novelraw Chapter 194
Chapter 194
Chapter 194: A Bad Dragon Who Doesn’t Want to Be My Wife Is Not a Good Girlfriend
“Ding——”
In the second after the phone alarm rang, a pair of large hands reached out from the darkness and pressed the off button.
With bare arms, Xia Li propped himself up, staring at the ‘7:30’ on the screen for a long time.
Completely……
Didn’t sleep a wink.
After all the nonsense last night, in order to give Lucia some space to think, Xia Li took the initiative to stay in the small dark room.
And he stayed there all night.
Apart from letting Lucia think carefully, sort out their current relationship and situation, and let her make a decision… Xia Li had another purpose for doing this.
Playing hard to get. One of humanity’s despicable tactics.
Let Lucia be away from him for one night, and then, let her understand how cold early spring is without Xia Li warming her bed.
Maybe it could activate this dragon’s sense of loneliness, so that she would agree, and the first thing she would say when she woke up in the morning would be ‘I want to be Xia Li’s wife!’
Wouldn’t that be wonderful.
Xia Li’s daydream was beautiful.
After getting up and washing up, the door to the master bedroom was tightly closed, and there was no movement inside.
After listening at the door for a while, Xia Li didn’t rush in.
This dragon didn’t even send a message all night…
What is she doing, just giving up her addiction to cuddling in her sleep?
He should have stolen Stinky Dragon’s oversized sheep plush pillow before going to sleep last night, so that the dragon would definitely have to sneak into his room in the middle of the night… What a blunder.
He glanced at the time again.
Xia Li didn’t choose to push the door open.
He wasn’t in a hurry anyway.
Whoever’s in a hurry is a puppy!
It’s not like he’s the one who has to clock in at nine o’clock!
“Meow~”
While waiting at the door, a ball-shaped calico kitten crawled over.
The kitten walked very slowly, sticking out its pink tongue to lick its nose, looking like it had just eaten cat food.
It came over and rubbed against Xia Li’s ankle, and Xia Li squatted down and petted it.
“Meow wow~”
Suddenly remembering something, Xia Li gently opened the door a crack and pushed Little Cotton into the room.
“Go, go in, and see if your mom is awake. ”
“Meow~？”
Cotton went in half-heartedly.
First, it looked around, and after seeing the familiar figure on the bed, it walked over with cat-like steps, leaped with all four limbs, and jumped onto the bed to nestle.
Hee hee.
Cotton is anxious, Cotton is a puppy.
Xia Li childishly finished comforting himself in his heart before walking into the room.
Lucia was lying on the bed, hugging the sheep plush pillow with one hand, her chest rising and falling slightly with her breath.
The girl’s sleeping face was quiet and sweet, her long eyelashes casting a small shadow on her face, her nose small and straight, and her soft, cherry-pink lips looked so soft that one couldn’t help but want to take a bite.
Stinky Dragon is sleeping soundly.
It seems that without Xia Li for the night, she had the whole bed to herself, and there was no withdrawal reaction to Xia Li at all.
Cotton was nestled between her legs, forming a big ‘太’ character with the dragon and cat together.
“……”
Squatting by the bed, Xia Li looked at her peaceful sleeping face and didn’t rush to wake her up.
Xia Li thought he had chosen the right time and opportunity for his confession last night.
It was just that the location was a bit off.
Confessing in front of the toilet is indeed a bit…
And Lucia had her pants off at the time, maybe she was even using the toilet, and Xia Li just went ahead and gave her a face-to-face confession.
Under such circumstances, it’s normal for the dragon’s brain to not react.
But after a night of cooling off, she should have figured it out, right?
“……”
Under Xia Li’s gaze, that clean and fair face was gradually changing color.
From soft white to light pink, and finally developing into a crimson red visible to the naked eye.
“Get up! Get up! It’s time for work!!”
Lucia knew that her pretending to be asleep was exposed.
She directly did a dragon roll and jumped out of bed.
After standing up, she realized that Cotton was lying by her legs at some point. It was startled by the sudden movement, and Lucia quickly squatted down and stroked Cotton’s belly.
“Morning…”
“A new day begins with laying bricks!”
Before Xia Li could finish his good morning, he was cut off by the dragon.
This dragon was like she was on steroids, jumping off the bed and going to the bathroom to wash up at a hundred-meter sprint speed.
Xia Li tried the doorknob of the bathroom.
It seems she’s learned her lesson, the doorknob won’t turn.
After waiting for a while, Lucia came out all dressed up.
There were still a few crystal clear water droplets on her cheeks, and after washing her face with cold water, the redness on her face and ears had faded a lot.
After changing her clothes, Lucia didn’t speak, and walked past Xia Li without raising her head.
The living room was unusually quiet.
Neither of them spoke to each other, but they maintained a certain tacit understanding.
