Two Compliments and Two Acupoint Strikes

Liu Chang'an looked at the stunned Bai Hui and smiled faintly. It seemed Bai Hui was now someone who wasn't good at socializing either. Her ability to read people and situations had declined considerably; in that regard, she was far inferior to Liu Chang'an. Liu Chang'an had always been good with words, able to chat and laugh with all kinds of people and get along with them pleasantly.

This was also an ability naturally acquired over a long life. There was no need to be proud of it, and Liu Chang'an would not flaunt it while taking the opportunity to mock Bai Hui.

Humans were a species that had never been easy to deal with. Fortunately, after living and progressing alongside many races, Liu Chang'an had kept up with human ways of thinking and mastered the skills and rules of coexisting with them.

"In the 1970s, Frans de Waal observed chimpanzees at Arnhem Zoo in the Netherlands. In 1982, he published Chimpanzee Politics, concluding that chimpanzee social behavior was political in nature and no different from that of humans," Liu Chang'an said to Bai Hui.

"Huh?" Bai Hui came back to her senses. Liu Chang'an often inexplicably launched into topics that had absolutely nothing to do with what had just happened, the current context, or the mood of the moment.

Girls liked small animals—little, cute animals that posed no physical threat to them. They liked petting them, rubbing them, stroking them. But animals like chimpanzees? Most girls still preferred them to stay in zoos.

As for the political nature of chimpanzee social behavior, they cared even less. Animals only needed to be tasty or cute. Who cared about anything else?

"Clearly, your social skills are worse than a chimpanzee's. Normal chimpanzee groups are relatively harmonious. Female chimpanzees in particular are