Why Does the Snake Keep Hissing?

Xiang Wei is a rattlesnake spirit. On the day he took human form, his egg went missing. To find it, he left the forest alone.

On a rainy night, Xiang Wei, soaked through, knocked on the door of a mansion. A gloomy-looking man in a wheelchair stared at him coldly.

"Hello. Could you give me my egg back?" Xiang Wei politely asked, pointing inside the house, following the scent.

Everyone in A City's upper circles knows that Shen Jiyue, head of the Shen family, is ruthless, sinister, and merciless, yet has a particular fondness for reptiles.

On a day of torrential rain, a beautiful young man moved into the Shen family estate, a place outsiders would never dare enter.

Some said he was a kept pet.

At first, Shen Jiyue thought he was a lying little scammer, pointing at Shen Jiyue's snake egg and claiming it was his. Later, he realized he wasn't a little scammer, but a little face-blind fool.

A little fool who recognized scents, not faces.

After dragging Xiang Wei back for the nth time after he followed a stranger who smelled like his perfume, Shen Jiyue picked up a new hobby: buying perfume companies.

The X'S Perfume Research Institute was founded to create a fragrance with a one-of-a-kind scent.

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In the dead of night, a cold tail would slowly coil around the pale calves that had once been unable to move because of an injury, staining Shen Jiyue's cool, fair skin with a flush.

His young lover would quietly lean down, pressing his ear to Shen Jiyue's chest and listening over and over to his heartbeat quicken and his breathing grow ragged.

[Slow-witted, face-blind, often doesn't understand what people say top x cool and ruthless, won't ask unless spoken to, and a hypocrite about double standards bottom]

A story about a slow-witted snake who needs a guiding lover 🥰

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Bonus scene 1: After Shen Jiyue realized he was in love with Xiang Wei, he studied all sorts of dating guides. He held back his impatient desire and spun a soft web, slowly wrapping Xiang Wei in it.

At last, after raising the face-blind Xiang Wei, who couldn't recognize people, and the little snake that had just hatched from the egg until they both recognized him, he carefully prepared a grand confession.

After he accepted the confession, his young lover happily said, "Then let's lay an egg!"

Shen Jiyue, his earlobes bright red, nodded slightly, thinking it was a sweet phrase shared only by reptile lovers.

Until a cool tail suddenly curled around his calf beneath his pants.

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A tail?!

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Bonus scene 2: Xiang Wei learned all sorts of childcare tips in the human world, such as never letting a child fall behind at the starting line.

So when Shen Jiyue got home that night, he found Xiang Wei earnestly teaching an egg the pinyin he'd just learned...

Bonus scene 3: After the egg hatched, just like every proud parent, Xiang Wei filled his phone gallery with pictures of their baby snake.

With a little snake flicking its tongue curled around his finger, he pointed to an app on his phone and asked Shen Jiyue, "Can our baby be a child model?"

Bonus scene 4: "Baby, come here," Xiang Wei said to the baby snake.

The next second, a pair of brown eyes and a pair of black eyes looked over together.

Reading Guide:

★ Snake top, human bottom. A mutually devoted, silly, sweet romance. Extreme character loyalists, beware.

★ The idea came from seeing a rattlesnake with its babies. It felt so cute and unexpected that I came up with this blurb on a whim. The top likes raising babies (real snake babies), and there's a reason he appears in the forest in the blurb. He also found the egg ❤️

★ Blurb screenshotted on 2025.10.27

Coming soon: Please add The Stiff Top Gets Tangled Up with a Yandere to your favorites

Older, stiff CEO x gloomy, disturbed college student

//Healthy relationships are important, but twisted ones taste so good.//

Tan Xucheng admits he doesn't know how to raise a child.

That isn't usually worth mentioning, until his boyfriend's younger brother confesses to him today, and Tan Xucheng realizes he may have raised the boy wrong.

The unruly kid he'd first met had tucked away his prickly defenses and spent three years acting well-behaved in front of Tan Xucheng. So when Tan Xucheng smiled and said he loved him, the boy assumed it was just the youth's belated rebellious phase, mistaking admiration for romantic love.

"You can't like your brother's boyfriend." Tan Xucheng paused his signature, frowned, and looked up at the boy in front of him, speaking sternly.

"Pei Ran, write an 800-character apology. Have it done tonight."

Every outrageous act comes from a lack of discipline.

Why are you so good to me? Do you love my brother that much? So much that even though he's been dead for three years, you still take care of his younger brother? You give me care, money, and company, but you're stingy with love.

But the only thing I want is your love.

Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me.

Pei Ran fell in love with his late brother's boyfriend, the "guardian" who had raised him for three years.

He doesn't know when he fell in love with Tan Xucheng. By the time he realized it, he couldn't take his eyes off him anymore. He was no longer satisfied with a relationship mediated by someone else.

After his true nature comes out, he gets scolded, disciplined firmly, and punished. A little more, a little more. Give me more than just your gentleness.

Tan Xucheng, Tan Xucheng, Tan Xucheng. Give me more of your private feelings, feelings that don't belong to Pei An's younger brother.

Pei Ran lowers his head to hide the red gleam in his eyes, appearing obedient as he listens to the questions beside him, his heart pounding like a drum. So close. He secretly moves his finger and touches the person he's been yearning for day and night.

"I like you."

"Your brother has been dead for three years. What kind of boyfriend are you?"

"I look just like him. When you kiss me, who are you thinking of?"

"I was wrong, Tan Xucheng. Please pay attention to me. You can punish me if you want."

Bonus scene:

Tan Xucheng discovers a box in Pei Ran's room. Everything inside bears some trace of him, including a diary filled with his name.

"Tan Xucheng, you like Pei Ran." Pei Ran wraps his arms around Tan Xucheng's waist, repeating it like brainwashing for the 101st time.

"Little lunatic." Tan Xucheng sets down the diary, filled with his deepest desires, and looks down at him.

"Yeah. This lunatic likes you."

Theme: Love helps us grow together