Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

The clerk at the counter looked up and smiled.

"Welcome! How about a flat white and a tiramisu?"

"Yes, just bring it to my usual spot after it's done."

After Xiaotiannv finished speaking, she turned to look at Lu Mingfei and gestured to him with her eyes, "Order whatever you want to eat."

Before Lu Mingfei could even speak, the waiter's gaze had already fallen on him.

"We also have strawberry Swiss rolls today, want to try some?"

Lu Mingfei recognized the waitress on duty today—the same Shilan Middle School senior Chu Zihang had mentioned who worked part-time there. He just hadn't expected that someone who saw so many different kinds of people at the coffee shop every day would still remember him.

"I can give it a try, and then... I'll also have a flat white."

"Ok."

"A clever student," the little fairy muttered to herself.

The two sat facing each other in a booth by the window. Su Xiaoqiang pretended to be nonchalant, but was actually scrutinizing Lu Mingfei with a guilty conscience.

The reason she chose Open Mind to date Lu Mingfei was that she had been spending her time there after school for the past few days. Being in a familiar place gave her a sense of home advantage, which somewhat made up for her psychological weakness.

only……

"I never knew you were a regular here. You even know you like strawberry Swiss rolls."

Su Xiaoqiang said, feeling somewhat depressed.

I originally wanted to give myself a buff, but I ended up giving it to the opponent as well, and the opponent's buff might even be stronger than mine.

"Actually, I've only been here a few times," Lu Mingfei said truthfully. "I always came with Senior Brother Chu."

"Senior Brother Chu? Chu Zihang from the second year of high school?"

"Yes."

Lu Mingfei nodded, not surprised that Su Xiaoqiang knew the expressionless senior brother.

Chu Zihang was a prominent figure at Shilan High School, more symbolic than the school flag itself. Every student at Shilan High School knew Chu Zihang, just as every Westerner knew Jerusalem.

The waiter brought over their coffee and desserts, and the topic of Chu Zihang was briefly mentioned.

Open Mind is a hidden gem of a shop that Su Xiaoqiang discovered after enrolling in Shilan Middle School. Her desserts and coffee are just right for her taste.

But now she had no appetite and her mind was preoccupied with Lu Mingfei, anxiously wondering what he wanted to talk about with her.

But Lu Mingfei wasn't in a hurry at all, leisurely enjoying the Swiss roll in front of him with a rather irritating expression. This infuriated the little fairy so much she wanted to smash her tiramisu in his face.

In the end, the little fairy broke down, losing her composure first and taking the initiative to ask Lu Mingfei for directions:

"Didn't you want me to talk to you? Speak your mind or shut up."

The content of his words was still as aggressive as before, but his demeanor was clearly weaker.

Even the proudest fairy is still just a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. Despite her usual energetic and confident demeanor, and her ability to analyze other people's relationship problems with ease, and her incomprehension of others' needless anxieties about love, she's just as helpless when faced with the same situation herself, simply because she's not in the thick of it.

Although Su Xiaoqiang looked at Lu Mingfei's thick eyebrows and big eyes and firmly believed that he was not the kind of scumbag who would take advantage of others, what if this guy was a lecherous glutton who would not even spare his buddies?

On the way here, Lu Mingfei was actually thinking about how to resolve this matter with Xiao Tiannv.

The simplest way, of course, is for neither of them to mention the joke-like bet between them, and let the matter naturally pass.

However, the simplest method isn't necessarily the best method; it's just the laziest one. Let time resolve this. The little fairy's resentment may still be there, just hidden away.

After much thought, Lu Mingfei felt that for a girl like Xiaotiannv, the most suitable approach was to be direct.

"It's about that bet we made before..."

Just as Lu Mingfei finished speaking, two sharp "snap" sounds interrupted him abruptly.

Lu Mingfei was drawn to the sudden crashing sound. A metal fork fell onto a white porcelain plate, then onto the ground, just a short distance from his feet, still covered in unlicked cake.

Since the fork in his own hand hadn't fallen, it must have fallen from Xiao Tiannv's hand. Before continuing, Lu Ming had to gentlemanly pick up the fork for Xiao Tiannv.

