My wife is a dragon.

Chapter 218: Dragon's Life (5.8K)

Xia Li didn't believe that Lucia the dragon could come up with any good ideas.

Don't go through all the operations and not get any magic power, and then lie in his arms crying and saying something like "I'm just a newbie" or "I'm just not good enough", right?

——It seems that this is not bad.

Xia Li’s current idea is to make Qin Chuan’s life stable first.

This guy can't stand any stimulation for the time being. If you want to get magic from him, it's better to use the gentlest way possible.

Once he is stable, no matter how depressed he is, he will still experience joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness when encountering trivial things in daily life.

After all, people live on emotions.

If it really doesn't work, take Qin Chuan to a haunted house or show him a funny short video.

If all else fails, just go check out Tieba, where there are jokes that can make your blood pressure soar.

As for Lucia...

If Xiaolongniang is willing to try, let her try. Xia Li is happy to cooperate with her.

It was approaching late at night.

Xia Li estimated that the family restaurant was about to close, so he calculated the time and called Qin Chuan to come out.

Qin Chuan had just been arranged accommodation by his boss and had just made his bed when Xia Li called him.

According to Qin Chuan, the restaurant's staff dormitory is in the community next to Xia Li.

There is a small three-bedroom old house there. The house used to be the property of the boss’s wife before she got married. Later, she moved away and didn’t sell it, so she simply used it as a dormitory for the restaurant’s staff.

The living environment is pretty good and much more spacious than the gloomy guesthouse. Qin Chuan said that his roommates are all older uncles and aunts and they are quite easy to get along with.

"excuse me……"

This was Qin Chuan's first visit to Xia Li's house.

He pushed open the rusty iron door, and a series of creaking sounds came from the old door.

This door is the same as the one in Qinchuan Dormitory.

Looking at the interior environment again, there are old sofas, old-fashioned wooden tables and coffee tables.

Xia Li's house is small but cozy. The corners and tables are piled with books and sundries. There is no fish in the small fish tank on the coffee table, but it is filled with candies and biscuits.

This place is similar to most ordinary homes, with the smell of oil smoke and food, and the atmosphere of life everywhere.

...It was completely different from the brilliant and luxurious life that Qin Chuan had imagined in the past, the life that the "author" should have.

He is very similar to me.

At least, their living environments are similar.

Qin Chuan's inferiority complex finally gained a little courage.

"Come, sit inside."

Xia Li welcomed the guests warmly. He had spare shoe covers at home, so he handed a pair to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan had never used this kind of thing. When he lived in the countryside, he never took off his shoes before entering the house. In that dark alien world, there was no such requirement.

Seeing his awkward expression, Xia Li taught him how to use it. Qin Chuan pondered for a while before putting it on his shoes. After entering the house, he took a look at the living room.

"Where's Sister Long?" he asked.

"..." Xia Li choked, "Why do you also call me Sister Long..."

"I saw Wuqi said that, so I followed him and called him that too." Qin Chuan replied.

You can't call her sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law is the way to address one's brother's wife after becoming brothers.

Qin Chuan didn't think he was qualified to be a brother to Xia Li.

"Just call her Sister Long," Xia Li didn't mind.

"This dragon is older than all of us combined, so it's reasonable for me to call you sister."

As soon as Xia Li finished speaking, a series of clanging sounds came from the balcony, as if expressing dissatisfaction with his words.

Discussing girls' age issues can easily cause family conflicts.

Xia Li added with some guilt.

"...Sister Long is busy right now and will be back soon. Please sit in the living room for a while."

"it is good."

Qin Chuan was confused for a moment.

Xia Li and Sister Long should live in the same room, why hasn’t Sister Long come home yet?

But he didn't ask any more questions and sat down stiffly in the corner of the sofa.

Xia Li turned on the TV and handed the remote control to Qin Chuan, while he took out his cell phone and played with it.

"You can choose whatever channel you want to watch. I seldom watch TV."

"Okay," Qin Chuan responded again, and turned his body to look at Xia Li's phone with some curiosity.

Xia Li’s mobile phone interface is BHu, which Qin Chuan is very familiar with.

There were many nights when he acted like a cyber troll, arguing with various readers online and constantly introducing his own worldview to others.

Doing this is not a way of complaining, it is purely a way of finding an outlet for your pent-up emotions.

Often, those readers couldn't stand his long-winded articles and would curse him a few words, but he felt refreshed instead.

Now...when they met offline, Qin Chuan became shy instead.

Really a social expert online, but a social phobic offline.

I strike hard online, but I am timid in real life.

Watching Xia Li skillfully operate the backend, he patrolled the comment area, then opened the editing software and started typing.

