Volume 1, Chapter 67 – Axi Saw It

“Why?” Song Shiyuan raised her head, and in her dark eyes, a hint of blood red faintly appeared.

So why? Why was all of this happening?

If the little fox demon had feelings for her, why did she still betray her?!

Why did she still go find that man?

The little fox demon didn’t directly answer Song Shiyuan’s question. She only looked at her deeply before saying, “Isn’t it the same for you, Shiyuan?”

“Don’t you also have things you’re hiding from me?”

“What?” Song Shiyuan froze.

She hadn’t expected the little fox demon to turn the question back on her.

What did this mean? The little fox demon betrayed her, and now she was blaming Song Shiyuan instead?

Was this Song Shiyuan’s fault?

Was the person before her really still that little fox demon?

“Ming Zhaoxi… what do you mean by that?” Song Shiyuan asked.

Hearing Song Shiyuan’s question, the little fox demon before her curved her lips into a smile again, bitter meaning spreading across her face once more.

“See… Shiyuan, it’s just like this.”

“You yourself also deliberately have things you’re hiding from me, don’t you?”

“For example… earlier, in Mingzhao City, the man you were with.” The little fox demon looked at Song Shiyuan. “That man dressed like a scholar. He’s a sword cultivator, isn’t he?”

Song Shiyuan froze.

Her movements with Lu Guan had clearly been very discreet. How could they have been seen?

Moreover, the person who discovered her whereabouts was this single-tailed little fox demon before her who had no cultivation?

The little fox demon before her didn’t stop there. “And the Floating Words Inn in the west part of the city… that’s the secret base your fellow disciples chose, right?”

“Axi…”

“How did you…”

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How did she know?!

This time, what showed in Song Shiyuan’s eyes was no longer astonishment, but shock.

The Lingxiao Sword Sect disciples’ gathering point had been exposed just like that, and exposed to a fox demon at that.

This was an extremely dangerous matter.

A wave of panic rose in Song Shiyuan’s heart.

But the fox demon before her was the one Song Shiyuan loved!

“Shiyuan, you just used the name ‘Ming Zhaoxi,’ but now you’ve changed to ‘Axi’ again.” The little fox demon was still smiling, smiling very bitterly.

“Axi… I’m sorry.” Song Shiyuan’s hands beneath her sleeves clenched nervously into fists as she lowered her head. “I didn’t mean to hide it from you.”

“But this matter… it’s really…”

The little fox demon shook her head, interrupting Song Shiyuan’s words. “I understand. I can comprehend it. I won’t blame you.”

“Fox demons are very sensitive to the scent of people they’ve had intimate contact with. Your martial brothers weren’t careful enough.”

“But it doesn’t matter. I used my pheromones to erase the traces for you.”

Song Shiyuan was startled. “Axi…”

The exposure of the Lingxiao Sword Sect disciples’ whereabouts was her fault.

If Song Shiyuan’s martial brothers really encountered problems because of this, Song Shiyuan would be wholly to blame.

On one side was her lover, on the other her fellow disciples.

Song Shiyuan didn’t know how to choose between them.

But she hadn’t expected the little fox demon would actually choose to help her.

By doing this, wasn’t she betraying her own clan, betraying the World-Ending Fox Monarch?

“Shiyuan, are you surprised?” The little fox demon looked at Song Shiyuan’s shocked face and still smiled bitterly. “Moreover, Axi knows that the things you’re hiding from me, Shiyuan, aren’t limited to just this one matter.”

What else was there?

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Song Shiyuan couldn’t think of anything. She hadn’t done anything else this time, had she?

“…” Song Shiyuan chose to remain silent.

The little fox demon didn’t mind the expression on her face and continued, “Shiyuan, when you were pulling Axi around to play everywhere in the Fox Palace before, were you really just simply playing?”

“…” Song Shiyuan was speechless.

She suddenly felt a suffocating sensation in her chest.

