《I Would Like to Become a Fox You Like（The Bewitchment of My Heart）》


 Chapter 0 - Prologue

    Chapter 0: Prologue


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    The sun was scorching overhead, and the weather was suffocatingly hot. Occasionally, a floating cloud drifted across the horizon and became the only embellishment in the silent world. The scenery in front of me was gradually blurred, leaving only the blazing red of the overwhelming fire. It was like the tongue of a serpent, planning to engulf everything.


    I heard the voice of people roaring. I closed my eyes in despair and listened helplessly to the shouting of people outside the fire¡­


    ¡°The demon concubine brought disaster to our country, and she should be burnt to death¡­¡±


    ¡°Burn her to death! Burn her to death! She was a demon concubine!¡±


    ¡°Burn the demon concubine to death, and bring peace back to us!¡±


    A demon concubine? Was I a demon concubine? Thinking of this, I couldn¡¯t help but put on a bitter smile. If it were true, I would never be tied to the tower by you people. I was unable to do anything in front of the raging fire, because I couldn¡¯t move at all.


    The pain of being burned was beyond words. I guessed in my eyes there was only emptiness. What appeared in my mind again and again was still his emotionless face. I once pushed my way out of the crowd and fell down in front of him. I clenched his trousers with my trembling hands and kept defending myself, ¡°I am not a demon, and you must believe me! Junhua, you must believe me! I am not a demon¡­¡±


    However, his face was cold and ruthless. He kicked me away and ordered the guards to seize me. There was nothing else in his eyes but disgust and apathy.


    How could this happen? How did the plague in the country become my fault? Just because I was the favorite concubine of Junhua? Because I had a beautiful face? Or something wrong with the inexplicable spell that I was born with?


    I was a human being, a human being! But who believed me? Even Junhua, whom I trusted most, didn¡¯t believe me and kept calling me the demon concubine¡­


    Junhua, how could you distrust me? I was Ruoli! You swore to me that you would never betray me!


    The fire spread all over my body. I watched my skin engulfed by the fire inch by inch, but inside my heart it was freezing cold, which helped me to forget the scorching pain outside.


    My body was gradually burnt to ashes and my consciousness was pulled away. At the last moment when my soul dispersed, I seemed to see a figure in blue running towards the flame, panicking and shouting, ¡°Ruoli! Ruoli!¡±


    I felt that the shape of my body was uncertain. I didn¡¯t totally wake up from the obscurity until I saw the otherworldly flowers (manjusaka) on the road to the netherworld. ¡°The flowers and leaves cannot see each other, and the two are destined to be separated and miss each other forever.¡± Following the ox-headed and horse-faced demons from Hades, I walked through the Bridge of Helplessness on the River of Forgetfulness. The blazing red in front of me became the darkness of chaos.


    The netherworld was just around the corner.


    Halfway across the bridge, I met Judge Cui in the netherworld. He greeted me respectfully and said, ¡°Fairy Peony, it is time to return to your place. Queen Mother has been waiting in the heaven for a long time. Please return to your place!¡±


    My place? I suddenly smiled. Yes, I was originally a white peony in Queen Mother¡¯s wonderland of Yaochi. After one thousand years of cultivation, I was favored by Queen Mother. I went to the Palace of Flowers as Fairy Peony and served Queen Mother.


    However, after practicing with great concentration for thousands of years, all my efforts became in vain since I glanced at the indescribably handsome Emperor of Donghua at Peach Banquet and hopelessly fell in love with him. From then on, the only one that mattered to me in the world was the Emperor of Donghua. In the past 500 years, I chased him ceaselessly, but he had never looked at me respectfully, and his eyes were still clear, without any worldly desire. He was emotionless and heartless. Even Grand Supreme Lord reminded me more than once, ¡°To win the love of Donghua is even harder than touching the sky!¡±


    At that time, I was so na?ve, and I believed that ¡°touching the sky¡± was a piece of cake. I even didn¡¯t take this advice seriously. I didn¡¯t know that Donghua, who was born in the ruins of wild spirits above the blue sea, ought to be heartless and emotionless. How could he be easily attracted by others?


    So, 500 years later, when Donghua devoted himself to transmigration and went down to the mortal world to experience human sufferings, I also entered the transmigration without hesitation to pursue him. I only wished I could obtain his love and live together with him for decades in the mortal world.


    However, it was ridiculous that either as a fairy or as a human, I couldn¡¯t obtain the love of Donghua. The only thing that I could remember about that flashy world was his ruthless eyes and merciless words¡­ I couldn¡¯t help but burst into tears. I attained nothing but sadness in the mortal world. How could I restrain the deep despair and sadness?


    So, what was the point of becoming a fairy or a human? It would be better to be a demon, far better!


    I staggered across the Bridge of Helplessness and went through the River of Forgetfulness. The gray-haired Old Lady Meng leaned against the bridge alone. The five-flavored tea of forgetfulness in her hand was flowing with relaxing colors. After drinking her tea, all the love, hate, and sorrow in the previous life would be forgotten.


    As I approached Old Lady Meng, I saw the blue Karma Stone standing behind her. The words carved on the stone were as red as blood. The top of the stone was engraved with the sentence, ¡°Go to the other bank early.¡± I reached out my trembling hand and touched the countless names engraved on it, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn¡¯t find ¡°Fairy Peony and the Emperor of Donghua¡±, or ¡°Bai Ruoli and Mu Junhua¡±. I looked up and guffawed till tears fell on the blue stone and disappeared. It was proved that after all, I was doomed to be nobody for Donghua. Even on the Karma Stone I couldn¡¯t find any hint of love between us.


    Old Lady Meng smiled and handed the bowl to me. Her old voice was like a call from a distance. ¡°My fairy, what is love? It is nothing but a bowl of tea. Are you still puzzled by it?¡±


    When people knew about their previous life, they had left their surnames on the Karma Stone. If people didn¡¯t want to know their previous life, they should drink Old Lady Meng¡¯s tea.


    I suddenly became aware that in the past one thousand years, I chased Donghua ceaselessly with great pleasure. I didn¡¯t realize that either in heaven or the mortal world, I couldn¡¯t win Donghua¡¯s heart until I reached the entrance of the netherworld, looked at the otherworldly flowers, crossed the Bridge of Helplessness, and saw the Karma Stone.


    I took the tea and walked along the River of Forgetfulness. Finally, I was faced with the six transmigration gateways: Devaloka (the road to become a fairy), Asura (the road to become an Asura), Manu?ya (the road to become a man), Tiryagyoni (the road to become an animal), Preta (the road to become a ghost) and Naraka (the road to become a demon). Then I stopped in front of Tiryagyoni, the road to become an animal, which gave off blue light.


    What was the difference between being immortals or humans? Instead of suffering from the pain of love, it was better to become an animal or a demon. Longevity or beauty didn¡¯t matter anymore, and one could be free and unfettered from love and worry in its life.


    ¡°My fairy, do not ¡­¡± Judge Cui suddenly shouted at me from behind, and his voice was full of panic and disbelief.


    I turned around and smiled at him. After drinking the tea all at once, to his astonishment, I jumped into the gateway of Tiryagyoni. From then on, there would be no Fairy Peony in the world.


    Farewell, Donghua¡­ Maybe we wouldn¡¯t meet again¡­

 Chapter 1 - Thousands of Years Passed Quickly (1)

    Chapter 1: Thousands of Years Passed Quickly (1)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    In This Life, You Are a God While I Am a Demonic Fox


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    ¡°Xiaoshan, Bai Xiaoshan, come here! I¡¯ve become a fox with nine tails, and I¡¯ll be in the shape of a human!¡± Seeing that I finally had the ninth tail behind me, I ran out of the fox hole and shouted excitedly.


    With a loud clatter, a stone fell on me unexpectedly. Then came Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s furious roaring: ¡°Don¡¯t interrupt my sleep!¡±


    Feeling aggrieved, I rubbed the place where I was hit by the stone and looked up at the person sleeping on the tree. Well, he was indeed a sleeping pheasant, not a person. I continued to shout at him, ¡°Xiaoshan, look at me! I¡¯m not lying to you! I am going to have a human body this time!¡±


    I just finished talking, and there was radiant white light coming from my body with great brilliancy. I squinted my eyes, surprised to see my body rise gradually. My claws grew into human hands and feet, and my white fur disappeared inch by inch and turned into white and smooth skin suddenly ¡­


    I opened my mouth slightly but could not speak. In the past ten thousand years I had been practicing just for today. I finally understood why Bai Xiaoshan expected me to become a fox as soon as possible, because at this moment, I saw myself as a human¡­


    Perhaps interrupted by the strong white light, Bai Xiaoshan yawned, reluctantly opened his eyes and glanced at me.


    ¡°You see! I didn¡¯t lie to you! I¡¯ve taken the human form!¡± I grinned excitedly at Bai Xiaoshan.


    Another stone hit my forehead accurately with a bang. Before I cried out, Bai Xiaoshan jumped out of the tree and turned his back on me. He shouted, ¡°You stupid fox, don¡¯t you know how to dress yourself?¡±


    I continued to rub my forehead in confusion, looked down at my naked body, tilted my head and said innocently: ¡°I am not a human being. Why should I wear any clothes?¡±


    Hearing this, Bai Xiaoshan started to search for another stone around him. I immediately covered my face with conditioned reflex and said: ¡°Okay! Okay! I¡¯ll conjure up clothes for myself right away¡­¡±


    As a result, Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s claw no longer rubbed on the stone. I breathed a sigh of relief and quickly created a dress with long white sleeves. A delicate peony was embroidered on the collar, which was inlaid with golden lines. The pleated skirt was like floating cloud when the wind blew. The dress was lovely and refreshing.


    After I put on my clothes, Bai Xiaoshan finally turned around and walked up to me. He changed suddenly from a beautiful pheasant into a handsome young man. But his clothes were too colorful. He looked like a bunch of gorgeous butterflies at first glance.


    He looked at me carefully for a long time, then held out his hand to pinch my cheek and shook his head with a frown: ¡°Why are you so ugly?¡±


    ¡°Ugly?¡± I looked at him puzzled.


    ¡°Look at yourself!¡± Bai Xiaoshan conjured up a mirror and put it into my hand.


    I held up the mirror and looked at myself carefully. Well, I had an oval face, big eyes, long eyelashes, pink cheeks, a delicate nose, and a small mouth, which were quite sweet. The more I looked at my face, the more satisfied I was about my appearance. I couldn¡¯t help but showed a contented smirk and said: ¡°I am not ugly. I am very satisfied with this beautiful face!¡±


    Bai Xiaoshan knocked on my forehead again. He grabbed the mirror and glared at me. ¡°Satisfied? Satisfied with this ugly face? Your face is too run-of-the-mill. Have you seen a demon as ugly as you? You should think about those foxes in Green Mound before. All of them are drop dead gorgeous when they become humans!¡±


    I bowed my head and pondered for a moment. This face was too plain compared with that of other demons who became humans. However, Bai Xiaoshan and I were away from Green Mound for one thousand years, he could still remember what other foxes looked like. On a second thought, I wondered whether Bai Xiaoshan took a fancy to a fox in Green Mound, so he still could not forget the appearance of others.


    This idea suddenly came to me and I looked at Bai Xiaoshan with surprise. When I saw that he was less angry, I felt that I was right. So I blinked and said, ¡°Xiaoshan, you fell in love one thousand years ago! I didn¡¯t even notice it!¡±


    Another stone hit my head with a clatter. Bai Xiaoshan looked at me angrily, ¡°What are you thinking about, you stupid fox? Can you get down to business right now? ¡±


    ¡°What business?¡± I touched my forehead and looked at him tearfully.


    ¡°Choose another face for yourself!¡± Bai Xiaoshan ground his teeth.


    ¡°Oh. That¡¯s okay!¡± At his request, I changed my face again and looked at him piteously, ready to let him judge my appearance and conjured up a face that satisfied him.


    ¡°Uglier! Another one!¡± Bai Xiaoshan shook his head with his arms folded across his chest.


    I switched to another one.


    ¡°No!¡±


    I changed it again.


    ¡°No way!¡±


    I continued to change.


    ¡°Not enough!¡±


    I tried to change again.


    ¡°Too ugly!¡±


    I changed again and again¡­


    When I appeared in front of Bai Xiaoshan with a pig¡¯s face, he finally couldn¡¯t make it and barfed. He said with difficulty as he vomited: ¡°You are getting uglier and uglier. You¡¯d better change back to the first one, which is more pleasing to the eye!¡±


    So I switched back to the face that satisfied me at first with a smile, patted Bai Xiaoshan on the shoulder and said, ¡°Xiaoshan, it¡¯s quite good to have a plain face. Haven¡¯t you heard of beautiful young ladies¡¯ misfortunes? You don¡¯t want me to be short-lived, do you? ¡±


    ¡°Pshaw!¡± His mouth twitched but he did not refute me.


    ¡°Xiaoshan, you should be happy. You see, I can finally go to the mortal world with you now. Isn¡¯t that good?¡± I held out my hands to hold Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s cheeks and smiled brilliantly.


    ¡°You always want to go to the mortal world yourself!¡± Bai Xiaoshan knocked off my hands and snapped back.


    ¡°Hey, hey, I¡¯m with you anyway. It is acceptable for me to go outside.¡±


    I was a demonic fox who had lived for thousands of years. Well, to be exact, I had been practicing for two thousand years. In fact, a demon who practiced for more than two thousand years could be regarded as a senior demon, but I only obtained the power to take the human form. There was a long story behind it. At the beginning I was a fox living in Green Mound. For a fox demon, after a hundred years of practice, one tail could be obtained. After a thousand years, nine tails could be possessed, and the fox could guise itself in the shape of a human. However, I was an exception. I practiced in Green Mound for one thousand years and only had five tails. The process for me was unprecedentedly slow. I indeed became the one who kept the slowest record. Foxes in Green Mound all regarded me as a disgrace to the white fox group, and all the demons were disdainful when they saw me. However, I didn¡¯t care about these things. I lived my life leisurely as usual and waited for my tails to grow out.

 Chapter 2 - Thousands of Years Passed Quickly (2)

    Chapter 2: Thousands of Years Passed Quickly (2)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    When I met Bai Xiaoshan, I had only practiced for three hundred years. At that time, I woke up and saw a colorful pheasant scampering nearby. Almost immediately, my mouth watered. The slow practice brought me a great regret since I was unable to catch any pheasant in the process. Almost all the pheasants in Green Mound had been caught by other foxes. I could only tearfully allay my hunger with bark and grass, and became a vegetarian fox rarely seen in the world.


    Therefore, it could be imagined how excited I was when I finally saw a pheasant. I got up instinctively and leapt towards it.


    However, the fox proposed but God disposed. Bai Xiaoshan had been practicing for five hundred years at that time, so he kicked me off easily before I could even touch his feathers.


    When I was thrown to the ground and sparks flew before my eyes, the beautiful, delicious pheasant disappeared, and there was a boy about five or six years old who was chubby, good-looking, and cute. For a moment I froze, and then I saw him sway to me. He grabbed me into his arms, tugged at my ear wildly, slapped me on the body from time to time and said angrily, ¡°Stupid fox! I¡¯ve been practicing for five hundred years. How dare you eat me! Believe it or not, I can easily kill you!¡±


    In fact, Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s words were quite threatening, because I always cherished my life. But when I saw his chubby and pink cheek and listened to his boast, I couldn¡¯t help but laugh out loud.


    Bai Xiaoshan suddenly stood there, surprised at my laughter. How could his defeated opponent laugh happily in his arms? For a long time, he couldn¡¯t regain his presence of mind. While he was in a daze, I stuck out my tongue and licked his face. Then I tasted it in my mouth and sighed: ¡°That¡¯s quite strange! Why are you so tasteless?¡±


    Bai Xiaoshan didn¡¯t expect that he could be molested by me without any precaution. He threw me out immediately. He covered his flushed face, looked at me tearfully and pointed at me with shame and indignation: ¡°You, you, you ¡­¡±


    I rubbed my ears, which were tugged to be inflamed, and glanced up at him with a sad look. There was a very strange scene: a fox squatted on the ground and looked at a cute child. The child covered his little pink cheek, stamped his feet, glared angrily at the fox and shouted: ¡°You! You robbed me of my innocence!¡±


    Of course, innocence could never be returned to him. He was unwilling to lick my face back since it was covered with fox fur. After struggling for a long time, Bai Xiaoshan finally made up his mind to accept me as a child bride, so that I could repay his innocence, which had been kept for five hundred years. The main duty of the child bride was to prepare delicious rice for Bai Xiaoshan.


    For this reason, my skill of cajolery made a great breakthrough in a short period of time. I was a notoriously lazy fox in Green Mound, which meant that I could barely feed myself in the past. In order to fulfill my duty as a child bride, I had to tempt all the male monsters in Green Mound, including foxes. I ogled them and blew them kisses in order to let them send rice to me voluntarily. Of course, this was a very difficult challenge for me who had not taken a human shape yet, especially in the face of many monsters who had the power to become humans. This proved that my skill of cajolery reached the point of perfection!


    I was still very proud of this, although it directly caused me to have no progress in other spells for more than one thousand years. That was another story. However, my complacency didn¡¯t last long. Soon I was chased by all the female monsters in Green Mound after I enticed their husbands and sons. (In fact, I was wronged. What could a fox do to ¡°humans¡±? There was pure spiritual communication between us!)


    As a result, the rice supplied to Bai Xiaoshan was cut off.


    After hundreds of years of chasing and escaping, Bai Xiaoshan finally couldn¡¯t stand such a tangled life when I reached one thousand years old but still could not become a human. He forced me to pack up and ¡°elope¡± with him. We went to Qiyun Mountain at the foot of Kunlun Mountains. With the pressure brought by fairies in Kunlun, monsters in Qiyun mountain could be regarded as models of abiding by the law. They all concentrated on practice and didn¡¯t want to get into trouble at all. Although the environment was a little depressing for demons who devoted themselves to cultivation, this was indeed a treasure land. The place was deified by the nimbus of fairies in Kunlun. All the demons here could abandon their evil thoughts and practice with concentration. Naturally, the speed of their cultivation was also improved.


    Generally speaking, such a good place must be full of demons, but in the past one thousand years of my practice, I had not seen many of them. According to Bai Xiaoshan, only those who were sincere in practice and had affinity with fairies could arrive here. His remark made me wonder for a long time. I had no sincere desire to become immortals, so I once dreamed that I had affinity with fairies. I might have been a fairy in my previous life, but I was kicked out of heaven to be an animal for my laziness.


    Bai Xiaoshan was dedicated to his cultivation. He blamed me for being too idle, because I just wanted to enjoy myself all day long. Only when he used violence to intimidate me could I pretend to practice for a while.


    With the experience of being chased in Green Mound, I dared not tempt other monsters again, so my only use to gain rice as a ¡°child bride¡± was gone. Bai Xiaoshan had no choice but to exploit a piece of land by himself, busy sowing and reaping all the year round. It was only a small challenge for him. After all, spells were not practiced for fun, and there were always opportunities to use them.


    In fact, I wondered why Bai Xiaoshan didn¡¯t kick me to death. According to him, their pheasant family was always bullied by our fox family. It was lucky for him to find a fox who could be bullied by him, and to push me around was a compensation for his ancestors of the pheasant family. At first, he wanted to grind me down so that even my mother, who had already died, couldn¡¯t recognize me. However, since I was a real vegetarian and had never killed any pheasant, he gave up that idea. While listening, I was scared to sweat. For the first time, I was glad that I was unable to catch pheasants.


    However, Bai Xiaoshan also claimed that it was wise not to kill me. After all, I had provided him with rice for hundreds of years. I had done hard work even if without meritorious deeds. Moreover, my name was Bai Li, and I shared the same family name with him. ¡°One should not persecute people who share the same family name with him,¡± and that was the answer he obtained after pondering for hundreds of years.


    In fact, I would like to refute that my surname was Bai (in Chinese it means ¡°white¡±) because I was a white fox, and his was also Bai because he loved white rice. The two were totally different.


    Of course, because I was always oppressed by him, I could only keep it to myself. No matter how much I despised him, the smile on my face must be sincere enough.


    Alas, the fox, under the pheasant¡¯s claw, had to surrender!

 Chapter 3 - The First Time I Came to the Mortal World, I Met with Him (1)

    Chapter 3: The First Time I Came to the Mortal World, I Met with Him (1)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    This was the first time for me to see the prosperity of the mortal world. Cities there were prosperous, where elegant buildings could be found everywhere, and on the streets, there was an incessant stream of horses and carriages. People came and went, all intoxicated with the bustles of the world.


    I marveled at such a lively scene, which I had never seen before in Green Mound and Qiyun Mountain. Different from the solemn atmosphere of the Qiyun Mountain, this world was beautiful and neatly arranged. Bai Xiaoshan had visited the world many times, so he was not surprised at all. When we walked on the street, he was full of pride, and I bet he had forgotten that he was a pheasant. He also despised me, an old goblin who had never seen the world before. He thought that I lost the face of the demonic group.


    ¡°Xiaoshan, you see! There are all kinds of delicious food and interesting gadgets over there. Let¡¯s go and have a look!¡± All of a sudden, I saw a group of people gathering nearby. It seemed that an acrobatics show was going on. On the street, there were many stalls with lots of snacks and toys. I was overwhelmed by the dazzling array of things.


    ¡°How dare you say that you didn¡¯t like this world since you haven¡¯t been there before! Your lie is nailed to the counter so easily!¡± Bai Xiaoshan looked askance at me with a mocking look.


    ¡°Are you going or not?¡± I winked at him and pretended that I was innocent.


    ¡°No! What are the wonderful things about acrobatics? I¡¯m hungry, and I want to eat.¡± Bai Xiaoshan refused to go with me and went directly to a restaurant nearby.


    I stamped my feet and said bitterly, ¡°I can go alone without you!¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t get lost!¡± Bai Xiaoshan said to me suddenly and then went into the restaurant without looking back.


    I twitched my mouth and knew that Bai Xiaoshan was a heartless and ruthless person. I didn¡¯t want to argue with him. I walked slowly toward the acrobatics show and picked up a pear to eat when passing a pear stall.


    ¡°Hey! Young lady, you haven¡¯t paid me yet!¡± the owner of the stall followed me hurriedly and shouted.


    I froze for a moment, and then recalled that Bai Xiaoshan once told me that food in the mortal world must be paid. The problem was that I had no money with me, so I pointed at the restaurant behind me and said: ¡°Go inside the restaurant and find Bai Xiaoshan for money!¡±


    Having said that, I continued to move forward. The owner of the pear stand was stunned. It took him some time to realize that he didn¡¯t know who Bai Xiaoshan was at all. Then he caught up with me hastily, grabbed my sleeve and didn¡¯t let me go. He looked at me anxiously as if I had robbed him of all the pears. ¡°Young lady, I don¡¯t know Bai Xiaoshan, and you should pay me by yourself. It¡¯s not expensive! It¡¯s only two pence!¡±


    I felt a little helpless. I didn¡¯t have any money with me, let alone two pence. I looked around and found several bystanders rubbernecking. As a fox demon I had never been humiliated like that in the past two thousand years. Well, I used to lose my face as a demon. And this time, I felt a little embarrassed.


    ¡°I really don¡¯t have any money, and I ask you to find Bai Xiaoshan.¡± I thought about it for a long time and felt that I should be calm, so I chose to tell the truth.


    ¡°Hey, since you don¡¯t have any money, why did you take my pear? How dare you lie to me and ask me to find someone else? You onlookers should come and comment on this. Who can take other¡¯s pear without paying any money?¡± Hearing what I said, the owner was suddenly irritated and shouted loudly.


    More and more people gathered around us and pointed at me, saying something that made me unhappy.


    I felt somehow depressed, because I hated being surrounded by so many people. They looked at me and treated me like a monster. This made me very uncomfortable.


    ¡°I¡¯ll pay for her.¡± As I was about to get angry, I suddenly heard a voice that sounded just like heavenly music.


    I looked up subconsciously, and this glance almost robbed me of my breath. I saw a tall man standing upright in black clothes. With his hair tied by a jade crown, the handsome face was clearly presented to me. He stood there and brought forth a dazzling radiance with him. The calmness and serenity served as the essence of his impressive temperament. He was like the moon or the lotus, transcendent from vulgarity, and somehow showed out the majestic demeanor. It seemed that he was the fairy fallen from the heaven, gentle and nonchalant. Especially his eyes, they were too clear to be the eyes of ordinary people.


    I lowered my eyes slightly and found that for a moment I didn¡¯t dare to look at his face, as if to take a second look was blasphemy to the god. However, I soon calmed down. Although the onlookers were as surprised as me, I still deeply despised myself and thought that I, a fox demon who had lived for two thousand years, shouldn¡¯t have any sense of inferiority towards a human being.


    So I calmed down, pulled out my sleeve from the hands of the stunned vendor, turned around and walked slowly to the man in black clothes. I held his arm with a shy but sweet smile, and said to the vendor: ¡°Who didn¡¯t pay for your pear? My husband gave you the money, didn¡¯t he?¡±


    ¡°This is indeed a misunderstanding. I hope you can forgive my blindness, Madam.¡± The owner finally regained his presence, looked at the silver ingot in his hands, smiled and bowed respectfully.


    At this moment, I deeply understood the importance of money. Alas, I just forgot to bring money with me and was unexpectedly despised by a group of mortal people! That was my mistake!


    ¡°It¡¯s really a misunderstanding. My wife always forgets to bring money with her when she goes out.¡± The man explained to the vendor, and what he said was actually a public humiliation for me.


    Seeing that there was no more fun, the onlookers soon went on their own journey. The vendor also finally realized that he was very unwise to leave the whole stand behind only for two pence, so he rushed back to his pears.


    I looked at the man beside me and thought, either in the human world or the celestial world, there was no such a handsome person. Resisting the desire to take him with me, I slowly took my hand back and glanced at his face, which was even more delicate than that of Bai Xiaoshan. I expressed my gratitude to him: ¡°Thank you for your help. I am very grateful.¡±


    I didn¡¯t hear any response, but I didn¡¯t care about him either. I continued to walk forward cheerfully. A pear wouldn¡¯t affect my good mood. Soon I forgot what happened just now, and of course, forgot the teaching of Bai Xiaoshan to pay for the food. I continued to pick up what I liked. By the time I realized that I made mistakes, I had tasted almost all the foods on the street.


    I looked at the small clay figurine in my hand and swallowed secretly. I turned back guiltily and wondered whether all the vendors on the street were waiting for me to be attacked.


    However, to my surprise, it was the man in black clothes that stood behind me. He stood there quietly, and his eyes were still pure and clear. He looked at me without any words, and it seemed that all the other things in the world were irrelevant to him.


    Finding myself almost bewitched by him again, I immediately lowered my eyes and pretended to cough. Without any thinking, I piped up: ¡°Was that you, my husband, who paid for me? Thank you so much!¡±


    He didn¡¯t expect that I would suddenly speak like that. He was dazed for a while and then smiled. His smile was as captivating as the stars twinkling in the night sky.


    ¡°You are welcome, my lady!¡±


    Hearing his words with a bit of ridicule, I instantly realized that I had called him ¡°my husband¡± again. I despised myself and smiled, ¡°I will let Bai Xiaoshan return the money I owe you.¡±


    I didn¡¯t know if it was my illusion that he suddenly showed a kind of dismay, and then said in a low voice, ¡°Li, why do you treat me like this¡­¡±


    His voice was too low. I seemed to hear him say my name ¡°Li¡± as if in a trance, but I was not sure about it. I just looked up at him and asked doubtfully ¡°What did you say? Do we know each other?¡±


    ¡°What do you think? Do you think we know each other?¡± He asked, eager to know my answer.


    I tilted my head and tried to recall something about him. I was sure that I had never seen a man with such a powerful aura before. I shook my head with certainty and said innocently: ¡°I¡¯m sorry, but I don¡¯t know you.¡±


    His eyes dimmed at once, but immediately they regained the purity. He smiled faintly and whispered, ¡°You really forget all about it ¡­¡±


    I found that this guy was not talking to me at all; otherwise I would be able to catch his words easily. So I went straight to the point: ¡°Why are you following me?¡±


    However, when I looked up, there was no one in front of me. I couldn¡¯t help but blink. Was him a demon? No wonder he looked so handsome. But I didn¡¯t perceive any demonic smell. I thought for a moment, it seemed that I was lucky and ran into a fairy as soon as I came to the mortal world. Well, I was indeed a demon who had affinity with fairies.

 Chapter 4 - The First Time I Came to the Mortal World, I Met with Him (2)

    Chapter 4: The First Time I Came to the Mortal World, I Met with Him (2)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    Finally, I saw the acrobatics show, but I was not satisfied. I lost my interest soon, so I decided to go back and find Bai Xiaoshan. As I was walking back, a Taoist priest in his 50s suddenly grabbed me by my arm and stared at me for a long time. I also looked back curiously. I saw a long bamboo pole in his hand with a canvas hanging on it, which said ¡°Demigod Zhang¡±.


    ¡°This young lady, you must listen to me,¡± I was about to speak when he started first.


    I pretended to listen to him and looked at him very sincerely.


    He gave a cough and said slowly, ¡°I am a Taoist from Maoshan Mountain. I just saw that your forehead was blackish and you were somehow dazed. I suspect that you are bewitched by an evil spirit after that close examination. If you don¡¯t exorcise the evil spirit as soon as possible, I¡¯m afraid that you will be faced with an imminent disaster¡±.


    ¡°You mean¡­¡± I immediately looked at him in panic. At that moment, I had to say that I acquired excellent acting skills


    ¡°What strange places have you been to recently or what strange people have you met?¡± The Taoist priest asked solemnly.


