My Demon Husband Is a Snake

"Apart from fast talking, do you have any other real skills? Hand over His Majesty the Dragon Emperor's corpse, you undutiful piece of trash, a good-for-nothing snake."

Xuanjing even said Yu Longting had a sharp tongue, but when it came to cursing, he was just as articulate. The tirade he unleashed spared no insult and matched Yu Longting blow for blow.

Yu Longting's eyebrows knitted together, and his sinister dark eyes swept over Xuanjing several times, "The coffin was stolen by you, and you have the nerve to ask me for the corpse? Are you kidding me?"

"His Majesty's corpse isn't with you?! When I arrived at the place where the Dragon Emperor was laid to rest… there was only… only his empty sarcophagus." Xuanjing, sinister as he was, actually looked dumbfounded at that moment, but seeing Yu Longting's stern expression, it seemed he had no choice but to believe it.

I, standing to the side, felt completely lost, not grasping the situation. So it meant that the Nine Dragons Coffin Dragging belonged to Yu Longting's father.

So where did Yu Longting's father's corpse go?

Yu Longting, out of patience, lazily urged, "I can't be bothered with your nonsense, even if the old man's body isn't in the coffin, the Fixed Water Pearl definitely was taken by you. Hand over the pearl, and I'll leave you a Life Lamp and your whole corpse."

"Go hang yourself, thin and bony! Why should I give it to you? Just because of your sanctimonious and hypocritical act, pretending to care for the world with that snake's attitude?"

Xuanjing's face turned black with rage as he unleashed a tirade, venting frustrations pent up over hundreds of years, "When you were born, almost two hundred years ago, you couldn't even get the eggshell off your head, couldn't crawl, and His Majesty had to carry you every day. Now you strut around, playing the Snake Lord. Have you forgotten how you, the idiotic pig, ascended to heaven, causing His Majesty to lose face among the Snake Tribe?"

"I'm saying, you've been haunting me for thousands of years, always causing me trouble, getting killed by me in the Fox Coffin, and you still stubbornly continue your mischief because of these?"

Yu Longting couldn't help but laugh, his face showing an unprecedented level of speechlessness.

Not to mention Yu Longting, even I, a bystander half-understanding the conversation, was uncontrollably twitching at the corners of my mouth.

Poor Bai Zanhe, kidnapped by a madman.

Her life hanging by a thread, yet she has to listen to a fox and snake bicker.

Xuanjing's eyes reddened, and he actually appeared somewhat aggrieved, "Originally, His Majesty picked me first to bring home, then he married, and you, this useless thing, came along, and after that, he never held me again, never gave me another glance. Where am I worse than you? I'm obedient, clever, and knew His Majesty first. But he, he only had eyes for you!"

"So you're saying, you've been holding a grudge for so long, that's why Xuanjing keeps troubling you?" I asked Yu Longting in a low voice, feeling indignant at the revelation of such a profound history between Yu Longting and Xuanjing.

Yu Longting lowered his gaze and met mine, nodding slightly. He opened his palm to reveal a pure white scale and said to Xuanjing, "Can you blame me for the old man's favoritism? Here, this is the last memento he gave me, the one that allows me to hear his voice one last time. In exchange for your Fixed Water Pearl, I'll count to three. If you refuse, I'll crush it…"

Before Yu Longting could count, Xuanjing, in a rat-trap dilemma, hurriedly interjected, "Don't… don't crush it, you unfilial snake, you don't appreciate the affection His Majesty had for you at all! Give it to me."

"The pearl," Yu Longting repeated slowly, his expression darkening and clearly not open for discussion.

Xuanjing's eyes flickered, and from his sleeve, he tossed a shiny pearl to Yu Longting, "Don't lose it, maybe... maybe he'll come back."

Oh my... that difficult and prickly... Xuanjing...

He was pacified by a single white Snake Scale??

Backing down??

"Understood." Yu Longting took the pure white pearl and tossed the Snake Scale to Xuanjing, "Dead fox, now release my wife's friend and get lost."

Then I saw Xuanjing's lips curve into a smile. With only one arm left, he still firmly wrapped his arm around Bai Zanhe's waist, planting a kiss on her lips,