Rooted in a bustling modern metropolis, Legend of the Werewolf crafts an original Eastern xianxia werewolf setting that weaves mundane urban life together with age-old ancient beastfolk legends, setting it apart from conventional Western lycanthropy tales. Protagonist Wang bears an ancestral divine curse forged in the primeval Chaos Era: his wolf clans once aided primordial gods to establish cosmic order, only to fall to greed and arrogance, condemned to transform into feral wolves beneath every full moon. Raised by the venerable Wolf King Xianfeng alongside sworn brothers Wugang and Zhouxing, companion Lanyue, and adopted junior sister Xin'er amid vast grasslands, he chooses to blend into ordinary urban life upon reaching adulthood. Living a humble blue-collar existence, he constantly evades relentless hunts from the Four Archipelagos’ professional hunters while being dragged into millennia-long feuds spanning wolves, eagles, lions, foxes and serpent clans, tasked with unravelling buried secrets surrounding the apocalyptic Death Legion and the celestial Sirius Heart. The novel’s defining charm lies in its striking tonal contrast. Its iconic opening unfolds atop a fifty-six-story skyscraper on a luminous full-moon night: mid-first transformation, Wang fends off an assailant to save lawyer Zhao. He wakes naked after the night’s chaos, falsely labelled a pervert, forced into a borrowed sundress and stranded after misplacing his house key; these hilarious slice-of-life beats soften the grim tropes typical of werewolf fiction, laying the groundwork for their bickering, slow-burn romance. Every character escapes rigid good-or-evil archetypes. Hunter Yang Jian dedicates himself to mankind’s safety yet oscillates between foe and unlikely ally; rival chieftain Rustu boasts unyielding warrior integrity; supposed bitter rival Wugang conceals a self-sacrificing agenda behind open hostility, with constant, unexpected plot twists unfolding across chapters. Inventive Eastern spiritual arts complement Jeet Kune Do hand-to-hand combat, featuring cloud, ice and star-based mystic techniques. Threads of office investigation, random urban skirmishes and ancient pagoda showdown interlock seamlessly—routine legal inquiries steadily unravel hidden beast conspiracies. Alternating tender everyday romance and earth-shattering inter-clan warfare, the narrative layers dense foreshadowing, with pivotal twists including the Wolf King’s mysterious murder and fractured brotherhood repeatedly subverting readers’ expectations.