A Snake Transmigrated as a Scum A - Chapter 44

It wasn’t until the evening that Li Yingxue finally returned.

The room was eerily quiet, not a single servant in sight, and even A Ci was nowhere to be found.

Li Yingxue hesitated for a moment but still walked in. The large living room was pitch black, and she couldn’t see her hand in front of her face.

“Is the power out…?”

Li Yingxue’s red lips parted, and she murmured as she gazed at the pitch-black, eerie hall.

To make things easier, she turned on her phone’s flashlight, prepared to go upstairs, and planned to do a quick wash-up before going to bed.

But as soon as her high heels stepped onto the floor, she heard a faint, rustling sound by her ear. When she looked back at the floor, the room was filled with glowing eyes all staring at her.

Those are the eyes of a snake—

Li Yingxue’s pupils suddenly constricted, and the color drained from her face.

At that moment, the lights suddenly turned on, and in an instant, it was as bright as day. Li Yingxue saw a number of snakes she had never seen in her two lifetimes.

Thousands of snakes almost covered the entire floor.

The snake bodies and tails intertwine and surge, densely packed, terrifyingly so.

These snakes quickly surrounded her.

Li Yingxue had almost nowhere else to go, and couldn’t even move.

Just then, the curtain of thousands of stacked snakes in front of her suddenly parted to create an opening.

A woman is standing at the gap.

After Li Yingxue clearly saw who it was, she pressed her red lips tightly together and said nothing.

Just a single glance at each other, as if asking why they scared her.

Fu Man crossed her arms and strolled up to her, coldly observing her pale face.

“Are you scared?”

Li Yingxue looked at her without saying a word, then lowered her head to see the snakes. Not knowing what to think, she raised her chin and asked, “What are you going to do?”

Fu Man caught a glimpse of the snake ring on her hand glinting again, then looked back at Li Yingxue’s frostbitten face.

Waving away the snakes, for a moment the living room was left with just the two of them.

Just thinking about her actually hanging out with that stinky snake, Xu Anji, made Fu Man’s blood boil. “Where did you go today?”

She simply asked directly.

“Accompanied… a friend for a bit.”

“Friend?” Fu Man suddenly retorted, her tone laced with sarcasm and disbelief.

For the first time, Li Yingxue found the word “friend” to be jarring, but she still nodded and said yes.

Seeing Fu Man fall silent, Li Yingxue took a step forward, preparing to brush past her.

“I have something to do, so I’m going back to my room first.”

“I won’t allow you to be friends.”

Fu Man grabbed her wrist, not letting her leave. Not only did she use her hands, but at that moment, her snake tail also extended to wrap around Li Yingxue’s waist.

She could feel that damned mandrake flower scent all over her body.

She used to like the scent of mandrake flowers.

“Li Yingxue, can you listen to me this time?”

“Why?” Li Yingxue asked her, “Can’t I make friends?”

Fu Man’s attitude was rarely so firm: “No.”

“If I insist?” Li Yingxue also rarely showed no fear and stared directly at her.

Fu Man’s expression was unusually calm, yet just by quietly looking at her, one could inexplicably sense her anger.

“Then return my snake ring to me.”

“……Okay.”

Li Yingxue felt a sudden surge of intense emotions in her chest, her heart and eyes cold as she looked down and reached out to pluck.

With the palm facing up, return it to her.

Fu Man didn’t answer, but instead stared deeply into her eyes, as if trying to see a hint of reluctance. However, there was nothing—her eyes were even more obscure, making it impossible to understand.

Fu Man sneered, “Very well.”

She let her go, turn around, and head towards the hot spring palace.

Li Yingxue stood in place, looking at the snake ring in her palm, slightly clenched her fist, and closed her eyes.

Also preparing to turn and head upstairs to the bedroom.

Just after taking a couple of steps, she ran into A Ci, who had just returned. She paused for a moment, planning to avoid her.

Who would have thought that A Ci would call out to her instead: “Miss Li, why do you smell like Xu Anji?”

Hearing that name, Li Yingxue finally snapped out of her earlier emotions. “Do you know her?”

She thought they wouldn’t recognize her.

“Know her? She’s Her Highness’s arch-nemesis. Just a while ago, she caused some trouble, leaving you stranded on a deserted island, almost preventing your return.”

Li Yingxue didn’t know how to react: “Is it her?”

“Of course.” A Ci walked up to her, “She’s not a good person. Miss Li, you shouldn’t get too involved with her. Not only will you not get anything good out of it, but you’ll also easily anger Her Highness.”

“She’s already angry.” Li Yingxue’s expression was complicated; she just wanted to handle this matter by herself and never expected it to make her so furious.

A Ci: “This is a bit difficult to handle.”

A Ci had no good advice to offer her, gave her a helpless look, and then slipped away.

Li Yingxue stood hesitantly in place, glanced back at the direction of the underground palace entrance, hesitated again and again, but ultimately chose to move forward.

In the hot spring underground palace, beneath the misty hot spring pool, a silver snake coiled.