    I wanted to say no, but the mortal world was indeed a strange place for me, and the man in black clothes I just met was also a strange person, so I nodded to him honestly.


    ¡°What you saw just now was a monster. No wonder you look so tired. It is possible that the evil spirit has extracted a lot of essence from you.¡± The Taoist said with a serious look.


    I touched my face subconsciously. How could that be possible? Did I look so haggard? Was it because I ate too much?


    ¡°But fortunately, you meet me,¡± said the Taoist priest, taking out an amulet from his pocket and giving it to me. ¡°As long as you take this, there will be no monsters who dare hurt you.¡± He took out another one and said, ¡°Take this back home, and it will guarantee the safety of the whole family.¡±


    I looked at the two amulets very carefully and asked the Taoist priest, ¡°Will monsters be afraid of this?¡±


    ¡°Of course, I came from Maoshan Mountain. I can subdue and eliminate demons. These two amulets are much valued in Maoshan. I am merciful and honest so I only charge you ten silver ingots for each.¡±


    I scratched my head and thought to myself: how could he be so justified when a monster like me stood in front of him?


    So, I continued to look at him with purity in my eyes and said: ¡°I have to pay you ten silver ingots for this?¡±


    The Taoist coughed and said, ¡°If you are really short of money, you can give me ten silver ingots for two. After all, I have already freed myself from money and other external things. With the money you give me, I can draw more amulets and benefit more people.


    The Taoist priest spoke sincerely, and I also decided to be honest this time. Therefore, I showed out one of my fox¡¯s paws, patted the Taoist priest on the shoulder very gently, and said innocently, ¡°I¡¯m sorry. Actually, I don¡¯t have any money.¡±


    The Taoist priest looked at me all the way from my face to my hand, and finally stopped his eyes on my paw. He was first serious and calm, but at that moment, he was verging on a breakdown with his eyes bigger than the bells. He threw the bamboo pole away and let out a piercing cry: ¡°This is a monster! Help!¡±


    Watching him run away in a nice mess, I sighed disappointedly. This also proved the importance of professional skills.


    I originally intended to go back and find Bai Xiaoshan, but after walking so long, I found that I lost my way. Of course, to get lost was quite understandable for a fox who had never been out of the mountain before.


    Since I couldn¡¯t find the way back to the restaurant, I sat down on a stone by the road. I looked leisurely at the passers-by and waited for Bai Xiaoshan to come to me.


    ¡°You fox demon, how dare you seduce my husband! I will beat you to death! You son of a bitch!¡± Bored to sleep, I suddenly heard a noise coming from the crowd nearby. The phrase ¡°fox demon¡± really interested me. My heart beat like a drum and I jumped up excitedly. For god¡¯s sake, I hadn¡¯t seen another fox demon for nearly one thousand years, and I met one this time. I had to say that this was the only chance in a thousand years.


    I headed straight to where the sound came from and squeezed into the crowd of onlookers. My eyes glistened and I searched back and forth for the target fox, only to find a middle-aged woman tugging at the ear of a delicate and pretty young lady with inhumane violence. However, I had no interest in this. After all, the contradictions between them still needed to be solved by themselves. The only thing that interested me was the fox demon.


    I used my sharp eyes to scan everyone but didn¡¯t see any fox. I couldn¡¯t help but feel disappointed. Was I too late? Just then, the middle-aged woman swore again: ¡°You fox demon, you seduced my husband! You shameless slut!¡±


    My dimmed eyes were enlightened, and I believed that this delicate young beauty was the fox I was looking for. Had her accomplishments been superb enough to become an immortal? Why didn¡¯t I perceive the smell of fox?


    I immediately ran to her with adoration on my face and pushed the middle-aged woman aside. I grasped the hand of the young lady and trembled with excitement, ¡°Are you really a fox demon?¡±


    The beauty was scared by my enthusiasm, and it took her some time to recover. Hearing what I said, her face suddenly became pale, and her eyes turned red. She sighed, ¡°You ¡­¡±


    ¡°Do you have a superb accomplishment? Why can¡¯t I perceive the smell of fox from you?¡± I didn¡¯t know much about people¡¯s facial expressions, so I was still immersed in my excitement and asked her cheerfully.


    ¡°Hum, her accomplishment is the highest in the world! Every male in this city has been seduced by her!¡± When the middle-aged woman heard what I said, she answered my question with some pride on her angry face.


    ¡°Really?¡± She was indeed an example for me! I continued to ask: ¡°Which mountain do you belong to? How many years have you been practicing? More than two thousand years?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t push too far!¡± The young lady became angry, her lips trembling slightly and her tears dropping like pearls. This puzzled me for quite a while.


    Why did she shed tears so much? Was it a feature of her profound accomplishment?


    ¡°Don¡¯t pretend to be innocent. It¡¯s no use crying. Why do you love to seduce men? Today I am going to teach you a lesson!¡± said the middle-aged woman. She rushed over and wanted to beat the young lady again.


    I withdrew to one side and looked at them, waiting for the delicate lady to kick the woman away with her superb magic power. However, I waited for a long time and the young lady did nothing but cry. I was alarmed. She was bullied like this, but she only cried and howled. This was not the style of our fox demons! And she was probably a fake fox!


    In order to know the identity of the beauty, I pulled out a small round mirror, which was the only legacy left to me by my mother who had already died. This mirror was called the ¡°monster-revealing mirror¡±. My father made it by imitating the revealing mirror in heaven. It was said that one could see what animal the person was originally with the mirror. However, unlike the authentic mirror in the heaven, this one was totally harmless. It was also the love token between my parents. The only drawback was that every time my mother turned into a gorgeous beauty and decided to look in the mirror, she would see a fox with fur all over the face. This made my mother very angry, so she hid it away in a rage. She took it out and gave it to me on the day of her death, and sighed deeply: ¡°You, my daughter, should not forget your origin as a fox after you have taken a human form!¡±


    Although I always rejected pirated items, this was an antique at any rate. I kept it with me and thought that I could sell it out when I couldn¡¯t make my ends meet. I didn¡¯t expect it to come in handy at this moment.


    I walked to the young lady with the mirror in my hand and kicked the middle-aged woman away. Then I looked at the lady in the mirror from different angles. As a result, there was no fox appearing in the mirror.


    It turned out that I made a mistake. This delicate young lady was simply a human being!


    As soon as I put away the mirror, I stared angrily at the pretty lady: ¡°Why do you lie to me that you are a fox demon since you are in fact not?¡±


    The beauty burst into tears again. She pointed at me with her trembling finger: ¡°I have no quarrel with you. Why do you treat me like this?¡±


    I was thinking about the meaning of her remarks when she said angrily: ¡°You are the fox demon. Your families are all foxes!¡± After saying this, she ran away.


    I was stunned. I was indeed a discerning person. In fact, she was an expert in foxes. She was able to see my origin at a glance. Well, this was a promising young beauty!


    ¡°You fox demon! I haven¡¯t finished it yet. Why are you running away from me?¡± The middle-aged woman wanted to catch her up, but I stopped her.


    ¡°She is not a fox! You blamed her wrongly.¡± I told her this fact with great seriousness.


    ¡°Bah! If she is not a fox, who is?¡± The middle-aged woman gave me a disdainful look and asked.


    Upon hearing this, I immediately stood upright with my head held high. I patted my chest with great pride and said: ¡°I am the fox demon!¡±


    ¡°Humph!¡± The crowd immediately dispersed.


    ¡°Are you crazy?¡± The middle-aged woman rolled her eyes at me and also went away.


    ¡°Hey! Why don¡¯t you believe it! I didn¡¯t lie to you! I am indeed a fox demon!¡± I shouted at them, trying to attract their attention.


    Unfortunately, nobody took any notice of me.

 Chapter 5 - The First Time I Came to the Mortal World, I Met with Him (3)

    Chapter 5: The First Time I Came to the Mortal World, I Met with Him (3)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    Suddenly, someone sighed slightly behind me. Looking back, I saw the man in black clothes again. He stood there silently. His tall figure gave people the impression of solemnity, and his handsome face showed some kind of compassion.


    I was a little agitated by him, so I walked quickly to him and asked harshly: ¡°Why? You don¡¯t believe I am a fox either, do you?¡±


    Hearing this, he frowned and stated faintly: ¡°You are not a fox.¡±


    I was puzzled. If someone said ¡°you are not a fox¡± to a fox, it was just like saying ¡°you are not a person¡± to a human being, which would definitely hurt the fox¡¯s self-esteem.


    Therefore, I grabbed his hand and headed for the inn across the road. Ignoring all other people in the inn, I rushed into a room and set up a barrier around it so that human beings could not enter. I looked at the man and said determinedly: ¡°I¡¯ll show you my original image as a fox and you will believe me!¡±


    Since Bai Xiaoshan once told me not to reveal my natural self in front of mortal people, I had to carry out this great transformation plan indoors.


    ¡°You¡¯ll see!¡± As soon as I stopped speaking, I instantly changed from a delicate beauty into a cute white fox.


    I rolled my eyes and jumped onto the table beside me. I looked up at the man and said with great pride: ¡°Are you scared by my transformation? Can you believe it now?¡±


    However, to my surprise, his expression didn¡¯t change at all. Only a hint of emotion that I could not understand was revealed in his clear eyes, and then he said in a low voice: ¡°I believe it, and you can change it back now.¡±


    I didn¡¯t know why his low-pitched voice gave me a feeling of sadness. I lost the interest to make fun of him and quickly changed back to the human form.


    ¡°You ¡­¡± He caught a glimpse of me and said strangely. His expression was also changed slightly. It seemed that he had seen something that he shouldn¡¯t have.


    Puzzled, I looked down, and I felt terribly ashamed! I forgot to conjure up my clothes again! In the past, in front of Bai Xiaoshan, I always remembered to wear clothes with great alertness. I didn¡¯t expect that I forgot to dress myself in front of a strange man whom I met by chance! I was so abashed.


    As I was about to conjure up my clothes in a hurry, the man already had a white robe on his hand. I hardly saw him move but he had already stood in front of me and put the robe on me. Suddenly, I was in a white dress.


    He stared at me unblinkingly. To be more exact, he was staring at my forehead. It occurred to me that the day after I became a human being, a vivid image of peony suddenly appeared between my eyebrows. I washed my face hard but still couldn¡¯t get rid of it. Did he have a crush on me? Or on my peony mark?


    My mind wandered, and the man raised his hand. His slender fingers, white as snow, gently caressed my eyebrows and the delicate peony. There was somehow guilt in his eyes. ¡°Fairy Peony, why are you so persistent?¡±


    I was shocked, and I couldn¡¯t help but become a little angry. I was just the alternative to Fairy Peony? He quickly stepped back and put his hand down, but I saw a hint of sadness looming over his eyebrow. However, he immediately regained his coolness.


    You are a fairy!¡± I said with great certainty.


    He hid all the expressions away and nodded in silence.


    I turned to leave. Fairies and demons were quite different, so I should stay away from fairies.


    ¡°Fairy Peony¡­¡±


    I stopped my steps abruptly because of his calling, but I didn¡¯t look back. Instead, I simply replied: ¡°You mistook me for another person!¡±


    Having said that, I was going to open the door, but it was strange that I could not get out of the barrier I set up. There was a fairy standing behind me, and thinking of this, I was irritated. I turned back and said: ¡°I¡¯ve told you that you mistook me for another person. Why do you still hold me there?¡±


    ¡°Fairy Peony, you have been away from the celestial world for more than two thousand years, and Queen Mother also misses you very much. Do you really want to be a demon forever?¡± He sighed and continued.


    I touched my forehead and explained to him reluctantly: ¡°Your Highness, I am nobody but a real fox demon. I am not Fairy Peony you are looking for.¡±


    ¡°You are Fairy Peony.¡± He made a serious statement, his clear eyes staring at me. His reaction was creepy to me, and even I, myself, was suspecting whether I was a flower before.


    ¡°Well, since you claim that I am Fairy Peony, can you answer a few questions?¡± I decided to find out what was wrong with him.


    He nodded.


    ¡°First, if I were Fairy Peony, how could I become a fox demon now? Second, you have repeatedly said that I am persistent and I want to know what I am persistent for. Third, if immortals in heaven want me back, why didn¡¯t you come to me before? Fourth, who are you? What does all these have to do with you? Why do you come to me?¡± I listed my doubts one by one and saw hesitation on his face for a moment.


    ¡°If you don¡¯t want to answer those questions, I won¡¯t force you to do that. Being a fox demon is also quite delightful. I¡¯ll not envy Fairy Peony for her identity.¡± I added. Indeed, I was afraid that he was not going to tell me the truth.


    He sighed again. Since he saw me, this man seemed to sigh all the time. I really didn¡¯t know what would worry an immortal like this.


    ¡°You were Fairy Peony in heaven, and Queen Mother loved you the best in the Baihua Palace.¡± He paused, turned around and looked out of the window. He continued: ¡°Two thousand years ago, you went down to the human world to experience the planned disasters in your life. After death, you could have returned to your place in heaven, but you mistakenly stepped into the Tiryagyoni and became a white fox in Green Mound. You could have been called back earlier, but your practice was extremely slow. It took two thousand years for you to take the human form. That¡¯s why I¡¯ve come to you now. I¡¯ve come here to help you become an immortal.¡±


    Hearing this, I couldn¡¯t help but sigh again. I was indeed an immortal in my previous life. Bai Xiaoshan would be jealous if he knew this fact. However, I was so clumsy in my previous life. How could I make such a mistake to step into the Tiryagyoni?


    ¡°What about you? Who are you?¡± I asked him. For me, this question was the most important one. If there had been no dispute between us in the previous life, why would he appear in front of me in this life?


    He turned around. It was only a tiny movement, but it seemed to bring great brilliance to him. I could see the gleam of light flowing over him at that moment. Then I saw his beautiful thin lips slightly open, and his heavenly voice sounded again: ¡°I am Emperor of Donghua.¡±

 Chapter 6 - In the Restaurant, Bai Xiaoshan Was Bewitched by a Beauty

    Chapter 6: In the Restaurant, Bai Xiaoshan Was Bewitched by a Beauty


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    I must look dull because my mind was a blank at that moment. I even suspected that I had misheard him, but he spoke so clearly. With his firm and clear statement, I couldn¡¯t doubt it at all.


    He said: ¡°I am Emperor of Donghua.¡±


    I stared at him and wondered. He turned out to be Emperor of Donghua? Was he the Emperor in the legend who was born in the ruin of wild spirits above the blue sea and created the whole world? I suddenly remembered a passage once read by Bai Xiaoshan about Emperor of Donghua, ¡°He has the air of Tao condensed in his body. He practices to be the purist immortal by obeying the natural law. It is his responsibility to enlighten the world and to bring boom to every creature in the world. With the purist air from the east, he was born in the ruin of wild spirits above the blue sea. He oversees all the male creatures in the east region, and people also call him Wang Gong. He and Queen Mother of Gold both have unique qualities and they are responsible to help people become immortals. He cooperates with West Queen to govern and nurture the world. Every male who wants to be immortal should be known by him. He lives in the Mountain Fangzhu. There are thirty-five deified judges of life under his command to record whatever happens in the whole world.¡±


    No wonder he had such awesome temperament, no wonder he was so handsome and no wonder his eyes could be so clear and innocent. There was no one in the world but Emperor of Donghua who had no desire and no lust.


    If Bai Xiaoshan knew that the man standing in front of me was Emperor of Donghua, whom he always mentioned and admired so much, he would be so excited and passed out right on the spot.


    I had never been so shocked in my life, and it took me a little longer to regain my presence. I felt that I was lucky, or I could never have such a rare chance to meet Emperor of Donghua.


    ¡°Are you really Emperor of Donghua?¡± I took a deep breath and pretended to be calm.


    He smiled slightly and the smile almost made me faint again.


    In fact, my question was meaningless. The biggest doubt lay behind.


    ¡°If I were really the Fairy Peony you¡¯ve mentioned, I would still be an ordinary fairy. Why do you condescend to help me?¡±


    Hearing what I said, his smile disappeared in an instant. He wanted to say something, but he didn¡¯t say a word after all.


    Seeing his secretive expression, I simpered and asked him, ¡°Did my falling from heaven have something to do with you?¡±


    This was a flippant comment, but I was surprised by his acquiescence.


    ¡°You are depraved like this all because of me. If there are causes, there will be effects. I came here to be responsible for the mistake I had made.¡± He said slowly, and his voice was a little depressed.


    I saw guilt in his eyes again, and I couldn¡¯t help wondering how such a top fairy could mess with a small flower fairy? For money? Not likely. He must have more money than Fairy Peony. For love? That was even more impossible. His heart was made of stone. He couldn¡¯t feel sad or panic even if the sky fell! Well, it seemed that the reason was going to be an eternal mystery.


    ¡°In a word, you owe me. Well, you owed me in the past life when I was still Fairy Peony. That¡¯s why you want to help me become a fairy and return to heaven, right?¡± In addition to this, I really couldn¡¯t think of any other reason he might give.


    He nodded. After a while, he asked hesitantly, ¡°Don¡¯t you want to know the causes and effects of all this?¡±


    I shrugged and asked, ¡°Do you want to say it?¡±


    He remained silent.


    ¡°I don¡¯t want to ask, you don¡¯t want to answer, and then why bother? In any case, it was the business between you and Fairy Peony. I have nothing to do with that.¡± I continued.


    He looked at me in a daze for a long time, and he sighed again when he turned his eyes away.


    I bit my lips in regret and wondered that a person sighed a lot would grow old soon. Although I always thought that Emperor of Donghua should be an old man with white hair, he turned out to be such a handsome guy. It would be my fault if he suddenly got a wrinkle on his face!


    ¡°Well, now things are clear, and I guess you should be very busy. We should say bye now!¡± As I said this, I walked out, eager to stay away from this great immortal.


    ¡°Don¡¯t you want to be a fairy?¡± The emperor asked me from the behind.


    ¡°No,¡± I answered very simply. I ignored him and went out of the inn.


    However, after a few steps I came back.


    ¡°Well¡­¡± I hesitated for a moment and asked: ¡°Since you are so powerful, can you take me to find Bai Xiaoshan?¡±


    He was surprised by my returning, but after I asked this question, his eyes dimmed again, only looking at me in silence.


    I was discouraged by the silence, so I scratched my head and said: ¡°I forget that you are very busy! Let¡¯s pretend that I¡¯ve never asked you that question.¡±


    ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡± Just as I was about to leave, he took me back to the restaurant in a flash.


    I looked up and noticed that the restaurant was called ¡°Wonderland for Fairies¡±. It was no wonder that Bai Xiaoshan came straight here. He had an abnormal obsession for the word ¡°fairy¡±.


    ¡°Thank you and bye!¡± I knew how to burn the bridge after crossing it, but unfortunately Emperor of Donghua was also shrewd. He had higher accomplishment and became more brazen in the process. He turned a deaf ear to my words and followed me quietly, which made me speechless.


    ¡°My dear sir and madam, please go upstairs and try our new specialty!¡± As soon as we entered the restaurant, a bartender greeted us politely.


    ¡°I¡¯m here looking for Bai Xiaoshan,¡± I said straight to the point.


    The bartender was stunned and immediately answered, ¡°I haven¡¯t seen the man you are looking for¡±


    ¡°Nonsense, I¡¯ve seen him come in.¡±


    ¡°Well ¡­¡± The bartender was puzzled and said: ¡°I¡¯ll try to find him for you.¡±


    Just then, another bartender walked by me with a large stack of bowls in his hand. He muttered, ¡°Where did this man come from! How could he eat so much rice! Even a hungry ghost cannot compare with him in terms of appetite!¡±


    I had sharp ears, so I heard his whispers clearly. I suddenly saw the light. I couldn¡¯t find anyone who loved rice so much like Bai Xiaoshan! So I excitedly grabbed the bartender and the stack of bowls in his hands quivered. Fortunately, he held them tightly and they didn¡¯t fall off.


    ¡°Ma¡­madam, what can I do for you?¡± The bartender stuttered.


    ¡°Where is Bai Xiaoshan?¡±


    ¡°What Bai Xiaoshan?¡± He was puzzled.


    I pointed to the bowls in his hands, ¡°The one who ordered rice.¡±


    As soon as I finished speaking, his face immediately changed from puzzlement to soberness, and then to lividness. He glanced at me and suddenly shouted: ¡°Help me to catch her! She¡¯s the accomplice of the dine-and-dash man!¡±


    I was shocked. A group of uniformed bartenders rushed over with brooms in their hands and surrounded us. One of them pointed at me angrily and said: ¡°The boss ordered me to take charge of this restaurant today. How dare you come here to make trouble! You¡¯ve stopped my way of promotion!¡±


    One of his colleagues also shouted: ¡°He ate all the rice in our restaurant, and all the other guests could only eat vegetables. Why are you so immoral?¡±


    Another cut in on him, ¡°He only ate rice without ordering any dishes, and didn¡¯t give tips when he left. How could he be so stingy?¡±


    Someone added, ¡°Cut the crap and take them all to the court!¡±


    Just as they were about to catch us, Emperor of Donghua calmly pulled out an ingot of gold from his pocket and asked lightly: ¡°Is this enough?¡±


    All the bartenders were dazzled by the light of the golden ingot. The foreman first cooled himself down. He threw the broom away, grabbed the ingot and put it into his pocket. He smiled and answered, ¡°That¡¯s enough.¡± Then he glared at other bartenders and scolded, ¡°Why are you still standing here? It¡¯s time to work!¡± He lowered his voice and asked Emperor of Donghua: ¡°What else do you want to eat, sir? Please go upstairs!¡±


    Alas, rich people always had a say. He had so much money! After a long time, I finally realized that I was here to look for Bai Xiaoshan, so I rushed to the bartender and asked: ¡°Where is Bai Xiaoshan?¡±


    ¡°He disappeared after eating all of our rice. Before you two arrived, I thought he was here to take meals for free.¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s impossible. He said he would wait for me here.¡± In fact, I knew that even if he didn¡¯t say this and he didn¡¯t come to find me, he would still wait for me in the restaurant. The two of us had lived together for more than 1,000 years, and there was some tacit agreement between us.


    ¡°Oh, young lady, I will never lie to you! The man has already gone, and I didn¡¯t charge him for the rice!¡±


    I was a little confused, and I didn¡¯t know how to describe the feeling. If Bai Xiaoshan was not in the restaurant, where would he go?


    ¡°Can you help me to find some clues in the restaurant?¡± Emperor of Donghua took out another silver ingot and gave it to the bartender.


    ¡°Ok, sir! Wait a moment and I will do it right away!¡±


    He consulted all the guests in the restaurant dutifully, and some guests told him that when Bai Xiaoshan was eating intently, a beautiful Taoist nun suddenly appeared. Seeing her, Bai Xiaoshan threw the bowl to the table and jumped down directly from the second floor. The Taoist nun also chased out, and they both disappeared.


    ¡°Your Majesty, you have boundless and miraculous power. You must know where he is, don¡¯t you?¡± I grabbed the arm of Emperor of Donghua and looked at him tearfully.


    He was somewhat helpless, ¡°I can only say that I cannot perceive any demonic smell in thousands of miles around us, so he should have left the mortal world.¡±


    ¡°Then he must have returned to Qiyun Mountain.¡± I suddenly realized and looked at his eyes with gratitude. If he was not that respected by other people, I would give him a big hug!


    Rushing back to Qiyun Mountain, I headed straight to Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s chicken coop, ready to take him out and teach him a lesson. How could he leave me, such a delicate beauty in the mortal world alone! What he did was indeed outrageous!


    I searched the chicken coop and my place, but I didn¡¯t see any trace of Bai Xiaoshan. I didn¡¯t want to give up, so I searched the whole of Qiyun Mountain. I asked every demon whether he or she had seen Bai Xiaoshan. The fact was cruel that Bai Xiaoshan didn¡¯t come back to Qiyun Mountain.


    I changed back to a fox and lay down in Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s chicken coop with some resentment in my heart. Mortal Taoist nuns were no threat to him since he had acquired his accomplishment, and his ability to escape was always excellent. He could always protect himself no matter how strong his opponents were. Therefore, there would be nothing unfortunate that happened to him. The only explanation was that Bai Xiaoshan had a crush on the beautiful Taoist nun. He once said that it was easy for a man to be captivated by beautiful women. It was very likely that he had been captivated by the beautiful nun. Otherwise, how could he forget our friendship which lasted for more than 2,000 years and leave me in the mortal world just for a Taoist nun?


    Thinking of this, I was heartbroken. This was a typical example that a pheasant was bewitched by a beauty. Bai Xiaoshan once reckoned himself as a promising young man who would soon become successful. But I had no idea where he had gone.


    I felt sorry for myself for a long time. I was so tired that I fell into a deep sleep. I told myself that maybe when I woke up, Bai Xiaoshan would come back.


    I had a dream that Bai Xiaoshan stood in front of me holding the beautiful Taoist nun¡¯s hand and said regretfully, ¡°Bai Li, I¡¯m going to marry her. Go find someone else who loves you. Let¡¯s break up now!¡±

 Chapter 7 - He Helped Me with No Regret, and My Disaster Finally Arrived

    Chapter 7: He Helped Me with No Regret, and My Disaster Finally Arrived


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    I was scared to death by this dream. I woke up suddenly and looked at the outside world. It was already dark. The silence around me was terrible. For the first time, I felt that the place where I had stayed for one thousand years was so strange.


    Bai Xiaoshan was gone, and it was like a blunt sword that kept stabbing at my heart. He had been with me for 1,700 years. Although he often took pleasure in bullying me, he had never really hurt me. When I was in Qingqiu, he started to protect me. He often called me ¡°stupid fox¡± and laughed at my slow practice, but if other monsters dared laugh at me for this, he would beat them for me.


    My mother passed away when I was two hundred years old, so in the one hundred years before the appearance of Bai Xiaoshan, I lived by myself, with no relatives or friends. My practice was so slow that I was often bullied by other demons. Since Bai Xiaoshan appeared, no monster had ever bullied me, because Bai Xiaoshan always protected me in time. When he was not strong enough, Bai Xiaoshan was often bullied by others because of me. Sometimes he would be beaten most severely. However, he had never said anything about it. Every time he saw me looking at him with tearful eyes, he would pretend to disdain me: ¡°Why are you crying? I¡¯m not doing this for you! A man can only become strong after he overcomes difficulties. Besides, to protect his own wife is a man¡¯s bounden duty!¡±


    Later, Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s practice progressed rapidly, and the common demons were not his rivals at all, so no one dared bully us anymore. He had been practicing with great concentration, hoping to become an immortal as soon as possible.


    Obviously, he was a demon who desperately wanted to be an immortal, and he could practice faster by himself. But he never left me alone. For instance, when he could go to Qiyun Mountain alone, he still chose to take me with him as a burden.


    I seemed to be accustomed to his company, and had never thought about what I should do when he was gone. How could he disappear suddenly? He was even closer to me than my relatives.


    All good things must come to an end.


    It was destined that Bai Xiaoshan could only accompany me for 1,700 years.


    Early the next morning, I walked out of Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s coop and felt that someone was outside the fence. This evoked in my mind a burst of excitement. Was Bai Xiaoshan coming back?


    I thought it was a surprise, but there was only a shock without any joy in it. The person standing outside was not Bai Xiaoshan but Emperor of Donghua.


    I admired his perseverance very much. Judging from his appearance, he should have been standing outside all night. I didn¡¯t know what he owed Fairy Peony and what would make him so persistent. It was a pity that I had no intention of becoming a fairy, so he was doomed to return in vain.


    I turned around and left, but he slowly followed me and I couldn¡¯t get rid of him.


    ¡°Can you let me go? You owed Fairy Peony, not me. So I won¡¯t bother you to help me become a fairy. Please return to your place!¡± I used to be a follower of Bai Xiaoshan, which was taken for granted by me in the past. Suddenly, a top fairy from heaven came to be my follower. To be honest, I was not happy at all.


    ¡°There is no difference between Fairy Peony and Bai Li, and I am looking for you. You are the only one that I want to help.¡± He looked at me and said slowly.


    ¡°I don¡¯t want to be immortal at all.¡± I reiterated once again.


    ¡°Why?¡± He asked.


    ¡°There is no reason! To be an immortal is not delightful. Why should I waste my energy on such a meaningless career?¡± I curled my lip with indifference.


    ¡°Why do you think it is meaningless?¡± He smiled faintly. ¡°After you become a fairy, you will be free from sufferings in the world forever and don¡¯t have to endure the pain of reincarnation anymore. The life span of a demon is no longer than ten thousand years, but a fairy can live forever. Since then, you will be free to enjoy your life at any place in the world. Are these reasons enough to convince you to become a fairy?¡±


    I turned around and replied firmly: ¡°Even the ten thousand years for a demon is too long for me, let alone a permanent life. I cannot bear the everlasting loneliness in heaven. Although reincarnation is painful, it is also a brand-new beginning. My life now is much better than that of a fairy who would never change. You came to me because I was Fairy Peony in my previous life. But in this life, I am Bai Li now, and I have nothing to do with Fairy Peony. If I remain unwilling to become a fairy, why do you waste ten thousand years to help me?¡±


    He remained silence for a long time.


    Just when I thought he would give up, he began to speak with equanimity and confidence as he always did. He said: ¡°Why not? You will always remain the same after you return from the reincarnations. Fairy Peony or Bai Li, there is no difference to me. If you are determined not to become an immortal, if you really want to suffer from the reincarnations, I will come to you every time you are back to the world. I have endless years. There must be one day when you will change your mind and I can help you.¡±


    There was no denying that I was really shocked by his remarks. I was only a fox demon but Emperor of Donghua pitied me so much because of the blessing I received in my past life. Well, I didn¡¯t know whether it was a blessing or a curse.


