Arriving in Xinzheng (4)

People's preferences were diverse, after all.

Some liked cats.

Some did not like cats.

Thus, Faceless Men who turned into cats and dogs could not simply do whatever they pleased, nor did it mean the entire palace had become their home turf. It only meant that gathering intelligence was far less difficult than in human form, and the information they obtained was more explosive.

There was still a difference between that and being truly omnipresent.

Of course, speaking of this, it had to be mentioned that in this era, cats were not called cats. They had an even stranger name: Neko. There were not as many breeds as in later generations, nor were there distinctions of rank. Within the palace, they were generally divided into solid-colored and multicolored types. Solid-colored ones were especially popular, though multicolored ones were not bad either.

For multicolored cats, it mainly depended on the distribution of their markings.

The most classic example was the calico.

In terms of looks, they could even crush solid-colored cats.

So, it was not that multicolored ones were necessarily unattractive. It was simply that most had poorly placed markings and were less pleasing to the eye than solid-colored ones.

Moreover, the rules by which these cats were adopted were rather strange.

It depended on fate at first sight!

That was right, fate at first sight!

It had absolutely nothing to do with the nobility of their bloodline.

At most, it had something to do with their looks.

After all, people were visual creatures. When they saw a beautiful living thing, they instinctively paid it more attention. Cats were naturally one kind of living thing as well.

Besides that, some people did not like small animals.

They liked flowers and plants instead.

A very small number of Faceless Men, ruthless enough