My Wife Is a Fox Demon

Flirtatious, scheming fox spirit who plays hard to get X chaste, proper, rule-abiding general. An old house catches fire, and once it does, there's no saving it.

Wu Miao was a fox spirit, born in the wilderness. She lived freely and never expected to cultivate into an immortal. All she wanted was an endless supply of wild fruit and to stay with her family and friends forever.

Until an arrow from a human struck her.

Only thanks to her companion, a rabbit spirit who risked everything to cover her escape, did Wu Miao get away. As she scrambled into the bushes, she saw a man in black holding a bow in one hand and the rabbit by its ears in the other.

"Since I couldn't bring A Ruo a fox-fur coat, I might as well take this stupid rabbit back to stew."

Wu Miao held back her tears, memorized the man's face, and vowed to get her revenge.

The day she cultivated a human form, she found a woman by the roadside, gravely injured by villains.

The woman raised a trembling hand and took a jade pendant from her clothes. She said she had a fiance in Shangjing and begged Wu Miao to find him and help him avenge her.

Recognizing the pattern on the pendant, Wu Miao's heart stirred. "Who is your fiance?"

Hearing the name she had carved into her very bones, the name she could never forget, Wu Miao's lips curled into a cold smile.

It seemed even fate was on her side in this revenge.

*

When Zhong Yunzhou returned from an official assignment, his aunt told him he had acquired a fiancee.

"When did this happen?" he asked in surprise.

His aunt said his father had arranged it with an old friend, Minister Hu, before he died.

Zhong Yunzhou had no desire to go through with it, but he couldn't defy his elders, so he agreed to meet the young woman and make things clear.

On the day they were to meet, the young woman arrived dressed in plain clothes, her beautiful eyes brimming with tears. She fell to her knees before him and said her parents were dead, she had no siblings to support her, and other members of her clan were bullying her. She had no choice but to dig up their marriage contract and beg him for protection.

As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeve, revealing bruises where someone had pinched her.

Zhong Yunzhou found her so pitiful that his heart softened, and he agreed.

But he set three rules: they would not be a true married couple, and once she found someone she loved, they would divorce and part ways.

After their wedding, however, Zhong Yunzhou kept having indecent dreams. In them, his beautiful wife willingly gave herself to him, letting him have his way with her. Every time he awoke, his heart was still racing.

"Husband, did you have a nightmare?"

Her voice came from beside him. He looked up to see her standing there with a calming tonic in her hands, smiling like a dignified, well-mannered lady of a noble household.

Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, he thanked her and took the bowl.

One day, his wife came to him with a shy smile and said she had found someone she loved, and wanted a divorce agreement.

Zhong Yunzhou set down the sword in his hand and asked with a half-smile, "Is that so? What if I won't let you go, my lady?"

It wasn't until their second year of marriage that they finally consummated it.

He awoke in the middle of the night and reached out to embrace his wife, only to feel a fluffy fox tail...

Bonus Scene

Late at night, candlelight flickered in the bedchamber. The general, his black robes half removed, leaned over the desk while his wife traced the smooth lines of his back with a brush.

"How about writing, 'Wu Miao's very own little dog'?"

Zhong Yunzhou's eyes were filled with a sickly obsession. "Of course. I'll do whatever you say, my lady."

Reader's Guide

1. Both leads are virgins. The male lead had a first love, but it barely appears and is hardly mentioned.

2. The female lead has some moral flaws. If that bothers you, please be gentle.

3. A dog-training romance. The female lead comes for revenge, so she may be a little heavy-handed. If this isn't your thing, please don't judge the author.

Theme: Love is given willingly.