Wagging My Tail in the Ice Queen CEO’s Embrace - Chapter 54

When Du Yunxin opened the door, she immediately caught the scent of blood and asked in alarm, “What happened? Who’s hurt?”

Fu Anyu silently lifted the unconscious black cat, had Du Yunxin fetch a clean plastic bag, placed the cat inside, and then led Ming Ying up to the third floor.

The third floor had a small guest room that, due to long-term vacancy, had become a storage space, though it was relatively clean.

As Fu Anyu carried the cat inside and closed the door, Ming Ying anxiously reported to her, “Sister, he knows I’m a nine-tailed fox!”

Fu Anyu had naturally heard the cat demon’s words as well and nodded with a grim expression.

The little fox currently only had four tails, yet the cat demon had immediately referred to her as “nine-tailed fox clan” and “great demon.” It seemed his identity was not simple.

“What do we do now?” Ming Ying stared intently at the bag placed on the floor.

Fu Anyu, however, was not the least bit nervous. The cat demon’s cultivation was not high, and he lacked combat experience. The tricky part was his ability to use barriers, yet the little fox had shattered his overwhelming barrier with a single strike.

“Let me explain the situation first,” she said, sitting down on the bed in the storage room and taking out her phone. She spoke to Ming Ying unhurriedly, “This cat demon is the evil entity Hu Xiuliu was looking for during the day. Hu Xiuliu was severely injured by him and temporarily transferred the task to me. I noticed the coordinates of the evil entity were close to home, so I headed over as soon as I received the task.”

She pulled up her chat history with Hu Xiuliu and showed it to Ming Ying.

Suppressing her anger, Ming Ying read the chat log word by word and asked in confusion, “But ‘Sack Man’ came here this morning. By the time he sent you the message, he should have already been in the hospital, right? He clearly said he would try to go during the day, so why did he send you a message in the middle of the night? Couldn’t he have sent it tomorrow morning?”

Fu Anyu hadn’t noticed this detail before. She had always been highly efficient in her work, so when Hu Xiuliu transferred the task to her, she immediately went to capture the evil entity. Only after Ming Ying’s question did she message Hu Xiuliu to ask.

Hu Xiuliu replied instantly, “You caught him already?! I thought if I sent you a message this late, you definitely wouldn’t go out to fight monsters at night, since you usually go to bed early.”

Upon learning the truth, Fu Anyu took a photo of the black cat on the floor, sent it over, and replied expressionlessly, “I always carry out tasks as soon as possible.”

As she said this, she remembered that it was also because she had rushed to the scene immediately that she had been the first to take away the disheveled little fox.

Otherwise, if the little fox had fallen into the hands of other demon hunters, her life would not have been so comfortable.

Ming Ying watched them exchange messages, her attention lingering on the word “task.”

She remembered that “Sack Man” was the abbot of a Taoist temple, so eliminating evil entities was indeed his duty, and calling it a “task” made sense. But Fu Anyu was a CEO who was busy almost every day, why did she also refer to eliminating evil entities as “carrying out tasks”?

She also recalled that before the cat demon was knocked out by Fu Anyu, he had bristled and sharply questioned her, though he hadn’t finished his sentence.

But to Ming Ying, this wasn’t important. What did her sister eliminating evil entities have to do with a little fox freeloading a place to stay?

The little fox had it all figured out, completely forgetting that not long ago, she had been clamoring to become Fu Anyu’s sister.

There was only one thing on her mind now. Seeing that Fu Anyu was still replying to messages, she took the initiative to ask, “Since the task has been transferred to you, does that mean this cat demon is also at your disposal?”

Ming Ying was only afraid that Fu Anyu would keep the cat demon at home, just as she had detained her before, and confine the cat demon for seven days as well.

As the saying goes, two tigers cannot share one mountain. In her view, there couldn’t be a second demon in Fu Anyu’s home.

“No, he injured the temple master and put him in the hospital, which constitutes intentional assault. He will need to bear criminal responsibility,” Fu Anyu shook her head. “Tomorrow, I’ll take him to the Demon Management Bureau.”

Ming Ying knew that the Demon Management Bureau was where criminal demons were detained. Hearing this, she breathed a sigh of relief.

“He’ll be locked up here tonight,” Fu Anyu said, picking up the iron cage from the corner and dumping the cat out of the plastic bag into it. “I need you to set up a barrier around the cage.”

“M-me?” Ming Ying never expected that Fu Anyu would ask her to set up the barrier. Though she was incredulous, she felt both surprised and delighted inside.

“I’m not very skilled with barriers and arrays,” Fu Anyu admitted. “You handle it.”

As Ming Ying began setting up the barrier seriously, Fu Anyu took her phone and walked out to the balcony to call an acquaintance at the Demon Management Bureau, not wanting to disturb the little fox with her call.

By the time the barrier was fully formed, enveloping the entire iron cage, it was already past eleven.

Fu Anyu had been running around all day and was already tired. After fighting the cat demon, even with coffee to keep her alert, she was drowsy and just wanted to wash up and sleep.

Ming Ying, however, was wide awake from the coffee and felt no sleepiness at all. After Fu Anyu carried her to clean up, she asked to go upstairs to keep watch over the evil creature.

Fu Anyu had no objections. She went to the guest room, found a restraining artifact and a soft plush cushion, helped Ming Ying set them upstairs, and then went to bed herself.

