novelraw Chapter 127
Chapter 127
Chapter 127: It’s fine, I’m just playing…
Coming out of the pet shop.
By this time, the sky was getting dark, the setting sun hung in the west, and the streetlights in Qingcheng City lit up one after another.
Lucia was carrying a transparent glass jar in her hand, with a slight smile on her face.
In the small jar, two little red fish, not even as long as her little finger, were swimming happily in the water.
Lucia would occasionally lift the jar close to her face to see what the little fish were doing, and then scratch their bodies with her fingers through the glass.
Most of the animals suppressed by Lucia’s bloodline were beasts.
Beasts feared her, birds liked her.
As for fish…
Perhaps due to their low intelligence, fish didn’t have any particular reaction to Lucia. However, dragons weren’t particularly fond of fish either.
Their interactivity was much weaker, and they felt neither good to touch nor to eat.
But, the jar of small fish that Xia Li bought for her had a natural advantage.
That is, the colorful pebbles laid at the bottom of the jar.
Those pebbles were semi-transparent and looked like crystal-clear, high-quality gemstones.
Xia Li said they were something called ‘artificial crystals’, but Lucia didn’t care what they were made of, they looked pretty anyway.
Under the illumination of the lights, those colorful gemstones reflected a dazzling array of colors, making the little fish in the jar sparkle brilliantly. Lucia found it pleasing to the eye.
She followed Xia Li into the car, and after fastening her seatbelt, she carefully held the fish jar, afraid that the shaking of the car would affect the little animals inside.
Xia Li started the car and glanced at Little Dragon’s serious expression, couldn’t help but chuckle.
Although the ultimate goal of getting a cat or a dog was not achieved, he had managed to get some small pets for Lucia.
These two little fish should be enough to help her pass the time.
“Xia Li, Xia Li…”
“Hmm?”
Not long after the car started, Lucia lifted the fish jar with a surprised look on her face, as if she had seen something strange.
“It, it has worms coming out of its belly!”
She pointed at one of the fish inside and said.
Xia Li glanced at it and said calmly, “It’s pooping.”
“…”
Lucia suddenly didn’t seem to like the little fish in the glass jar as much anymore.
She wondered if they would taste good fried in a pan.
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Back home, Lucia found a place to put her fish jar.
Since it was her first time raising a pet, she didn’t have much experience and placed the fish jar directly in the kitchen.
Xia Li had a bad feeling about this.
Did this dragon really understand the difference between pets and food?
The evil dragon, wearing slippers, went back to the sofa and curled up. She started searching for information on her phone.
Xia Li quietly walked over to peek at her phone.
He was afraid of seeing search terms like ‘Can goldfish be eaten?’ or ‘How to cook goldfish deliciously?’.
However, Xia Li was wrong about this.
Lucia was searching for fish-raising guides on Baidu.
“The internet says to change the water every three days and change the fish every seven days… What does it mean to change the fish every seven days?” Lucia asked, turning her head in confusion.
“It means that these fish have a very short lifespan and can’t live for more than a week.”
“Are goldfish’s lifespans so short?”
“Actually, it’s not that short. It’s just that it’s very difficult to keep them alive for long. Their lives are too fragile and they die easily.”
When Lucia heard that these little fish would die, her expression became hesitant.
She asked Xia Li, “What do we do when they die?”
“Flush them down the toilet… cough, I’ll accompany you to find a place to dig a hole and bury them.”
“…”
Lucia was obviously not very satisfied with this answer.
Xia Li had said that these two fish belonged to her, and she had the right to decide their life or death.
This feeling was very subtle for Lucia.
In the past, she could burn everything with a single breath and kill more than a dozen beasts with one claw.
But now, she actually cared about the life and death of such tiny fish.
Is this… the feeling of raising a pet?
Lucia hoped that they would live well in the small fish tank, preferably lay eggs and hatch many little goldfish babies, filling the tank to the brim.
