—Xiao was a boy to whom his grandfather, named Abe, told stories about a house in which very strange children lived, 'peculiar' to be more exact, which lived with Miss Peregrine, who was their guardian so to speak.

As he grew older, Xiao stopped believing all these stories until his grandfather died under strange circumstances, without having eyes...

When he had arrived at his grandfather's house just before he died, he saw how a very strange human-shaped creature with tentacles in its mouth left his grandfather's house.

He told this to the police, but they didn't believe him, so he decided to follow the clues left by his late grandfather to find Miss Peregrine's home and ask her for answers.

The clues took him to the Island of Wales, he was able to get there thanks to his father Zhongli taking him.

Now he was in a cave after having been chased by some boys after he had searched for the house that his grandfather mentioned to him, which for some reason were right in that house that he went to investigate...