"Your so-called loyalty is just blind faith, my brother has already been bewitched by that fox spirit," the man's face was flushed red from being scorched by the Peace pouch, his eyes swirling with a cold chill.

Beichen replied indifferently, "No matter what, I will protect her."

Chen Decheng, curious about the standoff at the door, came over and asked, "What's going on? Yuanyuan, are you arguing with the guest at the door?"

"He's the Snake Immortal who released snakes at the Zhou Family's place," I told Chen Decheng.

As soon as my words fell,

Chen Decheng shrank a little.

It turned out he had gone weak at the knees and knelt on the ground.

He looked up at me, "Really? Are you sure?"

After all, Chen Decheng was superstitious.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have placed the talismans given by Yu Longting at the entrance.

"Really, I'm certain!" I clutched my forehead, "Boss, you mustn't leave the restaurant premises, this guy can't enter the restaurant."

Chen Decheng bowed to the man and quickly got to his feet.

Warily stepping back a few paces, he then said to me, "Yuanyuan, come over here a bit."

I also took half a step backward.

Chen Decheng quietly asked me, "Wasn't the Snake Immortal supposed to target Zhou Family? Why has he come here?"

"I just... didn't I help the Zhou Family?" I wasn't sure whether the snake came to trouble me because I helped the Zhou Family, or because he thought I wasn't worthy of his brother.

But it's probably the latter, with the former just being an excuse.

Chen Decheng's complexion changed, "When misfortune rains, it pours."

"I've hit rock bottom," I added.

Outside, the man watched Chen Decheng and me whispering covertly, his face growing darker and darker, water almost dripped from it, "Beichen, do you think you can protect her?"

Beichen's eyes also turned cold, "What do you mean?"

"Lift her hair and look at the back of her neck," the man's lips curled with a sinister coldness, full of malicious intent and the thrill of revenge.

Beichen hurried to do so, flipping my hair in an instant.

The tall and burly man staggered, feeling as if he was about to faint, "Madam, you've... you've been bitten."

"Bitten? How's that possible? I don't even feel the pain," my first reaction was disbelief.

The man at the door had already turned away.

Beichen rushed after him, his attitude doing a complete turnaround, "Second Master, Second Master, don't go, leave the antidote."

"Antidote? You think I would give that woman an antidote? Have you lost your mind?" The man's cold voice sounded demonic, sinister with an echo, so chilling it could pierce through one's soul.

I touched the back of my neck and indeed seemed to feel a tiny wound, "Actually bitten?"

"Yuanyuan, why are there snake bite marks on the back of your neck?" Xiao Li's voice came from behind me.

Thinking that my blood could cure snake venom and I should be fine, "It's nothing, I should be immune to snake venom. Help me up, why is the floor swaying?"

"Because you're fainting!!" Xiao Li caught me as I started to fall and asked Chen Decheng anxiously, "Boss, what do we do now? Her lips are turning purple, is the snake venom taking effect?"

"Don't move her, leave her to me," Beichen was back before I knew it, cradling my weightless body in his arms, "Any movement will accelerate the venom's effect. Find a room quickly."

Soon after, I was lifted up by Beichen.

My body was placed on a single bed.

Beichen, usually so composed, paced back and forth anxiously in front of my bed, "I fell for that bastard Yu Rongling's ploy after all. His snake had already bitten the Madam, he deliberately delayed to let the poison manifest, further deceiving me into running with the Madam to trigger the toxicity... If the Snake Lord finds out, he will surely skin me alive..."