Beicheng, a place unlike any other.
Glass curtain walls on the skyscrapers reflected the crumbling ruins of the old city's ghost market. The morning subway ran over a sealing array buried beneath an entire street a century ago. Beneath the city's glittering surface lay countless things out of the ordinary.
Ordinary police couldn't handle them. The Special Cases Investigation Division of the Ministry of State Security could.
The eldest senior sister of the Gua Sect, Xiao Hanyu, was assigned there. That day, Bai Feng was sprawled on the office sofa, gnawing on her third purple bamboo shoot. She was the deputy director of the Special Cases Division and a white tiger in her true form. She seemed lazy, clingy, and talkative, but her claws and fangs were sharp, and she had an animal's instinct for detecting strange auras. The first time she looked up at Xiao Hanyu, golden light flickered in her pupils.
Once in a lifetime, and that was it.
Xiao Hanyu was cool and solemn, guarding the rules as if her life depended on it. A thousand years of the Gua Sect's strict precepts had carved her into a sword without warmth. She found Bai Feng noisy and undisciplined, while Bai Feng clung to her like a stubborn blob of glue. The Gua Sect had taught Xiao Hanyu to be heartless; Bai Feng taught her to care.
"Will you choose the rules or me?" Bai Feng turned to look at her, her tiger eyes shining like two lamps that could never burn out.
Xiao Hanyu crushed the jade ring.
One may lose one's seven emotions, but the human heart never dies. At the bottom of a dry well, she found the sky; at last, an answer echoed back.
The most powerful thing in this world has never been magic. It's someone willing to break their own rules for you.
Theme: What the heart yearns for is the Way.
It's not the demon clan that's locked, right?