Her eyes were bloodshot. She wanted to cry, but no tears would come. She fought down her panic.
"Turn back into a human," she demanded.
The moment the words left her lips, the forked tongue licked her face again.
Then, the giant snake began to transform. Black smoke swirled around it once more.
Su Ye felt the tail wrapped around her tighten, squeezing with ever-increasing force, as if trying to crush her to death.
Just before she passed out, the pressure suddenly vanished, and she plummeted downwards.
She landed in a familiar embrace.
Su Qing had returned to his original human form.
His crimson eyes, filled with undisguised desire, gazed down at the woman in his arms.
Amidst the swirling black smoke, he draped a red robe embroidered with golden thread over himself.
He was just barely dressed.
Cradling the disheveled woman, he strode out of the smoke-shrouded Snake-man village, swiftly departing the razed ruins.
