Do You Want a Wife or Not?

“Shuye doesn’t make snakes,” Xuan Si just looked at him in surprise, “Shuye only has scales, not snakes.”

“What’s the meaning?”

“I once said that Shuye will be my wife. He will live a hundred years and he will not change.” Xuan Si leaned over, held his face in his palms, and said slowly: “So, the scales on my wife are my hidden scales. Don’t be afraid my wife, not a snake.”

“What did you say?” The scholar suddenly froze and stared blankly. “Hidden scales, are you…”

“Wife, don’t you understand?” Xuan Si tried hard to express his words, but finally said dryly, “My wife will shed his skin and he will be fine.”

The scholar was stunned for a moment.

It was recorded in ancient books that a snake demon had to cultivate for thousands of years to acquire nine hidden scales. If people couldn’t identify a snake demon by looking at it alone, they would look for how many hidden scales it had. One hidden scale represented a hundred years.

But now, according to Xuan Si’s wishes, the snake scales growing on his body… turned out to be Xuan Si’s nine hidden scales.

He suddenly reached out and touched Xuan Si’s snake body.

Xuan Si’s snake body trembled when he was touched, and a snake thing immediately popped out. “Wife…?”

“Take it back.”

Xuan Si lowered his head and consciously stuffed it back with his hand.

The scholar leaned down and searched, and sure enough, he found the place where Xuan Si had pulled off his scales in a very secret place.

All nine scales had been pulled out in a row. The area was bald and felt out of place with other locations.

Starting from sucking his essence in the village to having sex a few days ago, Xuan si had been pulling out one of his hidden scales and inserting it into him after every intimacy.

But he hadn’t realized anything and had thought something strange was growing on him.

“Why… why?” The scholar looked up.

Hidden scales should be as valuable as life to the snake demon.

“A snake grows scales and sheds its skin to live forever,” Xuan Si paused and said, “I hope that my wife will live forever with me.”

The scholar was stunned. A piece of hidden scale for hundreds of years, which was a full nine hundred years of life. Xuan Si had dug out his most precious hidden scale just so that he could live forever with him.

He had once cut out these scales and thrown them on the ground, blaming Xuan Si for why he wanted to harm him to this extent.

“But why did you…”

“Wife?”

“Why are you so nice to me?” The scholar’s heart skipped a beat, and he became a little frightened. No one would ever be willing to be so nice to him, even giving him their own life. He had originally thought Xuan Si was willing to stay with him. That was enough, but now he realized that Xuan Si had wanted to give him more from the beginning.

“You are my wife,” Xuan Si was stunned, “and you deserve it.”

“But I can’t give you anything.”

He didn’t have much, so he couldn’t give Xuan Si the same gift in return that Xuan Si had given him. However, when Xuan Si had first met him, he had chosen to give him the most precious thing in his body.

“What were you going to do when you left… the village at that time?” The scholar couldn’t help but ask. He no longer thought Xuan Si would leave him alone.

“I shed my skin.”

The snake’s tail was slightly raised, showing the scholar the part that had not yet been completely shed.

That was the part that Xuan Si had hurried to after hearing his wife’s begging at the Snake Immortal Temple and had no time to finish shedding.

The scholar didn’t come back to his senses for a long time.

“From the day you came back to the village for me, had you already thought about sharing your lifespan and living a hundred years with me?”

“Wife doesn’t want to?”

“I…”

The scholar lowered his head and looked at the half piece of skin that had fallen off his arm. He now felt that these scaly shed skins were nothing, that he couldn’t blame Xuan Si.

How could he not want to? He just felt that he owed Xuan Si too much.

The scholar gently touched Xuan Si’s bald snake body with his hand and raised his eyes to look at Xuan Si.

“Does it hurt?”

“It hurt before, but it doesn’t hurt now.”

The scholar suddenly leaned over and kissed that spot gently.

His kiss was warm and cautious, for fear of hurting Xuan Si. The wound from pulling out the scales had healed, but the place would remain bald until the next hundred years.

He didn’t know what to repay Xuan Si with. It seemed that he couldn’t repay it anymore. Something popped out from above. The scholar didn’t let Xuan Si take it back. He only raised his eyes to look at Xuan Si.

“Xuan Si, I owe you a lot.”

Xuan Si shook his head in confusion. “My wife doesn’t owe me anything.”

“I’ll… give you back the sex later, okay?”

“Okay.” Xuan Si agreed quickly.

With a sudden movement, the scholar pushed Xuan Si forward and fell backward. He sat on Xuan Si’s body, supporting Xuan Si’s mermaid line with one hand while looking down at the same time.

He lowered his head to kiss Xuan Si’s lips again, kissed Xuan Si slowly, took Xuan Si’s hand, and intertwined their fingers. This was the first time he took the initiative, and he could even see the surprised look on Xuan Si’s face.

“Wife, do you want to pay it back now?”

“Well, not yet.”

The sun shone into the dark cave, and they could see the shadows on the rock wall. The scholar covered his abdomen with difficulty and looked at Xuan Si intermittently, deliberately trying to please him.

And below, Xuan Si’s vertical pupils slowly enlarged and became round.

“Wife…”

“Do you like it?” the scholar asked hoarsely.

“Like.”