Chapter 143
Chapter 143: She Likes His Dragon Form, Next Time He Will Turn Into a Dragon for Her to Pet
When Chong Ming heard that, his golden eyes grew darker. He slowly stood up, bent down, and used the handkerchief in his hand to wipe the sauce from the corner of Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth.
Jiang Tea Tea sat there like a little fool, chopsticks in her right hand and spoon in her left, eyes wide as she turned to stone.
[Wait, is he wiping my mouth? Is he sick in the head? Who told him he could wipe me?]
After he finished wiping her mouth, Chong Ming sat back down. He folded the dirty handkerchief into a perfect little square and placed it neatly on the table.
Then he looked calmly at the stunned and gaping Jiang Tea Tea and asked, full of confidence: “I am following the doctor’s orders. How can that be shameless?”
Her chopsticks and spoon slipped from her fingers and hit the table with a clatter. She snapped out of it and scrubbed at the place he had wiped with the back of her hand: “You are following the doctor’s orders? Who gave you that order?”
“I am warning you, do not make trouble here for no reason. Right now I only cannot beat you for a while. It is not like I will never be able to beat you.”
[Dog thing, bastard, using the fact that I cannot beat you right now to push your luck. Just wait. When I can beat you, I will kill you, bury you under my tree roots, let my roots drill into your body, and sway my branches over your corpse.]
Chong Ming nodded in agreement: “You are right. Because the younglings have been taking in your abilities, your ability power is lacking and almost drained. That is why you are not as strong right now.”
“You also have several kinds of abilities. For example, tonight your ice element ability helped stop a lot of aberrant beasts from invading the Imperial Academies.”
He had four types of abilities. She was like a big treasure chest. One surprise after another kept popping out.
From the day he met her and started paying attention to her, the surprises had never stopped.
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curled up: “So you know that, and you still dare to brag in front of me?”
Chong Ming gave her a killing strike: “How am I bragging? Healer Cheng Yuan, the healer you trust the most, said that you and the younglings are both lacking in the soothing spiritual power from my abilities. He hopes I will soothe you with my spiritual power every day.”
“This is the medical order he left for me, and he told me to follow it no matter what. In order to follow the medical order, living in the same room with you and sleeping in the same bed, what is wrong with that?”
[Listen to him. Is that even something a human would say? Look at what he wants to do. Is that something a human would do?]
[He really wants to live in the same room and sleep in the same bed with me? Too much. Way too much. Even humans and monsters together would be angry about this.]
Jiang Tea Tea refused at once: “No way. At most you can have the living room. I will leave the door open a crack and you can just release your spiritual power through it. If you want to share the same room and the same bed with me, stop dreaming.”
Chong Ming reminded her, without backing down: “We have to follow the medical order, schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea.”
Cheng Yuan had told her to soak in his soothing ability power every day.
He had not said they had to share one room.
Jiang Tea Tea snorted: “Whether you follow it is your business. What does it have to do with me? Move out of the way. Do not block me from eating my late-night snack.”
Chong Ming took a fresh handkerchief and put it by her hand. Then he stood up and said: “Alright. I will go wash up first. You eat. If you need anything, call me.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “……”
[If you want to wash, then wash. Why are you telling me?]
He went to wash, and her mood brightened. She could eat two more bites.
Without even looking at him, Jiang Tea Tea reached out and swept the handkerchief he had put by her hand onto the floor.
Chong Ming stopped, bent down to pick the handkerchief up, and put a new one by her hand.
Jiang Tea Tea swept the new handkerchief onto the floor again and gave him a cold snort to tell him that if he picked it up and put it back again, she would keep sweeping it onto the floor.
Chong Ming gave her a deep look, then did not pick it up again. He turned and walked into the bathroom to wash.
Jiang Tea Tea felt like she had won a great victory. Her late-night snack tasted even better. She shoveled food in, and in a little while she finished off the dishes that old mud loach Chong Ming had brought over too.
She ate and drank her fill, then ate a piece of fruit to settle it all. After a loud burp, she slumped back in the chair, hand resting on her belly. The cubs in her belly did not move. They were asleep.
She lay limp there for about five minutes. As she grew sleepy and her eyes began to close, she heard a small sound from behind her.
When the sound stopped, she rolled over a little in the half-circle bed and looked out. She saw Chong Ming walking out of the bedroom.
She had wanted to sleep in, but after more than three months of getting up at 4:50 every day, her body clock would not let her sleep anymore.
She got up, washed her face, rinsed her mouth, changed her clothes, and walked out of Chong Ming’s palace.
The steward who had led her yesterday was standing at the door. When she saw Jiang Tea Tea come out, she quickly greeted her: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, you are awake. Do you want to take a walk, have breakfast, or look for His Highness?”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at the steward and cried out: “You stood at the door all night?”
The steward answered respectfully: “I did not stand here all night. My coworkers and I work in 12 hour shifts. We work one day and rest one day. At night we switch every two hours.”
Jiang Tea Tea said: “Oh, I see.” Then she asked: “What is Your Highness doing so early?”
The steward said: “Training his body. No matter how late His Highness comes back to the Imperial Palace, he always gets up at 4:45 in the morning and goes out at 4:50 to train.”
“If you want to find him, I can take you there.”
Jiang Tea Tea checked the time. It was not even five yet. After being bathed in soothing spiritual power from abilities, she did not feel hungry at all.
