Volume 1, Chapter 66 – As Expected

Song Shiyuan angrily confronted Hu Xian’er. “Ming Zhaoxi! How can she marry someone else when she’s already been eternally marked!”

Upon hearing this, Hu Xian’er’s delicate face immediately turned cold. She reached out and grasped Song Shiyuan’s throat.

She whispered a warning in Song Shiyuan’s ear.

“Song Shiyuan, do you hear what you’re saying? What do you mean ‘Ming Zhaoxi can’t marry someone else’?”

“Do you really wish for her to suffer that much?”

“That’s not what I meant…” Song Shiyuan said through gritted teeth.

“Besides, you’re shouting so loudly, do you want everyone here to know about this?” Hu Xian’er scolded in a low voice.

Song Shiyuan fell silent, only staring at Hu Xian’er with those dark eyes.

“Remember your identity. You’re just Her Majesty’s female consort,” Hu Xian’er warned. “Here, you have no authority to decide anything.”

“Put away those twisted thoughts in your heart, consort.”

“What you should be doing now is blessing her from behind, and when the day of her wedding comes, seeing her off properly!”

“Allowing you to see her off is already the greatest mercy I can show you.”

Song Shiyuan’s fists clenched tightly, her nails digging deep into her flesh.

Once again, she hated her own powerlessness.

Yes, she was merely the World-Ending Fox Monarch’s female consort. Being able to breathe freely in this Fox Palace was already the greatest grace bestowed upon her.

What right did a mere consort like her have to interfere in a Fox Palace maidservant’s marriage?

Yet Song Shiyuan’s heart ached with pain, and her chest burned with indignation.

From the little fox demon’s reaction, she clearly knew about this long ago.

But why hadn’t the little fox demon told her anything?

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These past days spent together from dawn to dusk, this time filled with tender affection…

Was it all fake?

The little fox demon already knew she would be married off. So why did she agree to Song Shiyuan’s courtship?

Why did she take her to the Flower Festival? Why did she accept her token of affection? Why did she kiss her in the cherry blossom rain?

Why? Why? Why?

Song Shiyuan’s mind was full of questions.

Hot, wet liquid slid from the corners of her eyes.

Originally, after seeing the little fox demon rendezvousing with that man in Mingzhao City, Song Shiyuan thought her blood and body temperature should have been frozen by the cold.

But at this moment, Song Shiyuan discovered that her tears were still scalding hot.

Right now, she desperately wanted to find the little fox demon. She wanted to hear the little fox demon explain all of this in person.

These things needed an answer.

She couldn’t continue avoiding it in such confusion.

Song Shiyuan had a feeling that if she continued like this, she would truly lose her little fox demon.

…

That night, the fox demons who had gathered in the little fox demon’s courtyard had all left.

Song Shiyuan stood at the courtyard gate with darkened eyes.

The Fox Palace courtyards all had restrictions.

Song Shiyuan wasn’t a fox demon, so she couldn’t pass through these restrictions freely.

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Without the little fox demon’s permission, she couldn’t enter the little fox demon’s courtyard.

The lights were still on in the courtyard. Song Shiyuan knew the little fox demon hadn’t gone to sleep yet.

She was standing outside the courtyard. The little fox demon would surely know.

Sure enough, Song Shiyuan hadn’t waited long before the restriction gate ahead opened.

Appearing before Song Shiyuan was still the little fox demon’s pretty face, though her complexion didn’t look very good.

What made Song Shiyuan’s eyes sting was the crimson wedding dress the little fox demon wore.

Red as blood, brilliant as a sword.

The little fox demon looked beautiful in the wedding dress.

But this wedding dress wasn’t being worn for her.

It only made her feel blinded.

“I thought… you wouldn’t want to see me again,” the little fox demon said with a downcast tone.

Hearing this, Song Shiyuan immediately understood everything.

This little fox demon. She knew it all.

She knew Song Shiyuan was angry, and she knew why Song Shiyuan was angry.

“I think we need to talk,” Song Shiyuan said with a hoarse voice. “I don’t want to lose you like this, without understanding anything…”

Much less be abandoned by you.

Song Shiyuan didn’t finish her sentence. She felt like she must have gone mad.

The other party’s betrayal was already fact. She had seen it with her own eyes.

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This time, it was the little fox demon who betrayed her first, betrayed their promise, betrayed her feelings.

Yet Song Shiyuan’s heart actually wanted to humbly seek an answer.

Song Shiyuan felt she had truly gone insane.

She must have been poisoned by the fox demon to be so confused.

The little fox demon looked at her deeply before saying, “It’s cold outside. Come in to talk.”

Song Shiyuan followed the little fox demon into her courtyard.

This wasn’t her first time coming to the little fox demon’s courtyard, but never before had it felt this oppressive and unfamiliar.

Only after entering the room did the little fox demon sit down on the bed.

“Whatever you want to ask, just ask,” the little fox demon said. “Whatever I can answer, I’ll try my best to answer you.”

“As for the truthfulness of the answers, you should know that fox demons are a race that loves to deceive. Whether you believe it or not can only depend on yourself.”

“I believe you,” Song Shiyuan said. “I always believe what you say. Even if it’s lies, I’ll still believe it.”

“…” Lu Zhuxin was silent for a while before saying, “Ask then.”

Song Shiyuan raised her head, her dark eyes projecting a dangerous light.

Today, she truly had too many, too many questions she wanted to ask the lover before her.

Everything, all the doubts, all the words, all pressed down on Song Shiyuan’s heart, making it hard for her to breathe.

However at this moment, the first question that escaped her lips was, “The things you told me before, your feelings for me… Were they all lies?”

Song Shiyuan saw the little fox demon before her fall silent for a long while, as if she hadn’t expected Song Shiyuan’s first question to be this.

“I like you, Song Shiyuan. That part wasn’t a lie,” Lu Zhuxin looked at Song Shiyuan and spoke the truth from her heart.

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How could Lu Zhuxin not like such a cute female protagonist?

However, Song Shiyuan was ultimately just a character from Lu Zhuxin’s own pen.

This affection could only go so far.

Lu Zhuxin had never been someone whose reason was dominated by emotion.

Song Shiyuan heard the affirmative answer, and the look in her eyes eased slightly.

She had said it. As long as it was something the little fox demon said, she was always willing to believe it, regardless of truth or falsehood.

She could tolerate a fox demon’s nature.

Only betrayal could not be forgiven.

“Since you like me… then why did you still deceive me?” Song Shiyuan said.

“Why… were you with that man?”

That man naturally referred to Song Shixuan.

The man who was supposedly captured by the Fox Monarch, who was also Song Shiyuan’s older brother.

Hearing this question, the little fox demon’s face showed no surprise.

Only in her brows was there a trace of unresolvable sorrow.

“As expected… you saw it,” the little fox demon let out a long breath. She sighed. “I didn’t want to lie to you.”

Hearing the little fox demon’s personal admission, even though Song Shiyuan had already seen it with her own eyes, the bitterness in her heart still surged out uncontrollably.

She questioned in a low voice, “Why…”