Nian Tu, a young woman from the modern world, unexpectedly crosses into an interstellar empire and becomes its most treasured person. She treats everyone with equal kindness, rejects the prejudice that females are superior and males inferior, and heals others’ pain with her home cooking. Among those she heals are the empire’s seven most powerful figures: the white tiger crown prince, a lion commander known as the God of War, a lion major general, a brilliant snow wolf doctor, a brooding black snake boxer, a leopard diplomat, and the richest man of all, a deep-sea merman. And so begins a story in which everyone finds comfort and Tu is cherished by them all!