Reborn in the Snake Pit, I Snatch a Scholar Prince to Secure the Nation’s Fortune

[Unhinged prince × cold, beautiful snake demon | True-love devotee | The husband pursues his wife | Reborn power fantasy]

At the door of the secret chamber, he lifted his head and grinned, one of his front teeth knocked out. “Look... I crawled... all the way here to save you.”

But he didn’t remember.

The day the Ji clan’s thousand years of national fortune was scattered, he held me close and took nine bolts of heavenly lightning in my place. With every strike, he forgot a little more about me.

The first bolt made him forget my name. The third, how we first met. The seventh, why he wanted to save me.

When the ninth bolt struck, he looked at me with eyes as unfamiliar as if I were a stranger.

“Miss,” he asked, “do we know each other?”

Cradling his slowly cooling body, I smiled.

Perhaps it was better if he didn’t know me. I alone could remember the pain that pierced my heart, the hatred of losing fingers, and the price of spending the nation’s fortune.

But then he remembered after all.

He remembered who he was, who I was, and how in all thirteen lifetimes, he had died before me every time.

“Next life,” he said, stroking my face, “you can wait for me.”

I seized his wrist in turn, and the might of the dragon overturned the heavens.

“There’s no need to wait for the next life.”

The dragon roared across the heavens, and all demons submitted. I am the Dragon Lord. This heavenly law, this cycle of reincarnation, this Book of Life and Death...

Who dares stand in my way?

Mad? When he scattered the nation’s fortune and knelt to beg for true love, the whole world owed him a life.