novelraw Chapter 169
Chapter 169
Chapter 169: The Correct Way to Handle a Brave Hero （4K）
The full version of the ‘Lucia Sivana’ experience card can only last for half a minute.
After half a minute, the magic power is exhausted.
The silver dragon horns that were conjured up completely disappear, and that cold and arrogant face gradually softens, until it returns to being pretty and cute.
At least hold on for a minute, Stinky Dragon!
As a pure-blooded giant dragon, when Lucia has abundant magic power, she uses the magic power in the air to strengthen herself, making herself look majestic.
This majesty disappeared instantly after coming to Earth, which has no magic power, and her body shrank significantly as a result.
This shrinkage cannot be restored with just a little bit of magic power. The reason Lucia was able to restore her original appearance for half a minute was entirely because she used illusion magic to disguise herself based on the image in her memory.
Xia Li knew very well that this was an illusion.
But even so, he was still completely captivated by Stinky Dragon’s move. It would be great if she could add a tail.
Just a pair of dragon horns is not enough… not enough to look at.
At least let him try to feel it?
Xia Li could guarantee that his XP was normal, but after all, the other party was his girlfriend. It was only right to be tolerant of every aspect of the person he liked.
Whether it was human form Lucia, semi-human form Lucia, giant dragon form Lucia, or girl version Lucia, mature version Lucia… Xia Li was looking forward to meeting them all.
So, what’s wrong with liking dragon girls?
Nothing at all!
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Two weeks passed in a hurry.
The last withered leaf on the ginkgo tree was swept up by the piercing cold wind and fell onto the desolate street.
The outdoor temperature had dropped to near zero degrees, almost the lowest temperature in Qingcheng City all year round.
It would be New Year’s in another month.
The New Year was late this year, falling in mid-February of the Gregorian calendar.
Elementary and junior high school students had already started their winter vacation one after another, but only high school students were still holding the fort on the front line.
The university town near Xia Li’s home ushered in a wave of students returning home for the winter vacation, and the usually quiet old town was bustling with activity for once.
However, this bustle receded like a tide, quickly returning to the calmness it had been before.
“Phew.”
Greeting the first rays of dawn, Xia Li stood in front of the window and yawned deeply.
He got up to wash up, ate a bowl of hot porridge, and then started his day’s work.
Little Chef’s cooking skills had improved a lot. Now, even for breakfast, Xia Li could taste some stir-fried dishes.
After breakfast, the Evil Dragon read on the sofa, occasionally swiping her phone and letting out giggles of ‘hehehe’.
After this period of hard work, Lucia had learned almost all of her Chinese and Math.
Xia Li only planned to let her learn the basics from the beginning. As long as she could calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and wouldn’t be tricked when going out, it would be fine.
As for Chinese, it was enough for her vocabulary to meet the needs of daily life.
To learn further, firstly, there were no conditions for systematic learning, and secondly, the difficulty was not proportional to the practicality, so before Lucia gave up, Xia Li gave up for her first.
“Hehe… Xia Li, I saw a funny joke. I’ll share it with you later!”
The Evil Dragon’s silly laughter came from the living room.
Xia Li tapped on the keyboard and casually said, “Got it.”
During these two weeks, Xia Li was either writing books or reading books on veterinary medicine.
Now that he had quit gaming and stopped browsing Bilibili, he alternated between work and study every day, which could be considered a disguised form of ‘work-life balance’.
As for the Evil Dragon, she was browsing short videos all day long, and her speed of acquiring new memes was even faster than Xia Li’s.
On the contrary, Xia Li became the one who couldn’t keep up with the trend.
He finished writing the latest chapter and clicked publish.
As usual, Xia Li browsed the comment section.
The story had now progressed to the point where the Silver Dragon and the Brave Hero met.
Because it was a dual protagonist story, two perspectives were needed. Xia Li specifically asked Lucia what she was thinking when they first met.
As a result, the Evil Dragon’s answer was very straightforward:
“I didn’t think much. Because you hit me, so I hit you back.”
Xia Li shamelessly asked if she felt he was different from the humans around him.
For example, his appearance, behavior, and so on…
After all, the men in the other world looked very random. In comparison, Xia Li was quite confident in his own face.
The result was still the same: “I didn’t think much.”
There was no love at first sight between Xia Li and Lucia.
There was only love that grew over time after being forced to live together. Literally.
When Xia Li first saw Lucia, he didn’t have that kind of thought either.
He only knew that the other party was a dragon, an enemy, so he went up to her with his sword.
