It was a piece of white jade.
It felt smooth and warm to the touch.
Slightly translucent.
That only added to the jade's beauty.
Like her piece of jade?
The woman's fingers unconsciously rubbed the white jade.
The white snake in her memory...
A faint layer of goosebumps appeared on her bare arms.
Even if it was a white snake...
It was still a snake.
It still had the same impression snakes generally gave people.
Dark and slimy.
White skin didn't exactly make a snake—
At least, it didn't earn one many points in her eyes.
A real white snake wasn't like the white snake in an animated film.
It was the difference between having a filter and not having one.
The woman frowned slightly.
How could a white snake compare to her white jade?
Still, she didn't argue with the child.
The child's vocabulary was limited.
He liked making comparisons.
Maybe he'd happened to see her jade and thought that since they were both white, they looked alike in his eyes...
"Oh."
The woman nodded.
"So it was a little white snake."
"Mm."
The child grinned.
"A little snake that belongs to a white snake."
"It was so pretty."
"Was it?"
The woman smiled.
She knew that in her child's eyes, seven-spot ladybugs with red shells and black spots, and green praying mantises, were all very pretty.
So it wasn't strange that the child thought the white snake's appearance was beautiful enough to admire.
Besides, no matter how you looked at it, a white snake was rarer than insects like ladybugs and praying mantises.
It was only natural for a child to be amazed by such an unusual color at first sight.
"Mm."
The child clasped his wrist, mimicking the shape of a