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- 51 Devouring the Snake Fetus 噬蛇胎 On my eighteenth birthday, a black snake came looking for me, insisting that I bear his serpent child. He spoiled me madly and loved me until it became an obsession. Years later, a thousand-year-old snake curse brought disaster to the mortal world. My family was destroyed, and he told me he didn't have much time left. Only then did I finally realize that all this terror was the price he had made me pay for a feud that would doom me for eternity... 14Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 52 The Dragon Takes a Wife 龙娶妻 [Supernatural + Both Leads Are Faithful + Goofy Heroine + Sweet Romance + Plot-Focused + Cunning] My name is Lin Shuang. When I was born, relentless rain caused a flood that drowned many people. I am a true woman of extreme yin, but... 116Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 53 I Married the Werewolf Chief. Well, at Least I’m Still Alive 嫁给狼人首领,嗯,很好,还活着 [Sweet romance + interspecies love + both leads are chaste + healing + wolf cubs + neither a badass heroine nor a secret identity] [Beautiful, clearheaded antique painting restorer × gloomy, aloof, utterly devoted young clan leader / scheming CEO] A pair of soft, adorable little dumplings walked into a police station, crying that their dad didn’t love them and their mom didn’t care for them. The people they identified were Hua Guo’s richest man, Ye Beiyu, and an ordinary woman, Jiang Wu. These t 54Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 54 On the Day I Was Born, Ten Thousand Snakes Paid Homage 我出生当天,万蛇朝拜 I was born with a demon’s fetus. On the day I was born, countless snakes bowed before me, and the village was struck by a once-in-a-century downpour. Everyone was terrified and wanted nothing to do with me... 29Reads5.0Score—14d adds
- 55 Shocking! The Cold Snake Lord Has Fallen for Me 惊!冰冷蛇尊他沦陷了 She’s terrified of snakes, but she isn’t afraid to die. Still, dying like this would be so unfair. To survive, she has to strike a deal with a snake. She never expected her senses to become supernaturally heightened, setting her on a strange and mysterious path: hatching dreams, telling fortunes, reading feng shui, catching ghosts, guiding ghosts to the afterlife... It’s a real eye-opener. And the Snake Venerable is so seductive and doting... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Fox-Demon Blood, Corpse Fragrance, and Ghosts Around My Waist 狐妖血,阴尸香,百鬼缠腰 My name is Jiang Li. I’m twenty years old, and I’ve been dead for twenty years. The day I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and after her death, she gave birth to me in a mass grave. The spirit medium said, “A stillborn child of extreme yin, carrying the scent of corpses and drawing every ghost to feed.” Twenty years later, a fox spirit came to take a bride, and the door to the uncanny world swung wide open for me. Fox spirit Luo Baichen: “Be good, my bride. Call me your husband.” Green sn 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Honey, Come Have Our Second Baby 老婆快来生二胎 Twenty years ago, my family moved an ancestral grave, and I, a woman with pure yin in all four pillars of my birth chart, became the sacrifice. Later, clutching my aching back, I begged him, “My Lord, please let me go.” He smiled, wicked and bewitching. “Of course. Give me a second child.” 34Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 58 Ghost Marriage: My Husband Is the Ghost King 冥婚:我的老公是鬼王 My family had been tomb raiders for generations, a legacy passed down to my grandfather. One day, he suddenly came home with a corpse on his back. Even after all these years, I still remember that the corpse was a man in his thirties, dressed in golden armor and iron-plated robes. The strangest thing was that although the corpse had been dead for hundreds of years, it showed no signs of decay. He was devastatingly handsome, and apart from not breathing, he looked just like a living person. Somet 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 You've Kept Me Waiting, My Lord of the Underworld 久等了我的冥王大人 As long as you want it, As long as I have it... In this life and the next, I will keep you safe... Knowing you are there means the night is no longer dark, the evenings are no longer lonely, and the road home is no longer uncertain... 1.6kReads—Score—14d adds
