My Demon Husband Is a Snake

"What are you doing??" I felt as if something crucial had been drawn out of my brain, and I was powerless to salvage it.

My vision grew increasingly blurred, and I could only faintly see the man through the veil, rubbing his nose, "I didn't do much, just extracted some memories from your mind. It shouldn't affect you much. I can't help it; my personal charm is too overwhelming. If I don't erase these memories, I'm afraid your daughter-in-law might fall in love with her father-in-law..."

What kind of nonsense was this, with a daughter-in-law falling in love with her father-in-law?

I fell forward with a full head of black lines, plunging into darkness, aware that I had fainted.

I only felt the rain in the Serpent Domain was cold, soaking through my clothes.

But next to my ears, there came a sound of crying, and the crying was, unbelievably, coming from my own mouth.

That voice wasn't mine; it was a child's cry.

He too was in such a torrential rain, held in the arms of a man.

In the man's hand was a long sword that I found very familiar, carved with a giant python, its tip pressing against the tender chest of the child.

The child was just an infant, tears of sorrow continuously flowing from his eyes, yet he could already speak, "Dad, why do you want to kill me? Why...? Is it just because I have the Spiritual Eye..."

Through the curtain of rain, I saw Yu Longting's face.

The man who had killed his own child was Yu Longting, and was that child not Dumpling's face?

Could this be a horrifying nightmare?

Ask in my subconscious only to see a girl running out, kneeling in front of Yu Longting, clutching his legs, "Don't kill my child... Yu Longting... please, I beg you, take my life instead, I will give you the Spiritual Eye, anything you want, just don't kill my child..."

That woman's face startled me as well, it seemed to be mine yet not mine.

It looked much younger than my current appearance, around eighteen or nineteen, with naïve long ponytails.

Yu Longting acted as though he heard nothing, the sword tip slowly pierced the child's chest.

No!! Stop... don't continue...

Wake up, wake up!!

I jolted awake from the nightmare just as the sword tip pierced the infant's skin.

I sprang up to realize I was actually in a van.

Yu Longting, leaning his head to the side, pinched my wrist, "I'm the one seriously injured, why did you faint? You weren't injured, were you scared by Master Qingyang?"

"You... don't come any closer..." I shrank into the corner of the van, and despite the spacious interior, I could still hear the rain outside.

The images and sounds of the dream blurred with real memories, making me a bit confused.

I nearly mistook that vivid dream for an actual memory.

Yu Longting furrowed his brow, his face pale as he coughed twice, "Cough cough, Wanwan, did Master Qingyang say something to you?"

"He didn't really say much, just talked about how beings who haven't ascended to immortality through cultivation in several hundred years are not allowed to transform snakes into dragons."

I dove headfirst into Yu Longting's embrace, clutching his drenched body as if using all the strength of my life.

To save me, he had nearly dispersed all his powers.

Even I could easily kill him now.

How could I doubt that he would harm me and Dumpling just because of a dream?

"Cough cough cough cough... Qingyang... just said that? Cough cough cough..." Yu Longting's breathing became even more disordered from my impact, coughing more fiercely.

"Yes, he just wanted to take my life without much talk."

I was terrified and hastily released my tight embrace around Yu Longting, only to see a trickle of blood hanging from the corner of his lips, which left me panicked and at a loss for what to do, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do this, the cheongsam is ruined, I couldn't take care of you, and your Primordial Spirit is hurt..."

"It's okay, you just fix the cheongsam, take care of my true body, and I will slowly get better," Yu Longting said nonchalantly.

"Yes, look at me, how come I did not think of fixing the cheongsam before?"

I looked forward, and driving was Beichen, who I asked, "Beichen, where are we going? Are we going to Granny Wu's house?"

"Eh, aren't we going to the restaurant?" Beichen asked in astonishment.

Yu Longting lifted his arm weakly and touched my head feebly, "Listen... to Su Wan."

"Yes, Snake Lord." Beichen made a U-turn at the intersection ahead and headed towards Granny Wu's house.

The inside of the car was very quiet, with Wu Zhenglin sitting silently in the back seat next to the unconscious Granny Wu.

The heavy rain hadn't stopped, beating loudly against the windows.

I was nestled in Yu Longting's broad embrace, his heartbeat was much slower than usual, and his breathing was very erratic.

Yet his fingers still tenderly caressed my stomach, completely unlike the brutal and cold-hearted person in my dreams.

Freud said dreams are a person's subconscious, is my subconscious that violent?

But I'm not afraid of him at all, I even find Yu Longting very gentle.

I looked up at Yu Longting, who seemed to be in a light sleep, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

That dream was too realistic, realistic as though it had actually happened.

Was it a long-sealed memory?

Could it be an unlucky memory from a past life...

I unconsciously began to ponder and quietly asked, "That... Yu Longting, did we really not know each other in a past life?

"Why do you ask this question again?" Yu Longting half-opened his eyes, somewhat surprised.

I touched his face, feeling slightly unreal, "I just can't figure it out, you've lived for thousands of years, why choose me? And I am the daughter of your enemy... Are you sure it's not fate from a previous life... Love across three lifetimes?"

"Are you writing a novel here? Such a big imagination, it's a waste not to be a screenwriter." Yu Longting caught my hand, raised his eyebrows and smiled, even his cough carried a smile, "Cough cough cough... Wanwan... cough cough... my feelings for you... are a millennial wait..."

His casual demeanor didn't seem at all like his Primordial Spirit was severely damaged, enduring excruciating agony.

Even if I had never experienced it, I knew it.

A damage to the Primordial Spirit was foundational, the pain endured was a hundred times more severe than physical pain.

"Alright, I believe you, don't talk, and don't explain, just rest," I covered his lips, but my fingers felt a warm surge, and they recoiled slightly.

I had touched the blood slowly flowing from the corner of his lips, and my whole vision went blank.

Yu Longting caught my hand and placed it over his heart, "Wife, I am fine, don't worry about me."

"Yes." I gently stroked Yu Longting's back, his body tense and rigid, gradually relaxed.

His breathing became even, his hands clasped around me like an octopus.

Beichen stopped the car in front of a simple farmhouse belonging to Granny Wu, "Here we are, Snake Lord, Lady of the Snake Lord..."

"Shh, Yu Longting is asleep!" I signaled for silence, trying to help Yu Longting up, he was light as a feather after being injured.

I could easily carry him, and just as I was about to help him into Granny Wu's house, I heard Wu Zhenglin cry out, "Su Wan, my granny... something seems off with my granny!!"