After an unreliable Renaissance painter turned him into a vampire, the timid artist Jean-Pierre Lassalle survived for over two centuries in Paris by stealing blood bags from hospitals and restoring old paintings. He never dared to bite anyone, yet vampire nobles constantly mocked him for being "an embarrassment."
In 2019, the European Vampire Council finally had enough and exiled him. He fled all the way to Guiyang, China, where he met the swindling Ming-dynasty evil cultivator Xuanjizi at Huaguoyuan, the "number one property development in Asia." These two nonhuman misfits, one afraid of sunlight and the other of Taoist priests, somehow found a strange sense of belonging amid square dancing, Changwang noodles, and livestream shopping.
That is, until a senior master of the Quanzhen Sect came down from the mountain. The two fled to Qianling Mountain in the middle of the night and were forced to work for the true "mountain king": the Monkey King. They taught monkeys how to pose for photos and use beauty filters, and even mediated disputes among the monkey troops. Lassalle secretly dubbed himself the "Count of Qianling Mountain," unaware that his absurd life, restoring relics with Van Gogh brushstrokes and making spicy blood curd stew with blood bags, was revealing the shared loneliness and tenderness of immortals from East and West.
From a Parisian cellar to a Guizhou mountaintop, a tragicomedy about kindness, belonging, and the eternal bustle of everyday life is just beginning.
