I’m Li Qiyao, Jinling City’s number one troublemaker.
Sharp-tongued, scheming, and always sticking my nose into other people’s business: those are the three talents that have kept me living better than anyone else in the poor quarter.
Then one day, I mouthed off at the City God Temple, offended the Prince of Ning’s heir, and happened to rescue a silly girl.
She said her name was Tangtang. She carried a royal jade pendant everywhere, and even her sweets came straight from the imperial kitchens.
Well, would you look at that. I rescued a commandery princess? And one who’d sneaked out of the palace, no less?
After that, pursuers, assassins, mysterious cults, border smuggling... Trouble came in wave after wave, like I’d kicked a hornet’s nest.
Even more absurdly, a glowing pearl latched onto me and claimed I was the “Star Key,” destined to save the world at a snowy mountain temple.
Me? An orphan? Save the world?
Wait, I just want to stay alive!
