[Laid-back, carefree Moon Lion Lord & sharp-tongued, unscrupulous fallen scholar]
Xing Yao comes from a noble family. For three generations, her ancestors were all meritorious elder statesmen, and they always backed the right heir in succession struggles. Altogether, they served successive heads of the family for more than six hundred years.
Now that it is her turn to govern and enforce the law, she naturally does so with an iron fist, upholding her ancestors' good name. She commands half the demon realm and the twenty-four cities of the Moon Lions. Anyone who sees her knows to respectfully address her as Lord Xing Yao.
As the trusted right hand and capable aide of the new young family head, Xing Yao will volunteer without hesitation and go willingly, no matter how many trials and dangers lie ahead.
What she never expected was that those "trials and dangers" would include going to the human imperial capital to audit the accounts. Nor did she expect the task to be hundreds of times more "dangerous" and "difficult" than she had imagined.
Pu Jianxiu's family fell into ruin when he was young, and both his parents died. Other than a small courtyard with a bamboo fence at the edge of the village and a house full of musty books by the sages, he owns nothing. He's so poor his pockets jingle with emptiness, and he can't even scrape together a single copper coin.
The truly appalling thing is that he was born shameless, and considers this no disgrace but an honor. His neighbors gossip behind his back, but he pretends to be deaf and pays them no mind.
For more than a decade, Pu Jianxiu has lived by the motto, "As long as I'm fed, who cares about the rest?" He spends two days doing copywriting for others, two days reading, then five days lazing about. His little life is as relaxed and idle as can be.
His peaceful life ends the day he finds a badly injured, long-haired, long-legged calico cat at his doorstep.
Theme: The world is virtuous, and all living beings should emulate love for others
