Chapter 12 Qing Yu 4 (2/2)

However, her words angered the fox.

“You’re just a human being, don’t act like you know me well!”

“Because I——” Qing Yu ignored its roar and went on. “I think, if I were you, I would have done the same thing.”

The fox narrowed his eyes.

“It must be really painful, right?” Qing Yu answered as if she was muttering. “You did nothing wrong; you’re innocent. However, because of your appearance, they treated you like a monster, and not only that, they firmly believed that they were right and never listened to you. To live like this, it must truly make you feel desperate.”

The fox sensed something wrong from those words.

“No, I’m not desperate. The person you are talking about, it isn’t me, is it? ”

Qing Yu lowered her head and looked away.

“As if you care,” said Qing Yu to deliberately provoke the fox.

The fox squinted its eyes as if it was warning her, but Qing Yu laughed.

“It’s nothing.” Qing Yu looked at the fox. “Ever since I was young, I was able to see strange things. Sometimes it was demons and spirits, and at other times it was other people’s memories. I never understood why. During my childhood, I thought everyone could see the same things as me. However, as I grew older, I learned this was an ability that only a demon girl could possess. Although I’m a princess, everyone in Qingqiu hated me, and sometimes my own father deliberately hid from me. They said that I was ominous, different from them, and I was not worth the title of the princess of Qingqiu. But, what can I do? I was born with this power.”

“Is that so?” The fox frowned.

Qing Yu nodded. “So, in a way, we are the same. When you attacked the village, many villagers said that it was my fault. Because I was a cursed girl, I was the reason why that tragedy happened.”

“Nonsense,” the fox whispered.

Qing Yu could not help but laugh.

“What are you laughing at?”

“Nothing, nothing. I think you’re actually very cute.” Qing Yu looked at the fox, smiling. “You complained about humans a moment ago, but now you take up the cudgel for me ”

“I never said I would fight for you.”

But Qing Yu laughed even more happily.

“Fox, oh, you stupid fox.”

“What?”

“Can I touch your tail?”

The fox suddenly became vigilant, as if he heard an alarm in his head. He knew that he should not agree to such an unreasonable demand. He shouldn’t have said those few words, but……

However, Qing Yu was so emboldened that she had already wrapped her silky white arms around his tail and pressed her cheek against it even before he said yes.

“Ah, it’s so warm.”

She wore a weird smile on her face as if she felt satisfied, and then she buried her face in his fur.

She looked beautiful and calm. And perhaps because she was too tired, she actually fell asleep on his tail.

Of course, this poor human girl had suffered so much that was far beyond what a normal human could bear, but somehow she still kept smiling.

The nine-tailed fox gradually relaxed as well. He turned back to look at her, then, he gently put another tail on her.

After that, Qing Yu never tried to escape. On the contrary, she spent much of her time playing around, and she never stopped talking.

“Fox, look! It’s a butterfly! It’s a real butterfly! ” Qing Yu excitedly jumped up and down. She tried to catch the butterfly, but it flew higher.

“No, it’s gonna fly away!” Qing Yu stubbornly wanted to catch the butterfly, and she even climbed onto one of the fox’s tails. And this time, the fox was forced to react.

“It’s just a butterfly. What’s the fuss?” the fox asked irritably.

“No, no! I want to see that butterfly!” Qing Yu climbed up to his back from his tail; she tried hard to catch the butterfly.

The fox was silent for a moment, and then it quickly swung one of its tails in the air, and when it pulled its tail back, she found that butterfly perched unharmed on the tip of his tail, its wings still fluttering.

Qing Yu was amazed. She carefully held the butterfly that might be still in shock after the fox slammed it with his tail. She looked at the nine-tailed fox in surprise. “How did you do that?!”

The fox snorted and stayed silent.

“It’s beautiful…” Qing Yu looked obsessively at the insect in her hand, but just before she could touch it with her finger, the butterfly fluttered its wings and flew away.