novelraw Chapter 109
Chapter 109
Chapter 109: There Must Be Something Wrong
“Not dizzy anymore?”
“Mm, not dizzy anymore. ”
Lucia successfully blended in with Zhou Anqi, and Xia Li naturally joined the boys’ group.
Chen Tao tossed the microphone to Xia Li, clicking his tongue twice, feeling sorry for Xia Li.
“You didn’t manage to trick her into a lap pillow? Hahaha!”
This guy was purely gloating.
Xia Li glared at him and spoke to Lucia, who was chatting on the other side of the room.
“Is the Hami melon sweet today?”
Lucia’s small hand held a fork from the fruit platter, with a piece of uneaten Hami melon on it. Hearing Xia Li asking her, she paused, then walked over with the small fork and handed it to Xia Li.
She was a little embarrassed to feed Xia Li in front of so many people and was about to withdraw her hand when Xia Li grabbed her wrist and brought the Hami melon to his mouth.
Lucia’s face froze, and she fled in panic.
“Mm, it’s really sweet. ”
Xia Li turned his head back to look at his good brother with a smug look.
Chen Tao stopped smiling.
“Why aren’t you laughing? Don’t you like to laugh?”
Xia Li chewed on the Hami melon, the smile transferring to his face.
Chen Tao grabbed the microphone and belted out, “…The rain falls all night, my love overflows like rainwater!!”
Listening to this song, completely out of tune due to anger, Xia Li couldn’t help but laugh.
Grabbing the microphone and howling a few lines himself, Xia Li perked up his ears to listen to the girls’ conversation.
Lucia sat obediently on the sofa, her legs together, nodding shyly from time to time in response to Zhou Anqi’s questions. Her face wore a bashful expression, her feet rubbing against each other, her small mouth moving as she spoke, who knows what she was saying.
Xia Li stared at her rare expression, taking a large gulp of his drink.
“So your name is Lucia? That’s an uncommon name, are you from the West?”
“I… I’m not from here. ”
“No wonder, your face really doesn’t look like someone from Sichuan! Are you mixed race?”
“Huh? I’m pureblood… no, I’m mixed race. ”
Under Zhou Anqi’s continuous questioning, Lucia nodded weakly.
Xia Li had taught her some answers to these questions about her identity before.
Xia Li had also said that when she didn’t know how to answer humans’ questions, just nod along with them, this would satisfy their curiosity and avoid the trouble of explaining.
Just say: Mm-hmm, yeah, that’s right.
“Are you guys from the same university?”
“Mm-hmm…”
“You’ve known each other for a while, right? I haven’t heard Xia Ge mention you before. ”
“Mm…”
“Hey~ just asking secretly, how far have you guys gotten? Have you kissed?”
“Mm-hmm…”
“Whoa~ that fast? Old Xia doesn’t seem like the proactive type, then what then? Since you guys are living together, do you sleep in the same…”
“Mm, mm-hmm. ”
“No way! You sleep together at night?”
“Mm…”
“That, that thing??”
“Mm…”
“Then, then, doesn’t that mean I’ll be a godmother next year!”
“Huh?”
After all, Zhou Anqi was a modern girl, and the gossip questions between girls were just those few.
But when she heard Lucia not denying those things that happened with Xia Li, she was still surprised and covered her mouth.
“Xia Ge is twenty-two, it’s normal for that to happen, but… hey, when are you guys getting married? Are you planning to have kids first?”
“Mm-hmm…? ”
Lucia was completely confused, not understanding those words at all.
Which one is that? Is Anqi speaking in riddles?
What does it mean to have kids?
She was different from those mixed-scale dragons, she never ate kids.
“Let’s add each other on WeChat, you can contact me if you need anything. Oh right, I’m reserving a spot as godmother, no problem, haha~”
“Mm… mm-hmm…”
Zhou Anqi didn’t find this strange.
