Su Ying is a nine-tailed fox who lost her inner core and ended up stranded in the capital.
When her cold illness flares up, there’s only one way to stay alive: cling to Pei Ji, who possesses intensely yang purple energy, and absorb his warmth and aura.
The first time they meet, she throws herself into the arms of the capital’s notorious living devil in front of a room full of powerful people. Everyone expects him to toss her out, but no one knows that as she relies on him to stay alive, she also suppresses the yin backlash that has tormented him for twenty years.
She treats him like a long-term meal ticket, hiding her fox ears and tail and sneaking into his bed in the middle of the night. Though he knows she’s full of lies, he wraps prayer beads around her wrist and uses a personal bodyguard contract to keep her within half a meter of him.
“Meals, lodging, and yang energy included, plus a million a month?”
Su Ying immediately presses her fingerprint onto the contract. “What a generous boss!”
Later, as a cruise ship teeters on the brink of sinking and vengeful spirits close in to kill them, the little fox reveals her fox ears and long tail in his arms.
Pei Ji pinches one of her trembling fox ears and chuckles. “So you’re a little fox.”
Neither of them knows that fragments of her inner core, scattered across the underground black market, are stirring an ancient seal. And the person who stole her core may never have been a stranger or an enemy, but someone she knew better than anyone: an old friend.
