novelraw Chapter 115
Chapter 115
Chapter 115: Food-Grade Ice Cream
The next morning, Xia Li sealed the Demon Repelling Sword in a box at Lucia’s request.
He wrapped it several times with transparent tape, ensuring Lucia wouldn’t see even a sliver of blue light at home.
Xia Li patted the cardboard box and sighed inwardly.
Sorry, buddy, but your girlfriend is more important now.
This guy had been through life and death with him countless times. Even if it didn’t have self-awareness, Xia Li still had some feelings for it.
Locking the balcony door, Xia Li drew the curtains in the living room.
“Don’t go to the balcony, don’t open the door if strangers knock, and don’t touch the electrical outlets.”
Xia Li muttered as he went to each room to close the windows.
He felt like his home was raising a cat that could fall off the building at any moment, requiring him to personally check for any safety hazards. After placing the steaming hot buns he had just bought on the dining table, Xia Li went to the kitchen cabinet and took out several boxes of instant noodles and snacks of various flavors.
This was Lucia’s food for the next eight hours at home.
“Go lie down and sleep after eating. Don’t do any strenuous activities these two days.”
Xia Li turned around, and the evil dragon who had been following him bumped into him.
He looked down and saw Lucia’s little feet sticking out of her green fish-mouth slippers.
“Didn’t I tell you to wear socks?”
Xia Li discovered another place he had missed checking.
He pulled Lucia to the sofa to lie down, then took out a pair of thick cotton socks from the drawer and put them on her feet.
“Hee hee hee…”
This dragon’s ticklish spots were similar to a human’s. As long as Xia Li gently scratched the soles of her feet, she would roll around like a piglet that had fallen to the ground.
“Bl-Blood gush!”
Suddenly, Lucia’s face turned pale, and she clutched her stomach.
“…I told you not to move.”
Xia Li put the thick blue socks on her white and tender feet.
The socks were embroidered with a shark pattern, looking like a cartoon shark eating the evil dragon’s little ice cream. It was enviable.
“Stay home, and send me a message if anything happens.” Having settled everything, Xia Li went to the door to change his shoes.
“Of course, you can also send me a message if you miss me, or you can send me a voice message. I’ll reply to you as soon as I see it.”
“Oh…”
Lucia wrapped herself in a small blanket, staring at Xia Li at the door.
Xia Li felt that this guy was really pitiful. Every time he left her at home, she was like a left-behind child without anyone to take care of her.
However, Xia Li had his own social life and relationships to maintain. Plus, he planned to go out to work in the future, so there would be many more occasions like this where he would have to temporarily part with Lucia.
Both he and Lucia had to get used to this.
And Lucia, she should also build her own social circle.
Whether it was to give her another reason to stay on Earth or to let her integrate into society more genuinely, the human world was rich, and dragons were free. Her dragon life couldn’t be limited here, and her world couldn’t revolve around just one person.
“I’m going out.”
Xia Li pocketed his keys and ID card, checking them repeatedly.
“Xia Li…”
“Hmm?”
From a distance of more than five meters, Lucia’s beautiful gem-like eyes stared at him intently, without blinking.
“Where are you going? With whom? Will you still like me when you come back?” the girl’s sweet voice asked softly.
“…”
Xia Li froze for a moment, but he quickly realized that this must be a joke Lucia saw online.
“I’m going to Miyang City. Alone. When I come back…”
“When you come back?”
Lucia repeated his words, looking forward to his answer.
“Of course, I’ll still like you when I come back!”
“Oh oh!”
The evil dragon was satisfied and lay back on the sofa softly.
“Then go quickly!”
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Xia Li hurried down the stairs and ran towards a taxi parked by the roadside.
The cold wind of early winter blew on his face like a blade, cooling his heated head.
Damn it.
Come to think of it, he had never told Lucia “I like you.”
For someone who was not good at expressing his feelings, this was the first time Xia Li had said such words to Lucia.
Although it was largely due to Lucia’s coercion and temptation.
What a loss.
It was such a loss to blurt out these words in this situation.
