The Serpent Queen

Everyone says I'm a demon, an ill omen, someone who deserves to die!

When I was born, my biological parents abandoned me beside Yin-Yang Lake, a place everyone feared. My adoptive parents took me home and loved me as their own, but in less than a month, my adoptive mother, who had always been strong and healthy, suddenly died of an illness.

When I was one, my grandmother took me to a bustling temple in the mountains to ask for an auspicious name. The temple's abbot, renowned as a master fortune-teller, thought I was adorable and insisted on telling my fortune for free. But after glimpsing the secrets of fate, he coughed up blood and died.

It wasn't until I turned eighteen that I finally met my so-called biological parents and learned what strange things had happened on the day I was born...