Red Dust

Looking at the handsome scholar in front of him, who was taking care of a sleeping injured fox, Chen Hu couldn't help but take in a deep breath.

"Hong Chen, won't you at least consider it? You should know just how lucky you were to enter Miss Chen's gaze," asked Chen Hu as he looked at Hong Chen with a frown on his face.

Hearing Chen Hu say that Hong Chen couldn't help but turn to him, smiling.

"Uncle Chen, how about you give me some more time," said Hong Chen as his fingers slowly but surely ran through the fur of the small fox.

"Very well, but allow me to send a guard to protect you, I don't want anything bad to happen to you," said Chen Hu as he patted Hong Chen on the shoulder.

"Very well Uncle Chen, I was quite worried these days," said Hong Chen as he placed the fox down and walked Chen Hu out of the room.

As soon as Chen Hu walked out of the door, Hong Chen walked up to the little fox, picked it up and then sat on the chair, picking up a certain bamboo slip and beginning to read it.

"You really have no care in the world, I envy you," said Hong Chen as he placed the bamboo slip on the table, picking up another one.

Seemingly answering his question, the little fox suddenly turned it's body around to a more comfortable position before continuing to lazily sleep.

But as the little fox turned around, Hong Chen was clearly able to see it's the left leg, which even after several days of his care, was not being healed in the slightest.

As he saw this, Hong Chen lightly touched the bandage he had wrapped around the leg, feeling it.

"Just bear with me, I need to replace this," mumbled Hong Chen as he began his work.

...

Feeling a cold gaze landing on him Chen Hu slightly trembled.

"Do you know your mistake?" asked a cold female voice from behind Chen Hu, causing him to suddenly react.

Without any hesitation, Chen Hu fell to his knees, not giving Miss Chen's guards any time to push him to the ground.

"This lowly servant has failed in bringing Hong Chen here for the Miss," said Chen Hu as he knelt towards this so-called Miss Chen.

As soon as he said those words, Chen Hu suddenly felt the gaze that had landed on him become colder.

"It seems like you are too stupid to even realize your mistake, since you dare threaten my Hong Chen then I must use your blood so that he can forgive me," said Miss Chen, causing one of the guards next to her to suddenly act.

Without any warning, a sword was suddenly swung at Chen Hu's head.

...

After finishing cleaning the wound of the little fox, as well as wrapping it with a new bandage, Hong Chen slowly but surely peacefully fell asleep.

Feeling the soft tails wrapping around him, Hong Chen suddenly opened his eyes before wiping the sweat from his forehead, feeling a little drained.

"That dream was too weird," mumbled Hong Chen as he looked at the sleeping fox on his lap with a weird expression on his face.

Without paying much attention to this, Hong Chen continued on with his leisurely life, eating, sleeping, reading, petting the little fox, and sometimes talking with Miss Chen, who would come to pester him.

...

Looking at Miss Chen's departing figure, Hong Chen felt somewhat weird in his heard.

"She won't kill me if I refuse to become her husband? Right?" mumbled Hong Chen in an extremely quiet voice.

Hearing him speak, the little fox sleeping on his lap raised it's head and stared at Hong Chen, before going back to sleep only a moment later.

Seeing this, a smile appeared on Hong Chen's face.

"Guess I can sleep for a little bit," mumbled Hong Chen as an unusual wave of exhaustion hit him, causing him, who usually was full of energy at this time, to fall asleep.

As if feeling that Hong Chen had fallen asleep, a small smile appeared on the face of the small sleeping fox.

...

Even though his surroundings were not fully clear, feeling the soft tails wrapped around his body, Hong Chen couldn't help but turn his head around.

Looking at the beautiful seven-tailed fox woman he was sitting on the lap of, even though he was dreaming and not fully conscious, Hong Chen couldn't help but feel a little weird, causing a small frown to appear on his face.

"My cute little Hong Chen," mumbled the fox woman, when suddenly, Hong Chen's face froze.

"Are you sure you want to continue living in an illusion?" asked a nine-tailed fox appearing behind the fox woman.

As soon as the nine-tailed fox appeared behind the woman, the entire world around the fox woman slowly but surely began disappearing.

"I really don't want to, mother," said the fox woman, causing extreme panic to suddenly appear on the face of the nine-tailed fox behind her.

Suddenly, the collapse, which was already happing, instantly completed, revealing the real world, causing Hong Chen to suddenly disappear from the lap of the fox woman.

Soon after, the fox woman, who was already gravely injured, suddenly began becoming older, and at the same time, her stomach became larger and larger at an exaggerated rate.

A few moments later, the fox woman, who now looked like an old lady, suddenly disappeared, revealing a seven-tailed fox with a large stomach.

"Rather than suffering alongside me, you will be happier next to your grandmother, understood, Ling'er, Jing'er," said the seven tailed fox as the nine-tailed fox watched, tears slowly appearing at the corner of her eyes.

But even so, the moment the seven-tailed fox bad began shattering her soul, the nine-tailed fox knew that everything she did would be useless.

Suddenly, to small balls of light flew towards the nine-tailed fox, each of them carrying a newly born fox.

The moment the nine-tailed fox took control of the balls, the body of the seven-tailed fox began dissipating, but even so, at that moment she was feeling the highest form of pleasure, feeling as if she was once again one with her little Hong'er.

"Goodbye mother," mumbled the seven-tailed fox as she looked at her mother with a smile on her face, and a moment later, it disappeared from this world.