【 Damn, so it’s not a dragon slaying plot? 】
【 Something’s wrong. Why are the Brave Hero and the Silver Dragon making eyes at each other?? 】
【 No! How can you let Lucia fall in love with a stupid human?? Get lost, Brave Hero! Get lost, Brave Hero! 『 fist 』 『 fist 』 】
【 I can’t accept it, I just can’t. 】
【 What is 4L talking about? Who’s getting into whom?? 】
The comment section was as lively as ever.
They were either scolding the Brave Hero or on their way to scolding the Brave Hero.
Out of selfishness, Xia Li did modify some of the plot.
For example, the Silver Dragon and the Brave Hero fought when they first met, then they encountered the pursuit of the third-party force, the Empire, and the man and the dragon were forced to hide in a cave.
Then there were some daily interactions, Xia Li slightly modified and filled in the story of Lucia’s arrival on Earth and her time with him.
Anyone could see that the plot was developing towards a human-dragon romance.
Some people started to criticize, some people liked it, and more people silently accepted this plot.
After all, the setting of dual protagonists from the beginning destined such an ending.
He wrote two hours’ worth of manuscript, and then read “Veterinary Microbiology” for half an hour.
It was really a headache.
Xia Li had never been exposed to this kind of major before. All beginnings are hard. If he wanted to enter the veterinary industry, it was really not as easy as he thought.
The morning passed in a flash.
Xia Li received a message. The sender was Chongyi Pet Hospital.
The content was to remind Xia Li that it was time for Mianhua’s vaccination.
Xia Li then counted on his fingers.
The last time they agreed to inject the second dose of vaccine after three weeks, today was exactly the 21st day.
“Take Mianhua for an injection this afternoon.”
“Oh… I’ll go too!”
Lunch was very rich: stir-fried green peppers with meat, a bowl of seaweed and egg soup, and Mapo Tofu that was not spicy enough.
As soon as Xia Li picked up a piece of tofu and put it in his bowl, Lucia scooped the tofu out of his bowl with a spoon.
Xia Li looked up in confusion.
“Eat your tofu!” Lucia said with a sweet smile.
Xia Li: “…”
So he stood up and put his hand on Lucia’s soft little face and stroked it.
This dragon face was smooth and tender, with excellent feel.
“Eat your tofu.” Xia Li retorted.
The Evil Dragon pouted and raised her hand to fight back.
That small, fair hand randomly groped Xia Li’s chest.
“Eat it back!”
Xia Li raised his head and chest, and stopped talking.
His gaze quietly rested on Lucia’s bulging chest.
Lucia blushed and gave him a warning look.
If he touched it, would he be bitten hard by dragon teeth? Xia Li thought.
But it didn’t seem like a loss either.
“You, you, you!”
Lucia knew that the Brave Hero had the guts to do that, so she took the initiative. Before anything happened, she directly bit Xia Li’s arm.
Xia Li withdrew his hand in pain.
“Preemptive strike on eating tofu!” Lucia said proudly.
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The Evil Dragon won a complete victory.
“Do you want to buy new ones?”
Xia Li asked, rubbing the two rows of teeth marks on his arm.
“Buy what?” Lucia’s small mouth was stuffed with tofu, and her voice was muffled.
“The size doesn’t seem to fit anymore. Should we buy a bigger size?”
Xia Li visually measured it.
Last time it was 75A, this time it was estimated to be 80B.
However, Xia Li didn’t know much about girls’ underwear, so he wasn’t sure about the size.
Lucia mumbled, eating and talking at the same time, it was hard to tell if she was speaking or chewing.
Her little face was slightly red, and she didn’t want to answer Xia Li’s question.
That’s how boys are… every day they only think about being lewd and being hungry!
Xia Li always liked to make carp and tofu soup for her before. Later, Lucia checked it herself, and that thing was actually… actually…
He had ulterior motives!
However, since she used magic to partially dragonize herself last time, Lucia was not as cowardly as before when dealing with Xia Li.
She could directly control the Brave Hero with her dragonized form.
Xia Li would instantly become stiff, unable to look away, and could only utter amazed sounds of “ah-ba-ah-ba”.
In this state, Lucia was confident that she could defeat him.
From now on, if she couldn’t decide what to do, she wouldn’t have to run to the Brave Hero’s mother to complain, she could just dragonize herself…
Anyway, she had already stored two dragon scales, so Lucia could activate it twice.
The Golden Bell and the Demon Repelling Sword could generate about one dragon scale’s worth of magic power a week. Under Xia Li’s guidance, this magic power would be absorbed into Lucia’s body and stored.
Xia Li said that magic power should not be used indiscriminately, he would have a big use for it in the future.
Lucia also felt that it should not be used indiscriminately.
