Dragon Clan: Force me to be reborn and slay dragons

Chapter 365 A Teenage Pighead, Nuwa
The next morning, Chen Wenwen woke up with a start, staring blankly at the unfamiliar ceiling, wondering how she got there.

But soon, memories of last night slowly surfaced, and her fair cheeks gradually turned paler.

Last night, she, Zhao Menghua, and other classmates rented a cruise ship to travel on the Yangtze River, just to experience the scenery described by the poet Li Bai: "Departing from Baidi in the morning amidst colorful clouds, returning to Jiangling in a single day." Unexpectedly, after drinking a little alcohol that night, Zhao Menghua actually tried to pull her into his room.

As a member of the church, Chen Wenwen is quite chaste. So far, she has only let Zhao Menghua hold her hand and hug her. She plans to save her first kiss for their first anniversary, and her first sexual experience will have to wait until after they get married.

Zhao Menghua clearly didn't think that way; he planned to eat the meat in front of him first, and deal with faith and such later.

Recalling how much alcohol she had been forced to drink last night, and how Zhao Menghua had almost taken advantage of her drunkenness to drag her into the room and rape her, Chen Wenwen couldn't help but shed tears.

How could he do that...?

He could have gotten married in a few years when he reached the legal age...

Thinking of the people on the cruise ship, most of whom were Zhao Menghua's brothers, even if he really wanted to run away, he would probably be blocked and brought back. He would tell them that Boss Zhao was just joking with his sister-in-law and not to take it to heart.

Then, if you send the other students away and leave the two of them to talk things out, they'll really be left with no one to turn to.

If it weren't for that sudden earthquake that gave her a chance to break free, she might have truly fulfilled Zhao Menghua's wish and lost her most important purity as a young girl on the rolling river.

Fortunately, just when she was driven to the brink of suicide by jumping into the river, the cruise ship arrived in Fengjie. Lu Mingfei, who had recently changed and was always appearing and disappearing mysteriously, happened to be fishing on the shore. After seeing the situation, he came over, beat up Zhao Menghua, and rescued her as well.

Thinking of her former follower, who had always secretly loved her but whom the whole school knew about except for her, yet who underwent a dramatic transformation after the Kassel College interview, a few drops of color returned to Chen Wenwen's pale face.

Why did Lu Mingfei suddenly appear in the mountain city?
Could it be because of...me?

The girl couldn't help but start daydreaming, but before her thoughts could even wander, a red figure quietly broke them up.

Last night, Lu Mingfei was not alone. There was a red-haired girl standing next to him. When Zhao Menghua was being beaten on the ground by Lu Mingfei, she stood quietly on the shore with her fishing gear, waiting for him to finish beating people and go home.

After Lu Mingfei slapped Zhao Menghua unconscious, he didn't linger. He didn't even bother to say a few more words to Zhao Menghua before turning around and leaving, like a ruthless slapping machine.

Recalling Lu Mingfei's resolute departure after slapping someone last night, Chen Wenwen's mood plummeted, and her vision blurred with tears.

If it weren't for Ye Sheng and Jiu Deya, the interviewers from Kassel College whom she had met once before, who helped her arrange a hotel, she really wouldn't know what to do.

Fortunately, she didn't have much luggage, and all her documents were with her, so she could take a plane back soon.

Wiping away her tears, she got up to wash and prepare herself, intending to leave this heartbreaking place after breakfast and sever all ties with Zhao Menghua from then on.

The literary girl had read a lot of melodramatic literature and had a clear understanding of the sordid affairs between men and women. She didn't believe in promiscuity under the influence of alcohol, but only in the true nature revealed when drunk. She knew that Zhao Menghua was just using drunkenness as an excuse to take advantage of her.

Ye Sheng and Jiu Deya were very busy, saying they had to follow their mentor to do research and couldn't find time to take her to the airport. But she wasn't a sheltered young lady who never left her room; she could go back by herself.

But I still want to thank Lu Mingfei in person again.

Even if he doesn't care.

With that thought in mind, she dialed the phone number that Aki had left behind last night.

On the other side, when Jiu Deya, who had stayed up all night, received this call, she was not surprised at all. She said that it was inconvenient to disclose Lu Mingfei's address and that it would be best to ask him yourself.

Nonsense, that's my and my boyfriend's boss. What employee would dare to reveal their boss's private information for no reason?

Chen Wenwen was somewhat disappointed. After thanking him, she hung up the phone and logged into QQ.

Although Lu Mingfei has left the literary society and deleted her from his friends list, he hasn't blocked her, and they can still contact each other through private chat with strangers.

She wrote a long message, filled with gratitude and guilt, and finally subtly expressed her desire to thank him in person and asked him to meet her.

Sending it out with trepidation, one minute, two minutes, three minutes, five minutes, ten minutes...

Just as her heart sank to the bottom, Lu Mingfei's reply popped up on the screen, containing only two simple words—"No need."

