Chapter 10

"Ouch!" Mei Xue, who had been ambushed by the little fox, now had a pair of fine tooth marks on her wrist.

She looked at the still angry little fox with a puzzled expression, unable to figure out why she had been bitten after treating it.

"Chirp!" The little fox, who had taken advantage of Mei Xue, bared its teeth and waved its paws at her.

Unfortunately, still drunk, she could barely stand steady, let alone assume a menacing posture. Her dazed little paws moved with no real threat.

"Sigh, you're a real handful, little lady." Mei Xue tied the remaining bandage around her wrist to stop the bleeding, then stroked the little fox's head and said earnestly,

"Next time, don't bite people so casually, or they might catch you to make fox fur coats, fox fur collars, and fox fur shawls."

"Chirp!" The furious little fox bit Mei Xue again, but this time, prepared, Mei Xue only let her bite the edge of her sleeve. Then, with a quick flip of her wrist, she caught the drunk little fox in her hand.

Even if the little fox had all the skills in the world, in her current state of intoxication, she couldn't use any of them and could only be at Mei Xue's mercy.

Oh no! The little fox's eyes flashed with panic as images of fox fur coats, fox fur collars, fox fur shawls, and fox fur coats flashed through her mind.

Was she going to die here today?

A noble princess of the Blue Mountain, the future greatest Golden-Haired Jade-Faced Nine-Tailed Fox, was she going to die in this unknown small place at the hands of a poor and unlucky fool?

No, no!

"Don't move, little one, you're almost untying the bandage I just put on." Mei Xue gently tapped the little fox's head, then rewrapped the loose bandage to ensure the fresh medicinal liquid worked effectively.

She had many injuries, but none were serious. With these special bandages for external injuries, the poor little fox would likely recover in about three days.

The little fox, released by Mei Xue, was stunned for a moment, then ran off.

What a joke, this is a human settlement! Relying on humans for her life was not a wise move; she needed to escape as quickly as possible...

"Bang!" The little fox crashed into the door of Mei Xue's house, rolled nine times, and ended up on her back, twitching.

Clearly, the little fox had overestimated her balance while drunk. Normally, as a descendant of the Golden-Haired Jade-Faced Nine-Tailed Fox, she had innate strength that would protect her even without any cultivation.

However, she was not in a normal state but in a terrible backlash state. The sudden sword qi had completely shattered her incomplete innate skills and human transformation technique, reverting her to her original form as a little fox.

Without her innate skills and magic, she was just a helpless, injured little fox, now drunk, and completely at the mercy of humans.

"Oh no! Oh no!" The little fox lay on the ground, tears streaming down her face.

I don't want to die! There are so many things I want to do, so many things I want to eat. I don't want to become parts of a fox fur coat, fox fur collar, fox fur shawl, or fox fur coat. Waaaah!

"Really, the bandage is all messed up again." Mei Xue, looking at the little fox lying on her back, repeated the treatment process.

She applied the medicine, wrapped the bandage, and finally took the struggling little fox to her bed, holding her in her arms to sleep.

"Aaaaaah! This scoundrel, shameless! How dare he hold a princess like me to sleep! Not even my mother has that right!" The little fox struggled and resisted in Mei Xue's arms, but in her drunk and injured state, her resistance was negligible and did not even disturb Mei Xue's sleep.

"Stop it, little one, go to sleep." Mei Xue tugged the little fox's tail and fell asleep peacefully.

This... this... this scoundrel... Feeling her private parts and her most sensitive tail being touched, the little fox could not describe her anger.

If her innate skills were still intact, and she could use even a fraction of her demon power, how many times would this human have to die?

Ten times, twenty times, a hundred times? For what he did to her, a thousand deaths would not be enough!

However, ideals are grand, but reality is harsh. The little fox sadly realized that she couldn't even escape from this obviously weak human, let alone kill him. She could only be held in his arms and let him play with her body.

Damn! Damn! Damn! Wait, when I recover my strength, the first one I will kill is you, I swear by the name of the future greatest Golden-Haired Jade-Faced Nine-Tailed Fox! The wandering little lady cursed and spent a terrifying night in Mei Xue's arms.

That night, the little fox dreamed of being stripped of her fur, her bloody pelt made into a hat, hung on a stall, and pinched by people.

No! No! The little fox woke up in a cold sweat, screaming in terror.

However, she soon realized that her body was indeed being pinched, just like in her dream, and she was terrified.

This time, she truly felt helpless. The unfortunate little fox fainted again, her eyes rolling back.

"Hmm, looks like you're recovering well." Mei Xue, who was treating her little patient, looked curiously at the little fox who had clearly woken up for a moment, then continued to apply medicine to her body.

After finishing her tasks, Mei Xue, worried that the active little fox would run out and bite people again, put her in her sleeve and took her to the Immortal Law Academy.

For the next few days, the little fox stayed with Mei Xue at all times.

During this period, the little fox tried to escape dozens of times and bit Mei Xue eight times, but all attempts tragically failed. Instead, she was well-fed and plump, looking even more spirited.

Once she realized that Mei Xue had no intention of skinning her, the little fox finally freed herself from constant fear. However, she still harbored deep resentment towards Mei Xue for forcibly imprisoning and humiliating her, cursing him every day.

However, what happened next left the little fox completely speechless, making her wonder if she had a talent for cursing.

Because she saw and learned just how miserable the life of this human youth, who seemed to be a pharmacist, was.

What did she see most often around Mei Xue?

Of course, it was—heartbreak.

When Mei Xue first took out his cherished bouquet and mustered the courage to confess to a girl on the beach, the little fox cursed him strongly, wishing for his confession to fail.

And it did. Mei Xue failed miserably, the girl ignored his confession and knocked him flying.

When Mei Xue and the little fox, who had nearly drowned, swam back to shore, they only saw the girl's disappearing back.

That night, the little fox stayed with Mei Xue, enduring the cold wind.

The second time, Mei Xue confessed to a blind mysterious girl, only to be taken to a dark alley by a group of ascetics and beaten so badly that the little fox couldn't recognize him. He nearly died, and the shell he had found in the sea was lost.

The third time, the fourth time... During the week she spent recovering with Mei Xue, the little fox witnessed over ten heartbreaking rejections. She couldn't imagine how unlucky this guy was.

In these ten confessions, Mei Xue's best performance was saying three sentences to the girl, and the worst was being rejected and nearly killed upon first meeting.

The little fox could see the extraordinary qualities of these girls and couldn't understand why Mei Xue would so rashly confess to them.

What was even more incomprehensible was that despite failing so many times and being rejected so many times, he still kept trying.