In the 19th year of Zhenguan, Chang'an. Overnight, all the cats, dogs, cattle and horses in the city understood human speech.
Mowan, a stray civet cat, was once the pet of a spice merchant in the Western Regions. Before the businessman was killed, it heard the last conversation in the dark between Prince Li Chengqian and his cronies plotting to start an army. Now, it is the only "eyewitness" who knows the truth.
Mowan doesn't want to care about human affairs, but his enemies are chasing him; he has to team up with a retired war horse that is castrated but still remembers the battlefield, and a palace parrot that loves to gossip about the palace. He uses his claws, ears and wings to eavesdrop on the most deadly secrets of the empire in the curfew.
When all the history books are silent, a cat chooses to rewrite the ending - unknown to the public, scratching the face of the conspiracy.
