He grinned, revealing sharp, gleaming fangs.
Lu Wenshan, however, showed no fear whatsoever, as if he had already disregarded life and death. His head pounded against the ground with a loud "thud," and blood dripped down, making him look both pitiful and terrifying.
"Please, Madam Xu, save Eleventh Sister! Please, Madam Xu, have mercy!"
Xu Milu had just returned from Earth and was about to go to sleep when she heard a man's pleading voice outside. She quickly changed her clothes and came out.
"You're the young master of the Lu family? What brings you here? Eleventh Sister? Wasn't it your little sister who was being summoned by the underworld messengers tonight?"
"Madam Xu is incredibly resourceful! She even knows this—"
Lu Wenshan immediately raised his head, loosened the robe he was holding, revealing a fox that was barely larger than a house cat. He looked at the fox with a face full of shame and eyes full of despair:
"My little sister is dying. Eleventh Sister gave half of her demon core to prolong her life, but she... but her cultivation is still shallow, and she cannot maintain her human form. Please, Madam Xu, save her!"
"Remove the demon core!"
Mo Xuan suddenly snapped out of his daze, his face filled with disbelief:
"The demon race's core extraction is like a human's heart being ripped out; this little fox is courting death!!"
In a flash, a series of strange ideas connected in Xu Milu's mind: the frail and sickly youngest sister of the Lu family, who was nearing the end of her life; the Lu family agreeing to let Lu Wenshan marry the fox spirit; a bizarre wedding ceremony—
It wasn't the Hu family who committed marriage fraud, it was the Lu family!
They've had their eyes on Eleventh Sister's inner core for a long time!
A series of clues were connected. She squatted down, took the little fox, and bounced it around. Finding that it was still breathing, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"If you want to save Eleventh Sister, then get out of my sight."
Xu Milu rarely showed such strong disgust; her face was full of indifference.
“I don’t believe what you’re saying. Eleventh Sister voluntarily gave up her core. Although she is a fox, since you and she are in love, you should respect and cherish her. You tacitly agreed to her giving up her core to save people, but in your heart you still only see her as a medicinal ingredient to save lives.”
Outside, thunder roared and rain poured down. Lu Wenshan stood there dumbfounded, stumbling out of the restaurant as if he had lost his soul, and disappeared into the rain.
...
...
Xu Milu remembered that there was a hundred-year-old peach from the Dragon Palace of the West Sea in the system slot, which should be able to save Eleventh Sister.
She had just taken out the juicy peach when the fox nestled in her arms woke up. Its eyes darted around, and not seeing Lu Wenshan, it rolled over and began to speak in human language:
"That dimwitted, clueless idiot actually sent his old mother to Mrs. Xu's place—"
The fox brushed the fur off its face and bowed repeatedly to Xu Milu:
"Thank you, Madam Xu, for not exposing this little demon. I fooled that fool and disturbed your rest. It was truly my fault. Becoming an immortal is far too complicated—if it weren't to repay the Lu family's kindness, why would I have bothered with acting and extracting my core? Alas! It's really quite a dilemma~"
Xu Milu's movements suddenly froze.
Becoming an immortal? Repaying a debt of gratitude?
What exactly is going on?
A reversal of polarity?
Mo Xuan's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets; he clearly hadn't expected things to turn out this way.
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