What Should I Do When My Beloved Treats Me as a Substitute?

Shi Yue died, and his death was a grave injustice.

He died in the bedroom of Pei Xuan, the current Chancellor of the Left, poisoned by a cup of wine.

When he opened his eyes again, Shi Yue had returned to the year before it all happened.

Reborn, he resolved to catch the person who had tried to poison him. He swore to himself: Pei Xuan is a lunatic. Even a dog wouldn't go near him!

But who could have guessed that Pei Xuan, once powerful enough to dominate the court, would now be cruelly forced to perform for the amusement of the nobility?

Shi Yue looked at Pei Xuan's face, so similar to the one he remembered yet covered in countless scars. His stubborn eyes shone brightly, looking just like the young man in Shi Yue's memories.

Shi Yue sighed. "I'll save him once. Just once."

After Shi Yue, who was blinded by his good looks, had saved him several times...

Shi Yue said, "For one year, you'll be my bodyguard. After that, we'll go our separate ways."

From then on, the young talents of the capital noticed that the young marquis of the Anding Marquis's residence had acquired a shadow that followed him everywhere.

Whenever anyone approached Shi Yue, that "shadow" would bare its teeth and bristle, guarding what it considered its own like a possessive animal.

Later, Shi Yue earnestly urged him, "Our one-year agreement is over. Why are you still hanging around?"

The moment he finished speaking, Shi Yue's eyes closed and he was knocked unconscious.

When he opened them again, the eight tails behind Pei Xuan were swaying, and the man was staring at him with a sinister look.

What? The dignified Chancellor of the Left was actually a fox spirit!

Eight enormous white fox tails wrapped around him so tightly he couldn't move. The man in black robes crouched before him, his face as cold as ever. "Did you take me for a substitute?"

The fluffy fox ears on the man's head twitched at his question. "Then I'll kill your old lover, Brother. Will you love only me after that?"

Shi Yue, trapped in a fox's den, rubbed his aching waist and regretted everything, smacking his thigh. "If I'd known you couldn't take a joke, I never would have saved you!"

Pei Xuan was an eight-tailed fox spirit. Even he didn't know why he wasn't a nine-tailed fox.

He had accidentally fallen into a human trap and been forced to perform for a living. He never expected to be rescued by a human who looked as if he barely had any flesh on his bones.

Later, this human protected and loved him. Since the human was so good to him, he didn't mind letting him pet his fluffy ears and stroke his fur.

But he never expected that this damned human would take him for some kind of substitute!

So Pei Xuan angrily carried the human away and hid him in his fox's den.

In time, Pei Xuan finally learned why he had eight tails.

It turned out that the bond between them in this life had been bought by cutting off one of his tails, and this human was the lover he had been infatuated with across two lifetimes.

Fake substitute

Sickly man x fox spirit

A doting, guiding lover who bottoms x a jealous, short-tempered fox spirit who tops

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