Disguised as a Sickly Beautiful Fox to Seduce the Righteous Fairy - Chapter 21

The fox tail gently patted the water’s surface. Shen Xi discovered another great benefit of being a fox—whether in a good mood or bad, she could vent her emotions through her tail.

So comfortable!

Water droplets dripped from the white fur of her ears as Shen Xi playfully flicked petals scattered across the bath with her tail, leaning against the edge of the pool.

“How about it? Isn’t this place nice?”

Soaking alone in the hot springs would have been too lonely. Having a beauty like the female lead accompany her was truly a feast for the eyes.

After half a second of self-disgust, Shen Xi decided it was perfectly normal for humans to be superficial—though she wasn’t human now, she was at least a canid!

“It is quite nice. Compared to the small pool at Lingyun Immortal Sect, My Lord’s bath is much larger.”

Meng Yingxue felt she should say something pleasant to please this cunning fox, but she couldn’t bring herself to tell an outright lie.

Instead, she settled on an incomparable truth.

“Naturally. This is the grand bedchamber baths of the Demon Lord. If even this couldn’t surpass an immortal’s bathing pool, then… how about becoming this immortal’s spirit fox?”

Shen Xi would never have said this to anyone else. But with the female lead… she found it hard to maintain her principles.

Alas, sometimes the protagonist’s golden halo was simply too tempting.

The teasing atmosphere seemed to seep into her skin. Meng Yingxue’s body instinctively wanted to retreat, yet her consciousness held her firmly in place.

“My Lord, are you joking?”

“If I truly had such capability, perhaps my previous life was that of a banished immortal.”

Heh, who would have thought?

The female lead had actually guessed correctly this time.

“What if you were?”

Shen Xi slowly swam closer, countless scenes from “chasing-your-wife-into-the-crematorium” romance novels flashing through her mind.

Truth be told, while she wasn’t sure how the protagonists’ tactics would work in this novel world, they were all two-dimensional paper people after all—it couldn’t be too different, right?

Host, your thinking isn’t wrong. According to your novel browsing history, this system has calculated that you’ve surpassed 99.99% of ordinary novel readers. Your experience is extremely rich—you’re practically a living fossil in the novel-reading world!

As long as you make a slight move, the female lead definitely won’t be able to resist your charm!

Such obvious entrapment shouldn’t be used to deceive people.

Shen Xi stared intently with her golden beast-like pupils at Meng Yingxue’s water-beaded face, her heart itching with anticipation.

The current female lead had no money, no influence, was running away from home, and had completely severed ties with Lingyun Immortal Sect.

Which meant… if she wanted to pursue the female lead, now was the perfect opportunity to “strike while the iron was hot.”

Yes, the kind you absolutely shouldn’t miss when passing by.

“If I were, then I would take My Lord as my contracted partner.”

Leaning against the jade-green pool edge, Meng Yingxue spoke seriously as Shen Xi’s fluffy white fox tail brushed past her calf.

Yet she remained completely still.

—”Contracted partner.”

These three words made even Shen Xi pause. In the setting of this cultivation novel, most cultivators forcibly formed contracts with spirit beasts.

This resulted in ninety percent of spiritual pets in the cultivation world being captured against their will.

But the remaining ten percent were spirit beasts that cultivators had raised from infancy, willingly forming contracts with them.

Whether voluntary or not, cultivators generally referred to this contract-forming phenomenon as “adopting spirit beasts.”

Meng Yingxue, however, was different. She directly used the term “contract partner” to define this relationship—reflecting her true belief that spirit beasts were not mere possessions of humans.

Still, based solely on the female lead’s words, Shen Xi didn’t dare jump to conclusions. Perhaps she was just saying this to please her.

“Let’s not talk about this for now.”

“Immortal, since you’re staying in my palace now, you should show some sincerity to make me happy.”

“I am the Demon Lord, after all—not like those hypocritical humans. If I want something, I take it directly~”

Lifting Meng Yingxue’s chin with a finger, Shen Xi couldn’t help but think how utterly “delicious” the female lead looked right now.

She was almost tempted to sink her fox fangs into her—though even if she did, it wouldn’t be a big deal.

After all, the female lead was her prisoner now. She could do whatever she wanted, however she pleased.

Meng Yingxue’s neck tilted slightly, her once steady breath now uneven and warm.

Gazing at the fox demon’s breathtakingly beautiful face, a memory from her childhood surfaced—a picture book her junior sister had once shoved into her hands.

Back then, the afternoon sunlight had spilled in dappled patterns across her desk, where she had been meticulously copying sword techniques in dense black ink.

A gust of wind had swept through, rustling the papers, followed by a familiar voice.

“Senior Sister! I’ve got something good for you!”

“Senior Sister, hold this for me first!”

Her junior sister, being chased by an enraged spirit deer, had dashed past the window like a blur, leaving behind an unfolded picture book in Meng Yingxue’s hands.

A seductive red fox perched on a human’s shoulder, its tail coiling like a serpent…

Just one glance had made Meng Yingxue’s heart race, her fingers trembling as she hastily rolled the book back up.

“Indecent… utterly indecent.”

Angrily setting the scroll aside, she dared not look at it again.

What on earth was her junior sister reading? No wonder the elders were always scolding her—even the spirit deer couldn’t stand it anymore.

“What… does the Demon Lord wish to do?”

It wasn’t that she didn’t know, nor was she truly naive. Meng Yingxue stared at the fox demon’s crimson lips, her fingers brushing against the now-warm spirit stone.

She made herself appear fragile and vulnerable, like a lone snow lotus atop a distant mountain.

“Of course… you.”

Having played the role of the big-tailed fox this far, there was no turning back now.

Shen Xi closed her eyes, her golden slit pupils hidden, and leaned in to press a soft kiss.

Meng Yingxue’s Favorability +1

“Congratulations, Host! We’ve gained another point of favorability! Keep up the good work!”

The buzzing voice in her ear seemed to be that thing calling out again.

But Meng Yingxue had no time to listen. The kiss, tangled in the warmth of the spring water, gave her the first taste of what “love” truly meant.

“Immortal, I’ll be taking your spiritual energy now… and I won’t be returning it later.”

Such shameless words rolled off Shen Xi’s tongue effortlessly—perhaps this was the charm of being a villain.

Spouting nonsense without a care in the world, completely unafraid of divine retribution.

After all, if heaven struck down every villain, what use would there be for protagonists?

Shen Xi shifted her waist, about to stand, only for Meng Yingxue to pull her back into an embrace. The seemingly fragile female lead gazed up at her from below.

Softly, she murmured, “My Lord… are you scared already?”

That taunting tone made Shen Xi’s previously smug fox tail, which had been floating proudly, slowly droop into the pool.

Disdain—this was outright, blatant disdain!!!