novelraw Chapter 96
Chapter 96
Chapter 96: I Don’t Believe You, Kiss Me
After writing down the story of how Lucia earned the title of “Silver Dragon Queen,” Xia Li felt a bit apprehensive.
Would anyone like it?
From a human perspective, all of Lucia’s resistance and counterattacks were “bad.”
In this modern society where humans are supreme and other races are considered enemies, Lucia’s actions might not be understood by everyone.
But that world over there is just that cruel.
Xia Li originally wanted to write a lighthearted story, but after finishing the Silver Dragon’s childhood, when he went to write about her adolescence, he found that the story was inevitably heading towards tragedy.
After struggling for a long time, Xia Li, after hesitating, decided to publish the story as it was.
After all, what he wanted was authenticity.
“Realism” was the only advantage of this record of experiences. After uploading the chapter and adding some racial settings from Azure Continent, Xia Li opened the web AI and generated two passable images to put up.
Now that this record of experiences was gaining momentum, if the platform was willing to continue promoting it, it should attract a lot of readers.
AI image generation was efficient and cheap, but some details still couldn’t meet Xia Li’s needs.
Xia Li pondered whether he should commission someone for artwork if he really made money in the future.
From the kitchen, Lucia’s voice came from afar.
“Xia Li, do you want yours spicy?”
Snapping back to reality, Xia Li instantly thought of the little chef’s current culinary skills.
Lucia was still at the stage where she could only cook food until it was done; asking her to control the flavor was still too much for her.
“I don’t want it spicy!!”
So, raising his voice, Xia Li replied loudly.
To be on the safe side, Xia Li chose to eat plain boiled vegetables.
“We’re having meat slices and radish tonight!”
After a few days of practice, Lucia was now able to cook some meat dishes.
But her cooking method was still boiling.
Looking at the bland meat slices and the unevenly cut radishes, Xia Li leaned forward, puzzled.
“Where’s my portion?”
Lucia clearly only brought one portion.
She mixed the meat slices and radishes into her own rice bowl, burying some Sichuan pickled vegetables in the rice to change the flavor.
“You just said ‘I don’t want it,’ so I didn’t prepare any for you.”
Lucia said, stirring her large bowl of rice.
Xia Li: “…………”
Having a little fun, huh?
Xia Li got up and went to the kitchen to get his own food, and as he passed by Lucia, he pinched her cheek.
“Where’s my rice!”
Looking at the empty kitchen, Xia Li put his hands on his hips in anger.
Lucia followed behind him with her rice bowl, the cheek that Xia Li had pinched still bearing a red mark.
She stirred the large bowl of rice in her hand, her expression as if she was hiding a smile.
Xia Li circled around but couldn’t find any food, so he finally took a bite of the remaining half of a radish.
The radishes in the south weren’t as sweet as those in the north, and the bite of radish made Xia Li’s face contort in bitterness.
“The rice is all here…”
Lucia finally couldn’t bear to see the Brave Hero gnawing on a plain radish, so she held up her bowl for him to see.
This time it wasn’t just plain boiled vegetables, Lucia had made stew rice tonight!
She made it directly in the rice cooker, the kind of super convenient meat stew rice.
Apart from the lack of chili peppers, which made it look less vibrant, Lucia could guarantee the taste… after all, she had already snuck a few bites when it was fresh out of the pot.
“You’re teasing me, aren’t you!”
You stinky dragon!
Xia Li pinched Lucia’s other cheek, and now both sides of her face were red from his pinching, perfectly symmetrical.
Xia Li didn’t bother getting his own bowl from the kitchen; he shared Lucia’s large rice bowl, and the two sat at the dining table, eating their meal together.
The rice tasted pretty good; apart from being a bit bland, it felt alright to eat.
Xia Li had thought the meat slices might have a fishy smell, but after trying a few bites, he found that Lucia had probably blanched them in ginger and cooking wine beforehand.
It was delicious; his little chef had improved again.
If he let her keep going like this, wouldn’t Xia Li be in for a feast in the future?
This was the blessing he had cultivated by doing three years of good deeds in another world!
While eating rice with his spoon, Xia Li took out his phone and scrolled through the comments section of his record of experiences.
Most of the comments were still friendly, but as Xia Li had worried, there were still some more aggressive netizens cursing.