Looking at the extremely brief reply, Chen Wenwen felt a sudden pang of pain in her heart, and an indescribable sense of suffocation welled up inside her.

Just a month ago, Lu Mingfei was so enthusiastic, and he seemed to want to polish every word he said to her, even considering the use of commas, periods, and exclamation marks.

Tears almost welled up in her eyes again. Chen Wenwen sniffed, but forced herself to cheer up and typed out a long message to express her gratitude.

But in the end, when she was about to click send, she suddenly stopped.

Looking at those words that didn't sound like herself at all, Chen Wenwen gritted her teeth and deleted them word by word, leaving only a short sentence:
"Thank you, Lu Mingfei."

She sent the message, but this time there was no reply. She wiped away her tears, pushed open the door, and prepared to take a car to the airport.

However, at the hotel entrance, a teenage boy with a pig-like appearance stopped her.

It is Zhao Menghua.

Zhao Menghua woke up early due to unbearable pain. Recalling the absurd things he had done the night before, he wished he could slap himself a few times.

He planned to take advantage of the graduation trip to completely win over Chen Wenwen, but not in a forceful way. Moreover, his upbringing wouldn't allow him to do something so foolish. But last night... could he have really lost his mind?
After waking up, he ignored the strange looks from his classmates, refused his brothers' company, and went alone to the hotel where Chen Wenwen was staying, intending to apologize to her.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that Chen Wenwen didn't call the police and send him to jail after such a big incident shows that she truly loved him.

Chen Wenwen completely ignored him, treating him like air, and hailed a taxi with a cold face like a nun.

The driver had originally intended to make a few jokes, but when he saw Zhao Menghua's pig-like face, his Sichuanese henpecked nature kicked in. After finding out the destination, he didn't dare say a word the entire time. Even when Chen Wenwen in the back seat was silently shedding tears, he didn't dare to say a word of comfort, for fear that if he didn't say anything, he would turn into a shrew.

Zhao Menghua stood there dejectedly, watching the taxi drive away, his eyes filled with bitterness and regret, hating his own stupidity.

I wanted to slap myself, but then I realized my face was swollen like a pig's head, so I couldn't bring myself to do it, afraid of hurting myself even more.

So he transferred his anger and resentment to Lu Mingfei, the troublemaker from last night. In a different scenario, he would have called the police and accused Lu Mingfei of intentional assault, but now, daring to fight would be like walking into a trap.

Thinking of how he had brutally beaten him like a chick last night, Zhao Menghua felt a surge of fear, and the psychological trauma gradually spread, making him afraid to cause any more trouble for Lu Mingfei.

So, he shifted his anger again, holding a grudge against the underlings who stood by and watched him get beaten up last night without doing anything. Damn it, I provided you with food and drinks and took you out to have fun, but when things really got tough, not a single one of you helped. I'm so angry!
Anger welled up inside him, and malice took hold. Zhao Menghua decided to go back and sever all ties with his cronies. While they were dealing with a mountain of messy affairs, Lu Mingfei was enjoying his breakfast, completely oblivious to the petty squabble between Chen Wenwen and Zhao Menghua.

Old Tang was quite the gossip, after all, he really didn't know about Lu Mingfei's messy affairs at school. He found it quite interesting last night, but his brother's affairs were more important, so he didn't have time to follow the gossip.

However, Chen Wenwen and the others' memories were altered. Ye Sheng gave Lu Mingfei a brief summary, which he found too melodramatic and wished he could run far away to avoid getting involved in the melodrama.

"Let's settle things with Bronze City as soon as possible, then we'll fly directly to the capital." Lu Mingfei finalized the next operation.

Samson could have shut down Bronze City last night, but after thinking about it, he decided to let Kassel take the blame and divert the attention of the Tang and Zhou families to argue with Kassel College.

Fingel said that someone from the Chen family had come with Nono's younger brother, "The Key," and they planned to explore Bronze City again another day, which would be a good opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

With that in mind, he finished his breakfast, then took Erii and the rest of the Kassel group to the Kassel Academy base, leaving the two dragon kings and Ryoma Kaoru to guard the house.

The Jiang family next door and Dr. Xiaobai originally wanted to invite them to go out for a stroll, but when Jiang Wanzhi came to knock on the door, the hair on her body stood on end, as if this was not the door of an ordinary guesthouse, but the entrance to a den of dragons and tigers.

Her experience at the Solomon Temple taught her that she had to run away quickly in this situation, so she withdrew her hand as if nothing had happened, and left with her parents and Dr. Xiaobai, deciding that Lu Mingfei and the others would not come back.

Old Tang and Constantine, however, were completely unaware that they had agreed last night that since they were on Lu Mingfei's ship, they would follow him all the way, regardless of whether it was a pirate ship or a police ship.

Of course, this was mainly Old Tang's decision; Constantine always followed his brother's lead.

As Lu Mingfei requested, Old Tang took Constantine and Long Ma Xun out shopping, and took the opportunity to send a message to Samson.

