Mu Shusheng, a native of Changsha, was poor and often lacked food and clothing. One evening, as the scholar sat alone in his sparsely furnished home, a woman suddenly entered. She was richly dressed, yet her features were hideous and dark. She laughed, "Sitting here alone, aren't you cold?" The scholar was greatly startled and asked, "Who are you, madam?" The woman replied, "I am a Fox Immortal, destined to meet you, so I have come." As she spoke, she approached the bedside and began to unfasten her robes.

Seeing her ugliness and knowing she was not human, the scholar refused to comply and cried out loudly. The fox-woman took out an ingot of sycee and tossed it onto the table, saying, "If you agree to share pleasure with me, this silver ingot is yours." Overjoyed, the scholar immediately joined her in intimacy. The bedding was crude, lacking even a quilt, and the chill was biting. The fox-woman laid her own garments upon the bed, and in an instant, the room was as warm as spring.

The next morning at dawn, the fox-woman said, "Take the ingot I gave you and spend it immediately. Buy bedding and winter clothes, and you will have more than enough. Stay with me from now on, and I promise you will never want for food or clothing." With that, she bid farewell and departed.

The scholar told his wife of the event, and she was equally delighted. The two of them bought cloth and sewed new quilts and bedding. That night, the fox-woman visited again. Seeing the bedroom completely transformed, she laughed, "Your wife is quite diligent." As she spoke, she produced a considerable amount of gold and silver and presented it to the scholar. From that day forward, the fox-woman visited every night, and each time she left, she gave the scholar some money or valuables, whether much or little.

A year passed in a flash. The scholar’s family became affluent; they renovated their house and purchased maids, living in comfort and security. Seeing that he was well provided for, the fox-woman stopped giving him silver. The scholar became furious and grew increasingly disgusted with her, unwilling to associate with her. He invited a sorcerer to draw a spiritual talisman and pasted it on his door.

That evening, the fox-woman arrived as expected. She reached out, tore the talisman to shreds, and cursed, "I have never seen such an ungrateful wretch. If you disliked me, you only needed to say so, and I would have left. Since our bond is severed, I request you return all the gold and silver I gave you, please return it in its entirety." With those words, she departed in anger.

The scholar refused to return the wealth. He invited a Daoist priest to perform rites, intending to kill the fox-woman. Before the altar could even be fully set up, the priest suddenly shrieked, collapsed to the ground, and lay unconscious, his face covered in blood—the fox-woman had sliced off one of his ears. Seeing this, the family members were terrified and fled in all directions. The fox-woman unleashed her magic; stones flew wildly within the bedroom, and doors, windows, and tiles were all shattered to pieces.

The scholar trembled all over, hiding beneath the bed, too afraid to show himself. The fox-woman held a strange pet in her arms—a creature with a cat's head and a dog's tail—and commanded, "Hee-hee! The bad man is hiding under the bed. Bite him." The pet, hearing the order, sank its teeth into the scholar’s toe and chewed vigorously, producing a crisp sound. The scholar’s pain was unbearable; in moments, two of his toes were mangled and bleeding profusely, and he repeatedly begged for mercy. The fox-woman stated, "Hand over all the jewels."

The scholar gasped, "They are all in the chests and cabinets in the corner of the room. I am injured and cannot move; please retrieve them yourself." The fox-woman smiled faintly, ordered her pet to stop the attack, and called out, "Heh-heh." After calling out several times, the pet immediately released its grip.

The fox-woman went to the corner and rummaged through the cabinets and chests. Aside from clothes and jewelry, she found only two hundred taels of silver. Displeased, she uttered the command again: "Hee-hee!" The pet received the instruction, roared repeatedly, opened its jaws, and bit down hard on the scholar’s toe, tearing at it relentlessly. With a vital point seized, the scholar cried out piteously again and again.

The fox-woman’s face contorted in anger as she spoke: "I give you ten days to return six hundred taels of silver. If you fail, you will not escape my wrath." With a wave of her hand, she recalled the pet, lightly tapped the ground with her feet, and her figure shot upward, vanishing into the air.

After the fox-woman left, the scholar pawned his clothes and sold his maids, finally managing to gather six hundred taels of silver. Ten days later, the fox-woman arrived precisely on time, accepted the silver without a word, and left immediately. The scholar’s home was stripped bare of its wealth; he was once again destitute.

Later, the fox-woman married into the family of Yu in the neighboring village as a concubine. Yu was originally a poor farmer, but after taking the fox-woman as his bride, within three years, his household became prosperous, rivaling that of nobility. Yu had a short life and died after only a few years. After his death, the fox-woman never visited again, and the gold and silver in the house vanished along with her departure.