    Ignoring him, I went back to the fox cave listlessly, determined to wait for Bai Xiaoshan till he returned.


    A month passed. I didn¡¯t see Bai Xiaoshan, but here came the heaven disaster in my fate.


    Once demons reached a level of cultivation, they would be tested by a natural disaster, and becoming a human and becoming an immortal were two of the most crucial tests. The progress behind the huge changes was tremendous, so the power of the natural disasters would increase rapidly. Bai Xiaoshan spent five hundred years to take up the human form, and he was almost beaten back to its original shape when he was going through the disaster. It took me two thousand years to become human and I was afraid that the disaster would be more powerful. Maybe I would die in the disaster.


    Bai Xiaoshan insisted that we go to the mortal world. In fact, the biggest reason was to help me avoid the disaster. According to Bai Xiaoshan, to protect the innocent, fairies in heaven would surely be careful about the disaster they designed. I would at most be seriously injured, and would not turn to be fox forever.


    However, after Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s sudden disappearance I had completely forgotten the disaster. It was the thunders outside that reminded me of it. I was sweating subconsciously. I couldn¡¯t believe that I was so unfortunate. I had just taken the human form several days ago and was going to be beaten to the original shape. Then I had to spend another two thousand years to become a human again.


    In fact, I was not afraid of losing the ability to become a human. After all, I had no interest in being a human. But I was afraid of the pain. With so many lightning lashes, I would be scorched.


    Outside the fox cave it was dark. Thunders lightened the world from time to time. Branches swayed in the wind with a sound of unutterable sorrow. I looked at the sky outside the cave and missed Bai Xiaoshan especially at that moment. If he had been here, I wouldn¡¯t have been so afraid, and I didn¡¯t know whether I had a chance to see him again later.


    Suddenly, I realized that Emperor of Donghua was still standing outside the fox cave. Over the past month, he stood outside my cave. His persistence surprised me very much and I wondered when he would give it up.


    Although he was a top fairy, he might not know how powerful the disaster was. I decided to remind him of the disaster and let him go back and rest for one day. If he wanted, he could still stand there tomorrow.


    When I rushed out, there was no one outside the cave. I twitched my mouth and sighed to myself. The top fairy was also afraid of the disaster. When there was a danger he suddenly disappeared. It was so disappointing!


    With great contempt for Emperor of Donghua, I slowly returned to the fox cave, laid on the ground, rubbed my body, and decided not to care about the disaster. If it robbed me of the ability to become a human, I would spend another two thousand years for practicing. I had this perseverance!


    I was indeed an optimist. When the heaven disaster was befalling me, I could sleep soundly. After a night of wind and rain, the sun rose again. A crash woke me up.


    That was the final sound of the heaven disaster. After that, everything became peaceful and the disaster was over.


    I couldn¡¯t believe that I wasn¡¯t hurt at all! I opened my eyes and checked my whole body and finally made sure that I was totally fine. I wondered whether it was a bluff of the heaven disaster last night. It offered great cry and little wool!


    I proudly walked out of the fox cave with high spirit. It seemed that I went through the heaven disaster by dumb luck. Even the disaster failed to hurt me. However, I didn¡¯t expect that the situation outside was so miserable. It was indeed a mess with branches and leaves lying all over the ground, which proved that the disaster that happened last night was not a dream.


    All of a sudden, I found a familiar figure in front of me. When I rushed over, I found that the man was Emperor of Donghua again. I didn¡¯t see him last night but he appeared as soon as the disaster was over. He was a selfish immortal who knew how to protect himself.


    He looked at me without a word. On his handsome face I even saw weakness, which he never showed out before. I guessed that he was finally tired after standing for a month.


    ¡°Your Majesty, you should go home now. I won¡¯t change my mind. You don¡¯t have to do this.¡± I didn¡¯t want him to wait for me any longer. He kept waiting for me outside of the cave day and night. Even onlookers would be touched by his firmness. But to be an immortal was not what I wanted after all. I couldn¡¯t waste my life on what I didn¡¯t want just because I was moved by him.


    In fact, I was already tired of explaining to him, because he didn¡¯t listen to me at all. He just looked at me, smiled faintly and said nothing.


    Since Emperor of Donghua wouldn¡¯t regret, I shouldn¡¯t stop him anymore, and I wouldn¡¯t cast pearls before swine again. But when I turned around, he said to me, ¡°Are you looking for Bai Xiaoshan?¡±


    I immediately turned back and asked eagerly, ¡°Do you know how to find him?¡±


    He shook his head. Seeing my disappointed face, he said: ¡°As far as I know, Bai Xiaoshan has been practicing with great concentration. I also heard my fairy friends praising him in heaven. Perhaps his disappearance is his chance to become a fairy, and maybe he has been enlightened by a fairy already. Why don¡¯t you come back to heaven with me? I will not push you to become an immortal. I just hope that you can give yourself a chance. If you really miss Bai Xiaoshen, once the time comes, you will meet him again.¡±


    I was silent for a moment. I had to say that his proposal was attractive to me. In the past two thousand years, I had long been accustomed to Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s company. I was eager to find him. At least I wanted to ask him in person. Why did he leave me alone in the mortal world?


    ¡°Now there is only yourself in Qiyun Mountain. Do you want to live here alone? If you don¡¯t want to stay in heaven, you can come back at any time. I won¡¯t force you to stay there.¡± He added.


    I lowered my head and thought for a while. In fact, he was right. Without Bai Xiaoshan, I would be a solitary demon in Qiyun Mountain. Although the process of practice was designed to be lonely, it would be hard for me to get used to the loneliness.


    At last, I made up my mind, ¡°I will go back with you, but I have one requirement. Don¡¯t call me Fairy Peony any more. I am only a fox demon in this life, and that¡¯s all.¡±


    Hearing my words, his eyes suddenly shone with strange brilliance. He smiled and nodded, ¡°Okay.¡±


    After a while, he asked hesitantly, ¡°May I call you Li?¡±


    I tilted my head and decided to accept the nickname.

 Chapter 8 - Fox Fairy Qingqing with Deep Resentment (1)

    Chapter 8: Fox Fairy Qingqing with Deep Resentment (1)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    2. When I Returned to Heaven, I Met My Old Friend


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    There were three islands and ten continents in the Eastern Sea. Three continents belonged to the island of heaven, namely Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou. The three continents of the central island were Meirong, Langyuan and Yaochi. The three continents of the island of earth were Chicheng, Xuanguan and Taoyuan. Between the three islands there was Zifu State, and Emperor of Donghua lived in Fangzhu Mountain.


    For the first time I set foot on heaven, I was amazed by the celestial environment, especially those ethereal and magical clouds, which almost filled every corner of the celestial world. I thought that these wispy decorations were used to bring out the celestial atmosphere.


    Fangzhu Mountain was like a paradise of peace and tranquility away from the mortal world. The air there was filled with purity. Air in Green Mound and Qiyun Mountain were no match for it. I felt that every cell in my body was enjoying the environment. I liked this place and even felt a little inexplicable familiarity with it, as if I had lived here hundreds of years ago. Every single thing here made me pleased. At that moment, I began to believe that perhaps Fairy Peony indeed lived in my past life.


    As soon as I arrived at Fangzhu Mountain, Emperor of Donghua left me to two little fairies, told them to take good care of me, and then disappeared. Looking at the direction where he disappeared, I regretted it very much. He tricked me into coming here but let me solve all the problems by myself.


    ¡°Young lady, you will live in this Qinghua Garden, which is prepared for fairies whose practices are not that excellent.¡± The little fairy was only 15 or 16 years old, but he was always expressionless, which was even more annoying than Emperor of Donghua.


    In fact, I¡¯d like to ask if there was any place for demons to live in this area, but I finally said: ¡°What are your names?¡±


    ¡°I am Fairy Pine, and this is Fairy Willow. We will serve you in your daily life.¡± The little fairy said respectfully.


    ¡°If you have any inconvenience, you can tell us at any time, and we will try our best to help you.¡± Fairy Willow said genteelly. Her origin was a willow, and her body was softer and thinner than that of ordinary fairies. Her carriage was like the willow in the wind, which made people feel tender and lovely at first sight.


    I looked at the handsome Fairy Pine and the charming Fairy Willow, and I was amazed. The celestial fairies were indeed polite, and they called me ¡°young lady¡± when they needed to address me. The appellation they used made me feel younger. Although there were so many beautiful monsters in the demonic world, they were absolutely inferior to immortals in terms of the pure and refined temperament. The immortals had removed their desires and evil spirits from their hearts. They were as pure and flawless as new-born babies, making people feel comfortable.


    I had lived for two thousand years. In addition to serving Bai Xiaoshan, I had never been served by others. At that moment, I was enjoying the service of these two little fairies, which greatly satisfied my vanity. The resentment against Emperor of Donghua had also decreased a lot, and I thought he was actually a considerate emperor.


    In fact, there were only three people living in this garden, including me. It was said that the celestial world had been in recession for hundreds of years, and there were too few monsters who could become immortal. It was inevitable that there were not enough people in the celestial world. There were three separate courtyards in this Qinghua Garden. One was Richu Yard, in which lived a snake demon called Qianbi who had just completed two hundred years of cultivation. One was the Xingjiang Yard and Bai Qingqing lived in it. She was of my race and had been immortal for only a hundred years. The third one was the Yueluo Yard where I lived.


    I once joked with Fairy Pine and Fairy Willow that this was the imperial palace of Emperor Donghua, and fairies here were responsible to please him. As a result, Fairy Pine was almost irritated by me on the spot and said calmly: ¡°Young lady, don¡¯t talk nonsense. Will the emperor do such a shameless thing? If you ever joke about the emperor¡¯s reputation again, don¡¯t blame me for punishing you! ¡±


    I was shocked by the imposing manner of Fairy Pine. I thought to myself that Emperor of Donghua was an idol for him. However, this little fairy didn¡¯t understand the worldly affairs. There were many people in this world who had outstanding reputation but hid numerous beauties in their houses. I was too lazy to argue with him, and I dragged Fairy Willow to accompany me to talk with other people in the garden.


    Since I came to Fangzhu, I hadn¡¯t met with Emperor of Donghua yet. I was very disappointed for a while. After all, I had a month¡¯s friendship with him, which was still valuable for me when I had to live in this strange place. However, my sadness was soon swept away, because Bai Qingqing, the fox fairy, visited me very warmly.


    According to Fairy Willow, Bai Qingqing was a strange fairy. She had strange characteristics, and the reason why she became a fairy was also unbelievable. It was said that she was abandoned by a male demon, and she devoted herself to becoming a fairy in anger. She concentrated on practicing for hundreds of years and eventually was promoted to the celestial world. Meanwhile, she became the fox fairy with the shortest cultivation in history. However, Bai Qingqing liked to talk with people, and she would start with her failed relationship every time, which was described as ¡°extremely tragic¡±, and then end the conversation with the gossips in the celestial world. She had been gossiping others for more than one hundred years. In Fangzhu, only Emperor of Donghua was free from her slanders.


    When Fairy Willow talked about this, her lovely face was distorted uncontrollably for a moment. It was estimated that she had been tortured by Bai Qingqing for too many times, which left her an indelible psychological impact. This made me more and more curious about Bai Qingqing, so when I heard that she wanted to visit me, I asked Fairy Pine to invite her into my room regardless of Fairy Willow¡¯s unhappiness.


    When Bai Qingqing came in, I was bending over the table playing with pinecones that I had stolen from Fairy Pine¡¯s pocket. A flash of red light appeared in front of me and suddenly stung my eyes. I narrowed my eyes and looked at the figure in red behind Fairy Pine. I thought to myself, was she a white fox or a red fox? How could she be so extravagant?


    Bai Qingqing wore a red dress and walked slowly into my room. She had a fabulously beautiful face. I believed that she must have been very enchanting before she entered the celestial world, and she was less flirtatious after becoming an immortal. But for that red dress, she would have been compared to a pure and fragrant orchid in the empty valley. Who would leave such a beauty at home and go out looking for other women?


    Bai Qingqing¡¯s expression was melancholy, but I could see from her eyes that she was very excited. She took my hand as soon as she entered the room and said excitedly: ¡°My little sister, after waiting for one hundred years, I finally see you today.¡±


    I wondered whether I had a long-lost sister or not. Was she my mother¡¯s illegitimate daughter or my father¡¯s posthumous child?


    ¡°Why do you wait for me?¡± After thinking for a moment, I decided to ask her directly, since it was the lack of filial piety to doubt the innocence of my parents.

 Chapter 9 - Fox Fairy Qingqing with deep resentment (2)

    Chapter 9: Fox Fairy Qingqing with deep resentment (2)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofreader: Prof Zhu Yuan


    ¡°Alas!¡± Bai Qingqing sighed suddenly, then sat down beside me and took away my pine cone. After calming herself down, she finally spoke slowly: ¡°You don¡¯t know how lonely I have been in the past one hundred years since I became a fairy. I didn¡¯t have anyone to talk to. It was really miserable¡­¡±


    She looked at me with tearful eyes and wanted to say something. It seemed that she was waiting for my response. So I comforted her politely: ¡°My sister, don¡¯t be so sad. You will get used to the loneliness after millions of years.¡±


    Bai Qingqing was stunned. Her facial expression was slightly distorted, but she became normal at once and continued: ¡°When I was in Green Mound¡­¡±


    I was about to listen to her attentively, but she sighed, looked at me and said: ¡°I don¡¯t think you¡¯d like to hear those sad stories. You will blame me for being garrulous.¡±


    ¡°Well, you can stop talking.¡± I answered her subconsciously. But immediately I found that my reply was quite impolite, because her face was twitching. So I corrected myself: ¡°Let¡¯s talk about it. I want to hear your stories.¡±


    She was pleased by my reply and asked me with great patience: ¡°Is this true, my sister?¡±


    I nodded. If I said I regretted it at that moment, Bai Qingqing would kick me out directly.


    She was obviously satisfied with my performance, and finally got to the point: ¡°Once upon a time, when I was in Green Mound, I had a husband and we loved each other deeply. The two of us swore an oath of eternal love. We seldom envied other couples since we two were sweet enough. However, the good times didn¡¯t last long. I didn¡¯t expect that in Green Mound there could be a seductive fox¡­¡± Speaking of this, Bai Qingqing paused and gnashed her teeth in anger.


    I blinked and thought: Wasn¡¯t Green Mound full of foxes?


    Bai Qingqing seemed to be aware of her mistake, and then explained: ¡°You don¡¯t know that the fox was different from us. She had practiced for hundreds of years and should have had nine tails. However, she only had three and couldn¡¯t take the human shape for a long time. Kind and sensible as I was, I would never despise her. Her practice was slow, but her cajolery was perfect. She tempted my husband to send her rice every day. If I hadn¡¯t found that the rice jar at home was almost empty, I still didn¡¯t know that he was cheating on me¡­¡±


    As Bai Qingqing narrated, I gradually became nervous. Unfortunately, the home wrecker she mentioned was me. I began to sit straight and look at Bai Qingqing carefully. In fact, I had already forgotten those foxes in Green Mound. After all, it had been so long, and my memory always failed to serve me. However, I found Bai Qingqing more and more familiar to me when I observed her. Later, I suddenly remembered that she had been chasing me for hundreds of years and wanted to kill me.


    But this was not the scariest part. Bai Xiaoshan and I had seen her beat her husband violently in front of my fox cave. The man was also very pitiful. Originally, he had a handsome face, but after the sound thrashing, he looked just like an ugly pig. While watching, Bai Xiaoshan covered his face with his hands and sighed faintly at me: ¡°This woman is too violent. Please take care of yourself!¡±


    After I remembered all these things, my hands and feet began to shiver. The scene of Bai Qingqing¡¯s domestic violence left an indelible impact on me. This was also an important reason why Bai Xiaoshan led me to Qiyun Mountain. After all, Bai Qingqing was too destructive. I didn¡¯t expect that after one thousand years, when she had already become a fairy, she still felt so angry about the past. What was worse, I even stupidly sent myself to her. How miserable it was! Was this arranged by the fate? After a thousand years, I still couldn¡¯t escape from her clutches.


    ¡°Well, my sister, since it has been so long, and you have become a fairy, you should let it go!¡± With great calmness, I tried to persuade Bai Qingqing into forgiving me.


    ¡°Let it go?¡± Her voice was suddenly raised, and my heart was in my throat at that moment. She continued: ¡°How could I let it go? That fox seduced my husband, wasted my rice and hurt me like this, I¡­¡±


    Seeing that Bai Qingqing was out of speech, I replied hastily: ¡°Don¡¯t be so angry! I am confused right now. Since you have become immortal now, why do you say you were hurt by that little fox?¡±


    Bai Qingqing took a sip of the tea and said indignantly: ¡°I am talking about becoming a fairy! When I was a demon in the past, I could get everything I wanted. I was always busy enjoying my life. But now, I¡¯ve become a little-known fox fairy. I cannot obtain anything. When I want to talk to other people, I have to choose a day. I cannot bear this life any more. If I hadn¡¯t been irritated by that fox, how could I have become a fairy?¡±


    My mouth twitched uncontrollably. In fact, I also wondered why Bai Qingqing could become a fairy with such deep resentment.


    ¡°If you meet that little fox one day, what are you going to do?¡± I muttered.


    Bai Qingqing squinted and pondered for a moment. Her expression was very serious. I looked at her in fear and suddenly heard a crack. Looking down, I saw that the pine cone in her hand had turned into powder. I immediately held my breath because this scene really scared me, and then I heard her swear viciously: ¡°If I meet her again, I will push her to become immortal! She must bear the dull life in heaven! ¡°


    When I heard this, I breathed a deep sigh of relief, but I still pretended that this was a good idea. I looked at her with great sincerity and said: ¡°You¡¯re so smart. This will definitely let her beg for death, and you can avenge everything!¡±


    ¡°You know me.¡± Bai Qingqing showed an evil smile, and then continued to rub the powder in her hand while whispering: ¡°She shouldn¡¯t have seduced my husband! She shouldn¡¯t have seduced my husband!¡±

 Chapter 10 - I failed to reveal the secret and was caught on the spot (1)

    Chapter 10: I failed to reveal the secret and was caught on the spot (1)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    Bai Qingqing was indeed a famous chatterbox in heaven. For days, she stayed in my Yueluo Yard and never returned. I had learnt all kinds of gossips in the celestial world from her. However, to my surprise, Bai Qingqing was not a superficial disseminator of hearsay. She also excelled at commenting on these gossips and putting forward her own unique opinions.


    For example, Queen Mother made the Cowherd and Weaving Maid meet once a year, and according to Bai Qingqing, it fully protected their freedom, and avoided the mutual dislike that would occur if they stayed together for too long. The annual date also created a delightful and sweet atmosphere, which would move the beloved couples in the mortal world, and at the same time show heaven¡¯s tolerance towards free love.


    Another example was that she thought the Seventh Fairy were attracted by Dong Yong because she was tired of those excellent young men around her. In heaven, there were everywhere handsome male immortals who were out of touch with the worldly affairs. Every one of them was more outstanding than Dong Yong. The only reason that Dong Yong won over the favor of the fairy was that he was an ordinary man and satisfied her curiosity.


    There were so many other examples¡­


    However, after Bai Qingqing said so much, the only thing that interested me was that there was a drawing of a beautiful woman in the bedroom of Emperor of Donghua. Emperor of Donghua was always quiet and calm, and even for gossipmongers like Bai Qingqing, he had nothing suspectable. Bai Qingqing determined to dig some gossips from Emperor of Donghua, so she risked her life to break into his bedroom during the month when he came to the moral world to find me, and then she discovered that picture.


    However, Bai Qingqing also knew that she should never gossip about Emperor of Donghua. Zifu State was full of crazy fans of Emperor of Donghua, and if she said something she shouldn¡¯t have, she would hardly live another day. However, the secret had been kept for too long, so she accidentally blurted it out.


    Therefore, she tried to force me to keep this secret.


    ¡°My sister, I¡¯m so kind to you, and we are relatives. You must not betray me!¡± She tried to be gentle and considerate to me and then persuade me to keep the secret.


    ¡°My little sister, I¡¯ve always been very accommodating. Since I¡¯m here, nobody dares to bully you. But if you let out anything vital to me, don¡¯t blame me to be merciless.¡± And then, Bai Qingqing coerced me.


    ¡°Take it easy! My memory always fails to serve me. What did you say just now? I cannot remember anything¡­¡±I blinked and replied to her naturally.


    Bai Qingqing immediately turned her worries into happiness and gave me a big hug. She said with an embarrassing voice: ¡°My dearest sister, I love you so much!¡±


    I rolled my eyes and whispered in her ear: ¡°When will you take me to see the picture?¡±


    After asking, I obviously felt that Bai Qingqing squeezed her arms suddenly. When I looked up, I saw the raging anger in her eyes, and she was staring at me.


    I gave a short laugh and then smiled at her obsequiously: ¡°My sister, don¡¯t get me wrong. I¡¯m just as interested in the Emperor¡¯s secret as you.¡± Then I asked her with a somewhat doubtful look: ¡°Is everything you said just now fake? There is no such thing as a drawing of beauty?¡±


    ¡°Nonsense! I¡¯ve seen it myself. How can it be fake?¡± Bai Qingqing was really angry. She grabbed my hand and dragged me out: ¡°I¡¯ll prove it to you, and you¡¯ll know that what I said is true!¡±


    Bai Qingqing dragged me anxiously to the Donghua Hall of Emperor of Donghua. Fortunately, on that day, Emperor of Donghua was going to Donghua Altar to oversee the ascetics who were practicing in the mortal world. Other immortals would also stay in their own rooms. So Bai Qingqing and I, the two naughty foxes, were able to break into Donghua Hall without any hindrance.


    ¡°The emperor won¡¯t come back until evening. You can enter his room now. The portrait is placed in the porcelain bottle in the first cabinet at the end of his bed. I¡¯ll watch out for you from the outside and cough twice when someone comes. Do you understand?¡± Bai Qingqing showed out a guilty face and looked in all directions. She said a lot of things with an extremely fast speed, which made them difficult to understand. Finally, I waved at her and said that I knew what she just explained to me. In this way, I entered Emperor of Donghua¡¯s bedroom.


    I knew that there was no one inside, but I still treated myself as a ¡°thief¡±. Creeping for a while, I arrived at the cabinet mentioned by Bai Qingqing. I had to say that the bedroom was very simple. It seemed that he was used to following the principle of thrift.


    But I was shocked the moment I opened the cabinet. Bai Qingqing said so much, but she didn¡¯t tell me there would be so many porcelain vases in the cabinet. In the first case alone, there were more than a dozen of vases of various shapes. I touched my chin and found that Emperor of Donghua had the habit of collecting porcelain vases. All these vases were like medicine bottles, which were too small to hold a portrait.


    I looked at these vases for a long time, but I was unable to see through them at a glance, so I had to check them one by one. I opened the bottle nearest to me, and a faint fragrance came to me. It was like the fragrance of flower or the scent of medicine, but it would not be the smell of a beauty anyway, so it was obvious that I needed to keep searching. Therefore, I reached out for the second bottle.


    At that moment, suddenly there was a clatter of footsteps outside. I shuddered, shut the cabinet, changed to be the fox, and hid underneath the bed. I listened to the movements outside while holding my breath.

 Chapter 11 - I failed to reveal the secret and was caught on the spot (2)

    Chapter 11: I failed to reveal the secret and was caught on the spot (2)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    ¡°Your Highness, why did you go to Donghua Altar again since you haven¡¯t recovered yet?¡± I squinted. It sounded familiar and seemed to be Fairy Pine¡¯s voice.


    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter.¡± That was the gracious voice of Emperor of Donghua. His voice was low and had ineffable elegance and serenity in it, which made people subconsciously hold their breath while listening.


    ¡°Your Highness, don¡¯t treat me like an idiot! You¡¯ve spent five thousand years of your immortal power to protect Miss Bai from her disaster. How can you say it doesn¡¯t matter?¡± Fairy Pine said earnestly.


    ¡°You¡¯ve spent five thousand years of your immortal power to protect Miss Bai from her disaster.¡±


    I knew I couldn¡¯t pretend that I didn¡¯t hear it. It turned out that my heaven disaster did happen at that night and they had not planned to let me go so easily. I was so stupid that I believed I was lucky enough to escape from the disaster. However, I didn¡¯t know that it was he who took the disaster for me. He was Emperor of Donghua, who had boundless power. The higher one¡¯s power was, the more serious the disaster would be. If it was me who was punished, the disaster would at most rob me of two thousand years of practice. But if he protected me, it would deprive him of more than five thousand years of his immortal power.


    I didn¡¯t know what disturbed me. I didn¡¯t understand why he did this. Was it just because I was the reincarnation of Fairy Peony? I didn¡¯t know what I¡¯d done to deserve it.


    ¡°Fairy Pine,¡± Emperor of Donghua said suddenly when Fairy Pine was in a daze, ¡°go back to Qinghua Garden and serve Miss Bai.¡±


    As these words were spoken, the door creaked, and Fairy Pine walked away. It seemed that he had gone back to Qinghua Garden.


    My heart kept racing. If Emperor of Donghua knew that I broke into his bedroom and went through his cabinet, would he throw a huge fit?


    I held my breath and laid quietly under the bed. I saw a pair of black boots slowly moving towards me. My heart was doing a kind of drum-roll against my ribs. But fortunately, after a while, he moved towards another direction.


    I was just about to relax, and his voice sounded again as if accompanied by a sigh: ¡°Li, come out!¡±


    In fact, I really wanted to pretend that he was not calling me, but I couldn¡¯t hide from him anymore. What¡¯s more, I was still in his bedroom. So I obediently came out, changed back to the human form and watched him guiltily.


    Emperor of Donghua was still dressed in a black robe, with his black hair tied by a Taoist crown. He was handsome and his eyes were always clear. However, he looked pale and exhausted that day. He gave me a look and the faint helplessness flashed through his eyes. He asked: ¡°Have you heard what Fairy Pine said?¡±


    I paused. I thought he would ask why I was here. What I heard just now was weighing on my mind, and I couldn¡¯t continue to be funny. I just bent my head and didn¡¯t know what to say.


    ¡°Li¡­¡± He slowly reached out his hand and wanted to touch my face, but he suddenly took it back before that. He turned around and whispered: ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it. Fairy Pine was kidding.¡±


    I sighed. In fact, Emperor of Donghua regarded me as the idiot. I was so confused but I only asked him: ¡°Why?¡±


    He froze for a moment and turned to look at me. There was a kind of emotion in his clear eyes that I couldn¡¯t understand. After a while, he smiled faintly: ¡°Did you forget that I owed you in the past?¡±


    Was bearing the disaster for me his unique way to make up for the past mistakes? I asked silently in my heart, but soon I began to despise myself. Some people had taken the disaster for me voluntarily, and I should be so happy because I was lucky. Why should I dredge the reason behind it?


    ¡°Am I the only one that you owe?¡± I suddenly asked an irrelevant question.


    ¡°Yes.¡± He was dazed, but still answered my question.


    ¡°What did you owe me?¡± This was what I wanted to know.


    He was silent. My heart was racing again. I waited for a long time and he finally said: ¡°You will know that one day.¡±


    Seeing that he didn¡¯t want to say anything, I stopped asking and made up an excuse to escape from his bedroom. Bai Qingqing had escaped alone, which was quite ungallant. I must teach her a lesson later!


    ¡°You came to my room to clean the space under my bed?¡± I hadn¡¯t walked to the door when he asked me teasingly.


    I turned around calmly, smiled at him and said, ¡°Your Highness, you¡¯re so wise! I had nothing to do in Qinghua Garden and when I thought of the help you offered me, I decided to repay you by doing some chores for you. Therefore, when all the servants in Donghua Hall are absent today, I volunteer to do the cleaning work!¡±


    ¡°Is my room clean enough?¡± He looked at me when I was talking nonsense confidently.


    ¡°Your room is so clean! Look, I¡¯ve stayed under the bed for a long time and there isn¡¯t any dust on my clothes!¡± I showed my sleeve to him to prove what I said was true.


    He smiled gently as I acted seriously. His half-smile showed excellent elegance, which was even more attractive than my cajolery. I, as a fox demon, was going to be head over heels.


    ¡°This should be attributed to you. Since you want to repay me, the cleaning work of Donghua Hall will be your duty today. You only have to make the room as clean as the space under my bed.¡± He slowly uttered the order that made me dumbfounded.


    What did ¡°shooting myself in the foot¡± mean? This was a good example.


    ¡°By the way, you might as well invite Bai Qingqing to do it with you. I believe she will be willing to do that.¡± As I walked out of the room, he said again.


    I suddenly felt feeble in my heart. Emperor of Donghua was elusive to deal with!

 Chapter 12 - Emperor Donghua was trapped by love (1)

    Chapter 12: Emperor Donghua was trapped by love (1)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    Since Bai Qingqing abandoned me that day, I hadn¡¯t spoken to her for a long time. There were still many fairies willing to talk to me in the Zizhou State, but no one would listen to Bai Qingqing. For this reason, I decisively left Bai Qingqingalone to improve my interpersonal relationships.


    ¡°Li, I¡¯m here to apologize to you! Can you forgive me just for once?We fox fairies shouldn¡¯t hold on to petty grievances. Do you think so?¡± Bai Qingqing came to me again and tried to change my mind.


    ¡°Fairy Pine, please see her out!¡± I turned a blind eye to her while eating sunflower seeds. I should teach BaiQingqinga lesson or she would betray me again mercilessly.


