Wu Yuting raised her eyebrows. "To strike a snake, strike seven inches below its head. Only by attacking the vital point can you defeat your enemy. That's especially true when dealing with a lazy wretch like Doggo. The most direct approach would be, say, postponing the wedding by ten years."
"Mom!!!" Zuo Xiaoduo, who had been dangling in her grip playing dead dog, let out a heartrending scream. "You really are my own mother..."
Wu Yuting remained unmoved. "Or, for example, refusing to let him through the door on your wedding night, then disappearing for a few years."
"Mommy... boo-hoo..." Zuo Xiaoduo cried.
"Or, for example, never letting him sleep in the bed again..."
"Or, for example..."
As Wu Yuting offered one excellent idea after another, Zuo Xiaoduo felt chilled to the bone.
Eavesdropping from his room, Zuo Changlu also listened with his heart pounding and his soul trembling...
"Mom, Mom..."
Zuo Xiaoduo struggled free and solicitously supported Wu Yuting by the arm. "It's getting late... why don't you turn in?"
"Thanks, Mom! That's exactly what I'll do from now on! I'll listen to everything you say!"
Zuo Xiaonian pursed her lips and laughed, shaking like a flowering branch in the breeze.
Zuo Xiaoduo, meanwhile, looked as though both his parents had died.
That evening, Zuo Xiaoduo suddenly remembered that he still had two treasures he seemed to have forgotten to show his parents, so he hurriedly brought them out to show them off.
"Mom, Dad, take a look at these two things."
As he spoke, he took out the bead he had retrieved from the Giant Earthworm's body and explained the whole story, then brought out the Void-Transforming Stone and explained that as well.
"A Void-Transforming Stone! Good stuff!"
Zuo Changlu's eyes immediately fixed on the Void-Transforming Stone.
"Dad,