Wagging My Tail in the Ice Queen CEO’s Embrace - Chapter 4

The more Ming Ying looked, the more familiar the woman seemed. Craning her neck to stare at the black brick was too tiring, so she hopped back onto the bed and focused intently on watching.

The woman called “Fu Anyu” had a cool, composed voice. Ming Ying noticed that almost all the people sitting around her were men, yet she clearly occupied the central position.

Ming Ying sensed that Fu Anyu was discussing something important, so she held her breath and listened carefully.

But she couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Fu Anyu kept talking about “punishment standing” and “nonsense,” and her tone was strange.

Ming Ying couldn’t understand why so many people, dressed so formally and solemnly, would gather to listen to such odd topics.

What left her utterly dumbfounded was that as soon as Fu Anyu finished speaking, a round of enthusiastic applause erupted. The scene then shifted, showing all the formally seated men clapping, leaving the little fox completely stunned.

As the scene changed again, she saw Fu Anyu surrounded by a crowd of people holding large black cattails.

“President Fu, regarding what you just mentioned…”

“President Fu, could you next Wednesday…”

“President Fu, what are your thoughts on managing Shengwei Group to such a scale at such a young age?”

Facing the barrage of questions, Fu Anyu only answered the last one: “Shengwei Group’s success is not due to my efforts alone.”

Ming Ying kept her eyes fixed on Fu Anyu until the scene shifted again and Fu Anyu disappeared from view. She then hopped back onto the bed and pawed around, digging out the hard object she had accidentally stepped on earlier.

The strange object covered in colorful buttons quickly caught her attention. Remembering that stepping on it had turned on the black brick, Ming Ying faced the brick and tentatively pressed a paw down on it again. Instantly, the image on the brick changed, displaying towering green mountains and trees she recognized.

Since arriving in the human realm, Ming Ying had never seen such tall trees, let alone any mountains. She couldn’t help but gaze nostalgically at the scene. Once the mountains and trees vanished, she continued pressing the colorful buttons on the strange object while observing the black brick.

Soon, she realized that this odd device could control the images displayed on the black brick and even adjust the volume of the humans’ voices in the scenes.

Ming Ying’s playful curiosity took over. She pressed a button, observed the black brick for a while, and quickly figured out some patterns.

She dubbed the black brick the “surveillance magical tool” and the strange object under her paw the “button controller.” With great interest, she pressed the colorful buttons to observe the activities of humans in different places, gradually becoming engrossed in the process.

As she pressed on, Ming Ying suddenly spotted familiar attire and immediately stopped to take a closer look, her eyes lighting up.

This human’s clothing looked so much like her father’s royal robes! But her father’s robes were embroidered with a pure white nine-tailed heavenly fox, not a golden dragon.

When she heard someone tell the man in the golden dragon-patterned royal robes to “take care of your dragon body,” Ming Ying excitedly scurried to the foot of the bed, trying to get closer to the black brick.

This must be the ruler of some dragon clan’s royal city! So, there were demon tribes living in the human realm too!

Just as Ming Ying was about to take a closer look at the ruler’s living environment, the scene suddenly changed. The dragon-robed monarch walked into a palace, where a little girl in lavish clothing shouted “Father!” and gleefully ran toward him with open arms. The monarch chuckled and scooped her up into his embrace.

Watching the father and daughter interact happily with questions and answers, Ming Ying’s smile gradually faded, her gaze dimmed, and her vision blurred.

She hadn’t returned home for a day and a night, her father and mother must be worried sick! But now she was in the human realm, her spiritual power completely gone, imprisoned by humans, her message talisman bird broken, and she couldn’t even find her way back.

Thinking of her family waiting for her return, Ming Ying’s tears pattered down onto the blanket.

With no one else in the room, Ming Ying couldn’t hold back her sobs. She buried her face in the blanket, crying as if her heart would break.

She missed home so much, she just wanted to go back!!

Fu Anyu had the day off today. After feeding the fox in the morning, she stopped by a pet store run by an acquaintance nearby, then returned to her residence with her assistant. Carrying a dog bed with a cooling mat, she headed toward her bedroom.

But as soon as she opened the door, she heard crying, and then discovered the room was in complete disarray. The TV was on, playing the palace drama, she hated the most.

Sand was scattered all around the litter box, the curtains were torn with a large gash, and there were obvious scratch marks on the table and walls.

The white fox she had captured was lying curled up on the blanket, sobbing with her body trembling, one front paw tucked in front of her and the other resting on the TV remote.

Seeing this, Fu Anyu frowned deeply. She set down the dog bed, walked to the bedside, and grabbed the fox by the scruff of her neck.

