Arrival in Xin Zheng (4)

However, people had all kinds of preferences.

Some liked cats.

Some did not like cats.

Therefore, Faceless Men that turned into cats and dogs could not simply do whatever they wanted. Nor did it mean the entire imperial palace had become their home turf. It only meant that gathering intelligence was far easier than when they were in human form, and the information they gathered was far 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: li nu. There were not nearly as many breeds as in later generations, much less different grades. In the palace, they were generally distinguished by solid and mixed colors. Solid-colored cats were especially beloved, but mixed-colored ones were not bad either.

For mixed-colored cats, it mainly depended on how their patches were distributed.

The most typical example was the calico.

In terms of appearance, they could even surpass solid-colored cats.

So it was not that mixed-colored cats were necessarily ugly. It was just that most had patches in unfortunate places, making them less pleasing to the eye than solid-colored ones.

Moreover, the rules for adopting these cats were rather strange.

It depended on affinity at first sight!

That was right, affinity at first sight!

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

At most, it had something to do with looks.

After all, humans were visual creatures. Whenever they saw a beautiful living thing, they instinctively paid it more attention. Cats were naturally one kind of living thing.

Besides that, some people did not like small animals.

Instead, they liked flowers and plants.

For that, a very small number of Faceless