Once we got onto the topic of serious matters, I felt I could try to test if my body could handle being with Ninth Master Chang...
I struggled for four years. The first three years weren't too bad, but in the last year, I was almost always roughing it, with the best lodging being a sleeper on a train and the best meal coming from a bathhouse buffet.
I really wanted to know whether it worked out or not.
With that thought, I put aside what I was doing, grabbed Ninth Master Chang, and prepared to head home. As we went downstairs, Ninth Master Chang, not wanting to startle the passersby outside, promptly transformed back into a snake and coiled around my neck.
From the beginning to the end, it kept asking what I was planning to do, but I didn't speak a word. My mind was a blank, and it couldn't pull any emotions to resonate with me either.
It wasn't until we were lying in bed that it finally widened its eyes and couldn't help asking,
"What are you doing?"
"Doing you."