    Bai Qingqing was whining:¡°I know that I was wrong. I¡¯ll never leave you alone again. If you don¡¯t talk to me, I¡¯ll die of depression¡­¡±She suddenly jumped towardsme, hugged my thigh and wailed. I had never seen her being so miserable.


    I looked at her quietly for a while, thinking that she was really repentant this time, so Ikicked her away and said very calmly:¡°All right. Never make me remind you of it again!¡±


    Bai Qingqing went back to her XingjiangYard with gratitude. I was very happy. I finally got rid of the impact Bai Qingqingon me.


    Bai Xiaoshan, I was so strong, and even Bai Qingqing played second fiddle to me. Why didn¡¯t you come back?Did you really have a crush on that Taoist nun?


    Thinking of Bai Xiaoshan, I became melancholy again. Therefore, I let Fairy Pine report to the Emperor and I went down to the mortal world to relax.


    There were many interesting things in the mortal world, but I was not in the mood to play until I found Bai Xiaoshan.As usual, I went straight to the restaurant. I always felt that as long as I waited there, I would definitely meet Bai Xiaoshan.Of course, the storyteller in the restaurant was actually the main factor that attracted me to stay there.


    Every time I went to the restaurant, I would order a large bowl of rice, and then I would eat it up while listening to the story.I seldom ordered dishes. This habit was formed under the oppression of Bai Xiaoshan.In the past, when I was still with him, he only gave me some vegetablesat most to eat. I would drool over him, imagining that I was eating Bai Xiaoshan, the pheasant. Over time, I could eat the rice without any disheswhile looking at him, but it turned out that I was malnourished.


    ¡°Two thousand years ago, there was the State of Mu with unprecedented prosperity. At that time, a sagacious monarch was born in that country, who was known as Yinde Emperor in the history. Yinde Emperor was not only wise and virtuous, but also handsome and elegant. Therefore, all the women in the country wanted to become hisempress.However, YindeEmperor was indifferent to romantic relationships. Although there were a great number of beauties in the harem, only one noble concubine and two noble ladies had attracted his attention, and there was no empress.Everyone thought that one of the three beauties would become the empress in the future, but unexpectedly, Yinde Emperor brought back an extremely beautiful woman after a traveling incognito¡­¡± The storyteller spoke in high spirit.


    I listened with deep interest, and stories of palace gossipswere the most fascinating.


    ¡°This woman was called Bai Ruoli. She was lovely enough to cause the fall of a city or a state. She wasexceedingly beautiful¡­¡±The storyteller started to be excited at that moment.


    I twitched my mouth. This guy had never met with Bai Rouli, but he seemed to have seen her with his own eyes.


    ¡°Yinde Emperor had dotted on her. When she was just brought into the palace, she took the name of Consort Li. This ideal couple was a perfect match.In the three years after Bai Ruoli entered the palace, YindeEmperor had never touched any other concubines. Shehad won over all the love of the emperor and became the envy of the harem. All the women in the country were jealous of her.However, as Yinde Emperor was preparing to confer the title of empress on her, there was a disastrous event in Mu.¡±The tone of the storyteller suddenly became mysterious.


    Everyone in the restaurant kept silent and waited for the storyteller to continue. The storyteller was quite satisfied with the response of his listeners, and he went on his narration.¡°Mu was originally rich and prosperous, but a plague befell it overnight. In less than a month, thousands were dead. The flourishing country suddenly became a land of wailing and despair. However, they didn¡¯t know that this was not a natural calamity but a man-made disaster.And the origin of the disaster was unexpectedly the empress to-be, Consort Li¡­¡±


    Hearing this, the crowd roared. I was also intrigued and couldn¡¯t wait to know the following story.


    ¡°The wonderful concubine turned out to be a demon. But when we think back, if she had not been a demon, how couldshe have such a beautiful face? How could YindeEmperor, who had always been abstinent, fall in love with herso deeply? She must have bewitched him! It was the act of God to let people know that she was a demon. One day, Consort Liwas appreciating flowersin the royal garden alone. It was winter. She stood in front of a peony which had already withered. She blew gently on the flower, and the deadwood instantly turned to be a white peony. Unfortunately, this scene was seen by a maid.So the secret that Bai Ruoli was a demon was revealed!¡±

 Chapter 13 - Emperor of Donghua was trapped by love (2)

    Chapter 13: Emperor of Donghua was trapped by love (2)


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    ¡°She was not a demon.¡± Listening with great interest, I suddenly heard a familiar voice. I subconsciously looked back, and I was surprised. I didn¡¯t know when Emperor of Donghua arrived and sat beside me, and the words were uttered by him.


    ¡°How did you know?¡± I asked absently, and all my attention was drawn by the storyteller.


    ¡°The plague continued to rage, and all people in Mu agreed that this was caused by the sorcery of Consort Li. They urged the emperor to depose the demon concubine and restore the order of the state. Monks and nuns from all over the country also rushed to the capital of Mu in succession, ready to depose the demon concubine and save Mu at one stroke. So what would happen to Consort Li? And what would Yinde Emperor do in face of this situation? If you want to know how things would turn out, please listen to my narration next time.¡±


    The storyteller triumphantly finished his narration with a clap of the wood block, leaving me tantalized by the dubious end. This suspense stuck in my craw. The storyteller was extremely unkind. Every time he talked about the wonderful part, he would end the narration and leave, saying ¡°If you want to know how things would turn out, please listen to my narration next time¡±, which made people want to beat him.


    My resentful look was caught by Emperor of Donghua and he reasserted to me weakly: ¡°She was not a demon.¡±


    ¡°How did you know?¡± I asked subconsciously.


    He said nothing.


    I suddenly realized that I hadn¡¯t been born yet two thousand years ago, but he was already an immortal in heaven at that time. Fairies in heaven must know everything.


    ¡°What happened to Consort Li next? Since she was not a demon, did Yinde Emperor save her?¡± I asked him expectantly.


    ¡°No.¡± A hint of pain flashed across his eyes, and his voice was obviously depressed. He looked at me and took a deep breath: ¡°He didn¡¯t save her, but handed her to Taoist priests and watched her burn to death.¡±


    ¡°What?¡± I immediately flew into a rage and said: ¡°He was so evil. Didn¡¯t they fall pretty hard for each other? How could he be such a ruthless madman?¡±


    Emperor of Donghua was still silent.


    I gave him a nudge: ¡°Isn¡¯t that right?¡±


    He was slightly shocked, then nodded and whispered: ¡°Yes, he shouldn¡¯t have hurt such a wonderful girl.¡±


    I nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to comment: ¡°If I were Yinde Emperor, since I really loved Consort Li, I would try my best to protect her even if I had to give up my country.¡±


    Emperor of Donghua suddenly looked up with curiosity in his eyes. For a long time, he asked: ¡°What if you were Consort Li? What would you do if Yinde Emperor treated you like this?¡±


    ¡°Me?¡± I was dumbfounded. I really didn¡¯t expect that I would be a heroine in such a tragic story. I wouldn¡¯t have the same poor taste as Consort Li and marry such a wimp!


    However, I did think about it for a while and then answered Emperor of Donghua sincerely: ¡°Of all the rotten luck, if I were Consort Li, honestly I would be quite satisfied with the result.¡±


    He looked at me in surprise. ¡°Why?¡±


    ¡°The earlier you die, the earlier you reincarnate.¡± As soon as I finished speaking, he was speechless.


    ¡°You should look at it in this way. She lacked fortune when it came to men in this life, and women were not allowed to remarry at that time. The only way to get out of her mess was death. After that, she could expect the next life. Maybe she could marry a good man after reincarnation!¡± I explained.


    ¡°Do you really think so?¡± He asked doubtfully.


    ¡°But I am different from Consort Li. I am an authentic demon. I can blame no one even if I was burned.¡± I shrugged my shoulders.


    ¡°Would you hate that man?¡± I don¡¯t know why, Emperor of Donghua was quite curious today. As a demon who had only practiced for two thousand years, I could only answer his questions conscientiously.


    ¡°No.¡±


    Suddenly a glimmer of light flashed across his eyes, and he seemed to be happy. This made me wonder. I was not Consort Li and he was not the emperor. Why would he be happy?


    ¡°Because I would never love him again.¡± I slowly spoke the second half of the sentence, and then I was surprised to find that the light in his eyes went out, leaving only loneliness, which made it impossible for me to guess what he was thinking about.


    After a while, he seemed to be calm again and smiled weakly. He said to me: ¡°It¡¯s getting late. Li, let¡¯s go back!¡±


    I looked at him as he walked away and came to a conclusion: Emperor of Donghua was trapped by love.


    His Miss Right, if I was correct, should be the beauty in the portrait mentioned by Bai Qingqing.


    Thinking about this, my curiosity about that portrait began to stir again.

 Chapter 14 - The birthday party of Queen Mother

    Chapter 14: The birthday party of Queen Mother


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    On that day, I slept until I woke up naturally as usual and found it was already late in the morning. I rubbed the quilt, had my head poking out slowly, opened my eyes and looked out. I was so surprised to find Bai Qingqing around my pillow.


    ¡°Qingqing, you should know that a fox appearing suddenly will frighten others to death!¡± I looked at the fox face of Bai Qingqing and said helplessly.


    Bai Qingqing suddenly changed to be a person. She still lay down on my pillow, looked at me with a smile and said: ¡°My little sister, do you know what day it is?¡±


    I shook my head blankly.


    ¡°Today is the birthday of Queen Mother. In heaven there is going to be a grand birthday party. All the immortals will be invited.¡± Bai Qingqing scratched my hair and said.


    ¡°How old is Queen Mother?¡±


    ¡°As old as Emperor of Donghua, I guess. By the way, do you know how old is he?¡± Bai Qingqing asked me doubtfully.


    I looked at her speechlessly.


    ¡°She must be several thousand years old anyway. She is just an old lady. Why do you care about her?¡± Bai Qingqing shrugged her shoulders and said with indifference.


    I thought for a moment with my hand propping my head. According to Bai Qingqing, Emperor of Donghua was an old man who had lived tens of thousands of years. However, if every old man could have the same appearance as that of him, they would be so delightful to watch!


    Seeing me laughing without any reason, Bai Qingqing knocked me on the head and sneered: ¡°What are you laughing about? Are you missing your boyfriend?¡±


    I got up from the bed, gave Bai Qingqing a look of infinite sadness and said: ¡°You see, I¡¯m an old lady now. I¡¯m no longer the little girl longing for love.¡±


    Bai Qingqing flung himself on me and pinched me severely. She looked at me tearfully and said: ¡°Are you old? Are you old? I¡¯m older than you! My sister, you are so unkind that you insult me all day long!¡±


    I managed to get away from Bai Qingqing. I yawned and asked: ¡°What do you want to see me about?¡±


    On hearing this, Bai Qingqing stopped joking with me. She adjusted her clothes and sat down on my bed, saying: ¡°Of course, it¡¯s for Queen Mother¡¯s birthday. Every fairy has to give a gift. Let me see what gift you¡¯ve prepared.¡±


    I was just thinking about what gift I would like to prepare when Bai Qingqing suddenly cried out and said: ¡°Alas! I almost forgot that you¡¯ve not yet become a fairy, and you¡¯re a guest invited by the Emperor. You don¡¯t need to attend the birthday party of Queen Mother. You see, I was really confused just now, but you can save the gift for yourself!¡±


    I finally knew why Bai Qingqing was in such a good mood, and she was ready to irritate me. I caught a glimpse of her, deeply ashamed of her pride. Alas, I didn¡¯t expect that there was still discrimination in heaven.


    However, I was always curious about everything. If she didn¡¯t tell me, I would not participate in it. Since I already knew this big event, I must join in the fun. So when Bai Qingqing left, I brought my wooden casket and ran to Donghua Hall.


    As soon as I arrived at Donghua Hall, I caught a little fairy and asked him: ¡°Where is Emperor of Donghua?¡±


    The little fairy in Donghua Hall was familiar with me, so he honestly reported his whereabouts to me. However, he was still tied up while speaking to me: ¡°He is bathing in the Pure Spring Pool.¡±


    I quickly rushed to the pool. Pure Spring Pool was a good place. The spring water was so clear, and it was warm in winter and cool in summer. A bath there could not only boost one¡¯s practice, but also prolong his or her life. After the bath, people would feel relaxed, happy and refreshed. However, it was a pity that this was the personal belonging of Emperor of Donghua, and no one else could bathe in the pool. I once coveted it for a while, and till that time I was still wondering how to get this privilege.


    Around the Pure Spring Pool there was a small garden, which was so quiet that no one would break in, and naturally there would be no fairy guards outside, so I walked in gracefully.


    ¡°Your Majesty, I have something to tell you.¡± Holding my big wooden casket, I slowly approached the pool and saw that the Emperor was reposing in the pool with his head leaning against the edge of it.


    Hearing my voice, he suddenly opened his eyes. Seeing that I was still approaching recklessly, he sighed and said: ¡°Li, I¡¯m taking a bath.¡±


    ¡°I know, you can continue to bathe.¡± I found a stone, sat down and looked at him unblinkingly: ¡°Just listen to me.¡±


    He was surprised and said: ¡°Li, it is so inconvenient for you to stay here. You can come to me when I¡¯m done. Would you mind stepping outside?¡±


    When I looked at him, I suddenly noticed his chest exposed on the water surface. My eyes were suddenly frozen and I couldn¡¯t look away.


    How white his skin was! It seemed to be very tender and smooth. Looking up along the chest, I found his face more and more ethereal with the dense vapor around it, making people dare not profane it. I looked carefully at him again, only to find his angry face.


    ¡°Li, you can go out when you have seen enough!¡± Just when I was totally attracted by his smooth skin, he shouted at me again, and there were also a little helplessness and embarrassment in his voice.


    I looked at him and smiled innocently at him. I solemnly replied: ¡°I haven¡¯t seen enough.¡±


    ¡°You ¡­¡± He seemed to know that it was impossible to let me out. He cast a spell and stood on the shore in a blink. I was just about to take a good look at his body, but I saw him standing in front of me neatly dressed.


    I looked at him in regret and said: ¡°Your Majesty, I don¡¯t mind if you keep bathing.¡±


    He smiled weakly and said: ¡°Li, you¡¯d better get down to business! What do you want to say to me?¡±


    Reminded by him, I immediately recalled my purpose to come here. I gave my wooden casket to him and said: ¡°Your Majesty, this is a little gift that I want to give Queen Mother for her birthday. I know that I¡¯m only a fox demon and I¡¯m not qualified to send her a gift. Therefore, I want to ask you to take this gift to her.¡±


    After that, I looked expectantly at him and found that he was also staring at me. I couldn¡¯t help feeling guilty and gave a dry little cough. I said: ¡°Your Majesty¡­¡±


    ¡°Li, I didn¡¯t expect you to be so thoughtful. Don¡¯t worry, I will definitely give your present to Queen Mother.¡± For a long while, he finally looked away and said.


    My smile froze slightly. This was not the answer I expected. He should have said: ¡°Since you¡¯re so thoughtful, why don¡¯t you come with me to the birthday party?¡±


    ¡°Thank you very much!¡± I walked out sadly.


    ¡°Li, if you want to attend the birthday party, just tell me. How can I refuse?¡± Suddenly, the voice of Emperor of Donghua came from behind, making me stop at once.


    ¡°Really?¡± I turned around and pretended to ask him calmly, trying to hide away my excitement.


    ¡°When did I lie to you?¡±


    ¡°Thank you, Your Majesty. I should go back and get ready now!¡± I immediately ran out joyfully. How could Bai Qingqing still look down upon me this time?


    ¡°Wait a minute!¡± He suddenly stopped me.


    I turned back plaintively: ¡°Do you want to go back on our word?¡±


    He was surprised by me and smiled: ¡°Of course not. I just want to remind you that you¡¯d better prepare a new gift.¡±


    I didn¡¯t understand: ¡°Why? Bai Qingqing said that colorful glaze beads were rare treasures and Queen Mother must love them.¡±


    ¡°Queen Mother will love colorful glaze beads, but if they are made up by fox fur, I don¡¯t think she would regard them as treasures.¡± Emperor of Donghua just pointed at the beads randomly, and they all turned to be my white fur.


    I scratched my head and looked awkwardly at the fur. Well, I just thought it was too wasteful to give away the treasure beads, so I used my fox fur to make some knockoffs. But I didn¡¯t expect that Emperor of Donghua was so savvy that he knew what was inside even if the box was not opened.


    Since I¡¯d been spotted as a liar, I felt a little embarrassed. So after a while, I turned around and ran away.


    ¡°My lady, where have you been? Today is Queen Mother¡¯s birthday, and Emperor of Donghua had asked me to dress you up.¡± As soon as I got back to Tsinghua Garden, Fairy Willow came to me hastily. However, she was so weak, which made me worry about her.


    ¡°I went to see the Emperor.¡± After a pause, I said, ¡°By the way, Fairy Willow, I¡¯m going to prepare a present for Queen Mother. Can you give me some suggestions?¡±


    She blinked, and asked me doubtfully: ¡°Emperor of Donghua has already prepared the gift for you. Why didn¡¯t he tell you?¡±


    I was shocked and asked: ¡°Do you mean that he was originally going to take me to the birthday party?¡±


    ¡°Of course. You¡¯re his honored guest. How can you miss such a grand gathering?¡±


    What Fairy Willow said made sense, but I felt terribly ashamed. How could I hold a wooden box, rush to Donghua Hall and try to get his promise? These were all redundant.


    I sighed in a low voice. Emperor of Donghua was so calm even when he was lying to me. There was no sign at all that indicated he was lying. Immortals of higher ranks were even more capable to lie than we demons!


    After complaining, I let Fairy Willow take me back to my Yueluo yard. I sat in front of the dresser and she started to paint my face and decorate my hair. Ingenious and skillful as she was, she dressed me up just like a celestial fairy. At first glance, I couldn¡¯t recognize myself at all. I looked at the huge white peony on my hair, and I was much like a flower fairy.


    ¡°Fairy Willow, why do you put such a big white peony on me head?¡± I asked weakly.


    ¡°Emperor of Donghua told us that in your previous life you were Fairy Peony in heaven. Fairy Pine happened to find a peony from somewhere, and I thought that no one was worthy of this flower decoration except you!¡± Fairy Willow said softly.


    I kept silent. Fairy Pine must want to follow me to the party. I could have borne it if it had been a real flower, but I guaranteed that this flower was the incarnation of Fairy Pine. His pine needles, right on my scalp, were so scratchy!


    Fairy Pine, I was going to complain to Emperor of Donghua!


    In the evening, Emperor of Donghua came to Tsinghua Garden on time and took me on a cloud ride to the Kunlun Mountains of Queen Mother. Although Qiyun Mountain was located at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, I had never seen what it was like, let alone setting my foot on the mountains. I was so excited that I could finally broaden my horizon.


    Of course, it was more exciting to watch a bunch of immortals, senior or junior, all trailing behind Emperor of Donghua, as well as Bai Qingqing at the end of the troop. With my keen eyesight, I saw Bai Qingqing¡¯s grievance at a glance. I couldn¡¯t help but grinning. It felt good to have Emperor of Donghua with me!


    As soon as I entered the Kunlun Mountains, my sight became blurred. There was mist all the year round, which was so unreal that people couldn¡¯t see the place clearly. If it weren¡¯t for Emperor of Donghua, I would definitely lose my way.


    I didn¡¯t know how many places had been bypassed, but with fairy kids guiding us along the road, I finally saw a palace towering into the sky. Emperor of Donghua led me to the palace slowly. I found that the banquet had been arranged in the palace and all the fairies were waiting for the guests.


    ¡°Emperor of Donghua, I have been waiting for you for a long time!¡± While I was looking around, a gentle voice sounded. I looked up and saw a middle-aged woman dressed in fine clothes walking slowly down from the hall. Her posture was elegant, and her smile was soft but dignified. I shuddered. Was she Queen Mother?


    ¡°May you live forever, Queen Mother!¡± He said calmly, and then gestured for Fairy Willow to send for our gifts.


    ¡°You are so thoughtful!¡± Queen Mother nodded with a smile, but whatever she did, there was a kind of dignity in her gestures.


    I secretly looked at Queen Mother. Bai Qingqing said Queen Mother and Emperor of Donghua were about the same age. But they looked so differently. Although Queen Mother seemed to be younger than she actually was, she still looked like a member of my mother¡¯s generation. While Emperor of Donghua seemed to be of the generation of her son. Did female fairies seem to be older than male fairies?


    ¡°This Lady must be¡­¡±


    ¡°Yes, she is the reincarnation of Fairy Peony.¡±


    While I was still brooding over this matter, the topic between Queen Mother and Emperor of Donghua had changed to be Fairy Peony and me. I quickly gathered up my mind, bowed my head and said: ¡°May you live forever, Queen Mother! It is my great honor to meet you here.¡±


    ¡°Bai Li?¡± Queen Mother repeated my name and sighed softly, and her voice became gentler. ¡°Two thousand years have passed in a blink. Fairy Peony, you must have suffered a lot!¡±


    I was shocked to know that Queen Mother was talking to me. I was so flattered that I could not say a word. After a long while, I managed to reply to her: ¡°Thank you for your consideration, madam.¡±


    ¡°In this life Fairy Peony was born as a fox by mistake. Now that you have found her, you should have told me earlier and I could have helped her to be a fairy again as soon as possible.¡± Queen Mother said, and she turned to look at Emperor of Donghua.


    ¡°You don¡¯t know, Queen Mother. Although Li is a fox demon, she has practiced for two thousand years. Her practice is extremely slow because she loves freedom, and she is not interested in becoming a fairy. It took several months for me to bring her to heaven, and you could finally see her today.¡± He seldom said so much, but it was really a pleasure to listen to his voice. So I automatically ignored his negative comments on my ¡°extremely slow¡± practice.


    ¡°Oh? Fairy Peony had always been an excellent fairy and had quick understanding towards practice. How can she be so¡­¡± Queen Mother looked at me and stopped. Maybe she wanted to say that ¡°How can she be so stupid in this life¡±, but I had to thank her for not saying it out to discourage me.


    ¡°Queen Mother, I want to ask you for one thing.¡± Emperor of Donghua caught a glimpse of me and said suddenly.


    ¡°Just tell me what you want me to do.¡±


    ¡°I hope to keep Bai Li by my side.¡±


    This remark surprised not only Queen Mother, but also me. Should Queen Mother decide where I would stay? If it weren¡¯t for Emperor of Donghua¡¯s charming appearance and attracting voice, I would never have come to heaven!


    Queen Mother was silent for a long time. There was a hint of pity that I could not understand in her eyes. She asked lightly: ¡°All things are decided by the destiny. Even you cannot escape from it.¡±


    Hearing this, Emperor of Donghua suddenly smiled gently. His smile was as bright as the sunlight on the horizon. ¡°Queen Mother, you and I were both born in the beginning of the chaos. Now, hundreds of thousands of years have passed in a flash, without ups and downs. Time has brought great changes to the worlds but these are just a blink in our eyes. I¡¯ve never expected such a change in my life. In the past, I thought I would, as always, keep protecting the whole world for millions of years peacefully. However, God was still merciful to me and couldn¡¯t bear to let me die in this way. Therefore, he brought this change to me. I didn¡¯t know how to cherish it before, and the past two thousand years are the longest period in my life. Since there is still a chance to make up for it today, I will never let it go again.¡±


    After Emperor of Donghua finished his speech, there was a long silence in the hall. I didn¡¯t know what Queen Mother was thinking about, but her eyes were filled with shock. As for me, I was only frightened by the ¡°hundreds of thousands of years¡± said by Emperor of Donghua. Bai Qingqing speculated that they were only several thousand years old. Unexpectedly, they were already hundreds of thousands of years old. If I lived to that age, I was afraid I would become an old hag. How could Emperor of Donghua keep his young and handsome appearance?


    I touched the barely smooth skin on my face, and then looked at the white and smooth skin of Emperor of Donghua. I couldn¡¯t help but swallowing saliva. It was too discouraging for foxes!


    ¡°Now that you have made up your mind, I can only give up my favorite fairy!¡± Finally, Queen Mother become normal and smiled generously. ¡°I believe that you will never let the same thing happen again!¡±


    ¡°Thank you, Queen Mother.¡±


    As soon as the dialogue between Emperor of Donghua and Queen Mother ended, other immortals came one after another. He brought me to one side of the hall and we took our seats. I still stared at his face. It seemed that age was definitely not a problem for him.


    ¡°Li, what are you looking at?¡± He suddenly turned his head and looked at me with a pair of clear and beautiful eyes.


    I immediately turned away. This was definitely a seduction! I could only try my best to hypnotize myself. Bai Li, you were a mature fox. You should not do anything immature. You must control yourself!


    ¡°Li, what¡¯s wrong with you?¡± Emperor of Donghua asked me doubtfully.


    ¡°Uh, I, that¡­ I¡¯m fine¡­¡± I tried to hide away from his sight and couldn¡¯t say a word. I kept reiterating in my heart: ¡°His beauty always hurts me!¡±


    In order to hide my gaffe, I took the goblet placed on the long table and poured the wine into my mouth. However, just as I was drinking the wine, he suddenly asked: ¡°Li, what are you talking about? Whose beauty hurts you?¡±


    A mouthful of wine just gushed out. I closed my eyes and whined in my heart: ¡°You must want to see me make a fool of myself, right?


    ¡°Make a fool of yourself?¡± He continued to ask.


    I turned to him and stared angrily at him: ¡°You must not listen to what I say to myself!¡±


    He suddenly smiled and nodded obediently: ¡°Well, since you don¡¯t allow me to do that, I will stop right now!¡±


    I covered my eyes, because his smile was so charming!


    At last, the birthday party began, and all the immortals went to the hall to celebrate Queen Mother¡¯s birthday. After the celebration, they greeted Emperor of Donghua one after another. He had already changed back to be the usual Emperor of Donghua, serious in speech and manner. He only nodded to all the immortals. For the first time, I realized that his status in the celestial world was so high that no one had even come close. He was like a human emperor, standing forever on the summit of the society. However, when he turned around and smiled at me, I suddenly felt that he was so close that I could touch him with my hand.


    Bai Qingqing sat in the last row of the hall and stared at me with bitterness from time to time. I was very innocent. In the morning, she even got up so early to discourage me.


    Therefore, I turned a blind eye to the bitterness of Bai Qingqing and began to appreciate the fairies in the hall. I had to say that there were so many beautiful women in the Palace of Queen Mother. All of them were extremely beautiful. There was no vulgarity of mortals or flattery of goblins in their appearances or gestures. They were as pure as the white peony on my head. They were indeed fairies! These fairies would come to pour wine for us from time to time. But I found an abnormal fact. Few fairies came to our table, although the wine had been poured, but I always felt that these fairies looked at Emperor of Donghua strangely, especially the fairy in red. I could guarantee that the emotion in her eyes were definitely not admiration, but resentment!


    My curiosity was naturally aroused by this condition. It was supposed that in the whole world, few people would show this kind of expression towards Emperor of Donghua. As long as they saw his handsome face, common women would be attracted directly just as I did, let alone his status in the celestial world,


    All of a sudden, it occurred to me that Emperor of Donghua might have abandoned the fairy in red in the past. I once again looked at that fairy, and then at Emperor of Donghua who was expressionless. My guess was very reasonable. The portrait of the beauty mentioned by Bai Qingqing came to my mind again.


    I thought about this affair with my vivid imagination while pouring wine into my mouth. According to Emperor of Donghua, this was the unique nectar of Yaochi. I must seize the opportunity and drink as much as possible.


    However, if I had known that I would behave so ¡°immorally¡± and ¡°unreasonably¡± after drinking so much wine, I would never have drunk it. After all, it was not a glorious thing to be the public enemy of the whole celestial world. It should be described as a tragedy, even more tragic than that of Bai Qingqing. Nobody wanted to talk to Bai Qingqing. But everyone wanted to spit on me. They were completely different treatments!

 Chapter 15 - I Became an Embarrassed Fox

    Chapter 15: I Became an Embarrassed Fox


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    When I woke up, it was three days later. I opened my eyes only to find Fairy Willow and Fairy Pine standing in front of me motionlessly. Seeing me waking up, Fairy Willow smiled and walked out in a hurry. As she walked out, she said: ¡°You¡¯ve finally woken up. I¡¯m going to tell the emperor right now!¡±


    As for Fairy Pine, he seemed to be indignant, glaring at me without blinking. I didn¡¯t know what he was thinking about, but his face was red with anger.


    I was shocked, but I still didn¡¯t know why I had displeased this alpha male.


    ¡°Morning, Fairy Pine!¡± I greeted Fairy Pine unwillingly.


    ¡°Humph!¡± Fairy Pine looked away from me and went directly outside. I was puzzled by the grief and indignation in his expression. I didn¡¯t steal his pine cones this time.


    I patted on my head and got up groggily.


    ¡°My sister, you are finally awake!¡± At this moment, Bai Qingqing entered my bedroom leisurely.


    ¡°Why?¡± I clearly noticed the excitement on her face and asked her why she said so.


    ¡°Well, my sister, you¡¯re really brilliant. You¡¯re the pride of our fox family. On behalf of the fox family I have to praise you today!¡± Bai Qingqing smiled.


    I rubbed my eyes and asked her again: ¡°What did I do to win such admiration?¡±


    ¡°Tsk. Tsk.¡± Bai Qingqing looked at me up and down, smiled teasingly and said: ¡°It is not a good idea to pretend that you¡¯ve forgotten everything. Now immortals in heaven all know that you harassed the emperor in front of Queen Mother and all the fairies. How can you continue to live in heaven in the future?¡±


    ¡°What?¡± I stared and suddenly jumped up from the bed. This was definitely a bolt from the blue. This was not true!