As Lu Mingfei bent down to pick up the fork, he inadvertently glanced under the opposite table.

The summer uniform of Shilan Secondary School is an English-style skirt, which is very conservative and can reach all the way to the knee, covering the girls' fair and straight thighs and only revealing a section of the calves that are full of imagination.

However, Su Xiaoqiang is quite special. As a mixed-race girl, she is much taller than girls her age. Even in flat shoes, she is almost 170cm tall. The hem of her one-size-fits-all school uniform skirt cannot completely cover her thighs, revealing a half-real, half-illusory absolute territory between her knees and the top of her thighs, which attracts many young men to dream of her.

Therefore, Lu Mingfei unconsciously glanced under the table and should have seen a rather erotic scene: a pair of jade-like legs lying horizontally, extending straight out from under the skirt and hanging crookedly to one side, with the inner thighs tightly closed.

However, what appeared before her eyes was not only the erotic scene she had imagined, not only the sexy absolute territory, slender and beautiful calves and delicate ankles that could be grasped with one hand, but also a pair of dangling short legs, wearing a black dress and small leather shoes, so thin and thin that the feet could not even touch the ground.

Lu Mingfei was taken aback, then immediately picked up the fork and sat up straight.

Su Xiaoqiang's expression was blank, shy, and flustered. Lu Mingfei had never seen such a cute and panicked expression on the little fairy's face before.

Judging from the little fairy's expression, she must have heard him say that he wanted to talk to her about the bet.

He simply didn't have the mind to carefully observe the little fairy's pretty face right now, because the little devil was sitting next to Su Xiaoqiang.

Stand-up collar shirt, black formal attire, bow tie.

"Thank you, Onii-chan!"

The little devil smiled brightly, revealing a set of porcelain-white teeth. She naturally took the fork from Lu Mingfei, wiped it clean, and began to eat the other half of the tiramisu that had never been scooped out.

In fact, Lu Mingfei was quite confused about the pattern of Lu Mingze's appearance.

He usually only comes out when he's in danger or needs help. But sometimes he does come out unexpectedly.

For example, in his past life, when he was having dinner with Chen Wenwen in Aspasia and preparing to confess his feelings, Lu Mingze suddenly appeared and cut off his romantic prospects. But during the graduation trip, when he and Liu Miaomiao went to Ju De Quan restaurant and couldn't get a table, he jumped out again to help him out.

This left Lu Mingfei wondering whether Lu Mingze wanted a sister-in-law or not.

"What are you doing out here this time?" Lu Mingfei asked calmly.

Lu Mingze finished the piece of cake he was eating, then took out a handkerchief from his shirt pocket to wipe his mouth before smiling and saying:

"I can answer your first question first, brother. I don't want a sister-in-law."

"Damn! Can you read minds?"

Lu Mingfei was taken aback, not expecting that the little devil knew about just a fleeting thought in his mind.

"And what do you mean by not wanting a sister-in-law? Are you happy that I'm single?"

"Brother, please let him finish speaking first."

Lu Mingze rested his elbows on the table, crossed his hands and rested them on his chin, grinning mischievously.

"I don't want one sister-in-law, but I want a group of sisters-in-law."

Lu Mingfei sighed, "Here we go again..."

"You don't want it? You're just saying that." Lu Mingze said, "I'm speaking for your true feelings, brother. If you haven't fantasized about it, why would you rent a three-bedroom apartment? Just because of a few words from Chu Zihang? Isn't it because there's something else going on in your mind?"

Lu Mingfei was taken aback, as if something he didn't want to admit had suddenly been touched upon.

"See, you can't deny it now."

"Why can't I deny it? I have money, so can't I be willful? I can buy two skewers of candied hawthorn, eat one and throw the other away, or of course, I can live alone in a three-bedroom apartment."

For some reason, whenever Lu Mingfei saw Lu Mingze, he seemed to turn back into that pathetic kid from many years ago.

Just as Lu Mingze said, he was his true self. When facing Lu Mingze, all the growth he had undergone over the years would be peeled away like an onion. In front of Lu Mingze, he was always like someone who had been stripped naked.

