After Successfully Redeeming Her, She Tries to Fake Her Death and Disappear

[Disguised bubbly sweetheart fox x noble gentleman turned gloomy, clingy househusband]

Three months after their wedding, Su Yunwei died by her husband's Qingyun Sword.

She felt relieved. Her mission was finally complete.

No one knew she wasn't human.

She was a nine-tailed fox demon with only eight tails.

To grow her ninth tail and ascend, she took on a wish and went to Fuyu Mountain. There, she found Shen Lanzhi, a pitiful soul who had been trampled and abused, and set out to save him, comfort him, and marry him.

The plan was for him to kill his wife to prove his dao and help him ascend.

Although he refused to kill her no matter what, making her spend much more time on it, the wish-granting power she earned by completing the task sent her straight to the Celestial Realm.

She happily hugged her newly grown ninth tail, thinking it had been a win-win deal.

But after just a few years of the good life, the God of War, newly returned to his position in the Celestial Realm, came looking for her.

His tall, imposing figure radiated pressure. The fox turned and ran, but he still caught her.

Shen Lanzhi's long, pale fingers clamped around her delicate ankle, making her shiver at the cold.

A deep sigh came from beside her ear. He bowed his head to her neck in surrender, breathing damply against her ear. "Why run? You can't just abandon the prey you caught..."

**

The first half of Shen Lanzhi's life was like a solitary walk through hell.

It wasn't until he met Su Yunwei that he reached out and grasped a ray of warm sunlight.

She cared for him, treasured him, and would blink her bright eyes and tell him she loved him.

He loved her.

He could give her anything, even his life.

But she died protecting him.

That day, he held her corpse and knelt trembling at the foot of the mountain, crying out her name again and again, his eyes full of bloody tears and his voice raw with grief.

He shattered the tribulation clouds that had come to lead him away, gave up his ascension, and carried his wife's corpse across every inch of the Nine Provinces, searching for her scattered soul. Alone, he was broken by grief.

He cried until he went blind, cut out his inner core, scattered his cultivation, and flayed the flesh from his body, all to find the soul of the one he loved and win her a chance to live again.

A hundred years later, he arrived at an unfamiliar mountain. From the laughing and teasing of the fox demons there, he learned that everything had been a lie.

Everything he'd gone through was just a scheme, a performance staged by a nine-tailed fox demon.

Everything she had done for him had been a calculated move, all to grow her ninth tail and ascend.

She had indeed ascended long ago, and was now raising eighteen little demons in the Celestial Realm, spending her days playing happily with them.

Shen Lanzhi stood motionless all night. When dawn broke, he slowly curled his lips into a smile.

He would search from the highest heavens to the depths of the underworld and find her. He would never let her go again.

[Disguised bubbly sweetheart fox x upright gentleman turned gloomy, clingy househusband]

[Reading Guide]

1. The heroine simply doesn't understand feelings, but she's a good fox!

2. The hero won't kill the heroine. She tricked him, but he'll still suffer.

3. The story was inspired by a folk legend about a nine-tailed cat demon that can grow all nine tails only by granting other people's wishes.

Theme: Love is mutual salvation.