Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

However, it is still very difficult to count the number of eyelashes.

Liu Miaomiao always got confused when she counted to a few dozen, and then she had to start counting from the beginning again. She didn't know how many times she had counted, but she suddenly sighed.

"Why do you always have to make me sad?" Liu Miaomiao muttered softly, her voice trembling with a hint of tears.

So Liu Miaomiao got angry with Lu Mingfei again. If she had a pen on hand, she would definitely draw turtle faces all over Lu Mingfei's face.

Although there was no pen, Liu Miaomiao still angrily stretched out her little hand from under the covers and poked Lu Mingfei's face with her hand instead of a pen.

Then she froze again.

The clear tactile sensation coming from my fingertips was clearly not like a scene from a dream.

She couldn't help but reach out and poke it again. The touch was so real, even the breath Lu Mingfei exhaled on her fingertips was moist and warm. Everything reminded her that this was not a dream.

No, she should have noticed much earlier. The hands holding her other hand were noticeably cooler than her own body temperature.

So Lu Mingfei came to see me while I was asleep?

And he's always stayed by my side?

If this were just a dream, she could escape reality, but when she realized that the Lu Mingfei in front of her was real, her feelings suddenly became complicated.

The joy of someone she liked visiting her, and the heartbreak of discovering she had been betrayed—these two feelings overlapped in Liu Miaomiao's heart.

She didn't know how Lu Mingfei had convinced her parents to agree. But now she didn't know how to face her current situation.

Should I slap him awake? Or should I pretend I don't know and keep sleeping?

Liu Miaomiao hesitated for a moment, then propped herself up and opened her coat on the bedside table.

As she draped the cloak over Lu Mingfei, he suddenly moved, so Liu Miaomiao immediately hid under the covers, closed her eyes, and pretended to be asleep.

"what……"

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but yawn.

Since I started school, my daily routine has become much better, and I can hardly stay up all night anymore.

He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and first looked down to check if Liu Miaomiao was awake. Seeing that her eyes were still closed, Lu Mingfei glanced around.

Wait, where's that little dragon woman?

Not seeing Xia Mi, Lu Mingfei straightened up abruptly, only to suddenly realize that something had slipped off him. Picking it up, he saw it was a women's coat.

Xia Mi's?

No, that's not right. Xia Mi wore a pink coat when she went out today. This coat is sky blue.

So, this coat is...?

Lu Mingfei, holding his coat, looked up and carefully examined Liu Miaomiao's face. He could only see the moonlight shining on her wispy bangs, the disinfectant-smelling quilt covering her long, slender, fair neck, revealing only her adorable face. The shadows cast by her eyelashes trembled gently, as rapid as her breathing.

“She’s actually awake.” Lu Mingfei could tell at a glance that Liu Miaomiao was pretending to be asleep.

Lu Mingfei remembered the strange prescription Lu Mingze had given him, saying that holding Liu Miaomiao's hand would cure her. Although he didn't know if Liu Miaomiao was any better, at least she was awake. The clothes she was wearing were clearly the ones she had given him.

Although he didn't know why she pretended to be asleep again after waking up, Lu Mingfei cooperated by not exposing her.

The best way to handle this situation is to find a way to wake the girl up on her own. In literary works, the male protagonist usually wakes the female protagonist up with a kiss in this situation. However, since their relationship is still in the stage of being more than friends but less than lovers, Lu Mingfei can't possibly actually kiss her.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Mingfei decided to try other methods to wake Liu Miaomiao up.

He first placed his hand on Liu Miaomiao's neck to check if her fever had subsided. The moment his hand touched her delicate skin, Liu Miaomiao visibly flinched. However, even so, Liu Miaomiao remained quite professional, pretending to be asleep.

"The fever hasn't subsided yet."

After taking Liu Miaomiao's temperature, Lu Mingfei withdrew his hand. This time, he put his hand under Liu Miaomiao's blanket.

Liu Miaomiao was still nervous about what Lu Mingfei was going to do to her when she felt Lu Mingfei gently pull her hand out from under the covers, pinching her fingers one by one, and then stroking her palm lines.