“Meow？”
Cotton was used to the mushiness between the two-legged beasts, but the atmosphere was suddenly different this morning, and it was a little worried.
Xia Li stood at the door, holding a food bag in his hand, which contained boiled eggs and pastries.
He bought some osmanthus cakes at the supermarket yesterday, which could be eaten directly after steaming them this morning, a very simple breakfast.
Xia Li deliberately held all these things in his hand, even if the dragon wanted to avoid him now, she couldn’t turn a blind eye to food, right?
This dragon is very easy to handle, a little food can catch her.
Sure enough, when changing her shoes, Lucia remembered that she hadn’t had breakfast yet, and rubbing her empty stomach, she turned her gaze to the food in Xia Li’s hand.
Very naturally, she stretched out her small hand, raised her pleading eyes, and piously asked Xia Li for food.
Xia Li didn’t know what was wrong with him, and he just stuffed everything into her hand, as if he had completely lost his resistance to this dragon.
“Aren’t you going to say anything?”
Xia Li still decided to ‘surrender’ and be the first to break the silence between them.
“It’s almost time for food again!” Lucia said.
“Not that. ”
“Then, thank you for your offering…”
“Next time you don’t address me properly, I won’t give you food. ” Xia Li threatened.
His words were too weak, without any sense of threat at all.
Even he himself knew that every time he was in Lucia’s hands, he would give in within a second, and there was no such thing as assertiveness.
“Thank you, Brave Hero…”
Lucia said shyly.
“Ugh! Change it. ”
“Thank you, boyfriend. ” Lucia changed her words.
“You you…”
Xia Li was speechless.
It’s reasonable to call him that, but Xia Li wasn’t satisfied.
The two of them walked and ate, and after the engine warmed up for a while, Xia Li wrapped the empty plastic bag together, planning to take it out of the car to throw away later.
On the way to the pet hospital, there was silence all the way.
Lucia stared out the window, only leaving Xia Li with a soft profile.
Occasionally biting into the osmanthus cake, her cheeks would puff up, as if she had eaten something particularly delicious. She looked down at the osmanthus cake in her hand again, stretched out her small hand and fiddled with it, picked off a small golden flower, and then put it into her dragon mouth to chew.
It was the first time she had eaten osmanthus cake. This kind of thing wouldn’t normally appear on the dining table of people from Sichuan Province, only in some individual restaurants.
Lucia was curious several times and wanted to show Xia Li the golden flowers sticking to the pastries and ask him what they were.
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But… today she held back her curiosity and didn’t say another word to Xia Li.
“What are you doing?”
Xia Li couldn’t help it anymore, and at the next traffic light, he stepped on the brakes and broke the strange atmosphere again.
“I’m not doing anything. ”
Lucia shook her head, not daring to look at Xia Li.
“That’s osmanthus, in September the whole tree is full of them, the smell is very fragrant, you can smell it from far away… Osmanthus is not only a medicinal herb, but also an ingredient, it looks good and tastes good in pastries. ”
After all, they had been together for so long, Xia Li naturally knew what this dragon was thinking just now.
The long-standing question was answered, Lucia’s eyes lit up, and she took another big bite of the osmanthus cake.
She stuffed her cheeks full, chewed twice, and swallowed it with milk.
“…Why aren’t you talking, are you angry?”
Xia Li glanced at her.
Lucia sat upright and didn’t say a word.
“If you’re angry, I’m even angrier, I said so much last night, and you didn’t respond at all, ” Xia Li paused, seeing that she had no intention of speaking, he added:
“At least say ‘I like you too’, you used to say it, why didn’t you say it last night?”
Lucia held the empty plastic bag, clenched her small fists and rested them on her knees, still silent.
Xia Li sighed.
Seemingly sensing this sudden disappointment, Lucia didn’t want Xia Li to feel this way, so she hurriedly looked up.
“No…”
“No what?”
“I didn’t say it because I was sitting on the toilet last night. ”
“…I admit, I was indeed anxious at the time, I shouldn’t have done that in the bathroom, but I feel that with my personality, if I didn’t say it at the time, I would have to hold it in for a long time. ” Xia Li said frankly.
So it really was the toilet’s fault.
This made Xia Li breathe a sigh of relief.
“Then say it now, I want to hear it. ” He continued to coax her.
Lucia shifted her butt, glanced at the scenery outside the window, and then fixed her gaze on Xia Li.
Xia Li felt that he was ready.
“I… I can’t say it…”
“Why not this time! You used to be able to say it!” Xia Li was dumbfounded.
“Because, now I know the weight of those words…”
Lucia looked at the road ahead, and when she said these words, Xia Li felt from the bottom of his heart that she had grown up.
She used to be able to say it casually because she could understand why she liked gold, she treated liking Xia Li as liking gold.
But now, that feeling had changed.
After understanding the emotion and weight of those words, Lucia, like most human girls, had a bit of shyness and a bit of reserve.
