[Ordinary Man at the Bottom of Society] [Disguised Identity] [Murder Mystery] [Mysterious Big Shot]
My name is Li Qing. I'm a waiter at the Huifeng Inn, and every morning I get up early with a mouthful of dirt.
In Fuyu City, humans and demons live side by side. Cultivators look down on mortals, mortals look down on demons, and me? I'm nothing at all. I've survived for three years by acting like a spineless bootlicker, until one day an earth-element spirit beast crawled into the dry well in my backyard.
It ate the lumps of dirt I'd saved for three years, and the blocked path inside me finally loosened for the first time.
I thought it was my big break. Then every clue in a murder case in the south of the city pointed to me, and I realized...
The killer wasn't some stranger. It was Old Bear, who chopped meat beside me every day.
And the owner of that wooden hairpin was the one who had truly planned for every possibility.
Why was he helping me? I didn't know.
I only knew that my life had grown out of the dirt.