    Bai Qingqing paused when she saw my shocked face. Then she covered her mouth and giggled. For me, it was typical schadenfreude. ¡°If you were too drunk to remember what happened that day, I will help you to recollect your memory!¡±


    As she said, I saw a flash of white light in the hands of Bai Qingqing, and she pointed lightly on my forehead with her slender finger. Then I saw the scene that made me extremely ashamed and resentful. At Queen Mother¡¯s birthday party, I drank all the nectar in the wine pot bravely, and then I approached the emperor with a hell of a lot of nerve. I gave him a bear hug when the emperor was distracted by other things. I became a fox driven by passion and kissed him directly on his face¡­


    Then, all the immortals who had been talking and laughing suddenly became quiet. They looked at me, who wanted to harass the emperor, with their rigid faces. But I was reckless and didn¡¯t know what was going on. I looked at Emperor of Donghua as he was shocked by my kiss, and his earlobe flushed. I found him lovelier than ever before. Without saying anything, I kissed him again on his face. After that kiss, I even licked my lips and said: ¡°Your Majesty, you¡¯re so handsome and taste very good¡­¡±


    He looked stunned.


    All immortals were silent.


    Seeing this, I finally burst into tears.


    Was that me? How could this be me? I licked Bai Xiaoshan when I first met him, and for this ignorant mistake I was enslaved by him for more than one thousand years. After that, I dared not do such things that harm others without benefiting myself. But I harassed Emperor of Donghua! How could I continue to live in heaven? All the immortals wanted to drown me with their own spittle.


    ¡°My sister, I didn¡¯t expect you to covet the emperor for a long time. You are indeed a brave young lady of the fox family. Your vision and courage are indeed extraordinary!¡± Bai Qingqing said with a smile. I could see that she was excited because of this gossip.


    I was going to flush myself down the toilet, so I changed back to be the fox. I shook my tail and crawled under the cover painfully. Bai Xiaoshan, it seemed that I would die in heaven before I could find you. How could I be so unlucky?


    I didn¡¯t know how long I had stayed in my bed. Suddenly, the quilt was uncovered. I thought it was Bai Qingqing, so I continued to lie there and kept silent.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong, Li?¡± The heavenly voice sounded. It seemed that he smiled slightly.


    I looked back and saw Emperor of Donghua standing in front of me with a smile. My face turned red again. Fortunately, he might not notice my flush under the cover of my fox fur.


    I hung my head down and continued to be stuffy. It was not shameful to drink, but it was hideous to be flirtatious after drinking. What¡¯s more, I even harassed Emperor of Donghua, who was respected by everyone in the world. I had no way out!


    Seeing me being so depressed, Emperor of Donghua sighed and picked me up. His slender fingers touched my fox fur from time to time and he said lightly: ¡°I remember that it was not you who was harassed that day. Why are you so embarrassed?¡±


    I didn¡¯t know what to say. I was not embarrassed by this but mourning for my future!


    I kept silent. Emperor of Donghua had nothing to do but to change me back to the human with a spell. He looked at me with his beautiful eyes and asked: ¡°What do you want to do, Li?¡±


    I blinked my tearful eyes and uttered slowly: ¡°Your Majesty, can I see the portrait of the beauty in your cabinet?¡±


    He was stunned, and suddenly flashed. He looked back and gave a dry cough. Finally, he asked: ¡°Why do you want to look at it?¡±


    Emperor of Donghua must have an affair! I was calm again. I was flirtatious after drinking, but after I spilled out this affair, no one would pay attention to me!


    ¡°Your Majesty, won¡¯t you show it to me?¡± I continue to blink, trying to show my purest innocence.


    He turned his head back and there was no longer embarrassment on his face. He was calm. He glanced at me and asked: ¡°Do you really want to see it?¡±


    I kept nodding my head. He didn¡¯t know that I had coveted that portrait for a long time, and I would definitely ask him to show it to me.


    He didn¡¯t speak again. With a wave of his long sleeve, a white porcelain vase suddenly appeared in his hand. The vase was almost the same as those I saw in his cabinet.


    ¡°The portrait is right here. You can take it out.¡± He handed the vase to me and said.


    I couldn¡¯t help but grinning. I took out the scroll from the inside, opened it while asking him recklessly: ¡°Hey Your Majesty, this must be your confidante! Are you two having an affair?¡±


    He was shocked by what I said, and then he smiled and said: ¡°You can say that!¡±


    I was even more satisfied when I heard him admitting it himself. I slowly opened the scroll and looked at the beauty inside. When I saw her face, my smile suddenly froze and my eyes were fixed on the picture. I was completely stunned!


    The beauty in this portrait turned out to be me!


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong? Why do you stop talking?¡± He noticed my embarrassment and pretended to ask me innocently.


    ¡°Your Majesty, I was just joking. Don¡¯t worry!¡± After a long time, I said weakly.


    ¡°Oh? Which sentence is a joke? A confidante or an affair?¡± He smiled slightly, which always seemed to be schadenfreude for me.


    ¡°All of them!¡± I blushed and explained with a loud voice.


    ¡°Have a good rest. I should go back now!¡± He didn¡¯t make fun of me anymore. He stood up and went out.


    ¡°Your Majesty, was that painting replaced?¡± I suddenly asked. If the beauty was me, Bai Qingqing could definitely recognize me!


    He stopped and looked back at me. He smiled and said lightly: ¡°You¡¯re so smart!¡±


    Looking at him walking out of the door happily, I beat my chest and stamped my feet in great sorrow. Why was I so stupid? How could I be fooled by him? I was the cleverest fox! How shameful it was!


    ¡°Your lunch is ready, please have lunch!¡± Suddenly, Fairy Willow appeared by my bedside and reminded me of the lunchtime. I looked up and saw that Fairy Willow¡¯s expression was normal, but Fairy Pine was still sulky. It seemed that I owed him tons of silver ingots!


    ¡°I don¡¯t want to eat!¡± I beat the bed and changed back to be the fox. I ran to the yard to bask in the sun!

 Chapter 16 - Fairy Qianbi Came out for the Eighth Time

    Chapter 16: Fairy Qianbi Came out for the Eighth Time


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    In view of the severity of this incident, I hadn¡¯t been out for a long time. Bai Qingqing was my spy for the time being, and she was responsible for sticking around everywhere in order to get information for me. According to the latest reports, all people in Fangzhu Mountain were still depressed, and the admirers of the emperor were still very angry. They came to Qinghua garden from time to time to spy on me. In a word, I was not safe at that time!


    One day, Bai Qingqing and I changed back into foxes and basked in the garden.


    I pulled a stalk of green foxtail and held it in my mouth, feeling most bored.


    ¡°My sister, how long do you think this situation will last?¡± I looked at Bai Qingqing and asked.


    Bai Qingqing glanced at me, but didn¡¯t talk to me. She only rubbed the grass under her claws, conjured up a chicken leg out of nowhere and started to eat.


    I looked at her doubtfully and asked: ¡°My sister, you¡¯ve already become an immortal and you should never be enticed by the food in the mortal world.¡±


    Bai Qingqing glanced at me and suddenly gave a funny cackle: ¡°You don¡¯t understand. My chicken leg is not a common one. It is not brought back from the mortal world. It¡¯s an authentic chicken leg produced in heaven!¡±


    I twitched my mouth, spat out the green foxtail and asked: ¡°Is it extorted from the kitchen god again?¡±


    Seeing that Bai Qingqing nodded triumphantly, I felt deeply sad for the kitchen god. What a poor fairy! In order to get rid of Bai Qingqing, the notorious windbag in heaven, he must prepare the unique chicken for Bai Qingqing all the time. It was estimated that the chickens on the farm of heaven were almost extinct.


    Bai Qingqing began to eat it with great relish, and I was drooling over her chicken leg. I was a fox anyway, but I had promised Bai Xiaoshan that I would not eat a piece of chicken in my whole life. How cruel such a promise was to me!


    I looked up at the golden sun, tears sparkling in my eyes. All of a sudden, I felt the temperature suddenly dropped. I was bathed in the warm sunshine, but I couldn¡¯t feel the warmth at all.


    I looked at Bai Qingqing. Before I could ask her why, I saw the chicken leg in her hand suddenly fall to the ground and her face suddenly changed. She said to me: ¡°Take care, my sister. I have to leave now!¡± And then she quickly ran away.


    I was surprised at the speed of Bai Qingqing. And at that time I saw a huge green snake in front of me, with glittering and translucent green luster all over its body. The snake¡¯s head was high and its tail was also sticking up to the sky. It was slowly moving in front of me at that moment.


    I stared and finally realized why Bai Qingqing ran away in such a hurry. I was just about to follow her when I suddenly found that there was a layer of transparent ice in front of me, and my legs also felt the coolness. I turned my eyes and had to admit that I was frozen completely.


    Whoops! I didn¡¯t want to be an ice sculpture! Bai Qingqing, you were so unkind! You bad fox! I wailed in my heart with tears rolling in my frozen eyes.


    The green snake seemed to hear my howl. Its head suddenly turned towards me, with a pair of green snake eyes staring straight at me.


    Would it kill me with its big eyes? I thought sadly in my heart.


    The green snake turned its direction and began to move towards me. It spat out its tongue very slowly and made a ¡°hissing¡± noise. I wanted to cry. I was a fox. Did snakes eat foxes?


    ¡°My lady!¡± At that moment, I heard the gentle voice of Fairy Willow. Tears filled my eyes again and I knew I was going to be saved.


    Fairy Willow came to me in a hurry. With a little magic she practiced, the ice layer that froze me cracked. I shook the water on my body and changed back to the human form. Without saying anything, I ran to Fairy Willow and charged bitterly: ¡°Fairy Willow, you must take her to the prison! She wanted to eat me!¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t be afraid, my lady!¡± Fairy Willow said softly and patted me on the back. She gently pushed me away, turned around and greeted that snake: ¡°I am honored to meet you here, Fairy Qianbi!¡±


    I was surprised. Looking back, I found that the green snake had disappeared, and in front of me there was a stunning woman in green clothes, but she was expressionless all the time.


    After hearing the words of Fairy Willow, Fairy Qianbi still had no reaction. She just looked at me casually and went directly to Richu Yard.


    ¡°Fairy Willow, she¡­¡±


    ¡°My lady, she is Fairy Qianbi in Richu Yard. Today is the day that Fairy Qianbi plans to come out. I was so careless that you were frightened by her. Your practice is not enough, and you should stay away from her.¡± Fairy Willow said.


    So, after Bai Qingqing, I saw another strange fairy in Qinghua Garden. It was said that Fairy Qianbi had been an immortal for 200 years, but she spent 199 years practicing in her chamber.


    As for the reason, I would explain it in detail.


    Fairy Qianbi was a hardworking snake before she became a fairy. It took her 3,000 years to become an immortal. After entering heaven, she was still a studious fairy. She began to practice the excellent magic of the snake clan, ¡°the Ice Magic Skill¡±, as soon as she became a fairy. Unfortunately, although she had become a fairy, it was still difficult to master this excellent magic.


    For 200 years since she became a fairy, Fairy Qianbi had lived in constant seclusion, practice and failure.


    When she came out for the first time, she froze the entire Qinghua Garden and even could not move herself. Thanks to the timely arrival of the emperor, Qinghua Garden was saved and would not become the first ice sculpture building in heaven.


    After this incident, Fairy Qianbi was deeply depressed and devoted herself to the seclusion and practice again.


    When she came out for the second time, she walked out of the gate of Richu Yard carefully. She turned around, and saw that the Richu Yard was already covered in a thick layer of ice. This time she did not dare to bother the emperor again, so she managed to unfreeze the garden after three days of hard work.


    As a result, she once again went back to her seclusion and continued her painstaking practice.


    For the third test, Fairy Qianbi tottered out of the Richu Yard and finally saw with satisfaction that Richu Yard remained unfrozen. She was very happy and hurried out, hoping to share this breakthrough with other fairies.


    At that time, Bai Qingqing was just promoted to be a fairy, so the Qinghua Garden was very boisterous, and all the fairies in Fangzu came to congratulate her. Fairy Qianbi was no exception. However, when she just stepped into the Xingluo Yard, ready to smile and congratulate Bai Qingqing, she found that all the fairies had been encased in ice and they were all staring at her.


    So, with tears in her eyes, Fairy Qianbi went back to Richu Yard silently and continued her practice.


    Fairy Qianbi still couldn¡¯t fully control the chill in her body in the following years. There was only Bai Qingqing in the Qinghua Garden except herself, so she had to find Bai Qingqing to share the outcome of her practice every time she went out of Richu Yard, and she would freeze Bai Qingqing into an ice sculpture every time.


    Therefore, Bai Qingqing had formed a conditioned reflex. Every time when she found that the temperature suddenly dropped, she would flee from the danger zone at a lightning speed. Just like this time, she didn¡¯t even carry her favorite chicken leg with her when she ran away!


    According to Fairy Willow, this was the eighth test for Fairy Qianbi. It seemed that she was still not successful. Maybe she would continue to practice in seclusion soon.


    After listening to Fairy Willow¡¯s words, I found that I was so lucky to be saved by her in time. Looking at the nine tails that I had attained by overcoming great difficulties, I felt somehow balanced in my heart. It turned out that there was still another ¡°wizard of practice¡± who was as unfortunate as me!


    Two days later, Bai Qingqing ran into my room with excitement and woke me up.


    ¡°Fairy Pine, please see her out!¡± I narrowed my eyes and stared angrily at Bai Qingqing. She could run faster than a rabbit every time she was in danger!


    ¡°My sister, don¡¯t be angry. I have good news for you this time!¡± Bai Qingqing gave me an attractive smile but it was immediately spurned by me.


    ¡°Fairy Pine! Fairy Pine!¡± I didn¡¯t give up shouting.


    However, Fairy Pine didn¡¯t show up. I bit my finger and thought that he must still be angry because I kissed Emperor of Donghua last time.


    ¡°Go ahead, what happened?¡± I couldn¡¯t bear Bai Qingqing¡¯s rigmarole, so I asked her to come to the point although I was still bleary-eyed.


    Seeing that my attitude was changed, Bai Qingqing immediately began to ramble cheerfully. I listened to her in a daze and finally understood what she meant. According to what she said, after two days of secret observation, she found that Fairy Qianbi had made great achievements in practicing her skills, and she could almost control the chill in her body. Although it was still far from the final success, as long as people around her had a certain level of accomplishments in practice, they would not be frozen by her again.


    ¡°Then why was I frozen?¡± I protested discontentedly. I was at least a fox with 2,000 years of practice!


    Bai Qingqing glanced at me and said: ¡°Although I am a fairy, she has frozen me so many times before. You are a demon who has practiced for only 2,000 years. Don¡¯t worry, there are still many chances for you to be frozen in the future!¡±


    I stared at her with anger. This was contempt for me!


    Bai Qingqing also stared at me for a long time. She blinked her eyes after that glance and earnestly patted me on the shoulder: ¡°It¡¯s okay! Don¡¯t worry! You will get used to it! Besides, I will not leave you frozen for too long! ¡±


    I gave a snort towards her and saw Fairy Pine coming into my room unwillingly.


    ¡°What do you want me to do?¡± Fairy Pine looked at me and asked, with deep resentment in his eyes.


    I asked him: ¡°Fairy Pine, you still cannot forgive me, right?¡±


    Fairy Pine was stunned, and I could see that he was very uncomfortable. He lowered his head and said: ¡°Why do you say so?¡±


    ¡°Well, you always show me an angry face these days. Everyone knows that you are complaining about me in your heart!¡±


    Fairy Pine flushed and stammered: ¡°My lady, I ¡­¡±


    I waved my hand and pretended to sigh helplessly: ¡°Well, you don¡¯t have to say anything. I know you are still angry about me. So in order to comfort you, I decided to let Bai Qingqing be your girlfriend.¡±


    As I finished speaking, Fairy Pine became extremely angry. He gave me a hard stare, turned around and left.


    I looked at Bai Qingqing, closed my eyes and was ready to accept her cynical remarks. I didn¡¯t realize that she was so satisfied with what I had said. She sat on my bed and said: ¡°You are truly my best friend!¡±


    I twitched my mouth. ¡®Bai Qingqing had long coveted Fairy Pine!¡¯

 Chapter 17 - Fairy Peach Blossom was crazy

    Chapter 17: Fairy Peach Blossom was crazy


    Translator: Xu Kun


    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    I hadn¡¯t been to the lawn of Qinghua Garden since Fairy Qianbi came out, because Fairy Willow warned me that Fairy Qianbi liked to walk in the grass. If I stayed on the lawn carelessly, I might be frozen again.


    One day, Bai Qingqing brought me a message that Queen Mother asked Fairy Peach Blossom from Baihua Palace to send immortal peaches to Emperor of Donghua.


    When I heard this news, I was puzzled. When I was in Green Mound and Qiyun Mountain, I often heard monsters talking about the Festival of Immortal Peaches in Fairyland. That was indeed a grand event. It was quite strange that this year there was even no banquet.


    Bai Qingqing saw my confusion and explained: ¡°The flat peaches become mature every 3,000 years. I once found that Queen Mother would hold a grand Festival of Immortal Peaches every 3,000 years. However, this time the mature peaches seem to be rare, and I don¡¯t know whether it is because the soil in heaven becomes barren. There is almost nothing on the peach trees. So Queen Mother could only send some peaches to a few top fairies like Emperor of Donghua.¡±


    ¡°Then ¡­ can we eat those peaches?¡± I asked, and this was what I cared about. I couldn¡¯t eat chicken, but fruits were still available to me!


    Bai Qingqing slapped me on the forehead and said: ¡°You are crazy! Even I cannot get an immortal peach to eat. You are a monster who got in by the back door. You can only dream about it.¡±


    I twisted my mouth: ¡°I didn¡¯t get here by the back door!¡±


    Bai Qingqing raised her eyebrows and pinched me on my waist. The pain made me scream sorely. She said: ¡°How dare you say that you didn¡¯t enter through the back door? You should think about how you came to heaven. Huh?¡±


    ¡°Emperor of Donghua insisted on bringing me here!¡± I said. Bai Xiaoshan told me that doing something through the back door was shameful. But if someone was forced to do so, things would be quite different!


    ¡°Hum!¡± Bai Qingqing looked at me scornfully and then swaggered out of my room.


    I looked at Bai Qingqing from behind, bit my finger and sank into a reverie.


    If I wanted to eat immortal peaches, should I get them through the back door?


    Thinking about that, I resolutely walked out of Qinghua Garden and headed straight to Donghua Hall.


    I saw from a distance that a beautiful fairy walked out of the hall. She was dressed in red with a graceful figure, as beautiful as peach blossoms, but her expression was rather cold.


    I stopped, suddenly realized that she was the fairy in red who didn¡¯t like Emperor of Donghua at Queen Mother¡¯s birthday party. I even suspected her of being the beauty on that portrait. It was so suspicious that she came out of Donghua Hall.


    Before I could look away, I noticed the fairy in red came to me, stared at my face unblinkingly, and finally focused her eyes on my forehead. The expression on her face was complex. It was like an expression of surprise or joy, but there were also some sadness and pity.


    I touched my forehead, and except for the peony mark that could not be washed off, everything else was fine. Why did the fairy in front of me seem to be so excited?


    ¡°Fairy Peony, don¡¯t you remember me?¡± The fairy began to speak abruptly, and a pair of big eyes became tearful in an instant. Even I couldn¡¯t help loving her upon seeing her crying.


    I looked away, gave a dry cough and said uncomfortably: ¡°You are confusing me with someone else!¡±


    ¡°Fairy Peony, why don¡¯t you remember me? Queen Mother said that you are Fairy Peony, and all your friends are waiting for you at Baihua Palace.¡± She seized my hand excitedly, and her delicate face slowly blushed charmingly.


    I looked at her hands, and they were so powerful. I sighed in my heart and then tried to take out my hand, but I ended up in failure after a long time.


    So I sighed, showed a helpless smile and said: ¡°I don¡¯t mean to be negative, but I¡­¡±


    ¡°I know. Is it because of Emperor of Donghua?¡± The fairy in red suddenly interrupted me and became irritated. She said angrily: ¡°My sister, why are you so stupid? How can you still love him? He has wasted 3,000 years of your life, and what are you insisting on? You must listen to me. Emperor of Donghua is cold-hearted. He will not be moved by you, even if you can stay with him for another 30,000 years!¡±


    I looked up at the sky. What was she talking about?


    At that moment, I saw Emperor of Donghua coming out of Donghua Hall. I took a deep breath and finally broke free from the hands of the fairy. I ran to the emperor, then pointed to the fairy in red in front of me and said: ¡°Your Majesty, this fairy is crazy!¡±


    When she saw the emperor, she immediately changed her expression and greeted him. She said: ¡°Your Majesty, I do have to ask you one favor.¡±


    Emperor of Donghua glanced at her. There was no emotion in his clear eyes. He only said lightly: ¡°I know what you want to say. Queen Mother and I have agreed on the future of Fairy Peony. You can go back now!¡±


    ¡°Emperor¡­¡±


    The fairy was trying to say more, but Emperor of Donghua took my hand, turned around and walked into Donghua Hall.


    I looked at his long fingers and then turned to glance at that fairy. I saw from her big eyes that she was so angry, but I couldn¡¯t help it. Emperor of Donghua had greater power, and she could only obey his order.


    I secretly wanted to shake off his hand, but it turned out that his strength was greater than that of the fairy! I looked at the angry fairy and thought to myself: It was horrible for fairies to be angry! Especially the fairy bullied by her superior!


    After I thought about this for a while, Emperor of Donghua let go of my hand and looked at me with a light smile. He asked: ¡°Li, are you here for immortal peaches?¡±


    Hum¡­ My face turned red. Was my purpose so obvious?


    Before a suitable explanation could be found, a tray of peaches had already been brought up by the little fairy.


    I looked at the juicy and delicious peaches and tried my best to divert my attention. After looking at them for a long time, I guessed that my saliva was going to flow down.


    ¡°These are the peaches just sent to me by Fairy Peach Blossom. If you want to eat, take them all!¡± He smiled and said, already knowing that I coveted the peaches.


    ¡°All?¡± I stared at him. In fact, I would be satisfied if I could eat one. There were at least eight or nine peaches in the plate. I would suffer from diarrhoea if I ate them all!


    ¡°Eating these flat peaches will only prolong your life and promote your practice. You don¡¯t need to worry about diarrhoea. I can assure you.¡± He seemed to hear what I said in my heart.


    I covered my face and said: ¡°Your Majesty, you said you wouldn¡¯t listen to what I said in my heart!¡±


    He was surprised and immediately smiled: ¡°Well, if you don¡¯t want me to do so, I won¡¯t listen again.¡±


    ¡°What about you? Don¡¯t you want to taste the peaches?¡± I still thought it was improper to take so many peaches away.


    ¡°I¡¯ve been in the celestial world for hundreds of thousands of years. I¡¯ve eaten enough peaches, but your practice still has a long way to go. These peaches can help you accumulate another 2,000 years¡¯ practice¡±


    I was shocked. Just a few peaches could shorten my practice by 2,000 years. Indeed, this was the best shortcut to becoming immortal!


    So, holding the tray of flat peaches, I went back to Qinghua Garden happily.


    ¡°My lady!¡± Fairy Willow was obviously surprised to see the peaches in my hand.


    ¡°Oh, Fairy Willow, this is for you!¡± I picked up one of the peaches and gave it to her.


    ¡°Fairy Pine, this is yours!¡± Just as Fairy Pine was coming out from the inside, I threw another one to him.


    Fairy Pine was also greatly shocked. He stood there in a trance with the peach in his hand.


    ¡°My lady, this¡­¡± Fairy Willow looked at me, frightened, and was going to say something.


    I thought that one peach was probably not enough, so I took another one, gave it to Fairy Willow, and asked sincerely: ¡°Fairy Willow, is that enough?¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s enough! That¡¯s enough! Thank you, my lady! These peaches are precious, you should keep them for yourself!¡± That said, she wanted to put the peach back into my plate.


    ¡°I¡¯ll have indigestion if I eat too much, and you can help me to eat some!¡± I laughed happily and, for the sake of fairness, gave Fairy Pine another one.


    Both of them looked at me gratefully. I looked up at the sky. Heaven was short of flat peaches, and only two peaches moved the little fairies into tears.


    ¡°Well, you¡¯re finally back!¡± As Bai Qingqing entered the room, I heard her voice.


    I looked up and found that she was drooling at the peaches in my plate. I looked at her and took a step back. Unfortunately, Bai Qingqing had come to me at an unbelievable speed and grabbed one from me.


    ¡°Show it to me! How did you steal the flat peaches from the emperor?¡± Bai Qingqing stared at me while eating.


    I tried my best to protect the remaining three in my tray and raised my head proudly: ¡°Who had stolen them? They were given to me by the emperor.¡±


    ¡°Nonsense. Do you know how many immortals died without tasting an immortal peach in their life? Will he give so many peaches to you?¡± Bai Qingqing were completely confused.


    With a snort, I showed my deep dissatisfaction with Bai Qingqing¡¯s attitude, and then I held my head high and answered: ¡°There are only nine of them!¡±


    ¡°Nine?¡± Bai Qingqing became angry suddenly and jumped to me. She carried the peach in her mouth and put her hands around my neck, mumbling: ¡°I¡¯m gonna choke the living daylights out of you!¡±


    I was seeing stars while she was strangling me, and I managed to escape from her clutches and walked away while holding the peaches. I said bitterly: ¡°Bai Qingqing, you shouldn¡¯t do that! If you kill a member of your family, you¡¯ll be damned!¡±


    ¡°Ugh, you should be damned since you¡¯ve eaten so many peaches!¡± Bai Qingqing stared at the remaining peaches in my arms and wanted to rob me.


    I was so indignant. Bai Qingqing, I hadn¡¯t turned you in even you¡¯d eaten so many chicken legs. How serious this would be if I told Bai Xiaoshan. But you cursed me just because of the peaches!


    I was so angry and I had to punish her.


    I took a peach and bit at it, then jumped out of the window and headed straight to Richu Yard where Fairy Qianbi lived. She turned to be a snake and wandered in the garden. So, with a loud shout, I threw the remaining two flat peaches directly into her mouth.


    ¡°Fairy Qianbi, these are for you!¡± With a loud roar, I was satisfied to see the two peaches enter the mouth of the Fairy Qianbi.


    ¡°Stupid fox, why are you plotting against me? I¡¯ll beat you to death!¡± After seeing this scene, Bai Qingqing was extremely grieved. She chased me and wanted to pull out my fox fur. I also ran away without taking care of Fairy Qianbi, who was choked to tears by my peaches.

 Chapter 18 - I was obsessed with fear of coldness

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    Bai Qingqing¡¯s skill of scratching was superb. She tore out a lot of my fox fur, making me ashamed to become a fox again.


    As I only ate two peaches, my practice wasn¡¯t improved that much, but I was refreshed, and didn¡¯t feel hungry for three days.


    One day, Bai Qingqing, who had been cooped up in Xingjiang Yard for so long, finally couldn¡¯t help but come to find me. Her anger was easily defeated by the loneliness since she had no one to talk to. She came with Fairy Qianbi together.


    At the sight of Fairy Qianbi, I stepped back involuntarily, but was dragged back by Bai Qingqing. ¡°My sister, you don¡¯t need to hide anymore. Thanks to your peaches, Fairy Qianbi has made great achievements in practicing her skills. Now she can almost control the coldness. You don¡¯t have to hide anymore!¡±


    ¡°Really?¡± I looked suspiciously at Fairy Qianbi. She nodded, and there was still no expression on her face.


    I breathed a sigh of relief, got rid of Bai Qingqing¡¯s hand and said with a smile: ¡°You should tell me earlier. I didn¡¯t even dare to bask in the sun in the garden these days.¡±


    ¡°Then why are you here?¡± I thought it was better to ask them clearly. My fur didn¡¯t recover yet, and I couldn¡¯t stand her injury again!


    Bai Qingqing showed a gentle smile, but it still made my flesh creep. ¡°Didn¡¯t you give two peaches to Fairy Qianbi the day before? She¡¯s here to say thank you!¡±


    I dared not see Bai Qingqing because I knew that she was still angry with me. So I turned to Fairy Qianbi, and looked at her expectantly. I had never been thanked in my life!


    There was a flash of uneasiness on Fairy Qianbi¡¯s face. She immediately greeted me and said: ¡°Thank you!¡±


    At these words, I heard a strange noise and saw the panic on the face of Fairy Qianbi. Her panic suddenly turned into guilt and helplessness. I rolled my eyes and found that I was frozen again.


    ¡°I¡¯ll help you right now!¡± Fairy Qianbi said hastily. But as soon as she spoke, I found the ice layer in front of me was a little thicker.


    Fairy Qianbi also discovered it and immediately covered her mouth, not daring to speak again.


    I looked at Bai Qingqing from the corner of my eye, only to find that she was smiling happily. She touched the ice on top of my head and said softly: ¡°My sister, look at you! Didn¡¯t you eat two peaches? Why are you still so weak?¡±


    I was angry. Bai Qingqing was really unkind. After such a long time, she still felt bitter about the peaches. What a stingy fox!


