Mythological beasts reduced to broke, messy versions of themselves, stumbling through the modern world like has-beens who can't accept the demotion. The comedy lives in that specific shame: creatures of legend now dealing with rent, bad jobs, and the fact that nobody believes in them anymore. It's a show about obsolescence dressed up as a buddy comedy, where every drinking scene and failed scheme carries the weight of gods who became irrelevant. You're laughing at characters who have every reason to be bitter, and the show never cuts away from that sting.

Scientific progress has left the old mythological beasts far less grand than they once were. Sibuxiang, one of these creatures, is ordered down to the mortal world to help other mythological animals who have fallen on hard times among humans. There he runs into his former colleague Pixiu, who is in a tight spot, his drinking buddy Tuye, whose luck has run out, and the gold and silver Jue brothers, who have been demoted to the mortal realm. The show is a fantasy comedy with a slice-of-life feel, built around how these one-time legends manage in an ordinary modern world.