Author: Yangsze Choo
Date Read: 9th February 2025
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📖 Synopsis / Plot
Source: The Fox Wife
Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking…
Manchuria, 1908 In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach - until, perhaps, now.
Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments, but can’t escape the curse that afflicts them - their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family’s luck seems to change - or does it?
Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all she’s a mother seeking vengeance for her lost child. Hunting a murderer, she will follow the trail from northern China to Japan, while Bao follows doggedly behind. Navigating the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur.
❝ Quotes ❞
Kuro
Snow, let’s begin anew. Will you walk the thousand-year journey with me?
Snow
For all stories have an ending as well as a beginning. But a beginning is where you choose to plant your foot, and the ending is only the edge of one’s own knowledge.
Snow
At one point, I’d clung to the pain as a reminder that my child had existed, but I was beginning to let her go. I wondered if that was a betrayal.
Bao
Hope, of course, is the most painful thing in the universe. clinging to a thin strand is the most agonizing way to live. I know this too well. No wonder my heart was racing.