The first time I realized I was going to be a snake was on my fifth birthday.

I remember my mother was so happy that day, she got up early, went to the market to buy a lot of meat and vegetables, and when she came back, she went into the kitchen and said that she would make a lot of delicious food for me.

Although I was young at that time, I also knew that our family could be said to be a family with four walls, and we were poor, and we would not have so much money to buy so much food. I was tempted to ask my mother where the money came from, but before I could follow her steps into the yard, my father heard the sound of my father beating and scolding my mother in the kitchen.

It was all too familiar to me, for for as long as I can remember, I had heard such terrible cries and filthy cursing every day. My father may be a demonic existence to me, and I have hardly ever seen him when he is awake, and every day except for sleeping, he is either drinking or playing drunkenness. All the silver in the family was exchanged for wine by him, and if it weren't for my mother's ingenuity to weave and embroider cloth for others, my family would have starved to death here. He has never fulfilled the responsibilities of a husband and a father, and not only that, but when he gets drunk, he always feels that his mother is a sinner who has done nothing to harm him. He would curse his mother loudly in the most disgusting language in the world, and he would beat and kick her with sticks and kicks without mercy. As long as he can vent the hatred in his heart, he will do anything.

I don't know what happened between them, I just know that these beatings left many scars on my mother's body that I can't erase and can't erase. They are like diaries, recording all the atrocities of my father. I tried to stop my father countless times, and I kicked and hit and bit him when he was violent to her. But a child of my age is like a domestic pet to my father, and it will not cause him any harm at all, except to annoy him. So every time he would tear me away from my mother, and then throw me into the hut and lock me up, only to let me listen to my mother's heart-rending cries, and make me feel how hateful I was, and could not protect my mother, who loved me the most.

Years of pent-up resentment finally erupted at this point, and I couldn't stand my father's vicious abuse of my mother on this day. With a fierce hatred, I rushed to the kitchen with the sword that my mother had carved for me in her spare time, intending to kill him and put an end to this life once and for all. But what I didn't expect at all was that when I stood in front of the kitchen door, I saw a stout and huge black snake facing my mother with its mouth wide open, and my mother was tightly wrapped around the snake's body again and again, and she had fallen into a coma.

For a five-year-old, that scene was too impactful. I was so frightened that I lost consciousness almost instantly and passed out on the ground. I don't know how long I was unconscious, but by the time I woke up again, I was back in my mother's arms.

My mother kept crying when she hugged me, but her arms were still warm. I had never been so glad I could see my mother when I opened my eyes, and I wanted to hold her neck and wipe away her tears as I had done before, but when I wanted to do this, I suddenly realized that I had turned into a snake.

A small, white, very thin and short snake.

I felt like I had been hit by a bolt from the blue, and I struggled to break free from my mother, hoping to prove that it was all a dream. But my mother tried her best to trap me in her arms, and when she finally couldn't help me, she began to cry and tell me the secrets that she and my father had hidden.

Before meeting her father, her mother was a girl from a large family, although she was illiterate, her appearance was extremely outstanding, coupled with her obedience and sensibility, and she was kind and virtuous, and she was deeply loved by the old lady after entering the house. The old lady intended to let the old man take her mother as a concubine, but the main lady was jealous of her beauty and was afraid that she would lose her position sooner or later after she became the second grandmother, so she persuaded the old lady to dispel this idea for various reasons. However, the old lady has always insisted, and in desperation, the housewife took her up the mountain to worship the Buddha on the grounds of praying for the blessing of the family, but on the way, someone pushed her off the cliff.

At that time, my father was a black snake who had cultivated for nearly a thousand years, and as long as he could survive the catastrophe, he would be able to turn into a dragon and become an immortal. My father had been preparing for becoming an immortal for a long time, and he would concentrate on cultivating in the cave every day, ignoring anything that happened outside the cave. However, on this day, his mother happened to fall at the entrance of the cave where he was cultivating, and he really couldn't see death without help, so he stopped his cultivation and took his mother back to the cave for healing.

Her mother was so fatal that she was pushed down from such a high place, and she only injured a few ribs, and with the help of her father, she quickly recovered. At that time, she didn't know what had happened, and after she recovered from her injuries, she still thought about returning to the house and continuing her work. In fact, his father had already investigated everything, but he was afraid that she would be so simple that she would not be able to bear the blow, so he never clarified the matter. Just didn't explain the reason, she insisted on going back, and in desperation, her father confessed his feelings for her to her mother.

If there is love at first sight in this world, then the throbbing in his heart when he sees her for the first time is the best proof. It's just that because of his identity, he never dared to reveal his feelings to her, and the catastrophe is coming, so he really shouldn't indulge in his children's private affairs. He had planned to bury it in his heart and let it fade over time. But when he knew that she insisted on returning to the place where she ate people and didn't spit out bones, he still forgot all his scruples. He was so desperate to get her, so desperate to make her his own, he even thought that if she didn't agree, he would forcibly keep her with him. He was almost fully prepared for all impossible consequences, but he didn't expect that in the end, what he said in exchange for her soft jaw and a very gentle "good" word.

At that time, he felt that the most beautiful happiness in the world was nothing more than that, so he gave up his cultivation, built a simple house in the woods, and began to live with his mother. He thought very briefly at that time, thinking that he could continue to cultivate after accompanying his mother through this life, but in fact, from the moment his mother fell off the cliff, the tragedy between them had already formed a clear and obvious outline, but this outline was covered with the beautiful shell of love, blinding them and making them think that this was what happiness looked like.