Luo Yang was a sister's boy

Three days remained until the wedding...

"Good, good, a little higher..."

"How are preparations going over there? Can you handle it? This is the queen's wedding. If anything goes wrong, you'll answer to me..."

"Hurry, hurry! Move this over there!"

At the Snake-People Tribe's sacrificial plaza, Yue Mei was directing a group of Snake-People as they decorated the wedding venue.

She was the first guide to "lead" Luo Yang to the Snake-People Tribe. If the negotiations had fallen through, she would have been a traitor to the tribe, but now that the wedding was approaching, she was their greatest contributor.

Her standing within the Snake-People Tribe had risen along with the tide.

That was why she worked especially hard.

The other Snake-People were also putting their hearts into their work.

At first, they had been somewhat reluctant, even feeling that their queen marrying beneath her station to a human was nothing short of a disgrace to the Snake-People Tribe.

But after seeing that human turn the tribe's territory and the surrounding dozens of kilometers of desert into a lush oasis, solving the problem of their habitat, they found those humans more and more pleasing to the eye.

Especially after spending these past few days together, they discovered that these humans were completely different from the humans of the neighboring human empires.

They neither discriminated against them for being a different race nor looked down on their weakness as powerful Dou Zong.

In just a few days, the Snake-People Holy City had undergone a tremendous transformation.

The endless yellow sands had become a sea of green. Two rows of trees, each thick enough to require a person's arms to encircle it, stood on either side of the road leading to the great hall, with red lanterns and ribbons hanging from every tree's branches.

The Tagor Desert was almost becoming the Tagor Grasslands.

That day was not far off.

Only the Shy Young Lady, Yue Ti Xia, had suffered for it.

She had walked so much these past few days that her feet had swollen.

Although we had no idea how the Shy Young Lady, whose true form was a tree, could get swollen feet, fortunately Luo Yang was there. Whenever Yue Ti Xia's feet swelled, he was the one who massaged them back to normal.

Two days remained until the wedding...

"Ahahahahahahaha-this Daoist has done it!!"

At noon, when the sunlight was at its fiercest, Luo Yang abruptly opened his eyes atop a certain "mountain" outside the Snake-People Holy City, unable to contain the excitement on his face.

Nine-Star Dou Shi → One-Star Great Dou Master

That final star between a Nine-Star Dou Shi and a Da Dou Shi required the most Dou Qi. Luo Yang had consumed an entire Earth Fire Lotus Seed and two small bottles of Companion Amethyst Source before finally breaking through.

In eight months, he had gone from an ordinary person with no cultivation whatsoever to a powerful Da Dou Shi. Even across the entire Dou Qi Continent, he could qualify for the word "genius."

"Congratulations, young master~" Qing Lin, who had been standing guard nearby, rose to her feet and congratulated him.

When her young master was happy, she was happy.

"Haha! Thank you for guarding me, Qing Lin. I love you to death~"

Luo Yang's excitement over his breakthrough had yet to fade. As the girl approached, a delicate fragrance drifted into his nose. With the monkey of his heart and the horse of his thoughts running wild, he actually wrapped his arms around Qing Lin's slender, snakelike waist, lifted her up, and spun her around.

"Young master~ I'm dizzy, I'm dizzy..." Qing Lin was now a powerful Dou Shi herself; a few spins would not make her dizzy. What made her feel dizzy was having her body pressed tightly against Luo Yang's, bringing an extra flush to her cheeks as though she were drunk.

One day remained until the wedding...

Knock, knock, knock~

After nightfall, just as Tushan Rongrong finished washing up and was preparing to rest, someone knocked on her door.

"Come in."

Without asking who it was, Tushan Rongrong simply told him to enter.

Even without looking, Tushan Rongrong knew who it was.

The door opened, and sure enough, Luo Yang stood outside.

Luo Yang entered the room with a grin, then locked the door behind him.

"Sister Rongrong~ Um..."

Luo Yang was embarrassed to speak and even felt a little shy.

"If you've got a fart, let it out."

"...Um, Sister Rongrong, could I... could I sleep here with you tonight?" Faced with Sister Rongrong's commanding presence, Luo Yang could only honestly confess why he had come.

"You're a bridegroom getting married tomorrow, yet you still want to sleep with your big sister? Aren't you afraid people will laugh at you if word gets out?"

Tushan Rongrong's eyes opened slightly, and her smile deepened.

Although she had guessed her visitor was Luo Yang, she had not anticipated this request. She did not mind sleeping with Luo Yang; after all, before Qing Lin arrived, they had spent every night together.

It was just that Luo Yang was getting married tomorrow, yet he still needed his big sister to coax him to sleep the night before...

Hahahahaha...

On the surface, Tushan Rongrong still wore her usual faint smile, but inwardly, she was already doubled over with laughter. She only held it in out of consideration for Luo Yang's feelings.

Luoluo really is rather adorable like this. She could not help thinking of little Susu.

"I've spent this whole month doing nothing but cultivating. Without Sister Rongrong's lullabies, I can't sleep..." Luo Yang sidled up to Tushan Rongrong, tugged at her sleeve, and wheedled in a deliberately cutesy voice.

Ever since Qing Lin joined them, Tushan Rongrong had begun requiring Luo Yang to put in extra cultivation time every night as well. In that one month, he had soared straight from a Two-Star Dou Shi to a One-Star Great Dou Master.

But every gain came with a loss. In exchange, Luo Yang had gone a whole month without drifting into dreams in Sister Rongrong's warm embrace, surrounded by her blissful singing.

Luo Yang missed it terribly.

"All right, then. But you have to get up early tomorrow. No sleeping in again."

Tushan Rongrong doted on Luo Yang far too much. In the end, she could not withstand the big boy's wheedling offensive and agreed to let him sleep with her tonight.

"Yes~ sir!" Luo Yang stood at attention and gave Tushan Rongrong a perfectly solemn salute.

"Stop showing off! Go take a bath. If you don't, I won't hold you." Tushan Rongrong laughed and gave Luo Yang a pat.

"Hehe, I already washed before coming, because I knew Sister Rongrong definitely wouldn't turn me down..."

As Luo Yang spoke, he simply took off his outerwear, revealing the pajamas he had prepared underneath.

Sister Rongrong was a classic case of yielding to a soft approach but never to force. Whenever Luo Yang wheedled and pleaded, she almost never refused.

"Sister Rongrong, come on, come on~"

Like a little child, Luo Yang flung himself onto Tushan Rongrong's bed, burrowed beneath the covers, and excitedly beckoned to Tushan Rongrong, who was still standing where she had been.

Tushan Rongrong: "..."

Smiling helplessly, Tushan Rongrong undressed until she wore only a little blue dudou and underpants.

"No songs today. Let's tell a story instead." Tushan Rongrong lay beside Luo Yang and reached out to stroke his head.

"Yes, yes~ I get to hear Sister Rongrong tell a story-"

Whether she sang nursery rhymes or told stories, as long as it was Sister Rongrong, Luo Yang loved it.

"Then let's tell a story about Sister Yaya when she was little..."

"I remember one time, after Sister Yaya got scolded by Sister Honghong..."

(The latter half of this chapter came from a little story my grandmother often told me when I was young. Apparently, in the neighboring village or somewhere nearby, there was a man who still slept with his grandmother the night before his wedding. Although it sounds very childish, it was also heartwarming...)