The day I told the First Highness I wanted to break up, he had just taken nine strikes of heavenly lightning in my place. He forcefully wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stared at me gravely. “Why?”
I thought, why else? You're going to become the Heavenly Emperor. What does it look like, always hanging around with a fox?
But I couldn't say that, so I just stammered, “I don't like you anymore.”
His lips were deathly pale, and I felt a little sorry for him. Then he suddenly laughed, gripping the tip of my tail and declaring arrogantly, “Fine. I was the one who forced you into this in the first place. Don't take what happened today to heart. We'll call it even.”
I nodded lightly. “That's fair. Take care, Your Highness.” But he wouldn't let go. His lips grew even paler, and I couldn't tell whether it was from his injuries or because I'd angered him.
In the end, he did let me go. But he took my tail, the softest, fluffiest, most beautiful one I'd raised for three thousand years.
I thought that was the end of us, but I never expected that we would get together after all.
When it happened, our story shook the Three Realms and spread across the four seas and eight lands. The old dragon returned from Mount Buzhou, glared at me in exasperation, and finally said helplessly, “You really are a calamity, aren't you?”
Aloof Crown Prince of Heaven x proper nine-tailed fox spirit