    Fairy Qianbi made a gesture to Bai Qingqing, asking her to unfreeze me. However, Bai Qingqing only patted the ice on my head again, smiled and said: ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about her. She is so stout that she can totally bear the coldness, which can also be regarded as a test for her practice. It is sunny outside today, and we can put her in the garden and let her unfreeze herself!¡±


    Bai Qingqing put me on her shoulder and happily went out to a corner of the garden. She put me under a big tree with luxuriant branches and leaves. She also avoided the place where the sun shone. Then she touched the ice on my face and said in a tone of schadenfreude: ¡°My sister, you can stay here. The ice is not thick and it will melt in a moment. Don¡¯t worry!¡±


    I was angry. Bai Xiaoshan told me before that ¡°the thick ice wasn¡¯t built in a day,¡± but I was frozen by the thick ice in a moment. Besides, this ice was so thick that I suspected that Bai Qingqing was blind!


    ¡°You can stay here, and I¡¯m leaving right now!¡± Bai Qingqing threw in a wink and then walked away leisurely. She also persuaded Fairy Qianbi to leave. Fairy Qianbi was still struggling as to whether to open her mouth or not.


    At that moment, I finally understood what kind of friend I had made! The ice made me feel chilly all over and even my heart was cold!


    Help me! I cried out in my heart for Emperor of Donghua, and hoped that he would come to help me. If he hadn¡¯t forced me into heaven, I would never have endured this pain.


    As I was gnashing, the ice around me suddenly disappear. I seemed to see a figure in blue. A close look showed me that the man was Emperor of Donghua.


    ¡°Whoops! Your Majesty, I want to go back to Qiyun Mountain!¡± I went straight forward with my stiff body and fell into his arms, wiping tears and shouting.


    He frowned, reached out to embrace me and said: ¡°Fairy Qianbi still needs more practice, but I don¡¯t think she meant to harm you. Are you really going back for this reason?¡±


    I rubbed my red nose against his clothes and snorted: ¡°You promised me to help me find Bai Xiaoshan. Why haven¡¯t you found him after such a long time?¡±


    Hearing what I said, he was shocked. After a long time, he sighed in a low voice: ¡°Li, is it that difficult for you to stay with me?¡±


    I was confused by what he said. Why did he suddenly sigh like this? So I ignored this remark directly and continued: ¡°I want to go back to Qiyun Mountain.¡±


    ¡°If you insist on going back, I will not stop you, but today you¡¯ve suffered from the coldness of Fairy Qianbi. If you don¡¯t eliminate it, I¡¯m afraid it will be harmful to your health. It¡¯s better for you to go to Clear Spring Pool and bathe for an hour. Then you can leave, safe and sound.¡± After a while, he said slowly.


    I suddenly looked up, feeling quite flattered: ¡°I can go to Clear Spring Pool? Really?¡±


    He nodded with a smile.


    So, I swept away the grief and indignation and rushed to Donghua Hall. Then, in front of all the fairy children, I stepped into Clear Spring Pool bravely.


    After removing my clothes quickly, I plopped into the pool. The hot air instantly filled my whole body and drove away the chillness in my body. I sighed with great satisfaction. Clear Spring Pool was indeed a good place. It was really unkind of Emperor of Donghua not to share it with others!


    I was so happy to bathe in the pool that I believed this was the happiest thing in the world, and I had lived in vain for 2,000 years. But I suddenly stopped thinking so, because Bai Xiaoshan would beat me to death if I got used to the sumptuous life after I¡¯d been in heaven for such a short time!


    At the thought of Bai Xiaoshan, I felt sad again. I leaned against the pool, closed my eyes and began to nap.


    ¡°Ruoli! Ruoli!¡±


    ¡°Your Majesty, you shouldn¡¯t do that! Consort Li will die in the fire¡­¡±


    ¡°Your Majesty, the demon concubine brought us disasters, and you should put her to death!¡±


    ¡°Now, get on out of here, you!¡±


    ¡°Ruoli, wait for me¡­¡±


    In a daze, I heard a noise around me. Suddenly, my brain began to ache faintly. Endless flames appeared in front of my eyes and spread to my face. The burning temperature scorched my skin and the pain was unbearable.


    Outside the fire, I saw a figure in blue desperately running towards me. Countless people went up and stopped him. Between me and him, there was always fire which was inaccessible.


    I tried to open my eyes, but could not see his face in any way. I only heard him shouting over and over again: ¡°Li! Li!¡±


    My heart suddenly began to ache and the air was thinner. I was about to die. I wanted to catch something but there was nothing around me.


    ¡°You stupid fox! You are so unethical that you eloped with the immortal privately. I¡¯ll beat you to death!¡± Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s face suddenly appeared in front of me, as fierce as ever, but I laughed happily.


    ¡°Xiaoshan, Bai Xiaoshan, you are finally back. If you don¡¯t come back, I will follow Bai Qingqing to eat chicken legs!¡± I muttered, holding Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s arm.


    ¡°Li, is it so difficult for you to stay with me?¡± Bai Xiaoshan¡¯s face suddenly turned to be that of Emperor of Donghua again. He looked at me sadly, and I immediately let go of my hands.


    Emperor of Donghua, you wouldn¡¯t let me free even when I was dreaming! You were indeed nipping at my heels!


    ¡°Li! Li!¡± As if hearing someone calling me, I reluctantly opened my eyes and saw the handsome face of the emperor in front of me.


    I shuddered and suddenly woke up. Looking around, I found that I was lying on a bed, but not my own bed, so I jumped down from the bed immediately. Bai Xiaoshan told me that a good fox couldn¡¯t just lie on someone else¡¯s bed.


    ¡°Your Majesty, why am I here? I¡¯m supposed to be in the pool!¡± I scratched my head and asked incredulously.


    Her eyes were somehow dim, but there was also surprise. Apparently, he was relieved as I woke up. Hearing what I said, he was slightly shocked: ¡°Don¡¯t you remember?¡±


    I shook my head.


    He came up, reached out to my forehead and said: ¡°You¡¯ve fallen into a dream barrier and have been asleep for seven days!¡±


    I stared at him with unbelief and stammered: ¡°Re¡­Really?¡±


    What the hell was a dream barrier? I hadn¡¯t experienced it in the past 2,000 years, but as soon as I entered heaven, I suffered from it. It seemed that I was not suitable to live in heaven!


    ¡°What are you thinking about?! Since you wake up, you will be fine. You must fall into the barrier because you have too many odd thoughts in your mind.¡± He seemed to see through my mind and said.


    Well, too many odd thoughts? Besides Bai Xiaoshan, what could I think about? He was the only family member I had in the world. For more than 1,000 years, he had always been with me. Now he suddenly disappeared. If nothing bad happened, I should blame him for causing me to worry. But how could I spend the rest of my life if he was unlucky? That was all I thought about. Where did the fierce fire, the figure in blue and the grief-stricken voice come from?


    ¡°There is a new alchemist in Daode Tianzun¡¯s mansion. He seems to be a pheasant demon who has gone through the practice successfully. I don¡¯t know what Bai Xiaoshan looks like, but you can go and see whether he is Bai Xiaoshan or not.¡± He said lightly.


    I was surprised by this unexpected news. Bai Xiaoshan, you were the most hardworking pheasant in the world. It must be you, right?

 Chapter 19 - He was a fake pheasant

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    After hearing the emperor¡¯s words, I totally forgot to tell him on Bai Qingqing. I held his hand tightly in mine to express my gratitude and then rushed to Doushuai Palace of Daode Tianzun.


    That was probably the first time for me to run so fast. I didn¡¯t run at that speed even when Bai Xiaoshan and I were chased by Bai Qingqing.


    Soon I arrived at Doushuai Palace and went swiftly into it, without noticing whether there were any guards at the gate.


    When I passed by a vast lawn, I saw an old man with white hair and beard sitting on a black ox. He bent his head down and his hands fumbled about on the ox¡¯s skin. I had no idea what he was doing.


    I guessed that he must be Daode Tianzun mentioned by Emperor of Donghua. I looked around and found that the palace was quite spacious. It was almost impossible for me to find Bai Xiaoshan by myself. In order to save my time, I walked towards the old man.


    ¡°What are you doing?¡± I asked him with curiosity.


    ¡°I¡¯m delousing the ox.¡± He answered me straightforwardly, even without looking at me.


    I was confused: ¡°Is there any louse in heaven?¡±


    ¡°No!¡± He answered, his hand fumbling around without any stop.


    ¡°Then why are you delousing the ox?¡± I walked closer to the ox and asked. As I opened my mouth, the ox raised his head and snorted at me with his nostrils towards the sky. For fear of being attacked, I stepped back involuntarily.


    ¡°It is so boring to make pills of immortality! I have to find something as a hobby!¡± He replied naturally.


    I was surprised. Daode Tianzun was indeed out of the common run, and even his hobby was so special.


    As I was looking at him with admiration in my eyes, he found something awkward and suddenly looked at me. He stared at me for a long time and his rosy cheeks with white beard showed a hint of embarrassment.


    I gradually calmed myself down and stared at him, not knowing what to say at that moment.


    After a while, Daode Tianzun narrowed his eyes and suddenly became cheerful. He looked at me happily and said: ¡°I didn¡¯t expect that to be you, Bai! I heard you were back long time ago! You should have come to see me earlier! Why are you here today?¡±


    I was totally puzzled by the intimacy in his words. But I must be the girl he called ¡°Bai¡±. I opened my mouth and uttered: ¡°I¡­¡±


    ¡°As long as you¡¯re back now, I feel relieved. Come here and delouse the ox together with me! You haven¡¯t done that for me for 2000 years! He said to me and laughed, looking at me affably and sincerely.


    I knew that people should pay their respect to the elderly, so I headed towards the ox and started to delouse it with him. As a matter of fact, we didn¡¯t catch any louse. Therefore, I had to sigh again that Daode Tianzun¡¯s hobby was so special.


    After I pretended that I¡¯d crushed louses for about 100 times, he finally put an end to the activity. He jumped down from the ox in high spirits and patted it on its bottom. The ox leaped towards the sky and then disappeared.


    ¡°You are still so interesting! Today we¡¯ve found far more louses than what I caught by myself yesterday.¡± He stroked his beard, smiled and said.


    I twisted my mouth and wanted to ask him where Bai Xiaoshan was, but he had headed for the alchemy room with his walking stick.


    I followed him up and asked: ¡°Your Majesty, I heard that there is a new fairy in your palace!¡±


    ¡°Well, are you talking about the spring chicken who helps me to make my pills?¡± He answered leisurely.


    I was shocked: ¡°He must be a pheasant! Not a spring chicken!¡±


    ¡°What pheasant? He is definitely a spring chicken!¡± He said without looking at me.


    ¡°Your Majesty! I have told you that my name is Spring! That doesn¡¯t mean that I¡¯m a spring chicken!¡± At that moment, a ball of fire moved towards us. My mind suddenly went blank and I didn¡¯t know what to do.


    Daode Tianzun lifted his stick up and the ball of fire suddenly turned around, flew inwardly and stopped right in front of the oven.


    ¡°You spring chicken, if you dare to waste my magical fire again, I¡¯ll put you into the oven!¡± He was shouting angrily at a young man sitting by the door with his hands on his hips.


    The ball of fire scared me and my hands kept sweating for a long time. After a while, when I lifted my head, the young man became tame. He twisted his mouth and explained to Daode Tianzun with grievance: ¡°Your Majesty, my name is Spring! And I am a pheasant! Not a spring chicken!¡±


    Daode Tianzun gave a snort of contempt, turned around and looked at me with a childish smile: ¡°Bai, I¡¯ve just got a pill for beauty. You can take it since you came back with such a face!¡±


    I tried to ignore his contempt for my appearance, so I headed straight toward Spring, who was still immersed in grief. I stared at him and said: ¡°You! Change back to be the pheasant!¡±


    Maybe he was frightened by my stern expression, he changed to be a pheasant obediently. But I didn¡¯t think he was a pheasant. He looked like a pheasant somehow, but he was way uglier than Bai Xiaoshan. I was depressed and angry, so I rushed to him and scratched him while crying: ¡°You¡¯re a fake pheasant! A fake pheasant! Bai Xiaoshan is more beautiful than you! Why do you pretend to be a pheasant? You¡¯re not a qualified fairy!


    The alchemy room was indeed a mess when I tried to catch Spring and beat him. Daode Tianzun was also surprised by my craziness. As I was going to tear out all his feathers, Daode Tianzun stopped me and asked me seriously: ¡°What¡¯s wrong, Bai?¡±


    I waited for Spring to change back to the human form and then charged him while crying: ¡°He¡¯s not a pheasant! You¡¯re fooled by him!¡±


    Spring flushed when he heard my words. He shouted with great anger: ¡°I¡¯m a pheasant! An authentic pheasant! How dare you deny this fact!¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s right. Bai, he is a pheasant. Why are you insisting that he isn¡¯t?¡± He looked at me with puzzlement in his eyes.


    I sobbed for a while and said: ¡°He is so ugly, but the pheasant I know named Bai Xiaoshan is far better-looking than him.¡±


    ¡°Are you sure that Bai Xiaoshan is also a pheasant?¡± Daode Tianzun continued to ask.


    I nodded and stared at Spring.


    Spring twisted his mouth, flung himself down around Daode Tianzun¡¯s feet and cried: ¡°You have to help me this time! She¡¯s such a bully!¡±


    Daode Tianzun looked at me with embarrassment. He gave a dry cough and said: ¡°Bai, although I also don¡¯t think this spring chicken is beautiful enough, he is indeed the best-looking member in his family. You know, it is difficult for pheasants to look good. And you should understand this.¡±


    ¡°But Bai Xiaoshan was better-looking than him.¡± I muttered. ¡°His feathers are extremely beautiful and they¡¯ll shine under the sun!¡±


    ¡°Ugh! I¡¯ve never met a pheasant like that!¡± Spring got up and said.


    ¡°You!¡± I stared at him again and he stepped back out of fear. But he was still shouting: ¡°You¡¯re definitely not talking about a pheasant! I¡¯m the most beautiful member in my family and you can never find another pheasant more charming than I am, unless what you met was a phoenix!¡±


    ¡°A phoenix? What does a phoenix look like?¡± I had never met a phoenix in my life so I didn¡¯t know whether he was right.¡±


    ¡°Look! There is a portrait of a phoenix on the wall! It is the most beautiful bird in the world!¡± Spring pointed at the paint and said to me.


    I looked at the portrait and suddenly claimed: ¡°That is Bai Xiaoshan! Look! He is way more charming than Spring!¡±


    But no one answered me.


    As I turned back, I saw Spring and Daode Tianzun looking at me with sympathy.


    ¡°Why do you look at me like this?¡± I was puzzled.


    Daode Tianzun shook his head and told me: ¡°Bai, that is a phoenix!¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ve told you that I am the most charming pheasant in the family!¡± Spring twisted his mouth and looked at me with contempt.


    I was confused and then thought about their words for a long time. I asked: ¡°Do you mean that Bai Xiaoshan is a phoenix?¡±


    They nodded heavily.


    ¡°That¡¯s impossible!¡± I denied it immediately. ¡°I¡¯ve known Bai Xiaoshan for almost 2000 years and I certainly know that he is a pheasant, and even he himself admitted it.¡±


    ¡°Bai, nothing is impossible!¡± Daode Tianzun patted me on my shoulder and said sincerely.


    Spring began to look up at the sky and sighed slowly: ¡°When I hadn¡¯t taken the human shape, once upon a time, while I was eating, a beautiful pheasant suddenly appeared and tried to rob me of my food. He might have his head knocked and didn¡¯t know whom himself was. He asked me what demon he was. At that time, I was still young. I thought he was only a good-looking pheasant, so I told him that he must be a pheasant.  I even warned him that we pheasants must be careful not to be caught by foxes, or we would definitely be killed by them! The child was very honest, so I gave him all my food! At that time, I thought, it was lucky for the pheasant family to have such a sincere child. Till hundreds of years later when I took the human shape and went to a broader world, I realized that the child was not a pheasant but a phoenix! Gee, it was a pity that a child who liked rice so much was not a pheasant! ¡±


    When he finished the speech, he looked up at the sky again and then turned to look at us.


    I pursed my lips and squeezed my fingers into a fist. I couldn¡¯t help but rush towards him. ¡°I¡¯m gonna kill you! You sinister pheasant! You should apologize to Bai Xiaoshan!¡±

 Chapter 20 - It was never too late for a fox to retaliate

    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    Spring was finally scared out of his wits by my crazy scratch, and he jumped into Daode Tianzun¡¯s oven as a last resort. I was not satisfied with that result, so I sat by the oven to feed the fire for a whole day. Daode Tianzun had tried every possible way to dissuade me. After knowing that Spring might become a roast chicken, I stopped and headed back to Fangzhu in a very bad mood.


    The news that Bai Xiaoshan was a phoenix left me somehow at a loss. A phoenix was originally an immortal beast, and he had been practicing diligently for 2,000 years. He dreamed of becoming a fairy every day, and it was no wonder that he could progress so fast. However, I still wondered, how could a phoenix like eating rice so much? I spent 2,000 years with him but I failed to know that he was a glittering phoenix!


    Alas, I didn¡¯t expect that I was so stupid that I didn¡¯t even recognize the race of Bai Xiaoshan.


    I sighed and went back to Qinghua Garden. I stood at the gate for a long time. Feeling downhearted, I strolled to Donghua Hall at last.


    ¡°What¡¯s up?¡± Seeing that I walked in without knocking at the door, Emperor of Donghua, who had been sitting quietly in the room, walked to me and asked.


    ¡°Bai Xiaoshan is a phoenix, not a pheasant!¡± I looked at his clear eyes and said.


    He was slightly shocked and pondered for a while.  Then he replied: ¡°Recently, news came from the phoenix clan that someone had found their prince in the mortal world. Now they have welcomed him back to the phoenix family. Perhaps he is Bai Xiaoshan.¡±


    ¡°The phoenix prince?¡±


    ¡°1700 years ago, Prince Fengyou just turned five hundred years old. At that time there was an insurrection started by a monster called Qiongqi. Elders of the phoenix family sent Fengyou to the mortal world to conquer the rebels, and that was also a workout for Fengyou. However, Fengyou was still immature. After the fierce battle with Qiongqi, he went on the path of Nirvana and disappeared, and at the same time Qiongqi was seriously injured. For nearly 2,000 years since then, the phoenix clan had been looking for Fengyou, but the divine power of him had somehow disappeared, and even the elders couldn¡¯t pin down his location. A few days ago, the elders of the phoenix clan invited me to practice together, and I learned from them that Fengyou had been found.¡± He explained to me the past of the phoenix prince simply.


    ¡°1,700 years ago, that was when I first met Bai Xiaoshan,¡± I murmured. I just learned that Bai Xiaoshan was phoenix, but I didn¡¯t expect that he was the phoenix prince! Fengyou, gee, this name was indeed better than ¡°Bai Xiaoshan¡±.


    ¡°That¡¯s right!¡± The emperor concluded.


    ¡°Since Bai Xiaoshan is now in the phoenix clan, let¡¯s find him right now!¡± I excitedly grabbed his sleeve and said.


    He looked at me and said: ¡°Fengyou is now practicing in the holy land of the phoenix family. Even their own family members cannot see him now.¡±


    ¡°Ah? How long will he practice? I¡¯ll wait for him!¡± I lost my excitement and asked sadly.


    ¡°Thousands of years at most and hundreds of years at least.¡±


    I was totally disappointed. I was stupefied and didn¡¯t know what to say. A thousand years? I had only lived 2,000 years. Although for a demon, a thousand years was only a very short period in its long life, for me, it was too long. I didn¡¯t know how to spend a thousand years without Bai Xiaoshan.


    I closed my eyes and felt extremely depressed.


    ¡°Li, if you really want to wait for someone, a thousand years was not long.¡± He saw through my thoughts and said, a pair of clear eyes looking at me with eagerness.


    ¡°Really?¡±


    ¡°Well, if you really want to wait for someone, even after thousands of years, when the world comes to an end, you will still have someone to wait for and live peacefully.¡± He turned around. His tall and straight back was tinged with silence and loneliness. His voice was calm and gentle, but he seemed to have the power to comfort.


    I looked at him, gradually calmed down and said: ¡°Have you ever waited for someone?¡±


    He stiffened for a second but became normal immediately. He replied lightly: ¡°Yes, I¡¯ve waited for 2,000 years.¡±


    I was surprised. I didn¡¯t realize that he was actually such a devoted lover. I continued to ask: ¡°Has she come back yet?¡±


    He finally turned around and looked at me. He smiled and said: ¡°She has come back but her love was not for me now, so I am still waiting.¡±


    ¡°Is she the beauty on the portrait?¡± My brain worked fast and I immediately asked the question I had been curious about for a long time.


    ¡°Yes.¡±


    I was speechless. That beauty had such great charm that even Emperor of Donghua was bewitched by her! As far as I knew, Emperor of Donghua was bound to be loveless and emotionless. How could he be infatuated with a woman?


    Therefore, I stood on tiptoe to pat him on the shoulder. I comforted him with a sincere tone: ¡°Your Majesty, don¡¯t be sad. From today on, I¡¯ll join you to wait for someone. You wait for your beauty, and I wait for Bai Xiaoshan. You won¡¯t be lonely with my company.¡±


    He looked at me. With a hint of hopelessness and sadness, the emotion showed by his eyes was complicated. I gazed at him, only to find that his smile became blurred. It seemed that if I ever blinked, he would disappear. I was moved by his smile, so I raised my hand and touched his face involuntarily. His skin was smooth but cold, and the coldness was right conveyed into my heart.


    I was in a trance. Then I suddenly woke up, withdrew my hand and knocked hard on my head. I was enchanted by the beauty of the emperor again. I shouldn¡¯t do that!


    ¡°Your Majesty, I must go now!¡± I dared not look at him anymore. I went out of Donghua Hall and said ¡°Amit¨¡bha¡± to myself repeatedly. I was afraid that I would flirt with the emperor again.


    After returning to Qinghua Garden, I sat on my bed and started to count the days. I didn¡¯t know how long Bai Xioashan¡¯s practice would last, but at least I had a hope. After he finished that practice, I certainly would beat him first as revenge, and then torture him and ask him to explain about the beautiful Taoist nun. If they fell in love with each other, I would introduce the Taoist nun to another man, and let Bai Xiaoshan be a cuckold husband!


    I counted the days, ground my teeth and thought about how to torture the traitor Bai Xiaoshan.


    While thinking, I began to feel chilly. When I was about to pull out my quilt, I saw Fairy Qianbi sitting on my bed and staring at me. I was so startled that I slipped and staggered as I tried to escape from my bed. I didn¡¯t want to be frozen again!


    Fairy Qianbi seemed to have anticipated my response and opened her mouth. I immediately felt tight all over and prepared to be frozen again. But I didn¡¯t expect that she closed her mouth soon, and I was relieved.


    When I looked at her, Fairy Qianbi waved her sleeve and immediately there was a burst of white smoke in the air. Several large white words appeared: ¡°Something happened to Bai Qingqing!¡±


    I was dumbfounded. Fairy Qianbi was so smart that she could communicate with me in this way! But what could happen to Bai Qingqing?


    ¡°Come with me and you will know!¡± Fairy Qianbi seemed to be quite anxious and hurried out after writing these words. Although what Bai Qingqing had done to me was hideous, I still followed Fairy Qianbi to see what had happened to her.


    When I came to Xingjiang Yard of Bai Qingqing, I saw her lying on the ground like a corpse with a big chicken leg in her mouth. Fairy Qianbi waved her sleeve in the air again, so I knew the whole story. It turned out that the Kitchen God could not stand the oppression of Bai Qingqing since almost all the chickens in heaven were robbed by her. Therefore, he put a spell on the chicken leg. Bai Qingqing would be unable to move after eating it. If she still wanted to eat, she would remain in that condition. Even if she couldn¡¯t move, she was still conscious. So when I entered the door, Bai Qingqing started to stare at me.


    However, only Bai Qingqing and I knew that she stared at me not because I was going to save her. She knew that I would definitely take revenge on her for what happened a few days ago.


    I didn¡¯t let her down either. I got a big bucket of ice from Fairy Qianbi, and then assured Fairy Qianbi that I would try my best to save her. After I coaxed Fairy Qianbi back to her room, my retaliatory actions began.


    As soon as Fairy Qianbi left, I smiled, crouched down and leaned forward to Bai Qingqing. I pinched her cheek and said: ¡°My sister, what goes around comes around. And today comes your retribution!¡±


    Bai Qingqing stared angrily at me, and she was still biting that big chicken leg in her mouth, which looked very funny.


    I fished out a block of ice about the size of a chicken leg from the bucket, pulled out the chicken leg from her mouth, and then stuffed the ice in. I gloated over her misfortune: ¡°My sister, the ice must taste better than the chicken leg, right?¡±


    Bai Qingqing continued to stare at me, but I chose to ignore her. I dragged her feet and lifted her up from the ground. I was not as stout as her, so I couldn¡¯t carry her up; therefore, I dragged her all the way to her bathtub. In the meantime, her head was hit by the foot of the table accidentally, but I still skipped over that.


    I finally put her into the bathtub with difficulty. Touching the bump on her forehead, I sighed: ¡°My sister, I¡¯ve no choice but take my revenge like this!¡±


    Her eyes glistened with tears since she had been hit. As a result, I pinched the big bump on her forehead again and her tears finally streamed down her face.


    I ignored her tears, brought over the bucket of ice, and grinned at her. I held the bucket high and poured all the ice right into the bathtub.


    Seeing that her face suddenly became pale, I breathed a sigh of relief. Then I sat on the edge of the tub, shock my calf and asked leisurely: ¡°My sister, if you promise that you will not retaliate in the future, I can let you go! If you agree, just blink to me.¡±


    She blinked eagerly to me, with tears in her eyes.


    I felt her sincerity, so I jumped to the ground, brought over her quilt and put it on the tub. I said: ¡°My sister, I¡¯m so considerate! I know that you are cold, so I brought you your quilt!¡±


    Bai Qingqing continued to shed tears and looked very sad.


    ¡°You¡¯ve promised! No retaliation!¡± I warned her again, and then swaggered out of Xingjiang Yard.


    I smiled triumphantly all the way back to Yueluo Yard. It was never too late for a fox to retaliate!

 Chapter 21 - Beauty pills of Daode Tianzun

    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    I began to count the days. Every day, I watched the sunrise and sunset and waited for Bai Xiaoshan to come back. Emperor of Donghua went to the Ziwei Garden in the North Pole and I didn¡¯t know what he was doing there with Pak Tai. I hadn¡¯t seen him since I returned to Qinghua Garden that day. Fairy Pine said that they were close friends, and they often studied Taoism together. Emperor of Donghua hadn¡¯t been to Ziwei Garden for a long time. Therefore, they must have something important to do.


    In the absence of Emperor of Donghua, I could enjoy the Clear Spring Pool exclusively. This was the only thing that I enjoyed. However, when Bai Qingqing retaliated against me, Emperor of Donghua could not rescue me in time, which disappointed me. Fortunately, Bai Qingqing and I were able to mend fences through the mediation of Fairy Qianbi.


    I became bored in Qinghua Garden. Together with Bai Qingqing and Fairy Qianbi, I went to Daode Tianzun¡¯s Palace, and planned to help him delouse the ox. I was going to flatter him by praising his unusual hobbies, and see what happened to Spring after staying in the oven for one day.


    ¡°Bai, are you here to feed the fire again?¡± Daode Tianzun rode on the ox and saw me from a distance.


    I smiled, went straight over to pat on the head of the ox and said: ¡°I¡¯m here to delouse the ox!¡±


    He stroked his beard and smiled, but apparently he didn¡¯t believe what I said.


    I looked around and asked: ¡°Hey, where¡¯s Spring?¡±


    He looked towards the door and said: ¡°He has smelled you! He would be too stupid if he still stayed here!¡±


    I twitched my mouth. He was really a weak pheasant!


    ¡°By the way, Bai, last time I told you that I had a beauty pill for you. I nearly forgot it. Come on, I¡¯ll give it to you right now!¡± He took out a small gourd from his pocket, poured out a multicolored pill and handed it to me. He looked at me expectantly with his eyes glittering like a child.


    Daode Tianzun, why did you dislike my appearance?


    Bai Qingqing gloated: ¡°My sister, you must take it right now! The beauty pill is not prepared for everyone! Alas, if I weren¡¯t born beautiful, I would certainly ask one from Daode Tianzun!¡±


    I was depressed. Bai Qingqing would take advantage of me every time she caught the chance!


    Fairy Qianbi reached out her hand and waved, and several large characters appeared in the air: ¡°Li, you should take it!¡±


    They all looked at me expectantly, so I forced myself to swallow that pill without any hesitation.


    After taking it, I covered my face with my hands, and then saw a bunch of colourful light emitting through my fingers. I closed my eyes and felt depressed. It was likely that I would become a monster!


    After a while, Daode Tianzun gestured for me to take off my hands. I refused to do so at first, but Bai Qingqing pulled apart my hands forcefully.


    I looked at Daode Tianzun. He smiled joyfully and said: ¡°Bai, that is what you supposed to look like! Now, you are more pleasing to the eye. How could you come back with such a face after the reincarnation? You¡¯re so lucky that I have the beauty pill! ¡°


    I was once again discriminated by him! Although I was not an impressive beauty, I was still pretty. Why did he have prejudice on me?


    I touched my face and didn¡¯t feel any difference. Then I turned to look at Bai Qingqing, only to find her staring at me in great astonishment!


