Yuejian, a twenty-six-year-old master's graduate in supply chain management, dies suddenly and transmigrates into the body of a newborn white fox in a beast world.
Her father is the greatest hunter, and her mother is the chief herbalist. Everyone says the cub is lucky and will never have to worry about food or drink.
Until she discovers that the old man gnawing on bones was once a bear-hunting hero, the cub digging for roots is so thin that every rib shows, and Bai Xi, an elder who never goes to battle, eats two-fifths of an entire wild boar by himself.
The rules of this world are simple: the strongest get the most to eat. The old, the weak, the young, and the disabled deserve to starve.
Watching it all, Yuejian has only one thought: this system of distribution is rotten to the core.
So she lays out a pile of stones on the ground. White represents the clan chief, gray the elders, black the hunters, and dark-colored stones the cubs and the elderly. She has just one thing to say: the way you divide the meat every day is killing half the clan.
Leng Ye, the young leader of the Snake Clan, wants her bloodline to mine turbid crystal ore. Jin Lie, the Golden Lion leader, wants her plan to quell internal strife. Yin Mo, a Silver Wolf exile who has not spoken in three years, punctures every hole in her argument with a single sentence. Qing He, a wandering physician of mysterious origins, warns her not to repeat the mistakes of those who came before. And Bai Yu, the last white-dragon beast, smiles gently, with the secrets of an entire beast world hidden in his eyes.
Five people come for her, and not one of them is here to protect her.
But she doesn't need protection. Before the turbid energy devours everything, she only wants to turn that pile of stones on the ground into rules the entire beast world must follow.
She has no interest in being everyone's darling, and no interest in becoming a beast consort. She only wants to make sure that staying alive no longer depends on someone else's mercy.