She thought it would be better than staying idle to walk a bit: “Alright. Take me there to see. And have breakfast prepared extra rich.”
The steward used her fastest speed-type ability to notify the kitchen, then made a respectful “please” gesture to Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea followed behind her. The Imperial Palace in the early morning, with the lamps turned off, the winding stone paths, the pretty flowers and the thick trees, all looked heavier with history than under the lights.
To see how big the Imperial Palace was and how many palaces there were, Jiang Tea Tea jumped up onto the roof of one palace and stood there to look down.
The palaces under the lights and the palaces under her gaze were two very different sights. With her own eyes, the palaces looked much more majestic and full of technology.
One palace after another stretched out in layers. If you knew the truth, you knew only two golden dragons lived in the Imperial Palace. If you did not know, you might think the golden Dragon Clan had countless descendants and had filled the whole Imperial Palace.
The steward stood below, looking up at Jiang Tea Tea standing on the roof, shocked and full of emotion. The future consort of the Prince of the Blood had a very high ability level, was very free and easy, and even at such a young age had an amazing presence.
After Jiang Tea Tea finished looking over the huge Imperial Palace from above, she jumped down and followed the enforcement officer onward.
After about ten minutes of walking, she heard a dragon roar. It was Sui Xuan Chu’s dragon roar.
The steward stopped and said: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, if you walk another three to five minutes ahead, you will reach the training ground. At this time of morning, His Highness Chong Ming and His Highness the Crown Prince are training. If you go now, you will be able to see them.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded to the steward and walked forward along the stone path. The farther she went, the wider her view became, and Sui Xuan Chu’s dragon roars grew louder and more miserable.
At last Jiang Tea Tea reached the edge of the huge open air training ground of the Imperial Palace. She saw Sui Xuan Chu, who had taken medicine to disguise himself as a red-black dragon, and Chong Ming, who had shrunk his huge golden dragon form to about the same size on purpose.
Chong Ming was using his dragon claws to kick Sui Xuan Chu around like a leather ball. Sui Xuan Chu howled again and again and could not fight back at all.
Chong Ming slammed him to the ground over and over. Every time Sui Xuan Chu struggled back up to attack, he could not even touch his uncle’s body.
It was a perfect example of someone who kept fighting and kept losing, and no matter how many times he lost, he kept getting back up. He did not dare run away, and he did not dare surrender. He only knew one thing: fight.
As the only child of the royal household, the current Crown Prince, and the future emperor, his life was truly miserable.
Jiang Tea Tea now suspected that when Sui Xuan Chu learned she was carrying his uncle’s cubs and got so happy, he must have been thinking that once his uncle had younglings, he would stop beating him.
Poor kid. Some of his scales had already been ripped off. Jiang Tea Tea formed an attack spell and shot it at Chong Ming.
The invisible energy entity of the attack spell was just about to hit Chong Ming’s dragon body when he slid aside and dodged it. He still had time to swing his tail and slap Sui Xuan Chu out of the air and down onto the platform.
Sui Xuan Chu’s beast form was a dragon more than ten meters long. He could not stand up to a tail swipe from his uncle. He hit the ground with a smack and lay there exhausted, unable to get up for a long time.
Jiang Tea Tea had not expected her sneak attack to be dodged by Chong Ming. What she did not expect even more was that, after he saw her, he flew toward her in his beast form.
His body, more than 200 meters long, had been shrunk on purpose to just over ten meters, but every scale still shone with a metallic sheen. Even the mane around his neck floated, each strand clear and otherworldly.
His dragon mouth was big and strong looking, pure blood and correct lineage at a glance, like a dragon in the full strength of his prime. That pair of golden dragon horns on his head were completely different from the fresh new horns of just-adult Sui Xuan Chu. It was like heaven and earth.
Looking with her own eyes at such a golden dragon flying straight toward her, even at just over ten meters, made Jiang Tea Tea feel hungry.
[He really looks like something that, if I buried him under my tree roots, would be very tasty, very nourishing, a huge tonic.]
Chong Ming landed in front of Jiang Tea Tea and turned into a human. High nose bridge, golden eyes, high ponytail, training suit, combat boots, wide shoulders, narrow waist, long legs.
When Jiang Tea Tea saw him turn into a human, with that cold and serious face, her appetite faded at once. She said in a bad tone: “Your dragon form looks really good. Why did you suddenly switch to human form?”
He heard that she liked his dragon form.
Next time, he would stay in dragon form longer for her.
Without showing any reaction on his face, Chong Ming asked: “Did you just try to sneak attack me?”
Jiang Tea Tea blinked her eyes in fake innocence: “Me, sneak attack you? Heaven and earth can be my witness. I have not even been here 10 minutes. I am standing so far from your training area and my hands never even moved. How could I have sneaked up on you?”
“I used my willpower and my soul. Maybe the insectoid race has already snuck into your Imperial Palace and you cannot find them yourself, so you blame me instead?”
Chong Ming looked at her innocent face and the way she argued so confidently and let out a small sigh: “You do not need to sneak attack me. You can support Sui Xuan Chu and attack me openly together with him.”
Jiang Tea Tea rolled her eyes to the sky: “Me support him? It should be him supporting me.”
On the training platform, Sui Xuan Chu heard what Jiang Tea Tea said. He transformed into human form, wiped the sweat from his face, and shouted to her: “Great, great, roommate, come over. I will support you, and we will beat my uncle together!”