Disguised as a Sickly Beautiful Fox to Seduce the Righteous Fairy - Chapter 8

Meng Yingxue, who followed Shen Xi out, gazed at her swaying white fox ears and fell into deep thought.

This nine-tailed demon fox didn’t seem as bloodthirsty or wicked as the rumors suggested.

Looking down at the green jujube in her palm, Meng Yingxue even felt that this infamous Demon Lord of the Netherworld had a hint of childlike innocence.

“Ding! Congratulations, Host! Affection Points +1! Reward: 100 System Points!”

“After earning points, Host can exchange them for corresponding items in the System Shop. Points can also be used to purchase various magical artifacts and currency from the cultivation world!”

“A full 100 points? That’s quite generous. But… are the items in the shop going to be outrageously expensive?”

“Don’t worry, Host! Our products are fair and honest. If something doesn’t sell well, it gets taken off the shelves. Everything you see here is a bestseller~”

Listening to the system’s “sophistry,” Shen Xi actually found it somewhat reasonable. If an item wasn’t useful, people probably wouldn’t buy it.

After all, affection points were incredibly hard to earn these days—especially with a female lead whose personality was as cold as an unfeeling rock.

Sigh… Couldn’t the heavens just give her a loyal puppy? One that would come wagging its tail at the slightest beckoning, calling her “Sis” over and over—”Sis is great, Sis is amazing!”

Wouldn’t that be nice?

Alas, the heavens had already granted her a second chance at life after cancer. They weren’t about to hand her a loyal puppy too.

How depressing.

Do you all know how hard it is to thaw an iceberg? It’s like drinking water—only the drinker knows if it’s warm or cold!

No, that metaphor wasn’t quite right. It was more like snuggling under a warm blanket, scrolling through your phone, when suddenly your ice-sculpture of a wife lifts the covers and climbs in beside you.

Now that’s terrifying!

—But judging by the female lead’s current demeanor, she didn’t seem like an iceberg.

“Host, the reason is likely because the female lead is currently your captive, so she naturally shows you some respect.”

Shen Xi: “…”

“System, congratulations on scoring 0.1 in the Cold Water Splashing Competition! Come claim your prize!”

“Lord, I’ve calculated the time.”

Meng Yingxue gripped her sword hilt and slowly approached.

Unlike her previous mindset when observing the Netherworld, Meng Yingxue now gazed at the vast sea of red spider lilies, even feeling a long-lost sense of nostalgia.

“What time?”

Shen Xi had no idea what the female lead was scheming, so she remained fully alert.

Given their current relationship, it wouldn’t be surprising if the female lead suddenly drew her lifebound sword and stabbed her in the chest—or her tails.

“The time to absorb essence.”

Meng Yingxue always kept her promises, whether the person before her was human or demon, good or evil.

She despised deception and never resorted to lies.

The crushed jujube juice nearly choked Shen Xi. She hadn’t expected the female lead to be so bold.

What a pleasant surprise.

“There’s no need to discuss such matters in front of my subordinates.”

“Let it be known only to heaven, earth, you, and me.”

Half a jujube was held in the palm of her hand. Shen Xi pressed her index finger against Meng Yingxue’s chest and smiled faintly.

The fox tribe was the most beautiful among all demon races, their seduction skills unparalleled. Just one glance from a fox could haunt a human for a lifetime.

Meng Yingxue had once dismissed the storytellers at the foot of the mountain as spouting nonsense. But now she knew—those teahouse storytellers hadn’t been exaggerating.

They spoke the truth.

Foxes truly were bewitching.

……

The prisoners hanging in the demon prison couldn’t utter a single word, their bodies wracked with discomfort.

One of them swung her legs, dipping the tip of her shoe into the filthy water pooled on the floor. She shifted onto a brick and painstakingly wrote two characters:

—Array.

The others immediately understood. They too used their toes to trace runes in the water.

Their spiritual power was currently sealed, leaving only the incantations and runes they had learned in the past to be of any use now.

But all they could do was break the silencing spell cast upon them. As for the rest of the prison’s arrays—those were demonic constructs.

They were utterly clueless about them.

“Ugh! That fox is going too far!”

“How dare she… How dare she make the senior sister warm her bed!”

“This is sheer lawlessness!”

The moment they could speak again, the bound female cultivator felt her anger surge.

Their senior sister was the head disciple of the sect master himself! Countless immortal lords had sought her hand in marriage, only to be turned away at the door.

And now, this fox had the audacity to disrespect the senior sister of the Lingyun Immortal Sect? Absolutely preposterous!

“What’s the point of getting angry? Right now, we need to focus on escaping… and asking the sect master for help to rescue senior sister!”

“Who knows what kind of magical artifact this demon prison has that’s blocking all my spells?”

Even without him saying it, the others knew.

If they were truly in danger, and their disappearance was detected within this area, the sect master should have arrived by now.

Ears twitching, Shen Xi caught every word spoken in the demon prison.

Though she was still unfamiliar with these spells, the original body’s muscle memory made execution effortless, aided by fragmented memories.

Shen Xi was confident she’d fully master this body in just a few days.

With a flick of her finger, the spell she had just undone snapped back into place.

The noisy cultivators fell silent once more.

The prisoners’ eyes widened in horror. They struggled violently—but it was futile.

Damn it! Their array hadn’t broken the fox’s silencing curse at all! They’d walked right into her trap!

“Your junior siblings really are a handful. Being their senior sister must be exhausting.”

Honestly, how dare they gossip about her behind her back? Turnabout was fair play.

Besides, did they really not realize they were nothing but deadweight to the female lead?

Oh my god… How utterly stupid!

Meng Yingxue paused mid-step but didn’t refute Shen Xi’s words.

“I brought them here. It’s my responsibility to bring them back.”

“That has nothing to do with me being the senior sister.”

Hmm, quite righteous and awe-inspiring indeed.

At least more righteous than herself.

But since she’s already transmigrated into a villainess, is there really any need to worry about being righteous or evil? Shen Xi thought it was rather fortunate that these stupid pigs walked right into the trap.

After all, she could now “increase the stakes” for the female lead.

Wasn’t that 1% rise in favorability just the best proof of it!