"Wife, isn't she just trying to provoke you? Then let her taste the same pain as you." Yu Longting's eyes were brimming with malice, his disposition emanating three parts of cold restlessness and seven parts of bloodlust.
The aura was truly terrifying, enough to send shivers down one's spine.
I realized that although Yu Longting didn't care about my appearance, he did care about my feelings.
So his eyes could not tolerate the slightest speck of sand, not even a bit of the Snake Lady parading with a face like mine, "I'm fine, don't be angry, she's just a demonic snake, it's not worth getting upset over her. What's most important now is to figure out why she has the same face as me."
As for this demonic snake, I couldn't bring myself to like her.
But there was a subtle feeling in my heart, memories of our consciousnesses overlapping in the Illusion Realm kept flashing through my mind.
In a mysterious way, there seemed to be some connection between her and me.
"I was born with...with this face, just because you are the Lady of the Snake Lord, does that mean no one else is allowed to have it?" The Snake Lady's face was covered with scars, her blood flowing profusely, soaking her delicate pearl diagonal lapel blouse, she hysterically asked.
I was slightly touched, "Even if your face is natural, you kidnapped my son and forced him to dress like a girl, there's no mistake about that, right?"
Was the Snake Lady's face truly a coincidence that she looked like me, or was she deliberately spouting deceit to cover some unspeakable purpose?
"I did kidnap your children, but...I didn't do anything to him. I just lost my own child and wanted to find some solace in him," the Snake Lady looked at Dumpling at my feet, "You don't believe me, you can ask your son, ask him if I've really hurt him."
I squatted down, taking Dumpling's little hand, "Did this auntie hurt you?"
"She...she..." Little Dumpling glanced at the Snake Lady and shrank his little arm slightly, his gaze filled with conflict.
It seemed he wanted to complain but felt a hint of compassion.
I quickly understood, pulling up the sleeve of Dumpling's princess dress and saw the startling whip marks, anger surged in my heart, "You Snake Lady, full of lies, how could you bear to lay hands on such a small child? You claim to treat him as your solace."
"I just hit him a few times to intimidate him into submission...he was stubborn…wouldn't call me 'mother' no matter what, in my desperation, I...I lashed out." The Snake Lady hastily explained.
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Although they were superficial wounds, they were not as easy to heal as those on the body and more painful than ordinary injuries, "Why are you so foolish, if someone asks you to call them mother, just do it. You could've stalled for time until your father and mother came to rescue you, then you wouldn't have been beaten, right?"
"Mother, Dumpling... is a child with integrity." Dumpling pouted, looking somewhat aggrieved at being scolded as foolish, "In the whole world, only you are my mother."
I pulled him into my arms, "My good Dumpling, mother didn't mean to call you foolish, I'm heartbroken that you're hurt."
"You beat my son and have fallen into evil without turning back, keeping you alive would only bring harm to the common folk, so let me serve justice by ending you."
Yu Longting formed seals with his hands, his slender fingers fluttering like butterflies, crafting various intricate Taoist Arts hand seals.
This was the first time I saw him using hand seals, and the fact that his first move was an extremely complex Seal Forming indicated he truly intended to end the life of this demonic snake.
The thought of the demonic snake dying left me without a trace of pleasure.
Instead, a sense of loss engulfed me, creating an indescribable emptiness within me, yet without any stance or reason to stop Yu Longting's actions.
Seeing the final seal formed, the demonic Snake Lady finally realized her end was near, her complexion turning deathly pale in terror, "I can cure Blood-weeping Syndrome, Snake Lord! Don't, don't kill me!!"