[The Real Beauty and the Snake]
Jian An has been a frail, sickly beauty on a lofty peak ever since he was little.
Among the children from the residential compound, he was a pampered young master, born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Though he was delicate and beautiful, he was also proud and aloof, making him impossible to approach.
When he was ten, Jian An went abroad to recuperate. After eight years, his health had finally recovered, but on the very night he returned to China, he was in a car accident.
When he woke up, his body was lying in a hospital bed, but his soul had attached itself to a snake.
This was beyond ridiculous!
He had become a snake.
An albino Texas rat snake, nicknamed White Madam.
At that moment, the snake that was Jian An was inside a semi-transparent temperature-controlled enclosure, being carried toward the dorm at A University by a stupid dog.
The stupid dog was named Xu Lingxuan. They had lived in the same residential compound.
As a child, he had been the leader of the kids, always running over to tease Jian An when he was covered in mud from playing. Jian An, who had severe mysophobia, remembered that shameless, stupid dog all too well.
Now, Jian An faced a very serious problem:
That stupid dog, Xu Lingxuan, was about to become his owner.
As everyone knows, Dorm Room 402 is the strangest dorm at all of A University.
That is because its four residents are each from a different department:
medicine, law, fine arts, and physical education.
Xu Lingxuan, from the medical department, likes playing ball with Lu Yue, from the physical education department.
Li Song, from the law department, is an aloof top student who manages to balance studying and a part-time job.
Zhou Chenshu, from the fine arts department, is a chubby guy who likes livestreaming himself drawing all kinds of unusual things.
Their daily lives usually consist of playing ball, working part-time, and drawing.
Ever since Xu Lingxuan brought a severely fastidious Texas rat snake back to the dorm,
Room 402's whole vibe began to change.
The one who played ball started looking up all kinds of pet care tips.
The aloof top student gradually became a devoted snake mom, carefully looking after the white snake.
The art student's regular drawing livestreams turned into all sorts of cute pictures of a white snake.
On top of that...
The dorm got cleaner and cleaner. The floor was scrubbed until it shone brighter than the lobby of a luxury hotel. Step inside, and you could even smell a faint, pleasant fragrance.
The four of them also started gathering to surf the web more often.
The same words appeared in every search bar: White Madam snake.
Xu Lingxuan, the snake's first owner, was constantly posting on forums to ask for help.
His posts included, but were not limited to:
[How to properly care for a Texas rat snake (Note: an especially aggressive albino variety)]
[What should I do if my pet snake is too fastidious?]
[How can I get aloof White Madam to be more affectionate?]
A helpful netizen replied: Isn't it simple? Just be Xu Xuan!
Xu Lingxuan, whose surname was Xu and whose given name was Lingxuan, fell silent.
Looking at the reply, he wondered whether he should drop the Ling from his name and change it to Xu Xuan.
In the legends, Xu Xuan fell in love with the White Snake, and their story has been passed down through the ages.
Looking at the highly intelligent White Madam in front of him, Xu Lingxuan had an absurd thought for a moment: Could his little white snake turn into a human, too?
He never expected that White Madam really would become human later on.
And not just any human, but the little beauty he had liked since childhood.
[Big, bad dog gong who only acts shameless around his shou vs. a universally adored, aloof beauty on a lofty peak who is an expert at training dogs]
PS 1: One-on-one romance, pairing with Xu Lingxuan.
PS 2: The gong acting shameless around the shou specifically means that he likes deliberately teasing the slightly tsundere, sharp-tongued, fastidious shou until the corners of his eyes turn red, and he grabs the ends of the gong's hair, panting and cursing.
PS 3: The Texas rat snake details in this story include many made-up elements. Please don't nitpick or treat them as accurate depictions of reality.
Theme: Give your heart sincerely, and you will receive sincerity in return.