Remembering how the room had been turned upside down after she had only been gone a short while, she unconsciously tightened her grip, making the fox let out a pained whimper. Tearfully, the fox looked up at her.

“You’re so disruptive,it seems a cage is more suitable for you,” Fu Anyu said coldly, then lifted the fox and headed toward the iron cage.

But the fox clung tightly to her blanket with her claws and cried out, “I don’t want to go in the cage! I haven’t done anything wrong! Why are you imprisoning me?!”

“Haven’t done anything wrong?” Fu Anyu retorted.

Ming Ying was already feeling miserable when this woman suddenly appeared, grabbing her by the neck and threatening her. The sadness of missing home was instantly replaced by overwhelming grievance and anger.

“I already explained what happened yesterday,” she said through gritted teeth. “I didn’t come to the human realm on purpose, and I didn’t mean to hurt anyone…”

“Don’t try to change the subject,” Fu Anyu’s voice was laced with suppressed anger. “You’ve made a mess of the room, and you still think you’re in the right?”

“You’re the one who locked me up and won’t let me go home!” Ming Ying flared up, raising her voice. “You’re the unreasonable one! If you hadn’t imprisoned me, would I have had to search for an exit for so long?!”

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a chill at her fingertips. The blanket she had been clutching was sliced open by spiritual power, and she was lifted into the air by Fu Anyu.

“Let me go! Let me go!!” Ming Ying struggled desperately, twisting her body, but she was still placed back into the iron cage.

Hearing the sound of the cage door closing, Ming Ying immediately threw herself against the bars, letting out a low, furious growl at Fu Anyu.

She watched as Fu Anyu turned and left, turned off the black screen, walked to the bed to remove the blanket cover, then carried the cover to the desk. Reaching out, she tore down both the intact curtain and the one Ming Ying had shredded.

She also saw Fu Anyu pass by a small, delicate bed, crouch down to pick it up, and toss it directly into the corner of the room.

After discarding the bed, Fu Anyu carried the blanket cover and curtains toward the door.

Panicked, Ming Ying began pacing frantically inside the cage, banging against it and crying out.

“Let me out! I want to go home!!” Ming Ying shouted at Fu Anyu’s retreating back.

With a loud “bang,” the door slammed shut in front of her, and Fu Anyu left without even a glance back.

Furious, Ming Ying rammed against the iron cage until it clattered loudly, aggravating the dull ache in her already injured hind leg. Only then did she reluctantly quiet down, curling up inside the cage and sobbing softly with her tail as a pillow.

Ming Ying was usually quick to calm down, but this time, she couldn’t seem to regain her composure no matter what.

In the human realm, there were no parents or siblings to comfort her, no attendants to amuse her with jokes, only a moody, unpredictable woman who locked her in an iron cage at the slightest provocation.

After crying for a while, Ming Ying suddenly felt a pain in her stomach. At first, it was bearable, but soon the discomfort grew into soft whimpers. Instinctively, she glanced at the sandbox on the floor.

Ming Ying never imagined she would one day be troubled by such a mundane need.

Before leaving, Fu Anyu had locked her back in the cage, but the sandbox she used for relief was outside.

Naturally, Ming Ying couldn’t open the cage door. Spotting the “inverted bowl” Fu Anyu had left for her meals not far from the cage, she stretched her paw through the iron bars, straining to reach the red mechanism on top of the bowl, hoping to summon someone to open the door for her.

Unfortunately, the gaps between the iron bars were too narrow. Ming Ying’s paw got stuck between them, unable to move forward or back. Panicked, she twisted and struggled, trying to pull her paw free, but after much effort, all she managed to do was shed a lot of fur. Her paw remained firmly trapped.

In pain and distress, Ming Ying gathered her spiritual energy into her paw, barely managing to manifest a fox claw twice its normal size. With all her strength, she slammed it down on the “inverted bowl.”

A sudden numbness and sharp pain shot through her paw. Before she could even take a closer look, the door swung open, and in walked none other than Fu Anyu!

Then, with a loud “bang,” the “inverted bowl” shattered into pieces under the force of the manifested fox claw.

Ming Ying stared in stunned disbelief. The next moment, she felt an icy gaze cutting into her.

“Throwing a tantrum?” Fu Anyu had witnessed the scene as soon as she entered. Her expression was even darker than before as she approached the troublemaking fox.

Meeting Fu Anyu’s cold, piercing gaze, Ming Ying immediately shrank to the bottom of the cage. Glancing at her trapped paw, she stammered in a trembling voice, “I-I just wanted someone to open the door. I need to… to relieve myself.”