My Evil Wife Is a Nine-Tailed Fox

"Are you saying that it wasn't a coincidence?" Jiang Chen questioned the fox woman. 

"Do you mean to tell me, Mr. Jiang, that you didn't find the circumstances suspicious?" Shen Minyao challenged him. 

Jiang Chen wasn't sure what to think about it, as he had only been made aware of this. He didn't know that Shen Minyao's and Li Fei'er's mothers had gone missing during their childhood as well. He only heard about the mystery shrouding Lu Anqi's mother's remains not being found at the scene of the accident. The authorities considered Lu Anqi's mother officially dead after years of not being able to find her whereabouts.

"So, what do you want me to do, then?" He asked the nine-tailed fox woman. 

Jiang Chen didn't expect that a demoness like her would want to find out the reason behind the disappearances of those women. It had nothing to do with her, and even if it was related to her host, what could the fox woman possibly gain from looking for the woman who gave birth to her host? 

"Didn't you say you got a lot of resources here in Jiang City? You should be able to find out how those women were related to one another and the possible reason why their bodies had all disappeared," Shen Minyao reasoned out. She wasn't willing to do such a menial job, anyway, even if she could do it by herself. 

The man in front of her was silent for a moment as if considering his options. Jiang Chen eventually agreed to her request, convincing himself that he was only doing this because they needed to save Lu Anqi more than anything else at the moment. 

"Fine. You have my word, but don't expect too much from me." 

"Then, that's a deal." Shen Minyao shrugged as she buried her hands in the side pockets of her school jacket. She then went back to where the others were waiting for their return. 

Li Fei'er hurried to her side and glanced at Jiang Chen, who appeared behind Shen Minyao. Lu Anqi remained standing a few meters away from them, trying to see if she could have a clear look at what the spirit was doing with her body from afar. 

"Do we have a plan?" The young shaman asked Shen Minyao, hoping that she and Jiang Chen had figured out something. 

"Mr. Jiang needs to identify the spirit first before anything else," the fox woman replied.

"Then, how do we do that?" Li Fei'er asked. 

"I will try to read her mind." Shen Minyao ran her fingers on her thick hair, pushing it away from her face. She was starting to get annoyed at how long her hair was and how she needed a lot of time to keep it in place on her own. 

As a daughter of a high-ranking official and a noble consort in her previous life as Su Daji, the fox woman didn't need to worry about grooming herself. After all, she always had attendants at the ready to do it for her. 

Waking up in a modern world where servants and slaves were now commonly known as employees, she didn't have the heart to force Fu Xiyan to continue working as her attendant without making the young woman suspicious of her identity. For this reason, she rarely called the young woman for help unless she was required to. 

"You can do that?" Li Fei'er's eyes widened in surprise. She had heard that some demons could influence how humans think, but she had never heard about demons who were capable of reading a human's mind like Shen Minyao. 

Shen Minyao hummed. She wasn't sure if it was because Baiyu somehow inherited some of Yan Lin's abilities as a blood-sucking demon, and they were passed onto her as his owner. 

"It's limited. I cannot use it for a long time," she replied. If she was already a high-ranking demon like Qin Zhi, she would be able to use this ability without worrying about getting exhausted too soon.

"Then, you might have to start now, Shen Minyao. I think she will be on the move soon," Mu Qing reminded her. 

Shen Minyao sighed, went to the highest tree in the park, and leaped to the top. Only Mu Qing was able to spot her, as the other humans accompanying them weren't able to see her within the darkness shrouding them. 

Her dark eyes turned into a pair of bright amber ones, giving her a clearer sight in the night. They then changed into a blood-red color as she tried to peek into the mind of the possessed Lu Anqi. 

Shen Minyao could hear his thoughts. Yes, it was a man who possessed Lu Anqi's body. According to his thoughts, he had died five years ago after he and his companions robbed a local bank, taking hundreds of thousands with them in the process. 

However, internal strife within their group ended his life. He was killed before he could even enjoy his share of the crime they committed. As for possessing Lu Anqi, the man had found her a month ago. After all, she was like a bright light that was too hard to resist for any wandering spirits like him. 

When he found out that she was a medium, he waited for a perfect time to snatch her body. He was never willing to die and cross to the afterlife, anyway. Finally, his patience had paid off when Lu Anqi's soul left her body willingly, and he was able to enter it without any resistance coming from it. 

Shen Minyao closed her eyes, and they returned to their normal hue once she opened it again. She had only taken a peek for a full three minutes, but she could already feel her energy being sapped out of her body. 

"How was it? Did you find anything?" Jiang Chen asked her the moment she returned to them on the ground. 

"Something about robbing a bank five years ago," the fox woman explained what she was able to gather from her mind-reading. "He was thinking about killing the person who betrayed him in his past life and then leaving the city as soon as he's done with it. It seemed like the money he was keeping at the locker was his own share from that robbery.

"I could only hear his thoughts. It would have been better if I were able to take a peek at his memory." 

"No, I think what you've heard is more than enough for now," Jiang Chen said before he pulled out his phone and tried to find all the bank robberies that happened in the city five years ago. From those, he might be able to identify the ghost that possessed Lu Anqi's body and stop him from harming another human, putting Lu Anqi's life and future in jeopardy. 

"I'll leave the rest on you, then," Shen Minyao said. 

Jiang Chen nodded and excused himself to make a phone call. The current police chief of Jiang City should be knowledgeable about that particular robbery, especially when the culprits weren't caught. 

"Yaoyao, are you okay? You don't look good at all," Li Fei'er commented.

"I just need some rest," the fox woman replied, ignoring how Lu Anqi looked at her with worry and a hint of guilt. She was the one who willingly agreed with Jiang Chen's request, so there was no need for Lu Anqi to feel guilty about this. 

The man who possessed Lu Anqi seemed pleased that he was able to experience being alive again. He left the local park without knowing that he was being followed by Shen Minyao's small group. He decided to order a lot of food from a nearby restaurant and eat to his heart's content. 

Lu Anqi frowned as she watched her own body being disrespected by the ghost. Although she wasn't born from a well-off family, she took pride in taking care of her body and didn't indulge in sweets and eating too much. Since she had no parents to rely on nor to take care of her, she could only do it by herself. 

Soon, the clock hit midnight. It was only by then did Jiang Chen come back to them with the information he was able to find out from his colleagues and acquaintances. 

"You are right. There's a bank robbery that happened five years ago," he confirmed. "The robbers weren't apprehended soon, but the police were able to arrest most of them a year later. By then, the criminals reported that there were five in their team, but one of them had already died because of a feud." 

"They were never able to find his body, were they?" Shen Minyao asked, surprising the three humans around them. Did they miss anything strange in the case? Was she implying something? 

"No, they couldn't," Jiang Chen affirmed her suspicion. 

"Then, we would have to find his body and force him to leave Lu Anqi," Shen Minyao declared.