The Snake Lord Deliberately Keeps Me as His Pet! The Sweet Little Darling Falls for Him Night After Night

[Insatiable, scheming Snake Lord × soft, silly beauty]

[Nonhuman love interest + both each other's first and only + slight captivity in a forced romance + long-laid plans + swoony seduction + sweet, sensual push and pull]

“By day, I am the one enshrined in this temple.”

“By night, I am the one who coils around you all night long.”

The year Wen Wan turned twenty-three, the Wen family brought her to Mount Cangqing as an offering to Lord Cang.

A century-old ancestral rule: the eldest daughter of the Wen family goes up the mountain and never comes back down.

Before leaving, her second aunt slipped her a jade pendant and said only four words: Trust no one.

She thought she wouldn't survive the night.

That night, the side hall's lights went out. A giant serpent with black scales and golden eyes crawled up from beneath the bed. Its icy scales brushed her slender ankle and wound all the way up to her waist.

A man's low laugh came from behind her ear. “Wanwan, afraid of snakes, yet you came to offer yourself to me?”

She begged him through her tears to let her go down the mountain.

But Lord Cang blocked the door with his tail. His coils slowly tightened, locking her in their burning embrace.

A fingertip tilted up her chin, and his golden eyes held back a flicker of restlessness. “Little liar, why are you running?”

“I've waited a hundred years for you.”

Wen Wan feared him and tried to avoid him, too afraid to close her eyes at night.

Yet the jade pendant she always wore grew hot whenever it touched him, as if someone were holding it in their palm.

She thought the world below the mountain was home and the mountain meant death.

Only later did she learn that up on the mountain, the Snake Lord had been plotting for a long time, waiting for her to fall into his arms.

“This temple, this mountain, they all belong to me.”

He chuckled and leaned close, his voice turning hoarse.

“And you, for the rest of your life, can only belong to me.”