Li Yingxue arrived at the underground palace and only discovered its existence when she reached the hot spring pool.

“Fu Man…” She stood above the snake’s head and looked down.

However, a certain snake in the water had no intention of paying her any mind. It moved slightly, its head turning along the pool’s inner wall to another spot, not even bothering to blink.

“……”

Li Yingxue turned around, sat down on the steps, facing away from the pool, with her legs crossed and long hair draped over her back, revealing a hint of her graceful and elegant spine.

“She helped me find my Grandma.”

“This is the reason I became friends with her.”

“I didn’t know you and she were mortal enemies…”

Thinking that she just wanted to win her over, as long as she wasn’t won over, this deal would be worth it.

Li Yingxue explained sentence by sentence with a faintly indifferent expression.

“So, if I just annoyed you, I’m sorry, my bad.”

After a long time, not hearing any movement behind her, Li Yingxue’s barely noticeable disappointment flashed across her face.

Just as she was about to return empty-handed, a huge snake shadow suddenly rose from the ground beneath the tip of her high-heeled shoe.

The snake-like shadow transformed into the silhouette of a woman with long hair the next moment.

But her height remained lofty, supported by a snake’s tail beneath her.

Li Yingxue did not turn her head.

“So you won’t be in contact with her anymore?”

Fu Man crossed her arms and looked down at her coldly.

“Not yet, I still have to keep her entertained for two more days.” Regardless of whether that Xu Anji has any credibility or is a bad person, if she takes Grandma away, it means she has accepted the other party’s terms.

Fu Man asked, “Why two days?”

Li Yingxue: “Because her condition is for me to accompany her as a friend for three days.”

Fu Man: “Bullshit.”

Li Yingxue: “……”

Fu Man: “Where is your Grandma now?”

Li Yingxue: “In my villa.”

Fu Man: “She and I are both snakes. She can quietly take your Grandma away without a sound. You trust a snake like her?”

Fu Man sneered, “Aren’t you afraid of being deceived?”

“……” Li Yingxue lightly rubbed her fingers, “If it’s a lie, then it’s a lie.”

She is just an ordinary person. Faced with such conditions, she either has to accept it or watch her grandma suffer at their hands.

Fu Man glanced at her slender back and said, “Bring your Grandma here.”

Li Yingxue: “Will you help me protect Grandma?”

Fu Man made a sound of acknowledgment.

Li Yingxue was neither surprised nor taken aback by this answer; in fact, she felt a bit complicated.

“What about six months later?”

“Six months later?” Fu Man didn’t react.

“After you return to the Holy Spirit Continent,” Li Yingxue said, looking at the shadow, “in six months, all your protection will vanish like a fleeting dream.”

Fu Man reacted, “Are you worried that the stinky snake will come back to take revenge on you?”

Li Yingxue’s words turned around a few times on the tip of her tongue, and in the end, she only let out a “mm.”

“I’ll take her back with me when the time comes, no need to worry.”

After all, this new world is not suitable for them to live in, and it is also unfair to the people here.

After she finished speaking, Fu Man saw Li Yingxue stand up, turn around, and look at her. Hearing her say, “Then I’ll bring Grandma over tomorrow.”

Fu Man reluctantly forgave her and finally reminded her, “Wash off the smell on you; I don’t like the scent of that stinky snake.”

“Okay.”

Listening to this obedient response, Fu Man’s gloom lifted, but just as she was about to continue her training, her gaze slightly narrowed.

She saw the beautiful Omega in front of her bend down and untie the laces of her high heels right in front of her.

Fu Man suddenly stopped talking.

Li Yingxue stepped over her skirt with little expression, climbed the steps, and then walked step by step into the hot spring, heading towards the deep water area, stopping only when the water reached her chest.

Li Yingxue closed her eyes and submerged, not coming up for a long time. Fu Man, initially surprised and shocked, turned worried and swam towards her, diving into the surface.

In the shimmering hot spring water, Miss Li floated with her eyes closed, her long black hair swaying like seaweed in the water. With her red lips, straight nose, and slightly curled long eyelashes, she was breathtakingly beautiful.

Fu Man didn’t know what she was doing, yet it seemed like she vaguely knew what she was doing.

After a while, Li Yingxue suddenly stood up, tilted her head back, and wiped the water off her face with both hands.

Fu Man followed and surfaced, standing quietly in the water, watching her.

Li Yingxue slightly turned to face her: “Do I still smell like that now?”

As expected, Fu Man was right; she guessed it. She wanted to wash away the scent of the mandrake flowers on her body.

Fu Man furrowed her brows without saying a word, simply swimming in front of her with an aloof demeanor, leaning in to sniff her shoulder, her beautiful hair, and her majestic and graceful cheek.

“There’s none left.”

“Okay.”

Li Yingxue walked up to her, and with each step, her seaweed-like hair, dampened by water, clung to her back.

The steaming hot spring water drips drop by drop from the edge.

The water surface in front of Fu Man splashed with one small ripple after another.