Snow Empress, Do You Want to Date a Boy?

No one knew that Qian Renxue was only dancing as the female partner because she was willing to do so. Although she was a woman herself, she had no psychological burden at all.

It was all because Lin Yu danced so poorly. The female partner's steps had more complex rhythms, making them even harder for Lin Yu to learn, so he could only dance as the female partner.

Snow Empress stared at him for a long while. "Although you're a beginner at dancing, you learned very quickly. How could you be so clumsy when dancing the woman's steps? You did it on purpose, didn't you?"

Lin Yu admitted it openly. "Yes. Otherwise, wouldn't it be awkward for me, a man, to dance the woman's steps? I'm a normal man. How could I enjoy being a woman?"

Snow Empress was speechless. "You really have nerve. What will you do if Qian Renxue finds out?"

Lin Yu said confidently, "Then she'll just have to grit her teeth and dance. I'm only dancing the man's steps anyway. I don't care about anything else."

Snow Empress couldn't understand what Lin Yu was thinking. If Qian Renxue found out and stopped dancing with him, wouldn't that mean losing their chance to press close to each other?

"Don't be so arrogant. Lower your head when you should, and don't anger Qian Renxue."

"I won't."

Soon, Snow Empress's heart tightened because Qian Renxue had begun to frown. She had noticed that Lin Yu was getting better and better at the man's steps, but whenever it was time for the woman's steps, Lin Yu became incredibly clumsy.

It happened several more times, and Qian Renxue's frown grew deeper and deeper.

Snow Empress said, "It's over. Lower your head quickly. I can see that she's about to lose her temper."

Unfortunately, Lin Yu acted as if he hadn't heard her.

Just as Snow Empress thought Qian Renxue was about to lose her temper, she realized that Qian Renxue seemed to have gone through a complicated mental struggle. In the end, she appeared to resign herself to it, merely letting out a soft sigh and ignoring Lin Yu's behavior.

Snow Empress finally felt that something was wrong. "At this point in time, you've already changed your appearance and put on different clothes. Qian Renxue doesn't remember you from the dungeon more than ten years ago at all."

"To her now, you're just a stranger. Why can she still tolerate you repeatedly?"

"It's as if she has some leverage over you."

"But that makes no sense. I've been right beside you the whole time and never saw you do anything."

Lin Yu smiled. "Snow Empress, you've finally realized that none of this was a coincidence and that Qian Renxue has leverage over me. But let me correct one thing: it's not that I haven't done anything. It's that I did something you don't know about."

Snow Empress let out an "Ah." She was right inside Lin Yu's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. How could there be anything Lin Yu had done that she didn't know about?

Besides, Lin Yu hadn't even come into contact with Qian Renxue during this period. How could he have gotten hold of her leverage?

Everything was far too bizarre.

At that moment, another scene that Snow Empress had never expected appeared.

Once Lin Yu had become sufficiently familiar with the dance, during one of their close steps, Qian Renxue unexpectedly followed the rhythm and took the initiative to press close to Lin Yu.

The dance flowed naturally, and Qian Renxue was now only inches from Lin Yu, face-to-face, their eyes meeting.

Their faces drew closer and closer, and their foreheads were almost touching.

Snow Empress froze. Had she seen it wrong? Why was Qian Renxue taking the initiative to press close to Lin Yu?

Clearly, she hadn't. Qian Renxue was using the chance to draw near and said to Lin Yu in a voice no one else could hear, "Someone told me that tonight, a man who doesn't know how to dance would take the initiative to invite me to dance and ask me to teach him. In return, he would tell me something extremely important."

Lin Yu smiled. "Of course I will tell you. After all, this is one of the prophecies I wrote on paper more than ten years ago. It's just that tonight, I will fulfill this prophecy myself."

Qian Renxue's eyes widened, and shock surged endlessly through her heart. "So you're the person from the dungeon?"

"It's me, Qian Renxue. Long time no see."