- 60 CEO Snake Husband, Your Secret Identity Is Showing 霸总蛇夫,你的马甲掉了 [Aloof Snake Husband vs. Chatty Couch Potato] [Lighthearted, Goofy, Sweet Romance] Jiang Mengyu got stood up! By her very first blind date, Fu Qingxuan. Fu Qingxuan was a man at the very top of the blind-dating food chain, the heir to the richest family in Hong Kong, who had turned matchmaking into a selection process for a harem! Jiang Mengyu had wanted to take a chance and trade her LV for a Hermès! She waited for an hour, even thinking that maybe his lateness was some kind of test he'd d 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 My Top-Tier Star Brother Is a Ferocious Great Demon 顶流哥哥是大妖怪,超凶猛哒 [Sweet romance] [Entertainment industry] [Fur lover] [Devoted to each other] [Healing] A “white dog” suddenly appears at home, and fur lover Lin Lingxi can’t resist. One second she’s petting the “white dog,” and the next, a handsome man in ancient robes has her pinned down and is kissing her by force! He says, “Give me back my inner core.” Dumbfounded, Lin Lingxi finds herself saddled with an ancient silver-wolf demon. He moves into her place, and on top of that, he eats way too much. Lin Lingxi 16Reads8.0Score314d adds
- 62 The Snake Husband’s Devotion: His Little Fairy Is Reborn! 蛇夫溺宠:他的小仙女重生了! The Beautiful, Powerful, and Tragic Demon King vs. His One and Only Little Princess [Mutual Pampering + Transmigrate into a Book and Reborn + Pure Love + Fantasy + Mind Reading + Past and Present Lives + Devoted Love] The first time she caught the thousand-year-old serpent with his huge tail showing, he was so nervous he didn't dare move a muscle. The girl immediately snuggled into his arms and kissed him until his face and eyes turned red, unable to keep her hands off his tail. And so began c 306Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 63 The Snake Immortal Husband Falls at My Feet 蛇仙老公拜倒在我的石榴裙下 After my mother died, she gave birth to me inside her coffin. Since I was born on Ghost Festival, I was naturally tied to an ill-fated destiny, and from then on, people called me the Coffin-Born Girl. When I was seven, I swallowed a snake's gall and lost all my memories. I had no choice but to leave home for twelve years. When I returned, the world was full of danger and uncertainty. My father didn't care for me, my mother was gone, and the only one who came whenever I called was that long worm. 290Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 64 The Dragon King's Fated Wife 命中注定龙王妻 I’ve suffered from a strange illness since childhood. Dark patches spread across my body, and I grew increasingly frail. We went to the hospital countless times, but no one could cure me. With no other options, my mother turned to superstition and took me to a so-called spirit medium. The medium told her my illness was caused by the “Dragon King’s Curse”! With a basin of chicken’s blood and a stick of incense, the medium sent me to the “Dragon King’s Palace in the Eastern Sea.” She said there mi 76Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 65 The Underworld King’s Marriage Pact 冥王婚契 He took her home and raised her, doting on her all the while. As she grew up, he gradually fell for her. In her previous life, she saved his life with the blood from her heart. But on their wedding night, she died in his arms. Afterward, he used the blood from his own heart to sustain her body for thirty thousand years. Once he had made all the arrangements, he went to the mortal world and peacefully stayed by her side until the end of her life. This time, she truly forgot him. - The earlie 3.6kReads8.4Score27414d adds
- 66 Fox Town 狐镇 After surviving a landslide, Qiu Yiyao returns to the hometown she left years ago, only to find that everything there feels strange. Her father is a stranger, the neighbors are odd, and the other survivors are dying one after another. Then there’s the mysterious forum that appears from time to time: We’re being watched. As the truth slowly comes to light, she discovers that everything is connected to the white fox she saved all those years ago. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 The Proud Snake Lord Is Hard to Handle 傲娇蛇君不好惹 My name is Ming Yue. Ever since a classmate confessed their feelings for me, a snake has been clinging to me. He arrogantly declared that I belonged to him... His arrival shattered my peaceful life, and from then on, my world was turned upside down... Both leads are devoted only to each other. A super-sweet story with no angst. 77Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 68 Marry the Phoenix, You! Go Cook Me a Couple of Dishes 嫁凤,你,去给我炒两个菜 [The heroine is clever, neither a saint nor an idiot. The hero isn’t aloof or short-tempered. Lots of jokes, a mutually faithful couple, happy endings for everyone, causes revealed after effects, no substitute trope, a little angst for the hero but none for the heroine, with a touch of past and present lives.] Warnings: The heroine is a strong woman with a feminist outlook, and there are lots of jokes. The romance between the leads has little to do with their past and present lives, but those li 208Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 69 My Lifelong Devotion to You 倾我一生一世念 “She’s so happy, because the person she loves will love her again in her next life. I’m even happier, because the person I love already fell in love with me in my last life.” “I can wait ten years for you. I don’t mind waiting a hundred, a thousand, even ten thousand years.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 A Serpent’s Unrequited Love 蛇不了情 I was born a malformed conjoined twin, with the underdeveloped fetal corpse of a baby girl, covered in python-like markings, fused to my back. Worse still, twenty years later, I met Di Xiuyin, and the fetal corpse on my back began to come back to life... Everyone knows that Di Xiuyin is a ghostly python, steeped in sin and living by the blade. He rips out snake gallbladders, cuts out their glands, and refines their venom, running rampant wherever he goes and leaving devastation in his wake. Ever 21Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 71 The Dragon King’s Most Yin Bride 龙王大人的至阴新娘 I was born with an extremely yin nature, and the village shaman found me in a graveyard. I was frail and sickly from childhood. To keep me safe, my grandmother, the shaman, made a blood pact with a fox spirit, but the pact backfired and left her gravely injured because of me. Just as I was at a loss for what to do, a man who could transform into a Azure Dragon appeared. He claimed we had been bound by fate for a long time, and he protected me from disaster, calling me his “little bride,” yet he 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Ensnared by a Snake: My Husband Dotes on Me and Won’t Let Go 遇蛇:夫君他又宠又撩 [Romantic suspense + mild supernatural elements + both leads are chaste + sweet romance + mutual devotion + 1v1 + episodic short stories] Synopsis: On the fourteenth day of the seventh month, I was born under an ill omen. My grandmother bared her teeth and glared at me, calling me a curse who had killed one of her loved ones. In her rage, she tried to kill me by smashing me to the ground, but my maternal grandmother, a temple priestess, risked her life to save me. Eighteen years later, my grandm 79Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 73 The Snake Bride 蛇娶妻 [Supernatural + Devoted Husband + Pure Romance + Sweet Love + Wild Imagination] She was betrothed to the Snake King at birth, branded as his snake bride. Before she turned twenty-four, the Snake King would force her to marry him. Her grandfather said the Shen family owed the Snake King a debt, and that only marrying him could save her life... 1.5kReads9.1Score13814d adds
- 74 The Fox Takes a Wife 狐娶妻 A sunshower in the mountains, a fox wedding in the woods. The living must keep away. They say that if someone catches sight of a fox wedding, the marriage is ruined, and the couple may never be able to marry. The witness will be relentlessly hunted down until their family is destroyed. But when Gu Hanshuang encounters one, things don't go as the rumors say. Hu Xueyin, the groom of the fox wedding, sticks by her day after day, backs her into a corner, and softly asks, “Between him and me, who's m 251Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 75 The Serpent King's Decree 蛇王令 I was born with a black scale on my body. As I grew older, the scale kept spreading. When I was sixteen, I dreamed that the black scales came to life and turned into a black snake that coiled tightly around me… 40Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 76 The Serpent Lord Has Arrived: Master, Don’t Crave Me 蛇君驾到:爷,别馋我 This novel features the supernatural, an arrogant and calculating male lead, a devoted couple with no other partners, and emotional torment for both leads. I was born beneath a sky filled with rosy clouds, ablaze with every color, and blessed with auspicious signs. My grandmother was a shaman, so she read my fate and cast the divination. The result was astonishing: I was destined to become an empress. When I was seven, I fell seriously ill. A wise master advised that I form a bond with the Snake 202Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 77 The Serpent Mark Around Me 蛇印缠身 The Su family has an unwritten rule: for generations, they have worshipped the Snake Immortal. I was born with a snake-shaped birthmark, which