Novels like The Snake Bridegroom
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- 101 My Fated Snake King Husband Is So Hard to Handle 奇缘蛇王老公太难缠 Lin Qingqing rescued a little black snake. She clearly saw it slither into the bushes, but after evening study hall, there it was on her bed. She put it in her schoolbag, and the next day it was wrapped around her hand. She left it in the bushes behind the school. Thinking the little black snake was so cute, she named him Qiu Han and couldn’t resist giving him a kiss. Who knew that within a day, the black snake would turn into a black python? To be with Lin Qingqing, Qiu Han took human form and 33Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 102 My Childhood Sweetheart Is Actually a Snake 青梅竹马竟是蛇 Synopsis: “Snake, let’s play house today! q(≧▽≦q)” Not long after Lan Xingyue was born, a pet snake came into her life and grew up alongside her. Before long, a little boy named Mo Siyu and his family moved in next door, and she gained a childhood sweetheart. Until one day, she discovered that Mo Siyu had a mysterious connection to her snake! Lan Xingyue: “Why won’t my snake come out when Siyu’s here?” Mo Siyu: “...Maybe it’s afraid of me.” `(*>﹏<*)′ I feel so guilty~ Lan Xingyue: “Why are you n 256Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 103 The Teng Snake Takes a Bride, and a Hundred Ghosts See Her Off 腾蛇娶妻百鬼送行 [Strong Female Lead] [Metaphysics] [Devoted Husband] [Ensemble Cast] [Pure Romance] [Mystery and Comedy] My name is Su Xiaowan. I was born in a small village in the south. I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, commonly known as the “Ghost Day.” Legend has it that on this day, the gates of the underworld swing wide open and ghosts roam everywhere. So after paying respects to their ancestors during the day, everyone stays indoors, afraid of attracting a 1.5kReads8.9Score219Shelves
- 104 The Snake-Skin Wedding Dress 蛇皮嫁衣 When I was three, burns covered my body and my life hung by a thread. My grandmother saved me by peeling off a snake’s skin. From then on, I had an invisible ghost husband by my side... He said he had given me my life, and that since I had worn his snakeskin wedding dress, I belonged to him. If I dared so much as interact with another man, he would punish me harshly and kill my entire family. I carefully made it to the age of twenty, but still broke the taboo! An old Taoist priest came to the vi 599Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 105 Your Husband, the King of the Underworld, Is Online 您的老公冥王已上线 A User Manual for the King of the Underworld: 1. Feed him. Even if you have to go hungry, never let him go hungry. 2. Flatter him, and stroke him the right way. 3. Soothe him. No matter who's at fault, it's always yours. 4. Let him pinch, knead, and hug you as much as he likes. Don't resist! 5. When he asks if you love him, don't hesitate, don't waver, and don't tell him quietly. Say, “I love you!” In short: After spending three years as a wandering soul, I met a fake reaper. He was imposing, do 166Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 106 The Snake Pregnancy in October 十月蛇胎 A serious illness left me pregnant after ten months, and the child's father was a snake: The Northeast Spirit Medium, the true story of a female spirit medium 350Reads8.7Score113Shelves
- 107 Beast World Transmigration: My Snake Husband Is Both Affectionate and Doting 穿越兽世：蛇夫又宠又撩人 One day, Guan Shanshan goes hiking and winds up in the Beastman Continent, where a giant serpent abducts her and takes her home. The serpent transforms into a cold, bewitchingly handsome man, pins her down, and demands that she become his mate! He wants them to have nest after nest of snake eggs. Guan Shanshan is panicking inside. “Stay calm, stay calm! Big guy, you're handsome and all, but your true form is the snake I'm most afraid of...” 195Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 108 The Tsundere Fox Demon Lord Is Too Easy to Tease 病娇狐狸魔尊不经撩 [Complete] The rating is low because few people have rated it. The story is guaranteed to be good. [1v1, happy ending + mutual devotion + intense push and pull + two powerful leads + sweet romance: a shrewd, mischievous young lady × a cold, heartless Demon Venerable] After transmigrating, Nan Xingchen found herself a useless nobody with no spiritual