Kassel College was very strict last night, using all sorts of methods, so there's no rush.

Meanwhile, Chu Zihang was driving his men to the base, his expression unchanged, as if the events of last night had not affected him much.

But he had an unusual bout of insomnia last night.

Xia Mi was also suffering from insomnia. Her exquisite and flawless face showed no dark circles under her eyes, but she had been thinking about things all night long.

Fingel got himself drunk early last night. He was used to drowning his sorrows in alcohol and had an exceptionally high alcohol tolerance. When he clinked glasses with Old Tang, he was clearly aiming for alcohol poisoning.

When I woke up, it was already bright daylight, and I had a strange feeling that I had been in another world.

I'm still a little dazed sitting in the car. Looking out the window at the forlorn, dejected figure of a boy, I see a resemblance to myself when I lost my beloved. Half-mockingly, half-trying to start a conversation, I say:
"Hey, look at that person, he looks like a dog."

Hearing this, Lu Mingfei, who was gossiping with Erii in Japanese in the back row, looked up and found that the figure looked very familiar, as if he had seen it just last night.

Xia Mi, who was by the window on the other side, was a beat slow to react as she was thinking about something. When she looked up, a car happened to pass by. She met a face swollen like a pig's head and eyes squeezed so small they were barely slits. She could see countless complex emotions in those eyes.

Sadness, anger, resentment, amazement...

Suddenly, those narrowed eyes widened abruptly, filled only with fear.

The next second, the pig-headed boy took off running without looking back, his speed comparable to that of a white-socked PE student.

What the hell?! I just stayed up all night, is that scary?!

Xia Mi felt a little confused. She looked closely at her faint reflection in the car window and saw that she was still as beautiful as ever.

"Crazy." She muttered, then turned her head and looked at Lu Mingfei suspiciously: "Do you know that guy outside?"

"I don't know him," Lu Mingfei shook his head in denial.

"Tch, I don't believe you." Xia Mi stopped paying attention to the insignificant passerby and continued to look out the window with her chin propped up. The car fell silent again, with only Lu Mingfei and Erii chattering away about gossip.

Chu Zihang occasionally glanced at the rearview mirror and could see the girl's clear facial contours, a perfect arc that would leave an unforgettable mark on the youthful years of countless boys.

Fingel really wanted to say, "Watch where you're going, don't look at the junior girls," but he couldn't bring himself to say it. It wasn't because he was afraid of getting beaten up, but because he was so overwhelmed by the dog food (a Chinese slang term for public displays of affection) that he couldn't speak.

Sure enough, it always hurts the most when a boomerang hits you!
After getting through this part of the journey, we will soon arrive at the location of the three forces.

Professor Mans and his team stayed on the research ship all night and haven't left yet, so Lu Mingfei brought his men to the Zhou family's residence.

I didn't have time to take a closer look last night, but that Dragon Slayer Platform seems to be something special. Luckily, Xia Mi, who is supposedly the embodiment of the Dragon King's wisdom, is here, so I'll let her take a look at what that thing is.

After all, they are a rare mixed-race family that is responsible and willing to get things done. If possible, Lu Mingfei would be very willing to help the Zhou family out by resolving the cost they would have to pay to use the Dragon Slaying Platform.

Having given prior notice, Zhou Minhao and the middle-aged man who fought against the Dragon Servant last night greeted him at the door, their faces full of smiles.

“Mingfei, our patriarch learned of what happened last night and rushed over from the ancestral land. He is waiting for us in the inner room.”

Zhou Minhao welcomed everyone into the house and explained to them, "The head of the family is in a somewhat special situation and it is inconvenient for him to come out to greet us. Please understand."

"What's the big deal? I'm just dropping by. Don't make it so formal." Lu Mingfei waved his hand. This wasn't some old-fashioned urban novel trope of showing off and getting slapped in the face. His bloodline advantage was there for all to see; everyone would tremble at the sight of him.

Upon entering the inner courtyard, to everyone's surprise, a girl of about twelve or thirteen years old was sitting in the main seat.

She wore an elaborate Tang-style ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), the hem of which flowed like water across the ground, making her look like a figure from an ancient painting.

Her face, without any makeup, was as white as jade, and her eyebrows and eyes were so delicate that they seemed unreal. In terms of appearance, she was only slightly inferior to Xia Mi.

The only regret is that there's nothing underneath the skirt; there are no legs at all.

Lu Mingfei raised an eyebrow and looked around: "Whose child is this?"

Zhou Minhao suppressed a laugh and said respectfully, "Ahem, this is our family head."

The little girl raised her eyes, her voice clear yet carrying a composure that belied her appearance:

"I am Nuwa, and I greet you, Mr. Lu. I am truly unfit to greet you from afar in my current state, and I hope you will forgive me."

As she spoke, she bowed slightly with ancient etiquette, her skirt lifting slightly to reveal a tail that resembled both a dragon and a snake.

(End of this chapter)