"Why do you sound so much like a neglected wife pining away in her chambers?"
Lin Ke laughed and chided him. "Do you still remember Rhyming Pairs? Lin Yu'er has memorized the whole thing."
"Of course I remember! I'm a dignified Third Realm Demon General. How could a little nobody of a demon like her compare to me?"
The Water Dragon Turtle raised his head. "Heaven pairs with earth, rain pairs with wind..."
He began reciting right then and there.
When Lin Yu'er noticed the Water Dragon Turtle reciting, she started blowing bubbles too. "Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop..."
Together, they sounded rather like a call and response.
At first, the Water Dragon Turtle bristled and glared at Lin Yu'er, feeling that she was interrupting his recitation.
But after reciting for a while, he began to enjoy this unusual rhythmic accompaniment.
Once he finished reciting the twelve literary rhythms, the Water Dragon Turtle grinned. "You're a fine little fish. I like you! Hehe, I'll look out for you from now on!"
"Thank you, thank you, Brother Water Dragon." With innocent sincerity, Lin Yu'er opened her eyes wide and thanked him.
"Water Dragon? Water Dragon? Hmm..." The Water Dragon Turtle mulled over the name. Something about it felt odd, though he could not say what.
"He's a water-aspected dragon turtle, not a turtle named Water Dragon," Lin Ke said with a smile. "When you come to the human world, you'll still have plenty to learn."
Lin Yu'er immediately leaped across the water's surface. "Yes! Learning! Yu'er likes learning!"
The Water Dragon Turtle chimed in, "Exactly, exactly! I'm a dragon turtle, not an ordinary turtle. Haha!"
With everyone getting along so well, Lin Ke was in excellent spirits, so he casually spat a set of zither strings out of the Spatial