"Upon hearing this, the Patriarch snorted and jumped down from the high platform, holding the ruler in his hand. He pointed at Wukong and said, 'You pig-headed ape! You refuse to learn this or that, what do you want then?" He walked over and struck Wukong's head three times with the ruler, then turned away and closed the door behind him, leaving the crowd."
Vincent Wolf continued the story.
From the moment the Patriarch used the ruler to strike Wukong's head three times, until Wukong snuck into the Patriarch's bedroom in the middle of the night to secretly learn the patriarch's secrets, the snake princess had wanted to ask questions. But she could not bring herself to interrupt while Avril was listening so intently.
But when Vincent Wolf reached the part about the three disasters, the snake princess could bear it no longer. She asked coldly,
