Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Xia Mi swung her legs with a smile, "Doesn't it seem much more romantic this way?"

Lu Mingfei was taken aback. "Can you see me from here?"

"I can barely see a little bit."

Xia Mi spread her thumbs and forefingers in front of her, forming a camera-like rectangle, with one eye squinting and the other wide open.

"The fourth teaching building from here is the one where you are, senior. Your classroom is on the far right of the second floor. You sit in the last seat by the window."

Following Xia Mi's directions, Lu Mingfei actually found the window where he was sitting.

"Then look straight ahead along this tree-lined path and see the playground. Right in the middle is your class's camp during military training. I saw it all clearly: you were practicing your horse stance until the instructor fell over, and you were carrying Senior Sister Su to the school clinic."

Xia Mi swung her legs while waiting for the boy next to her to deliver his expert吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or critical remarks), but to her surprise, the吐槽 she had imagined never came.

She turned to look at Lu Mingfei, only to see him with his hands on the edge of the rooftop, his gaze fixed on the distance, not on her. It was impossible to tell where he was looking; perhaps he wasn't looking at anything at all, but simply at the setting sun in the distance.

The desolation and loneliness froze Xia Mi's smile on her face, and her eyes became somewhat dazed.

But immediately, a lighthearted smile returned to Xia Mi's face, and she reached out to pat Lu Mingfei on the back, saying:

"Senior brother, stop pretending to be profound, that's not your script."

This slap seemed to bring Lu Mingfei back to his original self. He rubbed the spot where Xia Mi had slapped him, and wow, she hadn't held back at all.

“Why pretend to be profound? Can’t you just look at the sunset?” Lu Mingfei said while rubbing his back.

Actually, he was just imitating Xia Mi's perspective when he looked at things—the tree-lined path, the playground, and every visible window of the teaching building.

The word "observation" came out of Xia Mi's mouth so casually, but the loneliness of sitting alone on an empty rooftop watching other people's hustle and bustle can only be truly understood by experiencing it firsthand.

In his previous life, Lu Mingfei at least had Chen Wenwen, whom he secretly admired, to look forward to during his three years of high school, and there were also some internet-addicted teenagers in internet cafes who praised him as a gaming god. But what about Xia Mi?

Did she sit in a place like this every day in her past life to observe Senior Brother Chu?

Am I just going to sit in a place like this every day for the rest of my life, observing myself?

Although dragons and humans seem to be mortal enemies, Lu Mingfei still felt quite sorry for the little dragon girl.

"It's about time we headed back; we've been out for so long." Sensing the atmosphere was getting strange, Lu Mingfei said.

"No rush, sit a little longer. Your Liu Miaomiao won't be out for a while. Right now, she's being coaxed by the vice president into doing a cheerleading dance with a pom-pom in hand."

"You know all this?"

“I already said it, there are branding marks.”

Xia Mi suddenly increased the amplitude of her leg swings, as if there were an invisible sea in front of her, and she was using her bare feet to scoop up the water, the crystal-clear droplets dancing between her delicate toes. Lu Mingfei's heart also swayed with her movements.

Suddenly, the white shoes flew off and landed with a "thud" on the lawn below the rooftop in their sight.

"..."

The two were silent for a while, then suddenly Xia Mi turned around, looked up at Lu Mingfei with her head down.

"Senior brother..."

Xia Mi pouted, feigning nonchalance.

As expected, the beautiful girl looks beautiful no matter what she does. Even with such clumsy acting skills, Lu Mingfei still couldn't resist her.

"Okay, okay, I understand."

Lu Mingfei reluctantly got up, supporting himself on the ground, and pulled his leg back from between the railings to stand up.

Push open the heavy iron door and descend the spiral staircase.

Although I wasn't very familiar with the route, luckily, if you walk straight down the stairs, there's a door. Pushing the door open leads to a back area of ​​the stadium, and next to it should be the lawn where Xia Mi's shoe fell.

Lu Mingfei looked up at the location of the terrace and quickly found the lawn directly below it. However, there was more than one white shoe lying on the lawn; another white shoe was upside down a few meters away.

"..."

Lu Mingfei looked up and saw Xia Mi looking down from several floors above, her two tender white legs swaying.

"Senior brother, catch it!" Xia Mi cupped his hands in front of him like a megaphone.

"?"

Before Lu Mingfei could react to what Xia Mi meant, he saw Xia Mi suddenly reach out from the railing, let go, and something like a white ribbon blown by the wind floated down, almost landing on Lu Mingfei's face.

Fortunately, Lu Mingfei reacted quickly and caught the thing with his hand.

It was a pair of long stockings, made of pure cotton, still warm and fragrant from being worn.

"What the hell is this?!" Lu Mingfei shouted at the top.

"There's one more, senior brother, make sure you catch it carefully, don't drop it on the ground and get it dirty!"

As Xia Mi shouted, she threw down her other stocking, which was rolled up into a ball, soft and fluffy, like a furry squirrel.

Lu Mingfei felt like a pervert, holding a girl's stocking in one hand and a pair of slightly damp white shoes in his arms.

Seeing that Lu Mingfei had caught both socks perfectly, Xia Mi made a face on the terrace, her voice and laughter falling together.

"If you caught it, bring it up to me. Senior Sister Liu Miaomiao will be out soon, we need to hurry back."

