novelraw Chapter 280
Chapter 280
Chapter 280: The Saintess Descends Beside Me
After carefully selecting,
Lucia took out two sets of more casual summer clothes and lent them to Yivni.
The top was a loose batwing short sleeve, and the bottom was flared jeans.
Lucia’s pants were a little short for Yivni, the full-length pants became cropped on her, revealing a bit of her ankles, but it was also a unique fashion style.
Since the Saintess was completely human, Yivni didn’t need to worry about revealing her tail or horns. She could wear whatever ordinary girls wore.
However, she was a bit uncomfortable with the modern clothing style.
After bustling around in the room for a while, the two slowly came out.
Qin Chuan, sitting on the low stool, was sweating nervously.
Xia Li tried to talk to him several times and wanted to tell him about work, but he was completely absent-minded. After thinking about it, he understood his feelings, so he waited with him. It wasn’t until the two girls appeared that Qin Chuan looked up with anticipation.
A loose black top and tight jeans.
It was the first time Qin Chuan saw Yivni in modern Earth clothing.
Tall, elegant, with a somewhat full figure.
The holy Saintess was standing in front of him wearing jeans, which gave him a very unreal feeling.
“Does it look good?”
Yivni reached out to lift the hem of her skirt, then realized she was wearing pants.
She had never worn such tight pants before, carefully pulling up the pockets on both sides of the jeans, slowly turning around in front of Qin Chuan.
“Mm-hmm…” Qin Chuan nodded repeatedly.
He couldn’t utter any other words of praise, even after struggling for a long time.
In every sense, both he and Yivni were fledglings when it came to romantic relationships. They both had a long way to go.
However…
Xia Li could see it.
Qin Chuan had more room for growth.
This Saintess was too straightforward.
She could clearly recognize her feelings and understand them.
After Qin Chuan said those words about wanting to marry her and have children, she cut off the distance she had always maintained with him and became very proactive.
“Didn’t Brave Hero say he wanted to take me to the streets to have a look~ Then let’s go now?”
Yivni hugged Qin Chuan’s arm and said softly.
Compared to girls on Earth, she didn’t have the coquettishness or shyness that a girl should have, but maintained her usual reserved elegance.
However, the slightly upturned corners of her mouth and her smiling cheeks betrayed her moved heart at this moment.
Qin Chuan stared at his arm, sandwiched between a pair of soft peaks, his face flushed red.
He had lived for ten thousand lifetimes and had never even properly touched a girl’s hand. To go straight to arm-in-arm and hugging was too much for him to handle.
He looked at Xia Li for help.
Xia Li grinned, holding back his laughter.
Qin Chuan was usually very serious, mature, steady, and reliable. When Xia Li consulted him, he could quickly analyze and give him some suggestions.
But unexpectedly, when it came to love, he was a headless fly who had lost his direction.
He was running around in a panic.
That’s how a love-addled brain is.
Xia Li, who was also love-addled, thought to himself.
Xia Li quietly turned around, reached out to stroke a strand of hair from Lucia’s face, and tucked it behind her pink earlobe.
“Why didn’t you tie your hair in a high ponytail today? Didn’t you say that tying it in a high ponytail makes it easier to work when you’re at work?” Xia Li asked.
“Hee-hee… I let my hair down after work.”
Lucia looked at Xia Li and wanted to hug his arm too, but her size made it a bit difficult to hold. So she puffed up her cheeks and simply rested her head on Xia Li’s sturdy shoulder.
Seeing the somewhat stiff atmosphere over there, Lucia used her brain and said pointedly.
“Ah~ The variety of food on Earth is so rich, and the cooking methods are even more amazing. If I had a friend who came from afar, I would definitely take her to eat delicious food.”
Lucia’s voice broke the awkwardness on Qin Chuan’s side.
Of course, the awkwardness was only felt by Qin Chuan himself. Yivni smiled gently and didn’t feel embarrassed by such actions at all.
Qin Chuan, who had been nudged twice by Dragon Sister, also reacted.
Yivni hadn’t even had a drop of water since she arrived on Earth in the morning, and Qin Chuan had overlooked this.
He wasn’t very good at taking care of people, and he wondered if he would be able to take good care of Yivni if she really stayed with him in the future.
… Qin Chuan knew he wasn’t very confident, especially around Yivni. He always subconsciously thought of himself as inferior.
