[Liar Princess x Nine-Tailed Fox Demon] (I really will write this... I'll pick it back up after exams... after your exams, I'll take yours... Probably around 2027... I love this story so much, and I have chapters saved up, so I won't abandon it _:(´□`" ∠):_)
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Yu Changdeng's first half of life was wretched. She wandered the mortal world, so lowly that even the lowliest ghosts spat at her. At the gambling dens, she was the number-one con artist, denounced by everyone but impossible to deal with.
After learning the truth about her origins, but before saving that fox, Changdeng had only one thing on her mind: returning to the palace and reclaiming everything that should have been hers as the eldest princess.
She also wanted to ask why they had abandoned her when she was still an infant.
In the thirty-sixth year of Guanglu, she was forced to take in a white-furred fox on the brink of death.
The first thing the fox did after waking was proudly swish the nine tails he'd "accidentally" revealed. "Do you like me? These are the most beautiful tails in all of Guanglu."
And so Miss Yu was forced to change her priorities: first get rid of that obnoxious fox, then storm the palace.
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The land of Guanglu has three realms in all: demons and humans are equal, and ghosts come after them.
Among the demons, the fox clan reigns supreme.
In the thirty-sixth year, Ling Jiuqi was unfortunately sent to the human realm on a mission for the first time.
His mission: to take the heart's blood of the eldest princess, rumored to have died in infancy.
The utterly inexperienced Ling Jiuqi resolved to follow the foxes' usual playbook. Step one: make her fall for this fox's charms.
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Along the way, the nine-tailed fox, who proved far from easy to get rid of, kept smiling at her and saying he had nine tails and nine lives, so he could keep her company for a long time.
Yu Changdeng, unmoved by his charms, didn't care much. She thought he was incredibly annoying.
Later, after using every means and getting blood on her hands, she finally reclaimed the moon that should have belonged to her all along. But she forgot the fox who had always followed her. He had been there all along, just as he had said when they first met.
Only by then, he was missing all nine tails.
"Now, Deng Deng, do you like me?"
#A fox has nine lives, but loves only one person
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Reader's Guide:
* A small ensemble cast. This isn't a power fantasy about an invincible heroine. The leads grow together. Here comes another odd couple of equally strong leads?
* A love between a human and a fox that never quite ended (?)
Blurb written on 2023.2.7, screenshot saved
Theme: Break things down to build them back up. After the darkest night comes dawn.
