Cai Lin!
Hearing this name from Chu Xiao once more, Medusa sensed an unusual emotion.
The form of address seemed to carry magic, as though something had been slipped into his voice, sending an indescribable numbness through her entire body.
Given her original temperament, she would have already run him through with a sword.
Yet at this moment, she turned to meet Chu Xiao's gaze and caught a flash of undisguised heat in his eyes.
She had seen that look on many men before. It was always filled with pure aggression and possessiveness, and without exception, she had turned them all to ash.
But this time, she did not sense anything unpleasant from Chu Xiao. Instead, she wanted to flee.
"Why are you so obsessed with that name?" Cai Lin clasped her hands behind her back, secretly tightening them. "I am not anyone's substitute."
"You're wrong!" Chu Xiao's gaze turned resolute as he said seriously, "Medusa is the substitute. Only when you have a name that belongs solely to you do I feel that you are you, rather than Queen Medusa."
"My friend is you, not Queen Medusa. That's why I want to call you Cai Lin!"
Medusa's violet eyes trembled. The rose-colored Dou Qi wings on her back fluttered, and after several flashes, she vanished.
Yet a voice remained in the air. "Only when it is just the two of us."
"Tsk." Chu Xiao's lips curled upward.
Her Majesty really was a tsundere who said one thing but meant another.
The bearing of a queen, the figure of a mature beauty, a bewitching face, and a tsundere yet loyal personality—excellent!
In the end, she had agreed to let him call her Cai Lin. Though only in private, it was still progress.
After everything that had happened tonight, it had