My wife is a dragon.

Chapter 185 Habit is a terrible thing (4.6K)

The day before New Year’s Eve.

Xia Li's friends who were working away from home have returned one after another.

Even Chen Tao's company, which he often complained about as a "black-hearted boss", had its annual holiday, and Monkey also came back from far away to reunite with his family.

The gang members of Building No. 3 in Shangdong Chaoyang Community gathered again - this was especially precious to several people who had previously quit the group.

However, no one talked about the issue of leaving the group. There was no need to discuss this topic. It was enough to know that Yuanzi and Anqi were back to normal.

"no……"

The monkey hadn't come back for a long time, and he was a little confused when looking at the people in front of him.

"There is a traitor among us??"

"To be precise, we are the only two who have not 'betrayed'."

Chen Tao nodded and patted the monkey's shoulder solemnly.

In front of the two, Xia Touer was holding Lucia's hand, and Lucia was sipping milk tea. Yuanzi and Anqi were standing together, and although they were not holding hands, it was not difficult to see their relationship from their faces.

"You put it so euphemistically...Isn't it just virgin solo?" Zhou Anqi smiled slyly.

"..." Chen Tao was choked and unable to refute.

We have been brothers and sisters for twenty years. Even if we don’t have to stick our necks out for our brothers, at least we shouldn’t stab them in the back.

Chen Tao wanted to cry but couldn't.

He turned to seek some comfort from the monkey and found that the monkey was tapping on the phone.

"Are you also going to be a traitor to the organization?" he asked doubtfully.

"No," Monkey waved his hand. "I just came back a few days ago. My mom arranged a blind date for me... We just started chatting, just trying to cope with it."

"..."

Chen Tao cried even louder this time.

The group walked and stopped, chatting about random things.

There was no purpose for this meeting, it was just a reunion after a long time and a small gathering as usual.

New Year’s Eve is just one day away, and we will have to visit relatives for a while in the following period. It will be difficult to get together by then.

After wandering around until they arrived at the subway station, a few people decided that since they had nowhere to go anyway, they might as well go for a walk in the city center.

Lucia did not participate in the discussion, but just followed behind silently.

She still has psychological trauma about the subway.

The last time she took the subway, she encountered a pickpocket. This time she was extra careful and protected Xia Li, fearing that Xia Li would be stolen by the pickpocket.

Fortunately, nothing happened along the way.

As soon as you exit the subway, you will see rows of large shopping malls. No matter how many times Lucia sees it, she will always be shocked by the tall buildings built by humans.

The humans in this world have no magic.

But what they created with their own hands seemed like real magic.

"Sister Lu, let's go grab the dolls!"

Zhou Anqi was in high spirits. Now that she had Lucia, she quickly left her boyfriend aside and pulled Lucia away to be distracted by the machines in the mall.

There is a large video game arcade on the fourth floor of the mall. Business is booming right now and the place is packed.

"Claw doll?"

Lucia had never been to such a place. She had only seen similar small games on street stalls.

"Can you catch a doll?"

"will not."

"Hiss... Where has Brother Xia taken you to? He has never taken you to the arcade?"

Zhou Anqi looked at Xia Li with dissatisfaction. Xia Li was walking with a boy, and suddenly a question stunned him.

"No, Xia Li took me to ride that kind of rocking car..."

Lucia explained for Xia Li and pointed to the racing cars in the arcade.

They are all rocking cars, racing cars and children's cars. For Lucia, there is no difference.

"Puchi," Zhou Anqi smiled, "Okay, I'll go exchange the currency, you wait here for me."

The arcade was quite noisy, with young people of all kinds sitting in front of the machines. Some were calmly inserting coins to gamble, while others were holding guns and shouting loudly.

Lucia was dazzled by what she saw and soon shifted her attention to the boxing ring next to her.

A test of strength, where you can get a lot of lottery tickets by smashing the score with one punch.

"Don't go to this."

Xia Li saw that Long was glancing over there and stopped her in time.

I'm afraid that Lucia's punch will not destroy the score, but the machine.

The dragon nodded: "I just play with the rocking car and that... doll."

Xia Li must have felt ashamed as well.

I had said before that I would take Lucia to more places, date her, and let her broaden her horizons...

As a result, there were only a few places I took Lucia to.

However, there is a reason for this.

Firstly, Xia Li and Lucia are both homebodies, and Lucia is even more of a homebodied person than him. She would stay at home if she could avoid going out.

Secondly, Xia Li’s daily study tasks and part-time job are very heavy.

In the past, just writing his travelogue would take up most of his afternoon. Now, with endless reading and studying, he has even less free time.

I am also glad that Xia Li’s girlfriend is Lucia…

If it were another girl, she would have asked him a series of questions: Why don’t you reply to my message? Why don’t you accompany me? Do you not love me anymore?

Lucia was taken by Zhou Anqi to catch dolls, while Monkey and Taozi went to the side to drive racing cars.

Xia Li had no interest in these things, so he found a row of chairs outside and sat down. From here he could just see Lucia, who was seriously learning the technique of grabbing dolls in front of the machine.

