My Wife is an Evil Dragon

Chapter 137

Chapter 137: Humans Pick Up Dragons, Dragons Pick Up Cats

“Mew……”

The kitten in Xia Li’s arms slowly raised its head.

After the beer water on its eyes was wiped away, it could barely open its eyes.

Those eyes, like Lucia’s, were amber.

The kitten’s eyes seemed to have a warm orange hue, while its pupils, like Xia Li’s, were deep black.

It lifted its head with some effort, and the first thing it saw was the human girl leaning towards it, her face filled with concern.

Even though when it looked at the human girl, an instinctive sense of suppression made it want to run away, the gentle eyes made it lower its head in reassurance.

Starving and suffering from hypothermia, the kitten let out a weak sound from its nose and mouth.

“Meow……” “Xia Li, it’s not afraid of me!”

Lucia looked up in surprise.

She had just brought her face close enough, but the kitten didn’t show any signs of fear or dodging, instead closing its eyes.

“All living things have a spirit,” Xia Li thought for a moment and said, “It probably knows you’re saving it, so it’s not afraid of you.”

“Spirit!”

Lucia was filled with affection for this magical little creature.

Before, whether it was dogs, cats, or all the animals in the zoo, they all avoided Lucia like the plague.

And this one, for Lucia, was undoubtedly special.

“I want to take it home!”

“Hmm, let’s take it home and dry its fur first. Leaving it outside like this, wet, it’ll freeze to death soon…”

Xia Li glanced at the foam box in the corner.

If it hadn’t been doused with beer, the kitten could have easily survived the night.

What’s more, if Xia Li hadn’t driven away those three punks, this kitten would probably have been tortured to death by them.

The complexity of the human heart was far more sinister than the pure heart of a dragon.

“Xia Li, is it a male or female cat?”

Lucia followed beside Xia Li as they walked home together.

She would stand on her tiptoes from time to time to look at the kitten in Xia Li’s arms.

The kitten’s belly was covered in fluffy white fur, with different colored markings on either side of its head, orange and black respectively. Its face was round, making it look particularly sweet.

Xia Li said this breed was called a ‘calico’.

“It’s a female.” Xia Li answered immediately.

“How can you tell?” Lucia asked curiously.

“Because it doesn’t have…because it has three different colors.

In a cat’s chromosomes, the X chromosome can only carry two colors, while the Y chromosome has no color. A male cat’s chromosomes are XY, while a female cat’s are XX. So only female cats can have three colors, which is what a calico cat is.”

“……”

This level of answer was completely beyond Lucia’s comprehension.

The biological knowledge of Earth humans was more confusing to a dragon than the alchemy of Azure Continent.

But…

This kitten was actually a female?

Lucia glanced at the kitten in Xia Li’s arms and fell into a brief contemplation.

“Do you like cats?” she suddenly asked Xia Li.

Xia Li casually replied, “Of course I li…”

Before he could finish the word ‘like’, Xia Li suddenly remembered that this evil dragon always found strange angles to get jealous, so he changed his words:

“I only like dragons. I don’t like any other creatures.”

“Oh…”

Lucia pursed her lips and smiled secretly.

That put her mind at ease.

A female cat couldn’t threaten her position!

“……”

Xia Li looked at her secretly smiling face and thought to himself, he wasn’t a furry enthusiast, and this cat was beyond the furry level, wasn’t it…

Was Lucia going to see all female creatures as rivals?

Speaking of which, were dragons considered furries?

Furries were anthropomorphic animals with fur. Lucia could meet the latter condition, but she wasn’t furry at all.

But if dragons were also a type of furry, then Xia Li felt that he was a furry enthusiast.

Just imagining Lucia with a dragon tail and small dragon horns, Xia Li’s heart raced with excitement.

So cool…

His thoughts were drifting.

Xia Li came back to his senses and took out his key to open the door.

The door gently pushed open, and Lucia, in her dragon-like manner, quickly charged forward.

She didn’t even have time to change her shoes, stepping on her small leather shoes, leaving footprints all the way to the balcony.

After timidly glancing at the sealed Demon Repelling Sword on the balcony, Lucia clumsily grabbed the cardboard box next to it.

Then, standing on her tiptoes, she pulled down Xia Li’s towel from the clothes rack, the one he used to wash his face, body, feet, head, and butt, and stuffed it into the box.

The evil dragon’s actions were smooth and flowing. She handed the box to Xia Li.

“Put it in.” The evil dragon said generously.

Wait…

Why my towel!

Xia Li wasn’t that stingy. He took the towel, wrapped it around the kitten’s head, and then used the lowest setting on the hairdryer to dry the beer water from the kitten’s fur.

