Tang Yao was born a noble among foxes, with seven tails.
For three thousand years, she made no effort to improve herself, choosing to lie flat in her fox form.
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One day, she rescued a cultivator who had slipped and fallen off a cliff. In keeping with the fox clan's tradition of repaying kindness, Tang Yao unilaterally decided to take him as her spirit pet.
From then on, she became a fox with a spirit pet to keep her nest warm. A sense of responsibility welled up within her, and she climbed trees to pick fruit and waded into rivers to catch fish, taking on the family duty of feeding her spirit pet.
But the hateful "spirit pet" refused to warm her nest. He even mocked her for having only seven tails and weak magic, and then fell in love with another fox's fur.
She was obviously the most pettable fox in the entire fox clan!
Even Lord Lingguang, a renowned deity in the Celestial Realm, had once wanted her as his spirit pet. How dare this mere mortal show such contempt for her noble bloodline!
To wipe away the humiliation, Tang Yao worked hard and finally grew a ninth tail!
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Lord Lingguang once chanced upon a fluffy, impossibly adorable fox in the mountains.
Later, when the fox clan held a grand banquet, Lord Lingguang showed up uninvited.
The Fox King and Queen were alarmed. When they learned he had come to ask for their only daughter as his spirit pet, the two sides struck a deal: if he could get the lazy fox to grow nine tails and take human form, they would agree to let him take her as his spirit pet.
So Lord Lingguang approached the little fox in mortal form,
coaxing her, tempting her, and sweet-talking her to unsettle her,
then mocking and disparaging her to strengthen her resolve,
and at last he urged her to grow nine tails!
Her beautiful nine tails descended like a huge umbrella, covering him so completely that not even a crack remained.
Lord Lingguang: ?
Lord Lingguang: Wait, that's not right...
Little Fox: What's not right? A spirit pet is supposed to keep your nest warm. Whether you warm me or I warm you, it's all the same~
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A lazy fox who chose to lie flat works hard for love (absolutely not because she's thirsty)
A looks-obsessed little fox x a fur-obsessed deity; they each raise the other as their spirit pet.
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Theme: Perseverance can carve through stone.