The Gusu Mistake - Chapter 43

“I won’t hurt Mei Lang either!” After listening to Yuan Ruo’s words, the fox demon hurriedly argued, “I just want to be with him forever!”

“Oh me…” The fox demon’s words, however, made Lan Lan’s brother flinch. He opened his mouth to say something but didn’t in the end.

Yuan Ruo looked at Lan Lan’s brother for a while, then said, “But your Mei Lang doesn’t like you. And that charm of yours—it’s never about whether you want to hurt people or not!”

The fox demon looked at Lan Lan’s brother, who was avoiding her, with sadness. “Then what is it about?”

“You have no elder to guide you, so you don’t know that the fox spirit’s charm is innate?” Yuan Ruo shook her head and sighed. “When the time comes, his vital essence will inevitably be attracted by you. If that happens, how can he survive?”

Yuan Ruo’s words were like fine needles, piercing the fox demon’s heart, causing her to gradually fall into a state of madness due to the pain. “No, this is impossible. I love Mei Lang, how could I harm him?”

“It’s a predetermined fact, and you can’t change it by not admitting it!” Yuan Ruo advised the fox demon, “You two are destined to have no future. Let his family go, and it will also save you from disrupting your path to cultivation!”

“I don’t believe it!” The fox demon suddenly turned from frantic to furious. Ignoring the wound on her hand, she grabbed Lan Lan’s brother.

“Oh no, she’s trying to abduct him!” As Jiang Yilan spoke, Yuan Ruo had already moved, but she was still a step too late. The fox demon took Lan Lan’s brother and fled.

“You go after her, we’ll wait here!” In the moment Yuan Ruo hesitated, Jiang Yilan understood her intention. After hearing her, Yuan Ruo chased after them.

Yuan Ruo, now uninhibited, was incredibly fast. The fox demon was injured and also had Lan Lan’s brother in her grasp. Because of the difference, the fox demon naturally didn’t get very far before being caught.

“Where are you planning to take him?” Yuan Ruo blocked her path and questioned the fox demon. “Do you really want to take his life?”

“Don’t stop me from being with Mei Lang!” The fox demon was furious and couldn’t listen to Yuan Ruo at all. She swung her demonic claws and attacked.

Yuan Ruo met her attack, her long sword clashing with a sound. Soon, she had wounded the fox demon’s other hand, but she did not aim to kill.

“Come again!” As the fox demon was about to ignore her wounds and charge at Yuan Ruo again, Yuan Ruo pointed her long sword directly at her and sternly said, “Do you really want me to destroy the cultivation you worked so hard to achieve?”

The fox demon hesitated, on the verge of tears. “Then don’t stop me from being with Mei Lang.”

“Fox fairy maiden!” Lan Lan’s brother mustered up his courage and spoke. “I truly don’t know when or where I attracted your affection so deeply, but we are of different worlds—a human and a demon. The Daoist maiden also said that if I am with you, I will die young. Please be merciful and let me go!”

“You don’t know?” Tears fell from the fox demon’s eyes, filled with grievance. “Do you remember that day at the poetry gathering, when someone brought a red fox for people to play with? Everyone else was just teasing it, but only you sympathized with its plight. Not only did you buy it with your own money, but you also released it.”

Lan Lan’s brother frowned as he listened. “You were that red fox?”

The fox demon nodded. “I had scattered my powers and returned to my original form to avoid a heavenly tribulation, but I was unexpectedly captured. Luckily, you saved me!”

“According to your own words!” Yuan Ruo said, “He is your savior. And yet you treat him and his family like this?”

“I…” The fox demon was speechless.

“Do you know?” Yuan Ruo continued, “His sister, Lan Lan, fled her home because of you and met human traffickers outside. Not only did she almost lose her innocence, but she also nearly lost her life!”

“Lan Lan… she…” Upon hearing about his sister, Lan Lan’s brother no longer cowered. “What happened to her?”

“What happened to her, you can ask her yourself later!” Yuan Ruo looked directly at the fox demon. “But your act of repaying kindness with enmity is truly despicable!”

“I… I didn’t mean to!” The fox demon suddenly became agitated. “I’ll go and get revenge for his sister!”

“You don’t need to bother!” Yuan Ruo used her sword to block the fox demon. “The human traffickers are already dead by my hand, and his sister has returned safely. What you need to think about now is to stop this act of repaying kindness with enmity.”

The fox demon looked at Lan Lan’s brother with a wronged expression. “Mei Lang…”

“Fox fairy maiden, please don’t call me that!” Lan Lan’s brother avoided the fox demon. “We are truly not suited for each other!”

“But I really love you!” The fox demon tried to get closer to Lan Lan’s brother but was blocked by Yuan Ruo.

“Do you really want to be with him that much?”

The fox demon nodded repeatedly. “Of course, I do!”

Yuan Ruo said, “There is a way!”

Both the fox demon and Lan Lan’s brother perked up their ears to listen.

“The method is simple!” Yuan Ruo pointed to the mountaintop. “You let them go down the mountain, then cultivate with peace of mind. When you one day achieve the abilities of a true fox immortal and are no longer troubled by the fox demon’s charm, you can naturally be with him forever!”

Tears welled up in the fox demon’s eyes. “Can I really do that?”

Yuan Ruo curled her lips. “Of course, but you must focus on your cultivation and not constantly think about love and affection. Otherwise, it will be difficult to succeed!”

Yuan Ruo’s words were a clear warning to the fox demon not to spend all her time thinking about her lover and neglecting her cultivation. But the fox demon’s heart was filled with Lan Lan’s brother, so how could she bear to do that?

“If you can’t let go and insist on pestering him, then I naturally cannot just let you harm him!” After giving her good advice, Yuan Ruo also presented the grim consequence of exorcism. “I will have to eliminate you!”

“I will cultivate well. Mei Lang, wait for me!” Yuan Ruo’s combination of kind words and intimidation finally moved the fox demon. After some struggle, she gave Lan Lan’s brother one last reluctant look, then turned around, took a few leaps, and disappeared into the dense forest.

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