Volume 1, Chapter 65 – She’s Getting Married

“Shiyuan, why are you sitting on the ground?” A familiar soft, gentle voice came.

Song Shiyuan raised her head. She saw the little fox demon’s familiar face.

The little fox demon before her was looking at her with a face full of concern.

However, the moment Song Shiyuan saw her, she felt a stabbing pain in her heart.

Because she discovered that what the little fox demon before her was wearing was no longer the pink dress she had given her earlier.

Instead, she had changed back into that plain white servant’s dress.

Why change clothes?

What exactly had she gone to buy that required changing clothes?

Song Shiyuan didn’t know, couldn’t figure it out. She only felt that the little beauty before her pierced her eyes painfully.

That nightmare she had almost forgotten seemed to begin appearing before her eyes again.

When she had just encountered the little fox demon, Song Shiyuan had once had a nightmare. The protagonists in the dream were the little fox demon and Song Shixuan.

Thinking of what she had seen by the lake earlier, Song Shiyuan felt like the sharp knife that had been inserted into her heart was being pulled out by someone, then brutally stabbed back in.

Moreover, getting closer, Song Shiyuan could faintly smell the sweet fragrance coming from the little fox demon’s body.

That fragrance was like sweet bamboo in spring, fresh and gentle.

Why was this scent so much stronger than before?

Song Shiyuan speculated that this was because before coming here, the little fox demon had released her pheromones.

Why would she release pheromones? What kind of shopping required releasing pheromones?

Song Shiyuan lowered her eyes slightly. She moved her dry throat and asked, “Why did you suddenly change clothes?”

“…” The fox demon girl before her fell silent for a moment.

Song Shiyuan could see the evasiveness in the girl’s eyes.

Her heart, as if being pricked by needles, hurt even more.

“On the way here, I tripped and tore my clothes. I had no choice but to change,” the little fox demon said.

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No one could see that Song Shiyuan’s hands hidden in her sleeves were trembling slightly.

Changed because the clothes were torn?

How bad was the fall to tear a dress so badly it had to be changed?

Song Shiyuan wanted to ask, did you fall into a flower bush, get caught by thorns, and then tear it when you got up?

But in the end, she didn’t continue asking about this.

She asked in a slightly hoarse voice, “Then… what about the things you bought?”

She had seen early on that the little fox demon had returned empty-handed.

“I went too late. It was closed,” the little fox demon said. “So I didn’t buy anything.”

“I see…” Song Shiyuan didn’t press further, but asked, “Then the hairpin I gave you…”

Song Shiyuan saw the little fox demon before her tighten her sleeves.

She heard a soft utterance.

“I’m sorry…”

I’m sorry?

Sorry for what?

What was she apologizing for?

Was it for the hairpin, or for her own lies?

Was the person before her truly the little fox demon that Song Shiyuan loved?

Was she truly still the little fox demon who had promised to spend their lives together?

Song Shiyuan didn’t have the courage to continue asking. She didn’t want to face this question. Right now, she only wanted to choose to escape.

As long as she chose to escape, the little fox demon before her would still be the lover whose heart was connected to hers.

“It’s fine.” Song Shiyuan pulled out a smile that looked worse than crying. “It’s okay if it’s lost, it’s okay if it broke… as long as you’re still by my side, that’s enough.”

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The silver-haired little fox demon looked at her with complicated eyes. “Shiyuan, aren’t you going to ask me anything else?”

Song Shiyuan said nothing more, only pulled at the corners of her bitter mouth.

Ask what? What was there to ask?

Song Shiyuan didn’t want to know. Song Shiyuan didn’t want to hear.

Song Shiyuan wasn’t even willing to think about why her brother, who was supposedly captured by fox demons, would appear in Mingzhao City having a secret rendezvous with her little fox demon.

As long as she escaped this reality, she wouldn’t be confused, wouldn’t be troubled, wouldn’t feel heartache.

“Let’s go back first…”

Song Shiyuan stood up and turned to leave first.

