My name is Hu Li, a name I use in the human world. I'm a nine-tailed fox.
When Qingqiu fell into chaos, Xuan Jiu's foxfire burned off one of my tails. Clutching half a jade pendant, I fled to the human world. An old woman gave me this name, hoping I would forget that I was a fox.
For ten years among humans, I hid my pointed ears and kept my head down, until I met Chu Yichen. He was the young master of a cultivation sect, yet whenever I lost control of my demonic aura, he would quietly suppress it for me with a talisman.
The day I died in Xuan Jiu's foxfire, I pressed the jade pendant into his hands. He held me and refused to leave, while the jade burned a red mark into his palm.
Only later did I learn that the pendant held a message I had left behind: “In our next life, wait for me at the Reincarnation Platform.”
He believed it. Every month, he spent half of it keeping vigil at the platform. He waited ten years and wore away half his cultivation, all for the sake of a mere possibility.
Now I stand amid the mists of Qingqiu, my newly grown tail still dusted with frost from the Reincarnation Platform.
Chu Yichen, this time, I'll be the one to find you.
