Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 710 IF Side Story: A Daily Romance Without Dragons (3)

Her voice was very soft and low, as if it could be blown away by the wind, but Lu Mingfei heard it clearly. She said "go to my house," not "come to my house" or "I'm going home," but "go to my house."

In other words, she was inviting Lu Mingfei to her house, rather than just dropping him off at home?
Lu Mingfei wasn't sure if he had misheard or if he had misunderstood. After saying that, Su Xiaoqiang stopped talking and simply directed Lu Mingfei on which way to turn at the next intersection.

Lu Mingfei had no choice but to bite the bullet and obey Su Xiaoqiang's orders.

They soon arrived at a luxurious villa area, and Su Xiaoqiang's residence was in the largest detached villa. Su Xiaoqiang led the way, gesturing for Lu Mingfei to follow her inside. The decoration and furnishings were unsurprisingly luxurious. But what was even more captivating was Su Xiaoqiang's beauty.

After Lu Mingfei entered the house, Su Xiaoqiang closed the door and bent down to change her shoes. She was wearing purple sandals with a dark pattern, different from when they first met, but her toes were still painted with blue nail polish, charming but not seductive.

She glanced at Lu Mingfei, frowned, and handed him a pair of slippers, which Lu Mingfei quickly took and put on. I followed her into the living room, estimating that the villa was at least 150 square meters per floor and had three floors in total.

No one was home. Lu Mingfei asked, "Where are your family members?"

“I live alone,” Su Xiaoqiang answered without hesitation. “My parents are away from home most of the time, so I live alone on my own.”

Lu Mingfei paused for a moment, realizing he had asked the wrong question: "I'm sorry."

"There's nothing to apologize for. I'm perfectly fine living at home alone," she said expressionlessly.

The atmosphere was heavy, and I didn't know how to continue the conversation. She turned and went into the kitchen expressionlessly, and when she came out, she was carrying two cups of milk tea.

"Didn't you want milk tea? Here." She handed one of the cups over.

Lu Mingfei was flattered and quickly accepted the tea. It was indeed quite delicious, sweet and refreshing. Su Xiaoqiang sat down next to Lu Mingfei and watched him drink the milk tea, a rare expression of nervousness on her face.

“It’s delicious.” Lu Mingfei immediately said, which was true, because it really was delicious.

Su Xiaoqiang didn't say much, sitting next to me and sipping her milk tea slowly. Lu Mingfei kept his head down, his gaze inadvertently falling on her feet again.

She was naturally wearing slippers at home, cute plush slippers. Although it was a bit unexpected, I figured that Little Fairy Su Xiaoqiang was a girl after all, and girls mostly like fluffy things.

"You really like looking at girls' feet?" Su Xiaoqiang suddenly asked out of the blue.

Lu Mingfei was taken aback, and quickly denied it: "No, no, I am..."

"that is?"

He simply didn't know where to look. Lu Mingfei thought to himself, but didn't know how to start the conversation.

Su Xiaoqiang blinked and smiled for the first time in front of Lu Mingfei, though the smile looked a little mischievous: "What a pity. If you had admitted that you like looking at feet, I was going to let you touch them. Consider it a reward for your heroic rescue a few days ago."

"……real or fake?"

“Really. I keep my word.” Su Xiaoqiang shrugged. “But since you said you didn’t watch it, then you’ll miss this opportunity.”

Lu Mingfei curled his lip, thinking to himself, "I don't believe you at all!"

"However, if you admit now that you're a foot fetishist, I might consider giving you a chance to change your mind."

"……Well."

"Huh? You're actually thinking about something like that? Just kidding, how could I possibly agree to something like that?"

"..."

Damn it, he shouldn't have fallen for that wicked woman's tricks...!
……

I got home at seven o'clock in the evening. The summer sky darkens very late, but it was already pitch black by then.

Lu Mingfei parked his bicycle downstairs and went straight home. He didn't tell Su Xiaoqiang that his parents also frequently traveled for work, and he usually lived alone.

Back in my room, as soon as I turned on my computer, the QQ icon started flashing.

Lu Mingfei clicked the mouse, and Liu Miaomiao's chat box popped up: "Lu Mingfei, are you still not home?"

"Yeah, I just got home. I went to a bubble tea shop with my classmates this afternoon," Lu Mingfei said seriously, which wasn't exactly a lie.

"With Su Xiaoqiang?"

"..."

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, wondering how Liu Miaomiao knew about this.

However, Liu Miaomiao immediately sent another message: "I know, you rescued her from those thugs and then took her home, right?"

"How do you know?" This time it was Lu Mingfei's turn to ask the question.

