My Evil Wife Is a Nine-Tailed Fox

That evening, Shen Minyao called in her older brother and Li Fei'er to discuss the issue about the Gu poison inside of Zhao Corporation. By then, Zhao Yichen took the initiative to book a private booth at one of the popular restaurants near their company. 

Shen Minyao wasn't surprised when her brother arrived in a lavish and modern sports car, with Li Fei'er in his passenger seat. She raised a brow at Qin Zhi with a questioning look, while Li Fei'er took a seat across from him and next to Shen Minyao. 

"Are you sure of what you have seen?" Qin Zhi ignored her inquisitive gaze, but Li Fei'er looked flustered for arriving with Qin Zhi.

"En. I haven't seen such a curse for a long time. It traps both demons and spirits for it to consume. Considering that the place is also spiritually isolated, whoever stepped inside the room and got sucked in by the pot wouldn't be able to escape alive." 

"But you did?" 

"I didn't get too close, but I know what I've seen." Shen Minyao shrugged her shoulders and cupped her chin with her left hand, her eyes sweeping at the raw cut of meat being served to them. 

Qin Zhi helped Li Fei'er grill a few strips of meat, while Zhao Yichen busied himself with cutting the grilled meat into smaller pieces for the two cat guardians. Shen Minyao picked up her chopsticks and placed a raw slice of meat in her mouth nonchalantly. 

Li Fei'er was momentarily stunned by what she had seen, but she supposed it was normal for Shen Minyao to eat raw meat. Moreover, she had never seen her friend eat any normal human food before. Oddly enough, Shen Minyao liked the taste of that strawberry yogurt drink at their cafeteria. 

"Shen Minyao planned to override the rule and take over as its new contractor. I have no idea how to break a Gu curse, but if it's stealing spirits around the area, it would surely pose a problem to us grim reapers." Mu Qing vouched for Shen Minyao's claim, which was surprising for the fox woman. 

She never thought Mu Qing could be this agreeable. She then decided to change topics.

"So what about the brood of blood-sucking demons you and Li Fei'er found?" 

"We are still hunting the rest of them, but I believe their leader is still on the run, considering that a new victim appeared in the news this morning," Qin Zhi replied before giving his sister a pointed look. "Don't go around hunting them on your own. I have an impression that they will work with Xuan Yanrui this time." 

"Wouldn't it be a better reason for me to get involved?" Shen Minyao retorted. "I mean, surely, they knew they needed to catch me to please him immensely. I could sense that whatever Xuan Yanrui promised them was enough to make them swallow their pride to follow him." 

"Yaoyao, I think Mr. Qin is right this time." Li Fei'er joined their conversation, giving Shen Minyao a worried look. "Actually, we encountered smaller groups during our hunt. I'm not sure why they seemed to work separately around the city. If it wasn't for Mr. Qin's heightened senses, even I couldn't sense their exact location." 

Li Fei'er had to admit that ever since she started hunting demons with Qin Zhi for the past few days, she learned more about demons than what she did from textbooks and during her apprenticeship as a shaman. 

Like humans, demons were complicated creatures. While everyone viewed them as an arrogant and selfish bunch, Li Fei'er also found something unique about these demons. 

A human lifespan was just a short moment for demons, compared to the almost eternal life of theirs. Unfortunately, when it came to trauma, loss, and agony; such emotions were amplified and could be eternal for a demon. 

It made sense to Li Fei'er why most demons had this arrogant streak on them as they put a mask on to hide such suffering inside, while others were consumed with great negative emotions, driving them to insanity. 

She took a quick glance at Shen Minyao and Qin Zhi. Did it mean that they were the same? 

The fox woman sighed inwardly. 

"I intend to make the Gu demon my shikigami. Is it possible?" 

Qin Zhi paused and looked at his sister. "Technically, it is possible. So long as the demon that it would be bound to is stronger than the Gu demon itself. If you failed, you would be devoured by it. You should know this by now." 

"I know," his sister replied, only to continue eating as if dealing with a Gu demon wouldn't pose a threat to her. 

"And you are still going to do it?" 

"Isn't it that why I called Li Fei'er here?" 

At those words, Qin Zhi shot her a fierce glare. 

'What? Don't look at me like that. I wasn't the one who said he would leave her be but still met her behind my back,' the fox woman told him through telepathy. 

The fox demon siblings glared at each other, which made everyone around them wary. They might end up starting a fight, but none of that happened. 

Shen Minyao scoffed and continued with her meal, while Qin Zhi looked away and decided to focus on grilling meat. 

"Lord Hell, are they always like this?" Li Fei'er asked the grim reaper, which made Zhao Yichen curious about the identity of this other man in front of them. 

Was he also a demon like Shen Minyao? If so, it was surprising to know that she could get along with another demon. 

Mu Qing glanced at the two fox demons in front of him and shrugged. How could he answer that question when, clearly, this was only the third time he met Qin Zhi personally? 

"This… I don't know the answer. I think her cats would be able to give you a better answer than me," he said. 

"Oh, right!" Li Fei'er nodded in agreement and turned to Xiao Bai, who was seated on the corner of the table near her. "Little Master, do you know the answer? You are the most knowledgeable one here." 

"Of course, I do! Who do you think I am?!" 

If Zhao Yichen didn't know better, he would have imagined Xiao Bai's nose growing long for easily falling for Li Fei'er's teasing. 

"Then?" 

"Milady and Lord Qin are brothers and sisters. It's only natural for them to argue like this from time to time," Xiao Bai responded. 

"Right, totally normal. However, just in case you are forgetting, Xiao Bai… they flattened a mountain range a couple of centuries ago during their last fight," Yu Yan commented with a nonchalant tone. 

The two humans looked at Qin Zhi in bewilderment, while Mu Qing was able to keep his poker face in place after finding out the real relationship between the two demons. 

"They are siblings?!" The young shaman gasped slowly as if the two demons accompanying them couldn't hear what they were talking about. 

"Who's older between the two?" Zhao Yichen asked curiously. This was the first time he found out that the fox woman had familial ties with another demon. 

"Lord Qin," Xiao Bai answered at once. 

"So, how old is he?" The fox woman's human contractor continued with his barrage of questions to her cat guardians. 

"Hmm, let's see…" Xiao Bai pondered for a moment. "If I am not mistaken, Lord Qin is over a millennium at this age. Milady should be the same, but a century younger now since she went into a long hibernation." 

It was only natural for Xiao Bai to twist his words. Although Li Fei'er was aware that Shen Minyao was a demon, she still had no idea that the nine-tailed fox demon that her whole family had been looking for was none other than Shen Minyao. 

Li Fei'er gave the siblings a good look and smiled. 

"They must have missed each other so much that they couldn't wait to argue with each other like this." 

Shen Minyao scowled at that and shot her older brother a scathing look. 

"Who would miss an idiot like him?" She spat out venomously. 

"You ungrateful witch! After all the things I have done for your sake?" Qin Zhi returned her annoyed look, which made Li Fei'er laugh at them. 

"Right. They really missed each other." She grinned at them. 

"So… when do you plan to do it?" Qin Zhi decided to ignore Li Fei'er's teasing and asked his sister about her plan. 

"There's no plan yet. This is why I called the two of you," Shen Minyao replied. 

"What about tomorrow?" At Zhao Yichen's suggestion, everyone's eyes turned to him. "I mean, there would only be security personnel at the building tomorrow since it is Sunday." 

"I agree with Zhao Yichen," Mu Qing commented, "If we prolong the wait, the Gu demon might mature before we know it."