The Little Junior Sister Who Can Hear Animals is Actually the True Heiress of the Shen Family

Shen Qingxuan, known affectionately as Xiao Tuanzi, is a five-year-old disciple of the Lingshan Zhengyi Sect, raised in isolation on a remote mountain by Daoist Xuansong. Possessing innate spiritual talent and a photographic memory, she has already mastered advanced cultivation techniques, including the Golden Light Incantation and divination arts, surpassing her senior brothers. Accompanied by three mystical companions—a white tiger named Xiaobai, a nine-tailed fox spirit named Lingfeng, and a mystic bird named Qingyu—she is sent down the mountain to locate her birth parents, Shen Zhentian and Lin Wanrong, who abandoned her at birth. Her master’s true motivation is to protect the sect’s disciples from developing wavering Daoist hearts due to excessive attachment to her rapidly growing power.

Upon descending the mountain, Qingxuan encounters a world vastly different from her secluded life. Her first test involves a vengeful female ghost haunting a dilapidated temple. Instead of destroying the spirit, Qingxuan uses her divination skills to locate the ghost’s buried remains and promises to return them to her family, demonstrating her compassionate approach to resolving karmic debts. Shortly after, she intervenes in a human trafficking incident, rescuing a waitress named Zhang Yali from a gang operating in the city’s industrial district. Qingxuan employs talismans and her animal companions to defeat the traffickers, inadvertently uncovering a larger criminal network responsible for multiple disappearances, including that of Zhang Yali’s missing sister ten years prior.

Meanwhile, the Shen family is thrown into turmoil when Lin Wanrong discovers through a paternity test that her raised daughter, Shen Mengqi, is not biologically related to them. The biological daughter was swapped at birth and is now living a privileged life as the Shen family’s heiress, while Qingxuan remains unknown. Upon learning the truth, Lin Wanrong frantically searches for her lost child, unaware that Qingxuan is currently staying with Zhang Yali. Qingxuan’s investigation into the trafficking ring leads her to an abandoned slaughterhouse where a cult-like figure is using a “Seven Fiends Soul-Locking Array” to create Blood Fiends from the souls of victims.

During the confrontation at the slaughterhouse, Qingxuan is joined by Zhengyin, a powerful Buddhist monk who recognizes her potential and aids her in suppressing the evil array. Just as the cultist attempts a desperate self-destructive attack, Qingxuan’s Eldest Senior Brother, Chen Qinghe, arrives with the sect’s Coin Sword. Together, they defeat the cultist, who is revealed to be the former abbot of Qingyun Temple. The rescue of Zhang Yali’s parents from a hidden mine shaft further solidifies Qingxuan’s reputation as a capable cultivator, though she remains focused on her original mission to find her family.

The narrative converges when Lin Wanrong reports her missing daughter to the police, describing a child accompanied by a cat and a fox. Qingxuan, having resolved the immediate supernatural threats, prepares to confront the Shen family and expose the truth about the baby swap. The story sets the stage for a dramatic reunion where Qingxuan must navigate the complexities of her new family dynamics, the resentment of the fake heiress Shen Mengqi, and the protective instincts of her senior brother, all while maintaining her identity as a disciple of the Zhengyi Sect.