Lu Zhuxin watched Song Shiyuan’s lonely back, tapping her own lips, deep in thought.

This girl could still maintain such stable emotions in this situation?

Could her calculations have been wrong?

No, this appearance was more like self-deception.

Lu Zhuxin curved the corners of her lips.

Song Shiyuan’s love for the little fox demon was actually this deep?

She would rather deceive herself than face reality?

…

All along the way back, Song Shiyuan and Lu Zhuxin didn’t speak another word.

When the two had left in the morning, they were still an intimate couple. On the return journey, they seemed to have become two complete strangers who didn’t know each other.

Song Shiyuan walked stiffly at the front like a walking corpse.

Right now, she didn’t even dare walk together with this little fox demon beside her.

Now, just seeing her face made Song Shiyuan think of that earlier nightmare.

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Lu Zhuxin behind her didn’t mind this. She could guess how complicated Song Shiyuan’s inner heart must be right now.

This was exactly the effect Song Shiyuan wanted.

Little Shiyuan, be troubled!

Go doubt everything!

Then go investigate the truth you want to know!

The two were separated by a zhang, returning to the Fox Palace like two strangers.

Returning to the Fox Palace, Song Shiyuan discovered something else was wrong.

After they had confirmed their relationship, the little fox demon had already moved next to Song Shiyuan to be her neighbor.

At this moment, the courtyard where the little fox demon lived was now gathered with quite a few fox demons.

Song Shiyuan even saw that the elusive Fox Palace steward Hu Xian’er was also here.

“Ah! Little Sister Axi is back!” A fox demon saw the two returning and immediately called out happily. “Little Sister Axi, why are you only coming back now?”

“We’ve all been waiting for you for so long!”

Hu Xian’er also walked before the two. She first gave Song Shiyuan a cold, scrutinizing glare, then spoke to the little fox demon.

“Did the matter I asked you to handle go smoothly?”

The little fox demon looked unenthusiastic, her eyes listless.

Nevertheless, she still answered Hu Xian’er. “Steward Xian’er, the matter you instructed, Axi has already completed.”

Hu Xian’er’s face showed a satisfied smile. “Very good. You did very well.”

“Hurry inside. Your wedding dress has already been sewn for you.”

“Go try it on now. If it doesn’t fit, there’s still time to alter it.”

Hearing the words “wedding dress,” Song Shiyuan, who had been silent all along, finally snapped back to attention.

“Wedding dress? What wedding dress?! Whose wedding dress?!”

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Song Shiyuan saw the little fox demon before her look at her with eyes of unclear meaning. Her mouth moved.

Song Shiyuan had originally thought the little fox demon would explain something to her, but she didn’t.

The little fox demon merely nodded at Hu Xian’er and entered her own courtyard. “Alright, Steward Xian’er, Axi will go in now.”

She had no intention of explaining anything to Song Shiyuan, nor did she say a single word to Song Shiyuan.

“Axi…” Song Shiyuan wanted to call out to her.

She discovered that the Axi before her had become very strange at this moment.

She couldn’t hold onto her anymore.

“Axi is getting married. You should feel happy,” Hu Xian’er said faintly beside Song Shiyuan.

“Axi is getting married? What’s going on?! She never mentioned this to me!” Song Shiyuan’s emotions were somewhat out of control.

The muscles throughout her body were trembling. That cold feeling surged up once again.

Her body was ice-cold, her brain trembling!

Even her voice was hoarse.

Just a short while ago, she and her little fox demon had expressed their feelings to each other.

They had exchanged tokens of affection beneath the fox clan’s sacred tree.

They had hung a marriage plaque on the marriage destiny tree.

They had kissed in the rain of pink cherry blossoms.

Song Shiyuan had even made plans to take the little fox demon away from the Fox Palace. To forget the past, forget the pain. To start their new life together outside.

How could the little fox demon… how could Ming Zhaoxi marry someone else?!

Song Shiyuan couldn’t accept this.