novelraw Chapter 123
Chapter 123
Chapter 123: Look at Yours
The next morning.
The warm winter sun slowly climbed over the mountaintop, lazily casting orange rays into the living room.
Xia Li, rubbing his hair that was a mess from sleep, walked out of the bedroom to the bathroom to turn on the water.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Little Nasty Dragon pushing open her door across from him.
“Morning, just woke up?”
According to the dragon’s usual style, this guy usually got up earlier than a rooster, just to be able to eat a hot breakfast at eight o’clock sharp.
It was almost ten o’clock, and this punctual dragon hadn’t rubbed her belly and come over to say she was hungry?
“Um… you just woke up too?”
Lucia was wearing a green plush pajama set. The pajamas were Godzilla-themed, with a giant tooth hat on her head, a triangular piece of fabric on her back, and a fat tail filled with cotton behind her. This set of pajamas was chosen by Lucia herself online, saying it was cool.
“You didn’t sleep with me last night, so I didn’t sleep well.”
Xia Li rubbed his hair and yawned.
“Oh…”
The dragon muttered something, then went to the kitchen to make breakfast.
Xia Li watched the swaying cotton tail walk away before turning to go to the bathroom to take care of his business.
He didn’t use a forceful attitude to hold the dragon in his arms to sleep last night, not because he wanted to give the two of them a chance to buffer.
Xia Li wanted to give his body a chance to buffer.
After confessing his feelings, not only did his mentality change, but his physical changes were also quite big.
Hugging and cuddling with Lucia all day long would be too much for his body to handle.
Maybe this was also one of the ways humans behaved towards the people they liked, trying to show themselves, wanting to be good to her inadvertently, and then having all sorts of desires for her.
It was such a complicated emotion…
Not to mention dragons were confused, sometimes humans were also quite confused.
Xia Li stood in front of the sink, washed his face, and admired his handsome reflection in the mirror.
In nature, males had their own courtship methods, the most typical examples being baboons with red butts and peacocks with open screens.
Should he also dress up a little…
Lucia said she liked to watch males who breathed fire. This was a bit difficult, but it was still possible to dye his hair red.
Xia Li was wondering if he should make some changes to his appearance when Lucia, wearing her Godzilla pajamas, appeared beside him at some point.
She didn’t say anything, just silently turned on the faucet, took out her small toothbrush, and squeezed toothpaste onto it.
The plastic bristles of the toothbrush brushed twice on her neat dragon teeth, then she took a sip of tap water from her cup.
“Gulp, gulp… ptui.”
Spitting out the foam in her mouth, Lucia wiped her face with the back of her hand and prepared to slip away.
“Wait.”
“Get back here.”
Xia Li stretched out his arm and grabbed Godzilla’s fat tail.
Godzilla was deformed in his hand, forcefully dragged back by him.
“You’re brushing your teeth too perfunctorily.”
“I didn’t eat anything at night, why brush so seriously…”
Lucia didn’t understand why humans had to clean their teeth twice a day. Human teeth were so small, it was too troublesome to brush them back and forth every day.
She opened her mouth to show Xia Li, “My teeth aren’t dirty.”
Xia Li didn’t believe it, muttering, “With the way you brush your teeth, there must be little black spots inside, maybe even cavities.”
“Kerosene!”
“Then let me see.”
Xia Li bent down, his head just got close, before he could kiss her mouth, Lucia suddenly reacted, vigilantly backing away.
The dragon not only had MAX defense, but now her dodge value was also full.
Before Xia Li could launch a surprise attack, the dragon in front of him disappeared in place.
“Don’t run, I haven’t seen it yet!”
“I won’t let you see… I have to go see the pot, the buns in the pot are smoking!”
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After eating the big meat buns Lucia made in the morning.
At noon, Xia Li stopped the little chef who was going to the kitchen to cook.
This dragon was busy all day long, so stupid.
She had just finished making breakfast and was clamoring to go make lunch for Xia Li, making it seem like Xia Li was the glutton.
Xia Li realized that the idea he had initially instilled in Lucia was wrong.
When he first started raising the dragon, he had been trying to change Lucia’s dragon thinking.
He taught Lucia: you can’t get what you want by robbing, but by earning it with your own hands. You can’t just open your mouth and ask for food, she needs to show her worth in this family to have food to eat.
Now Lucia had accepted this concept and made changes.
The dragon became diligent and self-reliant.
She could cook, she could earn rewards from Xia Li through her own labor.
However, Xia Li’s concept changed again.
Lucia was his girlfriend, in his heart, Lucia didn’t need to exchange labor value for food at all.
He would love for Lucia to eat plain rice at home every day, eat and sleep, sleep and eat, and spend half a year getting fat and plump.
It would be best if she degenerated into a waste dragon who muttered, ‘I can’t live without Xia Li~’.
This would make Xia Li feel more accomplished.
However, Xia Li’s own thoughts were one thing, Lucia might not be able to accept them so quickly.
“Stop it.”
“I want to do it!”
“Take off your apron, we’re going out to eat today, didn’t you say you wanted to eat rabbit, I’ll take you to eat Sichuan specialty hot pot rabbit.”