This impatience with Lu Mingze stemmed more from his inner resistance or fear.

"Okay, okay, it's okay if you don't want to admit your true feelings now, I understand."

Lu Mingze shrugged, smiled, and continued:

"Brother, didn't you want to ask me why I suddenly appeared? I'm just reminding you that we're about to reach a crucial decision point, so please choose your options carefully."

Lu Mingfei was stunned. "What options?"

"Of course, it's Su Xiaoqiang's storyline as the female lead."

The little devil laughed quite enthusiastically.

"Choosing different options will lead to two different storylines. If you ask Su Xiaoqiang to keep her promise, she will really become your lover; if you tell her that you don't take it seriously, the timeline will converge on another branch, and you will return to being ordinary classmates."

"Pah, pah, pah, do you think this is some kind of dating game? Besides, Little Fairy wouldn't take that joke seriously, would she?"

“But isn’t life just a game?” Lu Mingze spread his hands. “Don’t forget, brother, you’re still in a state of reloading your save file and starting over. You even have the attributes from last game, and you’ve even reset my four chances to switch jobs.”

The little devil's words left Lu Mingfei speechless. Yes, he had already been reborn twice, so what credibility did this world still have?

Lu Mingze continued, "As for whether Su Xiaoqiang will take that joke seriously... I can tell you definitively, brother, as long as you ask her to keep her promise, she definitely will."

"How can it be!"

“When have I ever lied to you, brother? Kassel College even has an outrageous Free Day. The winner of Free Day can confess to any girl without being rejected. Have you ever seen a girl reject you? It’s just that you yourself don’t dare to use this right.”

Lu Mingze said with a smile, "Although keeping one's word for a day is a tacit rule of the academy, ordinary bets may not be as binding. However, whether or not one will keep a bet depends on the person. If it were Fingel, he would have already severed ties and denied it. But Su Xiaoqiang is the kind of girl who will keep her promise. Even if she's unwilling, she'll still keep it, not to mention..."

He deliberately drew out his words to pique Lu Mingfei's curiosity, "...She might not be unwilling, you know. Brother, you saw her fair, straight, and slender legs just now, right? With just one word from you, you might be able to sit next to Su Xiaoqiang and stroke her beautiful legs. Brother, can you honestly say you're not tempted?"

"Pah, pah, pah! What kind of person did you say Su Xiaoqiang was? She's a high-class beauty, okay?"

"The hungry crave food, and the thirsty crave water. People who have been restrained for too long will unconsciously pursue bold and crazy emotions, just like breaking free from the shackles and running freely against the sunlight."

After Lu Mingze finished speaking, he sighed deeply and said softly:

"It is the sorrow of blood."

"What Blood Sorrow?" Lu Mingfei was puzzled by Lu Mingze's sudden words.

"It's that thing that's preventing you from admitting your true feelings, brother."

Lu Mingze smiled faintly.

"Brother, you clearly like Liu Miaomiao, and you still have some lingering feelings for Chen Wenwen. You always keep calling her 'bro, bro' to make yourself ignore your feelings and desires for Su Xiaoqiang. It's because your grief over blood is too severe."

"Not accepting them because you think it's for their own good is just your excuse. If you really want what's best for them, shouldn't you leave a lasting and memorable impression on their youth, so that they can still recall that beautiful period of their youth even in their later years?"

"Ultimately, it's because you're too afraid of being alone, brother. Because you're afraid of being alone, you're afraid that you'll still be alone even if you're with them, so you'd rather not shatter this fantasy in your heart. That's the tragedy of a person destined for fate."

Seeing Lu Mingfei remain silent, Lu Mingze tilted his head and smiled.

"Alright, brother, I'm leaving now. I hope you choose the right option, the one that leads to the only harem."

As he spoke, Lu Mingze suddenly stuck Su Xiaoqiang's fork onto Lu Mingfei's Swiss roll, then quickly pulled out the fork Lu Mingfei had used and threw it at Lu Mingfei's feet.

Two "ding-dong" sounds.