After all, she had encountered pregnant girls in university, and the school even gave her extra credits. Society was no longer as conservative as it was twenty years ago. For young people, as long as they were adults, it wasn’t a big deal.
What Zhou Anqi found novel was that Xia Li, the least likely among them to fall in love, completely indifferent to the pretty girls around him, would actually become the first to get married.
“Okay…”
Lucia understood the words ‘WeChat’ and hurriedly took out her phone from her pocket.
“Do you scan me or do I scan you?” Zhou Anqi asked again.
Lucia froze.
Scan? Scan with her tail or her claws?
Following Zhou Anqi as she opened the WeChat interface on her phone, Lucia was caught in a dilemma.
Which one to click?
If she clicked on Xia Li’s profile picture to send him a message at this time, it would definitely make Anqi suspicious.
“Click this. ”
Just when she was at a loss, a figure appeared in front of her.
The figure had a faint smell of alcohol on him, he bent down and helped Lucia click on the screen.
Then Xia Li guided Lucia’s small hand, tilting the phone and scanning Zhou Anqi’s QR code.
Friend request sent successfully.
Oh! So it was that simple!
Lucia stared at the interface on her phone, ripples forming in her heart.
Her second WeChat friend!
Unlike Xia Li the Brave Hero, the other party was a real Earthling…
Did this count as… making a friend?
“Xia Ge, when you’re dating Lu Mei, why do you always take her to such messy places?”
“What do you mean by ‘messy places’?”
Xia Li sat down with his glass, the rough guys over there weren’t fun, he was happy to join the girls’ conversation.
“The places you take Lucia on dates, besides grocery shopping and eating, are internet cafes and KTV, is that reasonable?”
“Isn’t that reasonable?” Xia Li was surprised.
Grocery shopping and eating out were for living, internet cafes and KTV were for entertainment, these places were very reasonable, right? A good work-life balance.
“Are these places you should go on dates?”
Zhou Anqi asked back with a strange expression, she wished she could shake some sense into this blooming iron tree.
“Other people go to movies, amusement parks, ocean parks, hiking, hot springs, traveling, etc. for dates… you just take Xiao Lu grocery shopping?”
As a fellow girl, Zhou Anqi felt indignant for Lucia.
“Hiss…” Xia Li sucked in a breath.
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Thinking about it carefully, it seemed like there was some truth to that.
“No matter how unfamiliar Lu Mei is with the outside world, you can’t be so perfunctory… Maybe going out to play isn’t that fun, but the process is important, isn’t what girls care about the attitude of the guy?
Only Lu Mei would accept this from you, moving in with you right away and not making a fuss about romance. If it were any other girl, you’d be in deep trouble. ”
Zhou Anqi lowered her voice, these words were meant for Xia Li’s ears.
Xia Li nodded silently.
That’s true…
According to the way human girls dated, what Zhou Anqi said was common sense.
Since he already treated Lucia as a human girl, shouldn’t he also follow the steps of dating step by step?
Looking at the dragon over there, hunched over the table eating popcorn, Xia Li turned his head and asked softly.
“Anqi, I have a question. ”
“Go ahead. ”
“How do you chase a girl?”
“Don’t you already have a girlfriend?”
“Suppose I chase Lucia again now, how should I do it?”
“Ah…? ”
“No other meaning, just want to understand. ”
In order to prevent the other party from misunderstanding him as a scumbag who had one girl while eyeing another, Xia Li explained.
“She and I progressed too quickly, we skipped steps… many processes were missed, so I want to make up for it. ”
“So that’s how it is. ”
Zhou Anqi suddenly understood, this was what she had thought of too.
“As the saying goes, younger sisters look at frequency, older sisters look at needs. Lu Mei is clearly the younger sister type, when you’re with her, do what she wants to do, buy her what she likes, give her enough fun…”
“That sounds like being a simp. ” Chen Tao had thrown away the microphone at some point and joined their conversation.
