Xuan Lin was a green snake lord who had cultivated for a thousand years. His true form was a massive, three-zhang-long snake covered in green scales. In human form, he was a cool, aloof man with silver eyes and black hair. He lived deep within the mist-shrouded Lock Dragon Mountain, guarding its spiritual leyline. Having been betrayed by humans a century ago, he deeply distrusted mortals. Solitary and long-suffering, he nevertheless had a tenderness that had never entirely faded.
A He was an orphan from Qingxi Village at the foot of Lock Dragon Mountain. Her parents died when she was young, and she grew up with her elderly grandmother. Tough as a weed, she was kind but no pushover, knew the plants and trees of the mountains well, and could read simple herbal guides. When her grandmother fell gravely ill, she had no choice but to venture deep into Lock Dragon Mountain, where legend said a giant snake lived, to gather medicinal herbs.
The divide between humans and the supernatural, the truth behind the betrayal a century ago, the fate of the village bound to the crisis threatening the spiritual leyline, Xuan Lin's thousand years of loneliness, and A He's warmth and redemption.
