Spirit Snake Chronicles

In a remote village, Liu Ge sells a brood of snakes to pay his daughter's tuition, but the snakes' spirit curses his family, causing his wife to fall, his daughter Chunhua to suffer nightmares, and strange snake patterns and signs of pregnancy to appear on his body. When Snake Jianchou pretends to exorcise the evil and gifts him realgar while secretly poisoning him, Liu Ge kills him in self-defense, exposing a decades-old conspiracy of self-staged crimes. In the end, he releases the only remaining spirit snake, breaking the cycle of snake disasters caused by greed.