When Liu Yan first met Yan Jiu, he thought she was a foolish, overly kind pheasant spirit. She didn't just kindly (forcefully) make him eat the eggs she laid to help his wounds heal; no matter how much he complained, she took care of him with all her heart.
It wasn't until his enemies came after him and the pheasant spirit abandoned him without hesitation and ran that he realized he had misjudged her.
Yan Jiu: If I ever see that chicken spirit again, I'll pluck every last feather off her!
Liu Yan was searching for her clan's homeland, while Yan Jiu was being hunted by his enemies. The two traveled together, and Yan Jiu ran into danger three times. Liu Yan abandoned him and ran away three times, too.
At first, Yan Jiu swore he'd pluck her feathers. Eventually, he stopped getting worked up about it.
Fine, let her run. As long as she was willing to come back in the end.
Besides laying eggs, Liu Yan had one other highly polished skill: running away at the first sign of trouble.
She abandoned Yan Jiu in a crisis three times. On the fourth, her conscience finally got the better of her, and she went back to fight alongside him. But Yan Jiu nearly died with his opponent while protecting her.
Holding the barely conscious Yan Jiu, Liu Yan wept like a flower in the rain. “Yan Jiu, I'll remember you forever. If I ever get married, I'll name my first child after you!”
Yan Jiu, with his last breath, immediately opened his eyes and snarled, “I'll crawl back from the underworld if I have to, but you are not marrying some other wild rooster!”
A little post-marriage scene:
One day Yan Jiu came home and saw a patterned egg on the bed. His little chicken spirit had taken her true form and was squatting beside it.
Yan Jiu, frowning: “...What is that?”
Liu Yan, lazily flapping a wing: “That's your kid.”
Yan Jiu: “...”
The story of a chicken spirit who's good at reading the room and protecting herself, and a short-tempered half-fox demon.
P.S. The female lead is not weak.
Reader's guide:
1. Both leads are beautiful.
2. 1v1.
3. This novel is entirely fictional. Please don't nitpick the details.
Theme: On the possibility and practicalities of raising chickens and foxes together in the same cage
