My Evil Wife Is a Nine-Tailed Fox

Jiang Chen wasn't sure what had just happened. The police cars and ambulance had finally come to rescue the humans that had gotten hurt during the battle of the two demons and a grim reaper earlier. He wondered what he should do then. He felt useless and helpless at the same time, knowing he couldn't do anything to help Shen Minyao and Mu Qing earlier. 

He stayed rooted at where he was, oblivious to the humans that were rushing left and right around them to rescue those who needed help. The fourth district that was known as the place that never sleeps grew buzzing with people trying to check the aftermath of the unknown event that took place in the area. 

No one knew what truly happened. Some assumed that there was a terrorist attack, while the others wondered if the ground shaking was an indication of a natural calamity that was about to hit them. However, there were rare humans who were able to sense the abnormality of the place and put it under a paranormal case that needed to be reviewed later. 

Mu Qing had walked away from the ground zero of the battle. He eyed Jiang Chen for a moment, but he didn't utter a word to explain who the other demon was and why he had taken Shen Minyao away with him. 

Now that the demonic barrier was gone, it was time for him to perform his duties as a grim reaper and collect their souls. He sighed to himself. Shen Minyao had left a lot of mess again for him to clean up after. He was starting to wonder if he had lost his mind somehow by allowing himself to be associated with that fox demon and helping her feed on the other demons. 

The deities and the netherworld had yet to give him an order on what to do with the infamous nine-tailed fox, but they were made aware of her existence in a human shell and her involvement with his recent cases. 

If the netherworld asked him to dispose of Shen Minyao, he wondered if he would come out victorious against the fox woman. However, just the mere thought that they would clash swords against each other didn't sit well with the grim reaper. 

As if on cue, the other grim reapers had arrived at the scene to help him collect the souls of the departed ones. Mu Qing's lips pressed into a thin line, wondering why he always needed to cover for these incompetent grim reapers. The fourth district wasn't under his jurisdiction, and yet he was sent here begrudgingly to help eliminate the demon and save the trapped human souls. 

"Collect as many souls as you can. That's over five years of work we needed to get done tonight," he said with a hint of annoyance in his tone.

Jiang Chen felt confused and frustrated at the same time. He walked back to his car and sat in the driver's seat for a long time, trying to digest the revelations he had witnessed today. He had seen it with his own eyes, proving that Shen Minyao was truly a demon—the infamous nine-tailed fox demoness on top of that. 

As a human and a psychic, he knew the dangers that Shen Minyao posed against humanity, that he should report her to the shamans that had sealed her centuries ago. Records had claimed that she had killed a lot of humans centuries ago, and her name 'Su Daji' had been vilified for centuries. 

Only when his phone rang for an incoming call from his assistant, Lu Anqi, did Jiang Chen snap out of his trance and pick up the call. He didn't even realize that he had several unread messages on his phone that he hadn't noticed earlier. 

"Mr. Jiang, how is it? Is everything okay?" She asked, a hint of worry in her voice. 

"Yes." Then, his eyes widened in shock. He hurriedly alighted from his car and ran towards the loop of spirits that had been trapped here in the fourth area. 

He almost forgot his purpose of coming here! If Lu Anqi hadn't called him earlier, he would have mindlessly driven back to Jiang City without retrieving the soul of Jin Qian's mother. Damn it! He was so distracted by the demons that he almost forgot about it. 

"Miss Shen and her companion have dealt with the demons already. I'm on my way to retrieve Jin Qian's mother," he told Lu Anqi over the phone while pulling out the necessary items he needed to temporarily bind a human soul in an inanimate vessel. 

"Then, that's great!" He heard Lu Anqi squealed. "I won't disturb you then and will inform Li Fei'er of the good news!" She said before hanging up the phone call. 

Jiang Chen pushed his thoughts about Shen Minyao aside and forced himself to focus on his task. Once done, he went back inside his car and secured the wooden charm that held Jin Qian's mother's soul before deciding to drive back alone to Jiang City. 

He had no idea where Shen Minyao and the other demon had gone; even the white fatty cat had gone missing. He didn't have the chance to see the face of the other demon, aside from seeing it dressed in a business suit and sporting long, spiky pale-blonde hair. 

That only strengthened his belief that demons were able to mingle among the humans like him undetected, and Jiang Chen wasn't sure what to think of it. 

When he first met the fox woman, he was surprised at how perfect her disguise was as not many demons could perfectly pretend as a human, not knowing that it was merely a shell of a human that the demoness was using. 

It was only after he found out that inside Shen Minyao's body was a nine-tailed fox did he realize how strong the demoness could be, for her to be able to have absolute control over Shen Minyao's human body.