My younger brother played with the snake woman until she died. My mother beat and berated me, ordering me to throw her onto the hill behind the village, but the snake woman bit me, sinking her fangs deep enough to expose bone.
Grandma treated me with an ancestral snake-bone yin incense, and I discovered that the bones in my legs were snake bones. Grandma fell into a coma while saving me.
Second Uncle said Grandma had drowned my three older sisters, and that I had been a snake's son when I was born, which was why my mother never liked me.
After the villagers drank snake wine at the village chief's banquet, their bellies filled with little snakes. The village chief went to Grandma for a way to deal with them.
My mother beat me with a branch again, while the villagers watched coldly. Grandma used one stick of yin incense to cure them, but my mother snatched the remaining stick away.
Grandma died, leaving me a box and telling me to kill my mother.
The Snake Lord came to avenge the snake woman. The village chief coaxed my mother into handing over the incense, and I discovered that my younger brother was the illegitimate son of the village chief and my mother.
That stick of incense was sparrow-tongue incense. It enraged the Snake Lord, who then released little snakes to bite people everywhere.
I hid indoors and wasn't bitten. My mother and younger brother tried to bite me, while Second Uncle rescued the villagers. My younger brother was killed by an axe, and inside the box Grandma left me was a stick of yang incense.
Second Uncle sent me to the neighboring village to fetch an incense guide, telling me the incense could save only two people. Mr. Hong gave me the guide, but Second Uncle drugged me. He wanted to use my body to give his son a new life. He said Grandma had already succeeded in transferring my father's soul into my body.
Mr. Hong rescued me. I begged him to save me, but he refused, saying my time to die was only a few days away and that the mandate of heaven could not be defied.
I got the villagers to guilt-trip Mr. Hong. He hated me, and the snake woman, risen from the dead, wanted to make a deal with me.
