Chapter 7: Love Coaching Class (2) ( part 1 )
Evening, Study Room.
The couple was discussing how to share their love experiences with the people of Rosvitha’s tribe tomorrow.
Leon expressed serious doubts about this endeavor.
“Your people are seeking your help with genuine emotions, but you’re responding with fake love experiences. I don’t think that’s right.”
“We’ve come this far, where else would I find real love experiences? Just make do with yours.”
“How dare you! Mother Dragon, I’m your legitimate husband—how could it be ‘make do’?”
The queen crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow and teasing him, “In the first sentence, it’s fake love, and in the next, you’re the legitimate husband. You change faces quickly, don’t you, Casmode?”
“For the relationship between you and me, I have a very flexible set of evaluation criteria.”
Rosvitha snickered, shaking her head. “Alright, whether it’s fake love or a legitimate marriage, we need to come up with something tonight. Otherwise, we’ll have nothing to say tomorrow, and everyone will be disappointed. That’s not good for the great cause of reviving our race.”
Leon sat in his chair, leisurely crossing his legs. “So, Your Majesty, where do you want to begin with the summary?”
“I don’t know how to share normal love experiences… I’ll just flip through some romance novels.”
With that, Rosvitha walked to the bookshelf and picked out a few romance novels.
At present, most romance novels follow a similar structure:
The couple meets and then separates. They later encounter each other by coincidence, form a connection due to some event, and finally hold hands, embrace, and kiss.
After flipping through for a while, Rosvitha found that the classic love tropes couldn’t apply to her and Leon.
Their meeting and getting to know each other was too abstract.
It was so abstract that, even to this day, she could hardly believe it herself.
“How should we beautify our meeting so that everyone can accept it?” Rosvitha asked.
Leon frowned slightly, thinking for a moment. After a while, he said seriously,
“That’s easy. Just say you fell in love with me at first sight, then you chased me relentlessly for two years until I finally agreed to be with you. After that—”
“Bah! Leon, can you tell me what your face is made of? I want to use it to reinforce the walls of my Silver Dragon Temple. It would be unbreakable!”
Leon grinned and then carefully analyzed it for Rosvitha, “I’m not making this up. Think about it. What was the first thing you said to me when you saw me in the dungeon?”
Rosvitha blinked and tried to remember.
Before she could speak, Leon finished for her, “You said, ‘He’s a tough and handsome man. The scars on his face are the perfect feature for this face,’ right?”
Rosvitha’s face turned red, and she stammered, “I… I did say that, but what does that matter?”
“What does it matter? Your Majesty, when you saw me for the first time, you praised me for being handsome. Isn’t that love at first sight?” Leon said confidently.
“You!…”
Rosvitha laughed in frustration, so angry that she marched over and grabbed his neck. “I’ll bite you! Let’s see if you can still flaunt that face!”
Rosvitha wasn’t using much force, and Leon cooperated by gently holding her wrist, rolling his eyes, sticking out his tongue, and pretending to be dead.
Rosvitha shook him a few times, still unsatisfied, and then playfully punched his chest.
“Hey, be serious. I don’t have any good ideas. Give me some inspiration.”
Leon stopped being playful, thought carefully for a moment, and then said, “Your people have very little interaction with the opposite sex, and most of them haven’t had much experience with love, so they’re very eager for it.”
“Mm, and then?”
“Then we need to portray this love as beautifully and passionately as possible, but it shouldn’t be too unrealistic.”
The queen nodded thoughtfully. “Oh~~ this is called ‘immersion,’ I understand now.”
“So all those novels weren’t a waste of time,” Leon praised.
Rosvitha’s silver tail flicked behind her as she smugly hummed.
But the next second, her smile suddenly froze.
Hiss~~
No, wait.
This Queen felt happy and wagged her tail just because he gave her a small compliment about her victory.
Impossible, it must be because she’s not in her best state tonight, yes, that’s it.
Lost in her thoughts, she heard Leon continue,
“In my opinion, our meeting and getting to know each other isn’t the main point you’ll share tomorrow. Your people are all dating within the same group; everyone has lived in the Silver Dragon Tribe for decades, even centuries, so they’ve all known each other for a long time. There’s no need for some coincidental romantic encounter, right?”
“Mm~ that makes sense. So should we focus on our daily interactions?”
“Exactly.”
Leon said, “However, the way we interact might not suit everyone, since everyone has different personalities and ways of doing things. So, ‘interaction’ doesn’t have a fixed template. It all depends on whether the two people are compatible.”
“But there’s one thing that lovers must pay attention to when interacting.”
Rosvitha became intrigued. “What is it?”
“The bottom line.”
“The bottom line?”
“Yes,” Leon said. “Remember, at the beginning, we used all kinds of methods to torment each other, trying to make the other person feel uncomfortable and disgusted. But looking back now, you’ll realize that even when we were at our most conflicted, we never crossed each other’s bottom line.”
“Give me some examples.”
“Remember when you took me back to the empire, and we were in the forest outside, doing… doing that, and then we ran into a dragon-slaying squad, right?”
Rosvitha nodded.
“You could have wiped them out right then. You had your magic energy already gathered, ready to strike at any time. But I stopped you, and you didn’t make another move. Do you remember what you were thinking at the time?”
Rosvitha rested her chin on one hand, lost in thought. After a while, she smiled and looked into Leon’s eyes,
“I didn’t want to push you too hard. Hmph, it’s strange. Even though I hated you so much at that time, I still held back a little, but I don’t know why. Any other examples?”
She wasn’t someone who liked reminiscing.
Dragons live for too long, and looking back at the past can be exhausting.
But when she thought about her little moments with Leon, she was quite interested.
From enemies at the start to “bedmates and battle partners” now, she wanted to know how things had changed along the way.
“Yeah.”
