Just a girl in this world.

Li Ruo enters the shrine of the old temple from the mountain near her grandmother's village and tries to advance through its garden by pushing aside the dense spider webs that are surrounding the entire settlement.

Her grandmother told her for numerous times not to go to that place because it brings bad luck but she did not listen a word the old woman said to her and hurried to see what's inside. This temple had very beautiful gardens in the old days but at some point in time, the villages suddenly stoped to visit the mountain and no one took care of it anymore.

Her steps were slowly leaving some prints in the green and fresh grease, while her hands were desperately cutting the webs in front. In this small village no one dares to enter the old temple because some strange events happened in the past. Li Ruo wasn't the type who would get scared because of some baseless rumours and due to her curiosity, she decides to take a look inside and see with her own eyes what's going on in there and why everyone thinks that it only brings misfortune to the people who are crossing its threshold.

While she advances through its deserted and degraded gardens, a voice resembling a woman resounds from the bottom of a...dry lotus pond.

"Who is it?", she asks but no response comes back.

She gets closer and closer and tries to survey the bottom of the pond. Nothing is inside the huge hole and the fact that nothing is found calms her a bit but the sound is sinister enough to scare anyone. Just when she turns around to leave that section of the garden, the girl suddenly steps on a green snake. Feeling that sly thing under her foot scares her like hell and she slips down in the dry pond. Here she falls into a deep sleep, probably because of the blow to her head.

She did not tell anyone that she was going to explore the mountain behind the village when she left, so no one will probably come to this remote and cursed place too soon.

Stepping on the green snake and falling into the empty pond's hole is the first sign of misfortune since she stepped inside the abandoned temple.

We don't know exactly how much time passes since she closes her eyes in the desolate temple and until she opens them again but when she opens them this child sees the gentle rays of the sun in a whole different environment, even her appearance is different. She looks into the water while she tries to cling on some big leaves of lotus so she doesn't drown but she can't recognize herself. This person is a bad swimmer in all her past or future existences because this one makes no exception. The child screams for help but no one is around to hear her and drag her out of the pond's water, even though the temple did not look abandoned at this time.

"Help, help, help!", she was continuously yelling.

At her desperate screams, a large green snake appears and pushes her out of the pond.

"Can't you swim, you little stupid monk?", the snake says to her.

She's all drenched and exhausted and doesn't even realizes what dragged her out of the water but when she regains her powers and sees the huge snake in front of her she starts to loudly scream again and again until the snake hets annoyed and because it can't support her noises anymore, it transforms into a human body to calm her down.

"Can you please stop screaming, I'm sensitive to sound?", the green snake says.

"Can't you see that I'm just a beautiful woman? Just a beautiful woman!"

The good looking woman rises the little monk's head to let it look at her and asks: "Are you a monk in this temple, little one?"

The human being shakes its head in response that it isn't, even tough it was wearing a monk's outfit. Not even the hair was cut, its long tails hung down the back until they reached the knee.

At a closer analysis, the snake woman realizes that this little monk is actually a girl.

"What's your name?", the woman asks.

The scared little girl murmurs that she doesn't know, she doesn't know anything.

"How is it possible not to know your own name? Don't tell me you don't remember who you are anymore?", exclaims the pretty woman.

"I don't.", murmurs the girl.

"Then...., I'll keep calling you: Ruo Ran!", the snake says. "Are you going to live here in my garden until you remember your name?", angrily asks the green snake.

"I don't know. "....replies the girl.

"Is there something you know, or you only know to shake your head?", questions her the snake.

"I don't know, I really don't remember anything!", insists the little child."

"Fine, since you don't remember where you are from and how you got here in my lotus pond, I will pretend that I don't see you. You can live here if you want until you regain your memories. The monks stopped using this area months ago and no one passes through this place right now. It's a quiet place just good for me to cultivate and live my peaceful life but sometimes I am getting bored. When I was still tiny, the young monks were playing with me in the garden. Now is just me here. Sigh...the old days!", explains the snake to the little human being.

"You don't mind if I stay here for a period of time?", shyly asks the girl.

"As long as you don't scream, I don't mind, though I strongly believe that it would be better for you to live among humans and not to stay in a isolated place.", affirms the snake.

So this is how the green snake started to live together with a human being again, even though its body was getting bigger day by day and it became more and more scary at first sight.

At the moment, the snake could not maintain its human form for long and this was also the reason why he did not leave the lotus pond or this garden. If the snake woman can continue cultivating, she will become an immortal and ascend into the heavenly realm.

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