“I won’t eat!!”
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The dragon was really stubborn when she was stubborn, fighting a great battle with Xia Li in the kitchen for three hundred rounds.
Xia Li wanted to take off her apron, she wouldn’t let him, when she was irritated she would bite Xia Li, biting him until he screamed.
“Why? Rabbit meat is delicious when cooked, you’ll know once you try it.”
Xia Li firmly grabbed the thin straps of Lucia’s apron, Lucia grabbed her shoulder straps, not letting Xia Li pull them off.
After a pause, she turned her head fiercely and squeezed out a word from her mouth.
“Expensive!”
“How is it expensive, rabbit meat isn’t even as expensive as beef, our family can afford it.”
“Eating out once, I can make many meals!”
Lucia argued her case, refusing to let go. Xia Li had no choice but to open his phone wallet and show Lucia his balance.
“See, this is Xiao Xia… this is what my mom gave me, saying I should take good care of you. I’m taking you out to eat delicious food now, which is completing the task assigned from above.”
“Task?”
The dragon pinched the shoulder straps of her apron and thought about it seriously.
It was the first time she had heard that the hero’s task was not to slay dragons, but to feed them.
After glancing at the shocking mobile phone balance, Lucia still chose to take the pot to the sink and fill it with water, then put it on the stove to heat up.
“Not eating.”
The dragon was actually not tempted by Xia Li’s food, her expression showing a lack of interest.
Xia Li didn’t believe that the dragon, who was always eager to eat, wasn’t craving it anymore. It was hard to change a dragon’s nature, especially when it came to food.
He opened his phone again and found a picture of hot pot rabbit. The bright red oil intertwined with the tender rabbit meat, this bright color stimulated people’s appetite. Not to mention dragons, even Xia Li was drooling after seeing it.
“This chili oil is not spicy, I promise,” Xia Li said confidently.
Lucia didn’t even glance at it, but just listening to Xia Li’s description, she felt saliva pooling on her tongue.
Secretly swallowing her saliva, Lucia put noodles in the pot, “I don’t like to eat rabbit meat.”
“Then what do you want to eat, I’ll take you to eat it.” Xia Li softened his voice.
There were many places he wanted to take Lucia to, as long as Lucia was willing to go.
But the dragon didn’t seem to think so.
“Not going anywhere now.”
The dragon stirred the noodles with chopsticks, then turned to wash the vegetable leaves in the sink.
Xia Li was like a mosquito that couldn’t be driven away, buzzing in her ear non-stop.
“Then what about the task assigned from above?”
“We’ll pretend we’ve already eaten, and then secretly save the money.”
“Save it for what?”
“Save it for later use.”
Lucia washed two cabbage leaves and threw them into the pot, then took the lid and covered it.
Xia Li was amused by the dragon’s unique hoarding habit.
Before, when he spent money on expensive things, Lucia would feel distressed by the loss of money.
Now, she wouldn’t even let him spend small amounts of money.
Maybe this dragon was actually very thrifty?
“Money that’s not spent is just a string of numbers. Only when it’s spent on yourself does it have value… You can’t cover the pot when cooking noodles, or they’ll turn into mush.”
As he spoke, he lifted the lid of the pot, which had already started to bubble.
The dense steam instantly filled the kitchen, and the two of them were enveloped in mist.
Xia Li turned on the range hood, turned his head and saw Lucia about to throw the chopped green onions into the pot, so he quickly grabbed her small hand.
“You don’t need to cook the green onions, just put them directly in the bowl for the noodles. Do you know how to mix the sauce? I’ll mix a soy sauce version for you.”
“Oh… okay.”
This time, the dragon didn’t rebel against Xia Li, but obediently brought two large bowls.
Xia Li grabbed the pot handle with one hand, and Lucia picked up the noodles inside with chopsticks.
When the noodles were almost gone, Xia Li tilted the pot, and Lucia used chopsticks to pick up the vegetable leaves inside, making sure not to waste any.
The two worked together tacitly, without even needing eye contact.
Xia Li quietly looked at the short dragon in front of him. He only needed to lower his head slightly to smell the fragrant and soft scent on her.
It was also good not to go out to eat…
Living life.
This was living life.
He didn’t expect that he had actually brought home a virtuous dragon.
“Xia Li, do you want yours spicy?”
“Mine…”
Learning from his mistakes, Xia Li didn’t choose to answer this question, but said instead.
“Put sugar in mine.”
“Put sugar?”
It was the first time Lucia had seen someone put sugar in noodles, wondering what kind of novel way of eating this was?
She stretched out her arm to get the white sugar from the spice rack. Just as she stood on tiptoe, her cheek was sneak attacked by something.
The dragon was surprised and covered her face.
Unexpectedly, even with all her precautions, she still couldn’t prevent the hero’s attack.
“Okay, okay, let me go…”
Xia Li put the white sugar box back in its original place, smiling brighter than the sun outside. He looked at the dragon’s stunned expression, then changed direction and tentatively said.
“How about putting some on the other side too?”