The sound alone was enough to freeze every bull in place. The fields went silent instantly. Not even a fly dared to buzz. Every beastman stopped mid-movement with wide eyes, not even breathing too loudly.
Su Qinglan stared at him, her jaw dropping open.
"Why...why are you like this?!" She said, "I told you to calm them down, not scare them even more!"
Xuan Long looked down at her, his expression completely blank. His tail flicked once, almost like a confused gesture. "But I did what you asked," he said, sounding honestly puzzled. "They are quiet now."
Su Qinglan groaned and pressed her palm against her forehead. "Quiet because they think you’ll eat them if they move!" she muttered under her breath.
The Fat Bull tribe beasts slowly looked up from where they were bowing and trembling. Their eyes darted between the massive emerald snake and the tiny female standing in front of him.
At first, they hadn’t even noticed her. She was so small compared to him that she looked like a leaf stuck to his scales. But now, as she stood in front of him with her hair shining in the sunlight and her green dress fluttering softly, the same deep shade of green as his scales, they all froze for a different reason.
Their jaws dropped slightly.
"Is that... a female?" one bull whispered to another.
"She’s so pale... look at her skin!" another said, eyes wide. "And her hair... it is so beautiful!"
"She’s... she’s wearing the same color as the great serpent," someone else whispered in horror.
The realization slowly spread through the tribe like wildfire.
"Wait...don’t tell me... she’s mated with him?!"
"Impossible! The great serpent lord has a mate?"
"Or... maybe he kidnapped her?" another one whispered nervously.
"Poor thing! She must be forced to live with that evil snake!"
Su Qinglan, of course, could hear every bit of their mumbling now. Her face turned completely red.
Behind her, Xuan Long tilted his head slightly, his golden eyes narrowing. "Who dares say that?" he hissed.
Immediately, every single bull beast dropped to their knees again with loud thuds, their horns almost burying into the mud. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
Su Qinglan turned and glared at him so hard she almost burned a hole through his scales. "You are not helping!" she said between clenched teeth.
Xuan Long blinked again, completely confused. "I just wanted them to listen," he said quietly.
"Yeah, well, congratulations," she said, sighing. "Now they think I’ve been kidnapped by a giant snake."
The bulls all stayed perfectly still, not daring to move. The scene looked so ridiculous... a huge emerald serpent looking confused, a tiny woman scolding him like an angry wife, and an entire tribe frozen in terror.


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