His liking for Lucia was a kind of impulse and possessiveness, a liking that wanted to make her his wife.
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And Lucia’s liking for Xia Li…
Was it just because Xia Li was a “good person”?
Did the silly dragon even understand the weight of those words?
…
From the East Station of Qingcheng City to Miyang Station by high-speed rail, no one came to pick up Xia Li this time. He took a taxi home by himself.
An hour had passed since he left home, and there was no message from Lucia.
Didn’t the silly dragon miss him?
When Xia Li was on the train, his mind was full of the evil dragon.
He wondered what she was doing, if she was bored, he thought about her every little detail, and recalled the few interactions they had on Azure Continent…
Speaking of which, a Silver Dragon’s wide open mouth could bite through a building in one bite. Her teeth were very white, and the inside of her mouth was deep pink…
Something’s not right.
Xia Li came back to his senses and took out his phone to send a message to the evil dragon.
Summer Dawn: What are you doing?
Girlfriend: Something I’m not good at.
Summer Dawn: ???
Xia Li, who was in the taxi, wished he could ask the driver to turn around immediately. He wanted to go back and see what the evil dragon was doing at home.
Girlfriend: Studying.
Summer Dawn: So studying is a bad thing??
Summer Dawn: What are you studying?
Girlfriend: The secrets of the human body.
Summer Dawn: …I don’t remember buying that kind of book.
Girlfriend: 『Cat licking paw.JPG』
Seeing this emoji, Xia Li’s eyebrows twitched.
It must have been stolen from Zhou Anqi.
Summer Dawn: Did you watch the movie I asked you to watch last time?
Girlfriend: What movie? O.O
Xia Li’s eyebrows twitched again.
The silly dragon even knew how to use emoticons!
After being exposed to the internet, her progress was becoming increasingly obvious.
Could it be that… the fastest way for her to integrate into this modern society was not to take her out, but to let her go online?
Summer Dawn: 《He Is Dragon》The one you watched at the internet cafe last time.
Girlfriend: Oh! I watched a little bit, I’m going to watch it now!
Summer Dawn: Go ahead, it’s two hours long. After you finish watching it, take a nap, and I’ll be home soon.
Girlfriend: 『Bye bye/』
“…”
The taxi arrived at the entrance of the residential complex, and Xia Li paid and got out of the car.
The weather in Miyang City was pretty good. The clear sky hung overhead, making people feel warm.
“Fingerprint verification successful~”
Coming to the door that had become somewhat unfamiliar in his mind, Xia Li took a deep breath.
In the eyes of his parents, Xia Li hadn’t been home for nearly two months.
But in Xia Li’s eyes, he had been waiting for this moment for three whole years.
Pushing the door open, he saw the light luxury interior decoration, the slightly yellowed floral wallpaper, and the almost unchanged furniture layout. Xia Li’s heart gradually became excited.
The memories here were the will that supported him to live for three years in another world.
“Mom!”
Dropping his shoulder bag, Xia Li strode in.
There was no one in the kitchen, only a man’s figure sitting on the three-seater fabric sofa.
Old Xia shook the newspaper in his hand, and the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose slipped down to the tip of his nose.
He lowered his head and looked out from the bottom of his glasses. He had been staring at Xia Li since he came back.
As a result, this kid didn’t seem to have seen him after returning home. He went from the living room to the kitchen and then wandered around the bedroom.
He didn’t even change his shoes, stepping on the floor and making it dirty. He would have to mop the floor later.
“Mom!”
Xia Li wandered around but didn’t see Fang Xia. He then returned to the living room and changed his shoes.
“Cough—”
In the living room, Old Xia coughed.
“Aren’t you going to greet me?”
Old Xia raised his eyelids, expressing his dissatisfaction with the boy’s impolite behavior.
Xia Li then turned his head and looked at Old Xia, hurriedly greeting him.
“Dad, where’s Mom?”
“…”
Old Xia, who was about to show a kind fatherly smile, abruptly held back his smile.
“Teahouse, go find her yourself!”
“Oh, then I’ll go first.”
“Get out of here!”