The Promised Day - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Standing in front of the mirror, I hesitated, then patted my own cheek.

Hiss… That hurt a little.

So those bullet comments that had just appeared weren’t a hallucination?

I stared at myself in the mirror.

The weather was hot, and all I had on was a thin silk slip dress.

Between the two slender straps was a stretch of pale, delicate skin. My exposed arms and legs looked no different from usual.

Then I thought of the “strange” feeling I’d had when waking up these past few days…

Facing the mirror, I took off my slip dress.

The parts that had been covered by the fabric were covered in red marks of varying shades.

The bullet comments said this wasn’t an allergic reaction. They were marks left by snake scales…

What kind of snake had scales that big?

This was way too fantasy.

I shook my head and walked out of the bathroom, half-believing, half-doubting.

The little snake waiting outside was the same as always. It immediately wound itself around my ankle, slithering upward, and finally poked out from my neckline. It coiled around my neck and flicked out its thin tongue to lick my collarbone. It tickled.

Just then, the bullet comments appeared again:

[Bulgari limited-edition necklace. Only one in the world.]

[Official diagnosis: Zhou Ci has Snake Skin Hunger Syndrome. Every day he pretends to be a pet snake so he can coil around the female lead and rub against her. Thousands of years’ worth of scheming, and he’s using all of it on her.]

[Cut him some slack. If he didn’t pretend to be a pet snake, he wouldn’t even get to touch the female lead’s hand.]

[Why is the female lead blushing?]

[Guys, how much longer until we get the scene where the female lead is wrapped tight in a snake tail for seven days and seven nights, pupils out of focus?]

[No idea. This is supposed to be a wife-chasing story. The original didn’t write that.]

[If this story doesn’t get spicy, it will be meaningless.]

[Why do I remember Zhou Yanxu being the only Zhou in the original? There wasn’t any Zhou Ci… was there?]

Zhou. Ci.

The moment those two characters appeared in my mind, my body began to tremble uncontrollably.

The patch of skin he had licked grew burning hot too.

I tilted my head and glanced at the little snake around my neck.

It was slender and long, snow-white from head to tail, like mutton-fat jade that had settled for a thousand years in a museum.

There were also three vivid red dots on its forehead.

A week ago, it had been Zhou Yanxu’s birthday.

I lied to my family and said I had to return to school early to revise my graduation thesis.

Then I flew back from Switzerland ahead of schedule.

I hid inside a human-sized mascot costume, planning to surprise him.

But the moment I quietly approached the private room, I heard one of Zhou Yanxu’s friends ask him, “How does that little princess from the Ying Family feel?”

Zhou Yanxu let out a soft laugh. “Haven’t tried yet.”

“What, you really fell for her? You’re not planning to record a video and ‘accidentally’ post it online to embarrass the Ying Family anymore? Honestly, Ying Xu is unbelievably stupid. You and her brother are mortal enemies, yet she’s actually willing to date you behind her family’s back.”

“We agreed that once she comes back from vacation, we’ll give it a try. Perfect timing to give the Ying Family a surprise on her birthday.”

…

I stood outside the door.

The mascot suit I was wearing was thick, heavy, and didn’t breathe at all.

By all rights, I should have felt hot.

Instead, it was as if a basin of cold water had been dumped over me from head to toe, chilling me straight through.

So, on the day we broke up,

in order to get back at Zhou Yanxu, I took the pet snake his family treasured most.

I played with it every day.

Played with it until it became especially docile and well-behaved.

During the day, it wrapped itself around my wrist in loops, flicking its tongue out to lick my fingertips.

At night, I treated it like a natural air conditioner and tucked it against my chest to sleep with me.

Thinking about it carefully…

The marks on my body did seem to appear after I woke up…

If the bullet comments were telling the truth…

I calmly thought it over for five seconds.

Then I ordered the most expensive temperature-controlled pet enclosure at light speed.