"I saw you picking up Su Xiaoqiang on the road, so I went back to school and asked about it. That's what the student council president told me. Well, that makes sense. After all, it's Lu Mingfei. He's a fool with negative emotional intelligence. How could he possibly ask a girl to go home with him?" Liu Miaomiao typed, her words carrying a profound meaning.

For some reason, Lu Mingfei suddenly felt a little guilty. The last time Liu Miaomiao said that, Lu Mingfei was secretly taking pictures of the girl; this time, he said it again while taking Su Xiaoqiang home.

"Sometimes I'll ask you to walk home together, aren't you a girl?"

Liu Miaomiao's chat box suddenly kept flashing the words being typed, but no message came. After a while, she sent another message: "Hmph... Remember to wait for me at the school gate tomorrow."

Liu Miaomiao lives in a villa area that is relatively far away, but it is on the same route as Lu Mingfei, so sometimes Liu Miaomiao will ask her driver to give Lu Mingfei a ride.

Lu Mingfei typed "okay," and the chat between the two ended there.

……

The next day was Wednesday. When Lu Mingfei arrived at school, Su Xiaoqiang, as always, did not greet him or even glance at me, as if nothing had happened the day before. On the contrary, Liu Miaomiao greeted him warmly and familiarly as usual.

At noon, Lu Mingfei arrived at the photography club with the completed club application form.

Since the door was locked, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to try his luck at the student council office. The student council president, Su Xiaoqiang, was busy reviewing various documents and didn't notice Lu Mingfei standing at the door. Left with no other option, Lu Mingfei knocked.

Hearing the knock, Susie immediately looked up. Seeing it was me, she smiled warmly and said, "Here to get the keys?"

Lu Mingfei nodded with an "Mm". He then saw Susie open one of the drawers in her desk and throw a gleaming silver key at him. Lu Mingfei bent forward and almost missed catching it.

"You were very gentlemanly yesterday!"

The student council president smiled gently, seemingly referring to Lu Mingfei rescuing Su Xiaoqiang from a boy from another school yesterday: "He was so cool back then."

He scratched his head sheepishly: "It was nothing."

“Don’t be so modest,” Susie said, gesturing to Lu Mingfei’s hand. Lu Mingfei immediately remembered that he still had to submit his application to join the company, so he apologized and then left.

He was delayed in the student council room for a while; Senior Sister Chen hadn't arrived yet. Lu Mingfei opened the door and noticed a new stack of photos on the table near the entrance.

He casually flipped through a few photos and found that some of them were taken from almost the same angle as the photos I had taken of Weiming Lake, only the lenses were zoomed in a bit more than the photos I had taken. This made him even more convinced that Senior Sister Chen was very likely the girl in the photos.

Just then, I heard footsteps pattering down the corridor. Thinking it was Senior Sister Chen, I turned around. There stood a petite girl in a junior high uniform, who walked up to the door and greeted me familiarly, "Senior Sister Chen, is Senior Sister Chen here?" Seeing that I was in the photography club and Senior Sister Chen wasn't there, the girl smiled shyly and asked, "Sorry, I didn't see you earlier. May I ask who you are?"

"Oh, I'm Lu Mingfei, a first-year high school student." Lu Mingfei introduced himself, "I'm planning to join the club and I'm here to submit my application."

She seemed to have also seen the membership application in Lu Mingfei's hand, and nodded every day. "Hello, Senior Brother Lu, my name is Xia Mi, and I'm a second-year student at Shilan Junior High School."

After some conversation, Lu Mingfei learned that Xia Mi was a staff member of the school magazine and also the head of the college's dance troupe. Because of her job, she had known Chen Motong, a senior student, since last year. She had come to see Chen Motong to ask for her photographic works that had been published in the school magazine.

"Xia Mi, you're here? Oh, and Junior Brother Lu Mingfei is here too?"

Shortly after, Chen Motong arrived, seemingly surprised to see Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi talking so intimately. "You two know each other?"

"No, we just met."

"I met Senior Brother Lu Mingfei when I came to pick up the photos," Xia Mi explained further.

Chen Motong nodded, turned around and selected a few good photos from a stack of photos on the table and handed them to Xia Mi. After Xia Mi took the photos, she bowed slightly to them, thanked them, and then left in a hurry.

"What a lively junior!" Lu Mingfei couldn't help but sigh as he watched Xia Mi's departing figure.

"So, what kind of girl does Junior Brother Lu Mingfei like?" Chen Motong walked past me casually, raising an eyebrow as she asked with her hands behind her back.

No, no…

Lu Mingfei felt his face getting hot, and almost said that he actually preferred a more mature type... but then he realized that saying he liked older women in front of his senior sister might cause some misunderstanding.

So he quickly changed the subject: "By the way, senior sister, could you please stop calling me 'junior brother' all the time? Just call me Lu Mingfei, it feels weird being a junior brother."

