novelraw Chapter 191
Chapter 191
Chapter 191: The Brave Hero Dies, Tsundere
“You can’t eat food given to you by strangers, and you can’t steal food from strangers either. If you want to eat something, go to the convenience store and buy it, but remember to pay… and stop bumping into the glass doors.”
“I know, it’s an automatic door, it will sense me when I walk over.”
“Do you know how to open a QR code?”
“Yes, yes, I know.”
“Don’t go with strangers, don’t talk to people you don’t know. If it’s a colleague from the hospital, you need to learn to discern good from evil. You’re a dragon, your sixth sense is so sharp, you can definitely tell the difference between good and bad.”
“I know.”
“This time I’m sending you to intern, besides fulfilling your little wish, the biggest purpose is to let you grow, adapt to society, and get along with colleagues. These are all things you need to experience.”
“Oh right, you’re also a ‘spy’ I sent over there. Learn their business model well, and then you can be the boss’s wife.”
“Mm-hmm.” “And also… hmm?”
In the car, Xia Li’s mouth was like a blue flame machine gun on the internet, chattering non-stop.
Lucia patiently listened at first, but couldn’t stand it anymore later.
Xia Li was too preachy; he was suitable to play the monk in Journey to the West.
Stuffing the last biscuit into that talking mouth, Lucia finished her strawberry milk, clapped her hands, and was about to get out of the car.
“Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!!”
Seeing this, Xia Li quickly pressed the lock button, swallowed the biscuit in two bites, and shouted while choking.
“The car hasn’t stopped yet, what’s the rush!”
Suddenly, it felt like sending a kindergarten kid to school.
The key was, this kid was still looking forward to going to kindergarten.
Lucia turned back, with biscuit crumbs still on her fair and soft face, and seriously answered Xia Li’s question:
“At this speed, I won’t break.”
“Bah, hearing you say that, I’m not at ease letting you go to work!”
“Just kidding…”
The evil dragon’s face remained unchanged, and she sat back obediently.
Mainly because she was too excited.
Today was her first day at work, and she had been so excited that she couldn’t sleep since last night. She spun like a top on the bed for several rounds before finally falling asleep.
She had never been this excited when Xia Li wanted to take her to the amusement park before…
But she couldn’t tell Xia Li this, or he would get jealous.
“Alright, let’s go.”
Xia Li parked the car in the parking space, pulled the handbrake, and turned off the engine.
As soon as Lucia heard the order, she dashed out of the door.
The sun was shining brightly outside today, and the weather was warming up.
Xia Li said, “Keep warm in spring, stay cool in autumn,” so he wouldn’t let Lucia take off her clothes.
Lucia was still bundled up like a big bear. She wore a dark brown coat outside and a pink sweater inside, and a pair of off-white wide-leg pants. A small section of her ankles was exposed under the wide-leg pants, wrapped in white socks, looking small and delicate.
Lucia was already short, and with the pants being loose, she looked like a legless mop.
This outfit was all about being ‘low-key’.
After all, she was going to work, it was better to dress ordinarily in the workplace…
Although it was still difficult to conceal the youthful and lively feeling emanating from the girl.
“Hehe…”
“What are you giggling about, you’re so stupid.”
“I’m going to be a doctor soon!”
“Yes, Doctor Lu.”
Xia Li called her that very flatteringly.
In reality, this dragon wasn’t even a nurse, just an intern who followed the attending physician around, doing chores and watching.
Lucia pretended not to care about this title, her soft lips pursed together, then secretly curled up into a smile.
“When I learn the skills, I’ll treat Xia Li.”
“I’m not sick, I don’t need treatment…”
“I’ll give you an injection!”
“Then I’ll give you an injection too.”
“But you’re not a doctor, you don’t have a needle.”
“I have a needle… no, I don’t have a needle, I only have a big pipe.”
Xia Li immediately denied his own words, and then started arguing with himself.
It was fortunate that this dragon didn’t understand anything.
Otherwise, every time Xia Li ran his mouth, wouldn’t this dragon be covered in tire tracks?
“Big pipe?” Lucia blinked her innocent eyes, “Wouldn’t there be a lot of water…”
“You’re not allowed to talk anymore.” Xia Li said awkwardly with a cold face.
“Oh…”
Lucia scratched her head and nodded, not understanding.
She pressed the button to open the automatic door, and the glass door opened automatically.