everyone says was placed there by the Snake Immortal himself. He chose me to serve him. But I refused to believe in fate and fled the village. Still, he found me and came to collect his debt. “Su Li, didn’t your great-aunt tell you?” “Tell me what?” “When you turn eighteen, you’ll be my sacrifice!” I had no way to refuse, so I submitted to him. But this w 247Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 78 The Fox's Allure 狐媚 On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of the underworld open, and ghosts should hurry off to be reincarnated. A fox delivered me at birth. My mother died giving birth to me, and my grandmother raised me until I was eighteen, then she passed away too. On my twentieth birthday, a fox came looking for me. He said he had given me my life, and I had to repay him. If he could give it, he could take it back. To stay alive, I struck a deal with him and became his spirit medium, but 25Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 79 Professor Lu Is a Snake 陆教授他是蛇 [Two male leads + sweet romance + a little angst + past and present lives] Professor Lu of Mengjiang University has always been known for his coldness and sharp tongue. Then one day, he suddenly changes? Just moments ago, he had publicly lambasted Jian Yu in front of everyone! He insulted him, docked his points, and nearly nailed him to Meng University's pillar of shame... He almost made the poor kid cry. But later, he can't take his eyes off him... He wants to get close to Jian Yu, take him out 71Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 80 Luring Her into Sweet Surrender: The CEO's Snake-Husband Bride 诱她沉欢,霸总蛇夫的冲喜新娘 He Huan encountered a spirit snake transforming into a dragon, and that very night, it wrapped itself around her. It took full advantage of her, then shamelessly claimed it was repaying a debt of gratitude. He Huan suffered in silence as the snake clung to her. After her fiancé cheated on her with her despicable stepsister, she married Long Tingye, the notorious playboy of the capital, in a fit of anger. She had heard that Long Tingye had accidentally fallen into the water three years ago and be 46Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 81 The Yin-Born Girl and the Snake-Borne Coffin 阴生女,蛇抬棺 Ghosts pave the way, and countless snakes converge. Debts of vengeance and gratitude must all be settled. If you dare regret it, you’ll find no escape from life or death… Eighteen years ago, my grandpa rescued me from a tower where abandoned infants were left to die. But he only wanted to use me to catch snakes and refine their gallbladders, so he could practice an evil art and live forever. The debt we owed the snakes brought retribution. He roamed free, while scales covered my body and I suffe 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 The Snake Husband’s One and Only: So Bewitching! 兽世独宠,蛇夫太妖娆! [Original Story, Please Don't Repost! Beast World Farming, Beast Taming, Sweet Romance, 1v1] Qiao Yujia goes hiking with her best friend, but accidentally falls into a bottomless chasm. When the two of them wake up, they find no trace of civilization anywhere. They meet a giant snake and ask it to lead them out, only to discover that it can take human form and is utterly devoted to Qiao Yujia. That's not all: it keeps pursuing her, begging her to have a litter of little snake babies with it. Lin 77Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 83 The Calamity of a Ghostly Marriage, the Debt of a Dragon's Bones 阴缘劫,龙骨债 ♢ The Obsessive Snake Lord × The Bride with a Substitute Bone ♢ I was born with an incomplete destiny bone, and a dragon bone formed from a black snake was used to make up for it. Because I ruined his path to becoming a dragon, he hated me to the bone. He tormented me, took me against my will, and forced me to bear snake offspring. He said, “You used my dragon bone to keep yourself alive, so I’ll use your body to settle the debt.” He forced me to repay my karmic debt, yet risked his life to keep 519Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 84 The Snake Queen 蛇王女 When I was eighteen, I was offered as a sacrifice to a snake. Only much later did I learn that I held a shocking secret. Because of it, all manner of monsters and demons, practitioners of the mystic arts, and mysterious figures from every corner of the world wanted to get their hands on me… To protect myself, I had no choice but to cling to Lord Snake, who had protected and helped me all along. I thought he truly cared for me, but I never imagined he would be the one to push me into the abyss wi 87Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Fox Bone 狐骨 My name is Gu Yu. The day I was born, red rain fell from the sky, and every fox on the mountain behind our village howled through the night. Every household in the village kept its doors tightly shut. Liu the Blind, the village fortune-teller, told my grandmother that from the moment I was born, I had taken the fox immortal’s bewitching bones. Ten thousand foxes had bowed before me. I was born with an alluring nature, and he told my grandmother to strangle me. On my twentieth birthday, the fox p 346Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 86 My Boyfriend Is Adorable, Not Some Kind of Snake Monster 男朋友超可爱,才不是什么蛇怪 [Fantasy + romance + everyday life + not childhood friends + a touch of angst later on] Jiang Nian was terrified of snakes, yet she brought home a giant serpent in a handsome human skin. The boy carefully hid his tail. “Niannian, I finally found you.” Her annoying childhood friend said, “Jiang Niannian, he’s a shameless green tea jerk, a shameless green tea jerk!” Jiang Nian said, “What’s wrong with being a green tea? It’s enough that he’s willing to make an effort.” The fat cat at home said, “H 524Reads—Score10614d adds
- 87 The Serpent's Bewitching Dance 蛇骨婆娑 The year I turned twenty-four, a group of snakes gave me a marriage contract. It was signed by someone from the Guangxu era, named Yin Jiuyuan. When we met again, he handed me an employment agreement. “Snakes are unusually attracted to you, which makes you valuable to my research. Your salary is twenty thousand a month, and double if one bites you.” I was broke, so I signed. Only later did I learn that he was a snake king who had lived for three hundred years, and I was the person he fell in 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Easy There, My Lord of the Underworld 轻点宠,我的冥王大人 [Fateful cycles + Devoted couple + Proud, stubborn King of the Underworld + Funny yet earnest college student + The heroine was actually a fickle flirt in her past life, falling for everyone she met, not just the hero] Born a yin maiden, destined to become the King of the Underworld’s wife. He said my fate was yin, and I could only marry him. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live past twenty-eight. I said I didn’t believe in fate. He replied, “Then find out for yourself.” I did. I nearly died in his wo 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Book Transmigration: I Become the Beloved One in a Snake-Husband Novel 穿书:我在蛇夫文里做团宠 [A devoted couple, hard-core action, passionate romance, and sweet indulgence] She accidentally transmigrates into a monster novel crawling with snakes as the wicked female antagonist, whose husband is a lecherous and brutal giant snake demon. To be with the saintly heroine, the giant snake demon plans to sever the tendons in her hands and feet, then force her to drink poison that will leave her infertile. He wants to kill me from the start? Tian Xiaotian declares: No way! Absolutely not! 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 A Fox-Born Daughter, the Snake King’s Wife 狐生女,蛇王妻 [First-Person Supernatural Fiction + Snake Husband + Marriage First, Love Later] Eighteen years ago, my father set a fire in the fields and accidentally burned a litter of fox cubs to death. On my parents’ wedding day, the cubs’ father came for revenge. It broke into the bridal chamber and violated my mother. Just six months later, I was born. I’m that fox’s daughter, and I’ve been fair-skinned and beautiful since childhood. When I turned eighteen, my body fully matured and began giving off a st 330Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 91 The Fox King's Wife 狐王妻 ❤️ My name is Lu Qingyang. On the day of Jingzhe, my mother secretly gave birth to me in an abandoned Fox Immortal temple. The villagers bullied me and called me a fox demon that ate people's eyes. They dug out my left eye, then summoned a Taoist priest to call down lightning and kill me. When I grew up, a bizarre blood-red image of a fox worshipping the Big Dipper appeared on my waist. From then on, misfortune followed me everywhere. To find the mysterious man who stole my eye, I met the Fox Ki 69Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 92 The Dragon-Taming Bride 镇龙妻 [From home feng shui to esoteric arts, from attracting wealth and changing your fortune to reading faces and understanding people, improve your luck through the lens of metaphysics.] Fifty years ago, my grandfather forcibly pierced an underground dragon vein to find a feng shui treasure site, changing the fortunes and fate of