novelraw Chapter 171
Chapter 171
Chapter 171: Primal Urge
After finalizing Lucia’s work schedule, the evil dragon was in a state of excitement every day.
Every day, she would say she wanted to study, then she would hold the textbook and read for a while, slack off for a while, and occasionally come to harass Xia Li a few times—this kind of learning state was exactly the same as Xia Li when he was a child.
She did not miss a single daily chore.
Xia Li told her to rest, but she was still as hardworking as a little bee, cleaning here and there, then going to the washing machine to smell the clothes one by one, and finally stuffing them into the washing machine.
Every time he saw this scene, Xia Li would feel a strange sense of embarrassment.
It was fine to smell the coats and sweaters, but please don’t smell the socks, and after smelling them, she would make a painful expression…
Moreover, this dragon had secretly washed Xia Li’s underwear more than once or twice.
Sometimes Xia Li didn’t have time to wash them in the shower, so the evil dragon would go to the bathroom right after and wash them all.
After washing them, she would ask Xia Li what the pocket in the middle of the boxer briefs was for. What’s it for?
It’s for secret weapons!
“Stop messing with the washing machine and come read a book.”
Xia Li was getting impatient waiting on the sofa, he grabbed the ‘Basic Veterinary Clinical Practice’ in his hand and summoned the evil dragon to study together.
Only then did the evil dragon pour the laundry detergent into the washing machine, then take out the fragrance beads and pour a small capful in.
This kind of fragrance beads had a lavender scent, which smelled better than laundry detergent. When used on winter clothes, it could last for ten days. This was what Xia Li bought for Lucia when she went to the supermarket last time, and she liked it very much.
“I’ll read this one!”
Lucia pulled a book from the coffee table, then kicked off her slippers, and performed a “Dragon Launch” on the spot.
Then she landed precisely on the soft sofa, her legs crossed with white socks on, her body curled up like a cat, and she began to read.
The complete set of textbooks Xia Li bought had as many as twenty books. Even if the two of them gnawed on one book a week, it would take a long time to finish them all.
Not to mention, this dragon was very slow at recognizing characters and stuttered when learning.
Smelling the faint fragrance at the tip of his nose, Xia Li had no mood to study at the moment and secretly moved his body closer to the evil dragon.
This guy was still looking at pinyin and learning “a o e yi wu yu” last month, but today she actually started reading university textbooks with Xia Li.
This knowledge leap…
Could it be that the evil dragon was actually a top student?
Xia Li peeked at the evil dragon’s pretty face and reached out his finger to trace it.
The feeling now was like when the teacher changed seats in school and accidentally assigned the girl he secretly liked to be his deskmate.
Who would be in the mood to read in this situation? Wouldn’t everyone be teasing their female deskmate?
The evil dragon felt a tickling on her face and raised her hand to slap away the Brave Hero’s smelly hand. When she felt the Brave Hero retract his hand resentfully, she felt a little reluctant.
So she grabbed the oily hand and pressed it against her soft cheek.
The Brave Hero’s hand was a little cooler than Lucia’s own body temperature, probably because he had been holding the book all winter.
There was no heating in the house either. The air conditioner hanging on the wall was probably old and had poor heating effects, and it also consumed a lot of electricity.
The Brave Hero’s mother was right, the winter here was strangely cold.
Fortunately, she was a dragon and was not afraid of the cold.
“When I go to work and earn money, I’ll buy you a big house!”
Lucia said sincerely, after thinking about it, she simply stuffed the Brave Hero’s slightly cold hand inside her clothes to warm it up.
Xia Li stretched out his arm and lay down on the evil dragon’s body.
This warm and peaceful feeling was too blissful.
“What kind of house are you buying? Housing prices are plummeting now, who knows what will happen in the future…” Xia Li murmured with his eyes closed.
“And you, a little intern, only make 1200 yuan a month, it’s not even enough to rent a house, how can you think about buying a house?”
Although it was Xia Li’s principle to never discourage the evil dragon’s enthusiasm,
But he still had to make things clear.
Recognizing reality was also an important part of entering human society.
Lucia pouted and didn’t say anything, nestled on the sofa.
She just wanted to get Xia Li a house where his hands wouldn’t freeze in the winter…
Dragons usually had low requirements for their lairs, basically as long as it could accommodate their huge bodies.
But if you considered the ‘future’… then the requirements were very high.
First of all, female dragons would only consider breeding when the climate was suitable and food was plentiful.
If you compared this to humans, it was very similar to the ‘material pursuit’ of humans and their partners.
Lucia still had this kind of pursuit.
She counted with her fingers.
The price of ordinary buildings in Qingcheng City was about 20,000 yuan per square meter… So if you wanted to buy a 100 square meter house, then it would be…
Well, two million.
Lucia scratched her forehead, feeling like dragon horns were about to grow there.
“1200 yuan a month, to earn two million, it would take, it would take…”
“138 years.” Xia Li gave the answer.
Lucia was stunned.
