A Little Snake with a Naughty Streak — Chapter 6

The man screamed and immediately fainted.

…

Huh?

Hadn’t he said he wanted to have some fun?

He had less nerve than Ha Qing.

A lot of footsteps sounded outside the door.

“Why is this room locked?”

“I… I don’t know, President Xie. Give me a moment. I’ll go find the key.”

The man’s voice was cold.

“Break the door down.”

It sounded like there were a lot of people. I immediately turned back into a snake and hid in a corner.

A few kicks, and the door flew open.

Xie Qingye and Jiang Cong were at the front.

They both spotted me almost at the same time.

“Xiao Xie.”

Aside from the two of them, everyone else retreated in fear as soon as they saw me.

The bar manager nervously wiped the sweat from his forehead.

“President Xie, weren’t you looking for a person?”

Jiang Cong gently placed me in his palm.

“Are you hurt?”

I rubbed against his hand to show I was fine.

Xie Qingye lowered his eyes to the man on the floor. His belt was half undone. It was obvious what he’d been about to do.

The bar manager had heard that this young heir had recently developed a hobby of keeping snakes.

But even in his wildest dreams, he wouldn’t have guessed why a snake had wandered in here.

He wiped his sweat, trying to explain.

“Maybe it was a misunderstanding?”

Xie Qingye said darkly, “Are you saying a snake like her locked herself in here?”

The manager had no answer.

But a moment ago, she’d clearly been a woman.

Jiang Cong told him to step outside.

The bar manager looked as if he’d been granted a pardon and wisely closed the door behind him.

Xie Qingye smoked, then stepped on the hand of the man on the floor.

“Why don’t you tell me what you were trying to do just now?”

His domineering, lawless manner…

It left me utterly captivated.

Jiang Cong leaned lazily against the wall and gently scratched my head.

“Little snake, don’t spend so much time around men like him. He’s too violent. He’s not right for you.”

I finally understood what people meant by “there’s always another handsome man beside a handsome man.”

I started thinking seriously.

If these two were both competing for me, who should I choose?

Couldn’t I have both?

Xie Qingye flicked away his cigarette ash and gave him a cool look.

Both men questioned me at once.

Judging by their expressions, I seemed to have done something wrong to them.

Although I didn’t know what, I obediently sat up straight.

“Xiao Xie.”

“Do you like him?”

That was Xie Qingye, pointing to Jiang Cong beside him.

I nodded.

One had a cold expression; the other was smiling.

I added, “I like you, too.”

Xie Qingye’s expression softened a little.

Then he paused and put on a stern face.

“No. You can only like one person.”

I looked at him, full of question marks.

“Why? I have enough love to go around.”

Jiang Cong quietly laughed beside us.

He said, clearly amused, “Exactly.”

In the end, that conversation ended with Xie Qingye in a dark mood.

I didn’t know what he was upset about.

My mother had so many men that I couldn’t count them.

That was why I didn’t know who my father was.

It was perfectly normal in our clan.

A few days earlier, I’d told Mother I had only two men.

She said I had no ambition.

I agreed.

Xie Qingye wanted to marry me.

He said that was the only way I could focus on liking him alone.

Before I could answer, Jiang Cong rejected him on my behalf.

“You should respect Xiao Xie’s choice.”

Exactly. Exactly.

“If there’s a wedding, then you should marry me.”

Huh?

That doesn’t sound right, buddy.

Since I wanted them both, I came up with a terrible idea.

“You two should fight.”

Neither of them took the bait…

Somehow, the story got out.

And it was exaggerated beyond belief.

People said two young heirs of the capital were fighting over a snake, with no regard for their dignity.

They even said the two of them had been bewitched by a snake spirit like me.

That was so unfair!

Even my mother heard the rumors and told me to leave the capital as soon as possible.

This time I’d learned my lesson. I took a plane.

Of course, it was my first time as a human, so I didn’t know you needed money to buy a plane ticket. I used Xie Qingye’s card.

So, the next morning, I hadn’t even made it out the door before they caught me.

Jiang Cong was there, too.

He looked even scarier. He was holding a chain.

I knew how to read the room. I pretended my legs had gone weak and slowly knelt.

“Can’t you seal me in Leifeng Pagoda? I’m not the White Snake.”

I thought that bar was pretty suitable, too.

Xie Qingye lifted me up and carried me to the bed.

Then he said something outrageously vulgar.

…

I hurriedly covered his mouth.

Did he know what he was saying?

“I said—”

Jiang Cong cut us off.

He lazily swung what he was holding.

“Can you stop scaring her?”

I gave him a grateful look.

But in the very next moment, Jiang Cong said something even worse than Xie Qingye had.

…

Neither of them was any good.

——

Jiang Cong disappeared for a day.

I don’t know what excuse he used to lure Xie Qingye away.

“Xiao Xie, do you like this?”

I hadn’t even seen what it was before my finger turned cold.

The man bent his head and kissed it.

“Don’t take this ring off in the future, okay?”

When Xie Qingye came back and saw it, the two started arguing. They argued until they actually came to blows.

While neither of them was looking, I called Ha Qing.

“Come save me!”

The man on the other end laughed mischievously.

“Sure.”

Xie Qingye’s ancestors had been demon hunters.

Of course, not everyone named Xie could hunt demons.

Their family had a special ability to capture them.

By Xie Qingye’s generation, it had become mind-reading.

When he was very, very young, his grandfather had read his fortune.

He said Xie Qingye would have a fated entanglement with a demon.

Xie Qingye had never encountered anything strange, so naturally he didn’t believe it.

Until that winter night.

He got into the car to retrieve something and heard a stream of muttering.

“Mom, Mom, Mom, sob, sob, sob…”

“If a handsome guy showed up right now and made me feel so good I died, I’d be fine with that!”

Xie Qingye had met plenty of girls, but never one like this…

He suddenly wasn’t in a hurry to get what he’d come for.

He lit a cigarette and sat back to watch the show.

The voice continued.

“It’s so cold, and I’m so hungry. I wish there were some delicious fresh beef.”

“I’m supposed to be hibernating in a mountain cave right now, not lying on a car to keep warm on a freezing night.”

“I wish the most handsome man in the world would drop from the sky right now and take me home.”

Xie Qingye walked over. The voice fell silent at once.

He saw a pure-white snake curled up on the car.

Its tail was injured from being hit by someone, and the blood had already dried.

The little white snake looked listless, but the moment she saw him, her eyes lit up.

“You’re so handsome. I wish I could kiss you!”

Xie Qingye smiled to himself.

He raised a finger and asked softly, “Want to come home with me?”

——

Xie Qingye was a light sleeper.

So when the snake in his blankets turned into a woman, he opened his eyes almost immediately.

The woman naturally pressed close to him.

She wasn’t wearing anything.

Xie Qingye slowly blinked, taking in this astonishing turn of events.

He didn’t even dare move his hands.

Xiao Xie murmured against his chest:

“Why is something poking me?”

Xie Qingye lowered the hand covering his eyes.

He calmed down.

Then pushed her away.

“Xiao Xie, don’t lie on top of me.”

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