[A snake demon who says one thing but means another, gong × an adorable, dazed Daoist who embodies righteousness, shou]
Yun Yi is an ordinary little Daoist from a mystical sect. His life's ambition is simply to slay demons and uphold the righteous path. On his first trip down the mountain, he picked up a little black-scaled snake. Who knew it would bring him endless trouble?
He had just mopped the floor the night before, but by morning there was a puddle that made his senior brother slip and land flat on his back.
He stayed up late studying by lamplight, only to find that the Daodejing had turned into an erotic book, frightening him into burning incense and purifying his mind on the spot.
He went down the mountain to set up an altar and exorcise a demon, only to turn around and find incense ash swirling everywhere, as if someone were deliberately causing trouble...
Worst of all, every night he was pinned down by a “ghost,” his chest so heavy he could hardly breathe!
After putting all the strange events together, Yun Yi finally identified the culprit: the little black snake beside him, sound asleep and drooling!
At his senior brother's strong urging, he reluctantly soaked the little snake in realgar wine to seal it away. But that night, a gale blew. A man in dark robes with ink-black hair and a snake's tail dragged himself onto Yun Yi's bed, gritting his teeth. “Why have you sealed me again?”
Yun Yi: ...So this guy was the one pinning him down every night!
Later, he learned that the snake was Mo Heng, a thousand-year-old demon, and that in his previous life he had been the Daoist patriarch who sealed Mo Heng.
The snake demon keeps saying he has a debt to collect, but...
When Yun Yi catches a slight chill and coughs softly, the snake demon goes out early to gather herbs and brew medicine. When Yun Yi gets hurt fighting demons, the snake demon goes berserk and beats the enemy to death with his tail. When Yun Yi reads a young woman's palm, the snake demon flips over his fortune-telling stall and sulks for three days, refusing to eat!
One night, the snake demon gets drunk. His tail slips under Yun Yi's clothes, and his sharp fangs nip at Yun Yi's earlobe as he murmurs, “Yun Yi, you can't escape the grudge from our past life or the debt you owe me in this one...”
Yun Yi rubs his aching waist. Is this really how you collect a debt?!
The day his identity is revealed, Mo Heng coils around him like a cocoon, but carefully cushions Yun Yi's waist with his tail. “If you're still angry, then... then seal me away one more time?”
Yun Yi: ...Maybe let go of me first before you say that!
This lord isn't here to repay a kindness. He's here to collect a debt.
Then could you stop wrapping your tail around me so tightly?!
Theme: Turn away from evil and return to the right path.
