My Evil Wife Is a Nine-Tailed Fox

Shen Minyao considered seeing her human contractor, but given how the media was still covering the fire that had taken several lives at the city hospital, she supposed that she didn't have a choice but to delay their meeting. She was able to check up on him through phone calls anyway, and it seemed like he would need to stay at the hospital for another month until the doctors deemed that he'd partially recovered from his injuries. 

Today, the sun was finally up. It had been two days since she—along with Li Fei'er, Lu Anqi, and Jiang Chen—met Bai Xinran's mother and encountered her spirit. They all decided that Li Fei'er should perform the ritual on the one-hundredth day of Bai Xinran's death. 

Still, it left the question about how they should deal with Liang Sisi. The CCTV footage at Bai Xinran's apartment showed that Liang Sisi had never arrived on the same day her best friend died. However, Shen Minyao and Jiang Chen believed that Liang Sisi found a way to avoid the cameras after coming there repeatedly. The place had several blind spots that could only be checked by the roaming guards after all. 

Anyway, it would be dangerous for the four of them if they played detectives this time, and without conclusive evidence to prove that Liang Sisi had murdered her best friend, their accusation would be pointless. 

Li Fei'er sighed next to Shen Minyao at the cafeteria, while she poked her half-eaten lunch with a fork. She was still troubled over the fact that at this rate, they could do nothing to help Bai Xinran let go of her grievances. 

Shen Minyao sipped her yogurt, her eyes sweeping around while tuning out the unnecessary noises that hurt her ears. Humans tended to be loud whenever they were together, and it only brought displeasure to the fox woman who liked being left in peace. If it wasn't for Li Fei'er's insistence to join her and Lu Anqi for lunchtime, she would rather hide somewhere no one would be able to disturb her. 

"Did Mr. Jiang already talk to Miss Xia?" LI Fei'er asked Lu Anqi in a hushed tone, "Can't we really do something else to help them?" 

"It's not our fight to begin with," Shen Minyao said coldly, "You might be able to protect yourself from malevolent spirits, but isn't a living person also a dangerous one? Don't act hastily, or else you might end up dead like her." 

"Right," Lu Anqi said with a pale expression on her face. Ever since that night when Bai Xinran trapped her in a nightmare, she couldn't fall asleep peacefully. She would rather not have Liang Sisi come to her front door and kill her for being a busybody. 

Although Jiang Chen took it upon himself to train her and help her control her ability with Li Fei'er's help, Lu Anqi was having a hard time ignoring the ghosts that were starting to notice her. There was even one instance where she met a pair of twin young girls, only to discover from their mother that they were already dead. 

Shen Minyao could smell her fear, but she supposed that Li Fei'er and Jiang Chen had yet to train Lu Anqi how to rein in her ability. A slight falter of her will could easily be taken advantage of by the ghosts roaming near her. 

Li Fei'er looked among them and sighed. Shen Minyao's word might come off as blunt anyway. In fact, at first glance, the way Shen Minyao treated others may seem condescending, but if one could take a close look, they could tell that she's just being considerate. Or so Li Fei'er thought. 

Anyway, she got their point and knew how dangerous it was if they stepped up and revealed the truth about Bai Xinran's death. Even now, Li Fei'er couldn't believe that Liang Sisi committed such a crime against the person she claimed to be her best friend. To think that she could easily discard the years she and Bai Xinran had together, it made Li Fei'er wonder what drove Liang Sisi to do it. 

"Aren't you going to eat, Classmate Shen?" She then asked, noticing that although she had known Shen Minyao for some time now, she never saw this classmate eat anything. Shen Minyao was always drinking yogurt drink every day without a miss though. 

"Not hungry," the fox woman replied. Ever since she devoured the spider demon's orb, the pang of hunger hadn't bothered her for days now. However, she would eventually need to hunt demons for their orbs or humans to eat their livers. 

"Are you on a diet?" Lu Anqi asked. Thinking about it, neither did she see Shen Minyao eat since she started hanging out with them. 

"You can say that," Shen Minyao replied, "Though it's more like me being too much of a picky eater." 

"Is that so? I was thinking of inviting you to eat out with us tonight. Schoolmate Li already agreed to come," Lu Anqi said. 

"Depends where you're going and who's included," the fox woman said before eyeing Li Fei'er. At least, the young woman was being distracted by Lu Anqi's presence and wasn't as clingy to her as before. 

"It's just me and Mr. Jiang. We're hoping you could join us, Schoolmate Shen. Mr. Jiang said that you've been a great help to us last time," Lu Anqi explained before getting excited, "So, would you join us?"

Li Fei'er didn't say anything, but the way she looked at Shen Minyao was enough for the fox woman to know what the young shaman was thinking. 

Sighing inwardly, Shen Minyao didn't know why she was being dragged into this paranormal investigation. Perhaps for Lu Anqi and Li Fei'er, this was exciting, but for Shen Minyao, it wasn't. 

Demon she may be, but associating herself with Jiang Chen's group might only lead to trust issues of the other humans included in his team in the future.