Chapter 9 - Are You A Toddler?
In the Dragon Palace under the east sea, Chen Yanyu, with her white hair cascading down, often found solace in watching idol dramas.
Whenever there was a dramatic wall slam scene on the big screen, she would excitedly roll around on the sofa, clutching a pillow tightly in her arms.
As the Princess of the Dragon Clan, Chen Yanyu possessed the innate ability to shapeshift between her human and dragon forms.
This ability was something that each member of the Dragon Clan have, it’s something that popped out in the era where the spiritual energy is still abundant, and other non-human races are still able to freely walk in the world of the living.
Unlike humans who need to practice certain techniques to be able to change their form, members of the Dragon Clan can effortlessly shift between their 2 forms.
This allowed them to easily navigate the mortal realm and conserve their spiritual energy, prolonging their lifespans during the apocalyptic era.
During her early years, Chen Yanyu rarely assumed her dragon form. Because of that, she lived her life as more of a normal girl in a gigantic Dragon Palace rather than a female dragon.
However, the Dragon Palace is a place that is full of solitude.
It’s placed in a secret realm, so that means no visitor that the Dragon King doesn’t approve can enter, making her grow up with no companion beside the actor in the TV Idol Drama.
Watching idol dramas became her escape from loneliness, and through them, she developed an optimistic and cheerful personality.
In Lu Qingchuan’s eyes, Chen Yanyu’s appearance was pitiful yet endearing, akin to a delicate white hamster held in the palm of his hand.
And right now, this delicate white hamster is trembling all over, frightened and yet turned on beyond belief, scared of what would happen to her, yet are looking forward to it.
Most likely, if Lu Qingchuan really is a bad guy and planned to train her into his toy, even if she were given the chance to run away, she would give various excuses inside her mind about why she can’t run away.
“I– I guess so…” Chen Yanyu stuttered out softly.
Looking at her frightened yet hopeful look, Lu Qingchuan let out a sigh and released his hand.
In fact, he felt a little awkward too.
Girl, you’re playing with fire, and then what?
Even if Chen Yanyu is practically throwing herself to him, he doesn’t dare to pick her up, otherwise, when it’s found out by Su Yingxue, she would go full on Yandere mode and kill everyone involved.
“…Don’t tell anyone about me, got it?”
“O-Okay!” Chen Yanyu finally dared to breathe and regretted her bold actions.
“And now, leave,” Lu Qingchuan said coldly.
“Eh?”
Chen Yanyu widened her eyes in surprise and froze for a moment.
Did I… Just got thrown away?
The Dragon Girl began to cry a little, she sniffled, but didn’t dare to make a sound in front of Lu Qingchuan, she silently did her best to hold back her tears, yet, as crystal-clear teardrops still rolled down her eyes.
Looking at the crying girl in front of him, Lu Qingchuan felt helpless.
Sigh
“Why are you crying?” Lu Qingchuan looked around nervously, and after making sure no one was paying attention to them, asked.
“Wuwuwu…” Chen Yanyu didn’t say anything, instead, she leaned back on the wall weakly, feeling extremely sad.
‘Am I really that scary!?’
Lu Qingchuan was taken aback and immediately softened his tone, “Calm down a little, I’m not going to hurt you.”
Damn it, if someone were to see this scene right now, they would immediately jump to the wrong conclusion! They are going to think he had molested Chen Yanyu!
Lu Qingchuan was starting to feel overwhelmed.
He just wanted to quickly get rid of Chen Yanyu and go pick a gift for Su Yingxue, why did things develop this way?
With reddened eyes, Chen Yanyu looked at Lu Qingchuan, forcefully stopping her tears and letting out a hiccup.
Despite the streak of tears in her eyes, Chen Yanyu is, without a doubt, a top notch beauty.
Seeing her had somewhat stopped her tears, Lu Qingchuan couldn’t help but smile
“Why are you smiling?” Seeing the man who toyed with her heart smiled, Chen Yanyu became a little irritated, and with a glare that made her look like an angry puppy, she asked him.
Lu Qingchuan continued to smile, ignored her question and sent one of his own. “Why were you crying?”
“I— I—”
Chen Yanyu stuttered for a moment before replying with huff. “It’s nothing…”
Lu Qingchuan chuckled, “I didn’t expect that you would actually cry.”
“Who told you to wall slam me!” Chen Yanyu complained, feeling wronged.
Lu Qingchuan shrugged, “Hey, you tried to spy on me, you are lucky I didn’t do real harm.”
“Spy— spying on you!?” Chen Yanyu widened her eyes, “I only do that because I was afraid you would harm the innocent!”
“Yeah yeah, better keep your voice down,” Lu Qingchuan frowned, “Furthermore, why would I want to harm innocent people? I am a good person.”
While it’s true that he has a system that would give him rewards if he does bad deeds, at the end of the day, he still wants to become a good person.