Liu Miaomiao wasn't stupid. Noticing Lu Mingfei's actions, she knew he must know she was awake. But she was holding her breath, and no matter how Lu Mingfei manipulated her, she pretended to be asleep.

Anyway, this guy is unlikely to do anything too outrageous to me.

As Liu Miaomiao was thinking, she suddenly felt a tingling, itchy sensation in her palm. It turned out that after stroking the lines on Liu Miaomiao's palm, Lu Mingfei suddenly started tickling her palm with his fingers.

Liu Miaomiao's lips curled into a smile, and she couldn't help but let out a silvery laugh, her eyes full of joy.

"Hee hee hee……"

She immediately and instinctively pulled her hand back from Lu Mingfei's palm, saying with annoyance and anger, "What are you doing!"

Liu Miaomiao pursed her lips, thinking that this guy was really too wicked, actually thinking of using tickling to punish her. She didn't know how he knew she was ticklish.

Lu Mingfei grinned nonchalantly: "Miaomiao, you're awake?"

Normally, Liu Miaomiao would have been overjoyed to hear Lu Mingfei call her "Miaomiao," but now she felt angry just looking at Lu Mingfei's face and snorted angrily, "Who gave you permission to call me Miaomiao?"

Then he turned around, his back to Lu Mingfei, and said, "He's not awake."

Although Lu Mingfei didn't know what he had done to upset the little girl, Liu Miaomiao was currently a patient, so it was only right that he act as a gentleman and take the initiative to coax the piano prodigy.

He still remembered the wise saying he had heard before, which said that there are only two kinds of flirting: soft flirting and hard flirting. Soft flirting is to say some light and casual nonsense and gradually get closer to the girl step by step. Hard flirting is to corner the girl against the wall and pin her against it.

It was clear that Lu Mingfei couldn't wall-slam Liu Miaomiao right now, especially since she was a patient; doing so would be somewhat unethical. Therefore, Lu Mingfei decided to unleash his shamelessness and persistently pester Liu Miaomiao to talk to him.

Lu Mingfei grabbed the stool from under his bottom and, like a crab, moved to sit down in the direction Liu Miaomiao was facing. Before he could say a word, Liu Miaomiao turned her face away. Lu Mingfei wasn't discouraged, and tried his best to persist. Whichever way Liu Miaomiao's face was turned, he would move the stool to that side.

"Liu Miaomiao, can you say something to me? My arms are sore from carrying all that stuff." Lu Mingfei offered his pitiful act.

"Pah, who wants to talk to you?" Liu Miaomiao spat, but when Lu Mingfei moved to face her again, she didn't turn her head away.

Liu Miaomiao stared silently at Lu Mingfei with her beautiful eyes, without saying a word, as if she wanted to hear what he wanted to say to her.

"Miaomiao, are you feeling better?" Lu Mingfei smiled and used a common phrase when visiting someone in the hospital to get closer to them.

"I just told you not to call me Miaomiao," Liu Miaomiao said coldly. "You can only call me Liu Miaomiao, classmate, and Lu Mingfei."

Well, we've become classmates again.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself that every time Liu Miaomiao was angry with him, she would deliberately distance herself from him and call him "Classmate Lu Mingfei." He suddenly felt that being tsundere was an inherent trait of girls, only the scenarios and conditions that triggered it varied.

Girls like Xiao Tiannv and Xiao Longnv are the type whose tsundere (arrogant) personality is easily triggered. Liu Miaomiao's tsundere trigger conditions aren't particularly difficult, but they're not exactly easy either. As for Ling, a quiet, aloof girl, you might feel she wouldn't be tsundere, but then again, you might feel she's all tsundere. Would an artistic girl like Chen Wenwen be tsundere?

As for scenes with queen-like, mature, and arrogant characters like Nono and Mai Shude, Lu Mingfei couldn't quite imagine them.

"So, I'll really call you Liu Miaomiao then?"

There are too many tsundere girls in the world of Japanese light novels, and Lu Mingfei already knows how to manipulate them. It's all about playing hard to get and making them blush.

Liu Miaomiao scoffed dismissively, but in her heart she was thinking, "Does he really think you can just not call him if he tells you not to? What a guy who doesn't know how to stick to his word..."

However, the next second, Lu Mingfei said:

"Miaomiao, guess how I got into your room?"