    I leaned forward, smiled and said: ¡°Hey, am I so beautiful that you¡¯re shocked by me?¡±


    Bai Qingqing calmed down immediately and pooh-poohed me when she saw my proud face. She said uneasily: ¡°Since Emperor of Donghua, the most handsome guy in the world didn¡¯t shock me, you can only surprise me in your next life!¡±


    I snorted at her. She must be shocked by my beauty! In order to verify my guess, I took out a small mirror from my pocket. However, I was frightened by the fuzzy face of the fox in the mirror. It turned out that I accidentally took out the ¡°monster-revealing mirror¡± made by my father. I took a deep breath and found another one. Looking at it carefully, I froze for a moment. Was this me? The effect of this beauty pill was too exaggerated!


    The face in the mirror was only a little similar to my original one. It was a completely strange face to me, so to speak. If I used to be a pretty girl, then I became an exceedingly gorgeous beauty, even more beautiful than Bai Qingqing. I was more gentle and lovely, but the charm was faint. This face was like a pure and glamorous white peony, which was clear and bright. However, looking at this face, I fell into a trance. As if I had seen it a long time ago, I hated it from the bottom of my heart.


    I stared at the mirror for a long time, and Daode Tianzun asked me: ¡°Bai, are you satisfied?¡±


    I pursed my lips and didn¡¯t reply to him.


    ¡°What¡¯s up?¡± Fairy Qianbi conjured up a few words in the air, and there was a hint of doubt on her expressionless face.


    I looked up at Daode Tianzun and asked sullenly: ¡°Can I change it back?¡±


    He almost fell off the ox. After a pause, he sighed: ¡°God, you are, like, the worst judge of ladies ever.¡±


    I closed my eyes, ignored his words and said: ¡°I think my original appearance is better. Can you help me change it back?¡±


    He also ignored my words and said: ¡°Bai, don¡¯t take things too hard!¡±


    I tugged at the corner of his trousers and begged him: ¡°Your Majesty, if you don¡¯t change it back, I¡¯ll put Spring into the oven again!¡±


    As these words were spoken, there was a sudden noise at the gate of the palace. It seemed that someone fell over.


    Daode Tianzun looked at the gate, then turned to me and sighed: ¡°Bai, I only have beauty pills. It is impossible for me to change it back!¡±


    I regretted it deeply. I shouldn¡¯t have swallowed that beauty pill! Bai Xiaoshan said that an extremely gorgeous woman was a curse and no one wanted to marry her. I would never get married!


    I walked out of the palace with great sadness, and I was even not in the mood to make fun of Spring, who sneaked into the palace as I left. I felt deeply sorry for myself.


    It was really rare that Bai Qingqing said nothing, but she turned to look at my face frequently, and it seemed that she was going to say something. I didn¡¯t want to worry about her. As long as she didn¡¯t judge me, I would be grateful!


    Fairy Qianbi walked beside me silently, looking at me apprehensively from time to time.


    ¡°Sister Peony?¡± Suddenly, I heard a familiar voice. When I looked up, I saw Fairy Peach Blossom coming towards me, a pair of beautiful eyes staring at me with tears.


    I was surprised and attempted to leave, but she stopped right in front of me, grabbed my hand and said excitedly: ¡°My sister, are you finally willing to return to Baihua Palace? I knew that you would not leave me!¡±


    I looked at her for a while and didn¡¯t know what to say at that moment. Should I tell her that I was not Fairy Peony? But Emperor of Donghua said clearly that I was. Should I say I was Fairy Peony? But I was definitely not! It was such a big headache!


    ¡°Sister Peony, you haven¡¯t been back to Baihua Palace for more than two thousand years. All fairies are there today and they miss you so much. Shall we go back together?¡± Although she was speaking to me in the tone of asking, but actually she was dragging me to Baihua Palace.


    ¡°Fairy Peony? You are Fairy Peony?¡± Bai Qingqing stared her big eyes and asked in surprise. All of us walked fast to keep up with Fairy Peach Blossom.


    ¡°Emperor of Donghua said that I was Fairy Peony in my previous life,¡± I answered reluctantly.


    Shocked, she stood there for a while, and then quickly caught up with us. She murmured: ¡°That explains it!¡±


    After a long time, Bai Qingqing came up to me with a smile and said: ¡°My sister, I have no idea that you are still attached to Emperor of Donghua. You¡¯ll have a bright future!¡±


    I looked at her with puzzlement. Then Fairy Peach Blossom interposed: ¡°You¡¯re so attached to Emperor of Donghua. I¡¯ve persuaded you for so many times but you never listen to me! Why are you attracted by him? He¡¯s like a smelly and emotionless stone! You¡¯re the most beautiful fairy in Baihua Palace. There are countless male fairies who want to be favored by you. Every one of them will be more considerate than Emperor of Donghua.¡±


    I was completely confused by them, so I asked weakly: ¡°Are you talking about me?¡±


    But they obviously ignored me. Especially Bai Qingqing, she had already come to the side of Fairy Peach Blossom and began whispering to her. Fairy Peach Blossom also chatted with her excitedly, as if she had met her bosom friend. Fairy Peach Blossom¡¯s face turned red with excitement!


    I was very pleased that Bai Qingqing finally met her kindred spirit, so I kept silent with Fairy Qianbi and headed for Baihua Palace.


    Before I got there, I already smelled the fragrance of flowers overflowing the palace. There were various flowers. The fragrance slowly swept through my whole body, and I felt that it was quite familiar to me. When I stepped into Baihua Palace, I saw the endless sea of flowers, with hundreds of flowers blossoming and competing for beauty. The scenery was breathtaking.


    In the middle of the sea of flowers, a group of fairies danced in the wind, with fallen petals fluttering like butterflies.


    I was stunned by the scene before me and thought: It would be wonderful if I could live here! This was indeed a fairyland!


    ¡°Sister Peony, thank goodness you¡¯re back! We miss you so much!¡± Seeing us entering Baihua Palace, the fairies who were dancing in the garden stopped and came to me.


    I looked around and found that Bai Qingqing and Fairy Qianbi had already gone away. I hung my head down. I¡¯d better not live here! It was too stressful to live in a place with so many fairies!

 Chapter 22 - The man was like a jade and there wasnt his equal in this world

    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    I was welcomed into a pavilion by the fairies in Baihua Palace, with Bai Qingqing and Fairy Qianbi following behind.


    ¡°Sister Peony, these are the flat peaches that I specially prepared for you. Although Queen Mother asked me to send some to Fangzhu, you must haven¡¯t tasted it. Here you go!¡± Fairy Peach Blossom conjured up a big basket of peaches and put it right in front of me.


    Hearing what she said, I looked at the flat peaches with shame. In fact, Emperor of Donghua gave me all the peaches!


    At the sight of those peaches, Bai Qingqing¡¯s eyes shone with excitement. So I handed the basket to Bai Qingqing wisely and said: ¡°My sister, you should have a taste, too!¡±


    Bai Qingqing swallowed her saliva, but she still tried to be polite: ¡°These are specially prepared for you by Fairy Peach Blossom. How can I eat it?¡±


    ¡°Qingqing, since Sister Peony invited you to have a taste, you should feel free to eat,¡± Fairy Peach Blossom hurriedly said.


    As a result, Bai Qingqing was no longer polite. She took one in her left hand, one in her right hand, bit one in her mouth, and then stuffed another in her sleeve.


    I gave her a contemptuous look, then picked out a few large ones from the basket and handed them to Fairy Qianbi, who accepted them demurely.


    Suddenly, a fairy in white sighed: ¡°If you had been here, the flat peaches wouldn¡¯t have been so rare this year!¡±


    Bai Qingqing bit the flat peach and asked: ¡°Why? The peaches do not grow on peony flowers. How can they have anything to do with Fairy Peony?¡±


    The fairy in white explained: ¡°You have no idea. Fairy Peach Blossom and Fairy Peony were close to each other. Since Fairy Peony fell into reincarnation, Fairy Peach Blossom remained unhappy all the time, and it also led to the delays in flowering. If Queen Mother hadn¡¯t woken her up, she certainly would have been in trouble! That¡¯s why the flat peaches are so rare this time!¡±


    I was shocked and looked up at Fairy Peach Blossom. She bowed her head shyly and twisted her clothes with both hands. After a long time, she looked up at me and said vaguely: ¡°I missed you so much. My sister, don¡¯t blame me!¡±


    I was moved slightly, and a long-lost feeling flowed in my chest. I was not sure what kind of emotion it was, but I knew that Fairy Peach Blossom treated me with absolute sincerity!


    However, she treated me kindly just because I was Fairy Peony in my previous life, but I was destined to be a white fox in Green Mound. Even if I became immortal one day, I could no longer be Fairy Peony. I¡¯d better give up this kindness!


    Soon, I said goodbye to them although Fairy Peach Blossom tried her best to persuade us to stay. I forcibly dragged Bai Qingqing out, who held the flat peaches in her hands and refused to leave. When I left, I caught a glimpse of the sea of flowers. There wasn¡¯t any white peony.


    I hurriedly turned around and left Baihua Palace without looking back. I tried to suppress the strange feeling flowing in my heart and persuade myself that I had nothing to do with Fairy Peony. I didn¡¯t want to be in touch with anyone or anything related to her. If I hadn¡¯t been looking for Bai Xiaoshan, I wouldn¡¯t have followed Emperor of Donghua to heaven. I stayed in Fangzhu because I had to wait for Bai Xiaoshan. I knew that without the emperor¡¯s help, as a fox demon, I could never see the prince of the phoenix clan!


    All experiences in the previous life had become ashes. I would be satisfied if I could be free and unfettered in this life!


    Bai Qingqing was very dissatisfied with me, because I forcibly deprived her of a good chance to eat flat peaches. But after I pretended to take her peaches away, she was finally willing to shut up.


    Since then, I had spent a long time in Qinghua Garden. Fairy Peach Blossom wanted to visit me for many times, but I always let Fairy Pine send her away. I used to chat with Emperor of Donghua to pour out my feelings and it was quite enjoyable to look at his face. But he was not in Fangzhu, and the days became so boring. Fortunately, Bai Qingqing and Fairy Qianbi could still keep me company.


    Three months later, Fairy Peach Blossom once again visited Qinghua Garden and brought us a message. Queen Mother wanted to see me in Kunlun Mountains.


    I felt uneasy for a long time. After all, my performance at Queen Mother¡¯s birthday party was really embarrassing. I thought that Queen Mother was so kind that she didn¡¯t punish me, and she should have forgotten me after such a long time. Unexpectedly, Fairy Peach Blossom brought me this disturbing news.


    However, I had to visit her no matter how anxious I was.


    ¡°Sister Peony, Queen Mother still misses you. I was wondering why she agreed to let you stay with Emperor of Donghua. Now I know that it was not a good chance for you to come back that day. My sister, it must be your time to return,¡± Fairy Peach Blossom didn¡¯t care about my indifference during her previous visits and kept talking to me.


    I regretted that I didn¡¯t bring Bai Qingqing with me. Fairy Peach Blossom was a chatterbox more unbearable than Bai Qingqing!


    At last I arrived at the palace of Queen Mother. I quickly got rid of Fairy Peach Blossom and ran to Queen Mother. I swore I had never been so eager to meet her.


    ¡°It was my great honour to meet you here, Queen Mother,¡± I greeted her and said loudly.


    Queen Mother stood with her back to me. Hearing my voice, she slowly turned around. Her robe was magnificent with golden phoenix embroidered on it. I felt that a glittering lady was smiling at me.


    As soon as she raised her hand, Fairy Peach Blossom and other fairies left the palace.


    ¡°Fairy Peony, I haven¡¯t seen you since Emperor of Donghua took you away. I miss you so much!¡± She smiled and looked at me kindly.


    ¡°Thank you for taking care of me,¡± I replied civilly. After spending so much time in heaven, I hadn¡¯t learned anything but politeness. Alas, the hierarchy in heaven was too strict. Fortunately, I didn¡¯t have to greet Emperor of Donghua, or I would never stay in heaven.


    ¡°Fairy Peony, it has been some time since Emperor of Donghua went to Ziwei Garden, right?¡± She asked and walked towards Jade Pool.


    I followed her and answered ¡°Yes.¡± I was wondering why she asked me this question.


    ¡°Do you miss him?¡± She turned her head to look at me gently.


    I was surprised. Was she testing my loyalty to the emperor? I nodded and said: ¡°Yes! Of course, I miss him! He¡¯s been gone for several months, and I don¡¯t know what to do without him!¡±


    She smiled suddenly and said: ¡°After the reincarnation, you become more outgoing!¡±


    I was speechless. She must want to say that I was more open-minded.


    ¡°Today I want you to run an errand for me,¡± She said slowly, ¡°because I have a present for Emperor of Donghua. Since you miss him so much, I guess you¡¯d be happy to do that for me. I believe he will be happy, too.¡±


    Suddenly a delicate box appeared in her hand. She handed it to me and said: ¡°Fairy Peony, I have always trusted you. You must give this box to Emperor of Donghua.¡±


    Holding it in my hand, I felt that I was entrusted with an important task. I squared my shoulders and nodded seriously. I said: ¡°Please rest assured. I will never let you down.¡±


    She nodded with satisfaction: ¡°You should tell Emperor of Donghua that his doom is here. I have already sent it to him. It¡¯s up to him whether he faces it or not.¡±


    As these words were spoken, I started to see the box in a whole new way. It turned out to be the doom of Emperor of Donghua. How could this be a gift?


    After leaving the Kunlun Mountains, I went back to Fangzhu first. I dragged Fairy Pine out of Qinghua Garden and asked him to be my guide to Ziwei Palace. He was very reluctant to do so at first, but as soon as he heard that I was going to see Emperor of Donghua, he immediately compromised.


    At the thought of meeting the emperor soon, I got very excited. Of course, I was also looking forward to meeting Pak Tai, the legendary figure. People who became close friends with Emperor of Donghua must be handsome.


    However, it was a mild defect that I didn¡¯t see Pak Tai. As soon as I arrived at Ziwei Garden, a fairy child came to lead the way, saying that Emperor of Donghua was waiting for me inside. Fairy Pine wanted to go in with me, but I refused him and sent him back without any hesitation. Before he left, he gnashed his teeth furiously.


    Holding the box, I followed the fairy child and walked through many long corridors before we finally arrived at the place of Emperor of Donghua.


    ¡°My lady, Emperor of Donghua is here, and I should leave now,¡± The little fairy stopped in front of a wall and said.


    I went through the south gate of the wall and walked in directly. As soon as I stepped in, I was stunned by the starlight inside. The sky was shining like a gleaming black satin with numerous stars, which sent out the most beautiful brilliance in the dark night.

 Chapter 23 - The man was like a jade and there wasn’t his equal in this world (2)

    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    He seemed to know that I¡¯d arrived. When he turned around, all the stars in the sky became the adornments for him.


    The man was like a jade and there wasn¡¯t his equal in this world!


    I was enchanted by his handsome face while he smiled slightly at me. He looked at me with his bright and clear eyes. His thin lips slightly opened, and the heavenly voice slowly sounded: ¡°Li, you are here!¡±


    Holding the box, I stepped forward scrupulously. Suddenly, I touched my face and asked: ¡°Your Majesty, how do you know this is me?¡±


    I became a stunning beauty anyway. Why was he not curious at all?


    He smiled and said: ¡°You¡¯re Li. Even if you look different, it would not change. How could I not recognize you?¡±


    That sounded reasonable. I showed the box to him and said: ¡°This is a gift that Queen Mother asked me to bring to you. She said that it was the doom in your destiny. It is up to you whether you face it or not.¡±


    He was calm and collected, and there was no mood swing when he heard what I said. He just reached out his hand to take the box.


    I held the box down and asked him again: ¡°Your Majesty, she said it was your doom. Do you still want to accept it?¡±


    He smiled but said nothing, then took the box and slowly opened it.


    I craned my neck and stared at it unblinkingly.


    When it was opened, he was even more collected. But I was puzzled, because the box was empty!


    ¡°Why is there nothing? I swear I am not the thief! Fairy Pine can be my witness!¡± I hastened to say, for fear that he might think I¡¯d stolen that stuff.


    He looked at me with a gentle smile and said: ¡°I know!¡±


    I breathed a sigh of relief and asked again: ¡°Why is it empty?¡±


    He closed the box and said: ¡°I¡¯ve already understood the meaning of Queen Mother. It doesn¡¯t matter whether or not there is anything in it.¡±


    I was completely puzzled. As a fox, I certainly couldn¡¯t understand the thoughts of the immortals. What destiny? What doom? They were so weird and incomprehensible!


    ¡°Li, do you think it is beautiful here?¡± He put the box away, turned around, looked at the dazzling Milky Way and asked.


    ¡°Very beautiful!¡± I nodded. Gaping after him, I thought to myself that no matter how beautiful the scenery was, it couldn¡¯t be more breathtaking than you, Emperor of Donghua!


    ¡°Every star here represents an immortal in heaven. There used to be your star here, but since your reincarnation, it has become dim,¡± he uttered and pointed at it.


    I looked up only to find that that star was dim, small, and huddling in the corner. Even if it could shine, it would certainly be lost in the light of other stars, and people could never find it.


    I was still silent. It was a shame for an immortal to have a star like this! I¡¯d rather be a fox, and at least a fox was much bigger than that star!


    ¡°Li, let me tell you a story!¡± He was still facing away from me. His gentle voice came from the front, like a slow spring breeze, which made people feel delighted.


    I was all ears.


    ¡°A long time ago, there was a flower fairy in heaven. She was the most beautiful fairy in Baihua Palace and also the favourite of Queen Mother. At the Festival of Immortal Peach, every move of her would attract the attention of all the other fairies,¡± he paused and then continued, ¡°and one year at the festival, she saw a male fairy¡­¡±


    ¡°I know! This flower fairy must be deeply in love with the male fairy and couldn¡¯t control herself,¡± I couldn¡¯t wait to interject since I had heard too many stories of this kind in the restaurant when I was waiting for Bai Xiaoshan.


    He looked at me, smiled and nodded: ¡°You¡¯re right. This flower fairy indeed fell in love with him, but he was so heartless and indifferent that he had no interest in love. The flower fairy had been around him for 500 years, but he was still indifferent.¡±


    ¡°Gee, another story about an infatuated woman and a heart breaker!¡± I shook my head and said, ¡°No, no, he didn¡¯t have a crush on her, so he was not a heart breaker! Your Majesty, continue!¡±


    ¡°Five hundred years later, he descended into the mortal world and became an emperor. In order to win his love, the flower fairy went down with him and became his concubine.¡±


    ¡°Were they falling in love with each other?¡± I bit my finger, looked at him and asked.


    ¡°Yes, he even promised that he would love her forever,¡± after a long time, he said slowly.


    ¡°Oh, I know! This male fairy definitely betrayed her!¡± I immediately offered my own opinion and said. Alas, Bai Xiaoshan was right. Love was too troublesome, and one could live longer without it.


    ¡°Yes, he betrayed her,¡± he looked up at the Milky Way, ¡°That year, the plague raged in the mortal world. Everyone thought that she was a demon, because she was so gorgeous and she had the remaining magic in past life. She was considered to be a demon concubine. Therefore, the emperor watched her being thrown into the plague area and burned to death!¡±


    I thought for a long time with my head propped up and said: ¡°This story is somehow familiar! Where did you hear that? From a restaurant?¡±


    He looked at me and smiled reluctantly: ¡°Li, this is not hearsay.¡±


    ¡°Then what happened? What happened afterwards?¡±


    ¡°After her death, he suffered from a serious illness. Three months later, he died of grief,¡± his voice suddenly became low. I looked at his side face and felt that he, the storyteller, had entered the story and was completely moved by it. Fortunately, I stayed in the restaurant for a long time and I¡¯d heard it so many times, so I still looked at him calmly.


    ¡°Then when they returned to heaven, he must know that he had wronged her. Did they get married?¡± I asked. According to the stereotype, the story must have a happy ending.


    ¡°No!¡± He shook his head, ¡°She had not returned to heaven.¡±


    ¡°Ah? Where did she go?¡± Hearing this, I had to admit that my curiosity was finally aroused!


    ¡°She was devastated and didn¡¯t want to be a fairy or a human again, so she drank Meng Po soup, forgot all about the past and jumped into Tiryagyoni!¡±


    ¡°What? She became an animal?¡± I was shocked. This ending was really unexpected. How could this flower fairy be so depressed? Fairies were always superior than animals!


    Amitabha!


    ¡°When he heard the news, he was also very shocked. Originally, the experience in the mortal world was only an instant in his life. After that, he would return to heaven and become the careless and heartless fairy again. However, he was upset by the news.¡±


    ¡°What animal has the fairy become? A hen, a duck, a cow, or a sheep? A lion or a tiger? Or a fox?¡± I stopped talking when I realized that I was also an animal myself.


    ¡°He didn¡¯t know. At least at that time, he didn¡¯t know. Because she had not passed through the chamber of the Lord of Death, there was no record of her in the Life and Death Book. There was no way to find out where she was. So, he could only wait, wait for her to enter her reincarnation again. Perhaps she had become an animal kept in a family. Then, after she was killed, he could find her. Maybe she was an animal who lived in mountains and concentrated herself on cultivation. Then, after she had taken the human form, he could find her!¡± He said slowly, ¡°However, he had waited for 2,000 years! Originally 2,000 years was not long for him, but it had become the longest period in his life. For the flower fairy, the experience in the mortal world had long been a thing of the past, but for him, it seemed like yesterday. He couldn¡¯t forget it. At first, he thought it was just an interlude in his life, but later he realized that it was the beginning.¡±


    ¡°Was he finally moved?¡± I asked.


    ¡°Yes, he was moved! He thought it was just guilt, but after 2,000 years, he realized that he was deeply in love with her,¡± he said slowly, ¡°Li, maybe this is his doom!¡±


    ¡°Did the flower fairy come back?¡±


    ¡°Yes. She became a white fox in Green Mound. She spent thousands of years practicing in order to take the human form. She was no longer as gorgeous as she used to be. However, she was innocent and happy. She just forgot him completely.¡±


    I nodded and sighed: ¡°He deserved it!¡±


    ¡°Yes, he deserved it.¡± His eyes became dim, but the smile remained, which was somehow bitter to me.


    ¡°Your Majesty, it¡¯s just a story. You shouldn¡¯t be too sad. You¡¯re not the male fairy anyway!¡± I tiptoed and patted him on the shoulder in a comforting way. I felt sorry for him when he was so heart-broken.


    He restored calm, took my hand off, looked at me and asked: ¡°Li, did you forget that I had spent 2,000 years waiting for someone?¡±


    I suddenly widened my eyes and covered my mouth to hold my shriek back. I stammered: ¡°Your¡­your majesty, you¡¯re the male fairy?¡±


    He looked at me and nodded slowly.


    ¡°Well, Your Majesty, I¡¯m so sorry about your loss. No, I mean you shouldn¡¯t be so depressed since she¡¯s back now. Do you want her to remember you again?¡± I was so nervous that I didn¡¯t know what I was saying. I was totally wrong. I shouldn¡¯t have said that he deserved it!


    ¡°Sometimes I hope she remembers me, but more often I hope she will never remember me! I¡¯ve hurt her in the past two lives. I only hope to be with her, to keep her safe and secure for the rest of her life.¡±


    My eyes suddenly shone with tears. Emperor of Donghua was really an infatuated man!


    Suddenly, a startling thought just occurred to me and I asked excitedly: ¡°Your Majesty, didn¡¯t you say that she became a white fox in Green Mound? Hey! Is she Bai Qingqing?¡±


    Before he could speak, I excitedly continued: ¡°Bai Qingqing was so lucky that even you fell in love with her! You don¡¯t have to worry about it. Bai Qingqing has coveted your handsome appearance for a long time. If she gets to know that you love her, she¡¯ll be overjoyed, and will never refuse you!¡±


    ¡°Li¡­¡±


    ¡°Your Majesty, you don¡¯t need to say anything. Don¡¯t worry, I will keep it a secret for you!¡± I laughed happily. Bai Qingqing was so lucky that Emperor of Donghua had a crush on her!

 Chapter 24 - Bai Qingqing lost her temper

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    Emperor of Donghua finally returned to Fangzhu. Fairy Pine was visibly excited. He didn¡¯t blame me for burning bridges when we went to find the emperor, and he was even very kind to me, which flattered me very much.


    But every time I met Bai Qingqing, I would smile at her involuntarily. My smile always made Bai Qingqing¡¯s hair stand on end. She held on to me and asked what my plot was more than once.


    I was deeply impressed by Emperor of Donghua¡¯s love story. After returning to Fangzhu, I dreamed of it several times. Every time in my dream I looked forward to seeing their appearances in the previous life, but I could only see the emperor, and Bai Qingqing always left me a vague figure.


    One day, I went to bed early, thinking that if I slept more, I would definitely have the chance to see Bai Qingqing¡¯s face in my dream. When I was half asleep, I suddenly felt that my neck was pinched and I could not breathe. I thought it was a nightmare, but in fact I didn¡¯t dream of anything!


    When I was almost out of breath, I suddenly opened my eyes. It was Bai Qingqing that I saw at the first sight. I was surprised and thought that I was in the dream, so I closed my eyes again.


    But the touch on my neck was real, so I had to open my eyes. Bai Qingqing was staring at me maliciously. This time I finally found out that I was not dreaming, so I tried to remove Bai Qingqing¡¯s hands and said with difficulty: ¡°My sister, it is illegal to murder!¡±


    ¡°Bah!¡± Bai Qingqing spat at me, ¡°I¡¯m enforcing justice on behalf of heaven!¡±


    My face flushed out of the choking, and it took me a long time to get rid of Bai Qingqing¡¯s hands. I asked indignantly: ¡°My sister, did I offend you? Why do you come over and choke me?¡±


    ¡°Hum, what have you done?¡± Bai Qingqing was still aggressive. She swung her sleeves and sat next to me.


    ¡°I didn¡¯t do anything wrong!¡± I spread my hands and replied honestly.


    ¡°Oh, shut up! Tell me what¡¯s the relationship between Emperor of Donghua and me?¡± Bai Qingqing asked.


    Hearing this, I thought to myself whether Bai Qingqing already knew that she was in love with Emperor of Donghua in her previous life.


    ¡°Hey, my sister, don¡¯t worry! This affair will only be known by you, I and Emperor of Donghua! I will never tell anyone else!¡± I guessed that Bai Qingqing was worried that I would let out the secret, so she showed her attitude hurriedly.


    ¡°You¡­¡± Bai Qingqing was furious and gave me a hard knock on my head. She was exasperated with me: ¡°What are you thinking about?¡±


    I touched my head and looked at Bai Qingqing innocently. She knew what I was thinking about!


    ¡°It seems that I¡¯ve underestimated you. Your stupidity is beyond my imagination! You, you are the disgrace to our fox family!¡± Bai Qingqing knocked me again and said bitterly.


    ¡°My sister, don¡¯t insult me like that!¡± I protested.


    ¡°Shut up!¡± Bai Qingqing shouted. I had to stop talking.


    ¡°You behave so strangely these days. If I hadn¡¯t come over and listened to your dream words, I wouldn¡¯t have known that you had the ability to make up stories!¡± Bai Qingqing continued.


    ¡°Did I talk in my sleep?¡± I was shocked.


    ¡°Uh-huh!¡±


    ¡°What did I say?¡± I looked at Bai Qingqing with fear. If Bai Qingqing realized that I was the fox who emptied her rice jar in Green Mound, I would die on the spot!


    ¡°My sister, do you think the emperor and I are made for each other?¡± Bai Qingqing suddenly changed her tone, pulled up her long hair and asked me very gently.


    ¡°Yes! Indeed!¡± I hurriedly replied.


    ¡°Bah!¡± Bai Qingqing suddenly became ferocious. Inevitably, I was knocked heavily again on my head.


    ¡°I was a flower fairy, right? Two thousand years ago, I chose to be an animal, right? I loved the emperor very much, didn¡¯t I?¡± Bai Qingqing touched my face and asked.


    Seeing that I was going to nod, Bai Qingqing raised her hand again. With my arms over my face, I shouted: ¡°I didn¡¯t make it up! Emperor of Donghua told me that!¡±


    ¡°Bah!¡± Bai Qingqing was angry again. She said: ¡°Can you say that you don¡¯t think so?¡±


    I nodded timidly and wailed in my heart. Why did I talk in my sleep?


    ¡°Bai Li, you must listen to me. When the flower fairy was still in heaven, I was already a fox. Two thousand years? Bah, I am more than 3,000 years old! How could I be as stupid as you and choose to be an animal? ¡°


    I pouted and said nothing.


    ¡°My sister, you don¡¯t have to pretend. There is only you in heaven who was a flower fairy in the previous life and a fox demon this life,¡± Bai Qingqing calmed down and said to me gloatingly.


    I suddenly stared.


    ¡°Gee, my sister. You are so infatuated and had the tragic love story with Emperor of Donghua. It seems reasonable that the emperor treats you so well. I¡¯ve already known that you got in by the back door!¡± Bai Qingqing suddenly grinned. I was irritated by her proud appearance.


    I left Bai Qingqing who was gloating over me and rushed to Donghua Hall. How could the fairy be me? Bai Qingqing must have made a mistake! I had no desire towards the emperor!


    I broke into his bedroom without hesitation. It was bright inside. He stood by the window and hadn¡¯t slept yet. Seeing me, he was not surprised at all. It seemed he already knew that something strange would happen to me. He just smiled and said: ¡°Li! You are here!¡±


    I hesitated suddenly. I couldn¡¯t ask any questions that confused me. I only stood by the door and waited for a while. Then, he walked to me slowly.


    ¡°Your Majesty!¡± I grabbed him by the sleeve and said vaguely.


    ¡°Hmm?¡± He looked at me seriously and waited for me to continue.


    ¡°It¡¯s fake, isn¡¯t it?¡± I looked at him expectantly.