power! She was a thousand years old without having formed a demon core, yet she had a peerlessly beautiful face that could topple kingdoms. Her frie 55Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 109 The Snake Husband's Obsessive Love: His Bride Flees in Panic 蛇夫强宠，娇妻慌乱出逃 Rong Jin had to work as a servant at a manor deep in the forest to pay off her debts. The manor’s handsome, cold-faced master ordered her to raise snakes! Rong Jin was terrified of snakes and fainted on the spot! Luckily, he didn’t hold it against her and had Rong Jin attend to him while he soaked in the hot spring. Rong Jin dreaded nightfall, and dreamed every night. As her dreams grew more and more outrageous, they became increasingly difficult to talk about! Her mind grew more and more troubl 1.8kReads8.8Score137Shelves
- 110 My Ghost Marriage Husband Is the King of Hell 冥婚老公是阎王 Yin Qing, an ordinary college student, was worried about finding a job after graduation. But after an uncanny trip back to her hometown, she found herself bound in a ghost marriage to the King of the Underworld! From then on, strange events came one after another. To uncover the secret behind the curse that had plagued the Yin family for generations, Yin Qing resolutely joined the Special Abilities Divisio 805Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 111 Hail the Corpse Ancestor: My Wife Has Married into the Underworld 尸祖在上：娇妻亿嫁冥界 [Yandere corpse ancestor × teasing little troublemaker] They say Boyou, the corpse ancestor of the Netherworld, is cruel and heartless, but no one knows about the pathological possessiveness hidden beneath his outward appearance. He spies on her, schemes against her, and even hurts himself to play the victim, all to make her fall for him. She keeps causing trouble to make him hate her, only to bring disaster down on herself. On an utterly ordinary night in the Netherworld, a certain corpse ances 286Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 112 The Feng Shui Master of Qingwu 青乌风水师 My grandfather tells the fortunes of the living. I tell the fortunes of the dead. One day, my grandfather forced me to read his fortune... 1.2kReads8.8Score129Shelves
- 113 The Lovesick Lord of the Underworld Is Jealous Again Today 病娇冥王，今天又吃醋了 Su Wei never imagined that, after failing her tribulation and nearly losing her soul, she would be taken back to the Underworld by Xie Yanci, the King of the Underworld whom all three realms feared, and cherished as the apple of his eye. But his affection soon took a troubling turn. She showed a lost young immortal the way, only to find the King of the Underworld had frozen the entire Immortal Child Hall. She gave a wounded spirit bird a sip of immortal dew, and the next moment, the forest where 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 The Snake Immortal's Bride 蛇仙娶亲 My grandfather was a snake catcher. After taking too many lives, he angered a great serpent cultivating in the mountains. On the day I was born, both my grandfather and my father died in the jaws of a snake. On my nineteenth birthday, the great serpent appeared again to make me pay the blood debt. It was the immortal spirit worshipped by my great-aunt who saved me from the serpent's jaws. I thought his arrival was my salvation, but instead he swept me into another whirlpool of fate. “Gu An Nian, 1.8kReads9.1Score139Shelves
- 115 Transmigrated to the Beast World: This Snake Husband Is So Hard to Flirt With 穿越兽世这个蛇夫好难撩 An unconventional beast-world romance, one-on-one, with a universally adored heroine who's a little obsessive, a complex male lead who's aloof, chaste, and bewitching, and a cast of male supporting characters with wildly different styles... Yue Huanhuan transmigrated to the beast world and, by chance, met Han Mian, a stunning snake beastman. Just as she was wondering how to play hard to get without making it too obvious that she was attracted to his looks, the guy actually turned around and left 3.6kReads8.8Score603Shelves
