[Great Ming] [Cat transmigration] [Longevity] [History]
By day, Great Ming's human world bustles with life. Its laws are strict, and its daily routines are ordinary.
But no one knows that when night falls and the ward gates are locked, another complete world awakens in the sleeping streets and lanes of the capital.
The night does not belong to humans. The night belongs to the Cat Kingdom.
Lanterns light up at the ends of the alleys. Cat constables patrol the streets and enforce the law; cat magistrates hear cases and try prisoners; cat markets open for trade.
Hidden in gaps in the walls, underground canals, and the spaces beneath roof beams and tiles is an unknown system of court laws, everyday life, and centuries-old feuds.
There are cat officers who enforce the law impartially, a Cat Kingdom general imprisoned on false charges, sworn enemies from the Rat Kingdom entrenched underground, and fox spirits with secret arts hidden deep in the mountains.
Li Jianguo, a modern soul, unexpectedly arrived in the early years of the Yongle era. Transformed through secret arts, he became an ordinary tabby cat.
He retained his human intellect, discovered the truth about both worlds, and moved between the human realm and the Cat Kingdom.
On one side were the changes of the court and the joys and sorrows of ordinary people in the Great Ming Dynasty.
On the other were wrongful convictions and strange cases, interspecies bloodshed, and political schemes in the Cat Kingdom.
He only wanted to keep his head down and live in peace, but time and again he was drawn into the Cat Kingdom's long-buried cases, secrets of the war against the Rat Kingdom, and dangerous deals with other species.
His human body was dead; his cat body was at the mercy of the tides.
When three hundred years of turmoil in the Great Ming had come to an end,
this tabby cat, with a human heart hidden inside, would witness the rise and fall and final homecoming of both worlds.
