My Ex Says He Still Loves Me

Yan Yan is a fox, a fox who governs matchmaking. The fox clan has a rule: a fox in charge of matchmaking can retire once they find a partner. But by Yan Yan's generation, a hundred years have passed and no new fox has taken over.

His friend laments, "Do you want to grow old and die alone here?"

Yan Yan idly twirls a red thread and answers listlessly, "You could say that."

His beautiful fox eyes grow distant. These past few days, he keeps having the same dream. The person in it is called Yu Yishi. He's not bad-looking, but under pressure from his family, he's forced into marriage with a scumbag and suffers endless abuse.

Tragic. Painful.

Another winter passes, and Yan Yan arrives in Yu Yishi's world, only to become his husband?

Yan Yan grips his chin and studies his face, clearly catching the humiliation and hatred in his eyes. What a thrill. Yan Yan sneers, "You have so little self-respect? You'll marry whoever they tell you to? You just put up with the abuse?"

Apparently satisfied with looking at him, Yan Yan lets Yu Yishi go and rubs his fingertips together, his manner languid. "How about I give you a gift?"

*

At the top floor of Cloudspire Tower, the two stand one behind the other. Sweat beads across Yu Yishi's face as Yan Yan teaches him self-defense. Seeing Yu Yishi in such a wretched state satisfies Yan Yan's mean streak. He smiles brightly and says, "Once you've learned, you can try killing me."

Three months later, Yan Yan reckons Yu Yishi has changed enough. Leaning against a chaise longue, he says, "From here on, you can do whatever you want."

Yu Yishi's gaze holds a little more longing than before, barely noticeable. After a long while, he shakes his head.

Perhaps the gesture pleases Yan Yan, because he says, "I'll give you one last gift."

Yu Yishi takes it. It's the divorce papers for the two of "them."

Yan Yan sighs. "Sign them. Once you do, I'll leave."

Three months in the human world is like three days away from his job. The matchmaking realm simply can't do without him.

Yu Yishi clutches the papers tightly, his lips trembling. He looks at the person before him for a long time, his eyes full of reluctance. For some reason, he still signs his name in the end.

"Good. You're a good boy."

Later, Yan Yan leaves, and Yu Yishi can never find him again.

Until one day, a familiar person appears before him once more. Long black hair falls over his shoulders, and every gesture is just like that fox on the chaise longue.

"You know him?" The person beside him sees him staring for a long time and can't help asking.

"Yes. He was my former... crush," Yu Yishi answers.

What Yan Yan doesn't know is that Yu Yishi knew all along that he wasn't his former husband. After all, Yu Yishi had personally killed that man and watched him take his last breath.

This person taught him martial arts, business, and strategy, then left him behind, leaving him alone with his unresolved feelings.

Well, then, he has to make him stay by force!

One day, Yu Yishi uses what he learned back then to forcibly take a fox home.

[Both are pure!!!]

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