“In what way! You are so mean to me…” Chen Yanyu muttered.
Seeing her acting like this, Lu Qingchuan let out a sigh, shook his head and said. “Stop that, If you keep being unreasonable, no one would think of you as a cute girl anymore.”
Chen Yanyu blinked her eyes in confusion, then, she first looked at Lu Qingchuan with suspicion, then a glimmer of hope seemed to flash in her eyes.
“Do you think I’m cute?”
“A little bit,” Lu Qingchuan lowered his gaze, his words not matching his thoughts.
“Hmph! If you are trying to flatter me, it’s already too late.”
Chen Yanyu crossed her arms, finally showing a princess-like demeanor, and said coquettishly, “Anyway, I don’t like you anymore.”
Hehe, she behaved like it was hard to get heroine in those TV dramas.
How would this demonic cultivator try to get her hooked up on him now?
Keep flattering her?
Or perhaps, he has some secret move?
Chen Yanyu made calculations in her mind. After a brief heartbreak, she felt that her social standing had risen several levels.
“Are you a toddler? Why would I want you to like me?”
However, reality is different from those TV dramas.
Without wasting any second, Lu Qingchuan turned and walked away.
The more he wait here, the higher his chance of being killed by an angry Su Yingxue was.
They are in public location, if someone were to see them, film it, and then post it on social media, the chance of anyone from his school recognizing that it’s him is not low.
And when anyone from his school know, it’s basically the same thing as Su Yingxue knowing it.
He may have a System, two actually, but that doesn’t mean he’s unkillable.
Meanwhile, Chen Yanyu, who are left behind by Lu Qingchuan, can only stare blankly at his retreating figure, her already healing heart start to break again.
That day, Chen Yanyu didn’t believe in love anymore.
For a few days anyway.
– – – – –
Lu Qingchuan walked out of the park and strolled along the streets in the city.
He didn’t need to take a taxi, as he wanted to find a mall nearby.
If he remembered correctly, Su Yingxue’s phone screen was broken. It happened after she finished her call with Zuo Tian last night, so he planned to buy her a new one as a gift.
Suddenly, his phone rang, and then he picked it up and looked at the screen.
Caller: Su Yingxue.
Lu Qingchuan immediately answered the call with a smile on his face.
A slightly hesitant voice came from Su Yingxue, “Umm.. Is this Little Chuan?”
“… ” Lu Qingchuan’s face fell, “Actually, while I have no problem being called that by you, I don’t really like that nickname, find a new one.”
“Eh~ Then— Big Chuan?” Su Yingxue chuckled mischievously upon hearing Lu Qingchuan’s voice.
Lu Qingchuan almost blacked out for a moment and whispered, “Don’t, it’s kind of embarrassing.”
Su Yingxue hummed, her voice filled with a flirtatious tone, “Qingchuan, are you busy? My butt is not as sore as last night, so I think I can do a few more rounds, do you want to?”
After spending a full night making out with him, night, the sexual appetite of Su Yingxue that would only shown when the original Lu Qingchuan finished trained her has shown itself early, she doesn’t hold anything back, at least not in front of him, if she wanted to do it, she would tell him she want to without any hesitation.
Lu Qingchuan fell silent for a moment, avoiding the topic, “I’ll come to see you later. I have something for you.”
Although his mind is telling him to go, his body is telling him to run, his body is still quite dry, it woul probably took him some time before he could go a full marathon sext like last night.
“Oh? Is that so? I’ll accept whatever you want to give, so don’t spend too much time thinking what to give.” Su Yingxue said with a hint of excitement. Then her tone became slightly serious.
“By the way, why weren’t you in the Pathseeker Class’s group chat? Most of the information that are important for a Pathseeker are sent there”
In the plot of the book, the management of the Pathseeker Class’s group chat and the Pathseeker App is handled by Gao Rongrong, the scheming man-stealing Student Council President of Silver City High School.
As the Student Council President, her social media accounts are present in the group chats of each class.
Gao Rongrong herself possesses multiple spiritual roots, and if she were in an ancient sect, she would probably be considered an elder sister figure.
Gao Rongrong is a girl who can be considered as materialistic, dating many boys for the purpose of squeezing their money and dumping them when they can no longer support her.
Among all the students in Silver City High School’s Pathseeker Class, Gao Rongrong failed to invite two people and did not provide them with the app.
One of them is Lu Qingchuan.
The other is Zuo Tian, the Original Protagonist.
One of them has the worst talent, while the other is a waste.
The reason why Lu Qingchuan is not added to the group chat is because she wants to personally invite him and use that meeting to become closer with him, and if possible, become his girlfriend.
In short, the rich second-generation young master like Lu Qingchuan was seen as a pray by Gao Rongrong.
As for Zuo Tian, she simply forgot that he existed in the first place