our Zhou family. Fifty years later, a blood-soaked man showed up at our door, saying he wanted to marry into the Zhou family! The Nine Purple Li Fire cycle, the Witch’s Sun 293Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 93 Heaven-Defying Favor: Demon Venerable, Please Behave 逆天盛宠:妖尊请克制 On the very first night after transmigrating, Mu Ling'er sleeps with the Demon Realm's Emperor, rumored to be impotent! Overnight, she becomes famous throughout the entire Demon Realm. Everywhere she goes, she is met with looks of admiration (jealousy) and reverence (disgust). “They say I can't perform as a man. What do you think, my consort?” He gives her a wicked smile with his breathtakingly handsome face, and Mu Ling'er is instantly captivated. Every day, she wages an active battle against h 15Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 94 Born Under the Yin Sign, Wed to the King of the Underworld 阴女命,嫁冥王 A revised edition of Unending Ghostly Bonds, ten years in the making! After three years together, her boyfriend actually handed her over to the neighbor next door! From then on, she was haunted by sleep paralysis every night. In the darkness, a pair of icy hands roamed over her, and the Ghost King took her completely for himself. She tried to escape, only to realize she'd sunk deep into the mire of fate. In fear and despair, she gradually uncovered the shocking secrets hidden behind the underwor 212Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 A Dragon’s Life with You 龙生有你 The snake immortal insists on becoming my patron immortal and wants me to love him deeply, but in my dreams, fragments of a strange memory keep resurfacing. It seems closely tied to both his origins and mine, where love intertwines with mystery… 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Walking the Yin Road, Led by a Snake Spirit 走阴路,蛇魂引 There’s a black snake locked in my basement. Whenever I got sick, the elders in my family would go whip it. Grandpa told me it was my stand-in for death. Later, Grandpa died a violent death, my family was ruined, and a man appeared before me. He grabbed me by the throat and forced me to repay my debt... 258Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 97 Oh No! I Married a Sweet Wife, and Now I Can’t Hide My Serpent Tail 糟糕!娶了娇甜妻后蛇尾藏不住了 Sweet romance, both virgins, obsessive love, metaphysics: “Adorable, sweet little wife × cold, aloof, obsessive snake CEO” Jiang Mitian was thrown out of her home by her scumbag father. Homeless and hunted, she was saved at the brink of death by a handsome stranger. With nowhere else to go, she had to follow him home. Who knew he’d feed her and help her with her card during the day, then rub her legs and cling to her for kisses at night! A clever little woman appeared by the side of the aloof, h 108Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 98 Raising Great Demons at the Museum 我在博物馆养大妖 Restore the most dilapidated paintings, and keep the wildest man. Pressed by financial difficulties, Le Ying took up her family's traditional craft and became a calligraphy and painting restorer at a museum. While restoring paintings, she also took in several spirits and raised a one-legged great demon. Somehow, she ended up on a path to success in both her career and love life. A cross-species romance between a spiritual-energy flatterer and a proud, obsessive divine bird. 32Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 99 Goddess Reborn, Snake Immortal Wife 神女转世,蛇仙妻 An early work, an experiment. A girl born under an ill-starred fate, destined to be a goddess, with two immortals, a snake and a fox, circling around her, while the Ghost King of Kunlun fights to protect her to the death. I was born with a snake-shaped tattoo. It brought me plenty of benefits, but also some unpleasant consequences. My parents never let me get too close to boys, but when I hit puberty, I still broke that rule. Ever since then, a man has appeared in my dreams every single night... 5Reads8.0Score314d adds
- 100 Snake Bones 蛇骨 My name is Shen Qingxiang. My great-grandfather once burned a nest of horned spirit snakes to death in the hills behind our village. The older generation all said they were about to survive a heavenly tribulation and transform into dragons. On the night I was born, snakes swarmed through the village. My grandfather went to the Spirit Snake Temple in the hills and knelt there for an entire day and night before my mother finally gave birth to me. I was born with a snake-shaped birthmark on my lef 65Reads—Score10114d adds

















































