivering food to support her family, a fox spirit who passed her graduate school entrance exams, a hanged ghost fretting over her performance targets… Even a potted plant he once bought at the flower and bird market. One day, it turns into a bright-eyed, beautiful young woman and appears right in front of him… Only then does Lin Che understand that beneath the shadows of this concrete jungle lies another world, strange and wondrous.