novelraw Chapter 133
Chapter 133
Chapter 133: We Are Lucky
The five-person team who declared they would speedrun the haunted house was defeated in just half an hour.
They didn’t solve a single puzzle in the escape room game. Two men and two women were busy flirting, while the remaining dog was dizzy and disoriented, failing to find any clues.
Half an hour later, the five of them emerged dejectedly.
Greeted by the owner’s beaming smile, they were given some classic and trendy little trinkets as souvenirs before being sent on their way.
Only then did Lucia emerge from inside Xia Li’s clothes, revealing a pair of flushed cheeks.
Xia Li summarized the reason why dragons are so afraid of haunted houses.
Firstly, the deliberately created horror atmosphere in the haunted house plays a part.
Secondly, the space inside the haunted house is too small, not only is the environment dark, but the air is also not well-ventilated.
Lucia had a bit of claustrophobia in there, which is why she was so scared. “Xia Li, next time I will definitely protect you…”
Stepping out of the commercial building, Lucia felt that her timid behavior just now was somewhat embarrassing for a dragon. So, to regain her face, she specifically assured Xia Li.
Xia Li smiled helplessly, “Okay, next time it’s your turn to protect me.”
“If there’s a female ghost popping out to attack you next time, I’ll definitely give her two punches and knock her to the ground!” Lucia clenched her little fists.
Xia Li quickly stopped her, “Don’t, those are staff members. They’re just trying to scare us for fun, no need to be so serious.”
Lucia looked up at Xia Li, thinking where was the fun just now? Her dragon heart was trembling from the fright of the female ghost.
But thinking back carefully… Xia Li did smile very happily.
“Yuanzi, how was it? Was the haunted house fun?”
Not only was Xia Li in a good mood, Chen Tao was also very happy.
He turned to look at Fu Yuan, who was walking with his head down.
Fu Yuan’s face didn’t look good.
Originally, the brothers agreed to go to the haunted house to give him a boost, to let him perform well in the haunted house.
But he himself became the one who was scared.
Fu Yuan is a gentle person, his personality is completely different from Xia Li and the others. Because he is thin and small, and has been short-sighted since childhood, wearing a pair of glasses, he was always the one bullied in the neighborhood when he was a child.
Later, it was Xia Li who pulled him into his gang that Fu Yuan was spared from a childhood shadow of being bullied. Therefore, Fu Yuan has a deep affection for Xia Li, even after growing up, he is willing to call him “Boss” for a lifetime.
He, who has always been weak in character, actually mustered up the courage to confess to the girl he has had a crush on for many years today.
Zhou Anqi usually studies for her master’s degree in Beijing, and it’s not easy for her to come back. Fu Yuan was afraid that if he missed today, he would miss it for a lifetime.
So he confessed and wanted to go to the haunted house. He checked online, haunted houses are a holy place for the ambiguous stage of a relationship. People in a state of fear will form a suspension bridge effect.
This feeling can accelerate the development of the relationship between two people, just like riding a roller coaster, when the fear reaches its peak, they will subconsciously hold each other’s hands.
As a result, in this haunted house, no one knows about the suspension bridge effect, but Fu Yuan himself was so scared that he hid behind Zhou Anqi.
It’s simply too unmanly.
Fu Yuan regretted it so much that his guts were turning green, he cast a pitiful look at Xia Li for help.
“Boss…”
“…”
Xia Li sighed and said to Lucia beside him.
“Lucia, come here, I have a task for you.”
“What task? Tell me!”
“Go chat with Zhou Anqi and hold her back.” Xia Li’s eyes flickered, giving Lucia a wink.
Lucia understood immediately and nodded vigorously: “Oh!”
After Little Dragon went to hold Zhou Anqi back, Xia Li slowed down and walked to Fu Yuan’s side.
“What’s going on with you and Anqi?”
Fu Yuan immediately began to explain his situation: “I’ve been preparing for the civil service exam at home recently… Zhou Anqi just happened to be staying in Qingcheng City these days, so I went to her house and wanted her to help me with some ideas.”
Zhou Anqi is the one with the best grades in Xia Li’s gang. She used to give Xia Li and the others extra lessons when they were in school.
“And then?” Xia Li asked again.
“And then, the highly differentiated endocrine cells in my body synthesized the fourth hormone, which successfully entered my bloodstream and circulated throughout my body, and my physiological activities were affected as a result.”
Unlike Chen Tao, who couldn’t even speak clearly, Fu Yuan was considered a top student when he was in school. His ability to express himself is much stronger, and it’s strong in strange ways.
“Speak human language.” Xia Li said coldly.
“I think I like her quite a bit.”
“Since when?” Chen Tao couldn’t help but interject.
“A long time ago… Back in high school.” Fu Yuan confessed.
“Damn, it was at that time, two top students were desperately competing to get into college, and they admired each other.” Chen Tao said, slapping his thigh.