Lu Mingfei still remembered what his useless senior brother Fingel had told him: if you want a girl to talk to you, you can't just talk to yourself. Instead, you have to throw out a topic to her like a bait, and then you can respond in kind. This is how you can establish effective communication with a girl.

When Liu Miaomiao heard Lu Mingfei still calling her by her name, she just pursed her lips and didn't say anything like "Lu Mingfei is not allowed to call me Miaomiao." Instead, she replied with an expression of disinterest:

"do not know."

How else could they have gotten in? They must have somehow convinced their parents to let them in, right?

Seeing that Liu Miaomiao had responded to him, Lu Mingfei knew that there was potential in continuing the conversation, so he deliberately lowered his voice and whispered, "Actually, I climbed in through the window."

As he spoke, he pointed to the window facing outwards.

Liu Miaomiao was taken aback and actually looked in the direction Lu Mingfei was pointing. Then she immediately remembered that her ward was on the 4th floor. How could Lu Mingfei have climbed in through the window? This scoundrel really lies without batting an eye.

No wonder she managed to deceive herself and Qiangqiang... and Su Xiaoqiang.

But then she suddenly felt that what Lu Mingfei said might actually be true.

Her parents wouldn't even allow her to speak to Lu Mingfei, let alone let Lu Mingfei come to visit her.

And it was the middle of the night, leaving her and Lu Mingfei alone in a room.

Liu Miaomiao blinked and asked tentatively, "You, did you really climb in through the window?"

“Really, I never lie to you.” Lu Mingfei said sincerely. “Do you think your parents would let me in through the front door? But I was so worried about you, so I climbed in through the window.”

I don't know how that clumsy and timid little boy from junior high school suddenly became so glib.

And does he even realize how dangerous it is to climb to the fourth floor? What if he falls...?

Liu Miaomiao felt a mix of joy, lingering fear, and a sense of inadequacy, realizing that her carefully constructed defenses had been breached by Lu Mingfei's few words.

All I could do was purse my lips, and all my thoughts boiled down to one sentence: "Liar."

"I'm not lying to you, I promise." Lu Mingfei raised his hand and swore, "I really did climb in through the window."

“I didn’t lie about saying you ‘climbed in through the window,’” Liu Miaomiao muttered.

"I was saying that your statement 'I never lie to you' was a lie," Liu Miaomiao thought to herself.

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This month's KPIs were met! Thank you to all the readers for your words!

Then some friends pointed out the typos. Since resuming daily updates (8:00 PM to 8:00 PM), time has indeed been quite tight. I usually read my posts twice before posting. However, my eyesight is limited, and I inevitably miss some typos, so I'm really sorry.

At first, I wasn't quite used to updating daily at 8 AM, and I couldn't quite keep up with the plot. There was even a period when I couldn't find my rhythm and had to reduce my updates. Once my pace picks up, I'll stabilize the update schedule and make up for the extra chapters I received for monthly votes.

Thank you all for your support in May. Looking forward to your continued guidance in June.

Choose one from Chapter 163.

Wasn't it a lie that you said you 'climbed in through the window'?

Lu Mingfei thought for a moment and said, "Don't you believe I'm worried about you?"

So he immediately said with great conviction, "I was so worried when I found out you were sick. You can feel it if you don't believe me, Miaomiao." As he spoke, he took Liu Miaomiao's hand and placed it close to his left chest.

The firm feel of muscles came from her fingertips. Liu Miaomiao shyly pulled away from Lu Mingfei's hand and said helplessly, "Okay, okay, I believe you."

Liu Miaomiao felt she had never met a guy as shameless as Lu Mingfei. At first glance, he seemed honest, sincere, and gentle, but it turned out he was full of tricks and even more shameless than a rogue. How could she have fallen for someone like him?

However, this kind of perfectly timed rascality can sometimes be quite effective at making girls happy.

And, to come up with such a terrible idea as climbing four floors to see me, it's amazing he could even think of it.

No girl can resist this Romeo and Juliet-esque romance, and Liu Miaomiao was no exception.

If only I hadn't suddenly decided to go downstairs at the music salon yesterday and hadn't stumbled upon Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang kissing.