Qin Chuan looked at it for a while, and two words came out of his mouth secretly.

"Push for more updates."

"No..."

Xia Li was startled and turned around to look at him as if he had seen a ghost.

“Is there really someone who goes to the author’s house to ask for updates?”

"Ha ha……"

Qin Chuan found Xia Li's reaction a bit funny and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Xia Li's expression also changed from surprise to a smirk.

"Forget it, I'll show you the live version."

Xia Li didn't mind him watching and typed very quickly.

Now the story in the book has reached the power struggle in the human kingdom and the impact of the situation on the silver dragon Lucia. Most of the plot here is adapted from what Xia Li heard from Lucia, which is half-made and half-true.

Qin Chuan had no emotions towards this change in the plot. He was a fan of the setting and just wanted to see the animal races on the continent of Aize.

"The plot is too slow, just show me the outline directly." Qin Chuan said after taking a look.

"That won't work." Xia Li refused.

"……Why?"

“Because I don’t have an outline at all.”

"..."

"I'm kidding. Actually, there is one, but it's the author's lifeblood. If it's leaked, the whole book will be ruined."

"Ok."

Qin Chuan didn't force it. He believed that one should read the book slowly so that one could feel involved.

He watched Xia Li typing calmly.

Suddenly, the vision darkened.

"Snapped!"

There seemed to be the sound of a switch being turned... or perhaps a circuit breaker tripped?
Qin Chuan was stunned for a moment and turned to look at Xia Li.

"power cut?"

Xia Li had turned off her cell phone, and the only light in the living room was the picture playing on the TV.

Qin Chuan immediately realized that if there was a power outage, the TV should not still be on.

When I looked again, I saw that the sports channel on the TV had turned into a movie channel, and the movie on the TV was playing a horror movie.

Qin Chuan has seen this horror movie.

A barefoot woman wearing a white dress and with long hair slowly crawled out of the TV.

Sadako!

As he was thinking this, a black shadow nimbly flashed past Qin Chuan.

Big black rat? ?
He stood up abruptly.

The battle-hardened body had developed a countermeasure for this situation.

After taking a look at the snacks and books on the table, Qin Chuan finally picked up a book, wrapped it into a stick, and was ready to go.

"Hey……"

Xia Li wanted to stop it, but after thinking it over, he held back.

“Hee…hee…”

A young girl stood in front of the TV without knowing when.

She stood with her back to the light, strange images were playing on the TV, and in the background sound, besides the girl's shrill laughter, there was also a noise like countless snowflakes.

The girl had disheveled hair and her long white skirt dragged on the ground. At first glance, it looked as if Sadako had really crawled out of the TV.

She slowly raised her head. Her expression couldn't be seen due to the backlight, but one could see that she was holding a fish weighing about five kilograms in her arms.

The fish was struggling, making a "patter patter" sound.

"Patta, patta."

"Patta, patta."

The fish's tail hit the girl's slender arm, making her feel itchy. She couldn't help but scratch it.

Qin Chuan: “…………”

He calmly put down the book wrapped like a stick in his hand and looked at Xia Li with a puzzled look.

The silence that followed was deafening.

The picture seemed to be frozen.

The girl was holding the fish, with a black cat wearing a Batman mask standing at her feet. Xia Li sat on the sofa without saying a word.

The only thing moving in sight was the fish that was struggling due to suffocation.

About two minutes passed.

Lucia's hands were sore from raising them.

Wuqi felt even more uncomfortable with the mask and began to scratch it with his claws.

"Why is there no magic power?"

Finally, the evil dragon holding the big grass carp couldn't help but speak.

Qin Chuan also spoke.

"How can this be magical?!"

"Why weren't you startled?"

Lucia put the fish down with a rather aggrieved expression on her face.

This was the scene she had carefully arranged, and the pictures on the TV were also screen projections downloaded in advance on her mobile phone.

They even caught Wuqi and used him as a temporary actor...

As for why she wanted to 'hold the fish', it was because she wanted to create a bloody and horrifying scene.

The only thing that could bleed in the house was the big grass carp that Xia Li bought and brought home to raise.

Originally, they wanted to gut the fish, but Lucia had a natural sympathy for this scaly species, so she didn't want to kill the fish.

Although it's scary to see him carrying a big live fish, it does have some humor...

However, although.

The atmosphere has been built up to this point, anyone would be shocked, right? !

Lucia has thought it through. This carefully laid trap will at least allow her to store a long row of dragon scales!
In the end, the other party didn't react at all.

It's really embarrassing for Long!

"I'll just say it's useless."

Xia Li held back his laughter. He couldn't comment.