During that time in high school, Xia Li was living in Miyang City, so he didn’t know much about what was happening in the old house.
“You and Anqi are both gentle people, gentle people have their own way of getting along, the haunted house is too rough, not suitable for you.” Xia Li pondered.
Fu Yuan was anxious, “Then what should I do?”
Xia Li shook his head: “I don’t know.”
“…” Both Fu Yuan and Chen Tao were silent for a while.
“Boss, how did you pursue Sister-in-law? I’ll learn from you.”
“Me? I didn’t pursue her…” Xia Li paused and said, “She just agreed to live at my house.”
“…”
“Then how did you hold hands for the first time? How did you do it?”
“Just held it directly.”
“Ki-, Ki-kiss?”
“Just kissed directly.”
“…”
Xia Li’s answer was too straightforward, Fu Yuan didn’t even understand.
No…
Even solving a problem has a process.
How come Xia Li’s relationship doesn’t even have a process?
No matter how you look at it, Sister-in-law is the kind of shy girl, right? To just kiss directly, she wasn’t slapped?
On the other side.
The three boys in front were whispering to each other, Zhou Anqi glanced at the shortest watermelon-head boy in the middle, sighing softly in her heart.
“Sister Anqi~”
A soft and sweet voice suddenly appeared beside her, Zhou Anqi came back to her senses, her eyes lit up.
“What’s up, Lu-mei?”
“Xia Li asked me to come over,” Lucia said, “He asked me to hold you back.”
“Pfft…”
Zhou Anqi laughed.
Lu-mei is too honest, if they put her on the boys’ side, wouldn’t she be a complete traitor?
“What else did they say?”
“They also said something about… Oh, ‘getting together’, ‘the final push’.”
“Hahaha, anything else?”
“As for the rest, I don’t know…” Lucia shook her head.
Zhou Anqi smiled, her eyes curving. She took a deep look at the thin and short boy, then turned back to ask Lucia.
“Then does Lu-mei know what that means?”
“I know a little, but I’m not sure…”
“Tell me.”
“That Yuanzi, he might be showing interest in you.” Lucia said uncertainly.
Lucia could vaguely hear this from Yuanzi’s behavior and Xia Li’s conversation.
Human affairs are complicated, anyway, she, a dragon, can’t understand it.
“Hmm~ Just like how Xia-ge is to you?” Zhou Anqi asked again.
“Xia Li……?”
Lucia thought carefully.
Xia Li buys her delicious food, beautiful clothes, and recently he doesn’t let her do housework… These seem to be considered showing interest.
Oh, right, he kissed her in the square at noon today in front of so many people.
That’s not just showing interest, right?
In human terms…
That, that, that’s called expressing love.
“I, I, I, I don’t know.”
As Lucia thought about it, her mind became confused.
When Xia Li kissed her, his eyes were closed, he looked very serious… Or in human terms, it’s called “affectionate”.
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The soft feeling of their lips touching always makes Lucia’s heart itch.
With every breath Xia Li took, she could smell the unique and pleasant scent on him, and even had a greedy urge to open her mouth and take in more.
……She kind of likes the way humans express ‘like’.
“Pfft~ That’s so nice.”
Zhou Anqi looked sideways at Lucia’s innocent look, feeling touched.
“It’s really not easy to have such pure love now…”
“We adults have too many concerns… Career, love, dreams, these three things cannot be achieved at the same time.” Zhou Anqi smiled bitterly.
Lucia was puzzled and looked up at her: “Anqi doesn’t like Watermelon Head?”
“Pfft, that hairstyle is called a watermelon head.”
“Oh! Watermelon Head…”
“I don’t dislike him, if I did, I would keep my distance… Who would go on a date with him under the guise of a ‘friend gathering’? If I really disliked him, I would have avoided him when he secretly held my hand on the roller coaster.”
“Since you like him… Then why don’t you… Kiss?”
Lucia doesn’t understand anything else, but she knows that the way humans express love is to kiss, just like what Xia Li did to her.
“Our world is much more complicated,”
Zhou Anqi shook her head, a trace of sadness flashing in her eyes.
“My dream is to go to farther places and pursue more things. And his goal is to stay in Qingcheng City, pass the civil service exam, get a stable iron rice bowl, and live a stable life… We are not on the same path.”
“Is that important?”
Although this was the first time Lucia had heard these words, she felt that Zhou Anqi’s concerns were similar to what Xia Li had said to her in the morning.
Humans are really emotionally complex creatures.
They have too many things to think about and are too greedy. They always want to choose the right answer after careful consideration, the one they think will maximize their benefits, but often as time goes by, they will regret this answer.
Then in that case, why not choose the answer within reach from the beginning?
“These are our respective dreams, things related to the future, so it’s important.” Zhou Anqi answered seriously.
“Can Anqi see her own future?”
“No.”
“Since the future is unpredictable, why not choose what you can get?”