The feeling of ‘like’ was no longer a light emotion, but became heavy.
“I understood everything you said yesterday… but I may not be as good as you think. ”
Lucia pinched the corner of her clothes and said uneasily.
Xia Li held the steering wheel with one hand and listened quietly.
The traffic in Qingcheng City at eight o’clock in the morning was particularly congested, and it took a long time to pass each intersection. Surrounded by endless traffic, Xia Li couldn’t spare the time to look at the expression on Lucia’s face.
The car was quiet for a while before Xia Li replied to her in an affirmative tone.
“You are. ”
“I’m not!”
“I think you are, then you are. ”
“I only know how to eat and sleep! Even if I go out to earn some pocket money, I only earn forty yuan a day, not even enough to buy two kilograms of ribs!”
“I don’t care about that, ” Xia Li said, “What’s wrong with eating and sleeping? Being able to eat and sleep is a blessing…”
After listening, Lucia lowered her head and thought again.
The Brave Hero said so much last night, made so many promises, she also thought a lot, she felt that these were very heavy.
She really wasn’t as good as the Brave Hero thought.
Therefore, it was difficult to respond to his expectations.
Xia Li wanted to give her everything, wanted to give her everything… while Lucia herself, it seemed that apart from forty yuan a day, she couldn’t give anything.
Xia Li taught her before, equal effort in exchange for equal return, blindly giving will only result in compromise and hypocrisy… That’s what Xia Li said when she first made friends.
Therefore, Lucia reflected on herself and found that she had nothing to give in return.
As for marriage and the like, Lucia naturally knew what marriage was.
Marriage in the human world is a very important matter, this society is not like Azure Continent where you can marry many wives, here it is monogamy.
That means, after Xia Li marries her, he can’t marry anyone else.
Lucia didn’t want to disappoint the Brave Hero from the bottom of her heart.
The Brave Hero was so good, so outstanding, what was he doing with a dragon like her, there were billions of other women in the world to choose from…
He also had so many relatives and friends, even if Xia Li said he didn’t care whether their relationship could be accepted by society, what about his friends?
His relatives and friends couldn’t possibly not care, and when they asked Xia Li about it, Xia Li would only face embarrassment and awkwardness.
The more she came into contact with this society, the more Lucia understood that there were too many things to consider if they were together, which made her more and more hesitant.
It was hard to imagine how much determination Xia Li had when he said ‘I like you’ to her for the first time…
It was even harder to imagine that he had never wavered in those words until now.
The more Lucia thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt, and she raised her hand to rub her reddened eyes.
“Sorry, sorry. ”
Seeing that the dragon beside him was starting to shed little pearls, Xia Li parked the car, pulled a few tissues from the back of the seat, and wiped the dragon’s eyes.
Hot, crystal clear tears filled those amber eyes, and Xia Li felt a pang of heartache.
This time he was completely flustered.
“I didn’t mean to force you…”
“I was just overwhelmed by the moment, I suddenly got carried away…”
“You didn’t react at all after I said it, so I was anxious. ”
“I thought maybe you would figure it out when you woke up this morning, but you still didn’t react, and I just panicked and got angry…”
“Thinking about it now, it makes sense, we’ve only known each other for how long, you’ve only been on Earth for four or five months, you not only haven’t fully understood this place, you don’t even know me well enough… But, what I said was true, I know I like you. ”
Xia Li panicked.
Even what happened between Fu Yuan and Zhou Anqi didn’t make the dragon shed tears, why was the dragon so sensitive this time?
Was it so difficult for her to say ‘like’…
It’s just expressing feelings, if you don’t say it, I will!
I’ll just say it!
Looking at the soaked tissue, Xia Li felt another pang of heartache.
“Don’t say it, don’t say it, let’s not talk about it…” He softened his tone.
Lucia rubbed her sand-filled eyes, raised her teary eyes, and saw Xia Li, who was wearing a seat belt and trying to lean towards her but had to be pulled back by the seat belt, and Xia Li’s flustered expression.
Lucia found it a bit funny and couldn’t help but purse her lips.
She wanted to laugh.
But wouldn’t laughing now make her look bad?
Wrinkling her nose, Lucia glared at Xia Li and said in a soft, nasal voice.
“I do like Xia Li. ” She didn’t want Xia Li to feel uneasy, so she still responded.
“Then be my wife!”
Xia Li rallied and answered in a second.
He knew it.
This dragon’s negative emotions would soon be digested.
He didn’t know what this dragon was thinking just now, she even thought herself to tears, he had to teach her a lesson.
“Blegh~”
Lucia stuck out her little tongue, unbuckled her seat belt, and pressed the button to open the passenger door.
Taking her notebook and phone, the dragon swooped down to the ground, her small leather shoes stepping on the ground.
“It depends on your performance~”