The Brave Hero was so amazing!
Xia Li silently turned off the calculator on his phone and turned back to the evil dragon.
“More than a hundred years, by then I would be…”
“It’s only a hundred years!” Lucia’s eyes lit up.
She didn’t think too much about it, she just felt that a hundred years was not a long time for a dragon.
From her birth to adulthood, it had already been a hundred years, and she had lived muddleheadedly through that hundred years without much feeling.
So these 138 years seemed quite short.
“…”
Xia Li was silent for a moment and shook his head helplessly.
He pulled his hand out from Lucia’s soft belly and casually picked up a veterinary clinical book to browse.
Lucia wouldn’t think as much as he did.
That was her naive nature. The dragon race’s strong adaptability made her have almost no worries.
But Xia Li was different.
As a human, Xia Li had many things to think about.
Resting his hand on the armrest of the sofa, Xia Li stared at Lucia’s serious face in a daze.
After a long time, he sighed with some relief.
Why think so much?
Even he himself was educating Lucia that the important thing was always the process, not the result.
Could it be that he was going to back down now and tell Lucia that humans and dragons couldn’t be together forever? The best way was actually not to let Lucia integrate into Earth society, but to send her back to the Azure Continent and let her be a forever free dragon?
Unfortunately,
Xia Li was not such a great person.
His love for Lucia had always been selfish.
Selfishly wanting to keep her by his side, even in the face of racial issues, identity issues, even if everyone around him opposed it, he was determined.
Moreover… even Lucia herself had said,
Don’t leave her.
“Xia Li…”
“Hmm?”
Lucia raised the book in her hand and shook it in front of Xia Li.
Xia Li came back to his senses and saw the cover of the book with the words 《Veterinary Obstetrics》 written on it.
“How do you read this character?” The evil dragon asked with a frown.
The biggest problem with this kind of professional book was that there was no pinyin, which forced Lucia to take pictures with her phone every time she wanted to recognize a character, so her learning efficiency was very slow.
“Tan, like in paralysis.” Xia Li read the character she was pointing at.
So Lucia’s finger moved again, pointing to the next character.
“What about this character?”
“Huan, also like in paralysis.”
Lucia: “…”
Human language was really difficult to understand.
And mammals were too fragile!
This 《Veterinary Obstetrics》 book listed hundreds of problems that could be encountered during childbirth.
But their dragon race was different. Dragons laid eggs directly, and after laying eggs, there was nothing wrong with them. After two hours of recovering their strength, they would be a powerful dragon again.
Thinking of this, Lucia touched her own body.
Speaking of which, she was also a mammal now…
Could it be that this book could actually be used on herself?!
Lucia’s little face froze.
When she looked up, she found Xia Li staring at her intently, so she pursed her lips and her face began to flush.
She was actually quite embarrassed.
But Xia Li was still staring blankly, looking at her with a thoughtful expression.
“What are you looking at?” Lucia tucked her ankles in.
“Looking at how beautiful my girlfriend is.” Xia Li answered immediately.
Now Lucia was even more embarrassed, she quickly changed the obstetrics book in her hand to a thick veterinary manual and muttered.
“You must be thinking about something.”
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And it must be something bad.
Xia Li replied, “I was thinking, if you grew up with me, we could still be classmates.”
As he said that, a scene involuntarily appeared in his mind.
“You would wear a refreshing little dress and tie your hair in a high ponytail in the summer. In the winter, you would be wrapped up like a chubby breadworm, with your long hair loose, occasionally tied in pigtails…
You would look like the girl next door, the pure and kind type.”
“And then?”
“And then I would flick your camisole during class.”
“???”
Lucia didn’t understand the secret language between humans.
But the act of ‘flicking a camisole’ sounded quite fun.
“Then I’ll flick your camisole too.” The evil dragon retorted.
“I don’t have a camisole.”
“What’s a camisole?”
Xia Li thought for a moment, then gestured with his hand to make half a circle.
“It’s that… round, flat thing, worn on the body.”
“Huh?”
Lucia didn’t understand. Xia Li glanced at the 《Veterinary Obstetrics》 she had casually placed on the coffee table and explained from a professional perspective.
“It’s what mammals use to breastfeed after giving birth…”
Before he could finish speaking, the evil dragon’s slender eyebrows were already furrowed.
Xia Li wisely didn’t continue.
He stopped there.
Otherwise, he might get bitten by the evil dragon later.
However, Lucia was only pretending to be a weak and delicate little dragon in front of him.
In fact, this guy might be a violent maniac.
If she were really in school, she would probably be a big sister with a rebellious ponytail, sharp eyes, and a fierce attitude, right?
And Xia Li would be the weak teenager who was ‘flicked on the camisole’, only able to hug the big sister’s thigh and be her little brother.
Pulling back his thoughts,
Xia Li refocused his attention on the Basic Veterinary Clinical Practice book in his hand.
