Synopsis
The only baby snake born into the imperial family, where only dragon beastfolk are supposed to be born.
She is a defective child who cannot form a Dragon Pearl and cannot properly use her supernatural abilities.
“What will you do? Will you be exiled to the south and die? Or will you remain in the imperial family and work for your father?”
Still, Baeksa was fine.
Her merciful father had given her one more chance.
But as time passed, her once-white, tiny body gradually became pitch-black.
And the moment Baeksa became a useless little snake who could no longer use her supernatural abilities—
“Get rid of her.”
Without the slightest hesitation, the Emperor abandoned Baeksa.
As though it had been decided from the very beginning.
Baeksa, a little snake who returned to the past carrying memories of being abandoned.
But there wasn’t much a seven-year-old girl could do.
She could either be abandoned a year later—or be abandoned right now.
Unwilling to be used again, she was abandoned once more.
And that was when—
“Please… save me…”
Baeksa met a man in the snow who had incredibly warm hands.
Those hands were like a tiny lantern, gently warming her.
“You asked me to save you, so I saved you.”
The man who rescued the baby snake was Ju Jeokseo, the head of the Vermilion Bird Clan and the king of the cursed southern lands.
He took Baeksa in, carefully treated her wounds, and gave her warm clothes and a comfortable place to sleep.
But she couldn’t impose on him forever.
Once she grew just a little and became capable of finding work for herself, she would leave this place.
That was what she had decided…
Until she met—
A kind little older brother who gently whispered:
“No matter what anyone else says, you’re now a member of our family.”
And a slightly frightening yet kind and gentle older brother who confessed:
“It’s strange. You’ve become so important to me. I never intended to care about someone this much.”
And finally, the head of the Vermilion Bird Clan, who still had those warm hands.
“Stay as long as you want. If you want to stay here for the rest of your life, then do so.”
Can I stay here… just a little longer?
A pure white lotus blooming from the mud.
The story of Baeksa, a little baby snake.