When the clever female dragon proposed this plan, he knew it was going to fail.

As expected, it still overturned.

But it's nice to have some fun with her.

"Why...why didn't it scare him?"

Lucia couldn't figure it out, and she was so worried that she squatted on the ground in a depressed manner, thinking hard.

She simulated it many times in her mind and felt it was successful every time. Why was it that the actual operation was not satisfactory?

"..."

Qin Chuan didn't want to discourage Sister Long, so he comforted her.

“It’s actually quite scary…”

"I was obviously not scared..." Lucia pounded the ground.

Xia Li was almost hurt from trying so hard to hold back his laughter.

But seeing that Lucia looked really disappointed, he held back his smile and walked over to hug Silly Dragon.

"Hey, why are you scaring him? You can't scare him, you scare me."

"You're not good to scare!"

Lucia had a deflated face and kept muttering to herself, looking very aggrieved.

Xia Li patted her back, calmed her down, and spoke softly.

"I'm so scared."

"I should have held two kitchen knives in my hands. This would have been scarier than holding a fish!"

Lucia was so angry that not only did she lose her magic power, but she also lost face as a dragon.

She originally wanted to get a kitchen knife, but Xia Li said it was dangerous and refused to let her get it.

It must be because there is no kitchen knife, it has nothing to do with the dragon!

"Hahaha……"

"You're still laughing! You're not allowed to laugh!"

Xia Li couldn't hold it back any longer and burst out laughing.

Because he had been holding it in for too long, he laughed so hard that he twitched and simply buried his face in Lucia's soft body and rubbed it.

Lucia was still angry, but when Xia Li rubbed her like that, her face turned pale and red.

"You, you, get out of the way..."

Lucia pushed Xia Li's head but found that she couldn't move it. She felt even more frustrated.

There were two pairs of eyes watching him. Xia Li was just a lazy scoundrel. He had agreed not to do this or that in front of other people.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Xia Li felt like she was about to die from laughing.

The more Lucia glared at him with an angry expression, the more he couldn't help laughing.

Xia Li raised his head and laughed, his eyes accidentally falling on Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan stood by and watched this scene quietly.

At this moment, in the dark living room, something glowed under Qin Chuan's chest.

"Ok?"

"Meow??"

Xia Li and Wuqi were both stunned when they witnessed this scene.

No, what kind of emotion is this?
"I know this, meow, this is called 'jealousy'!!"

Xia Li looked at Wuqi who was speaking.

Wuqi changed his words again.

"Of course, you can also call this emotion 'envy'."

Qin Chuan touched his chest. He was not sure why the Heart of Stone was glowing at this time.

Just when he was watching Xia Li and Sister Long playing around, he also thought of his friends in the other world.

If he were to quarrel with the other person like this, he would probably laugh out loud like this...

But his friends may never be able to see him again.

So, when he thought of this, he was touched by a feeling mixed with a hint of sadness.

"'This is, envy'?"

A neutral voice without any emotion, as if spoken by an AI, sounded.

The thing that makes the sound is a watch without a wonder.

As long as he is given enough time to type, he can use the voice playback function to express what he wants to say.

There is no need to use this method on Xia Li, but when Wuqi, Long Jie and Qin Chuan communicate face to face, it is their only way of communication.

Qin Chuan shook his head and gave a boring answer.

"It's not that feeling... I just felt a little sad."

"Isn't sadness the only emotion that can be transformed into magic power?" Xia Li asked.

"That really is shaking... umm."

Lucia made an analysis subconsciously, but suddenly remembered that Xia Li had warned her not to say that, so she just shut up after the second half of the sentence.

They, the Earthlings, were discussing countermeasures, and Lucia, a little dragon, couldn't get a word in, so Dada ran to turn on the lights in the living room. When he returned to sit next to Xia Li, he grabbed two small biscuits from the fruit plate, unwrapped them and stuffed them into his mouth.

The evil dragon munched on his food, looked up at the two people and the cat, and squeezed closer to Xia Li.

Qin Chuan thought for a moment before speaking.

"It's hard to say... But in the other world, other emotions can work, but after returning to Earth, it seems that the Heart of Stone only reacts when I feel sad."

"New restrictions?"

Xia Li thought about it and felt that this should not be the case.

Since the Heart of Stone still has an effect on Earth, it proves that it has only been weakened, rather than having any additional rules or restrictions.

If it is restricted by rules, it is too complicated. Such a mess should not exist on Earth.

"It's very likely because you've only felt sadness since returning to Earth..." Xia Li analyzed.

Qin Chuan nodded, thinking it was possible.

He hadn't been truly happy for a long time.