If that were the case, she would be very happy.
Thinking of this, Lucia glanced at Xia Li beside her.
Xia Li was looking at the backend of his mobile phone novel, and their eyes met.
“Hmm?” Xia Li was puzzled.
“Nothing…”
Lucia looked away, her expression shy and awkward, her cheeks flushed pink.
What is this silly dragon thinking?
Why is she making herself shy?
Seeing her reaction, Xia Li couldn’t figure it out after guessing for a while.
The evil dragon used to be easy to understand, but after her thoughts became more and more human-like, it became difficult for Xia Li to guess what she was thinking.
“You can take your time researching, I’m going to work,” Xia Li stood up and added.
“Don’t feed them too much fish food. These little animals don’t have a sense of fullness and can easily overeat and die.”
“Oh…”
Lucia nodded seriously. Xia Li seemed to know a little bit of everything and felt very reliable.
“And also, those colorful pebbles, don’t put them in your mouth, and definitely don’t swallow them.”
“I’m not that stupid!”
Lucia retorted, raising her head.
Although she had the idea of stealing the crystal stones inside, she never thought of swallowing them.
Silently listening to the sounds, Lucia waited until Xia Li returned to his room and started typing on the keyboard before tiptoeing to the kitchen.
Looking at the little fish swimming around in the small tank, Lucia couldn’t resist reaching in with her small hand and groping around.
It’s just stealing two crystals…
Xia Li probably wouldn’t scold her, right?
…
“Clack, clack, clack,”
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In the room, Xia Li was typing furiously on the keyboard.
In the past two days, Lucia had told him many stories about her adolescence.
The story of the silver dragon robbing the treasury had unexpectedly received good reviews online.
In the eyes of the netizens, this act of breaking into the noble’s treasury was very satisfying.
In the background story set by Xia Li, Azure Continent itself was a low-civilization world with poor agricultural levels and widespread hunger among humans. In this case, the wealthy and extravagant nobles were the real ‘villains’.
In the comment section, there were war enthusiasts who advocated for killing, killing, killing, and there were also farming enthusiasts who suggested that the little dragon find a good place to live and stay away from the secular world of humans.
Now, as the silver dragon in the story gradually reached adulthood, it was almost time for the brave hero to appear.
This “Record of Experiences” was originally designed with two protagonists. Xia Li would not only write from the perspective of the native silver dragon, but also from the perspective of a young man from Earth who transmigrated to another world to become a brave hero.
There would be many contradictions and clashes between the two, which was also one of the most important highlights of this “Record of Experiences”.
However, Xia Li didn’t intend to write too much detail about the brave hero.
After all, it was a very cliché transmigration story.
This kind of plot had already been overused in web novels and anime, so the focus of the story was still on the silver dragon Lucia.
This “Record of Experiences” was still geared towards ‘authenticity’, but Xia Li didn’t guarantee that he wouldn’t add his own personal touches later on.
After all, he was currently in the passionate love phase, and when writing a story about himself and his girlfriend during this phase, how could he not add some spice?
It would be best to have a plot where the two go from being enemies to understanding each other, and after overcoming difficulties, they become friends…
And then the silver dragon falls hopelessly in love with the brave hero.
The love process between the two would not only have the sense of betrayal of their respective races, but would also be particularly exciting.
Oh right, and then lay some dragon eggs or something.
The offspring of a brave hero and a pureblood giant dragon would be at the level of a quasi-great swordsman/archmage from birth, and then the family of three… or maybe a family of ten, would live happily together.
“This is good.”
Xia Li happily indulged in his fantasy.
Then he returned to reality and continued typing away at the keyboard, writing the classic scene of the brave hero emerging from the teleportation circle with a dumbfounded expression.
“Hmm?”
A flashing avatar popped up in the lower right corner of the computer screen.
Xia Li hardly ever used his computer to log in to WeChat, but he would casually log in to QQ.