Ming Ying, with her Bluetooth earbuds in, sat on the cushion, holding her tablet and watching Inuyasha while keeping an eye on the black cat in the cage.

Fu Anyu had downloaded twenty full episodes of Inuyasha for her the night before, enough to keep her entertained all night.

The black cat had been knocked unconscious by Fu Anyu and then placed under a sleeping spell to prevent him from waking up and causing trouble in the middle of the night.

However, by four in the morning, the black cat slowly began to wake up. Using the faint light nearby, he realized he was trapped in an iron cage and let out an angry hiss, extending his claws and swiping at the cage.

To his surprise, his claws met no resistance, it felt like swiping at cotton, with no force behind it!

Ming Ying had just finished an episode and habitually glanced at the cage. Seeing that the black cat was awake, she quickly turned off the bedside lamp, closed her tablet, stood up, and walked over to the cage.

“As a nine-tailed great demon, why are you aiding the wicked?!” the black cat snarled, even angrier at the sight of her. His claws slammed against the cage with loud thumps.

Ming Ying was baffled by his aggression, and her own temper flared. With a stern expression, she said coldly, “You committed a crime and got caught. That’s only natural.”

“Nonsense!” the black cat yelled. “I only chose that house as my residence! I didn’t harm anyone! It was that exorcist who came after me first!”

“According to the ‘Demon Race Life Guidelines,’ if you want to settle in the human world, you need to apply for an ID card and a temporary residence permit before finding a place to live,” Ming Ying said calmly. “What you’re doing is occupying someone’s home illegally! Do you realize the people living here are all ordinary humans?”

The black cat suddenly laughed, its tone dripping with sarcasm. “Seems like that female demon hunter has filled your head with quite a lot.”

The term “female demon hunter” made Ming Ying’s heart skip a beat, but before the thought could fully form, she retorted, “Sorry, but I learned all this from books myself. No one taught me.”

“Hmph! A great demon like you, actually following human rules for survival, don’t you find that ridiculous?” the black cat sneered.

“I find it far more ridiculous that you see a bandit’s code as the right way to live,” Ming Ying shot back.

The fox and the cat argued for half an hour, talking past each other the entire time, neither convincing the other.

In the end, it was the black cat who conceded first. “Fine! Ever since I saw you helping that female demon hunter, I’ve considered you a disgrace to our kind!”

“Before tonight, I didn’t know my sister was a demon hunter,” Ming Ying said, her initial unease gradually calming. She could even face the question with composure now. “But it doesn’t matter. She’s still my sister.”

The black cat rolled its eyes. “As a great demon, befriending a demon hunter, aren’t you afraid other demons will see it and turn against you?”

“As long as my sister is in the right, what does it matter if she’s a demon hunter?” Ming Ying countered. “She acts with reason and evidence. She’s not some demon hunter who kills indiscriminately! She,”

“Enough, enough, damn it! I can’t win against you!” the black cat interrupted, growing impatient. “Just tell me, what are you planning to do with me? Give it to me straight!”

“We’re taking you to the Demon Management Bureau tomorrow morning,” Ming Ying said. “They’ll decide your punishment.”

The usually fearless cat demon’s expression shifted at the mention of the “Demon Management Bureau.”

Ming Ying, annoyed by the arguing, sat back down, turned off the light, and put on her headphones, ready to continue watching Inuyasha. Suddenly, she heard a pitiful, drawn-out “meow.”

The sound was so sickly sweet it made her skin crawl.

The video player was still paused, so Ming Ying knew it wasn’t coming from the anime. She immediately switched the light back on, took off her headphones, and asked the black cat, “What are you doing? What else do you want?”

“Can you take me to see that male demon hunter from earlier today?” The black cat’s fur, which had been bristling, now lay flat. Its ears drooped against its head, and its once-arrogant voice turned soft and pleading. “I have something to cover the medical expenses. Please don’t send me to the Demon Management Bureau, I’m begging you!”

Ming Ying: ???

How could this guy change his attitude so quickly? Was this what her father meant by “a real man knows when to yield and when to stand firm”?!

“But this isn’t just about medical expenses anymore,” she reminded the black cat, still stunned. “You sent someone to the hospital. That’s a crime.”

“I don’t want to go to the Demon Management Bureau!” the black cat grew agitated again. “Those humans will definitely sentence me to at least three years in prison! I want my freedom! Besides, I’m the one who injured him, I know how to treat him better than any human doctor!”

Ming Ying: …

She never expected a bandit to suddenly try his hand at being a doctor.

“I can’t make that decision. You’ll have to speak with my sister yourself tomorrow morning.” Ming Ying mercilessly shattered his illusions while adding a sarcastic jab, “Besides, you’re just as knowledgeable about human world rules as I am, aren’t you? Out with it, where did you really come from? And where did you learn all this?”

The black cat choked on his words, hemming and hawing for a long while without forming a complete sentence.

“If you don’t tell me, I’ll cast a sleeping charm on you that’ll knock you out until noon tomorrow. Then you won’t even get the chance to negotiate with my sister!” Ming Ying threatened.

Of course, the black cat had no desire to wake up only to find himself delivered straight to the Monster Management Bureau. After an internal struggle, he finally mumbled awkwardly, “I’m his cat.”