A-Li had just celebrated her 300th birthday when her parents, eager to enjoy their life as a couple, abandoned her to go traveling around the world.
Left with no choice, little A-Li went down the mountain to look for her older brothers.
But before she could find them… she got lost.
Luckily, she ran into a gentle and handsome big brother. Naively, she followed him home.
Life with him was comfortable—good food, good drinks—and every day, A-Li happily trailed behind him like a little tail.
But the people around him all called her a “fox spirit.”
Startled, A-Li instinctively reached for her tail… but nothing was there.
That night, after her bath, A-Li accidentally revealed her fluffy tail—and the big brother saw it.
She had heard that humans liked to skin little foxes and use their fur as scarves. Terrified, she hugged her tail tightly, her eyes turning red as she denied it:
“I—I’m really not a fox spirit!”
Fu Qingheng’s voice went hoarse. “
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Later, when A-Li finally found her brothers and wanted to introduce the kind big brother, she noticed their expressions turn tense.
**Big Brother:** “Little sister, come here! He’s a bad man!” **Second Brother:** “Listen to Big Brother!” **Third Brother:** “A-Li, that man… he eats people…” **A-Li:** “But Brother Fu is really good to me…”
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Later still, when her brothers learned that A-Li was pregnant with Fu Qingheng’s child, they all looked miserable.
After much discussion, they came up with a plan—to trick A-Li into agreeing to stay with him.
The moment A-Li heard, she ran to Fu Qingheng:
“My brothers agreed to let us get married! But they said they need to test if you truly like me, so we have to wait until my coming-of-age ceremony!”
Fu Qingheng: “How old is that?”
A-Li counted on her fingers:
“One thousand years old! Only seven hundred more years before we can get married!”
Fu Qingheng: “……”
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