A handsome, disheveled man in a Taoist robe emerged from the darkness, a carefree smile on his face.
He carried a wine gourd, slung casually over his back.
Looking at Su Daji, he said, "I told you I'd win next time!"
"Su Daji, you've lost!"
"Damn Taoist! So it really was you—you planned all of this!"
The man she called the damn Taoist smiled even more broadly and replied carelessly, "You killed me in ninety-nine lifetimes. I had to get even somehow, didn't I?"
"If you'd married me, I wouldn't have had to kill you!"
Su Daji said this with an expression that plainly declared she'd done nothing wrong.
"Why would I marry you? I've told you again and again: I don't like you. I don't care whether you're a demon or a human—I don't like you!"
"Why don't you like me? Then who do you like?"
"Could I dare to like anyone else? If I so much as looked at another woman twice, she wouldn't live to see the next day. You've killed countless people, yet you think I can't do anything about it."
Su Daji spoke again, her voice harsh. "You don't like me? Fine. I'll wait until the lifetime when you do."
"You and I were never meant to be together," the Taoist said.
"Because from beginning to end, no matter who I was, the person I loved was Su Daji, the daughter of Su Hu—not a fox demon."
"I would turn an entire kingdom upside down for Su Daji, but I wouldn't spare a fox demon a second glance."
"You... Very well!"
Su Daji let out a cold laugh. "What a pity. The person you loved has already been annihilated in body and soul. She has no next life, no life after that."
"But you and