The Rakshasi stayed in the Heavenly Court for forty-nine years, and then it took her another ten years to find me in seclusion.

When she found me, the Jade-faced Fox was snuggling up to me, feeding me grapes she had just picked.

I found the grapes too sour and frowned. The Jade-faced Fox put the grapes in her own mouth, took a bite, and said they weren't sour at all. She asked me to open my mouth and said the grapes in her mouth were very sweet, wanting to feed me grapes from her mouth.

Just then, the Rakshasi pushed the door open and entered the room.

She glanced at me with her pitch-black eyes and then looked at the Jade-faced Fox.

The Jade-faced Fox didn't recognize her and immediately jumped off me, blushing.

"I have something to ask you," the Rakshasi said and then walked out.

I watched her departing figure in silence, and the Jade-faced Fox asked, "Who is she?"

"She's my wife," I replied casually.

"Are you going to leave me?" The Jade-faced Fox looked up at me and asked, "It's okay, I can serve as a maid for you both."

I didn't know how to answer the Jade-faced Fox. Say that the Rakshasi and I had no feelings? That's nonsense. We've been married for over two hundred years and have never argued. Say that I'm fickle? That's also nonsense. Before the Rakshasi went to the Heavenly Court, I had never looked at another woman.

The reason I married the Jade-faced Fox was twofold: first, because the Fox King had treated me kindly, and second, because the Rakshasi had already left me.

However, the Rakshasi left me precisely to save me, and I naturally understood this.

However, she spent forty-nine years in the Heavenly Court! What happened during that time?

I wanted to know, yet I didn't dare to know.

I just sat there quietly, not knowing whether to leave or what to do. The Jade-faced Fox stood beside me, motionless, waiting for me. She was waiting to see if I would stay here or leave. In her big eyes, there was doubt, unease, fear, anticipation. The look on her face was like that of a condemned criminal awaiting judgment.

The sun went down, and the moon rose above the willow tree.

The room was pitch-black. Usually, the Jade-faced Fox would have lit a lamp and helped me to bed intimately, but this time, she just stood there, motionless, as if she had turned into a petrified statue.

I stood up, and she became extremely anxious, asking, "What are you doing?"

"I want to go out for a walk."

"It's already late, and it's dark outside. Let's lie down and sleep, okay?"

"It's been a whole day. I want to go out and get some fresh air."

"Then should I open the window?"

"I just want to go out for a walk."

"Then I..." The Jade-faced Fox paused and then said, "Should I accompany you?"

I didn't say anything, and the Jade-faced Fox followed closely behind me as I walked to the door and pushed it open.

In the moonlight, the Rakshasi had been standing in the courtyard, staring blankly at the door.

The Jade-faced Fox saw the Rakshasi and suddenly felt a bit at a loss, so she stood still at the door, gazing outside at the motionless Rakshasi...

I didn't expect the Rakshasi to still be waiting there, but she was just like she was two hundred years ago when we first met.

The Jade-faced Fox sighed and said that she wanted to pay respects to her father, the Fox King, that night, so she left.

The usually strong Rakshasi became fragile that night. She told me that the banana leaf fan was a treasure she had cultivated with her life. Each time she fanned it, she would lose three years of cultivation.

That night, I felt very sorry for her...

Not long after, the Red Child was born.