[Top-Tier Fiction + Realist Literature + Women's Fiction] Legend has it that there’s a snake immortal in a village in Suzhou. The snake immortal was originally named Wang Laodeng, and he has a son named Wang Zhongdeng. Wang Laodeng used to be very poor. As he puts it, his family was so hard up they were nearly reduced to eating tree bark. But one day, while he was up in the mountains making offerings to his family’s Old Wang Laodeng, inspiration suddenly struck. He had a bright idea, a flash of insight, a… well, the inspiration wouldn’t come. Anyway, he had an inspired moment, and a thousand-year-old snake spirit possessed him.