Since going to university, the frequency of his QQ usage had plummeted. If it weren’t for the need to use QQ for one-click login for Penguin’s games, he probably wouldn’t use the software more than a few times a year.
There weren’t many people who contacted Xia Li on QQ. He clicked on the chat window with a puzzled feeling.
He found that the other party was actually his editor.
Editor: Your data has been pretty good recently. I’ve arranged a wave of promotion for you, so keep the updates steady~
Summer Dawn: Okay, thank you very much.
The editor of this website had added Xia Li as a friend back when he was in university. Later, when Xia Li started writing long stories, this editor was also in charge. The two had been working together for many years and were quite polite to each other.
Closing the chat window, Xia Li glanced at the gradually rising data in the backend, feeling great.
A wave of promotion meant a sum of money.
If the conversion rate of the incoming traffic was high, there would be more promotion later on.
This was equivalent to a snowball effect.
As the traffic of this “Record of Experiences” increased, their quality of life would also improve.
“Lucia, we’re going to pick up money with sacks!”
Xia Li couldn’t wait to tell the evil dragon in the living room the good news.
The evil dragon didn’t turn on the TV, and her phone was also set aside.
She was squatting quietly in front of the coffee table, looking surprised by Xia Li’s sudden appearance… or rather, guilty.
“…Hmm?”
Lucia looked back, her sleeves were wet, and at first glance, they were still dripping water.
On the coffee table, the water in the small fish tank had decreased by more than half, and the colorful gemstones and the two goldfish were all gone.
“What are you doing?”
“Nothing.” Lucia shook her head guiltily.
Xia Li didn’t believe it. He grabbed Lucia’s small hand, which she was hiding behind her back, and saw that in her half-clenched fist, a small orange-red fish was struggling.
The exposed fishtail splashed water onto Xia Li’s face.
“Then what’s in your hand?” Xia Li asked.
“…Just playing with them.” Lucia said with a serious face.
“Fish will die out of water.”
“I know, so I’ll play with them for a minute and then put them back in the tank to breathe for a minute.”
“What kind of torture is this?… Give them to me, I’ll keep them safe.”
Xia Li directly confiscated the fish from the evil dragon.
He didn’t want her to play them to death on the same day they were bought. Then Little Dragon would be sad and upset, and he would have to spend time coaxing her.
Putting the fish and the crystal stones back into the fish tank, Xia Li found a place where the evil dragon couldn’t reach and left them there.
Lucia went to the bathroom to take a shower and came out smelling fragrant.
Xia Li saw her sneakily go into the small dark room for a while, and then she came back to her room, wearing wet slippers.
Seeing this, Xia Li felt strange.
This dragon was becoming more and more unpredictable…
He went back to his bedroom to check and found that Lucia hadn’t done anything. She couldn’t have taken revenge for him confiscating her little fish by taking a couple of bites out of his bed, could she?
“Xia Li, Xia Li…”
Hearing the evil dragon calling him from the master bedroom, Xia Li went over again.
The evil dragon was rolling around on the bed, her green dinosaur tail wrapping around her legs as she rolled.
“Let’s go out and play tomorrow~” Lucia was very excited.
“Tomorrow? Where do you want to go?”
“Amusement park!”
“Amusement park? Okay, I’ll check the weather forecast and the crowd for tomorrow first.”
Come to think of it, Xia Li hadn’t really taken Lucia to any of these dating hotspots.
This kind of human entertainment venue should be both novel and mysterious to the evil dragon.
Xia Li took out his phone from his pocket, but before he could check the situation for tomorrow, he saw two new WeChat messages on his phone screen.
Qi: Xia Bro, let’s go to Happy Valley together tomorrow. I’ve invited Lu Mei, and she agreed.
Yuanzi: Boss, amusement park tomorrow, you must come!
Peach: Boss Xia, whoever’s late tomorrow is a grandson!