Thousands of years ago...
In a side chamber stood a man in flowing robes, a willow branch twined around him. He was smiling, his gaze lively, dressed in finery as he chatted with a woman.
The woman smiled prettily, her eyes full of affection, and shyly praised him for being handsome. Hearing this, the man teased her: "I'm not that handsome. How could I compare to your lovely face?"
Thousands of years later...
"I have a handsome sweetheart, my most precious treasure in this life."
"What a wonderful husband! Come here, come here, tell me more!"
If you asked Yun Yingzhu what kind of story this was, he would brush aside the willow branches his companion had wrapped around him, clear his throat, and say with a solemn air: "After sitting alone in a tower for three thousand years, a strange occurrence brought me back to the human world. It turned into a cat and made my heart race. By chance, we met, and his pure heart and heroic nature shone through. We pursued the tangled mysteries without giving up, meeting every obstacle head-on, and beat those wolf-headed, rat-headed, and fly-headed pests until they howled in every direction."
"Wow! What a poem!" Everyone clapped in admiration.
Then someone asked, "Um, is that all?"
Yun Yingzhu didn't even blush: "Naturally, after that we worked together, treated each other with respect, and lived in perfect harmony."
"Hey, that's not right!" someone objected, giving his companion a sly smile. "It's clearly a match made in heaven, inseparable and passionately devoted, bound together like wheel and axle..."
His companion kicked him. "That passionate devotion only happens in your dreams..."
"Oh, right, right! And in my dreams, we spend every night in blissful romance, in perfect harmony!"
"Get lost!"
What?! The mysterious cat actually ends up as my boyfriend?!
Dashing, rakish wild boy (gong) vs. poker-faced, childlike, proper-on-the-surface type (shou)
[The setting will be gradually expanded.] This world consists of the Tower, the human realm, and Hell. The Tower is responsible for judging the dead, while Hell is where people "atone for their sins."
Theme: Praise the will to live, praise life
