His Greed, Her Vengeance / The Serpent’s Three Wishes

A snake demon was saved by a scholar of the Xu family a thousand years ago, only to have her snake skin stripped off to force an oath. From then on, every generation of the Xu clan could ask her for three wishes. When it came to Xu Zhilin, he asked neither for wealth nor status—only to marry her. On the day she gave birth to their child, he burned her alive to seize her inner elixir. But this was exactly the day she had been waiting for.