‘I came to see some arrogant face-slapping, and you’re showing me humans being counterattacked by a dragon??’
Someone replied below: ‘Then this book isn’t for you, go read something else.’
‘Uh, how did it suddenly become so cruel? I thought this was supposed to be a laid-back dragon who just eats and drinks?’
A reply on the thread: ‘Didn’t this book emphasize realism from the beginning? I think this kind of development is quite realistic.’
‘Haha, realistic? As if the author has really been there, idiot!’
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‘Shut up, just read the damn book, why are you arguing!’
“Xia Li, are you looking at beautiful women again?”
Xia Li was engrossed in scrolling through the comments section, thinking that although it was a bit noisy, this group of netizens was so enthusiastic about arguing with each other that he didn’t even need to reply himself.
Then he looked up and saw a close-up dragon face right in front of him.
Xia Li guiltily turned off his phone.
“What beautiful women? Are you insulting the integrity of your Brave Hero like this?”
Being caught looking at beautiful women by Lucia a few times before was purely accidental.
It was when Xia Li was sitting on the sofa with Lucia, accompanying her in reading and studying, that he took out his phone and scrolled through Douyin for a while. Lucia then leaned her head over, saying that she saw beautiful women dancing from his eyes.
What beautiful women? Xia Li was righteous and unafraid of shadows.
He only scrolled through Douyin to watch videos of hoof trimming and blacksmithing competitions; occasionally seeing a couple of beautiful women swaying their waists was purely because of his age and gender, automatically targeted by the algorithm.
“Then why are you hiding it?”
Lucia placed her small hand on Xia Li’s phone; his phone was registered with her fingerprint, so as soon as she put her hand on it, the phone automatically unlocked.
“…”
Xia Li calmly locked his phone again.
Lucia stretched out her slender finger, and the phone unlocked again.
Ugh, so annoying.
He didn’t want to show Lucia because the comments section of his record of experiences was a bit chaotic, and he was afraid that Lucia would be unhappy after seeing it.
How come it felt like he was being checked up on by Lucia now?
Your Brave Hero is protecting you, you silly dragon.
The two tugged at each other for a bit at the dining table, and Xia Li finally couldn’t take it anymore.
“Let’s make a bet,”
Xia Li pressed his hand on the back of Lucia’s hand, taking the opportunity to touch her soft little hand a few more times.
“If there are no beautiful women on my phone after I unlock it, you kiss me.”
“Kiss you?”
Lucia tilted her head.
“Yes, like last time… use your mouth, and, and touch my face.”
“What’s the point of doing that?” Lucia still didn’t understand.
“Maybe there’s no point, but it would make me feel better.”
Xia Li controlled his facial expression and spoke euphemistically.
What “feel better?”
He would be over the moon, alright.
Lucia thought for a few seconds and then chose to pull her hand out of Xia Li’s palm.
Xia Li: “?”
“No bet, I trust you,” the dragon said.
Xia Li: Why don’t you doubt me!
Although this wasn’t the first time he had been trusted by Lucia, Xia Li couldn’t be happy at all.
The straightforward dragon didn’t fall for Xia Li’s trap at all, and Xia Li watched as the dragon cleared the dishes and went back to the kitchen.
Not long after entering the kitchen, Lucia came back again.
The human and the dragon stood face to face.
Xia Li looked down, Lucia looked up.
Those bright eyes locked onto Xia Li’s cheek, pausing for a long time.
Lucia felt her head getting a little hot; it must be from looking up at Xia Li for too long.
Xia Li said… just touching his cheek with her lips would make him feel better?
But, but…
“Ne-Next time I’ll bet with you!!”
Leaving those harsh words behind, Lucia shuffled back to the kitchen in her soft slippers.
Not long after she went in, the hot feeling in her head spread from her cheeks to her earlobes.
Lucia washed the dishes while using the back of her hand to cool her cheeks.
Strange, clearly touching his cheek with her lips was just a simple action.
But whenever she thought about the scene of herself doing that, she felt something was wrong.
This feeling made her want to bury herself under the covers like an ostrich.
“Next time I won’t bet on something so small!”
The Brave Hero’s voice, accompanied by the sound of running water, roared from the living room.
“I’m going to bet on something bigger!!!”