The Snake Speaks

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Mu Xiyu wakes up one day to find that she has transmigrated to ancient times.

She's in a small town at the foot of a mountain. Her new identity is an orphan who has long lived as a dependent in her uncle's home. Her wedding date is set, and soon she'll be married and move out.

After spending more than a decade working herself to the bone at school, she transmigrates and all that effort comes to nothing. Mu Xiyu decides to stop fighting it. Since she's here, she might as well accept her fate and lie flat.

Luckily, the husband who drops into her life may not be a man of many words, but he's handsome and refined, with a face like fine jade. He's skilled in both letters and martial arts, and knows how to make money. He's a perfect husband for a lazy woman who loves a pretty face.

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Cang Wuyue's true form is a vicious, fearsome serpent demon. After a hundred years of cultivation in the mountains, he finally takes human form.

He hasn't yet learned how to convincingly pass as a mortal, so he turns his attention to his simple, honest little wife, observing her appearance, preferences, and habits.

One day, in the midst of passionate lovemaking, Cang Wuyue loses control and reveals his true form.

Mu Xiyu looks horrified. "Y-you have two, two..."

Is that even scientifically possible?

And what is this snake tail wrapping around her and wriggling so eagerly?!

Newly transformed into a human, Cang Wuyue is just as puzzled. "Isn't this better?"

He thought she liked it too...

Could mortals really always say the opposite of what they mean?

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Her life of lying flat is so blissful that even though her perfect husband is just a little different from ordinary people, Mu Xiyu decides to convince herself to accept it.

She doesn't want to work herself to the bone anymore!

Until a few familiar names spread through town, and Mu Xiyu realizes she's actually transmigrated into a novel she once read!

It's a traditional, melodramatic romance full of tangled love and hatred: he loves her, she loves him, he kills him, she kills him. After hundreds of chapters of torment, the protagonists still have to defeat the wicked villain and save the world.

But Cang Wuyue isn't the protagonist, so this peaceful life of lying flat can go on, right?

* Snake x lazy woman. The male lead is a beautiful, gloomy ghost in both appearance and mental state.

* Every plot development is just there to bring them closer.

Coming soon: Reject the Restrictive Novel Plot!

The cultivation world has a filthy secret, whispered among the great clans: women of the Jiang clan are cultivation treasures. Eating their flesh and drinking their blood can transform one's constitution, while using them as a cultivation furnace can greatly increase one's spiritual power.

Jiang Leying is the last woman of the Jiang clan in the world.

Before her father dies, he secretly entrusts her to Huan Linyan.

"Aman, women of the Jiang clan have no aptitude for cultivation and can't protect themselves. The Huan clan may be a prominent family, but they have innate sacred bodies and don't need the help of a Jiang woman. Huan Linyan is a gentleman. If you rely on him, I can die in peace."

Jiang Leying is an obedient daughter. She changes her appearance and quietly marries into the Huan family.

Just as her father said, Huan Linyan is an honorable gentleman, though quiet, and fairly considerate.

They enjoy a long, peaceful life together after marrying.

Until one day, Jiang Leying belatedly realizes that Huan Linyan seems a little different from before...

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Everyone knows Huan Linyan is the greatest swordsman in the cultivation world, but nobody knows that from childhood he was even better at divination. His readings are always accurate, and he can hear the will of Heaven.

One day, he casts a reading for his wife and unexpectedly discovers that a fatal calamity is coming for him.

Huan Linyan frowns. His wife is timid and delicate, and so many people covet her. She loves and depends on him so deeply. If he were gone, how would she survive?

Before the calamity arrives, Huan Linyan uses half his spiritual power to create a puppet identical to himself and sends it to Jiang Leying to protect her in his place.

But Huan Linyan is not fated to die. After three years, he manages to escape the calamity with half his life.

When he returns home, the "Huan Linyan" he made with his own hands is biting his wife's lip, murderous eyes fixed on him.

The puppet has quietly developed a consciousness of its own.

It wants to take Huan Linyan's place at Jiang Leying's side.

* A love triangle

* The characters' names may change before the story begins

Theme: Learn to love.