When I was three years old, Blind Li told me a fortune telling: "This girl will not be able to return to the village until she is twenty-three years old."
My mother took me away from Liuhetun overnight and hid in Harbin for twenty years.
On my twenty-third birthday, Blind Li stood waiting for me at the door of my house: "It's time to go back. That thing in the back mountain has been waiting for you for twenty years."
I went up the back hill, and there was a man with fox ears sitting under the big elm tree.
He said his name was Chu Haixing, and he was the ninth among the three bedrooms of the Hu family.
He said that my father would sacrifice his life in exchange for him and me.
He said: "Shen Nian'an, from today on, you are my disciple. If you don't, you will die within three years."
I answered.
Since then, I have seen the Bai family fairy coffin that has been pressed for three hundred years at the bottom of the pond, the half-human and half-faced Huang family sister-in-law in the mist of the deep mountains, and the white porcelain vase of ashes at the Yinsi Ferry——
I also saw his fox ears that stood up under the moon, and his tail that swept across my forehead.
He blocked the negative energy for me, burned the coffin under the water for me, and lost my temper for me for the only time——
"You are just like your father, you care about everything."
But he never said how my father died.
He never said how many lifetimes he had been waiting for me.
My father's cause and effect, the Bai family's seal, the Huang family's secret——
All the answers are hidden in his golden vertical pupils.
And he only said one sentence:
"You are mine. If anything happens to you, I will be there."
