Then Set Off Tomorrow

"Xuehui, how much longer are you going to dawdle?"

The person had yet to arrive, but her voice came first. Just from the sound of it, Sister Hua was furious.

But Fuhua Xiaoxue could not worry about that now. Uchiha Qingfeng's purpose in coming over so late at night was obvious—he wanted to take Little Nine-Tails away. She had to put up some resistance.

Even if she could not stop him, she still had to make sure everything remained confidential afterward.

"Nine Fox, you can actually talk? Does that mean you heard everything I said before? Let me tell you, if you breathe a single word of it, I'll skin you alive."

Little Nine-Tails: ...

What Uchiha Qingfeng cared about was the "Nine Fox" Fuhua Xiaoxue had called it. Was that the name she had given Little Nine-Tails? A pet name? And it even sounded exactly like "wine jug."

Little Nine-Tails had already been holding it in painfully while listening to all those girlish thoughts. Now that it was no longer pretending and had come clean, it naturally had to make up for all the laughter it had held back.

"Don't worry. I definitely won't tell anyone that you want to marry a powerful Ninja. I definitely won't say that you want to recruit a live-in son-in-law in the Land of Snow, seize control of the Land of Snow back from your uncle... or that if someone helps you take it back, you'd be willing to marry him."

It sounded as though it had said nothing, but in reality, it had said everything.

And it had said it right in front of Uchiha Qingfeng.

Fuhua Xiaoxue's face instantly turned red. She had never imagined that she would be fooled by a pet. She had only treated Nine Fox as someone