My Evil Wife Is a Nine-Tailed Fox

The fox woman shot him a deadly glare. Were all grim reapers so annoying like him? She couldn't remember a time when this man didn't try to get on her nerves every time she met him. Did he really want to see her dead? 

"Heh, and here I thought you were useless." She spat back, remembering how he saved the little human who dealt with the wraith earlier. If he didn't intervene, Shen Minyao was sure that the young human wouldn't be able to exorcise the wraith at all. 

"I didn't do it to save anyone." The grim reaper placed his sword back in its scabbard. "Killing the wraith only means that I wouldn't have to deal with it again in the future," he said nonchalantly. 

Shen Minyao could feel a vein popping on her forehead. She should have known this arrogant bastard only did it for himself! Humans say that demons like her were heartless, but clearly, they were no match against grim reapers like him! 

"Why don't you go back to the hellhole you came from, or do you perhaps need my help to send you there?" She narrowed her eyes at him. 

"No thanks. I could perfectly go there whenever I want," he said in response. 

Anyway, since the wraith had already been killed by Li Fei'er, that only meant that one less problem had been dealt with. Shen Minyao was about to turn to leave to see Zhao Yichen and Yu Yan when Li Fei'er came running to her. 

"Thank you so much for saving me earlier." The young woman smiled brightly at the nine-tailed fox, reminding the demon of how her young ward used to run like this to greet her whenever they met. The young ward even smiled like seeing her mistress' return was the best thing that happened to her day. 

Shen Minyao eyed the girl for a moment and looked away with a straight face. 

"Go home. This is not a place a girl like you should be in." 

Li Fei'er pouted back. Why was everyone still treating her like a child? Couldn't they see that she was old enough to look after herself? 

"But you are the same age as me, right? Why can't I be here, while you can?" She questioned Shen Minyao. 

The fox woman almost rolled her eyes from the absurdity of it. She might look physically young in her new host's body, but obviously, a demon like her exceeded the life span of any human she encountered so far. 

"It's because I'm a patient here, and you are not," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. Other people wouldn't suspect her being here in the hospital, but if they see Li Fei'er roaming around, the girl would surely get into trouble given how much damage her fight with the wraith had given this place. 

"What about him?" Li Fei'er pointed her forefinger towards the grim reaper curiously. 

"Is he with you?" she asked, glancing between the nine-tailed fox and the grim reaper. The man looked so out of place, wearing a black traditional robe with a sword hanging from his waist. Just what kind of people were they? Li Fei'er wondered. 

"Oh? You can see me?" The grim reaper seemed surprised, being regarded by the young shaman. 

A normal human wouldn't be able to see a creature like him. Even the shaman he'd encountered in the past could only be counted on his fingers, and they were the more experienced ones compared to Li Fei'er. 

"Uhm… am I not supposed to see you?" Li Fei'er couldn't understand what he meant by his words earlier. Was he some kind of ghost?

"Of course. If you are a human, the last person you would like to see is a grim reaper that's about to collect your soul." Shen Minyao scoffed, crossing her arms over her chest. 

Li Fei'er gasped and clung to Shen Minyao's arm, looking at the grim reaper worriedly. Was she supposed to die earlier? If this woman hadn't saved her life, would that mean that the grim reaper would bring her to the afterlife? 

"You didn't come here to take me, right? I'm too young to die, Mr. Grim Reaper. Please don't take me away." She begged him, which sounded ridiculous for the fox woman. As if she would allow the grim reaper to take away Little Jiu's current incarnation that easily…

"Don't be silly. If you were to die earlier, he would have stopped me from saving your life," the fox woman said, pulling away her arm from Li Fei'er's grasp. 

Shen Minyao walked away past the human, leaving Li Fei'er with the grim reaper. Visiting her human contractor was long overdue, and with her being discharged tomorrow, she wouldn't have a chance to see Zhao Yichen and Yu Yan except for tonight. 

"Wait! I want to know who…" Li Fei'er was about to follow Shen Minyao and Xiao Bai, but she suddenly lost consciousness once her body realized that it ran out of spiritual energy. Before she managed to hit the cold floor, the grim reaper zoomed to her side, holding her midsection with one arm. 

"Hey! Aren't you going to help her?" He called out to Shen Minyao who didn't bother to turn around to see what had just happened. Instead, she raised a hand, waving a finger at him. 

"I'm busy. I don't come here to babysit. You can just drop her to the nearest lost and found for humans," she said before she disappeared into the darkness of the hallways. 

The grim reaper sighed to himself and then glanced at the unconscious human in his arm. 

"She's really something, don't you think?" He mumbled to himself. "I guess she doesn't care enough to bring you to a safe place." 

Meanwhile, Shen Minyao took the emergency stairs that Li Fei'er used earlier.. She stopped and raised her hands, slightly hissing in pain as she allowed her spiritual energy to heal her human body.