novelraw Chapter 193
Chapter 193
Chapter 193: Toilet Play?
As soon as the food in the pot was cooked, Lucia started devouring it on the spot.
The dragon was very hungry today.
Lucia was afraid that her colleagues would see her eating too much at lunch, so she ate very little. One lunch box was only three-tenths full for her.
It’s better to be at home. She can eat whatever she wants at home. Xia Li wouldn’t say anything to her, nor would he kick her out for eating too much rice.
At the end of the meal, if Xia Li hadn’t stopped her from licking the plate in time, they probably wouldn’t have needed to wash the dishes tonight.
“Nine-tenths full!”
The evil dragon rubbed her belly and took the empty plates to the kitchen to wash them. Xia Li followed silently behind her.
This time, he was definitely just going to watch from the side and not interfere.
The evil dragon was in charge of the housework. Men have to be ruthless to stand firm. “How are you going to deal with the remaining one-tenth?” Xia Li asked.
“I’ll drink yogurt later!”
“Then your stomach will be down to seven-tenths full later. You won’t be full from drinking yogurt.”
“Then I’ll have a pack of biscuits with it…” Lucia replied in a weak voice.
The biscuits Xia Li bought were cheese and scallion flavored, salty and not sweet. Lucia could eat three packs in one go.
“Am I eating too much?” Lucia thought of something and paused. “Biscuits and yogurt are too expensive, extravagant. Why don’t we just eat plain rice every day? Rice is not expensive, three yuan a jin. I can afford it.”
“Are you still considering making me eat soft rice???”
Xia Li stood by the side. The thought that he had said so much, but the dragon hadn’t listened to a single word, made him anxious, and his voice couldn’t help but raise a few notches.
“I told you, you’re just a little dragon. How many days have you known this society? And you’re already thinking about…”
“Why are you yelling so loud!”
“I…”
Before he could finish, Xia Li was choked back by the dragon’s words.
A girl’s greatest weapon: ‘Why are you yelling so loud!’ and ‘Do you not love me anymore!’
Xia Li originally thought that Lucia, being a dragon, would never learn the ultimate moves of modern girls, but now he was relieved.
“I’m just afraid of you suffering…” Xia Li softened his tone.
“One who endures hardship will become a dragon among men.” This phrase came to Lucia’s mind, and she answered casually.
“If a person is willing to suffer, there will be endless suffering, so there’s no need to endure hardship unnecessarily.”
Xia Li didn’t think the dragon race would have a “finding joy in suffering” hobby.
Enduring hardship unnecessarily was not their family’s way of life. Being proactive and ambitious was good, but when they could enjoy themselves, they should relax and enjoy it.
“Although I’m very willing for you to experience the outside world, I don’t want you to go through those hardships. I’ve lived through those days of eating only plain rice, I know how hard it is…
You don’t have to live so frugally. Besides relying on each other, we can also rely on our parents. It’s very common in this society to receive help from parents when you first enter society… Just like when you were born, without the ability to hunt, your mother would bring you the best meat to feed you.”
Xia Li always felt that Lucia was a bit too thrifty. In order to save money to buy a house, she was even reluctant to eat three-yuan fried rice cakes.
Hoarding was one of the dragon race’s habits, which Xia Li could understand.
“Our life will definitely get better… Didn’t I promise you that we would work together in the future? My mom said she would support us. We’ll run a shop, I’ll be responsible for getting the license, and you’ll be responsible for collecting the money.
Don’t you love money the most? I’ll let you collect it to your heart’s content then.”
Xia Li rattled on, while Lucia listened to the sound of running water and quietly washed the dishes.
After a while, she still couldn’t believe such a life was possible.
“Can it really be that smooth?” she asked from the bottom of her heart.
“Definitely.”
“Oh…”
Lucia was deep in thought. Xia Li took the soapy bowl from her hand and rinsed it clean under another tap.
The conversation had reached such a distant future, and it ended so abruptly. Xia Li felt like something was missing.
Since Lucia already understood the way of life of human families, could she also understand it on a deeper level?
“Then, when are we getting married?”
“Huh??”
The evil dragon looked up, thinking she had misheard for a moment.
“Get, get married.”
Xia Li paused and said.
It must be getting warmer lately, otherwise why does he always feel like his head is feverish? His face is also quite hot. There must be something wrong with the water heater’s temperature.
“Getting married doesn’t necessarily require a certificate,” Xia Li added. “As long as you’re willing, we can get married now.”
“…”
Xia Li peeked at Lucia. Lucia was squeezing dish soap and making bubbles.