"Depend on!"

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Chapter 100 Rolled up

Fortunately, Lu Mingfei didn't encounter anyone while spiraling up the mountain carrying Xia Mi's shoes and socks, otherwise he would have really been in deep trouble.

Back on the rooftop, with a "click," the door opened, and Xia Mi was still sitting in the same spot, looking back at Lu Mingfei.

"Thank you, senior brother! The wind was so strong that it blew my shoes and socks off."

Xia Mi chuckled and swung her pretty little feet: "Luckily, my senior brother is here, otherwise I would have had to go down barefoot to pick them up."

Taking the shoes and socks from Lu Mingfei, Xia Mi was about to put on the long socks for her two playful, fidgeting white feet when she suddenly noticed Lu Mingfei looking at her. Her face flushed, whether genuinely or not, and she wrinkled her nose, saying:

"Don't look at what you shouldn't see, senior brother! Please step aside outside the door for a moment!"

He's clearly a dragon king thousands of years old, but he acts like an innocent high school student...

Having reached a psychologically mature stage, Lu Mingfei wasn't going to let Xia Mi lead him by the nose any longer. He chuckled coldly, "What, you dare to take it off but not put it on?"

"You think you can look down on me? Fine, I'll wear it then!"

Xia Mi grumbled and turned around with a "humph," deliberately stretching her long legs out in front of Lu Mingfei. She lifted them into the air, half-bent over, like a crescent moon resting on the ground, with only her buttocks touching the ground. Then she picked up her stockings and slowly pulled them up from her glistening toes to her legs. The movement was both innocent and alluring.

Lu Mingfei had only intended to deflate Xiaolongnu's arrogance, but upon witnessing this extremely impactful scene, he found himself feeling a strange, physical urge to act. It was truly bizarre.

"Have you seen enough, you perverted senior brother!"

Xia Mi put on her socks and shoes, then blushed as she got up from the ground, clapped her hands, and flashed her canine teeth:

"If you've seen enough, hurry back. Senior Sister Liu Miaomiao has already come out and is probably wondering where you went!"

"What the heck? Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"I was going to say something, but my perverted senior brother insisted on watching me put on my socks, so I had no choice but to satisfy his fetish and let him watch me put them on before I said anything."

Xia Mi's face was beaming with smugness, her expression as if she had successfully pranked someone.

"You go first, I'll come down later. It'll be hard to explain if we both go together," Xia Mi said, her hands behind her back.

"Row."

Lu Mingfei clattered down the stairs, and had only taken a couple of steps when his phone rang. It was Liu Miaomiao, of course. She must have been getting impatient waiting for him, so she called.

Lu Mingfei answered the phone, but before he could speak, Liu Miaomiao's voice came through the receiver:

"Mingfei..."

“It’s me, what’s wrong, Miaomiao?” Lu Mingfei said. His voice echoed in the empty stairwell.

Instead of calling Liu Miaomiao by her usual name, he simply called her by her given name, Miaomiao. After all, he had left without a word, so he needed to comfort her now.

"Did you go back first? I just came out of the cheerleading activity room and didn't see you."

Although Liu Miaomiao tried her best to make her voice sound calm and normal, Lu Mingfei could still hear the disappointment in it.

Because Liu Miaomiao's voice usually carries a youthful exuberance when she speaks, it would be abnormal if it sounded calm.

"No, I just went to the restroom. The roads in the gymnasium are a bit winding, I'll be right back," Lu Mingfei replied casually.

Upon hearing that Lu Mingfei hadn't left, Liu Miaomiao's voice on the other end of the phone indeed regained its vitality:

"Oh, I see. Then you don't need to rush. Slow down, I'll be waiting for you at the door."

"It's okay, I should be there soon."

"Okay, then watch where you're going! I'm not chatting with you anymore! Don't fall later. Bye~"

"bye."

After saying goodbye, the phone call ended. Lu Mingfei happened to walk to the entrance of the building he had come from.

By this time, the sun had completely set, and the dim sunlight shone down from the open door of the rooftop, casting a holy golden glow over the stairwell below.

Looking up, Lu Mingfei stood in the golden light looking at Xia Mi, while Xia Mi stood in the sunset looking at him.

……

Hurriedly returning to the entrance of the cheerleading activity room, Liu Miaomiao was waiting for Lu Mingfei with her hands crossed in front of her.

Hearing footsteps in the corridor, Liu Miaomiao looked up and happily waved to Lu Mingfei who was walking towards her.

"Sorry, I just went to the restroom." Lu Mingfei pretended to be out of breath when he rushed back.

"No need to rush, it's not like I'm not waiting for you."

Liu Miaomiao said with some self-reproach, "It's also my fault. Senior Sister Zhang pushed me to train with the cheerleading team for a bit, and then I forgot about the time, making you wait at the door for so long. You must have been very bored, right?"

Actually, I didn't wait long. As soon as you went in, Xia Mi pulled me away...

That's what I thought in my heart, but of course I couldn't say it out loud.

Lu Mingfei blinked. "Then next time you train, let me watch from the sidelines so I won't be bored."

Liu Miaomiao quickly waved her hand in protest: "No, no, it's too embarrassing."

It was getting late, and most of the people in the cheerleading activity room had left, with only a few girls still inside doing stretching exercises.