Hu Li watch the snake roll on the ground and she land down on her feet, gracefully. She look at the pair of shoes she love so much now the left shoe is burnt away with the hole exposing her toes. She sigh and look at them. Her nails when she move and click them together, they produce sparks. The snake twist on the ground in pain. The arrows disappear and she hold her neck in pain. She look up and stare at Hu Li with her twisted heart and angry face. She look at Sheng Luo who is still kneeling on the ground.
"We are not at fault! She is the demon! She is the one who devour Sheng Qin, she take everything!"
"Princess Ming An! Please shut up!"
"Even you, with the face of Sheng Qin, is helping her? Why? Why? Am i not enough?"
"Ming An, long ago, i walked away from Sheng Qin when the news about him getting marry comes to me. I left him. I never take anything..."
"You did! You took his heart! He never look at me! He works and return drunk calling for you! Do you know how long i have to endure you! I may married him but i marry a empty shell! He doesn't and won't love me throughout our lives together!"
Sheng Luo who is keeping quiet. Stands up
"Do you know how and why he marry you?"
"I love him! That's why..."
"He was brought before the emperor. Threaten to kill his family members if he doesn't marry his daughter! While the princess is threaten to suicide if she doesn't marry Sheng Qin! Do you know how much pressure is added to him. He knows that his wife will escape the killing but the other family members who are the old servants may not escape. So many heads will be on him for not marrying the princess. While he marry the princess without any love. His mind, his heart is only fill with the woman he loved. She share his everything from his poor status to his poor living conditions. She never complain but make it better. What did you do? You rape him and have his child. Force him to marry you. Force him to live with her."
The snake cry bitterly. Hu Li's emotion gradually cool down thus the thunder in the distance is also roaring less. After awhile, both of them quiet down. Hu Li meanwhile is still brother with her shoes. She keep looking at the hole and her exposed toes. She sigh and look at them. While Hei actually come leaping into their spot. Hu Li look at him and signal him not to do anything rash.
"Still... this unfair! She is a demon! She cannot be the wife of a human!"
The snake leap out and hit them with her tongue fortunately they doge aside and she nearly drop off from the cliff. Sheng Luo hurry to her but her acid skin burnt him. He see her teary eyes. Sheng Luo remove his clothes and ask her to hold on to it while he try to pul her up with the thick roots on the ground. He huffs and pull with his might. Hu Li and Hei did not want to help him but Hu Li walk up to Sheng Luo and give him a hand. after struggling for awhile and the clothes almost ripped apart, the snake climb up with a struggle. She struggle to stand up. She look at Hu Li and hiss.
"Even if you help me tonight, i will still want to kill you."
"You can try but i bet that you will not able to hit me. I am ... eternal. While you are abomination. "
She hiss and morph into the big snake to strike at Hu Li while Hei morph into his black fox with red diamonds eyes. He howl to the moon like a wolf. Instantly he morph bigger with his body fur like diamonds becomes his weapons. From his body. the diamonds capture the lights and they form beams that shoot out from his shiny fur. While Hu Li's eye shoot arrows out. Both of them attack her while they leap in air. The snake with its long tongue sweep across the air, attempting to anyone of them. Hu Li see the tail of the snake coil under the massive body. It must be the soft spot of the body. She aim for the tail which is white and shiny. She commands the thunder to strike there. While Hei aims to shoot her eye. The snake scream and falls onto the ground. She morph back to her human shape. Sheng Luo dare not to move too near her. Her takes the shear clothes and wrap in his hands. He walk to her and pat her. She open her eyes, one destroy and the other with the iris of the snake looking at him.
"Sheng Qin, why can't you like me for once. I like you the moment i see you. I like you when you turn up in my life. You show me kindness."
"Let me take you back to the dungeon. You will be safe there."
He remove more of his clothes and wrap her up. He look at Hu Li.
"This life, I am still chain to this ... I really don't want to leave you. I might have another life. I will look for you, i swear. For now, i have to watch over her. To ensure she is forever kept in that secret place where no humans will come to know. Maybe one day she will vanish. For now, i will live my life as her guard."
From his waist belt he remove a talisman. With a simple chant, a portal open up for him. He slowly push and drag the painful woman who is wailing in pain. Hu Li and Hei watch them disappear into the portal and soon the portal gets small and smaller. Finally it vanished but the dark sky remains thundering in a distance. Hu Li in her heart knows that the snake will return when she recover.