She couldn't wait to go over immediately.\ But every time she thought of her father's frail and sickly appearance, Qingcheng couldn't bear to leave him.\ After all, all nine older sisters had left, and now her father also needed a daughter to take care of him. If she left too, when her father really fell ill one day, who would be there to see him off?\ After thinking this over, Qingcheng finally still didn't take that step toward the human world.\ But not being able to go didn't mean she didn't want to.\ She really wanted to go, even dreamed about it.\ Sure enough — that night she had such a strange dream again.\ When she vaguely closed her eyes, she suddenly heard a soft voice calling her: 'Qingcheng——'\ 'Who are you?' Qingcheng felt the voice was familiar, but she still asked.\ 'Qingcheng, it's your ninth sister!' the voice said.\ It turned out that it was her youngest, ninth sister speaking to her, and Qingcheng finally felt reassured.\ 'Ninth sister,' Qingcheng happily held her hand and said, 'where are you now? Father's health is getting worse year by year.'\ 'Silly girl, of course the ninth sister is in the human world,' her ninth sister told her, 'our other eight sisters are all in the human world! Why don't you come over early too?'\ 'The human world, isn't that the place father repeatedly warned us not to go to?' Qingcheng said, 'Didn't father say that there are men in the human world who use sweet words to deceive us, and once we develop true feelings, we can't pull away?'\ 'Father was just talking nonsense because he himself has never been to the human world,' the ninth sister replied. 'Little sister, I'll tell you, the human world is very beautiful, and human love is especially beautiful. I and the other eight sisters all found true love in the human world, and we are living particularly happily!'\ 'Particularly happily?' Qingcheng asked in confusion. 'Even happier than our warm fox den in winter and cool in summer?'\ 'Ah, little sister, hearing you say that makes you sound like a rustic who hasn't seen the world,' the ninth sister sarcastically said, 'what happiness is there in our fox den? There's nothing to eat, the air is polluted, and we have to listen to father nag every day. It's really boring!'\ 'So, you mean the men in the human world aren't all deceivers?' Qingcheng still asked somewhat incredulously.“Maybe there are liars too,” Jiujie replied, “but sometimes it's actually kind of fun to listen to a man's flattering words. Even though you know some of it is lies, it still feels pretty nice inside. Really, little sister, if you come to the human world yourself, you'll understand this feeling.”
“Oh, really?” Qingcheng said, slightly in disbelief. “Even though you know it's a lie, it still feels nice? I remember when I was little, Father promised to buy me a pair of embroidered shoes, but he didn't keep his word. At that time I hated him so much for telling a lie. Jiujie, you can't be mistaken, can you?”
“Silly little sister,” Jiujie said again, “because Father is different from the men in the human world.”
“What's the difference?” Qingcheng asked again. “Aren't they all men? We squat to pee, and they stand to pee?”
“Little sister, you're adorably silly,” Jiujie covered her mouth to laugh. “Our feelings for Father are just familial affection, not romantic love between a man and a woman, but our feelings for men in the human world is true romantic love. Ah, just by explaining it to you like this, you'll never truly understand in your whole life. I think, you really need to go to the human world yourself to truly comprehend it.”
…
When she woke from the dream, Qingcheng's mood still could not calm down for a while.
