He was the prey she took an interest in to amuse herself: a handsome scholar from a poor family. She used every means at her disposal to break up his romance and drive him mad with love for her. But when he passed the imperial examinations, lost both his parents, and knelt at her door begging her to take him in, she only smiled as she took the hand of her new love. Leng Qianyu finally understood: the woman he had fallen for wasn’t a rich heiress, but a beautiful snake.
For the rest of his life, he prayed before the Buddha, hoping that in his next life she would taste the agony of having her heart torn out.
