Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 492 Extra: S-Class Dragonborn and Iceberg Princess (Part ) (Added)

The nickname of the Iceberg Princess is indeed well-deserved. When most people see the sentence "If a girl stares at a boy's face, she either likes him or there is something on his face", they will only notice the element of secret love in it.

Zero's understanding is different from others, pure and harmless to an extreme.

She's like the kind of girl who, if someone handed her a love letter in person, would think it was a request for her to help take out the trash and would just throw it into the trash can nearby.

But a beautiful and quiet girl like Ling must have been well protected by her family since she was a child, right? So it is normal for her not to understand these love affairs.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself that he attributed Ling’s innocence towards love to the fact that she had not grown up yet.

Fortunately, there was a grain of rice on the corner of Ling's mouth at this time. The off-white rice grain contrasted with her pink lips, looking better than Lu Mingfei had imagined.

He changed the subject and said, "Yes! There was a grain of rice on the side of your mouth!"

Ling pursed his lips, his cold expression looked a little dull: "Where is it?"

"at……"

Not sure what was wrong with him tonight, but Lu Mingfei naturally reached out his hand to Ling and helped the Ice Princess pick the rice grain from the corner of her lips.

It turns out that the Iceberg Princess is not really as hard as an iceberg. Her face is at least warm to the touch. Her lips? Also...

"..."

A second later, Lu Mingfei realized what a stupid thing he had done and came back to his senses. Looking at Ling's ice-blue eyes that were silently staring at him, his heart began to beat faster and faster.

"Um, what? I am..."

Lu Mingfei had an awkward expression on his face. He opened his mouth to explain, but found that his behavior seemed inexplicable at all?

How to explain? His hands were still in mid-air, holding the rice grains that had just stuck to the corners of his mouth. Such an ambiguous move was just like Ximen Qing secretly dropping his chopsticks under the table and then taking the opportunity to touch Pan Jinlian's feet!
Uh... Ximen Qing's behavior is more obscene.

In the icy eyes, a gleam of light flashed by for a moment.

Ling lowered his head and said softly: "Thank you."

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. All he could say turned into a deep breath, and he whispered to Ling: "You're welcome."

……

After having dinner with Ling, Lu Mingfei took a detour to send Ling back to the downstairs of the girls' dormitory. Although there would be no danger in Kassel College, Nuonuo said that sending a girl home after having dinner with her was a good point.

Although I don't have anything good to score...

Watching Ling's petite figure disappear in the dormitory corridor, Lu Mingfei sang out a sigh of relief.

When he returned to the dormitory, Finkel was sitting in front of the computer desk with monitoring headphones on, typing on the keyboard with both hands. No one knew what he was busy with, and it seemed that he didn't even notice that Lu Mingfei had come back.

It was rare to see Feng Geer so busy. Seeing Feng Geer busy with other things, Lu Mingfei temporarily gave up the idea of ​​immediately settling accounts with Feng Geer and prepared to collect clothes and take a shower first. After the diving class, he only took a simple shower in the swimming pool, and had not taken a proper bath. There was a faint smell of chlorine on his body.

Just as Lu Mingfei was about to pass behind Finkel and go to the balcony, he turned his head and caught a glimpse of the eye-catching title right above the Word document on Finkel's computer screen.

《Exclusive revelation! The S-class Dragonborn cafeteria is full of tenderness and love, and the moment of wiping the rice grains from the corner of the mouth was photographed! Escorting back to the dormitory late at night and setting off another storm of love!!!》

"???"

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then looked down and saw the illustrations in the word document.

The illustration is blurry yet clear, like a candid photo taken at a distance from the subject, and the subject is himself!

In the photo, he is facing the camera sideways, his blurred profile revealing a hazy tenderness, his arm is stretched out like God in the famous painting "The Creation of Adam", gently touching the face of the person opposite him...and who else could be sitting opposite him except Zero?

Finkel was nodding his head to the Beatles' song in his monitor headphones and happily writing a press release to be published in the school newspaper tomorrow. Suddenly, he felt a murderous aura coming from behind him, like the tongue of a venomous snake licking the back of his neck.

Finkel shuddered all over and reflexively took off his headphones and turned around. The moment he turned around, Lu Mingfei's hands had already grabbed his neck.

"You unscrupulous journalist! I will strangle you to death!"

Lu Mingfei said with a vicious expression: "Tell me! Was it you who spread the rumor about Ling and I dating?"

