"No need for hospitality, I'm not interested in country cuisine."
Su Xiaomin's voice ca from downstairs, "Hey, have you seen the girl in the picture? Her na is Su Wan."
"This girl is really beautiful, I would definitely recognize her if she ca to our store, but I truly haven't seen her," laughed Chen Shufen, the landlady.
Su Xiaomin's voice turned suspicious, "Really haven't seen her? I heard from the restaurant owner next door that you just hired a new waitress."
"Xiao Li, the new girl, what's her na?" Chen Shufen asked Xiao Li, who was going downstairs to greet custors.
Xiao Li replied offhandedly, "Chen Yuan, my cousin, my cousin is so dark, much darker than the girl in this photo."
"Seems like it was a mistake, guys, let's move on to the next place," Su Xiaomin called to his people as they left. He muttered viciously, "Su Wan, even if I have to dig three feet under, I will find you and kill you."
Upstairs, my legs turned to jelly.
I slumped to the ground, my heart racing.
Su Xiaomin had actually made it to Spring Wind Town.
Thank goodness the landlady was righteous and Xiao Li was clever enough.
Otherwise, my mother and I would have been done for!
"Wanwan, why are you sitting on the floor? It's quite cold," my mother ca over and helped up.
I gave my mother a wan look, "Su Xiaomin was just here, I was almost scared to death."
At only the ntion of those three words, my mother's face instantly turned pale as well.
So I roughly told my mother what had happened downstairs from what I had heard upstairs.
At ten o'clock that night, the restaurant closed.
Chen Decheng and his wife specially ca to talk to my mother and about this.
My mother, not wanting to cause any trouble, was sowhat inclined to move sowhere else.
But the Chen couple reassured her.
The owner, Chen Decheng, was a man of ideas. "For safety reasons, from now on when we call Su Wan, we'll just call her Chen Yuan."
"Just changing the na will do?" my mother was sowhat surprised, "They... those people have already co knocking..."
Chen Decheng said, "I've heard those people have asked around every shop once. With so many towns around, and so many shops they can probe into, it would be amazing if those ruffians could show up more than once."
"Exactly, I've seen Su Xiaomin's photo; it's taken from one angle," Chen Shufen gave my mother and a reassuring look and smiled, "The real person is much prettier than the picture. Those neighbors won't associate Su Wan with the girl in the picture."
My mother felt much more at ease and patted her chest, "After all, we have troubled you, thank you for your righteous help today."
"What are you talking about, it's nothing," Chen Shufen said nonchalantly.
Before bed, I went to the bathroom to take a shower.
After checking the doors and windows, I drew the curtains before starting to undress.
In the mirror in front of , two scales suddenly appeared on my face.
Having conceived a snake, was I also going to turn into one?
That's too unfair, isn't it?
I quickly reached out to touch, but there was no feeling of scales.
Could it be a problem with the mirror?
Could it be that sothing had smudged on the mirror?
I reached out to touch the mirror and found it unnaturally cold.
Like an electric shock, I quickly pulled my hand back.
My face in the mirror slowly began to change.
My pupils turned a blood-red color, and my cheeks slowly beca the enchanting face of a Snake Spirit.
My long hair, slightly yellowed from malnutrition, now appeared incredibly jet-black, like a piece of silky black satin, utterly smooth.
Black hair set off my skin as white as snow, and my lips a bewitching fla red.
The person in the mirror wasn't !
I could see my own dry and frizzy hair just by looking down, so I hadn't changed my appearance; I was seeing soone else.
"Who are you? Why are you appearing in the mirror?" I unconsciously used the clothing in my hand to shield my body and took a small step back.
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