- 116 The White Snake in Bed 白蛇在榻 In an ancient, mysterious town, a terrifying legend has been passed down: any woman born with a yin constitution must marry the Snake God, make offerings to him, and establish a shrine for him, or she will be consumed by yin energy and lose her life. Many women have died this way over the years, and the legend has become a shadow that haunts the townspeople. Lin Mei was born with a yin constitution. Frail and often plagued by yin energy, she has suffered greatly. Strong-willed and kind, she is c 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Ghost King: His Spoiling Hurts a Little 鬼王大人：宠的有点疼 (Romance + Scheming Male Lead + School Life + Mutual Devotion + Not a Horror Story) Every night, a man pins Shen Youyou beneath him. He whispers, “Have my child!” Shen Youyou: “Sir, what do you want? I'll do anything, just please leave me alone.” The man: “I want you.” “There are countless women in the world. Why fixate on me?” “Don't talk!” You're the only one who can do this. Shen Youyou was speechless. What exactly did he want from her? Note: There's no misunderstanding in this story. And if 262Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 118 The River God's Bride 河神新娘 A sacrificial rite brings the young girl Chu Xiyan together with the River God, setting in motion a deeply moving love story. They save one another and help each other become whole, enduring the tangled joys and sorrows of love and hate... 171Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 119 The Fox's Seduction 狐诱 Twenty years ago, my father brought home a mute woman. From then on, men in the village began dying in mysterious ways… They said my mother was a wicked fox spirit who brought harm to others. No, my mother was the Great Fox King, chosen by Heaven. The Fox King bore a daughter, and the new king ascended the throne. Beneath all of Heaven, our king rules. The harem matters just as much as the people! An angsty romance dressed up as a wish-fulfillment blurb. Come on in, everyone! 617Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 120 Born of a Corpse, Bound to the Snake King 尸生女，蛇王契 [The male lead is an utterly controlling Snake Immortal Lord. The female lead grows over time, and is neither a doormat nor stupid. They fall head over heels for each other in a super-sweet romance!] This story has a few mildly scary scenes, but nothing too frightening. And it really is sweet, sweet, sweet, tooth-achingly sweet!! Manual divider When my mother gave birth to me, it took three days and three nights. The doctor took one look and froze in shock. My mother had already died. It was he 3.5kReads8.6Score666Shelves
- 121 Tales of the Snake Immortal 蛇仙鬼话 Kui Kui was born with the fate of a Snake Immortal. She had a heavenly eye from birth and could see both the living and the dead. Yet her immortal nature was borrowed from her father, and she was never meant to exist in this world. Her birth chart was too weak to hold on to that borrowed gift. On the Ghost Festival when she was eighteen, a horde of ghosts attacked. To save her life, her father hid her inside a cursed, ten-thousand-year-old snake coffin. From then on, she became the fated one of 922Reads9.0Score156Shelves
- 122 My Husband Comes from the Underworld 我的夫君他来自地府 I've been unlucky since I was little. I'm said to bring misfortune to my husband and children, and my father even used me to pay off a debt of yin energy he owed. When I came of age, he showed up to make me honor the contract we made back then. After that, my mother was near death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another ran into trouble... 52Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 123 Snake Spirit 蛇灵 When I was three, I came down with a strange illness. My whole body felt as if it had no bones. The rice-reading granny said something was at work, occupying my body and borrowing my lifespan. After she splashed a basin of blood toward the northeast corner, a black snake with red markings and a long beard burrowed out of the earth. Sixteen years later, the snake spirit returned. “Xiao Yu, you were the one who came after me first. If we don't get married, this is going to end badly...” [Snake Hus 1.8kReads9.3Score219Shelves
- 124 The Secrets of Qimen Fengshui 奇门风水秘术 Li Dingfeng learns his family's ancestral art of feng shui, mastering both landform and qi analysis. At a glance, he can read the terrain and water; with a gesture, he can tell fortune from misfortune. He only wants to live in peace, but one strange incident after another finds him, from the harmful influence of a shop's sharp corner to a sinister formation haunting an old family home. As one mysterious feng shui case after another comes to light, grudges buried for years resurface. He journeys 7.8kReads8.7Score675Shelves
