My Evil Wife Is a Nine-Tailed Fox

The weekend came too fast for the fox woman's liking. However, since she had promised to join Jiang Chen's team in closing the case of Bai Xinran without getting involved with apprehending Liang Sisi for her crime, Shen Minyao had no other choice but to appear at their meeting place ahead of time. 

It was Saturday afternoon, and waiting for their call time had been a pain for the fox woman who had been bored the whole day. 

"You're here early," she heard Li Fei'er say, who had just arrived in a casual red blouse and a white skirt, paired with white sneakers. Her long hair was tied in a high ponytail, with a few locks framing her face. 

Meanwhile, she noticed that Shen Minyao's style of clothing was a little stylish, as expected from a young miss of a prominent family. She was wearing a white loose shirt matched with a pair of capri pants that reached her knees. Her hair was being kept away with a loose braid hanging over her shoulder.

Shen Minyao removed the headphones on her ears and nodded at her. She was only wearing these headphones because it somehow helped her tune out the annoying sounds of cars and human voices around her, not because she was fond of listening to music. 

"I woke up early. I have nothing else to do anyway." She lied, knowing full well that her nights were spent on either watching several TV shows to study humans or binge-reading the books and comics she had recently followed. 

"Ah, same here. Dad refused to let me accompany them today." She heard Li Fei'er huffed with annoyance. 

"They're going somewhere?" Shen Minyao asked with slight curiosity. She didn't mean to pry on the Li family, but it wouldn't hurt to know what they were up to these days. 

"They are trying to track a powerful demon that has recently escaped from our family seal." This time, Li Fei'er sighed. "Dad said it will be dangerous for me to meet the demon face to face as it bears immense hatred towards our family. He fears that the demon would hunt me down if it finds out I'm from the Li family." 

"Ohh?" The fox woman raised a slender brow. Truth to be told, she would have done that and exact revenge on the family that sealed her for years if she hadn't met Little Jiu's reincarnation. 

If their Little Jiu wasn't born to the Li family, the fox woman would surely come after them and kill them without hesitation. Initially, she wanted to hunt the Li shamans and eat their livers to replenish her strength, but all her plans went down the drain because of Li Fei'er's existence. 

"Is it really alright for you to tell me this family secret of yours? Aren't you afraid that I might betray you one day?" 

"I think it's better that you know," the young shaman explained, "My Dad said that the demon loves to eat the livers of humans with exceptional spiritual awareness. So humans with psychic abilities and the ability to see demons and ghosts are susceptible to becoming the demon's prey." 

"Are you afraid of being devoured by a demon?" Shen Minyao found it amusing that Li Fei'er was more worried about her friends becoming prey to a nine-tailed fox than about her who was born to the accursed family of the shamans that sealed the said demon. 

"Don't worry, Little One. As long as I—your big sister—is here, no one would be able to touch even a strand of your hair." This was a vow the nine-tailed fox swore in her heart. 

She wasn't sure why she needed to cross paths with Feng Jiu's reincarnation, but if she could preserve her ward's life this time, she would protect Li Fei'er with her life. After all, if it wasn't for her, Feng Jiu wouldn't have lost her life, and her older brother wouldn't have lost his beloved wife. 

Just as they were about to start their lives in each other's arms, the fox woman felt like she robbed the two of the happiness they both deserved.

Thinking about Qin Zhi made Shen Minyao ashamed of herself. 

'Brother, are you still alive somewhere? Do you know that Little Jiu is now standing right in front of me? Are you even aware that she was reborn?' 

Shen Minyao wasn't sure if she should try to find her older brother in this era. It had been centuries since Little Jiu died, while she had been sealed for ages. Who knew if Qin Zhi still existed to this day or not? 

Even if he was, wouldn't that mean that he also suffered and mourned over the death of his wife? 

Li Fei'er smiled and hooked her arm with Shen Minyao, pulling away the latter from her reverie. 

"Then, Classmate Shen, please take good care of me." 

"You trust me that much? Aren't you afraid that I might hurt you instead?" 

Because Shen Minyao was considerably a little taller than Li Fei'er, she had to look down on the younger woman. 

"You are being weird right now, Classmate Shen. Why are you even thinking that you would betray me one day… when all you've done so far was to save me from being harmed?" Li Fei'er countered. 

The fox woman considered her words. She was half-tempted to say that it had been her reflexes and instincts that made her do so. Because Li Fei'er was their Little Jiu in their past lives, the fox woman had this overwhelming urge to keep Li Fei'er from harm… even from herself. 

"Li Fei'er! Shen Minyao!" The two heard Lu Anqi's voice calling after them.

Jiang Chen had pulled up the black minivan he was driving at the parking spot before Lu Anqi alighted from it to greet her schoolmates. 

"Have you been waiting for us for too long?" She asked. 

"No.. We just arrived here, too, right, Classmate Shen?" Li Fei'er winked at her classmate.