“I’ll take you to eat. The food in this world is diverse and nutritious. You’re too thin. Eat more.”
Qin Chuan reached out and held Yivni’s slender wrist. Yivni’s cheeks flushed slightly, and the smile on her face was more sincere than ever.
It had been a long time since she had smiled so genuinely.
“Okay… Brave Hero, can you feed me?”
“You don’t seem to know how to use chopsticks… I can feed you.”
“Okay, Brave Hero, let’s go now.”
Yivni looked down at Qin Chuan’s hand, which was trembling slightly from nervousness. She gently broke free from his grip, moved her wrist to his fingers, and gently clasped them, holding him tightly.
After all, this was someone else’s home, and it wasn’t convenient for them to stay too long.
Xia Li planned to eat the food made by the evil dragon… tonight, so he wouldn’t follow them and disturb the couple.
They probably had a lot to say to each other.
Before leaving, Xia Li told Qin Chuan that July, during the summer vacation, was the off-season for renting, and there were many vacant single rooms around the university town.
If you didn’t have high requirements for transportation and supporting facilities, you could rent a decent room for five hundred to eight hundred yuan.
After hearing this, Qin Chuan realized that it was indeed inconvenient to take Yivni back to the shared dormitory, and said sheepishly that he would consider it.
Although his salary wasn’t high, it was still possible to rent a small room if he was frugal…
Yivni had no objections and was very grateful to Brave Hero for taking her in.
As for the next step of the ‘Summoning Magic,’ the ‘Contract Magic,’ Lucia said there was no rush.
These two magics were separate magics. It wasn’t necessary to make a contract immediately after summoning. If the conditions weren’t agreed upon, it was also possible to only summon without forming a contract.
However, to ensure that Yivni stayed here stably, Lucia still suggested completing the contract ceremony later.
Xia Li already had some ideas about the content of the contract.
The contract, simply put, was a modern version of signing a contract.
Once his pet hospital was stable, he could just have Yivni sign a contract.
Hiring Saintess Yivni as his employee was equivalent to kidnapping Old Qin… killing two birds with one stone.
Contract content: Come work for me, and I’ll pay you.
Very reasonable.
“Then we’ll take our leave, Fate God, Silver Dragon Miss.”
When leaving, Yivni bowed politely to say goodbye.
Her actions startled Lucia, who had never been so polite, and she hurriedly bowed goodbye as well.
Seeing this, Xia Li rubbed the dragon’s head.
“It’s okay, just treat us as friends. You don’t have to be so formal.”
Yivni had never had any friends. She was born a Saintess and had always maintained a sufficient distance from the people around her.
However, Xia Li’s words made her think.
To integrate into this society, this sense of distance needed to be appropriately eliminated.
“Let’s go…”
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Qin Chuan took off his shoes at the door and said to Xia Li.
Xia Li nodded: “Yeah, if you need any help, just let me know.”
After saying goodbye to Lucia, Yivni followed.
“Brave Hero, are we going outside now? Do I need to make any preparations?”
“No… our society doesn’t have that many rules. You and I are just ordinary people now. Just think of yourself as an ordinary member of the public. However, don’t call me that on the street. We are all equal, there is no such hierarchy…”
“Then, how should I address you?”
“Just call me by my name…”
“‘Darling’~ Like this?”
“…”
The door slowly closed, and their voices faded away in the corridor.
Xia Li and Lucia eavesdropped at the door, each with a different expression on their faces.
“What about me? What about me?”
Xia Li asked with some anticipation.
Lucia wagged her tail and went into the kitchen to put on an apron.
“You can’t use the same name as them, it will be confusing.”
The evil dragon’s small face flushed slightly. She took the cucumber out of the vegetable basket, washed it, and then cut it into two pieces with one swift motion.
Xia Li frowned, glanced at the broken cucumber, and said.
“Then you can call me something else.”
“Like what…?”
“Like ‘husband’.” Xia Li said righteously.
Lucia sliced the cucumber diagonally, peeled two preserved eggs, and prepared to make a cucumber and preserved egg soup.
After waiting for a while, Xia Li didn’t hear the dragon sweetly call him husband, so he sighed inwardly.
It would probably take some time to coax this thin-skinned dragon to say that.
At most, he could wait until the day they got their marriage certificate.
If Lucia didn’t say it then, Xia Li would make a fuss!
