"Alright everyone, let’s disperse."
ilin waved at the crowd of onlookers, a fragrant scent wafting from her graceful figure.
"Boss ilin, I’ll offer one million for your snake. Would you be willing to part with it?"
A middle-aged man in a sharp suit stepped forward. ilin imdiately recognized him as the big boss of a pharmaceutical company.
"Heh heh, Boss Gao, I’m sorry, but this snake is not for sale."
Boss Gao wasn’t surprised. He continued, "Don’t be so quick to refuse. The price is negotiable!"
"I’ll offer one and a half million."
Another man stepped out from the crowd. He was also a big boss in the snake business.
"I’ll offer two million," Boss Gao declared. "Boss ilin, do this favor, and I’ll give you all my snake-related business from now on."
The boss of the pharmaceutical company specialized in purchasing snake venom to produce serums and perhaps hemostatic dicine. The demand was huge. If all his future business went to ilin’s shop, it would be an incredibly profitable deal.
Upon hearing this, ilin’s expression remained firm, without the slightest waver. She shook her head again. "Boss Gao, I’m truly sorry. It’s not that I don’t want to do you a favor, but this snake is like my own life. Asking for this snake is like asking for my life."
"Haha! Lady Bai ilin, your reputation for loving snakes as much as your own life is well-deserved!"
Boss Gao burst out laughing and didn’t press the matter further.
Seeing ilin turn down such a generous offer from Boss Gao, many other bosses who had coveted the Silver White Snake gave up on the idea.
ilin gave a slight bow and walked toward her shop. The intelligent Silver White Snake slithered along at her feet, following her. The sight left the crowd in disbelief.
This was a poisonous snake, not a dog. It would be nothing strange for a dog to follow its owner like this, but this was a snake.
Since when could a snake be tad to this degree?
In that mont, Lady Bai’s skill in Snake Control left an indelible impression on everyone’s minds, attracting many future custors to her shop.
’That damned bitch, ruining my big break!’
Most of the onlookers had dispersed, but Chen Gao and his friend remained standing there.
Chen Gao had hoped to turn his life around with this snake, but ilin had snatched it right from under his nose. He didn’t believe the snake belonged to her. If it was really hers, why hadn’t she said anything earlier? Why did she have to try and catch it?
But why was this vicious, deadly snake so docile in front of ilin? Chen Gao couldn’t figure it out.
’Do poisonous snakes have a thing for beautiful won, too? For fuck’s sake.’
ilin returned to her shop, led the Silver White Snake directly into a small room, and closed the door.
Then, her expression suddenly beca unbearably tense. Her beautiful eyes stared fixedly at the poisonous snake, which was holding its head high on the floor. She opened her mouth, but couldn’t get a single word out.
Instead, a man’s voice, clear and magnetic, broke the silence in the room.
"Sister ilin, thank you for helping out of that bind."
But what was shocking was that the voice had co from the mouth of the small snake on the floor.
In that instant, ilin clapped a hand over her red lips, her body wracked with violent shudders. Tears stread silently through her fingers.
Her whole body trembled. Suppressed, agonizing sobs seed to be drawn out, thread by painful thread, from the depths of her soul, weaving a tapestry of deep blue sorrow throughout the room.
"This isn’t real. This can’t be real."
Teardrops clung to her long eyelashes as she murmured to herself. The image of a handso young man surfaced in her mind. Then she rembered a Spiritual Stele. The boy who once called her Sister ilin was no longer in this world.
But now, the snake standing tall on the ground, its crimson tongue flicking gently, was telling her that he was the handso young man from her mories.
"How could this be? How could this be?"
ilin couldn’t accept it. She wasn’t frightened into incoherence by the supernatural event; she just couldn’t accept that the boy from her mories had beco a poisonous snake.
Even if he had co back as a ghost, ilin would have found it easier to accept.
Just monts ago, when the Silver White Snake was cornered by the seven Snake Catchers, it had suddenly shot toward her and wrapped itself around her neck. A surreal voice had spoken: "Sister ilin, it’s . I’m Tu Xiao’an. Whether you believe or not, please help get out of this first. I’ll explain everything to you later."
At that mont, ilin had been so shocked it felt like a dream.
Another scene flashed through ilin’s mind. He was young and reckless, full of vigor, a confident smile on his handso face as he told her, "Sister ilin, I, Tu Xiao’an, will definitely catch a rare Snake Species for you one day!"
The past was like smoke, mories like dust. ilin’s lips and cheeks were pale and drawn. She took a deep breath. "Are you really Xiao’an?!"
"Sister ilin, it’s really . After I died, I beca a snake."
The poisonous snake on the floor opened its mouth, and a human voice, filled with an eerie quality, erged.
Tears stread down ilin’s face. How could the boy from her mories rge into one with a poisonous snake?
Tu Xiao’an knew it was a difficult thing for anyone to accept that he had beco a snake. He couldn’t exactly say he’d gotten a lucky break and turned into a snake because he possessed a Devouring System, so he tried a different explanation. "Sister ilin, do you rember an old legend from our Bai Town?"
"What legend?" ilin stared blankly at the poisonous snake on the floor, its Snake Skin shimring.
Tu Xiao’an said, "The legend says that if one of us Snake Catchers is killed by a poisonous snake’s bite and is unwilling to leave the mortal world, they can be reborn as a House Snake and remain."
"I couldn’t bear to leave my mother, who is tornted by illness, so I beca a House Snake."
Hearing this, ilin’s face first turned deathly pale, then flushed a deep crimson. She never imagined such a bizarre legend could actually be true. Her voice filled with heartache, she said, "Xiao’an, how could you be so foolish? So foolish!"
"Sister ilin, believe , this is the best possible outco. It ans I can still stay in this world and protect my family."
Tu Xiao’an gazed with his cold Snake Pupils at the beautiful young woman sobbing uncontrollably before him, trying to console her.
"Don’t you know? If your mother found out about this, she would be even more heartbroken!" ilin looked at the Silver White Snake on the floor. "Do you know the second part of that legend? If a House Snake dies again, its soul is scattered to the winds, and it loses the chance to reincarnate forever."
Tu Xiao’an’s gaze was icy and resolute. "I don’t care. I couldn’t accept just leaving like that."
"Xiao’an, it’s my fault. I’m the one who did this to you."
Overco with emotion, ilin snatched the Silver White Snake from the floor and held it in her arms, weeping.
After a long mont, Tu Xiao’an chuckled. "Sister ilin, I’m fine now. What happened back then was because I was young and reckless. I underestimated that mutated vampire snake. It had nothing to do with you. You don’t have to feel guilty anymore."
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