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The kitten didn’t have any odor. Before it was abandoned, its living environment probably wasn’t too bad, but that didn’t mean it didn’t have fleas or anything like that.

“So tiny…”

Lucia quietly stayed by Xia Li’s side, her bright eyes staring intently at him.

For the first time, Xia Li saw ‘pity’ in the dragon’s eyes.

The proud dragon race never cared about the life and death of small animals.

For a giant dragon, stepping on a kitten was as easy as a human stepping on an ant.

“Just like you.”

Xia Li rubbed the giant dragon’s head and said.

Lucia covered her head: “I’m not that weak!”

“When you first came to Earth, you looked about the same as this cat to me, small, pitiful, and helpless.”

“…So you took me home?”

“Yeah, if you had shown any aggression at the time, I definitely wouldn’t have picked you up.”

Xia Li took the calico kitten out of the towel wrap. The kitten had been very well-behaved the whole time, not struggling while Xia Li was drying its fur, just obediently nestled on his lap, letting him do whatever he wanted.

When Xia Li let it out, it only then shook itself, its open eyes as if seeing the light again at this moment.

The warm indoor light made it let down all its guard, and it raised its head to let out a soft meow at Xia Li.

“Meow~”

So Xia Li rubbed the cat’s head again.

It was good that this cat wasn’t aggressive.

If it was an aggressive, easily stressed cat, Xia Li would have planned to feed it a meal and then release it back into the city.

Maybe that kind of cat could be tamed with more care, but it didn’t suit Xia Li’s current situation.

He only kept small animals that were obedient and non-aggressive.

Just like the dragon in front of him.

“Then I really am quite similar to it…”

Lucia thought carefully for a moment.

When she first came to Earth, she didn’t understand anything. She only knew how to steal humans’ bread, and even when she got the bread, she didn’t know how to open it. She was like a headless fly, without belonging, unable to find her direction.

What was the difference between Lucia in that situation and this stray kitten?

Suddenly, she felt a bit of sympathy for this small cat.

“I used to be like you, without a home…but now I have one!” Lucia said with emotion.

She reached out and poked the kitten’s head. The kitten was still a little afraid of Lucia, but when Lucia touched it, it didn’t choose to dodge. Instead, it lowered its head slightly, its ears drooping to the sides, showing a submissive look.

“Cute!” Lucia smiled.

“Xia Li, let’s give it a home!” She looked up, her bright eyes looking at Xia Li.

“Then you have to think carefully,” Xia Li said, “Adopting it is a lifetime commitment…just like me adopting you.”

“Hmm, I’ve thought about it!”

Lucia never had those human concerns and worries.

A lifetime was a lifetime.

Their dragon race was a very honest race.

“How many days can a cat live?” Lucia asked eagerly.

Xia Li thought for a moment, he vaguely remembered the lifespan of this animal: “Cats live for a long time, it’s calculated in years. If you take good care of it, fifteen years.”

“Fifteen years…” Lucia murmured.

Fifteen years, for a dragon, was a blink of an eye.

But for a kitten, it was a lifetime.

Lucia thought of what Xia Li had said to her in the morning, that twenty years was enough for this city to undergo earth-shattering changes, and also enough for a human cub of a few dozen centimeters to grow into an adult of one meter eighty-five…

Fifteen years was a long time.

“Then I’ll keep it for a lifetime…I’ll wash a few more dishes every day!”

Having a freeloader at home was already a heavy burden on Xia Li, and now he was picking up another one. Lucia realized the seriousness of the situation.

There weren’t many things she could do to share Xia Li’s burden, so she could only wash a few more dishes to lighten his load.

Xia Li smiled.

Was this the way a dragon adapted to this society and dealt with things?

It was unexpectedly gentle.

“Can we keep it, can we keep it?”

Lucia held the kitten in her arms. The kitten didn’t run away, just obediently let itself be held.

Although it was scared, it only trembled slightly in Lucia’s arms, and finally, it raised its small head and let out a ‘meow~’ as a sign of goodwill.

These meows melted Lucia’s dragon heart.

She couldn’t wait for Xia Li to agree.

“Can we?!”

Looking into those sincere eyes, Xia Li originally wanted to take this opportunity to trick…to negotiate some conditions with Lucia.

For example, what if the kitten slept in the small dark room, and there was only one room left in the house…then he would have to compromise and share a bed with the dragon, things like that.

But Xia Li didn’t want those warm eyes to be forced to have a transactional purpose, so he nodded and agreed directly.

“Okay, now it’s your pet.”

“Give it a name.”