“Axi remembers that you borrowed talismans and spirit ink from someone before, Shiyuan.” The little fox demon said, “The Fox Palace’s spirit ink contains some special spiritual fragrance different from the outside world’s spirit ink. For fox demons, this kind of spiritual fragrance isn’t hard to distinguish.”

“Shiyuan, during those days when you accompanied Axi on our outings, Axi could often smell that spirit ink scent on you.”

“Can you tell Axi what you were doing with the spirit ink during that time?”

“Were you writing something? Or perhaps…”

“…Drawing something?”

She knew. She knew everything!

This little fox demon… the one Song Shiyuan loved.

Her perceptiveness was terrifyingly sharp.

She knew it all, but she hadn’t said anything.

Song Shiyuan’s pupils contracted again. “Axi… I…”

The sense of panic in her heart nearly drowned her completely.

She had nothing to say.

The things the little fox demon spoke of, every single one of them, were all things Song Shiyuan had done.

She couldn’t refute them, couldn’t conceal them.

If these matters were known by others, such as that Fox Palace steward…

Song Shiyuan didn’t dare imagine the consequences.

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Lu Zhuxin saw the color of panic clearly flowing through Song Shiyuan’s eyes, and she couldn’t help but smile imperceptibly.

“How about that, System? Look, I’ve successfully fooled little Shiyuan!”

[Not looking.]

The System’s answer was still brief.

Lu Zhuxin didn’t mind.

What she needed to do was turn the tables.

Wasn’t little Shiyuan here to question her?

Well then, now let’s see who was questioning whom?

As long as she seized the initiative in the conversation, Lu Zhuxin could firmly guide the topic in the direction she wanted.

“Shiyuan, you don’t need to worry.” The little fox demon said, “Axi hasn’t told anyone about these things…”

“And in the future, I won’t speak of them either.”

“Axi doesn’t know anything, hasn’t seen anything.”

“Axi…” Song Shiyuan’s body trembled slightly, and the corners of her eyes grew uncontrollably sour.

“I’m sorry…”

“You don’t need to apologize. I know your difficulties, Shiyuan.” The little fox demon still smiled. “I’ve never been angry at you.”

“But I…” Song Shiyuan felt she couldn’t speak.

Clearly at the start, she had come angrily to find the little fox demon seeking an answer, but now she discovered she had no way to righteously question the little fox demon about anything.

Just like that night when the little fox demon resolutely left, what she had said to Song Shiyuan then.

Their relationship from the very beginning had been twisted, unequal.

Mixed with too many things.

The fox clan’s marriage tree could bless couples who truly loved each other.

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But if a couple had ulterior motives from the start, could they still receive blessings?

Ming Zhaoxi’s name would be crossed out. Could this be the fox clan’s sacred tree punishing them?

But Song Shiyuan’s feelings for the little fox demon were completely genuine!

“Shiyuan, I know why you came tonight.” The little fox demon continued, “It’s just that some things, even if I tell you, have no meaning and can’t change anything…”

“I don’t remember if I mentioned it to you before, but my marriage was originally arranged by Her Majesty…”

The little fox demon’s marriage had already been arranged?

Had the little fox demon told Song Shiyuan about this before?

Had she?

Yes, she really had!

Song Shiyuan remembered. Before the little fox demon lost her memories, she had indeed mentioned it.

The World-Ending Fox Monarch had once wanted to give the little fox demon to a sword cultivator as a female consort.

And at that time, Song Shiyuan had also investigated who that despicable sword cultivator surnamed “Song” was.

Naturally, she had found nothing.

Later, the little fox demon never mentioned it again.

After the little fox demon was eternally marked, Song Shiyuan had thought this matter should have been dropped.

How could she have forgotten? Such an important matter, how could she forget?!

However, Song Shiyuan didn’t understand. How could a fox demon who couldn’t practice yin-yang dual cultivation with sword cultivators go serve someone else as a consort?

Would she simply serve with her beauty?

Just be an ordinary mortal couple?