Starting as a prodigy wanting milk? A world-destroying deception in the opposite direction.

As a certified soothsayer for the Temple of Soothing, Shen Zhen’s daily job is dealing with bizarre neighborhood incidents and pacifying the anger of restless deities. When a distraught man desperately asks how to feed his newborn infant—despite being biologically incapable of producing milk—Shen is forced to improvise a bizarre lie about the child being a tree spirit that subsists solely on divine dew. To Shen’s relief, the man eagerly believes the fabrication. But moments later, the atmosphere shifts terrifyingly as the man’s eyes turn ice-cold, demanding to know if the "creature" is a beast, and whether its master is male or female. This chilling interrogation is merely a glimpse into Shen’s ordinary life as a low-level temple worker, where every deception treads the razor's edge between survival and world-destroying catastrophe.