When he laughed at Xia Li just now, he just felt it was 50% embarrassing and 50% funny, and there was no real feeling from the bottom of his heart.

"Crack, crack."

Lucia, who was sitting next to Xia Li, was chewing snacks like a hamster.

Seeing that the two people and the cat had been discussing for a long time without any result, Lucia suggested something out of the blue.

"Do you want to see how much magic power we had just now?"

The evil dragon is quite "heartless" towards people and things outside.

She didn't care about anyone other than Xia Li. She might occasionally feel pity for the left-behind children, or sigh when she saw an old lady carrying a vegetable basket that was wider than her shoulders.

But these are ways of thinking that are influenced by society. Considering Lucia's growing environment where the strong prey on the weak, she is definitely an egoist.

So it is reasonable to say that she is always "heartless".

"Meow."

"I want to see it, too."

As soon as Sister Long proposed it, Wu Ji was the first to agree.

Xia Li took a look at Qin Chuan's meaning, and Qin Chuan nodded to indicate yes.

"The ability I can use is to interfere with the fate of things...

I can show all the possibilities of cause and effect. For example, the lighter on your desk has a 0.001% chance of leaking and exploding. I can directly realize this 0.001% possibility..."

As Qin Chuan spoke, he raised his right hand.

He reached for the lighter in the air and was about to speak when Xia Li grabbed him.

"Wait, you're going to burn my house down!"

"No, I just let it leak oil..."

"No, not even if it leaks oil. I can put your magic to great use!"

Xia Li didn't want to use the magic power that he had finally triggered to do such a boring experiment.

He had more important experiments to do.

After curbing Qin Chuan's extravagant behavior, Xia Li went to the balcony to get the sword.

The moment he pulled out the Demon-Exorcising Sword, a faint blue light enveloped his face.

The man, the cat and the dragon all subconsciously took half a step back.

These three all have a psychological trauma related to this demon-killing sword.

“……”Xia Li watched the scene speechlessly.

The most frightened among them was Lucia. She timidly grabbed the sheep pillow and blocked it in front of herself, leaving only a pair of pitiful eyes.

"What are you afraid of?" Xia Li rubbed the faucet randomly.

Forget about other outsiders, Xiaolong is the mistress of the Demon-Exorcising Sword after all, so there is nothing for her to be afraid of.

"Can you try to guide the magic power out of your body?" Xia Li asked Qin Chuan while holding up the sword.

Qin Chuan thought for a while.

"guide?"

"Yes, don't release it in an attacking way, but let it leak out..." Xia Li said according to the idea of ​​using Wuqi's golden bell before.

"Then try to pass this magic to me, and I will find a way to convert it."

Xia Li told Qin Chuan about the function of his Demon-Exorcising Sword in converting magic power.

This format conversion-like ability puzzled Qin Chuan.

No matter how powerful a divine weapon is, it can directly transform the other world into another world... It's too magical to say.

But he didn't think much about it and followed Xia Li's method step by step.

Qin Chuan held his breath for a long time without any reaction, and the heart of stone in his chest was even more lifeless.

Five minutes passed, ten minutes passed...

Xia Li felt that he was in trouble.

Could it be that... the magic power of the two worlds is too different and really incompatible?

Looking back at Lucia's eyes full of expectation, Xia Li couldn't help it and took a step forward.

There is no room for taboos between men, so Xia Li placed his hand directly on Qin Chuan's chest.

As soon as it was put on, the calm stone under Qin Chuan's chest actually reacted.

A faint white light emerged from the cracks in the stone, and Xia Li's face lit up with joy. He felt again the strange, unknown magic that he had felt the last time he approached Qin Chuan.

This kind of magic is different from the power on the continent of Aize. It is more complex and colder.

Xia Li tried to control the flow of magic power and guide it to flow into his arms.

The light actually moved according to his will, flowing along his arm into the palm of his right hand, then penetrating the hilt and condensing onto the Demon-Repelling Sword.

The Demon-Repelling Sword, which was already in an enchanted state, shone even brighter, as if it could use this magic power to strike a shocking blow in the next second.

Become!

Xia Li received an unexpected surprise.

Originally seeing Qin Chuan's miserable look, he thought that this operation would be difficult to implement.

Unexpectedly, I only needed to make a slight move to complete the conversion of magic power!

"..."

Qin Chuan in front of Xia Li was silent.

He felt a bit powerless, as if Thor's hammer had been pulled up by the captain.

No.

Why did the heart of stone that had been embedded in his chest for more than 20 years, that had been with him through life and death, and that had gone through countless cycles of life and death -

Will there be any reaction in Xia Li's hands?
(End of this chapter)