"..."

"You still haven't said it yet, have you?"

"..."

Finkel's eyes rolled back and his face flushed, his tongue half sticking out of his mouth, and his hands weakly slapped Lu Mingfei's wrist.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then he realized that he might have been a little too heavy-handed, pinching Finkel so hard that he couldn't speak, so he quickly let go.

The moment he let go of his hand, Finkel took a deep breath, then bent down, covered his throat and coughed violently.

"Ahem... Junior Brother, are you going to murder me?"

Lu Mingfei looked at Finger who was almost strangled to death by him, and looked away embarrassedly, but he still said confidently: "It was you who spread rumors in school, right?"

Upon hearing this, Finkel immediately did his job seriously and said righteously:
"Student Lu Mingfei, please be careful with your words. Although you are my junior and my closest brother, it does not mean that you can slander me. This concerns my reputation as a journalist."

Lu Mingfei folded his arms and sneered: "Brother, you still have a good reputation? Your credit card loan is going to be overdue again this month, right?"

"Ahem... Let's put one thing first. Besides, Junior Brother, you said I spread rumors. Where is the evidence?"

"Do you need any evidence for this? Anyone with eyes can see the title on your computer!"

Finkel looked back with an embarrassed expression on his face.

"I didn't notice you were back... I forgot to close Word. But this title doesn't spread rumors, okay? What's not true in the title? "Junior brother, did you help Zero remove the rice from his mouth in the cafeteria just now? Did you send Zero back to the girls' dormitory?"

Looking at Finkel's confident expression, Lu Mingfei suddenly choked up. Damn, he really did these things...

However, he quickly found a place to refute: "But what is tenderness and sweetness? Ling and I are just ordinary classmates having dinner together, where is the tenderness and sweetness? And isn't it a rumor that we are in love?" "Ordinary classmates are having dinner together and you reach out to wipe their mouths? Tell this to your senior sister Chen, do you think she will believe it?" Finkel snorted coldly: "And this is just a common rhetorical device. Isn't it normal to use rhetoric to embellish literary works?"

"What the hell is normal! Is the content in your interview also a rhetorical device?"

"Which interview?"

"It's about 'the golden boy and beautiful girl of Kassel College secretly meeting late at night'. You also said in the interview that the person involved did not deny it or something."

Finkel scratched his head: "You mean that..."

Lu Mingfei looked down at Finkel, and was just about to see how the useless senior brother was going to explain, when Finkel said something that left him dumbfounded.

"But I interviewed Zero, and she did not deny it." Finkel spread his hands with an innocent look on his face, and he would not stop until his words were shocking.

"?"

These words seemed a bit hot, and the moment they entered Lu Mingfei's ears, his heartbeat slowed down by half a beat.

What did Fingel just say? Did he hear it right? Did Zero deny the rumors of an affair between the two of them?

Lu Mingfei pictured Ling's beautiful face, which was cold and indifferent. She had an aura that kept strangers away. Even if someone blocked her way and confessed their love to her, she would just walk away without even looking at them, right? But she did not deny the rumors between them.

Could it be that my luck with love, which had been bad for 18 years, has finally turned around? The icy princess of Kassel College has actually been secretly flirting with me, but I just didn't notice it?

But he and Zero didn't meet much, except for the diving lessons they took recently. Before the dance at Amber Hall, he and Zero had never even spoken a word to each other.

Wait, dance...

In his mind, he imagined Zero wearing ballet shoes, gliding lightly across the dance floor, ignoring the hands of people around her extending invitation to her, and gracefully stopping in front of him and looking at him.

Maybe... the clues have been there for a long time, but he never discovered them?
Finkel glanced at Lu Mingfei's expression and repeated, "Junior brother, you are not hallucinating. I really interviewed Ling and asked her about this matter. Ling did not deny the rumors between you two. To be honest, I was also quite surprised. I thought you would use the 'right of first choice of mate' on Nuonuo. I didn't expect that you would know how to retreat when faced with difficulties and settle for the next best thing..."

"Settling for second best is bullshit! I haven't even used the 'right of first choice of mate'. And don't make it sound like Ling is a lower-ranking substitute for Senior Sister, okay? They are all living people, and comparing them like objects is so disrespectful to them..."

Lu Mingfei suddenly fell silent while talking, because he saw that Finkel, who was sitting opposite him, had taken out a small notebook and a pen, and the excited and teasing expression on his face was like a third-rate tabloid reporter who had found exclusive gossip.