- 125 The Tyrant Snake King Knelt on the Washboard 暴君蛇王跪了搓衣板 [Mutual devotion + sweet romance + fantasy + transmigration + short story] With no other choice, Ye Jiaoyang takes a job as a test sleeper in a haunted house. The result? She gets tangled up with a giant python. The Python Lord: “I'm your husband!” Ye Jiaoyang: “I'm your ancestor!” The Python Lord: “I was your husband in your past life!” Ye Jiaoyang: “I was a widow in my past life!” 199Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 126 Raising Foxes in Another World 我在异世养狐狸 [After 99 Failed Matchmaking Dates, a Fox Dragged Me Off to Marry Him!] After a string of failed matchmaking dates, Jiang Han was scooped up by a fox and unexpectedly transmigrated into a world overrun by demons and ghosts. All she wants is to get home, but the fox keeps tricking her at every turn. On their wedding night, the fox grips the Marriage Pact around her wrist, his voice dangerous and teasing. “You accepted my betrothal gifts and agreed to my promise. You can't go back on your word now 129Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Beast World Harem: The Sweetheart Caught in a Shura Field 兽世万人迷：小乖软深陷修罗场 [Everyone's Favorite, Romantic Rivalry, Pocket Dimension, Farming and Commerce, Male Lead with Snake and Dragon Forms (A Faithful 1v1 in the End)] An Ning, a miracle-working doctor, is unlike other females in the Beast World. She is a rare beast female who can bear the strongest offspring for beastmen. After bonding with a fertility-boosting pocket dimension, she somehow becomes the mother of a pile of eggs. The problem is that these eggs are destined to hatch into the villainous big boss, a gol 38Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 128 A Sweet, Wanton Snake Wraps Around His Darling Wife and Carries Her Home 甜欲蛇缠，娇娇老婆叼回家 [Devoted Love and Spoiling + Childhood Sweethearts + Satisfying Revenge on Scumbags + Transmigration to Another World + Fantasy Romance] After her parents died, Ruan You had no choice but to live with her uncle’s family. She treated everyone with the utmost care, yet her cousin and aunt saw her as a thorn in their side. They even hired thugs to ruin her. Thinking she was doomed to die, Ruan You somehow stumbled into the Snake King’s lair and spent a night with him. But when she woke up, the Snak 3.6kReads9.1Score365Shelves
- 129 The Heavenly Master’s Divine Husband 天师神婿 My grandfather was a renowned ghost diviner in the martial world. He lost his health and cultivation saving my fiancée. Yet when I turned twenty and went to ask for her hand in marriage, they threw me out! They thought I was useless and wanted to break off the engagement! But they had no idea that my skills in physiognomy, feng shui, talismans, and Taoist medicine had all reached the pinnacle. And with the bloodline of a great shaman in my veins, I could determine wealth and poverty with a singl 8.6kReads8.3Score577Shelves
- 130 The Yin-Born Girl and Her Snake King Betrothed 阴生女，蛇王聘 The day I was born, the Imperial Star entered my fate, and a hundred ghosts clung to me. To keep me alive, my grandmother summoned the most powerful guardian spirit in the north to suppress my fate. With a python as my master, I became a spirit medium, learned the ways of yin and yang and the Eight Trigrams, and traveled across the land to protect the world. Under my master's protection, I became a generation's greatest prodigy. But in doing so, I also glimpsed secrets and heavenly mysteries I w 6.9kReads8.9Score447Shelves
- 131 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 The Nine Yin Woman and the Demon Husband’s Sacrifice 九阴女，妖夫祭 [Both virgins, metaphysics, sweet romance, heroine's growth] When my mother was pregnant with me, my grandfather forced her to drink a bowl of foul brew. She went into premature labor, and I was born on an extremely inauspicious day. Born with the Nine Yin constitution, I became a coveted offering for demons and evil spirits. An expert gave my family a jade pendant to keep me safe as I grew up, and promised that when I turned eighteen, he would come with a new token to exchange for it. If we exc 1.3kReads8.6Score144Shelves
