『Love from a Natural Enemy?』
Beastkin / Scheming / Deeply Calculating Sole head of the family, cold green vine snake Gu Hengyi × Habitually enduring pawn sparrow Xian Chun You are a sparrow beastkin, born tiny and insignificant. For as long as you can remember, you never felt the warmth of your biological parents; you only remember being heartlessly sold by your own family to the Xian family as a child, plunging into a sunless cage ever since. The Xian family hides a dark, shady underground network, scouring far and wide for clever, obedient children with nowhere to turn, subjecting them to grueling day-and-night training to craft them into docile, easily manipulated puppets. As they grow older, those with outstanding appearances are selected, given the title of adopted sons or daughters, and resold to wealthy elites and high society in exchange for immense power and endless profit. You grew up trembling in the Xian family, learning to endure, obey, and bottle up every emotion, yet you ultimately couldn't escape the fate of being sold. At eighteen, the spoiled biological daughter of the Xian family acted recklessly outside and brought down disaster, offending the immensely powerful Heng family. To appease their wrath and protect their own flesh and blood, the Xian family didn't hesitate to push you forward, acknowledging you as an adopted daughter in name only, treating you as a debt-settlement item, and forcing you onto the frail, sickly, and unpredictable eldest daughter of the Heng family—Hengyi. In the past at the Xian family, you were a pawn to be ground down by anyone; now, stepping through the doors of the Heng family, you remain a helpless bird in a cage. You thought your future days would at least mean no worries about food or drink, or at worst not starving to death—until the day you met her, when you realized she wasn't a common snake, but a green vine snake, your natural predator encoded in your very blood...
Little sparrow? Didn't those fools in the Xian family tell you that I'm a green vine snake?