“From now on, we’re classmates… My goal of studying is to get certified, and your goal of studying is to make up for theoretical knowledge and prepare for your future internship, understand?”
“Understood,” the evil dragon nodded, “We are both working hard for our common future!”
“…I didn’t expect you to be able to say such things.” Xia Li was a little moved.
Lucia smiled, pursing her lips.
She wanted to be a useful dragon in society before because she was afraid of being worthless and then abandoned by Xia Li.
After confirming that Xia Li wouldn’t abandon her, she still wanted to be a useful dragon in society.
But her goal was very cliché…
She wanted to earn money.
She wanted to figure out how to survive in human society and then earn small gold coins and save them with her own hands.
Dragons loved money.
Originally, Lucia didn’t have much hope for the internship. Zhou Anqi said that interns in society were pure workhorses, and some places even had to pay for internships.
So Lucia was just trying it out with the mentality of ‘gaining work experience’. She didn’t expect that after Xia Li talked to them, she would actually have a salary.
This turnaround was very fast, and Lucia had been secretly happy about it for several days.
She couldn’t think too far ahead before because she was incapable.
But now Lucia had a certain economic foundation.
She began to plan for her future.
Lucia’s goal was very clear, her future was definitely a future with Xia Li.
As Xia Li’s mother said, she would change to a more comfortable little house with Xia Li, and then have a stable job and life…
And then, this and that.
Lucia’s little face flushed red, and she really wanted to transform and swing her dragon tail with a “thump thump”.
Generally speaking…
When the environmental factors of humans were stable and their age was sufficient, wouldn’t they have to, have to consider the matter of little humans?
Oh… hers and the Brave Hero’s weren’t called little humans, they were called little dragons.
But, what did the Brave Hero think?
The Brave Hero hadn’t even mentioned it, would she, a newly arrived dragon, be thinking too far ahead?
Lucia initially thought that the Brave Hero had tricked her back to his lair to make her give birth to little dragon cubs.
Later, she found out that wasn’t the case.
Later still, she found out that it was actually the case.
A human couple relationship was basically the same as a relationship for having little dragon cubs, it was a proof of love.
Lucia hadn’t been surfing the internet for nothing all this time.
Just now, the Brave Hero was talking about mammals, but he stopped halfway through.
Could it be that this Brave Hero wasn’t a Brave Hero, but a Sage…
Thinking of this, Lucia secretly glanced at Xia Li.
Xia Li was organizing his books.
In order to keep his and Lucia’s learning progress synchronized, he bought two sets of identical test papers.
After all, Xia Li was the one who needed to get certified. He had high standards for himself, at least he had to be above the passing line every time he did the practice questions.
But for Lucia… as long as she could understand the meaning of the questions on the test paper.
“Why are you looking at me like you want to eat me?”
Turning around, Xia Li saw the dragon on the sofa blushing, but her gentle eyes were filled with a certain kind of impulse.
This expression, it seemed like it wouldn’t be surprising if she pounced on him and swallowed him whole in the next second.
“…I’m not.”
Lucia snorted and jumped off the sofa to hug Little Cotton on the floor.
“What are you thinking about? Why are you blushing?”
Xia Li was a little confused, girls’ thinking was always strange.
Lucia raised her hand and touched the two dragon scales on her face.
After thinking about it, she put her hand down.
“You said last time that you would teach me what liking is…”
Lucia rubbed Cotton’s little head and didn’t look at Xia Li’s expression. She continued with her head down.
“Have you finished teaching me?”
“I…”
A very distant question.
Xia Li hadn’t figured out how to answer this question.
Liking wasn’t a state, nor was it a goal, so there was no way to define its end and beginning.
Some people couldn’t understand this feeling for their entire lives, while others would benefit greatly from a certain moment.
This kind of complex emotion between humans, sometimes even Xia Li himself couldn’t figure it out.
“I’m just getting started, you still have a long way to go.”
Xia Li put the books away neatly and couldn’t help but want to continue this topic.
He looked up and asked the evil dragon, “How much do you think you’ve learned during this time?”
“A lot!”
The evil dragon was happy to answer this question.
She looked up and held up a finger.
“I like gold coins because of the dragon race’s primal desire for beautiful metals and gems. I like Cotton because Cotton is cute and pitiful, it’s a protective desire.”
“Then why do you like me?”
“I like Xia Li because…”
“Because?”
“Because you’re like gold coins.”
Xia Li: “???”
No, I’ve been working hard for over a month, how is it still gold coins?!
Lucia added seriously, “Primal desire.”
Xia Li pondered these four words for a while.
Did that mean that the evil dragon’s liking for him was also a primal urge?
Wasn’t that still gold coins?
“But you’re different from gold coins,” Lucia said again, “If I lose gold coins, I can snatch them back. Even if all my gold coins are taken away, I will only be angry, not sad.”
“But if you leave, or if you get sick, or if you’re sad, I will be sad…”
“Because there’s only one Xia Li in the world.”
“You’re unique!”
“This is my ‘liking’!”