historical

Shen Minyao went to the cafeteria and bought something to drink. Although she didn't need to eat human food, drinking refreshing, cool water was something she could never say no to. The other students fell silent upon her arrival, murmuring words about her in hushed tones, but those were still clear enough for the fox woman to hear no matter how far they were.

She scoffed to herself and swept her gaze around the cafeteria. Those busybodies avoided and lowered their gazes in fear that they would pique her attention, but there were guys shameless enough to grin at Shen Minyao and wink at her.

It was at that moment when Fu Xiyan came running towards her, her face filled with worry. Once she stopped in front of Shen Minyao, she gasped for breath.

"Miss, are you alright? Did Xu Shenshen hurt you again?" She asked her miss.

When she heard from the other students that Xu Shenshen was making a commotion again by harassing Shen Minyao, Fu Xiyan hurriedly finished her tasks and tried to find her miss's whereabouts. It certainly was not the first time Xu Shenshen bullied her miss, and Shen Minyao had insisted before not to inform her stepmother about what happened.

Shen Minyao twisted the cap of her water bottle and scoffed at Fu Xiyan's words.

"Xiyan, I told you I would never allow anyone to bully me again, right? I hit her back. It's Classmate Xu's fault that she kept getting on my nerves. Isn't it surprising how the human body has seven trillion nerves, and some people manage to get on every single one of them?" She said with sarcasm.

Fu Xiyan stared at her in disbelief. What? Shen Minyao beat Xu Shenshen up and not the other way around?

Seeing the expression on Fu Xiyan's face, Shen Minyao lifted a brow. "What? Do I really look like someone that could easily be bullied by anyone?"

'But Miss, you were the one being bullied before!' Fu Xiyan thought to herself as she wasn't brave enough to voice out her thoughts to Shen Minyao. She had noticed that her young miss had been different ever since she woke up from her three-day coma.

Even right now, Shen Minyao was wearing her usual school uniform, but her graded eyeglasses were nowhere to be found. Moreover, a noble air emitted around her, making other people unable to resist staring at her. For her to have a sudden change of heart, Fu Xiyan wondered what kind of horrible things Shen Qing did to her miss at the Qingqiu Mountain, which drove her miss to turn over a new leaf?

"Miss, aren't you going to get into trouble because you beat her? Xu Shenshen would surely give you trouble in the future."

Xu Shenshen was known as a big bully in school, and no one had dared to hit her back until today. Fu Xiyan could only imagine how hateful and angry Xu Shenshen was towards her young miss now.

"Then, she could try. I would like to see what Classmate Xu is capable of," the fox woman nonchalantly replied. If Xu Shenshen wanted to seek revenge from her, then Xu Shenshen was free to do so.

Shen Minyao then noticed the troubled expression on Fu Xiyan's face and shook her head.

"You worry too much, Xiyan. I can protect myself now."

She waved her hand as if bidding goodbye and chose to find a place where she could be alone, far from these annoying humans.

Since the fox spirit took over Shen Minyao and her life, how could she allow someone to continue bullying her? Humans should be the ones who needed to be scared and wary of her, not the other way around. Since when did the demons need to bow down to these fickle humans? The fox woman thought.

All the difficulties Shen Minyao suffered from in the past, she was partly responsible for it. If she had only stood up for herself, other people wouldn't dare to step on her and take advantage of her weaknesses. No wonder she lost her life in Shen Qing's hand.

Anyway, the fox woman would deal with Shen Qing later. Since her engagement with Su Yin was about to be canceled, that woman would be overjoyed by the news, but that didn't mean Shen Minyao would let them off easily.

The fox woman chose to go to the back of the school premises, where high trees stood tall. The branches were quite high, and normal humans wouldn't be able to climb up easily if they relied on their physical strength. They would need some assistance to be able to get up on the high tree, but Shen Minyao didn't think they would bother to exert an effort to do so.

Shen Minyao looked around—making sure that there was no human in the vicinity—before leaping in the air, her foot easily landing at the lowest branch of the tree with ease. For a demon like her, something like this wasn't hard to do.

She decided to hide and took a rest there, far from the noisy humans that have irritated her ears since that morning. Peace at last. She needed not deal with the humans for the next thirty minutes until her next class started. At least she hadn't seen the white lotus that had killed her host.

When she returned to their classroom half an hour later, her classmates obviously avoided her, much to her delight. At least they were smart enough not to trouble her for now. Xu Shenshen was nowhere to be found, and Shen Minyao didn't care one bit what happened to her.

If Xu Shenshen had a good head over her shoulder, she should know by now that the woman here wasn't the same weak Shen Minyao she used to bully in the past.. Alas, remembering the intense hatred flashed on Xu Shenshen's eyes earlier, Shen Minyao was certain that this wouldn't be the last encounter she would have with that human.