A Handsome Fox Spirit Comes to the City to Work with His Child

[A gorgeous, foolish, illiterate but confident fox demon top x a clingy, looks-obsessed romantic fool after losing his memories, and a restrained, celibate, old-fashioned daddy before losing them] The most beautiful fox spirit on Chunyang Mountain, Hu Baiyan, had been troubled lately. His human wife had disappeared! Hu Baiyan frowned and gently held back the baby in his arms, who kept raising its head and rooting around for milk. "Baby, Papa doesn't have milk, and didn't you just eat?" The baby, not yet able to fully take human form, had short white fox ears atop its head. It gazed at its papa with big, innocent eyes. Its delicate, beautiful face was soft with baby fat, its cheeks rosy and healthy. "Baby hungry." The human had been missing for half a month, and there was only a little milk powder left in the tin Hu Baiyan had bought. Hu Baiyan, who had never been down the mountain, thought for a few seconds before decisively deciding to take the baby down the mountain and seek out a successful fox spirit who could help him find work and earn money for milk powder. As for where the human had gone? Hu Baiyan wasn't worried at all. He could sense that the human's vital signs were healthy and stable. Ever since a fox spirit who worked away from home had given little Fox his old phone after getting a new one last year, Hu Baiyan had become hooked on audiobooks. How could he not know what was going on? When the human first clung to him, he'd been muddleheaded after hitting his head and couldn't remember anything. Now the human had surely regained his memories, forgotten Fox and the baby, and gone back to being a domineering CEO. The next part of the story would be this country fox taking his poor baby to the human's door, only to be coldly rejected and humiliated by a horrible mother-in-law and cruel relatives. Then they'd go through a torturous back-and-forth, suffering both physically and emotionally. Hmph, he wasn't going. Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Never look down on a poor demon. Once he'd gone down the mountain and made a fortune working alongside the city demons, he'd return as the Fox King with his baby and slap them all in the face! Hu Baiyan happily pictured it all. The baby in his arms saw that Papa was ignoring it and pouted sadly. Then it secretly buried its face against Papa's chest, puzzled, and tried to root around for milk again. The little baby didn't understand why there was no milk in this new pair of arms. O.o Once Hu Baiyan made up his mind, he acted on it. The next day, he carried the mountain's local specialties on his back, held the baby in his arms, and headed down the mountain with high spirits to seek out the successful city fox spirits. * The circle of wealthy families at the top of A City's society had been buzzing lately. Ling Youze, head of the Ling family, had returned after nearly three years missing. Not only had he returned, but the leg injury he'd suffered in a car accident as a child had reportedly healed, too. The wealthy families eagerly awaited Ling Youze's return to public life... but even after a month, there was still no sign of him. Ling Youze knew nothing of the commotion outside. Even if he had, he wouldn't have had time to deal with it. Waking naturally in the middle of the night once again, Ling Youze held himself rigid, his face livid as he felt the aching pressure and dampness across his chest. He had spent thirty years keeping himself chaste and had always been restrained and conservative. All he'd done was suddenly take a whim to climb a mountain, then accidentally fall off a cliff. But when he woke up, it was three years later, and his body had developed an unspeakable, private affliction. * A little scene from the demons' tea party. At the start of the year, before the spring snow had melted, a huge piece of gossip hit like a bomb. The demons of Chunyang Mountain, who had been contentedly hibernating and hadn't fully shaken off their winter sleep, were all thrown into an uproar by the shocking news. The only human son-in-law on their mountain had run away! The most beautiful fox spirit, Hu Baiyan, had been abandoned with a baby! The little demons gathered in groups of three or five and whispered among themselves. Even the demons who were hibernating had their gossipy friends break into their homes. Before they could even wake up, they'd already had an earful of gossip. "I told you, a demon and a human could never last. Humans have that seven-year itch or whatever, and this one ran off in less than three years. He didn't even have time to get itchy." "Exactly! The baby can only just talk, and it hasn't even been weaned. He could at least have taken the baby with him before he ran off." "If you ask me, Foxy shouldn't have picked up that heartless human in the first place." "Did little Fox pick him up? Didn't the human see how pretty little Fox was and cling to him? They took him down the mountain, and then he came back on his own." "So that's how it was. O.o?" * [Kept on 2026/8.4] Theme: Live positively and work hard toward your goals