Married to a Snake

A life saved comes with a price—and mine is marriage to a snake immortal. Born cursed and breathless, I survived only because my grandmother struck a desperate bargain with the Snake Immortal, trading my future for a single breath of life. The cost? A patch of serpent scales forever marking my heart. At eight years old, a man in black jade robes appeared before me with a chilling promise: "In ten years, I will come to marry you." Now the decade draws to a close, and he visits in the dead of night, ready to claim what was promised. As the fourteenth day of the seventh lunar month approaches, I…