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Chapter 241 The Love-Brained Dragon Dismembered (2)

Without a doubt, what the scholar really valued at that time was not the original owner of this body, but the extremely precious pearls and corals that the original owner had brought out.

But the original owner still felt quite happy and satisfied.

And they immediately began preparing for the wedding.

Little did they know that the scholar Li Jia, while coveting those pearls and corals, had already begun to doubt the original owner's identity.

It's not that I suspect she's the illegitimate daughter of some important person.

Instead, they suspected she wasn't human.

The original body had too many flaws. The reason why Li Jia did not suspect that she was not human before was mainly because he had a preconceived notion that the original body was the illegitimate daughter of some important person, and he kept subtly probing with this fantasy in mind.

It wasn't until this illusion shattered, and the original owner of this body had neither relatives nor family, nor did she bring any belongings, yet she was able to produce so many rare treasures, that Li Jia began to seriously consider the flaws in the original owner's previous actions. Connecting these clues, he became 80-90% certain that the original owner wasn't human, but most likely some kind of sea spirit or monster.

In this world where humans and demons coexist.

Humans are not entirely ignorant of the demon race, especially since he is a scholar and knows some things about it.

So many wonders of the ocean.

The other party is not a water spirit.

Could it be a fox spirit or a pangolin?

However, driven by greed and a desire for more treasures and wealth, the scholar Li Jia still tried his best to suppress his inner worries and fears, and continued to feign compliance with the original owner of the body, even deliberately and subtly trying to please him.

And they made all sorts of excuses.

Make the original owner give up more.

For example, a wedding only happens once, and it's unlikely that it can be held again later. They really can't bear to let the original owner suffer or be looked down upon by others, so they hope to make their wedding grander and more magnificent.

For example, if the original owner didn't have their biological parents attending the wedding, they might be gossiped about. It would be better if there was a grand wedding procession, and even better if they could find a way to bribe some local officials to attend their wedding, then no one would dare to talk nonsense.

And then there's the fact that they bring out so many good things that they can't sell them for much money locally, so they have to find a way to sell them in big cities. But if they sell them in big cities, they worry that others will covet them, steal their things, or even falsely accuse them of stealing them. So they first need to find a way to get a status, like donating to become an official or a student of the Imperial Academy, so that they won't be falsely accused and harmed.

In short, he has a lot of ideas.

There are plenty of excuses for using PUA techniques.

If she didn't have many pearls and corals, she might have become wary by now. But to the original owner, those pearls and corals were no different from stones picked up on the roadside. In the end, she simply brought several hundred kilograms of them over and gave them to Li Jia, asking him to find a way to sell them for money.

When Li Jia couldn't handle it.

They also implied that if there were too many items, the price would decrease, and subtly suggested that it might be more convenient to give gold and silver directly, which would also speed up their marriage.

Then the original owner went to the seabed to mine and refine gold.

That's right. In reality, even gold and silver weren't particularly valuable to the original owner; they were just a bit troublesome to obtain. Gold and silver mines on land might be relatively rare, and most obvious gold and silver mines with high gold or silver content have already been found.

Extensive plundering could bring unnecessary trouble. However, there are also many gold and silver mines on the seabed, and because humans cannot access them, and the cultivators and sea creatures basically do not need gold and silver, there is very little mining. Therefore, the original owner of this body only had to put in a little effort and after going out for a few days, he successfully brought back tens of thousands of taels of gold and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for Li Jia.

Seeing this, Ding Shui wanted to curse. Wasn't all this enough to repay the favor? Did she really have to be with him?
Who came up with the idea of ​​repaying a debt of gratitude by marrying someone?
Li Jia, who had received so much gold and silver, was probably conflicted for a moment. He was torn between simply giving in and living like this, even if the other party was most likely just a monster. It was rare to find someone so generous and easy to fool.

Of course, this was Ding Shui's guess.

What was Li Jia thinking at that time?

It's estimated that no one but himself knows the truth.

After obtaining the gold and silver, Li Jia used bribery and even the manipulation of his original body's magic to not only pass the imperial examination but also smoothly become a county magistrate. He then used official channels to learn more about matters related to the demon race.

He didn't know the original form was a dragon, only guessing it was a monster, so naturally, his investigation focused on things related to monsters. And official records certainly wouldn't record anything good; they'd all be major cases.

Some vixen here sucked someone to death.

That painted-skin ghost over there killed more than a dozen people.

There are also cases of dragons swimming among the water, which can easily drown tens of thousands of people, tearing out hearts and lungs, eating human hearts and drinking human blood, opening skulls and eating brains.

In addition, there is the union of demons and humans.

People will become weaker and weaker, and eventually die.

Furthermore, due to the differences between humans and demons, it's highly likely that they cannot have children. Even if they can, the offspring will be of mixed human and demon blood. Demon pregnancies are somewhat better, but if a human woman becomes pregnant with a demon fetus, the birth of the demon is essentially the day the human woman dies, with little chance of survival.

Besides, after passing the provincial examination, Li Jia knew that the original owner of the body could not help him pass the imperial examination smoothly. Therefore, he tried to bribe his way out of the county and become a county magistrate as a provincial graduate. Otherwise, he would definitely have preferred to become a Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examination).

Then go and bestow official titles or something.

The original owner of this body, whose strength wasn't particularly great, didn't dare go to the capital. Naturally, she couldn't do anything underhanded in the imperial examinations. The connections they could reach through gold and silver weren't enough to influence the examinations. So, at that time, the original owner's value was already minimal.

A fairy who has no value other than possibly producing some more gold and silver, and who is also a fairy who keeps urging him to get married, Li Jia's inner balance quickly began to waver.

The final straw that broke the camel's back was his superior, the local prefect, wanting to marry his daughter to him. This undoubtedly gave him an opportunity to advance further, and he quickly began searching for a powerful figure to eliminate the original owner of this body and remove the last threat.

That way, he could live happily ever after with the prefect's daughter.

However, as a county magistrate, his connections were truly limited, and he had no family background or resources whatsoever. So he quickly fabricated an excuse, saying that he was being haunted by a demon and hoped that his future father-in-law could help him. Through the prefect's connections, he successfully made contact with the cultivation sects behind Yuhua Temple and Longyin Temple.

Next, through them, they obtained a colorless and odorless poison that was only effective against monsters. Li Jia then put it into the ice cream specially prepared for the original owner and fed it to her.

Unaware of the situation, the original owner of the body found her magical power blocked after eating, and then thought that there was a problem with her cultivation.

But the original owner soon lost control.

It transformed into its original form as a black dragon.

At that moment, she quickly rolled away and soared into the sky, fearing that her true form would crush Li Jia to death.