Yun Chu was going to be sent away for a political marriage. The wedding procession stretched for ten miles, and her family and friends wept and wailed. She was the only one sleeping soundly in the carriage.
Just before they parted, she was shaken awake, still half-asleep. Her mother consort, eyes red, clasped her hand and cried, "My child, you're marrying the wrong man!"
"The prince of the Yan Kingdom is said to be cruel-tempered, and he can't even walk. He's nothing but a pretty face. What will you do, my child?"
"A pretty face?" Half of Yun Chu's sleepiness vanished. "So he's handsome, then."
**
As a princess of the Li Kingdom, Yun Chu had been living a life of eating her fill and waiting for death ever since she was born. Her three ultimate dreams were to feast on delicacies, live in a villa, and keep a pretty boy.
Unfortunately, when she was nineteen, the Yan and Li kingdoms formed an alliance, and an imperial decree sent her to Yan for a political marriage.
At first, she took a lie-flat attitude toward the marriage. But her girlfriends wouldn't stop chattering in her ear: "It's over. I heard the Yan royal family all have human torsos and snake tails..."
Yun Chu, who had been lying flat, opened her eyes in an instant. Her voice trembled despite her best efforts. "Really?"
"And I heard they have two..."
Yun Chu:!
"I heard Pei Yue can barely walk. He can't even stand up."
"Wait." Yun Chu couldn't help interrupting her. "You've all been keeping this from me for so long. How could you not tell me I was marrying such a catch?"
**
Pei Yue found the marriage arranged by his father dull and uninteresting. Halfway through the wedding, he was already thinking of leaving.
But just before he went, he overheard the guests whispering to one another: "I heard the bride is gorgeous!"
"She's dazzling, absolutely stunning, even more beautiful than our prince!"
Pei Yue stopped his wheelchair.
More beautiful than him? He didn't believe it.
At last, he met the bride herself. She hid her face behind a fan and lowered her head shyly.
So shy?
Pei Yue smiled scornfully, a wicked thought suddenly occurring to him.
He motioned for Yun Chu to come closer, then lifted her chin with his hand. He was just about to transform into a snake, slowly coil around her ankles, and enjoy watching her panic and weep like a rain-soaked pear blossom.
But a voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
"Ahhhhh, is it finally happening?"
"Wrap around me, tie me up, and don't you dare hold back!"
Pei Yue:?
At first, Pei Yue thought he understood it all.
But after getting to know Yun Chu, a lazy, gluttonous, and sweetly naive fool, he realized he was frighteningly innocent by comparison.
So when he woke up one day to find his wife had run away, he had no choice but to look for her, overthrow his father and seize power, and grind his teeth in fury.
The moment he moved, the four round eggs under his snake body reminded him that he had to turn each one over every hour to keep them at a constant temperature around the clock. He couldn't move for five months.
Pei Yue curled his snake body around all four eggs and drew them close. Feeling wronged, he lowered his head to the shells and complained to the little ones: "It's all your mama's fault. She insisted on wrapping herself around papa four times back then..."
The snake was upset, but the snake wouldn't say so.
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