"Boss..."

Fu Yuan was not interested in the video game arcade either, so he walked over and sat with Xia Li.

"How are you and Anqi doing now?" Xia Li asked with some concern.

"I haven't told my parents yet..." Fu Yuan sighed and said, "Angie only told her family that she's going to take a New Year holiday, and she hasn't told them about giving up her research."

"When are you going to tell me?"

"The day after tomorrow, I will visit Uncle Zhou's house on New Year's Day."

"You..." Xia Li paused.

It really gives people a new look in the new year.

Isn’t this kid afraid that Zhou Anqi’s mother will sweep him out with a broom?
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, not only did my daughter give up her postgraduate studies, she even brought her boyfriend back home.

The Zhou family certainly didn't expect that after taking all sorts of precautions against their own daughter, they still couldn't guard against the grass in their own backyard.

"Forget it..." Xia Li shook his head and said, "It would be good if you were braver. Right now, what you lack most is courage."

Fu Yuan nodded, having a deeper understanding of this sentence.

"Haha... Sister Lu, I didn't expect you to be an expert at catching dolls!"

Zhou Anqi's excited voice came from not far away.

Xia Li frowned, his eyes fixed on the scene over there.

There is a 360-degree camera area in the video game arcade. What is this dragon doing?

Don’t use the levitation magic again and let the boss take all the dolls away.

"Boss...if you have any secrets to love, please teach me, such as how to make a girl happy."

Fu Yuan was also looking at the claw machine over there, and when his eyes fell on Zhou Anqi, even his gaze softened a little.

"I really can't teach you in this regard." Xia Li replied.

"How do you usually coax your sister-in-law?" Fu Yuan asked humbly.

"I usually don't coax her."

"What if she gets angry?"

"She will be fine after a while if she's angry," Xia Li said.

If it doesn't get better, maybe you'll step on him or bite him.

As far as I can remember, Lucia has never had any temper tantrum.

So far, the biggest threat Lucia has posed to Xia Li is just one sentence: I'm going to tell your mother!

"What about other aspects? How to make her happy?" Fu Yuan asked again.

“She was very happy there.”

"what?"

Xia Li thought for a moment and said, "Especially when she is eating."

Fu Yuan: “…”

Fu Yuan was completely confused now.

Forget it.

Everyone’s way of falling in love is different. Zhou Anqi and Lucia have such different personalities that he wouldn’t be able to apply it even if he learned it.

But then again...

The boss's love story is a little too normal.

Other boys sweat profusely when they are in love, and their mentality is like riding a roller coaster every day, why is he so relaxed?
"Tsk..."

Fu Yuan was thinking with his head down when he heard Xia Li beside him clicking his tongue in a muffled sound. Then he slapped his thigh and stood up.

"Lucia!"

Xia Li walked towards the claw machine in the store. Lucia was fiddling with the joystick to grab a big turtle in the glass cabinet.

As expected, the big turtle was caught by the clamp and thrown into the cave.

"Great!"

Zhou Anqi cheered on the sidelines.

This series of operations seemed to be smooth, but if you look closely, you can find that the clamp of the claw machine was clearly loose, but the big turtle on it took half a second to fall down.

Zhou Anqi is an ordinary person after all, his eyesight is not that good, so he can't find any clues.

But Xia Li is different.

"Green-haired turtle, hehe."

Lucia bent down and took the doll out of the grid.

Suddenly, she felt a shadow looming behind her. Lucia turned around mechanically, and when she saw that the person behind her was a hero, her expression became even more guilty.

Xia Li stared at her calmly.

That look seemed to say, 'You are not allowed to play anymore.'

Lucia blinked her lively eyes, and that look seemed like an admission of fault, or an attempt to please.

"Brother Xia, Sister Lu is a genius at grabbing dolls!"

Zhou Anqi held up a string of dolls in her hand and said excitedly.

"I've already caught ten... I've never seen anyone so lucky in my life. It's like this machine recognizes her. Whenever she catches, she hits the target every time!"

Xia Li nodded slightly in response to Zhou Anqi, but her eyes were still fixed on the guilty little face of Elong.

There was no need for Xia Li to say anything more. Lucia could tell from Zhou Anqi's words that she had gone a little too far.

If I continue doing this, I will definitely be suspected...

"I'm going to play on the rocking car."

Lucia wiped the sweat from her hands and headed straight for the racing area on the other side.

Taozi and Monkey had just driven down the road and saw the two girls wanted to play too, so they got back in and started a four-man PK.

Lucia is a master at claw machines, but when it comes to driving, she is definitely a novice.

The rocking chair she was sitting in before had an idle steering wheel and no accelerator or acceleration button.

All three competitors flew out, but she was still moving slowly there, like a little turtle. Finally, Xia Li put her foot on the accelerator and the car started moving completely.

Adult rocking chairs are different from children's rocking chairs and are much more playable.

Although she got first place (last), Lucia was the happiest one among them.

"Xia Li, I can drive now... I'll drive for you next time!" said the evil dragon confidently.