- 133 The Jealous Snake Lord Is Brutal and Obsessive, Yet He Spoils His Wife Without Limit 醋王蛇君暴戾偏执却宠妻无度 Also known as: The Snake Bride. Devoted couple + sweet romance + light supernatural elements. I was born in a cursed village. The year I was born, my grandfather killed a snake matriarch, and our whole family was relentlessly hounded for revenge. I fled the village with a bracelet passed down through my family. When I returned to the village years later, I met a giant white snake. He was desperate to keep me by his side. To outsiders, he was a vicious demon, but he spoiled me in every way. To ot 301Reads9.1Score102Shelves
- 134 Divine Inheritance 神传 My mother went up the mountain for three days, and when she came back down, I was born. Ever since then, she has gone up the mountain once every month, on the third. I thought she was going to see my father, until one day I followed her... 1.4kReads8.7Score174Shelves
- 135 Sweet Romance: The Dragon King Brings Home a Cute Little Bride to Raise 甜宠：龙王捡个可爱小媳妇回家养 [Lively, Adorable, Clever Sweetheart × Gentle, Considerate Dragon King Who Grants Her Every Wish] Before she transmigrated, Meng Ci was a poor unfortunate soul: her family life was miserable, her education mediocre, she had no money, and her partner cheated on her. But after getting hit by a car and flying through the air, she wakes up in a magnificent palace. She also discovers that the dragon who found her is rich, powerful, and handsome. Meng Ci: I want to open a shop. The dragon: I’ll buy 283Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 136 Demons of the Northern Mountain 北山有妖 When I was twenty, someone killed me. My killer dumped my body at Beishan, a thousand miles away… 2kReads7.5Score252Shelves
- 137 My Lord of Demons 我的妖君大人 I was born under a curse and abandoned in his temple. Twenty years later, he was reborn from the curse, and by a twist of fate, we formed a spiritual bond. The Demon Lord not only mooches off my food and drink, but also tricks me into having his child. His emotional intelligence is in the single digits, he’s stingy and combative, and he has enemies everywhere. Every day, he’s either fighting or on his way to a fight. I finally lose my patience. “I’m divorcing you!” He sneers arrogantly. “You can 510Reads9.2Score101Shelves
- 138 The Snake King’s Wife 蛇王夫 My father buried me as soon as I was born. A snake saved my life. When I turned eighteen, that snake found me and demanded I repay him by becoming his wife… 1.3kReads9.1Score158Shelves
- 139 The Dragon King Sends a Betrothal Gift, and Nine Foxes Escort the Bride 龙王下聘，九狐送嫁 My name is Wen Shiqi. I'm an orphan, but on my wedding day, nine foxes escort the bridal sedan, a hundred pythons march in formation, and ten thousand birds welcome me home. When I was ten, I fell into the Changning River and accidentally broke his seal, becoming the bride promised to him. From then on, the pupil of my right eye was shattered, and I could see every demon and evil spirit in this world. Ten years later, he came to find me. He said he would save me and lead me onto the right path. 2.3kReads8.6Score384Shelves
- 140 The Sinister Snake Lord Has His Eyes on Me, and My Little Sister Cries as She Tries to Escape 被阴湿蛇君盯上，妹宝哭着逃不掉 [Endless doting, sweeter than candy, 1v1, happy ending] She learns that she is living inside a novel. The greatest purpose of her existence is to support the male lead, help him shine, raise the whole family to the top, and sacrifice herself for the white moonlight in his heart. Su Yien decisively shuts her heart to love, protects the family fortune, finds comfort in her pet snake, and settles for making money and raising little pets every day. She manages to avoid the scumbag, but fails to stop 52.8kReads8.3Score7.7kShelves
- 141 The Demon Lord Is Here 妖君在上 In the thirteenth year of the Republic, with the country in turmoil, Shen Lingyin was born in an isolated village surrounded by strange legends. When she came of age, the villagers chose her as a sacrifice, but she unexpectedly uncovered a secret buried for a thousand years... Born at midnight on the second day of the second lunar month in the Year of the Tiger, she was chosen by fate, yet doomed to bring disaster. To survive, she forms an alliance with a mysterious man and walks the razor's edg 889Reads9.0Score141Shelves
