After work, Ting Lan happens to pass by the Yao Clan's Cloud City office. A large sign reads: DANGEROUS BEASTS INSIDE. KEEP AWAY.
Just as she's about to go around, a tiny fox with a perfectly spotless coat comes wobbling out. It sees her and yips excitedly, clinging to her leg and refusing to let go.
Ting Lan: ...?
Behind the fox stands a young man in a crane-feather cloak, with strikingly beautiful features and pale knuckles. His aloofness makes him seem above the common world, like a sickly, noble young lord from a storybook.
The little fox is clingy and ignores its owner, insisting on going home with her. Ting Lan feels a little awkward, but as they keep running into each other, she and the young man gradually become friends.
Only later does she realize the dangerous beast is the cub's father.
Bai Xiangyu, clan leader of Qingqiu, the world's only nine-tailed fox and the strongest fighter among the yao.
He's also the madman everyone talks about: the one who, to keep his fiancée, defied yin and yang and disregarded his foundations, using his own yao power to carry a child by himself.
And word has it that the fiancée in that rumor was a human.
The yao grow even more wary, warning their youngsters not to fall in love with humans, in case they get their hearts and bodies stolen and can't even maintain their human forms.
Ting Lan respects every single father raising a child on his own.
Until the day her family arranges a blind date for her. She recognizes the man as an old classmate and spends a little longer talking with him. After she gets out of the car, a hand reaches out of the dim stairwell and drags her away.
The pale, sickly nobleman pins her in the corner, his lips trembling and bloodless. His striking eyes are wild with despair, his possessiveness astonishingly strong.
"A-Yao, did you leave me for him?"
"The child couldn't keep you either. If I kill him, you'll be with me, won't you?"
The aloof, distant single father persona has crumbled, and the things he says are even more shocking.
"..."
She seems to be the heartless fiancée who abandoned her husband and child.
#So-called-accidental-encounter: the little tadpole was looking for its mother QAQ#
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Theme: Protect animals and cherish your family