Zhou Anqi glanced at him, “It depends on how you think about it. If it’s normal kindness, it’s called chasing a girlfriend. If you continue to be nice after being rejected by a girl, that’s called being a simp. ”
“Then how do I know if she likes me?” Xia Li asked thoughtfully.
He could be sure about other things, but in this regard, he really needed to humbly ask for advice.
As a girl, what Zhou Anqi said was much more reliable than what Xia Li himself could figure out.
“You haven’t confessed yet?”
“No. ” Xia Li shook his head.
He just naturally got together with Lucia like this…
It could even be said that their current relationship wasn’t even a real couple yet.
“Do you need to personally confirm something like liking someone? Girls’ minds are easy to guess, don’t you think she likes you enough?” Zhou Anqi looked at Xia Li with increasing surprise.
Xia Li didn’t say anything, thinking it would be strange if he could tell.
A month ago, he and Lucia were still mortal enemies who fought every time they met.
“Xia Li, come here, come here…”
Lucia, who was standing by the table eating popcorn, suddenly waved to Xia Li.
At this time, the loud singing in the KTV had stopped, Monkey was playing dice with Yuan Zi, and the remaining Peach was sitting on the side, harvesting crops in his mobile game.
As Xia Li stood up, he heard Zhou Anqi say behind him in a definite tone:
“I can’t guarantee anything else, but when you get close enough to a girl, and she doesn’t choose to avoid you, then she must like you. ”
“But she might not understand these things. ” Xia Li turned back and said.
Zhou Anqi looked up at him, the lenses of her glasses reflecting the colorful lights in the room: “It doesn’t matter if she understands or not, feelings are something that can’t be defined by formulas. Love and liking are words that need a lifetime to interpret. If you feel it exists, then it can’t appear out of thin air, you have to trust your intuition. ”
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“What’s up?”
Xia Li came to Lucia, who was holding a bucket of popcorn, her small hand digging inside.
Then she pulled out a small, golden bean and placed it in Xia Li’s palm.
“There’s gold in this. ”
“This is unpopped corn, popcorn is made by popping corn. ”
Xia Li tossed the corn into his mouth, it was very hard, teeth-breaking.
“It’s that magical?”
Comparing the corn and popcorn, two things that looked completely different, Lucia was once again amazed by human culinary skills.
A craft comparable to alchemy!
She wanted to learn!
“Lucia. ”
Xia Li was pondering something in his heart, Zhou Anqi’s words had benefited him greatly.
“Mm-hmm?”
“Come closer. ”
In order to conduct a certain experiment, Xia Li beckoned Lucia with his finger.
“Oh…”
The silly dragon leaned her head closer.
The two of them were facing away from the sofa, their heads gradually approaching.
“Come closer, I need to tell you something. ”
“Oh, oh.”
Lucia’s small face was serious, her head tilted slightly, trying to get her ear closer to Xia Li’s mouth.
It must be some important secret, right?
The singing outside was loud and chaotic, warm wind blowing overhead, colorful lights flashing in her eyes, her vision occasionally becoming blurry.
Lucia didn’t know if she was close enough.
She waited quietly for a while, but Xia Li didn’t speak.
Thinking she had missed something, she was about to turn back to ask, but her cheek brushed past a pair of moist, hot lips.
“Eh?”
Lucia covered her face, her dragon eyes wide with shock.
“You, how did you kiss my mouth with your face?” Xia Li said in a very surprised tone.
“I didn’t mean to…” Lucia hurriedly explained.
“You definitely did it on purpose. ”
“I didn’t!”
“Then why are you blushing?”
“No, I’m not… I’m not blushing!”
Lucia covered half of her face, her expression panicked.
She wasn’t panicked at first, but when Xia Li questioned her, she suddenly became anxious.
The movement was too fast just now, but she was sure she didn’t press her face against Xia Li’s lips…
There must, there must be something wrong!