Volume 1, Chapter 12 – The Small Fox Demon’s Happiness

“Not at all. Axi doesn’t feel that sword cultivator sister did anything wrong.” A natural smile appeared on the small fox demon’s face.

“After all, it was Axi who offended sword cultivator sister first.”

“It’s only right that sword cultivator sister would be angry.”

“Moreover, even though sword cultivator sister was angry, she didn’t do anything to Axi, did she?”

“So sword cultivator sister is a good person.”

Song Shiyuan felt her face becoming somewhat unnatural.

Anyone would feel embarrassed being praised so earnestly by such a beautiful girl looking up at them like this.

The small fox demon’s pretty face was simply too much.

With such looks, even she, also being a woman, couldn’t help but feel jealous.

And yet this very face was looking at her with such pure and fervent eyes.

So bright, so pure in appearance. It made Song Shiyuan, whose mind had just been full of unseemly thoughts, suddenly feel a sense of shame.

“Sword cultivator sister, can you tell Axi your name?” the small fox demon asked with curved eyes. “Axi still doesn’t know your name.”

Song Shiyuan lowered her eyes and said, “Song Shiyuan. My name is Song Shiyuan.”

“Sister Song Shiyuan.” The small fox demon’s tone was filled through and through with joy. “Sister, you’re beautiful, and your name is also very pleasant to hear.”

The innocent small fox demon praised people so directly.

It was precisely this childlike candidness that made Song Shiyuan feel even more ashamed.

Making her seem like a dirty adult.

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“You’re also very beautiful.” Song Shiyuan opened her mouth awkwardly. Then she imperceptibly shifted the topic away from herself. “Then what about your name? It should also be pleasant to hear, right?”

“Sister, Axi’s name is Ming Zhaoxi.”

The small fox demon answered sweetly in a delicate voice.

“This name was bestowed upon Axi by Lord Fox Monarch.”

The small fox demon’s face showed some pride.

[…Meow?!]

[Host, are you alright?!]

Lu Zhuxin quickly responded in his sea of consciousness to this guy who had been watching the show for so long. “What, I can’t use this name?”

[…]

“That vicious woman Ming Zhaoxi harmed me like this. So if I borrow this name to do some bad things, there’s nothing wrong with that, right?”

“Besides, this name was originally one I came up with.”

[Host, as long as you’re happy…]

Naturally, Song Shiyuan didn’t know the content of Lu Zhuxin and the System’s exchange.

But the small fox demon’s words made her suddenly wake up.

No matter how naturally innocent this small fox demon before her was, she was still a fox demon.

And Song Shiyuan was a female consort captured here by the Fox Monarch.

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Moreover, being able to have the Fox Monarch personally bestow a name meant that this small fox demon before her should have a deep relationship with that Fox Monarch she had never met.

Song Shiyuan didn’t believe that the cruel and volatile Fox Monarch would inexplicably give a name to an unrelated small fox.

Just what was the identity of this small fox demon before her?

But if she truly was deeply favored by the Fox Monarch, then what was the situation Song Shiyuan had just witnessed?

Song Shiyuan wasn’t a fool.

She had heard what those fox demons said earlier, and looking at the dirty clothes placed beside this small fox demon,

Perhaps the innocent small fox demon didn’t understand what this meant.

But Song Shiyuan, as a reliable adult, could understand at a glance what had just happened to this child.

However, if this small fox demon truly was someone close to the Fox Monarch, why would that Fox Monarch allow those low-class fox demons to bully her like this?

“Just now, they were bullying you. Do you understand?” Song Shiyuan looked at her seriously.

“Sister Shiyuan.” The small fox demon blinked her watery fox eyes. “Are you concerned about me?”

“Sister really is a good person.”

Song Shiyuan was called “sister” repeatedly by her in such a sweet voice that it made her blush a little.

She couldn’t really be considered a good person.

If she were truly a good person, she wouldn’t have waited until those fox demons all left before hypocritically coming to show concern for this small fox demon.

“This is a very serious matter.” Song Shiyuan’s face was stern.

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“Wu…” The small fox demon noticed the expression on Song Shiyuan’s face, and her small head drooped down slightly.

“It’s because Axi is useless. You can’t blame the elder sisters.” The small fox demon said.

“…?” Song Shiyuan’s face displayed a question mark.

“Axi just wanted to do something for the elder sisters.” The small fox demon hung her small head. “After all, Axi has no other use staying here. For Axi, being able to do something for everyone in Fox Palace is Axi’s happiness.”

Raising her head slightly, the small fox demon saw that Song Shiyuan’s expression was getting worse and worse. She immediately reached out her hand and carefully tugged at Song Shiyuan’s sleeve.

“Sister Shiyuan, please don’t be angry at Axi, okay?”

“You…” Song Shiyuan didn’t know what expression she should have.

She furrowed her brows slightly and grasped the small fox demon’s hand.

“Ah—!” The small fox demon was startled and instinctively wanted to pull her hand back into her sleeve.

But those hands were firmly gripped by Song Shiyuan.

Although in the dream, Song Shiyuan was the one being suppressed by the small fox demon.

But in reality, a sword cultivator who trained her physique had strength many times greater than this small fox demon who lacked exercise.

“What’s this all about?” Song Shiyuan said.

The small fox demon’s originally fair and tender palms had long since been frozen red.

These slender hands should have been carefully cherished by someone holding them in their palms, but now they had been ruined beyond recognition.

Even so, she still had to help those fox demons wash clothes?

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Song Shiyuan also saw that among those dirty clothes, there were even some particularly intimate undergarments.

Were the fox demons raised under the Fox Monarch all unable to take care of themselves in life like this? They needed others to wash even these kinds of things?

“Even to this extent, you’re still unwilling to tell the Fox Monarch about these matters?” Song Shiyuan’s eyes stared tightly at the small fox demon’s eyes, full of oppressive force.

“If you told the Fox Monarch about all these things, those fox demons wouldn’t dare treat you like this, would they?”

The timid and weak fox demon hung her head low.

Lu Zhuxin heard it. The junior martial sister from the sword sect before her was imperceptibly testing her relationship with the Fox Monarch.

Of course, this was naturally also within Lu Zhuxin’s expectations. This was bait she had deliberately revealed.

Lu Zhuxin quickly shook her head.

“I can’t.” She said, “I can’t disturb Her Majesty over such small matters.”

“Axi is useless. That Her Majesty allows Axi to continue staying here is already an enormous grace.”

“Moreover, a few days ago Her Majesty told Axi that she has already found an excellent and powerful sword cultivator lord for Axi.”

“As long as Axi is obedient and well-behaved, Lord Fox Monarch will give Axi to that sword cultivator lord.”

The small fox demon’s face showed longing for the future.

“Her Majesty said that as long as Axi can become that sword cultivator lord’s female consort, Axi will be able to obtain happiness.”

Song Shiyuan was greatly shocked.