Kiss of the Crimson Serpent. Part 2

I thought I could refuse my own feelings. I would throw out of my heart a man who would never love me. Not only is he the commander of the guards of the golden king—a naked man with a long, snake-like tail and an ancient lineage—but it turned out he was conducting a terrible investigation in which I had to play a terrible role. I thought I would run away from the passion that drives you mad. But you can’t run from a raging fire that squeezes you with burning rings… …the Crimson Serpent’s rings.