A Fox's Words at Qingqiu Comfort the Cold Branch

Ji Taoyan is a little fox who loves peaches, and she grew up on the outskirts of Qingqiu.

When she comes of age, her fox mother's dying wish leaves her no choice but to pack her little bundle and head to the capital to repay her mother's benefactor.

But her mother said that a fox could get lonely all by herself, so she could find a human father to keep her company.

So the little fox politely knocks on the gates of Prince Yu's manor.

"Hello, I'm here to find Father Prince Yu. Is he home?"

After confirming their relationship, the little fox solemnly opens her work manual. One sentence is marked in red:

Find the benefactor! The benefactor with a fox-shaped birthmark!

At a floating-cup banquet, the young masters and ladies of the noble families gather.

As soon as the little fox enters the garden, she hears a splash and turns to look.

A man whose face she can't make out is struggling in the water, trying to swim back to the surface.

The little fox looks once, twice, three times.

The rippling water catches the man's sleeve and rolls it up, revealing a red birthmark shaped like a fox's head on his arm.

The little fox: "Benefactor! Mother's benefactor!"

Why does this benefactor look a little familiar?

Did she save him somewhere before?

Jiang Shizhao is the second son of a declining marquis's household, with an older brother above him and a younger brother below.

He fell ill as a child and was slower than other people at everything. Everyone laughed at him behind his back, calling him a fool.

Teasing, cursing, and mockery followed him for seventeen years.

Only after meeting Ji Taoyan did he learn what it felt like to be protected, cherished, and loved.

Just as he is about to lose control of his wildly beating heart,

he hears Ji Taoyan fret to the fox plushie in her hands: "Why does Jiang Shiheng have a fox birthmark too? Did I repay the wrong person?"

The heart that had been beating just a moment ago dies instantly.

[Blunt, sharp-tongued little fox x honest, awkward son of a concubine]

Up next: "Death Is My Ghost (Female-Dominated World)." Self-indulgent, written to my tastes.

1

Chang Yuan has one big secret: she likes her nemesis, Lu He.

But no one ever taught Chang Yuan how to love someone. All she can do is try every possible way to get Lu He's attention, but each time she only makes him angrier.

When she reaches the age to discuss marriage, Chang Yuan kneels in front of her grandmother's door for a day and a night before her grandmother finally agrees to let her marry Lu He.

Just as she's excitedly preparing to confess her feelings to Lu He, she accidentally sees him confessing his feelings to his cousin.

Chang Yuan's world collapses in an instant. Her heart turns to ashes.

She tries every possible way to stop the marriage, but Lu He gives her a furious scolding, and then her grandmother sends her back to their hometown to reflect on her actions.

2

The night before Lu He's wedding, Chang Yuan drinks herself into a stupor in her family's courtyard, even thinking about ending her life.

But just as she takes a dagger and is about to kill herself, the longevity lock hanging around her neck suddenly cracks.

It was a gift from young Lu He when they first met.

She has kept it around her neck all this time and never once taken it off.

Chang Yuan's right eyelid keeps twitching. She jumps on a horse and races back to the capital.

But the news that greets her is that Lu He is dead.

He died the night before his wedding.

3

Lu He's reputation is ruined, too, because he was found lying with a servant when he died.

The Lu family won't allow him to stain the family's reputation.

They wrap Lu He's corpse in a mat of weeds and dump it in a mass grave.

Chang Yuan digs through the pile of corpses until she finally finds Lu He, covered in blood.

After that, footsteps often sound in Chang Yuan's room. She always feels someone beside her, but whenever she turns around, she finds no one there.

To bring Lu He back to life, Chang Yuan studies Maoshan Taoist arts.

Just as she finishes preparing everything and believes she can revive her beloved, she sees Lu He's ghost.

[Obsessive, gloomy woman x sunny, sweet man]

Theme: Everyone deserves the right to pursue happiness, and foxes are no exception.