White Snake: A Bond of Fate

After a thousand years of cultivation, the snake immortal Bai Li is on the verge of breakthrough but suffers from weakened magic power. She is captured by hunters until the poor scholar Xu Xianan saves her with the last half of his bread as he returns home for the imperial exam. Vowing to repay her kindness, Bai Li transforms into a fallen woman and moves into the Xu family. Using her magical space to provide food and money, she supports her brother and sister while subduing the bully Zhao Tianlu, who had forcibly taken their ancestral home. Feeling aggrieved, Zhao Tianlu teams up with the monk Fa Jiang to drug and subdue Bai Li, but in a series of unfortunate events, they accidentally kill Xu Lin and Xiao Qing. Heartbroken by the loss, Bai Li sighs at the coldness of human nature...