She also had a big use for it.
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After lunch.
Xia Li was in charge of washing the dishes, and Lucia was in charge of being a useless dragon on the sofa.
The man and the dragon had a tacit understanding. When Xia Li finished washing the dishes, Lucia also lazily got up from the sofa.
She hugged the big sheep plush and went out, then thought about it and changed it to Little Cotton.
“Meow~”
Little Cotton was put into the pet carrier, her amber eyes, similar to Lucia’s, looked out uneasily.
“Be good, Cotton. Daddy is taking you for an injection!”
“Meow~”
Lucia teased the kitten in the cage and went downstairs with Xia Li.
It had been almost a month since they adopted Cotton. Cotton had gained a lot of weight. She was less than two pounds when she first arrived home, and now she was a healthy four-pound kitten.
It seemed that anything could be raised well in Xia Li’s home. Raising a dragon could make her go from A to B, and raising a cat could also make it fat.
However, goldfish were not included. The two goldfish had died long ago, probably due to the climate.
Xia Li secretly threw the goldfish carcasses down the drain. When Lucia asked where the fish had gone, Xia Li said he didn’t know, and the dragon didn’t ask further, so the matter was left at that.
“Haha, what a cute cat!”
“Where is it cute? It’s clearly ugly!”
Downstairs in the apartment complex, two children about ten years old were squatting by the flower bed, holding a small can of cat food in their hands, feeding a cat that looked both scruffy and a bit neurotic.
The cat was black and white, with a yin-yang face. The white part of its face was dyed red and blue, which looked very funny.
“This cat must have been abused, otherwise it wouldn’t be this color…”
A little girl with braids said in a regretful tone.
The little boy beside her nodded and said,
“It’s also possible that it fell into a paint bucket.”
“But paint buckets aren’t this color. It must have been bullied!”
The two children were still carrying their schoolbags. Judging from the time, they should have just come back from cram school not long ago.
Xia Li had seen these two children before. They should be residents of the same community.
Xia Li had already opened the car door, but on second thought, he had to go back to Wuqi’s “home” today, so he decided to take this guy with him as well.
No wonder Wuqi hadn’t been seen recently. He had found a new meal ticket.
Looking at Wuqi’s smug look as he took a bite of canned food and glanced at Xia Li, his eyes were just like the internet celebrity cat ‘Fresh Brother’ before.
“I dyed this cat.”
Xia Li walked over and greeted the two children.
The little girl looked up in surprise, “Brother, you actually bullied the kitten…”
“…”
Believe it or not, this cat volunteered.
“This is my cat. He knocked over the ink bottle.” Xia Li explained.
“So that’s how it is…” The little girl opened her eyes wide.
“Right, I said it might have knocked over paint or something.” The little boy next to her echoed.
Wuqi buried his head in his food, his ears perked up to listen to their conversation.
When the little girl reached out to touch him, he willingly accepted it, but when the hand was replaced by the little boy’s hand, his body couldn’t help but dodge meaningfully, as if he was unwilling to let the little boy touch him.
The little boy was unconvinced and looked up to ask the cat’s owner.
“Big brother, why does the cat’s back shrink when you touch it?”
“Because you’re touching the concave cat.” Xia Li answered immediately.
“???”
“Hehe… is brother talking about pinyin? I know this, it’s a meme!”
The little girl rubbed Wuqi’s head.
As if to show her companion how much she was liked by the cat, she deliberately touched the base of its tail and tentatively pulled it.
Wuqi suddenly looked up.
The three of them looked over at the same time, thinking that the cat was angry.
“Meow~~~”
A soft, even lascivious meow came out of Wuqi’s mouth.
『 Ah~ that’s a sensitive spot, don’t~~ 』
Xia Li: “…”
Damn, I can’t stand it anymore.
This cat is so cheap.
So lewd.
Take him away quickly.
“Brother, is he angry? Did I pull him too hard?” The little girl withdrew her hand and said regretfully.
“No… he didn’t mean to be angry just now.” Xia Li twitched the corner of his mouth.
“Let’s go, Wuqi.”
Calling Wuqi’s name, Xia Li turned to open the back door of the car.
“Get in.”
Wuqi licked his mouth and was about to bury his head in his food again.
Suddenly he heard someone calling him again.
This time it was Xia brother’s girlfriend who called his name, but her calm tone made Wuqi’s hair stand on end.
“Wuqi, we’re taking Cotton to the hospital.” Lucia’s voice came from the passenger seat.
Wuqi was startled.
Dragon Sister had spoken.
Now he had to leave.
He jumped into the car in a flash.
Xia Li slammed the car door shut.