Outside the window, the kitchen window was like an exquisite picture frame, gently embedded with the soft color of dusk.
Xia Li also put on an apron and helped Lucia cut vegetables.
The Brave Hero’s knife skills were excellent, and he quickly cut the food into the required sizes. The evil dragon’s fire control technique was even more superb. The two cooperated tacitly and prepared a table of hot dishes in less than half an hour.
Eating hands, eating dinner, feeding the cat.
Today was also a happy day.
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On the other side.
The setting sun poured down like molten gold, plating this small space with a thin layer of golden light.
The modern city was like a huge maze built of reinforced concrete, with towering buildings, bustling traffic, and neon lights flashing endlessly.
Yivni was shocked by the size of the human town in front of her.
Even though she had dreamed countless times about the future of humanity in Zela Continent, she had never imagined that humans could achieve such a feat.
Ahead of its time… no, this was something that was difficult to achieve even across time and space.
No disasters, no invaders, no foreign races… Yivni couldn’t imagine how peaceful the human civilization had to be to develop to this point.
However, as a prudent and self-disciplined Saint, Yivni only widened her eyes in surprise, and the expression on her face quickly returned to normal.
“This is my hometown, Earth.”
Qin Chuan turned around and introduced it to her solemnly.
The ones with four wheels running on the ground are called ‘cars’, and the ones with two wheels that you pedal are called ‘bicycles’.
Motorcycles make a lot of noise, while electric vehicles are relatively small and the most common means of transportation here.
The tall buildings in the distance can all be called skyscrapers. The ones wrapped in glass are office buildings, and the ones with clothes drying on the windowsills are residential buildings…
Qin Chuan said a lot.
Yivni was dazzled.
“Hmm… a very beautiful world.”
Silently remembering everything the Brave Hero taught her today, Yivni said with deep feeling.
Qin Chuan looked at her face under the streetlight, remained silent for a few seconds, and then spoke again.
“…If you are surprised, you can express it. Laugh unrestrainedly when you are happy, and cry when you are sad. Get angry when you are angry, act spoiled when you want to be spoiled, and be willful when you want to be willful.”
Qin Chuan thought for a moment, felt that his expression was still lacking, and afraid that Yivni wouldn’t understand, he added.
“There are no enemies here… you can rely on me.”
Qin Chuan had lived for tens of thousands of years and had seen Yivni from tens of thousands of different time and space.
And the personality of Yivni in every world was almost the same.
Suppressed.
Suppressing her emotions.
She had no joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness, always showing her gentlest side.
Doing so would cause her emotions to be ignored by those around her, and over time, even she herself would ignore this.
Perhaps it was a matter of upbringing, or perhaps it was the duty of a Saint, but Yivni always considered others first, not herself.
Qin Chuan always saw this.
This kind of Yivni always gave Qin Chuan a sense of distance.
Including now.
Pain had numbed everyone in that world, and Yivni obviously hadn’t recovered yet.
“Brave Hero…”
Yivni didn’t expect Qin Chuan to say such words to her. Her turquoise eyes reflected the dusk as she looked at the man she loved, tears welling up in her eyes.
“…It was your gentleness and patience that gave me great courage. It was you who pulled me out of despair time and time again. Without you, I wouldn’t have been able to defeat the Demon King.” Qin Chuan took a deep breath and said slowly.
A full ten thousand times.
Every time he faced a desperate situation, whether it was sadness or pain, or the peaceful days he missed, she was there with him.
Without Yivni’s salvation, Qin Chuan might have gone insane.
Without Yivni… Qin Chuan wouldn’t be standing here.
For a moment, Qin Chuan couldn’t tell whether it was he who saved that world, saved Yivni, or whether it was Yivni who saved him.
To be able to meet her here again was the ‘reward’ for his ten thousand efforts.
“Yivni…”
Qin Chuan took Yivni’s hand and kissed it.
Even he himself didn’t expect to do such a thing.
When facing the person they love, people are so involuntary.
“I will protect you for the rest of my life.” Qin Chuan promised.
The two stood at the intersection, looking at each other. Yivni, ignoring the eyes of those around her, boldly hugged Qin Chuan, her voice trembling.
This was the first time in her life that she had lost her composure like this, sobbing uncontrollably.
“Brave Hero, your mission is complete…”
“Now, it’s my turn to protect you.”