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Chapter 397: The Youth and the Fox Demon

Chapter 397: Chapter 397: The Youth and the Fox Demon

He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, yet he said nothing at all.

Finally, somewhat awkwardly, he raised the bottle of liquor and took two swigs.

"Do you think a human and a demon can be together?"

"A human and a demon?" the drunkard looked at him with a somewhat strange expression.

Realizing that his question had come out somewhat absurd, Jun Moyan shifted his gaze away, "Never mind, I was just recalling a story Baiyi told me, asking if humans and demons can be together."

"Oh..." the drunkard uttered, lifting his head to drink again, but his expression slowly changed.

Jun Moyan did not say anything further, just sat quietly, slowly calming his own emotions.

He thought the drunkard wouldn’t speak again, but after a while, the drunkard blurted out, "...it won’t lead to anything."

Jun Moyan was startled and turned to look at him, only to see tears flashing in the drunkard’s eyes, which were also red.

Jun Moyan found the drunkard’s sudden change peculiar and didn’t quite understand what he meant.

The drunkard drank the last sip from the bottle, smiled, and turned to look at Jun Moyan as well.

Seeming to know that Jun Moyan hadn’t quite understood his words, the drunkard repeated in a hoarse voice:

"It won’t lead to anything."

Jun Moyan looked at his sorrowfully smiling and moist eyes, puzzled by why he was reacting this way.

He had never seen him like this before.

Suddenly, Jun Moyan realized that, apart from Shangguan Yu, he had known the drunkard the longest, yet he understood him the least.

"Why so absolute?"

Realizing he might have said something inappropriate, the drunkard gave a smile, trying to brush it off.

"Let me tell you a story."

"..." Jun Moyan didn’t speak, just looked at him, as if waiting for his story.

The drunkard gathered his thoughts before he began to speak.

"Once, there was a young boy who had gone to the mountains to learn medicine from an old man. One day while gathering herbs in the mountains, he encountered a little fox." As he mentioned the little fox, the mist in the drunkard’s eyes subtly brightened, and he couldn’t help but smile a little.

"A fiery red fox, even its eyes were red, about this big," the drunkard said, gesturing with his hand.

"It was exceptionally beautiful, and the boy liked it from the first glance."

"The fox was very timid. If it hadn’t been injured and unable to run, it surely would have fled."

"When the boy tried to pick it up, the fox even tried to bite him. The boy, not caring whether it understood him or not, threatened it by saying: ’You better not move. If you hurt me, I’ll roast you later." The drunkard laughed a little at the boy’s amusing threat.

"Can you believe it? How could the fox possibly understand his words?" The drunkard spoke as if he wasn’t sure whether he was addressing Jun Moyan or himself.

"But it seems the fox really did understand because it then really dared not to move anymore."

The drunkard looked ahead as if drawn into the story himself, displaying a vivid and earnest demeanor.

"The boy picked up the fox, noticed it trembling with fear, and found it somewhat amusing. While he kept threatening it, he checked its wounds and found that most of them were serious internal injuries. After dressing its external wounds, the boy took the fox back home and asked his master to treat it."

"When the fox realized the boy was trying to save it, it wasn’t so scared anymore and even felt grateful towards the boy."

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