Vãn Canh

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“This time, when going to Bồng Sơn, Vãn Xuyên will be waiting.” Since childhood, I have had the ability to talk with animals. At fourteen, I rescued a starving cat. It led me to the gate of Prince Tương’s mansion and said, “Human, follow them, and you’ll get good food.” So I became a beast tamer in Prince Tương’s household. I helped him summon a hundred beasts to pay homage and fabricate auspicious omens. Later, he entered the Eastern Palace and promised to make me a secondary consort. Just as wealth and honor lay before me, the nightingale under the corridor suddenly said to me, “You’d better run—I heard him speaking ill of you.”