The Snake's Heartbone

She's no delicate vine, she's a blade coated in poison.

A sickly, abandoned black-lotus girl x a deranged snake immortal

Supernatural x fated redemption

Ever since I was little, I've had a snake-shaped birthmark over my heart. My adoptive mother said it was the curse of the “Snake Bride.”

She named me Ye Xiazhu. Xiazhu, also known as yin-yang grass, is the natural enemy of venomous snakes. It's also called “Snake's Bane.”

When my adoptive mother picked her up from a pile of bones in Snake Burial Valley, a broken piece of blue-green snake tailbone lay beside her swaddling clothes.

Eighteen years later, she tore off the blood-red wedding dress and drove a knife through the village chief's throat. “If you try to sacrifice me again, the snake god's head is next.”

The snake immortal Lin Xu said she had stolen his heart.

His icy tail coiled around her waist as he smiled, poison lacing his words. “You took my heart. Do you still think you can marry someone else?”

He mocked her for “mortal foolishness” even as he took the heavenly thunder for her and shattered his own spirit bones.

She called him “so unpredictable” even as she fed his scales with her blood and risked her life to turn the tables.

When Xiangliu's remnant soul appeared, she crushed the serpent's heart to use as bait, and Lin Xu finally let out a furious hiss.

“Ye Xiazhu! If you dare die one more time, ”