    He looked at me and sighed softly. His slender fingers caressed my cheek, and there was a hint of sadness in his eyes. He said in a low voice: ¡°Li, you are smarter than anyone else, aren¡¯t you?¡±


    My face turned pale and I slowly let go of my hands. I looked at him in stupefied amazement, and suddenly tears rolled down my face. I was just a stupid fox demon. It took me 2,000 years to take the human form. My only companion was Bai Xiaoshan, and we lived such a carefree life that we didn¡¯t need any other people! Why should Fairy Peony¡¯s love be forced upon me?


    I was just waiting for Bai Xiaoshan without any distraction. When he came back, we would return to Qiyun Mountain. But why couldn¡¯t I enjoy this peaceful life?


    ¡°Your Majesty, it¡¯s a fake, isn¡¯t it?¡± I stared at him and asked repeatedly.


    He looked at me and smiled gently. The sadness in his eyes disappeared, leaving only emptiness. He leaned over, kissed me on my lips and murmured: ¡°Yes, it¡¯s fake! Li, since you don¡¯t want to remember it, I will never force you to do that! ¡°


    In the trance I could still feel the warmth of his lips. But I lost consciousness soon and fell into his arms.


    It seemed that something had been pulled away from me.


    When I woke up, I found that the emperor had returned to Fangzhu. I thought to myself that he must be missing his home. I had promised to delouse the ox with Daode Tianzun, but since I hadn¡¯t seen the emperor for a long time, I ran to Donghua Hall happily.


    ¡°Your Majesty!¡± As soon as I entered Donghua Hall, I shouted loudly. Fairy children in Donghua Hall all made way for me.


    I was so satisfied that I ran all the way to his room without any hindrance. I greeted him very politely: ¡°Your Majesty, I¡¯m coming in!¡±


    At that time, Emperor of Donghua was meditating. Seeing me entering, he stood up with a smile and said: ¡°Li, what¡¯s up?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s okay. You¡¯ve been away for so long, Your Majesty. I just come to say hello!¡± I shook my hand and smiled.


    Hearing this, he didn¡¯t change his expression at all. He only smiled gently, turned his head and said: ¡°You¡¯re so considerate!¡±


    After looking at him for a long time, I suddenly remembered one thing and asked doubtfully: ¡°Your Majesty, I¡¯ve taken the beauty pill and become much more beautiful. How can you recognize me at a glance?¡±


    He turned his head and looked at me with a faint smile: ¡°Li, you¡¯ll always be Bai Li, and it will never change.¡±


    I nodded vaguely and headed back to Qinghua garden.


    Bai Qingqing was sitting leisurely in my room. Seeing me back, she came to me and said: ¡°My sister, I have the latest news for you!¡±


    I picked my ears to show that I was all ears.


    ¡°Spring fell in love with Fairy Qianbi at first sight!¡±


    Surprised, I immediately took Bai Qingqing¡¯s arm and laughed: ¡°My dearest sister, come on, what¡¯s going on? Tell me about it!¡±


    Bai Qingqing explained it very quickly and methodically. One day when Fairy Qianbi passed by the Palace of Doushuai, Spring just came out and ran into her. Since Fairy Qianbi was afraid that she would freeze someone as soon as she opened her mouth, she just smiled at Spring. This smile was amazing. It had taken away the soul of Spring! He said that he had seen so many tough girls like me and Bai Qingqing in heaven, and when he met Fairy Qianbi, it was like seeing the light of Buddha in hell. He was so excited!


    In the eyes of Spring, Fairy Qianbi was a real fairy. She was so gentle and virtuous. His pursuit of Fairy Qianbi was officially unfolded. However, Fairy Qianbi was as abstinent as Emperor of Donghua, so it was very difficult for Spring to attract her.

 Chapter 25 - Hapless Spring

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    One day, Bai Qingqing and I went to Doushuai Palace to find Daode Tianzun. He was sitting at the door muttering instead of riding on his ox to delouse it.


    I sat curiously beside him and asked: ¡°Daode Tianzun, why are you so upset?¡±


    ¡°Wouldn¡¯t you know it? It is Spring who upsets me!¡± Daode Tianzun said sulkily, ¡°I haven¡¯t seen him all day. The fire in my stove is going out!¡±


    In order to win Fariy Qianbi¡¯s heart, Spring went to Qinghua Palace every day to wait for her and often picked a bunch of flowers in Baihua Palace. He stood outside the palace infatuatedly. Fairy Qianbi dared not leave her room because of him.


    ¡°Daode TianZun, you have many fairy kids, don¡¯t you? You can let them feed your fire,¡± Bai Qingqing offered him advice.


    ¡°That¡¯s Spring¡¯s duty. If someone else feeds the fire, why should I let him stay? There is no value at all!¡± Daode Tianzun grunted.


    I laughed to myself because Spring could only feed the fire in the eyes of Daode Tianzun! If he wanted to win the heart of Fariy Qianbi, that was far from enough!


    When Bai Qingqing and I returned to Qinghua Palace, we saw Spring standing like a doorman at the gate and holding the flowers stolen from Baihua Palace.


    I chuckled. An idea suddenly flashed across my mind. I turned my head, looked at Bai Qingqing and found that we were thinking the exact same thing, so we smiled at each other. In an instant, I became Fariy Qianbi and Bai Qingqing became Daode Tianzun.


    ¡°Spring, when will you come back? Every day you neglect your duty and pursue your girlfriend. Believe it or not, I will send you away from Doushuai Palace!¡± Bai Qingqing shouted behind him.


    Spring immediately turned around and was about to speak. But when he found me besides Bai Qingqing, he suddenly gazed at me and completely ignored Bai Qingqing.


    I covered my mouth while smiling, winked at him and asked coyly: ¡°Spring, are those flowers for me?¡±


    Spring immediately blushed and looked at me evasively. He could not say a word but kept nodding for a long time. When he became shy, he was very cute. I looked at him and thought to myself that Spring was indeed an innocent boy. However, this could not prevent me from teasing him. I continued to speak softly: ¡°Spring, why don¡¯t you answer my question? That is not for me, right? You¡¯re just kidding me, aren¡¯t you?¡±


    I pretended to be delicate and charming, and my eyes were full of tears. Obviously, Spring was worrying about me.


    ¡°No, no, this is for you. Don¡¯t cry!¡± Spring rushed to me, thrust the flowers into my hand and looked at me sincerely.


    ¡°Well, you little spring chicken! You are so ambitious, aren¡¯t you? You think about your girlfriend all day! Fariy Qianbi was not the one that you can covet! You are a little fairy so you are not qualified to pursue Fariy Qianbi!¡± Bai Qingqing scolded him timely and pretended to be serious.


    However, Spring started to argue with her. He looked at Bai Qingqing and said: ¡°Daode Tianzun, this is your mistake. Love cannot be eliminated by status or borders. You see, you are so old now but you don¡¯t have a wife. This is enough to prove that your theory is wrong! Alas, Daode Tianzun, I know you are lonely. You are poor indeed, but I am still young. You cannot prevent me from pursuing Fariy Qianbi because of your jealousy! You don¡¯t want me to end up as miserable as you, do you? ¡°


    Bai Qingqing was refuted by Spring. There was no expression on her face, but I knew that she must be extremely angry at that moment. Love was a forbidden topic for her. Of course, this word would remind her of the heart breaker she met before she became a fairy. In the end, I was the one that should have been blamed!


    ¡°Hey, you spring chicken! Nothing can stop you from pursuing Fariy Qianbi, right? Then why don¡¯t you ask Fariy Qianbi whether she will accept your love?¡± Bai Qingqing asked, glancing at me.


    I blinked at him and thought: ¡°Spring, you provoked Bai Qingqing. Don¡¯t blame me for embarrassing you!¡±


    ¡°Fariy Qianbi, will you accept my love?¡± Hearing Bai Qingqing¡¯s words, Spring turned to ask me.


    I felt sympathetic towards him at the beginning. But soon I bowed my head and spoke in a flirting tone: ¡°Spring, you are so handsome and charming. You are a wonderful man with a good heart, and you are infatuated with me¡­¡±


    I listed the advantages of Spring one by one. Of course, I exaggerated some of them, but when I saw the surprise in Spring¡¯s eyes and his big smile, I knew that he believed he was exactly as wonderful as the man I had described.


    I continued: ¡°I really want to accept your love, but¡­¡±


    I stopped talking and stared at him.


    ¡°But what?¡± Spring asked hastily when I stopped.


    I pretended to be embarrassed, looked at Spring and continued: ¡°But there is someone else¡­¡±


    ¡°What?¡± Spring immediately froze, seemingly unable to believe it. After a long time, he asked with difficulty: ¡°Qianbi, can I ask who he is?¡±


    I was shocked, who could he be? This guy was made up by me!


    Just then, Fairy Pine came out of Qinghua Palace, so I blurted out immediately: ¡°Fairy Pine, he¡¯s Fairy Pine!¡±


    ¡°Fairy Pine?¡± Spring looked in Fairy Pine¡¯s direction and murmured.


    ¡°Yes, Fairy Pine and we love each other and we¡¯ve pledged to marry!¡± I said shyly and pretended to look at Fairy Pine with soulful eyes.


    Fairy Pine came up to me and saw that we all looked strange. He was puzzled but didn¡¯t pay much attention to that. He moved towards me and asked: ¡°Fariy Qianbi, have you seen Bai Li?¡±


    I gave a little start and looked at Bai Qingqing subconsciously. She immediately answered: ¡°Li is in Doushuai Palace!¡±


    ¡°Your Majesty, welcome to Qinghua Garden! What brings you here today?¡± Fairy Pine greeted ¡°Daode Tianzun¡± and asked.


    Bai Qingqing coughed and glared at him, saying: ¡°I¡¯m here all because of Spring! He wants to pursue Fariy Qianbi!¡±


    Fairy Pine was stunned and immediately asked: ¡°Pursuing Fariy Qianbi?¡±


    I was afraid that he would reveal the truth, so I immediately stepped in front of Fairy Pine and said: ¡°Daode Tianzun is telling jokes, right?¡±


    Spring thought that I didn¡¯t want Fairy Pine to get it wrong. So he nodded sulkily.


    ¡°Spring, go back and feed the fire now!¡± Bai Qingqing tried to let him go back.


    Spring looked at me, Bai Qingqing and then Fairy Pine, who was totally confused. Suddenly, he turned around and punched Fairy Pine in the face. Fairy Pine had stayed in heaven for a long time, and immortals all used magic to do everything, so he hadn¡¯t seen such a primitive deed. He was thrown to the ground easily.


    Spring straddled Fairy Pine and punched him again. He also shouted: ¡°I finally met my true love and it was ruined by you! With so many female fairies in heaven, why do you have a crush on Fariy Qianbi? You have to pay for that! ¡°


    Both Bai Qingqing and I didn¡¯t expect Spring to do that. We were dumbfounded for a moment and just watched Spring growl and beat Fairy Pine.


    At that moment, I saw Fariy Qianbi at the gate of Qinghua Garden. I hurriedly tugged at Bai Qingqing¡¯s sleeve and signalled at her.


    Bai Qingqing was also anxious. After much deliberation, she decided to be cruel and gave Spring a good kick in the ass. Spring flew out and disappeared from our sight. Of course, we seemed to have heard the shrieks of him.


    After sending Spring away, I quickly helped Fairy Pine up, and he was still in a daze. He was beaten for no reason, which made him confused and upset.


    ¡°Fairy Pine, are you okay?¡± I asked him. He loved to hold grudges, so I should never let him know that I did this to him!


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong with Fairy Pine?¡± Fariy Qianbi came up, waved her sleeve and wrote in the air doubtfully.


    ¡°Nothing, nothing!¡± Bai Qingqing and I stood in front of Fairy Pine with smirks and said.


    ¡°Fariy Qianbi?¡± Fairy Pine looked at Fariy Qianbi and then at me. He rolled his eyes as if he was thinking about something.


    I guessed that he was about to know the truth, so I decided to run away first. The shouting of Fairy Pine came from behind me. He figured it out and chased me furiously!


    I felt like weeping but had no tears. Why did he chase me only?

 Chapter 26 - Po, the pitiless fox killer

    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    ¡°My lady, what are you thinking about?¡± Seeing me bending over the table wearily, Fairy Willow asked me gently.


    I sighed and said: ¡°I wonder when Fairy Pine will put aside his anger!¡±


    Fairy Willow covered her mouth and chuckled: ¡°Don¡¯t worry, my lady! Fairy Pine will be back soon. He knows you have no malice!¡±


    I continued to sigh. Fairy Pine was angry with me and stayed by the side of Emperor of Donghua these days. He refused to come back and serve me. In fact, I didn¡¯t want him to come back, but the longer he stayed with Emperor of Donghua, the more likely he was to speak ill of me. This made me feel terrible in front of Emperor of Donghua.


    ¡°My sister, look at your listless face. People who don¡¯t know you may think that you are longing for a boyfriend!¡± Bai Qingqing appeared outside the window, lay prone on the windowsill and looked at me.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°Feeling droopy?¡± Bai Qingqing arched her eyebrows and said, ¡°Why don¡¯t we go to Doushuai Palace and make fun of Spring, the stupid pheasant!¡±


    This idea caught my attention. After Bai Qingqing kicked Spring off, there was no news from him. I didn¡¯t ask about him either. We should visit him!


    Arriving at Doushuai Palace, we saw Daode Tianzun sitting in front of his stove, waving his fan with one hand and holding his head with the other. He looked sad and bitter. The ox stood beside him, occasionally snorting into the air. However, he didn¡¯t pay any attention to it.


    I wondered: He even gave up delousing his ox. What happened to him?


    ¡°Daode Tianzun, why do you feed the fire yourself today? Where is Spring?¡± I sat down beside him, continued to fan the stove for him and asked.


    ¡°Don¡¯t mention him!¡± Daode Tianzun said gloomily. He was sulking and pulled back his fan from my hand.


    ¡°Your Majesty, look at you! Is Spring making you angry again?¡± Bai Qingqing asked with a smile.


    On hearing this, Daode Tianzun sighed deeply and murmured: ¡°That poor lad! It is better for him to go to the mortal world for a while!¡±


    ¡°The mortal world? Spring has gone to the mortal world?¡± I asked doubtfully.


    ¡°Well, he has just left this Palace. He may get registered in hell now! A few days ago, he came back in a daze. When he built the fire, he almost burnt his own hair. Moreover, he started yelling this morning, saying that heaven was too dark for him. He was in despair and had to go to the mortal world to find his true love. He may have been reborn by now!¡± Daode Tianzun replied slowly, with a very sad expression.


    Bai Qingqing and I were both shocked. We took a look at each other, immediately came out of Doushuai Palace and headed straight to hell, trying to stop the stupid pheasant who had devoted himself to reincarnation in pursuit of true love.


    Hell was quite strange to me. Bai Qingqing was not familiar with it either, but she was a fairy. As soon as she arrived, there were goblins coming out to greet her. After we explained our purpose, the goblins directly led us to find Spring.


    When Bai Qingqing and I arrived at the wheel of karma, we saw Spring standing in front of the human gate. It seemed that he was about to enter his reincarnation!


    ¡°Spring, you shouldn¡¯t let your love bother you!¡± I immediately shouted and saw Spring slowly turn around.


    I signaled Bai Qingqing to say something. Her mouth opened for a long time, but she couldn¡¯t think of anything to say. As Spring turned around again, Bai Qingqing hurriedly shouted: ¡°Spring, Bai Li teased you before. You must not take it seriously!¡±


    I suddenly stared at Bai Qingqing. She betrayed me at the critical moment!


    Bai Qingqing winked at me, implying that it was most important to stop Spring from doing stupid things at the moment. I endured the urge to beat her, turned around and became Fairy Qianbi. I spoke with Qianbi¡¯s gentle voice: ¡°Spring, in fact, I ¡­¡±


    Spring was surprised at first and then angry. Seeing that he was coming at me, I quickly hid behind Bai Qingqing and did not dare to look at him!


    After a long time, nothing strange happened to me, so I opened my eyes. Where was Spring?


    I stood up straight and looked at Bai Qingqing. She was extremely shocked, so I reached out my hand and patted her face to sober her up.


    It took a long time for Bai Qingqing to get it right: ¡°Well, he slipped over and fell into the reincarnation!¡±


    I looked at the gate that had been closed. Spring, I¡¯d tried my best, and you shouldn¡¯t blame me for it!


    Bai Qingqing and I went back to heaven with deep regret. We had no intention to go to Doushuai Palace for a long time, for fear that Daode Tianzun would find out that the two of us were responsible for the incident.


    After my investigation with Bai Qingqing, we found that Spring has been reincarnated into a rich man¡¯s son in the mortal world. His name was ¡°Spring Chen¡± and his nickname was ¡°Po¡±. According to Po¡¯s midwife, he was born with clenched fists and bright eyes with some indignation. When he cried, it was as loud as the thunder. However, his father was very satisfied. He affirmed that Po was going to be a general in the future.


    Not to mention whether his father¡¯s assertion was true or false, Po had been prone to violence since his childhood. He especially liked to abuse animals, which was simply outrageous.


    When Po was three years old, because there were no children of the same age to play with him, his father spent a lot of money and bought a snow fox to keep him company. Po saw the snow fox and his eyes were shining. He rushed up to hug it and never let it go. His father felt that he himself had finally become considerate and was very satisfied.


    He didn¡¯t know that Po didn¡¯t let the snow fox go not because he liked it but he worried it would run away and he would have no one to bully!


    So, when Bai Qingqing and I first came to visit Spring, we saw three years old Po sitting in the hall, ordering servants to set up a small stove and directing maids to make a fire. When the fire was almost ready, he put the snow fox in it. Sometimes he thought the fire wasn¡¯t strong enough, and he would grab the fan from the maid¡¯s hand and fanned it himself with his small hands. When the fox was about to be scorched, he took it out and dipped it in cold water. After a while, he threw it back into the stove. The process was repeated and he obviously enjoyed it.


    Bai Qingqing and I were totally shocked and unable to walk straight. We listened to the snow fox¡¯s cry and dared not approach the little boy in the hall.


    ¡°My, my sister¡­ Why don¡¯t we go back to heaven!¡± After a while, Bai Qingqing trembled and stuttered from fright.


    ¡°Why not save the snow fox?¡± I asked with a shaking voice.


    ¡°Save ourselves first!¡± Bai Qingqing replied. She turned around and disappeared.


    I looked at Po, who was still abusing the snow fox, and immediately followed Bai Qingqing to heaven.


    When we returned to Qinghua Garden, Bai Qingqing and I were still shaking. Spring¡¯s prejudice against us was too deep. After the reincarnation he still wanted to take revenge on us! How petty he was!


    At the thought of the snow fox, Bai Qingqing and I mourned for it at first. We could do nothing to stop Po, the three-year-old boy, from torturing it.


    As the saying goes: ¡°A child is better unborn than untaught¡±, Bai Qingqing and I thought his father should be responsible for his cruel behavior. If he hadn¡¯t bought the snow fox back, how could Po abuse it?


    As a member of the fox clan, Bai Qingqing and I naturally didn¡¯t want the fox to be tortured by Po. Therefore, we planned to start with his father and believed that the three-year-old boy would not go against his father¡¯s wish even if he was stubborn.


    That night, Bai Qingqing appeared in his father¡¯s dream, saying Po¡¯s behavior had angered the fox fairy. If he mistreated the snow fox again, his family would have unexpected trouble.


    His father was so convinced that he humbly pleaded guilty to Bai Qingqing. The next day, he let the fox go while Po was still sleeping.


    However, his father satisfied us but not Po. When he woke up, he found the snow fox missing. He was very angry, but he was so young and couldn¡¯t do anything to his father. So he narrowed his eyes, sat down on the ground and began to cry loudly. No matter how his father coaxed him, he wouldn¡¯t stop crying.


    This scene happened to be seen by his mother, who had just returned from her mother¡¯s house. When she saw her baby son crying, her heart ached, and she scolded her husband and comforted Po softly.


    ¡°Mom, I want the snow fox! I want the snow fox! Daddy let the snow fox go!¡± Po immediately shouted after he found himself a backer.


    ¡°Okay, okay! We will find the snow fox for you! Don¡¯t cry!¡± Mrs. Chen promised her son without any hesitation.


    ¡°What are you thinking about? Take the snow fox back right now!¡± She glared at him.


    ¡°Well¡­¡± His father thought of Bai Qingqing¡¯s warning, and looked at Mrs. Chen¡¯s face. He was in a dilemma.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong? Couldn¡¯t Po keep a fox?¡± As soon as Mrs. Chen stared, he became timid and murmured: ¡°It¡¯s just a dream. There is no fox fairy in the world.¡± Then he ordered all servants to search for the snow fox!

 Chapter 27 - Po, the pitiless fox killer II

    Proofread by Zhu Yuan


    When Po was seven years old, he was already a lively, clever and handsome boy. Many families with daughters secretly contacted his father, hoping to marry their daughter to Po in the future, so his father figured  it was time to arrange a child marriage for his baby son.


    After learning the news, Bai Qingqing and I dragged Fairy Qianbi down to the mortal world. Although she hadn¡¯t promised anything to Spring, she was still unhappy when she knew he was going to the mortal world to look for his true love. Bai Qingqing told me that this was probably the enigma called ¡°those closely involved cannot see clearly.¡±


    Therefore, for the sake of Fairy Qianbi¡¯s life-long happiness, Bai Qingqing and I decided to be the matchmakers to help her, which was also our compensation for what happened to Spring.


    On that day, his father made an appointment with Councilor Wang to meet in the restaurant. His mother and Po were naturally present. Besides, there were Mrs. Wang and Miss Wang.


    Miss Wang was six years old and was called Jade. Although she was not a great beauty, she would certainly be a pretty girl when she grew up. Po¡¯s father heard that Miss Wang was gentle and intelligent at an early age. When he saw her that day, he was very satisfied with the gentle girl. He discussed with Councilor Wang to settle on the engagement, exchange the pledge and confirm the marriage.


    However, this good marriage was destroyed by Po himself.


    The process was as follows:


    ¡°Po, look at Jade! Isn¡¯t she beautiful and lovely? How about you marrying  her in the future?¡± His father held Po and smiled happily.


    Po stared at Jade for a long time, frowned and shook his head. He said to his father: ¡°No!¡±


    When he said this, his father and Jade¡¯s parents were all shocked with embarrassment.


    ¡°Why not?¡± His father smiled dryly.


    Po counted with his fingers: ¡°First, she is not beautiful enough. Second, she is not tall enough.  Third¡­¡±


    Seeing that Po not only gave the reasons, but also counted them one by one, Councilor Wang became more and more embarrassed. Miss Wang was not numb either. When Po said she was not beautiful, she immediately sobbed.


    Po¡¯s father was in a dilemma. He was reluctant to scold his baby son, and Councilor Wang was the one he shouldn¡¯t offend, so he had to smile at Councilor Wang flatteringly while trying to change Po¡¯s view. However, Councilor Wang still left in anger. After all, what Po said was really mean. He should thank God that Councilor Wang didn¡¯t beat him!


    ¡°Po, what kind of girl do you like?¡± His father thought that he could only come to apologize to Councilor Wang another day, so he turned his attention to his son.


    Po turned left and right, looked around and seemed to look for the girl he liked.


    It was when Bai Qingqing and I appeared.


    Bai Qingqing and I turned to be ordinary ladies and dragged Fairy Qianbi to walk on the street. Fairy Qianbi¡¯s appearance was incomparable in the mortal world. As soon as she appeared, she really caught the eye.


    I looked up and glanced at the restaurant, and Po just poked out his head and saw Fairy Qianbi at a glance. This encounter was amazing, and Po was totally attracted by Fairy Qianbi!


    When the opportunity came, Bai Qingqing and I couldn¡¯t help but pinch Fairy Qianbi¡¯s waist and force her to raise her head. When she saw Po, her face froze, but she was unable to dissuade us and finally smiled reluctantly at him.


    ¡°Dad, dad, I find the woman I love! I like her! Dad, stop her! Quick, quick! I want to marry her!¡± Po immediately shouted at his father. His little body jumped up and down, and he almost came down to us directly from the second floor.


    Bai Qingqing and I smiled. Spring was indeed more outgoing after he was reborn. He would have flushed with shame if he spoke to Fairy Qianbi when they were in heaven. In the mortal world, at the age of seven, he didn¡¯t even blush when talking about ¡°love.¡±


    Hearing this, his father hurriedly walked to the railing to look down. He had never seen such a stunning lady as Fairy Qianbi. His face immediately became red, and he even forgot Po¡¯s yelling beside him. It was not until Po¡¯s mother pinched his ear that he recovered from the dream and noticed a scowl on his wife¡¯s face and the unhappy Po.


    ¡°Dad, she is the woman I have a crush on. You already have your wife. Back off!¡± Po twisted his mouth and said.


    His father was surprised. He didn¡¯t expect that his thoughts would be pointed out by Po. He was immediately embarrassed and stammered: ¡°You¡¯re talking nonsense, I¡¯ll never marry another woman!¡±


    ¡°Then you should come to the lady and bring up a proposal for my marriage!¡± Po tugged at his father¡¯s sleeve and pulled him downstairs.


    His father didn¡¯t know what to do, so he said: ¡°Po, the girl is about ten years older than you. How can you marry her?¡±


    ¡°Why not? Can¡¯t a groom be younger than his bride?¡± Po asked his father.


    ¡°Well, that¡¯s not true.¡±


    ¡°Can¡¯t a bride be taller than her groom?¡±


    ¡°No!¡±


    ¡°Then you should go!¡± Po stared and pulled his father, who was confused by him, to go downstairs.


    However, even though Po¡¯s speed was very fast, we were faster. The main purpose of our appearance was to prevent Spring from moving on. Since the goal had been achieved, it was naturally impossible for us to stay in the mortal world for a long time.


    However, this was a bitter experience for Po¡¯s father. Seeing that Fairy Qianbi had disappeared, Po blamed all this on his father. He beat his father with his small fists and cried extremely loudly. He accused his father: ¡°This is all your fault! Now your daughter-in-law has gone, are you happy?¡±


    His father froze and could only smile awkwardly at the crowd.


    For more than a month since then, Po hadn¡¯t talked to his father. Until his father promised that he would help him find Fairy Qianbi, he felt better.


    Bai Qingqing and I had to admit that Spring was indeed deeply attached to Fairy Qianbi. Otherwise, after his reincarnation, he wouldn¡¯t determine to marry her at one glance.


    Fairy Qianbi said nothing when she heard the news, but we could see that she was very happy.


    ¡°Alas, I didn¡¯t know that I have the talent to be a matchmaker!¡± One day Bai Qingqing and I were lying in the courtyard basking in the sun. Bai Qingqing suddenly let out a sigh emotionally.


    I closed my eyes, and didn¡¯t comment on it.


    ¡°My sister, do you take a fancy to a man? Do you need me to hook you two up?¡± Bai Qingqing continued.


    I opened my eyes and caught a glimpse of her. I saw the excitement in her eyes. I turned my head around and said: ¡°No need. I have always been very abstinent. No man in the world can win my heart!¡±


    ¡°Hey, maybe you are too picky? My sister, listen to my advice. When you¡¯re choosing a man, you shouldn¡¯t be too fastidious. Although you look wonderful after taking the beauty pill, your appearance can never become your pride!¡± Bai Qingqing taught me earnestly.


    I turned around and ignored her.


    Bai Qingqing came to me and said with a smile: ¡°My sister, tell me the truth! Do you like the emperor?¡±


    I stared at her and asked: ¡°How can I do that?¡±


    When Bai Qingqing saw that I did not seem to understand, she knocked me on the head and said: ¡°Of course the feeling a woman has for a man! You kissed him in public at Queen Mother¡¯s birthday party. Are you going to be irresponsible?¡±


    My face flushed with embarrassment and I argued: ¡°That¡¯s because I drank too much!¡±


    Bai Qingqing said scornfully: ¡°I¡¯d been drunk that day. Why hadn¡¯t I kissed him?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°My sister, don¡¯t be shy. The emperor is so handsome. I¡¯m afraid no woman can resist the temptation from him. If you fall in love with him, I will definitely understand!¡±


    I turned around, pinched Bai Qingqing¡¯s face and said: ¡°You are way overthinking this. Please stop daydreaming!¡±


    Bai Qingqing knocked away my hand and lay back. She looked at the sky for a long time and then sighed: ¡°Alas, I am overthinking this, you ignorant girl! Even if you have a crush on him, he may not love you back!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°Of course, he will not love me!¡± I muttered. I had heard before that Emperor of Donghua was the most ruthless fairy between heaven and earth, and his heart was made of stone. Otherwise, he wouldn¡¯t be able to command all the immortals for so long. Only an immortal who wouldn¡¯t be affected by love could have enough strategies and reason to lead all the immortals.


    ¡°My sister, let me ask you a question!¡±


    ¡°Ask me what?¡± I reluctantly replied. Even if I didn¡¯t let her ask, she wouldn¡¯t shut up.


    ¡°What do you think will happen if Emperor of Donghua loves someone?¡± Bai Qingqing asked me slightly, with some seriousness in the tone.


    Stunned, I replied: ¡°The world will be in chaos!¡±


    Bai Qingqing was silent for a long time before she murmured: ¡°Yes, the world will be in chaos!¡±


    After a while, she sighed again in a low voice: ¡°But Li, he loves you at the risk of the chaos in the world. When will you be stirred?¡±


    ¡°What?¡± Her voice was too low. I didn¡¯t hear it clearly.


    Bai Qingqing stopped talking and gave me an enigmatical smile.


    It made my hair stand on end.