"Sure, but you have to agree to one condition."

"What conditions?"

She raised a finger, gently placed it to her lips, tilted her head, and said, "From now on, you have to call me Senior Sister Nuonuo."

……

I went home with Liu Miaomiao in the afternoon.

I didn't see the group of students from other schools at the school gate today, so they probably didn't come. Su Xiaoqiang also went home alone as usual. Liu Miaomiao was kicking pebbles idly at the entrance of the bicycle shed, waiting for me to push my bike out.

Lu Mingfei pushed the bicycle out, and Liu Miaomiao winked at him and smiled before walking over to his side.

She was so close that the strands of her hair, fluttering in the wind, constantly brushed against Lu Mingfei's face, and he could even smell the faint fragrance emanating from Liu Miaomiao.

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but blush—although he had been deliberately ignoring it, he had to admit that Liu Miaomiao was indeed a very beautiful girl. Being named the school beauty of Shilan Middle School was no small feat.
Throughout the journey, Liu Miaomiao's hair and the fragrance emanating from her body kept teasing Lu Mingfei, to the point that he didn't dare to look directly at the girl behind him, for fear that Liu Miaomiao would notice that his ears were burning.

As Lu Mingfei walked from the parking shed to the school gate, he was about to push his bicycle to the left when Liu Miaomiao grabbed him and pointed to the right.

Lu Mingfei was a little confused because their home was to the left of the Shilan Middle School gate, while Liu Miaomiao had to go to the right.

"Where are you going?" Lu Mingfei asked.

“It’s not about where you’re going, it’s about where we’re going.” Liu Miaomiao held up a finger and waved it in front of his eyes.

"Okay...where do we go then?"

"A bubble tea shop!"

"No, but don't get me wrong, I'm not jealous because you treated Su Xiaoqiang yesterday. It's just that my classmates said the milk tea at the new milk tea shop near the school is really good."

Lu Mingfei was somewhat speechless. He smiled and asked slyly, "Which classmate?"

Liu Miaomiao seemed taken aback by Lu Mingfei's question, momentarily speechless, her gaze shifting to the side: "That, that is..."

Okay!

Lu Mingfei hung his backpack on his bicycle: "Little girl, if you want a drink, just say so. I'll treat you."

Liu Miaomiao's face showed a hint of defiance, but her eyes shone with happiness as she nodded emphatically, "Mm!"

Lu Mingfei strode to the right, but Liu Miaomiao grabbed his sleeve and bit her lip, remaining silent.

"What's wrong now?" Lu Mingfei asked, somewhat puzzled.

Liu Miaomiao tugged at his hand, her long, thick eyelashes fluttering. She lowered her head, as if deep in thought, then after a few seconds slightly raised it, looking up at Lu Mingfei with her eyes fixed on him.
"...Take me there."

…………

Liu Miaomiao gripped Lu Mingfei's shoulder with one hand and held onto the back seat of the bicycle with the other, carefully sitting down sideways. Having been naturally athletic since childhood, Liu Miaomiao had resolutely given up learning to ride a bicycle after countless falls, making cycling the only sport she couldn't do. Even getting onto the back seat required such caution.

"Are you done yet?" Lu Mingfei turned around, holding the bicycle handlebars, and asked.

"Okay." Liu Miaomiao's voice reached his ears, soft and gentle. As soon as the voice fell, a pair of delicate hands wrapped around his waist from behind, and at the same time, a warm and soft touch came from his back. Lu Mingfei could even feel... well, he couldn't feel it too closely.

"Don't misunderstand, I... I'm just afraid of falling..." Liu Miaomiao said from behind Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei coughed lightly to mask the pounding in his left chest. My heart was pounding, and afraid that Liu Miaomiao behind me would hear, I called out loudly, "Are you seated securely?"

"Mmm." Liu Miaomiao pressed her face against Lu Mingfei's back and nodded.

Lu Mingfei straightened his back and clearly felt Liu Miaomiao's body tremble suddenly, then she leaned against his back with peace of mind. He began to exert force with his feet, his legs gradually turning in circles and accelerating, and the wind on his face also grew stronger. In the wind, Liu Miaomiao's long hair swayed freely like willow branches in early spring.

"Is this speed acceptable?"

"Um."

Are you sitting comfortably?

"Um."

"...Are you blushing?"

"...Go to hell!"

The ethereal summer breeze, the faint fragrance of hair, the constant throbbing of his left chest, and Liu Miaomiao tightly holding Lu Mingfei's waist—at this moment, the world seemed to stretch and stretch out.

Even though the surroundings weren't exactly quiet, at that moment, Lu Mingfei still felt as if only he and Liu Miaomiao remained in the world.

……

(End of this chapter)