[Good-for-nothing fox spirit × aloof Daoist] An opposites-attract couple who choose each other, unlocking the ultimate push and pull of a human-demon romance!
Bai Xiaoli’s fox-spirit ID is about to expire.
One of the last batch of “legal fox spirits” to gain human form before 1949, this nine-tailed fox has cultivated for 499 years. With her family’s old Republic-era papers, she’s thriving in the short-video age: by day, she’s the adorable pet blogger “Bai Tuanzi”; by night, she’s a breathtaking beauty at high-end banquets. Then the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs delivers its final warning: pass the “Human Socialization Exam” within 30 days, or be turned back into a fox.
At the exam, she quickly realizes that the proctors are all demon hunters in disguise. While fleeing, she stumbles upon the Bureau’s horrifying secret: it turns demons who pass into medicinal pills. Worse, in the director’s office she finds a specimen of her grandfather’s fox tail. Just as she falls into despair, Lu Mingxiu, the genius Daoist who has “accidentally failed” to catch her three times, appears again. This time, the demon-binding rope in his hands is wrapped around a colleague’s neck.
Now this good-for-nothing fox spirit, who only wants to coast through life, has no choice but to revive her family’s inherited art of bewitching minds. And the Daoist who always appears at the crucial moment is looking at her with growing danger in his eyes. When the Bureau’s director tears off his mask and reveals his true identity as the one who betrayed the demon clans all those years ago, Bai Xiaoli finally understands: the family curse Lu Mingxiu bears is the final killing move her grandfather left behind.
“Animals aren’t allowed to become spirits after the founding of the country?” Bai Xiaoli’s nine tails unfurl in the moonlight, with the Daoist behind her, his peachwood sword put away. “Then why does your heart beat for me so wildly against the rules?”
