Nine-Tailed Fox 1

Qingcheng knew that she was a fox, and not just an ordinary fox.\ Because she had nine tails.\ All the female members of her family had nine tails.\ Of course, they were not born with nine tails; they needed to grow one tail every hundred years, and when the ninth tail fully grew, they would take a human form.\ Moreover, they would become very beautiful women, so beautiful that even they themselves would marvel at it, so beautiful that they themselves could fall in love with themselves.\ But sometimes beauty can also be a sweet trouble.\ Because after becoming a beautiful woman, they would gain some special abilities—for example, from then on they could freely enter the human world, and they would not be easily noticed by humans.\ This made Qingcheng's father extremely worried.\ So her father would repeatedly warn the sisters, "You must not casually go to the human world, and you must not have any entanglements with the men there. Men are a very frightening kind of animal; they will use sweet words to seduce you, and once you fall into it, you will not be able to extricate yourself."\ Even though their father said this until he was practically spitting blood, Qingcheng's nine older sisters still went to the human world one after another without hesitation, and not a single one ever returned.\ They should not have been killed, because once they became nine-tailed foxes, the sisters possessed abilities beyond humans, which were more than enough for self-defense.\ So why did the nine sisters not return after going to the human world? Qingcheng was very curious.\ Could it be that they did not listen to their father's warnings and were truly seduced by the sweet words of men in the human world, and then married and had children with them?\ But if it really was as Father said, that men in the human world were all bad, the sisters would certainly have suffered, right? If they suffered, why didn't they come back? Didn't Father say that no matter how much we are hurt outside, home will always be our best safe haven?\ Could it be that they were not harmed in the human world, but actually lived very happily, even happier than in the fox den?\ Could it be that Father was deliberately scaring us because he couldn't bear to let us leave him?\ Qingcheng really wanted to know the answer.She also wanted to find time to go to the human world, to see what the local customs and practices were, especially to see what the men there actually looked like, and whether they were really as rotten as Father said. At the beginning of this year, after celebrating her nine hundredth birthday, Qingcheng had also grown her ninth tail and had transformed into a beautiful young woman. Every time she looked in the mirror, Qingcheng would secretly admire the version of herself reflected there; she could hardly believe that it was really her, because on the very first night of her nine hundredth birthday, she was still in the form of a fox, and now she had become a stunning beauty, just like her nine older sisters. Thinking of her sisters, Qingcheng couldn't help but remember that they were no longer around to accompany her and Father; they had all gone to the human world. Qingcheng indeed quite wanted to follow in her sisters' footsteps and go to the mysterious human world to take a look.