- 142 Hades Husband, Don't Cause Trouble 冥王老公，别乱来 My name is Li Xiaojiu. When I was twenty, a man in my dreams told me to repay a debt. After that, he haunted me every night, and I couldn’t escape him. With my eyes veiled by a web of blood, I somehow released the greatest evil in the world. From then on, yin and yang fell into chaos, and disaster loomed. The man in my dreams said, “My name is Feng Siming. If you want to live, obediently give me your body.” I asked, “In the end, will you devour me?” Feng Siming: “Yes, from head to toe...” Me: “. 821Reads9.1Score124Shelves
- 143 Three Dreams Entwined with a Snake 蛇缠三梦 I was born on the day of spring thunder, when snakes and insects stir back to life. Two red spots marked my wrist from birth, like a pair of vivid cinnabar moles, or two fresh, blood-red bite marks. From then on, every Dragon Boat Festival, countless snakes would gather at my home to pay homage. When I came of age, the snakes carried in a blood-red pearl. After that, strange events began happening one after another in the village, all of them connected to a secret the old folks spoke of. Some sa 1.2kReads9.1Score159Shelves
- 144 The Allure of the Fox 狐香引 When I was eighteen, my grandma passed away. I inherited the spirit hall and became a female disciple who served the immortals. Thus began my strange journey in their company, and my fate changed forever... 918Reads8.9Score111Shelves
- 145 Good Heavens! The Wolf King Took Me Home and Dotes on Me Like Crazy 天啦！被狼王捡回家猛猛宠 [Alternate World + Reborn + Sweet Romance + One-on-One + Mutual Devotion and Flirting + Happy Ending + Love at First Sight] The contrast: a clingy, clingy-clean-freak wolf king with a serious case of lovesickness, who's a sweet-talking, clingy cuddlebug, and a strong, sweet-natured cook whose food is delicious and who knows just how to soothe her wolf. + Lu Xuezhi was tricked and ambushed by her own father, then tragically killed by hyenas. Heaven had mercy on her and granted her a second life. 204Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 146 The Snake Lord's Spoiled Bride: The Substitute Snake Husband Lures a Down-and-Out Heiress 蛇君娇宠：替身蛇夫诱拐落魄千金 [Down-on-her-luck heiress and unlucky pauper X power-hungry snake demon, dark outside, pure inside] A sweet romance between a human and a demon amid dark, powerful forces [Happy ending + sweet romance + devoted to each other + human-demon romance + lighthearted + healing + political intrigue + redemption] Hua Nianjiao, granddaughter of the former Grand Tutor, has no money and no choice but to climb into a bridal sedan on Ghost Festival night, marrying into a prince's manor to bring good fortune 169Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 The Fox’s Child 狐胎 I was born in a poor, remote village in Northeast China, and grew up not knowing who my father was. On the day I was born, a red-haired fox brought me a gold ingot in its mouth. Only later did I learn that I was the fox’s child. Twenty-one years later, when I met the fox again, he threatened to drag me into his bridal chamber! To survive, I swallowed my humiliation and became his spirit medium. Just as I was beginning to accept him, I discovered that it had all been a scheme, and I was nothing m 1.1kReads9.2Score185Shelves
- 148 Married to a Fox 嫁狐 The sins of my ancestors came back to haunt me. To save my life, Great-Auntie invited a fox spirit to protect me. But who knew this fox spirit wasn’t here to protect me at all, but to kill me... 411Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 149 The Demon Husband Is Here 妖夫在上 I have a birthmark, and I covered it with a tattoo to make it look better. Who could have guessed the tattoo shop I chose would be so unreliable? They actually tattooed a demon on me. From then on, my life was never peaceful again. 1.5kReads8.9Score239Shelves
- 150 Hell’s Temptation: My Husband Is the King of the Underworld 地狱诱宠：闪婚老公是冥王 [Supernatural + sweet romance + adorable child + secret identity + 1v1 and mutually devoted, scheming King of Hell + sweet, innocent heroine] After a whirlwind marriage to my blind date, I discover that he’s not only rich and handsome, but also full of secrets. He keeps a talking black cat, has a younger brother who can read ghost script, and even has a second face. Once I discover his secrets, he drops his disguise and reveals his wicked, scheming nature, cornering me against the bed. “Sweethea 7.3kReads9.2Score820Shelves