If I continue, I'm afraid that Fingel will use his journalism charm to find something to say and take it out of context.

Lu Mingfei turned around and walked to the dryer on the balcony. With his back to Finkel, he quickly said something harsh: "Brother, you are not allowed to send out that fake news on your computer, otherwise I won't give you the balance of the 3E exam answers. And you have to find a time to remove the interview manuscript on the forum!"

"Damn it! Junior brother, you are so vicious! I have almost finished writing this article, and you have no idea how much sales this kind of hot gossip can bring to the college."

"Then go and hype up your own gossip."

"I'm just a weak E-rank student, so how can my gossip be worth more than you, my junior brother? You are the only S-rank student in the academy! So, let's split the royalties 50-50..."

"Four or six, at most four or six!"

"No."

Lu Mingfei refused in a loud and forceful voice and opened the door of the dryer, but his heartbeat had not yet completely calmed down and he was still thinking about what Finkel had just said.

……

After one night, the words that Fingel said yesterday were not forgotten, but turned into something stuck near Lu Mingfei's chest. He was so upset that he couldn't even attend the diving class.

"The diving depth is ten meters. Your diving time today is fifteen minutes shorter than usual."

Nuo Nuo took off her diving suit with ease, revealing the one-piece swimsuit she was wearing underneath. She picked up a towel from the side and wiped the water off her body. She glanced at the meter next to her and said, "There's also a problem with the heart rate monitor. Your heart rate is 20 beats per minute faster than the average. Are you not in good shape today?"

Kassel College divided the students selected to carry out the "Bronze Plan" underwater operations into two groups, A and B. Group A included Caesar and Ling, who had the best diving performance, and Group B included Lu Mingfei and Nono.

He was still brooding over what happened yesterday. Today's diving class was with Group A. Just seeing that petite figure gently swinging her fins in front of him made him distracted. How could he be in the right state?
Lu Mingfei made up an excuse: "I didn't sleep well last night."

A "whoosh" sound came from the opposite side of the diving pool, and the female teacher next to her lent a hand and pulled the petite figure up from the side of the diving pool.

While listening to the performance report beside him, Zero took off his diving suit, revealing the jellyfish suit underneath.

Seeing Ling's eyes looking sideways at him, Lu Mingfei immediately looked away.

Nuo Nuo, who was wiping her hair with her head tilted to one side, looked at Lu Mingfei standing there unmoved and said in surprise, "Why didn't you go to give Ling a bath towel today?"

Immediately, he showed an expression of sudden enlightenment: "Oh, no wonder you are not in a good state today, did you have a quarrel with Ling?"

“Didn’t I tell you yesterday that those were all rumors? I explained that to you yesterday, senior sister.” Lu Mingfei curled his lips.

And why should I give Ling a bath towel when there are so many people taking care of her... Lu Mingfei said in his heart.

Nono shrugged. "You can only blame yourself for the rumors. You did a lot of things that caused others to misunderstand you. Every time Zero came out of the water during diving class, you would run over to hand her a towel. After diving, you would stare at Zero until she finished drinking the red cabbage soup to ward off the cold. Whenever Zero wore a skirt, you would kindly remind her not to catch a cold. Whenever she coughed, you would immediately take out the medicine box from your pocket. It was like you were taking care of a new sapling."

Lu Mingfei blinked blankly: "These things...are they easy to be misunderstood?"

"What else? What other reasons do you think a boy would have for hanging around a pretty girl every day? A few days ago, when I was in a sophomore class, even Chu Zihang asked me if I was pursuing Ling. I told him maybe."

Even Chu Zihang?

Lu Mingfei was petrified on the spot.

The reason why he was so concerned about Zero's health was purely because in the "Bronze Plan" Zero and Caesar were the main team responsible for the launching operation, while he and Nono were only the reserve team. The reserve team was only needed when the main team was unable to perform the mission due to an accident.

And Zero looks so frail... He takes such good care of him out of fear that something might happen to Zero.

Under Lu Mingfei's careful care, Ling has attended all the training classes for the past three months without any problems.

Unexpectedly, what he thought was just an act of helping each other among classmates was seen by others as him... pursuing her?
Wait!
Lu Mingfei suddenly realized a more serious problem.

What if in the eyes of others, my actions seem to be chasing zero?
What about in Zero's eyes?
How does she view her own behavior?
……

(End of this chapter)