My Demon Husband Is a Snake

"You..." Master Yang was suddenly choked up and fell back onto a chair behind him, "It's actually you, Chen Ahmao!"

Eldest Sister Yang's face still bore traces of panic, "Oh my god, you can scare someone to death with that."

The twin girls, having narrowly escaped catastrophe, clung to each other and burst out crying with a loud "waah".

Chen Ahmao could be too lazy to deal with the former, but when he saw the two delicate little girls crying their hearts out, he was in a fluster.

He rummaged through his clothes and finally found two crumpled tissues.

"Master, I don't know how to comfort children. Can you help wipe their tears?" Chen Ahmao asked me in an embarrassed tone.

Look at that, other people's apprentices are there to honor their masters.

But Chen Ahmao, he's even giving orders to his master.

I took the tissues he offered, but set them aside, and used two clean handkerchiefs to wipe the girls' faces instead.

With a gentle voice full of comfort, I gave each of them a pink hair tie and gradually they stopped crying.

The girls' eyes, washed over by their tears, were like plump, black grapes.

Holding the hair ties I gave them, they couldn't have been happier.

The Su Family's ancestors only used Yin Yang Embroidery for clothes, following the traditional rules passed down.

When it came to my turn, I broke with tradition and improved upon it, making handkerchiefs and sachets, and recently I came up with the idea of making some pretty, delicate hair ties, incorporating elements of protective talismans into their braided design.

Leaving the Yang Family, on the way to the Five Passages God Temple.

Chen Ahmao wouldn't stop sucking up, "Master, not only can you calm pythons, but you can also soothe children. Is there anything you can't do? If the bookstore ever runs out of books written by you, I will help you smash them."

"You're exaggerating too much. Can you stop acting already?" I looked at this guy wrapped in a cloak exuding an aura of mystery, yet talking and acting like a fool— the incongruity was so strong I had an urge to kick him, "The Protector Zi Shan you're supposed to play is supposed to be a dark, cold, and aloof person, not this ridiculous."

"Dark? Cold and aloof?"

Chen Ahmao repeated the two terms, with a slight curl of his thin lips.

Underneath that deep hood, his large pale mouth smiled creepily, "Is it something like this?"

"Well... you're quite talented," I sincerely admired, as a bead of cold sweat broke out on my forehead.

The moment his thin lips curved, a chill wind blew down the back of my collar, and it felt as though the perverted Protector Zi Shan had come back to life.

Even Yang Xi, who was travelling with us, froze, staring blankly at Chen Ahmao.

Then Yang Xi pursed his lips and took out his cell phone from his pocket.

Playing dead, I casually said to Yang Xi, "Ah Xi, my phone's out of battery. Can I borrow yours to send a text to my man?"

"To send a text with my phone...?" Yang Xi's fingers had just unlocked the screen and he looked at me in surprise.

I said to Yang Xi, "There might be danger inside the Five Passages God Temple, I need to let him know in advance."

"Okay," Yang Xi's brow tightened, and he handed me his phone.

After all, just a nineteen-year-old boy, his face couldn't hide anything.

He might have taken out his phone just to tip someone off.

Having caught my gaze, he no longer had the guts to continue in front of me.

He might have strayed off path, but didn't have the psychological strength to deal with sudden situations.

I pretended to send a text to Yu Longting while I turned off the phone's signal, "All done, thank you."

"No need to thank me," Yang Xi took back his phone with a stern face, but his eyes dodged mine.

A few moments later, he sneakily unlocked the screen, his fingers quickly tapped a few times, and then with a guilty conscience, he swiftly pocketed the phone.

With such a shaky composure, still thinking of tipping someone off?

I became even more certain that there was something off about Yang Xi; he must be in collusion with someone inside the Five Passages God Temple.

And it's likely that Master Yang and Eldest Sister Yang were being kept in the dark, including the real Protector Zi Shan.

Otherwise, Protector Zi Shan wouldn't have risked the lives of the entire Yang Family just to lure me into the situation.

Upon reaching the entrance to the Five Passages God Temple, the two black-clothed guards caught sight of the cloak-clad Protector Zi Shan and, to my surprise, knelt on one knee with respect, "