A wave of heat hit them; the air conditioning here was always on high.
Xia Li subconsciously looked at his feet.
This time, there was no black shadow darting out.
It was a pity he didn’t see Wuqi last night; otherwise, he would have brought him along today.
Although this guy was just a mascot and useless, he was an old acquaintance of the pet hospital and could at least take care of Lucia a bit.
“Oh, Little Lu, you’re here so early, the doctor in charge of you hasn’t arrived yet…”
The pet hospital was relatively quiet after the New Year. Lucia stood awkwardly in the middle of the lobby, looking around.
The emerald green money tree was hung with palm-sized lanterns, and the huge floor-to-ceiling window facing outwards was pasted with various red paper cuttings. In addition to the common oriental dragon paper cuttings this year, there were many kittens and puppies, which looked festive and warm.
Lucia looked up and around, then looked expectantly at the older sister walking towards her.
“Come, put on this coat. Our hospital doesn’t have special uniforms for interns. This is a nurse’s uniform, your work ID is already made and hung on it, take a look.”
“O-Okay.”
Lucia took it shyly.
It was a pink staff jacket, the same color as her sweater.
She took off her coat and threw it into Xia Li’s hands, then put on the new work uniform.
On her chest, a small square card read six words: “Intern, Lucia”.
Oh… her name!
After coming to Earth, this was the first time Lucia saw her name appear somewhere other than Xia Li’s computer.
Her name, appeared in human society…
Did it also count as officially leaving her mark on this society?
Lucia stared at the work ID on her chest for a while, and suddenly looked up with some emotion.
Those beautiful golden-brown eyes quietly looked at Xia Li and blinked.
Somewhat proud, as if showing off to Xia Li: Look at my work ID!
But her watery eyes betrayed her current emotion.
Xia Li gave her a gentle smile.
Just as he was about to raise his hand to pinch her tender cheeks, Lucia was taken away.
“You don’t have any fixed tasks every day, basically you just see how the teacher… that is, the doctor, assigns them. But you have to do disinfection twice a day, the injection room, the diagnosis room, the inpatient area, these are the key disinfection areas…
My surname is Xia, my name is Xia Xin, you can call me Sister Xin or Xinxin.”
“Your surname is Xia too?”
“Yes, do you have any friends with the surname Xia?”
“I don’t have any friends with the surname Xia, but my only boyfriend’s surname is Xia…”
“Haha, the word ‘only’ is well used, you must really love your boyfriend.”
Just like that, Lucia was taken away. Xia Li withdrew his outstretched hand, feeling a bit lonely.
Looking at the evil dragon’s gradually reddening cheeks, Xia Li felt satisfied.
It was good for her to have some contact with the outside world…
Xia Li always comforted himself this way.
But the reluctance in his heart still existed.
“I’ll pick you up this afternoon.”
He raised his voice and shouted loudly to Lucia, who was about to push the door and enter the room.
Lucia stopped, turned her head: “Oh, oh…”
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“You have such a good relationship.”
“It’s alright, just average.”
“It’s really good, unlike my boyfriend, he never cares about me…”
The two entered the room at the same time, their figures disappearing at the doorway.
Life was hard, Xia Li sighed.
How did the once fearless and majestic Silver Dragon Queen become so humble?
Ah, time was a dragon-slaying knife.
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With this loneliness and reluctance, Xia Li drove home alone.
He thought that without Lucia, he could focus more on studying or working.
But after returning home, Xia Li felt like a walking corpse.
Although his body was there, his heart had already flown away.
He actually, actually…
Just sent the little dragon away like that?
He didn’t want that kind of thing to happen.
Glancing at the clock, there were still six and a half hours until Lucia got off work!
How could he live like this!
Lying on the sofa like a long-dead fish, Xia Li’s eyes stared at the clear sky outside the balcony, feeling a bit lost for a moment.
“Meow, meow!”
A round tri-colored ball jumped up from the ground.
After three months of feeding, Little Cotton was now Big Cotton, and her weight had increased from less than two pounds to six pounds.
She suddenly jumped up and stepped on Xia Li’s stomach.
In the past, Xia Li would definitely move and pretend to be about to vomit blood.
But today, he wasn’t in the mood.
“When I went out before, did Lucia also wait for me like this?”
“Meow meow~”
“What was she thinking at that time?”
“Meow~~”
Einstein’s theory of relativity was right.
When you were with someone you liked, time flew by.