Lucia didn’t understand, “The future you choose may not be the future you want in the end. But the person you want can be yours right now.”
“…”
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After fooling around all day, it was already very late when Xia Li got home.
Lucia was very tired from playing and was already drowsy in the car. When Xia Li carried her out of the car, she still insisted that she was just uncomfortable with her eyes, so she closed them for a bit.
Then she refused to let Xia Li carry her down.
The strong little dragon doesn’t understand what romance is, she twisted and turned in Xia Li’s arms like a carp flopping around.
Xia Li had no choice but to put her down and let her walk by herself.
“I’m not sleepy!”
Lucia closed her eyes, put her hands on her hips, and the pink hood on her head covered her head.
“Okay, okay, you’re not sleepy,” Xia Li grabbed her little hand from her waist, “Let’s go, let’s go home.”
“I’m going to mop the floor when I get home!”
“You mop, you mop.”
“And I want extra food!”
“Extra, extra, extra.”
If Lucia hadn’t touched alcohol at all when they were having hot pot tonight, Xia Li would have suspected that the dragon was drunk.
Could it be carsickness?
Pulling the dizzy dragon upstairs, a gentle voice called out to them from the door of the next unit.
“Lu-mei~”
Lucia opened her sleepy eyes and rubbed her eyes to look over.
“Hmm?”
“What you said just now makes a lot of sense.”
Zhou Anqi smiled, the black frames of her glasses reflecting a faint yellow light under the dim streetlights, “I’ll think about it.”
“Hmm!”
Lucia nodded vigorously, a sweet smile appearing on the corner of her lips.
Xia Li nodded to Zhou Anqi, then carried the dizzy dragon home.
“What did you say to Anqi?”
“Ugh… I forgot.”
Lucia thought for a moment and realized she couldn’t remember, she didn’t even lift her eyelids, drooping her head and letting Xia Li carry her home.
“Are you a fish? Seven-second memory.” Xia Li said with a smile.
It’s only been a while, and she forgot.
Could it be that she’s pretending to be stupid to avoid betraying her best friend?
However, Lucia really looked tired.
For a homebody dragon, today was both physically and mentally exhausting.
“I won’t let you wash your face and brush your teeth today, remember to brush them carefully tomorrow morning, or you’ll get cavities, you know?”
“Hmm… Mm-hmm.”
Xia Li gently placed Lucia on the bed, Lucia’s sleepy murmurs came out of her lips.
It’s unclear whether it was sleep talk before falling asleep, or a response to Xia Li.
“Your dragon teeth don’t have a dentist to treat them, if you get cavities, you won’t be able to eat hard things in the future, you won’t be able to chew your favorite fried chicken and ribs, and you won’t even be able to bite into fried rice cakes.”
“…”
“Asleep?”
Xia Li muttered a few words, the evil dragon lay on the bed like a salted fish stuck to the pan.
She lay straight, her hands pressed against her chest, her wrists drooping, like a little hamster.
He waited for a while, but there was no response.
Xia Li sighed and helped her take off her coat.
Grabbing her slender arm, he took off the fluffy pink coat, the light-colored sweater underneath made Xia Li hesitate.
Under the nightlight, the slim-fitting sweater hugged the girl’s beautiful figure, the lines on both sides of her waist and abdomen looked well-proportioned and graceful.
Her crystal clear pink lips were breathing slightly, and with the rhythm of her breath, the raised fullness of her chest was rising and falling.
Lucia… has grown up a lot.
Not only mentally but also physically.
She is no longer the flat little girl who knew nothing when she first came to Earth.
Xia Li lifted the hem of the light-colored sweater, revealing a small patch of soft skin on her abdomen.
When Xia Li saw the only thin piece of fabric left on the girl’s body, the hand he had raised suddenly couldn’t be lowered.
Who can resist such an urge in front of the person they like?
“Xia Li…”
Her long eyelashes trembled, the nightlight cast a shadow on her delicate and sweet face.
Lucia called Xia Li’s name in a daze, her voice still sleepy and hazy.
“Hmm……?”
Xia Li withdrew his hand and pulled the small pillow by the bed to cushion Lucia’s head.
Lucia’s mind was thinking about something unknown, her amber eyes quietly staring at Xia Li’s face.
She had been looking at him all day today, but she couldn’t get enough of it, she just kept looking, staring intently.
“What’s wrong?”
“Why can’t some people who like each other be together?”
Lucia’s tone was very soft, she had been thinking about this question all the way and couldn’t figure it out, so she couldn’t help but ask Xia Li.
“Because the human world is very complicated, and there are many things to consider… So most people can’t be with the person they like.”
“What about us?”
“Us?”
Xia Li leaned down in front of the bed and kissed the dragon’s face, which looked soft and tempting.
He brought his lips to the little dragon’s slightly reddened earlobe and whispered.
“We are lucky.”