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In the third year of my arranged marriage, I finally got pregnant. But then, the barrage of online comments warned me: [Your husband isn't human.] Terrified, I burst into tears and fled in the dead of night, baby bump and all. Yet before dawn, a massive, inky-black serpent's tail coiled around me—my cold, dominant husband had rushed back from the battlefield just to catch me! His grip tightened as he growled, voice husky and low. "Why run?" Trapped in the crushing embrace of a giant snake, I froze in sheer panic. He pressed closer. "Have I not treated you well?" Trembling, I finally sobbed the truth. "I'm deathly afraid of snakes!"