The Shadow of the Meowing Hero

In the freezing cold of Songpu's 'Eighteen Turns', the young underdog Er Zi is beaten to the brink of death by the villain Bai Juntian. Fortunately, the thousand-year-old cat immortal Wu Yun Xiao's soul attaches to him, forming a symbiotic contract that grants him supernatural powers, transforming the cowardly youth. The household guardian spirit respects Wu Yun Xiao's ethos of 'a true hero acts for the country and its people', helping Er Zi to uphold justice in the streets, robbing the rich to help the poor. With night vision, agility, and claw techniques, the cowardly youth is reborn as the Meowing Hero patrolling the alleys, protecting the local community. He pranks and humiliates bullies. When a bully, resentful of Er Zi and the lawyer Mendelssohn for thwarting his plan to take over a dumpling shop, hires the ronin Gangmen Zhiyang to kill Mendelssohn, Er Zi, enraged, leads the guardian spirit and the cat beggars' gang to hunt down Gangmen Zhiyang. The witch Xiaobi Zhaizi infiltrates Songpu, secretly using dark arts to sever the dragon vein. She deduces that Gangmen Zhiyang encountered a 'spirit' and sees it as her greatest threat. She clashes with Er Zi and his allies, but the cat immortal's spirit is depleted, returning to its origin, and Xiaobi Zhaizi dies from the backlash of her own dark arts. Er Zi, now without his powers, retires to the countryside with his beloved Ya Dan'er, running a tofu shop, embracing the simple life, and finally witnessing the dawn of a new day! — Description from novelcodex.org