The Museum's Working Beast Has Escaped

One of the four small animal-shaped supports beneath the Xuanwen Four Symbols Chengtian Cauldron at Jiangcheng Museum inexplicably went missing. The enormous cauldron's center of gravity shifted, and it crashed off its display stand toward the floor. The violent impact shook the entire museum and woke the nearby residents sleeping in the middle of the night.

The head of Zero-One Special Affairs Bureau watched the security footage with a grave expression. The exhibition hall was silent and showed no signs of anything amiss. Then, without warning, one of the small animal-shaped supports at the base of the Chengtian Cauldron vanished into thin air, and the massive, heavy vessel came crashing down. That was what everyone had witnessed.

Ye Jian was born with a sacred body for cultivating immortality. Her talent was so great that even the Heavenly Dao grew wary of her. When she underwent tribulation to become a god, a bolt of profound heavenly lightning ten, even a hundred times stronger than anyone else's, struck down and instantly reduced her to ashes. When she opened her eyes, her soul had transmigrated into the body of an office worker in another world.

This office worker lived paycheck to paycheck. She had just paid rent, had barely any money in her pocket, and still had to work overtime until midnight.

Ye Jian: "…"

Late at night, rain poured down. A snow-white kitten huddled and shivered in a shoebox beside a trash can. Its once fluffy fur was soaked, hanging in scraggly tufts, and it looked so pitiful.

Ye Jian had just finished working overtime and walked past. She took a few more steps, then turned back. Looking at the little ball of fur shivering with its eyes half-closed, she murmured, "You do look a bit like that little one I rescued ages ago. All right, come home with me. Be my lucky cat!"

Setting and blurb written on May 9, 2026

Theme: Though poor, stay resolute and never stop striving for your ideals