Xiao Tang: Zodiac Sacred Beast, Jinyiwei Special Agent, Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen. Shen Li: Six Fan Gate Guard, Farming Expert, Sacred Beast Caretaker.
Jinyiwei officer Xiao Tang suffered from a strange illness. Though he was a fine young man, he was well into his twenties and still unmarried. With Old Madam Xiao's health failing, the loving mother wanted to find a good girl to entrust her son to before she closed her eyes for good.
Xiao Tang approached Shen Li, a constable from the Six Fan Gate, and asked her to pretend to be the young mistress of the Xiao family for a few days. At the time, Shen Li was pining for someone else's married man. Hoping to escape that dream, she agreed and married into the Xiao family, living as a couple in name only with a gentle, humble monster.
She helped him fulfill his mother's final wish, and he helped her undergo desensitization therapy so she could forget the love of her life.
[The first ten chapters have been revised. The story's main focus is the relationship between the leads, with the male lead's various sacred-beast identities revealed one by one as a secondary thread. There is relatively little detective work. The marriage-first, love-later and pregnancy escape plot will probably come in the latter half, around the time the male lead transforms into a divine dragon.]
Reader's Guide:
1. A fantastical Ming Dynasty setting, not a purely historical romance. Marriage first, love later, with a pregnancy escape.
2. The male lead is one of the twelve zodiac sacred beasts and can transform at will. He's the miraculous dress-up Xiao.
3. The female lead has no secret identity. She's a workaholic through and through, a born employee.
4. Some historical events and figures from the Ming Dynasty appear, but the leads are entirely fictional.
5. Half court politics, half farming. The first half centers on a mother's deep love for her son; the second half, on her deep love for her daughter.
Theme: Promote traditional zodiac culture and showcase the good, true, and beautiful sides of human nature
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