"You're still far from where you are."

Xia Li pulled the stinky dragon into his hands.

One of Lucia's hands was held by Zhou Anqi, and the other hand was held by Xia Li.

After much hesitation, she decided to stay close to Xia Li.

Zhou Anqi was not disappointed and turned to grab the idiot Fu Yuan on the other side.

"Sister Lu, do you want to learn how to drive? Why don't we sign up for the same driving school when the weather gets warmer?" Zhou Anqi suggested.

Lucia didn't understand what driving school meant, so she looked up to see what Xia Li meant.

"She... doesn't need it for now. Let's talk about it later." Xia Li refused on behalf of Lucia.

We haven’t even got our marriage certificate yet.

There is no rush for a driver's license.

……

The gathering lasted until the afternoon and then dispersed.

Hou Zijie had to go deal with his blind date, so he withdrew early. Seeing this, Chen Tao was not happy to be caught between two couples, so he also backed out.

The remaining four people looked at each other, and finally decided to go back home.

After Xia Li got home, he started typing on the keyboard. Today's task has not been completed yet.

Lucia wanted to come to the small dark room to talk to him several times, but seeing that he was so busy, she went back.

"what happened?"

Stopping what he was doing, Xia Li called out to the sneaky dragon.

Lucia came over and put the big turtle that she had picked up from the video game arcade in the morning in Xia Li's hand.

"Why, I'm not angry."

Xia Li said with a helpless smile.

Even Lucia is not stingy, so why should a grown man like him be stingy?

The reason why Lucia was not allowed to use magic outside was because she was afraid that she would be discovered. Now their strength was too weak to withstand the torment.

But the claw machine was fine. Even Zhou Anqi, who was closest to Lucia, couldn’t notice this little trick, so she couldn’t expect anyone else to notice it.

"Give you a big turtle."

Lucia still wants to give the doll to Xia Li.

Xia Li frowned, "Why did you give me a green-haired turtle? Green is unlucky."

"The rest were given to Anqi. After all, she bought the game coins with her own money..." explained the evil dragon.

Xia Li pursed her lips and reluctantly stuffed the turtle into the drawer and banished it to the cold palace.

"That's right," Lucia felt in her pocket.

She was wearing the brown bear clothes she had changed into a few days ago. Winter coats are not washed often. If you don’t get tired of them, it’s normal to wash them once a week or two.

Lucia groped in her pocket and took out two pieces of red paper and handed them to Xia Li.

"Two hundred dollars."

"You want to buy me another day?"

"no……"

Lucia shook her head.

Xia Li's face showed a strange expression.

His sales of heroes are so bad that even the evil dragon won’t buy him even if he has money?

But think about it.

Where does this dragon get the cash?
"Who gave it to you?"

"Wild," Lucia replied.

"What??"

"It suddenly came out of my pocket this morning, so it's wild," Lucia explained.

Xia Li was silent for a moment.

I've seen money falling out of people's pockets, but I've never seen money making money in people's pockets.

What kind-hearted person would put money into other people's pockets? Santa Claus?

Thinking of the word 'old man', Xia Li paused.

"Take it," he said.

"Ok?"

"It could only be that my grandmother gave it to you... She wasn't very good at communicating with people, especially with children of our generation. She was very reserved. I guess she was afraid that you wouldn't accept it, so she quietly put it in your pocket."

"But I have no impression at all..."

"Didn't you take off your coat for a while while eating? It should have been at that time."

Xia Li's two words made Lucia's face darken.

Lucia felt bad when she thought back to the old man standing by the low wall and smiling at her and saying goodbye.

She could feel the loneliness.

"Thank you, grandma..." Lucia said from a distance.

"What does grandma usually do when she is alone at home?" she asked sincerely.

"Maybe she watches TV... and then grows some green onions, coriander, and yes, some Houttuynia cordata, which is the fishy-smelling grass I gave you last time. She likes this kind of thing very much." Xia Li replied.

Lucia thought for a while and then said, "Why doesn't grandma live with other relatives, such as my aunt and uncle's house, so that she won't be lonely?"

"Your question..."

Xia Li was a little surprised that Lucia would think to this point.

She can actually think about problems from a human perspective, and her thoughts are very thoughtful.

"My mother and aunt have both done this. But the elderly like the place where they are used to living. My mother brought her to the city, and she felt uncomfortable all over. She said that the city is big, but it is like a cage to her. It feels more cramped here than the bungalow in the countryside.

Everyone's lifestyle and pace are different. It will take time for my grandmother to change her lifestyle. She is old and doesn't want to make any changes, so my mother just lets her do it."

It was rare for Lucia to care so much about a human being, and Xia Li patiently said a lot.

After a few seconds, Lucia looked up again and asked.

"Will she be lonely?"

"Maybe," Xia Li said with a wry smile, "My grandpa passed away early, and she has become accustomed to this kind of loneliness."

"Habit……"

Lucia was lost in thought, mumbling to herself.

Xia Li once told her that habit is a terrible thing.

She didn't take it seriously at the time.

But now, she understood.

(End of this chapter)