novelraw Chapter 98
Chapter 98
Chapter 98: A Little Dragon Crawls into Bed, Making the Brave Hero Laugh
Although he couldn’t see Lucia’s face through the phone, Xia Li felt his heart skip a beat when he heard her say “I miss you.”
He wanted to lie down on the bed and ascend to heaven.
Her voice was sweeter than usual, perhaps because she was sleepy, soft and gutinous.
Just listening to it could paint a picture in one’s mind.
The picture in Xia Li’s mind was a QQ [2] bouncy milk pudding.
“You said last time that I could contact you anytime I missed you, so I tried it,” Lucia’s QQ bouncy pudding voice came from the phone’s receiver.
Xia Li pressed his ear against the receiver, wishing he could absorb every bit of her voice into his mind.
“I couldn’t sleep, so I tried it,” Lucia said again.
Xia Li rubbed his nose and coughed lightly. Lowering his excited tone, he made his voice sound mature and steady, pretending to be reliable.
“You miss me?”
“Mm.”
“Come over if you miss me.”
“…”
Unfortunately, the bait Xia Li threw out didn’t immediately catch the fish.
He didn’t know if Lucia was wary of him or just embarrassed. He couldn’t see her expression through the phone.
“Is it windy outside?” Xia Li decided to change the bait and continue fishing.
“Quite windy.”
“Did you close the doors and windows?”
“Yes, they’re closed.”
“You know, there was a news report a few days ago about a resident living in a high-rise building who didn’t close their windows properly. The wind was so strong in the middle of the night that it blew the bed and the person out of the window… both the old and the young in the family were gone,” Xia Li said with a regretful tone.
“…”
There was a long silence from Lucia’s end.
The voice message she sent had the sound of wind whistling.
“My room is unlocked,” Xia Li continued.
Xia Li used to have the habit of locking his door before going to sleep, but after living with Lucia, he never locked it again.
But now, after so many days, Lucia had never once come to his room at night.
When he used to sleep on the sofa, Xia Li would occasionally wake up to see Lucia sneaking up on him. Why was it that now that he was sleeping in the room, the stinky dragon didn’t come anymore?
He was all ready and waiting…
“Bang, bang, bang.”
At this moment, there was a hesitant knock on the door.
Xia Li, who had said he was going to lie in wait for the dragon’s night raid, wasn’t actually naked.
He was wearing dark green pajamas, and even had two pairs of pants on, including underwear.
“Come in!”
He sat up and turned on the nightlight. The door was gently pushed open.
The figure of a dragon appeared at the door.
Lucia was holding a giant sheep plush in one arm and her pillow in the other.
Wow, so thoughtful, she knew she didn’t need to bring bedding.
Actually, she didn’t need to bring the pillow either.
She could even leave the sheep… Xia Li could act as her sheep plush.
“Why can’t you sleep? Insomnia?”
Xia Li led the sleepy little one at the door into his room and gently closed the door behind her.
“The wind is too loud, it’s noisy.”
“The wind was also strong that day when you first came to my house and slept on the balcony, but you slept soundly,” Xia Li recalled, a smile creeping onto his face.
“It seems like that…”
Lucia’s soft cheeks were illuminated by the nightlight, revealing gentle contours. She thought about it carefully and realized it was true. The wind wasn’t the reason she couldn’t sleep.
It had nothing to do with the room.
Just as she was about to turn around and go back to try to sleep again, Xia Li stopped her with a big hand.
“Wait.”
Xia Li had no intention of driving the dragon away.
He had finally tricked… no, invited her over.
“Ahem, come here.”
Coughing lightly, Xia Li tried to appear less purposeful.
He patted the edge of the bed beside him.
Lucia was wearing fluffy white cat pajamas that Xia Li had bought online for her a few days ago.
These velvet pajamas were not only warm to wear but also soft and comfortable to hug.
“Didn’t you want to hear me tell you the story of the Brave Hero? I’ll tell you a story. We listen to stories when we can’t sleep here,” he said.
“The story of the Brave Hero?”
As expected, Lucia’s sleepy little face suddenly lit up with interest.
She came to Xia Li’s side and sat down on the edge of the bed. Xia Li patted the center of the 1.8-meter bed, gesturing for her to move further in.
The dragon stepped into the trap set by the Brave Hero step by step.
She bent her knees and sat down quietly, waiting for Xia Li to tell the story.
Xia Li lifted half of the quilt. “Want to come in? It’s cold outside.”
Lucia didn’t hesitate. She moved her feet from under her bottom and slowly stretched them into Xia Li’s quilt.
Her bare feet were smooth and soft, and they accidentally brushed against Xia Li’s body as she stretched them in. Xia Li immediately smiled and said, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”
It was truly a little dragon crawling into bed, making the Brave Hero laugh.
“Should we leave the door open?”
Xia Li wasn’t in a hurry to start telling the story. Everything had to be done gradually. First, he had to make Lucia feel comfortable here, otherwise the little dragon might slip out of bed at any time.
“No need to open it,” Lucia shook her head.
If she were locked alone in a small dark room, she would probably have that… what’s it called… claustrophobia.
But now that Xia Li was also present, the feeling of suffocation and urgency wasn’t as obvious.