"Since we parted that day, I've missed you terribly for all these years."

At that moment, Lin Yu revealed a triumphant smile. Taking advantage of Qian Renxue's shock, he gently pressed his forehead against hers.

The two of them were already extremely close in order to whisper to each other.

Qian Renxue hadn't expected it at all and had her forehead lightly touched by Lin Yu.

But Lin Yu quickly pulled away.

That was also the final beat of the dance.

The nobles around them burst into enthusiastic applause. Lin Yu had made great progress with the dance and had coordinated perfectly with His Highness Xue Qinghe, giving an absolutely stunning performance.

No one noticed the little movement between Lin Yu and Qian Renxue.

Lin Yu elegantly made a polite farewell gesture. "Your Highness Xue Qinghe, thank you for your guidance. I now know how to dance. Once I return, I'll practice diligently."

Afterward, he left gracefully, heading straight out of the ballroom without looking back.

Qian Renxue did not stop him. At that moment, she stood there in a daze, her thoughts complicated. It seemed as if many things had suddenly come back to her all at once, and a glistening sheen of tears had appeared at the corners of her eyes.

It was extremely difficult for ordinary people to enter Moon Xuan Pavilion and the ballroom, but leaving was very easy.

Lin Yu passed through without hindrance and arrived on the street.

"I'm starving today. Let's find a roadside stall and get something to eat."

Snow Empress said, "Why did you leave Moon Xuan Pavilion? You pressed your forehead against Qian Renxue's, so she should have remembered everything by now. Why aren't you signing a contract with her immediately?"

Lin Yu sat down at a roadside stall and ordered some food. "There's no rush. We still have an hour. That's plenty of time."

Snow Empress said, "I'm speechless. You're not nervous at all when you should be, yet you make me nervous every time. In the end, I always realize that I was worrying for nothing because you've already settled everything."

The conversation between Qian Renxue and Lin Yu in the ballroom had finally allowed Snow Empress to understand everything Lin Yu had done.

It turned out that when Lin Yu first leaped back to the dungeon more than ten years ago, he had added a prophecy about the future and easily obtained leverage over Qian Renxue today.

But it was written in a way similar to a coded message: On XX day of XX month in XX year, in the ballroom after a graduation ceremony at Moon Xuan Pavilion, a young man who does not know how to dance will personally invite you to dance. Teach him to dance, and he will tell you something important.

That was why His Highness Xue Qinghe had acted so unusually, accepting a young man's invitation and patiently teaching him to dance again and again.

Even when that young man deliberately refused to dance the woman's steps, she endured it.

It was all because Qian Renxue wanted to learn that important matter from the young man's mouth.

Qian Renxue had never expected that all of this had been deliberate manipulation.

Calling it manipulation wasn't quite right, because tonight, Qian Renxue had indeed learned that important matter in the end. It had simply been through an unimaginable way of pressing close to each other.

The prophecy about the future written on paper had once again come true without error.

When Snow Empress thought about it all, she felt that the process had been incredibly convoluted, which was why she had become nervous so many times.

But she also had to admire that Lin Yu had actually thought of such a way to press close to Qian Renxue.

In the end, he had even succeeded.

Lin Yu said, "You don't need to admire me. I was forced into having no other choice. Whenever I think about all the ways you taught me to press close to someone, they seem completely unreliable. They were practically sending me to my death."

Snow Empress said, "How were they unreliable? Those were all based on my own experience."

Lin Yu said, "Then tell me honestly, Snow Empress. Have you ever dated a man?"

Snow Empress said, "I've dated women, but not men."

Lin Yu said, "All right, all right. So you never tried those things you taught me with a man. No wonder half of them were wrong."

Snow Empress said, "It wasn't on purpose. I've never dated a man, so how would I know they were wrong?"

Lin Yu said, "Then do you want to try dating a man?"

Looking at Lin Yu's handsome face, Snow Empress inexplicably began to feel nervous.