And when you were waiting alone, the flow of time slowed down infinitely… This feeling, it felt like years.
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The little chef was gone, so he had to cook for himself.
Xia Li barely made it through the morning, and at noon, he broke down again.
In the kitchen, filled with traces of life, the short, mischievous figure bustling around the stove had disappeared.
When Lucia first came to this home, Xia Li had been thinking that he couldn’t spoil her too much, he had to let her be self-reliant, and he couldn’t turn her into a useless dragon.
Now it was good.
Now Xia Li was the one who had been turned into a useless person by Lucia.
After eating two bites of instant noodles to make do, Xia Li really had no appetite. He went out two hours early to buy groceries from the supermarket.
By three in the afternoon, Xia Li drove to Jinjiang District anxiously to wait for Lucia to get off work.
The painful eight hours were finally over. Xia Li sat in the car, his eyes locked on the elevator door like a radar.
Until the familiar figure appeared.
The girl had her brown coat hanging on her arm, her pure pink sweater looked bright in the sunlight, and her petite figure stood there, looking around.
After seeing Xia Li’s car, her eyes lit up, and she skipped over.
Xia Li pretended not to care and lowered his head to play with his phone.
The phone battery was at 100%, he hadn’t touched it.
“Boyfriend!”
“…”
The car door opened, and Lucia swooped in with a Dragon Collision.
“What kind of address is this again?” Xia Li tilted his head.
“Hehe… Have you been waiting long?”
“No, just arrived.”
“But the windows are all fogged up!”
Lucia had a faint smell of disinfectant on her. Probably because the indoor temperature was high before, her face was flushed, and there were fine beads of sweat on her forehead.
Xia Li turned off his phone and looked up inadvertently.
Sure enough, he saw the mist on the windshield.
This dragon…
How did she become so smart after just eight hours!
She actually knew that the heater was on in the car, and the temperature difference would cause the windows to fog up.
“I saw you upstairs just now… Why did you come an hour early to wait!” Lucia confessed.
Xia Li looked away, a trace of embarrassment flashing across his old face.
He just happened to be passing by, he wasn’t waiting for her!
He was too tsundere, he couldn’t say it.
… Why was he being as awkward as Old Xia.
Xia Li cleared his throat and said, “Let’s go back, I bought groceries, let’s cook at home tonight.”
“Okay!”
On the way back, the two didn’t say a word.
Lucia lowered her head to play with her phone and wrote something in her little notebook.
Xia Li peeked at it, it should be work-related, the things she wrote were all names of medicines, it seemed like she was trying to memorize them.
Several times he wanted to speak, but Xia Li was afraid of disturbing the dragon’s work, so he held back.
After holding it in for a while, he waited until Lucia put down her phone before he choked out a sentence.
“…Are you tired from work?”
“Not tired, it’s my first day, Xinxin took me to do very simple things, basically running errands and getting medicines.” Lucia replied.
Xia Li took the time to glance at her.
Although her face was a bit tired, she was full of energy.
This reminded Xia Li of the feeling when he first started elementary school… But after a few days, this energetic look would be destroyed into calmness and numbness.
Everyone would experience it.
“How do you feel?” Xia Li asked again.
“It definitely doesn’t feel as good as being at home… I can play freely at home, but I can’t at the hospital. And the cats and dogs at the hospital are afraid of me, I can’t even pet them.”
Lucia stopped writing and paused before saying again.
“The hospital smells bad, I don’t like it. But, this feeling of being needed is not bad…”
“Yes.” Xia Li nodded slightly.
He was responding to Lucia on the surface, but in his heart, he had another thought.
The stinky dragon wanted to be needed. Little did she know, the person who needed her the most was him!
He couldn’t live without her, stinky dragon.
Just eight hours, and he felt like his soul had flown away.
Xia Li even wanted to go to work at the pet hospital too.
He also wanted to be an intern and be with the little dragon every day.
“There’s another feeling, which is also not bad…”
Lucia put down everything in her hands.
Her tone became serious, and her flickering peach blossom eyes stared blankly at the constantly changing road ahead.
“What feeling?”
Xia Li held the steering wheel and asked back cooperatively.
Although his heart was wailing to be close to Lucia, he still had to maintain the image of a mature and steady boyfriend.
Lucia smiled slightly and looked sideways at Xia Li:
“The feeling of someone waiting for you to come home, it’s really nice.”