She rubbed her fingers together, then spread the fine white foam on the dirty dishes, dissolving the grease around the rim.
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If he could, Xia Li would use water magic to conjure a ring right now… That would be quite romantic.
However, for Lucia, the romance she liked should be bringing a ton of gold, placing it in front of her, pointing at her nose and saying domineeringly, ‘The gold is yours, and you are mine.’ Wouldn’t that make this dragon swoon?
“What’s your answer?”
After letting his thoughts wander for a while, Xia Li felt he had recovered and turned back to continue questioning Lucia.
Not to mention that Lucia was startled, even Xia Li himself, who had suddenly blurted out that sentence, felt a little nervous.
“I, I, I don’t know!”
Lucia shook her dragon claws, flinging the foam into the sink, then fled in panic.
For her, it was all too sudden.
She had just started her first day at work, a gentle little nurse during the day, and now she was going to be the brave hero’s wife at night.
Of course, Lucia knew what ‘wife’ meant…
It meant she could do this and that to Xia Li, and Xia Li could do this and that to her!
It meant a lifelong commitment.
The evil dragon escaped into the toilet.
Xia Li put the clean dishes in the dish rack and then walked over casually.
The toilet door wasn’t locked. He twisted it open easily.
After five minutes of cooling down, Xia Li had figured it out. He believed Lucia should have an answer too.
Lucia was sitting on the toilet, revealing a small part of her fair buttocks, her eyes staring at Xia Li.
Xia Li didn’t find anything wrong with it and continued:
“Lucia, what I just said was definitely not to deceive you.”
“I’ve always been working hard for a better future for us, not just painting you a pie in the sky.”
“To be honest, when I first saw you on Earth, I thought you were trouble and didn’t want to have anything to do with you. But considering the complicated situation between us and the traces of my week-long disappearance, I had to take you home.
At first, I was only interested in your gold coins, hoping you would give me more gold coins to improve my life… Because I didn’t want to go out and work. I wanted to do other things, or I wanted to be lazy. Your gold coins happened to be enough for me to live for a while.
As for you, I treated you like a pet, feeding you every day. To avoid trouble, I restricted you, made you do housework, and made you work for food. I admit that I was a lazy and bad person at first. I was never the brave hero you saw in Azure Continent, drawing his sword for human justice. I’m very selfish.
Compared to me, your personality surprised me.
You’re not the naturally evil creature that those people in Azure Continent say you are. You have your own principles and ways of doing things. You never give up in the face of adversity. You’re positive and cheerful. A little bit of good can make you happy for a long time. When you encounter bad things, you only show a little disappointment and then immediately reorganize your emotions. So, I gradually started to admire you…
Later on, I felt that it was good to be with you and wanted to keep you by my side. So when you said you wanted to go back, I was very anxious… But after all, I promised you, and I had to work hard in the direction of ‘sending you home.'”
Xia Li said a lot in one breath.
He felt like he was making a long and clumsy confession.
He no longer cared whether Lucia understood or not, but whether he had expressed his feelings.
His somewhat dry throat rolled.
Feeling that it wasn’t enough, Xia Li continued.
“Later, we cleared up the misunderstanding, and I found out that you actually didn’t want to go back either… So I had the thought of ‘keeping you’. Don’t think that I understand such feelings just because I’ve lived in this world for more than twenty years.
I only learned later that this feeling, like possessiveness, is actually ‘like’.
Not the appreciation between friends, but the kind of liking between opposite sexes who want to develop a deeper relationship… You should understand this feeling now, right?”
Xia Li didn’t know what he was saying, he just clumsily said it.
It seemed that the more he said, the more Lucia would understand him.
If he said a little more, Lucia would accept him.
Marriage was never about a piece of paper.
Compared to a signed and sealed contract, it was more like a verbal ceremony. As long as they confirmed each other’s feelings, as long as it was consensual, even at home, they could complete this ceremony.
“I hope you’ll think carefully about what I’ve said. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask me, or Zhou Anqi, or even Baidu it online…
I didn’t want to tell you this before because I thought you wouldn’t understand, that you wouldn’t get it even if I told you.
But now I’m saying it because I think you’re already completely human, completely able to understand the complex emotions of humans.”
On the white porcelain toilet, Lucia sat there, her slightly surprised face tinged with pink.
Facing Xia Li’s gaze, she slowly lowered her head, looking at her dangling feet, her toes intertwined, her face also heating up.
“Do, do you know what I’m saying now, Lucia?”
“I want to formally say to you…”
“I like you.”