novelraw Chapter 87
Chapter 87
Chapter 87: I Like You
Xia Li knew that when it came to matters of the heart, he was a high-attack, low-defense type.
——Although his attacks were powerful, as soon as he was counterattacked, he would immediately lose his ability to fight.
But looking at Lucia, this guy was undoubtedly a high-attack, high-defense type.
Any small action from her was full of destructive power, and her defense was like an impenetrable wall.
Because she didn’t understand anything, she wasn’t afraid of anything.
No matter what Xia Li did to her, she just stared blankly.
Ask if she liked Xia Li, she liked him; ask what liking was, she didn’t know; ask what the difference was between liking Xia Li and liking all humans, she didn’t know.
She just didn’t know, didn’t understand, couldn’t tell the difference.
Xia Li didn’t expect this silly dragon to understand human emotions at all. He could only teach her slowly.
As for how to teach her specifically…
Xia Li: I don’t know.
Actually, Xia Li himself didn’t understand what kind of feeling liking was.
But when this question arose in his heart, he was already hopelessly in love.
Just like Chen Tao had said to him before.
Being flustered was a confession in itself.
At the beginning, he really only wanted pure friendship.
To train Lucia into an elite dragon who could integrate into modern human society, to let her work, to let her learn to do housework and cook, to let her be self-reliant in this society.
And then give her freedom.
That was Xia Li’s initial plan.
After that, whether Lucia wanted to move out or live in his house for a longer period of time, Xia Li felt it didn’t matter.
If she wanted to go home, Xia Li would also actively help her find a way to return to Azure Continent.
But now, Xia Li admitted, he had selfish desires for Lucia.
And this selfish desire was growing deeper with the passage of time.
It had now developed into the extreme idea of ‘wanting to lock the evil dragon at home to cook for him for the rest of her life’.
Xia Li didn’t have much experience in love, but he could be sure that this feeling of his, this possessiveness, was definitely not a normal friendship.
What pure friendship, bullshit, he had long since overturned that statement himself.
When exactly did this pure friendship go sour? Xia Li thought carefully.
Maybe it started from the dream of sending Lucia home, maybe it started from the first time she held his hand crossing the road.
It could also be when he was charmed by the silly dragon’s actions and the corners of his mouth turned up, or maybe it was when she used her body to shield him from the rain just now.
During their time together, some of Lucia’s small actions always affected Xia Li’s emotions.
It seemed as if his whole soul could be hooked away by a casual word from the evil dragon.
Therefore, there was one thing Xia Li could guarantee.
He probably, maybe, should…
Like Lucia.
“Then let me teach you.”
Xia Li’s words came from the bottom of his heart.
He now understood his own feelings, but Lucia didn’t understand anything.
Even if Xia Li confessed right now, Lucia would seriously nod her head and say ‘I like Xia Li very much too’.
This was not the kind of liking Xia Li wanted!
He wanted a shy little evil dragon, nestled in his arms, shyly confessing ‘I like you very much too’, not looking at him with a blank expression, lumping him together with all other humans, and then saying ‘I like you too’.
If he wanted Lucia to understand the different meanings of liking…
He could only teach her personally, step by step.
“Then do you know what liking is?”
Lucia opened her curious eyes and thought about Xia Li’s words for a long time.
Xia Li said he would teach her the difference between these feelings, but he stopped halfway through.
It made her even more confused.
The ride-hailing car was still about ten minutes away, and the driver’s location hadn’t moved for a while.
Xia Li put his phone in his pocket.
“It’s the feeling you have for gold and gems,” he said.
“Huh??” Lucia turned her head.
After all this, it was that kind of feeling!
“For now, just treat it as that kind of feeling,”
Xia Li thought for a moment and realized that the most intuitive liking was the natural liking for something.
Although his feelings for Lucia were developed through later interactions, the emotional foundation of dragons and humans was different, and Xia Li needed her to understand it in a purer way.
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“But don’t lump me in with other humans.
Others are others, I am me. Since you said that liking me is different from liking other people, then you must continue to maintain the difference between the two,” Xia Li said seriously.
This was still a very important matter.
In Lucia’s heart, it could be Xia Li = gold.
But it could never be Xia Li = human.
The difference between the two was huge.
“Oh…”
Lucia nodded with a sullen little face.
Lucia could still distinguish between her feelings for humans and her feelings for gold and treasures.
One was a smart and intelligent species, the other was something shiny and sparkling.
That is to say…
Just treat Xia Li as gold!
Just like she used to, hide the gold and admire it over and over again every day.
“Beep, beep, beep,”
By the roadside not far away.
Raindrops splashed a string of ripples on the waterlogged road, and the pure white headlights of the car flashed twice in the night.
The ride-hailing car stopped quietly by the roadside, the passenger window rolled down, and the driver inside shouted at them.
“Did you guys call the car?!”
“Yes, yes, yes, Master, wait a moment!”
Xia Li didn’t expect the ride-hailing car to arrive so quickly.
He glanced at the water at the bottom of the steps, which had already gathered into a small stream, and estimated that stepping in it would definitely soak his shoes.
Xia Li bent down and rolled up his trouser legs. Seeing this, Lucia imitated his method and rolled up her own trouser legs.
Her movements were clumsy, the wide sheep hat blocking her view. Before she could finish rolling up one leg of her trousers, Lucia felt her body lighten.
While she was bending over, Xia Li picked her up in one swoop. She was lifted off the ground, her limbs dangling, and carried away by Xia Li in a bundle.
The freezing rain of late autumn pattered on her face, and the sound of the heavy rain drowned out Xia Li’s footsteps.
Lucia’s vision went dark and then light, and she was already sitting in the back seat of the car.
She quickly took off her soaked sheep hat. Lucia saw Xia Li open the passenger door, but before he got in, he came back and sat in the back.
After confirming the last few digits of his phone number with the ride-hailing driver, Xia Li sat next to Lucia and let out a long sigh of relief.
“Are you cold?” Xia Li asked.
Lucia shook her head.
She was well protected by her coat, and her hair wasn’t wet at all.
But… her claustrophobia acted up, and sitting in the small car made her feel a little stuffy.
“I can’t open the windows because of the rain… Master, please turn on the air recirculation,” Xia Li murmured, speaking to the driver in the driver’s seat.
The driver didn’t answer, just silently turned on the air recirculation system.
This would at least make Lucia feel a little better.
“Come, lie down here.”
Lucia was about to shrink into the corner by the window.
She wanted to look at the scenery of the rainy day outside, the car lights blurred by the rain, which looked like glowing magic balls approaching and receding.
Feeling her clothes being pulled, Lucia turned her head and saw Xia Li patting his thigh, motioning for her to lie down.
“My clothes are wet,” Lucia reminded him.
Because her coat was very thick, she didn’t care about getting wet when she was playing earlier.
Now, her fluffy clothes were soaked, making her look like a waterlogged sheep.
“I’m wet too,” Xia Li said nonchalantly.
Lucia thought about it and curled up, lying down.
The hero’s legs were hard, and it wasn’t comfortable to lie on them.
But Lucia liked his scent.
At this moment, the evil dragon didn’t know that as bait, she had successfully made the hero bite the hook.
And the hero who had taken the bait was dragging her into the water.