“Well… let me tell you the story of when I first landed on Azure Continent.”
Xia Li reminisced for a moment.
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He told Lucia about how he was accidentally summoned to another world by plane teleportation magic and then successfully awakened the Demon Repelling Sword.
Lucia had clearly heard it once before, but she was still engrossed when she heard it for the second time.
After becoming the master of the Demon Repelling Sword, the Brave Hero Xia Li’s fame spread throughout Azure Continent.
Later, he formed his own team and fought his way through all kinds of enemies, from demons to dragons. Few could gain an advantage against his Demon Repelling Sword.
He was a standard invincible character.
Except for a few setbacks due to his lack of knowledge about the other world, Xia Li was mostly lucky.
Lucia listened intently, holding the sheep plush, her eyes wide open.
When Xia Li gestured how he had once pierced a dragon, Lucia just curled her toes and buried half her face in the sheep’s head, staring at Xia Li with a mixture of shyness and excitement.
She didn’t seem to be afraid of such a scene.
After all, she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes.
Moreover, pureblood giant dragons were rare. Xia Li’s previous opponents were mostly mixed-scale dragons, and some of them had bad tempers. Lucia didn’t like them.
“And then? And then?”
Lucia blinked her sparkling eyes, eager to hear what happened next.
“And then it fell, and I made a great contribution,” Xia Li said, pointing to himself.
After he finished speaking, he carefully observed Lucia’s expression.
She was a dragon, yet she listened to the dragon-slaying story with such joy.
… Could it be that she had already taken the perspective of the Brave Hero?
“Are you afraid of me?”
Xia Li tilted his head and asked the dragon beside him.
“Not afraid.”
Lucia shook her head like a small fan.
“You should say ‘afraid’ at this time,” Xia Li said. “If you say ‘afraid,’ it will make me look good. This is called social etiquette.”
He asked again, “Are you afraid?”
“Afraid…”
Lucia nodded obligingly. Xia Li smiled again and took the opportunity to reach out and naturally pull the soft little dragon into his arms.
“That’s right, come here, let me hold you.”
So Lucia wriggled a little in the quilt, not resisting much, letting Xia Li hug her like a little sheep.
The room was quiet for a while. The mushroom nightlight on the wall emitted a warm, breathing light.
Lucia stared at the mushroom nightlight in a daze, while Xia Li stared at Lucia in a daze.
The girl’s face was pressed against the pillow like a freshly baked crystal bun. Her brown eyes were half-open, shining with a warm light, making her look particularly gentle.
“By the way,”
Xia Li rested one hand on Lucia’s slender waist, not daring to hug her too tightly, otherwise he would be unable to resist kneading the dragon into his arms.
He wasn’t sure he could control the urge in his body right now. It wouldn’t be good to scare the dragon.
“How’s your character learning going these days?” he asked.
In recent days, Xia Li’s attention had been focused on writing his “Record of Experiences.” It had taken him several days to finish the story of the Silver Dragon’s adolescence, so he hadn’t paid much attention to Lucia’s learning progress.
“I’ve learned a lot…”
Lucia turned around in Xia Li’s arms.
Perhaps because of her sleepiness, Lucia’s voice became lazy again, sounding like soft cotton candy melting in the sun, making Xia Li want to take a bite.
“I know a lot of characters now, and I can basically understand the comments on the bullet screen.”
Lucia’s voice grew softer and softer, her eyes slowly closing between half-open and half-closed.
She seemed to be really sleepy.
Xia Li didn’t want to make things difficult for her.
Looking at the girl’s face so close at hand, Xia Li felt a ripple in his heart.
This was… the feeling of holding the person you like in your arms?
Warm, comfortable, and an unprecedented sense of peace.
He gently pulled Lucia closer into his arms and whispered softly in her ear.
“Then let me test you with a question.”
“Tell me…”
Lucia’s voice was weak, as if she would fall asleep at any moment.
“What are the two words you used to save my contact on your phone?”
Lucia paused for a moment. Xia Li thought she had fallen asleep, but unexpectedly, she closed her eyes and murmured softly, “Boyfriend…”
“Who’s your boyfriend?”
“…Xia Li.”
Hearing this soft answer, Xia Li felt his heart melt.
His heart was pounding in his chest, and his whole body was excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
I’m love-struck, I’m love-struck.
Xia Li repeated this sentence countless times in his mind. Suppressing the corners of his mouth was harder than controlling recoil.
He tried to remove the discordant large sheep plush between them, but Lucia’s limbs were clamped around it, and Xia Li couldn’t pull it out no matter how hard he tried.
After two unsuccessful attempts, Xia Li quietly moved his head and rested it on Lucia’s pillow.
This pillow was made of the same material as Xia Li’s own pillow, and it felt no different to lie on, but it had a faint, refreshing scent of Lucia.
“Let’s sleep.”
Xia Li secretly opened one eye. Lucia’s back was facing the nightlight, so he couldn’t see her expression.
“Before going to sleep, you have to say goodnight to your boyfriend, you know?” Xia Li said again.
“…”
There was no response.
The girl in his arms was breathing evenly. She must have fallen asleep.
Xia Li sighed.
Forget it…
“Goodnight.”
He raised a finger and gently tapped the girl’s forehead, replacing a kiss.