I Left The Snake King

I lost control and broke the legs of the two rabbit girls on the spot.

Abyron stared at me from the top of the bed, naked, and watched me hurt them without blinking.

I demanded a divorce and asked him why.

He simply rubbed his forehead and said, “Yoelle, snakes are lustful by nature. It’s not that I don’t love you. You simply can’t satisfy me. You may deal with the women around me however you wish, but I won’t divorce you.”

I knew he loved me. Because of our empathic bond, I knew exactly how deeply he loved me. But I could also sense his constantly heated state. Every day, he slept with other women.

Every time his desire rose, I started to hurt myself. At first, it worked. Later, he gradually stopped responding to my pain.

Until one night, after I drank too much, the Wolf King abducted me.

Abyron lost his mind and led an army against the Wolf Clan. I was rescued, but that event damaged me permanently. I lost my spiritual energy and began to rely on Abyron to sustain me. He gave me spiritual energy without restraint, but from that day on, he never touched me again.

He said nothing, but I understood his thoughts.

He did not believe that the Wolf King had left me untouched. He believed my body was tainted.

Because of the empathic bond, his desire stirred mine as well. He could satisfy himself, but I could not.

Desire tormented me constantly. At my breaking point, I met Auron Gold.

Auron was just an ordinary human. I found him by chance after he got lost nearby.

At that time, desire had taken over me. I begged him for intimacy. He took me back to his home but did not touch me. He cared for me all night. The next morning, when I saw his face, I asked if he would be my lover. He agreed.

From that day on, whenever Abyron was with other women, I stayed with Auron.

Over time, I grew attached to him. When he said he wanted to marry me, I decided to divorce Abyron.

Had the servants not mentioned it, I would have forgotten how long it had been since I last asked Abyron for spiritual energy.

After I started staying with Auron, my spiritual energy slowly returned. My body became tender under his touch.

No wonder the elders said a man’s care was a powerful tonic.

However, those two servants were wrong about one thing.

In Abyron’s heart, Xena was not even worth a single strand of my hair. He might have been curious about her, but it was nothing more than a fleeting interest.

The next day, Abyron dismissed the harem.

The women knelt outside of my chambers and begged me to plead with Abyron. They did not want to leave.

I was firmer than Abyron himself. “If this is the king’s command, leave the palace and live ordinary lives.”

Once they were done crying their fill, one of them dared to warn me, “Yoelle, don’t think that because you’re the queen, you’ll always remain by the king’s side. With the way he favors Xena, you’ll be abandoned sooner or later.”

Before I could respond, someone kicked her into the wall from behind. Abyron stood there with Xena.

“How dare you call the queen by her name? Anyone who says such things again will lose their tongue!” he growled with a fierce expression.

At his anger, the women immediately fell silent.

Soon, my chambers returned to quiet.

After they left, Abyron approached me. “Yoelle, Xena is now my consort. She is a human and can’t withstand the cold. Give her your chambers.”

Snakes preferred cold places. Their homes were usually damp and chilly.

When Abyron married me, he went to the East Sea to fetch warm jade and built these chambers specially for me. He had not wanted the dampness to harm me.

He had apparently forgotten that deer were even more sensitive to cold than humans.

I thought for a moment. The divorce would happen in two days anyway, so moving away two days early would not matter.

“Fine. I’ll move.”