War took everything from Qi Xinglan. His mother left him only one last wish: "Find yourself a companion. Don't be so lonely."
So he walked into a slave shop and, among six dying captives from a fallen kingdom, chose a cat-eared girl who was fast asleep.
"I'm not here to buy a slave," he said. "I'm here to ask for your hand."
The girl opened her eyes. "...Are you crazy?"
This is a story about two lonely souls keeping each other warm. When the whole world sees her as an inferior slave, he stubbornly calls her his "companion."
Note: The setting is an ordinary magical continent in another world, followed by a feudal slave society, with plenty of politics and history woven in. Read with care.
