Queen Medusa: He Sure Knows His Stuff...

"You should stop mixing things into the wine so often. Don't ruin Aunt Ba's sex life."

After fooling around for a while, Yan Lin took a sip of wine and a bite of meat, and the topic came up again.

Cauliflower Snake's parents had treated Yan Lin well. He didn't want their married life to become disharmonious.

They were already drinking that "Howling Pleasure Wine." One could only imagine that either Cauliflower Snake's father wasn't up to the task, or his mother was too fierce.

As the big brother, Yan Lin felt it was necessary to give Cauliflower Snake, this dutiful son, a few pointers.

Unfortunately, he was still just a child.

Cauliflower Snake didn't understand Yan Lin's deeper meaning at all. With an innocent look, he asked, "What does mixing wine have to do with my mother's happiness?"

Yan Lin choked up, thinking, This silly kid hasn't gotten the hang of it yet.

"You'll understand when you're older."

After considering it for a moment, Yan Lin gave up on trying to enlighten him further.

Cauliflower Snake's parents were elders, after all. It was one thing that they were difficult to talk about, but more importantly, they were difficult to teach.

Yan Lin thought it would be better to let Cui Hua Snake teach Cauliflower Snake herself. That kid was already in an early romance anyway; it was bound to happen sooner or later.

Nothing could make a couple understand happiness better than figuring it out themselves.

Since Yan Lin didn't explain it outright, Cauliflower Snake didn't press further either. He had something more urgent on his mind.

"Forget that."

"Quick, teach me. After holding hands, how do I take things a step further? I feel like Cui Hua Snake hasn't been as enthusiastic toward me lately as she used to be."

"No way, no way. It's been a month, and all you've done is hold her hand? Is there something wrong with you?"

Yan Lin's skeptical glance downward deeply provoked Cauliflower Snake, making the kid's hackles rise. "What are you talking about? How could there be anything wrong with me? Don't talk nonsense."

"Then why haven't you made any other progress after a whole month?"

"What kind of progress do you want?" Cauliflower Snake said innocently. "Isn't holding hands already progress? I'd never even held her hand before."

Speechless, Yan Lin pressed a hand to his forehead. This dense kid.

Thinking about it carefully, Yan Lin felt that made sense. Although children in this world matured early, their emotional intelligence still hadn't caught up.

It was normal for him not to understand.

Yan Lin had lived two lives, so he naturally projected his own experiences onto things. It was normal for him to occasionally fail to realize that.

"Trust me. The next time you ask her to meet, just kiss her."

"Ah?"

Yan Lin's advice startled Cauliflower Snake. Scratching his head awkwardly, he said, "Wouldn't that be too fast?"

Seeing his troublesome friend reveal such a shy side for once, Yan Lin found it amusing.

He shook his head and explained, "She lets you hold her hand, which means she likes you too. You can have closer physical contact. If you kiss her, there won't be a problem."

"Maybe she's even hoping you'll kiss her."

"Really?" Cauliflower Snake, in his first relationship, lacked confidence.

Looking at him reminded Yan Lin of his own first love. He had been just as indecisive and insecure as this kid.

Perhaps everyone was like this when they fell for someone.

They cautiously feared hurting the other person, while also worrying that they might do something wrong and make the other person dislike them...

"Hasn't Cui Hua Snake been less happy when chatting with you these days? Hasn't she been less passionate than before, and less dependent on you too?"

"How did you know?" Cauliflower Snake was stunned.

What Yan Lin described was almost exactly how things had been between him and Cui Hua Snake lately. He even suspected that Yan Lin had been secretly spying on them.

I've walked this road before. How could I not know? Faced with Cauliflower Snake's astonishment, Yan Lin remained calm, merely murmuring nostalgically to himself.

"Hurry up and tell me... Bro, I'll call you Bro, okay?"

Seeing Yan Lin suddenly fall silent, the anxious Cauliflower Snake even called him bro.

It was obvious that Cauliflower Snake had really fallen hard.

Seeing his buddy so desperate, Yan Lin tirelessly imparted his wisdom like a love guru. "A couple in the heat of love is like a little boat rowing against the current. If it doesn't move forward, it drifts backward. If lovers want their feelings to grow warmer, they need intimate contact and must push things further, step by step."

"She came to date you, not to just hold hands and talk. If you keep standing still like a blockhead, she might think you don't like her anymore."

"How could that be? I like her the most," Cauliflower Snake hurriedly said, patting his chest.

He truly lacked emotional intelligence in this regard.

Yan Lin could see that clearly, so he gave him direct advice. "Then go for it."

"When chasing girls, you need guts and a thick skin. If you care about saving face, you'll never get any meat. You'll stay a bachelor for life."

"I know. You said it before—kill them even if they're ugly!" Cauliflower Snake said with utmost seriousness, his round face taut.

"Right."

"But what if Cui Hua Snake doesn't want to? I don't want to make her unhappy." Cauliflower Snake's heart still pounded, and he didn't quite dare.

"She won't refuse. If she does, just keep pestering her."

Yan Lin patiently persuaded him, "As the saying goes, a good woman fears a persistent man, and a fierce woman fears an idle husband. Persistence is victory. Keep it up—I believe in you."

"But I'm worried..."

"Worried my ass. Just do it!"

Finally fed up with Cauliflower Snake's wavering, Yan Lin cut him off.

As the strategist, what he hated most was when his own lord refused to listen and had no mind of his own.

"Alright, then. I'll listen to you."

Though he was afraid of losing Cui Hua Snake, Cauliflower Snake still chose to trust Yan Lin.

He believed Yan Lin would never harm him. The other's schemes had always worked flawlessly in the past.

Cauliflower Snake was willing to follow Yan Lin's advice.

"Hey, that's my good son."

"Get lost!"

Yan Lin joked with a grin, and Cauliflower Snake laughed as he cursed back. The two friends started fooling around again, unaware that someone's gaze in the darkness had seen and heard everything clearly.

Night.

Within the resplendent Queen's bedchamber, Queen Medusa lounged sideways upon her throne. One hand supported her head while the other moved up and down at her waist. Her expression remained calm as she listened to Hua She'er's report in the hall.

When she heard Yan Lin teaching Cauliflower Snake how to chase girls, an unusual gleam flashed through Medusa's calm, enchanting pale-violet eyes.

After hearing everything, Queen Medusa's peerless face showed no obvious change. She merely wore a faint, ambiguous smile as she murmured, "Kill them even if they're ugly?"

"He sure knows his stuff..."

A seductive yet dangerous curve lifted the corners of Medusa's lush red lips.

Ah, Saint King is probably in grave danger tomorrow...

Hua She'er, who had been watching Your Majesty's expression the entire time, secretly shook her head. She knew that the more Queen Medusa behaved this way, the more it signaled the coming of a storm.

Hua She'er could practically foresee Yan Lin's fate tomorrow.

He would definitely be hurt even worse than he had been today!

Although Queen Medusa had not flown into a rage and her expression remained calm, Hua She'er had noticed that when Yan Lin's unique theories on chasing girls were mentioned, Medusa's delicate brows had faintly furrowed.

Though that emotion had vanished in an instant, Hua She'er had still caught it.

As Queen Medusa's trusted attendant of many years, Hua She'er understood that Medusa's heart was nowhere near as calm as she appeared.