CHAPTER 25: CHAPTER 25: THE BROTHERS’ CHILD BRIDE

In the dim room, apart from the gentle sound of breathing, it was as tranquil as a pleasant rainy day.

However, a chilly aura spread throughout.

A pair of dark green vertical pupils appeared in the dim light, like two lamps about to extinguish.

Hiss——

It nudged the door open, crawling all the way to the bedside, raising its body, cold eyes staring at the person sleeping on the bed.

Ruan Li suddenly felt the surroundings become damp and cold, she frowned and groggily opened her eyes.

Instantly breaking out in cold sweat, she covered her mouth, almost screaming.

The dark green snake eyes coldly stared at her in the darkness.

Ruan Li tried to carefully inch to the other side of the bed, but as soon as she moved, the snake moved closer to her.

Ruan Li froze, not daring to move.

The black snake flicked its tongue.

It was almost as thick as Ruan Li’s thigh, making her seriously suspect that this snake wanted to swallow her whole.

She swallowed, hiding her hand in the blanket to quietly activate the Smart Brain, sending a message to Lu Muyu.

[Ruan Li: Help!!]

The moment the message was sent, the snake seemed to sense something, rapidly climbing onto the bed, leaving Ruan Li no time to escape as it wrapped its long, thick body around her.

She cried and shouted for help, but the black snake coiled around her, binding her tightly, nearly immobile.

The scales’ cold and intricate touch, with secreted liquid from the patterns, felt both icy and burning on her skin.

Ruan Li rolled, trying to roll off the bed to escape and call for help, but the snake’s grip only tightened.

The cold, meticulous sensation slowly spread from the back of her neck.

Ruan Li cried, pleading for the snake brother to spare her, "I’m really not tasty at all!!"

The black snake paused, its vertical pupils locked on Ruan Li.

Ruan Li felt she’d gone mad, it seemed she saw the snake thinking!

The door was suddenly kicked open, and Lu Muyu entered, already half-transformed, with black scales faintly glowing green on his face, dark vertical pupils fixed on the room.

"Lu Muyu! Brother! Brother! Save me quickly!"

Ruan Li cried her heart out.

Originally rushing in, Lu Muyu, upon seeing the scene inside, became calm and composed, leaning against the door frame, side-eyeing the crying Ruan Li with his vertical pupils.

The originally soft, pink, fair face now frightened into pallor, large crystal-like tears continuously fell from the corners of her eyes.

The delicate, pale little face with reddened eyes, and crimson lips opening and closing, begging him.

Lu Muyu felt a heat on his neck, it seemed more black scales were appearing.

The panicking Ruan Li didn’t notice, and naturally couldn’t realize that the scales on Lu Muyu were nearly identical to the black scales encircling her.

"Alright, big brother, don’t scare her anymore, if you scare her away, mother will hit you again." Seeing Ruan Li crying until she hiccuped, Lu Muyu finally stopped him.

The black snake ceased movement, its vertical pupils silent, as if pondering.

Not long after, it released its hold.

Coiling at Ruan Li’s feet, even lowering its previously held high head, resting it on its body.

The dark green vertical pupils made Ruan Li uneasy.

Despite her weak, powerless body, Ruan Li crawled hurriedly off the bed.

She fell sitting by the bed.

At least keeping some distance gave her a barely adequate sense of security.

Aggrieved and angry, pushing down the fear, she saw Lu Muyu leaning by the door, smiling.

"Lu Muyu! Hic...you! Hic...watching the drama! Hic..." Ruan Li was furious, hiccuping uncontrollably, as she organized all the curses in her mind into beautiful words, cursing all of Lu Muyu’s relatives.

Lu Muyu’s smile gradually softened, "Little Li, you’re the first in this world to dare curse me like this..."

He moved closer to Ruan Li.

Ruan Li felt the person in front of her seemed to suddenly change, completely tearing away the facade, revealing its malicious essence.

She propped herself up to flee, but her legs were too weak to support her.

He stepped closer bit by bit, sat on the bed, and lifted her chin.

"I didn’t know Little Li had such a sharp tongue," his dark eyes narrowed slightly, the scales on his cheeks glistening.

Ruan Li’s pupils contracted.

His scales were almost exactly like that of the black snake!

His finger brushed past her reddened eye corner, Lu Muyu’s voice sounded, "Big brother, I told you not to appear in front of Little Li in beast form, it scares her."

Hiss—

The black snake responded.

"Little Li, haven’t you forgotten that our family’s beast form is all snakes," the teasing words sounded like a joke, yet seemed probing.

Lu Muyu’s cold smile made her shiver.

He wrapped a single arm around Ruan Li’s waist, pulling her off the ground.

"So pitiful, your legs have gone so weak," he smiled a wicked smile, yet held Ruan Li in his arms.

Cold and heat intertwined.

Chilling dampness spread inch by inch over Ruan Li’s skin.

She couldn’t ignore the scales that surfaced on Lu Muyu’s skin, and they were increasing.

"Little Li, are you still afraid of your brothers?" he leaned close to her cheek, his breath icy with an eerie intimacy.

The girl’s sealed memories surged like a tide.

The deeply hidden memories of "Ruan Li"...

She had inadvertently seen her brothers’ beast forms in her childhood, frightened and disgusted, later learning her adoption was for the Lu family’s child bride...

"Little Li, you seem to be trembling, are you too cold?" the man concerned caringly, but his voice sent chills through Ruan Li.

"No, no," Ruan Li forced a smile, her face ghastly.

She understood why "Ruan Li" left the Lu family, desperately seeking marriage elsewhere.

His breath spread from her ear to her cheek, his breathing in the quiet room unusually clear.

He suddenly smiled, hooked his lips in the dim light, his dark vertical pupils showing satisfaction and anticipation.

"Your brothers won’t wait for you anymore, this boring game should end."

Ruan Li’s breathing grew heavier, "What do you mean?"

"Big brother’s mating season is here, soon it will be second brother’s and mine...

The snake beast mating season is approaching, Little Li, we’ve let you play outside for half a year, it’s time to come home."

His cold fingers lifted her chin, gazing down at her pink and white lips.

"Lu Muyu, I already have a Beast Husband!" Ruan Li suppressed the chaos inside, forced herself to look up at Lu Muyu.

"It’s a bit of an eyesore, but it’s easy to deal with, Little Li needn’t worry."

Seeing the young female’s chest heaving, emotions turbulent, he kindly added, "If you really like him, keeping him is fine, your brothers won’t mind."

As he spoke, he leaned closer to Ruan Li—