Chapter 149
Chapter 149: Beast form really does win hearts, getting touched and clung to
[What is this old peacock so full of himself about, acting like someone is flirting with him? Who is secretly touching him?]
She only treated him as fertilizer, as food.
She wanted to kill him, eat him, not touch him.
She really had no idea what he meant by sending himself right to her hand and letting her “touch” him.
Jiang Tea Tea looked at the dragon head resting in her palm. She curled her fingers, trying to pinch the golden dragon’s neck, but the hard, sharp scales would not budge at all. She simply could not get a grip.
Chong Ming lifted his dragon head a little, exposing his neck and reminding her: “My scales are pretty hard and pretty sharp. When you touch my neck, be careful not to cut your hand.”
She really did like his dragon form and not his human form.
When he turned into dragon form, she immediately reached out to touch him.
When he was in human form, she stayed far away from him.
Jiang Tea Tea: “???”
[Who is touching his neck?]
She was trying to choke his neck and twist it with a crisp crack, not touch his neck.
[Seriously? She looked this fierce, eyes full of hunger for food, and he did not feel any danger at all?]
[Why did it feel like she wanted his life, but he thought she was flirting with him?]
She said: “Is that so? Your scales are pretty hard, let me try.”
Jiang Tea Tea wrapped her hand in spiritual power and openly used force. She found that his scales were, just as he said, as hard as armor. Even with spiritual power covering her hand, she could not break through the layer of scales to twist his neck.
Chong Ming raised his head even higher, as if saying: if you want to choke me and try it, I will even pose for you.
Jiang Tea Tea refused to believe that she, a dignified Great Demon Stage with more than thirty percent of her spiritual power left, with the dragon neck already in her hand, could not snap it.
But imagination was beautiful and reality was harsh. She wanted to hear the crisp sound of his neck breaking. Not only did she not hear it, this old loach Chong Ming’s tail even wrapped around her wrist.
He completely took her attempt on his life as her playing with him, and even cooperated, posing for her so she could “play.”
Jiang Tea Tea was so angry she almost spat old blood in his face. She opened her mouth and said through gritted teeth: “Didn’t they say beast form can’t talk? How can your beast form talk?”
Chong Ming opened his mouth and answered: “The world works in very clever ways. Anything can happen. Any miracle can appear.”
Jiang Tea Tea said coldly: “Speak human words.”
Chong Ming said: “To put it simply, when a beastman’s supernatural abilities reach a certain level, they can unlock many things that seem unreasonable.”
“For example, speaking in beast form. Every beastman male and every beastman female can speak in beast form. Their supernatural ability level is just too low to support speaking while in beast form.”
In Jiang Tea Tea’s ears, his explanation automatically translated into: [Everyone else is trash; only this dragon is amazing.]
Jiang Tea Tea let go of his dragon neck, but the tail wrapped around her wrist did not loosen. It even tightened.
She shook her hand and reminded him: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, men and women shouldn’t be touching. Take your tail off and scram.”
Chong Ming straightened his dragon body. The tail around her wrist still did not let go. His golden dragon eyes lowered slightly as he looked at her: “It’s 11 o’clock. Time to sleep.”
Jiang Tea Tea said angrily: “So you do know it’s time to sleep. Then hurry up and get out of here.”
Chong Ming reminded her: “This is my bed.”
Jiang Tea Tea shot back: “Then I should get out?”
Chong Ming admitted defeat, loosened his tail, stepped with his golden claws to the very corner of the bed, coiled up, and tucked his head down.
Jiang Tea Tea was full of question marks.
[Wait, what kind of dragon curls up like a pile of poop, looking small and pitiful with his head buried like that?]
If you knew the truth, you would know he was the one who did not keep his word and was hogging the temporary bed she was using. If you did not know, you would think she was some unforgivable demon who bullied him, slept with him, refused to take responsibility, and kicked him aside.
“Hey, hey, hey.” Jiang Tea Tea called to him: “Get down and sleep on the floor.”
Chong Ming’s deep voice sounded muffled: “Already asleep.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a cold laugh: “Chong Ming, could you be any more ridiculous?”
Silence answered her.
Jiang Tea Tea raised her foot and kicked him.
The coiled golden dragon did not move at all.
She said anxiously: “I’m talking to you.”
Again, there was only silence.
She kicked him several more times.
The thick golden scales on Chong Ming’s body were fine.
Jiang Tea Tea’s foot, however, turned red from kicking.
She finally understood that he was dead set on sleeping on the bed today.
Even if his two-to-three-hundred-meter-long beast form had shrunk to just over one meter, he still had to sleep on the bed. The phrase “able to bend and stretch” was now fully shown on him.
Jiang Tea Tea had slept comfortably on this bed yesterday. There was no way she would give it up today either, so she lay down too.
The lights in the room turned off automatically. Inside the half-round bed, two gems glowed faintly on and off.
Wrapped in the quilt, Jiang Tea Tea formed a spiritual power seal and covered herself with spiritual power, ignoring Chong Ming as she closed her eyes to sleep.
Chong Ming released supernatural abilities and spiritual power as he quietly lifted his dragon head. He stared at the back of Jiang Tea Tea’s head as she faced away from him, his dragon whiskers slightly raised.
Ever since Sui Xuan Chu returned to the Imperial Palace, he had been beaten and trained, trained all the way until midnight.
What waited for him was not lying on a bed, but lying inside a healing pod in the Imperial Palace healing room, wearing only a pair of shorts, soaking in healing liquid in a disguised crimson-black dragon form.
His whole body hurt so much he bared a big dragon tooth. He almost smashed the healing pod with one lash of his tail. Only when the healing finally took effect did his body stop hurting.
He had just closed his eyes to sleep, had just barely dozed off, when he heard someone knocking on the pod, bang bang bang, waking him up.
As he sat up, the healing pod door opened. The avian-type beastman who had beaten him last night stood at the door and said respectfully: “Your Highness, it is now 4:50 in the morning. You should get up to train.”
Sui Xuan Chu froze for a moment, then answered: “See you at the training ground in ten minutes.”
The avian beastman who woke him said: “Yes, Your Highness. We will wait for you at the training ground. Today will be the same as yesterday. We train until 7:15.”
Sui Xuan Chu waved his hand.
The avian beastman left.
Sui Xuan Chu slammed his fist against the glass of the healing pod and let out a sigh that sounded worse than death. Then he used his fastest speed-type ability to get dressed, brush his teeth, wash his face, leave the healing room, and rush to the training ground.
When Jiang Tea Tea woke up from her sleep, she found it was already after five. The biological clock she had kept for more than three months was ruined.
There was no Chong Ming on the bed either. She rolled on the bed and thought that, according to yesterday’s schedule, at this time Chong Ming should have gone out to train.
She happily hummed a Demon Clan little song and got up in high spirits, but she did not expect that Chong Ming, who should have gone out to train, was instead sitting on the sofa in the bedroom, fully dressed, back straight. Several screens were projected in front of him, a light-brain wrist terminal tablet lay on his lap, and several piles of documents sat beside him.
Jiang Tea Tea’s humming stopped all at once.
Chong Ming looked up at her: “You sing pretty well. Keep going.”
The corner of Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth twitched: “Shouldn’t you be out training at this time?”
Chong Ming replied: “I have some urgent official business to deal with.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out an “oh”: “If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Being the Three Armies Commander in Chief really isn’t a good position.”
She still had to give birth to the little brat, raise the little brat, and become famous across the whole Interstellar Space.
She suddenly thought of a shortcut.
A shortcut even better than sitting in the Three Armies Commander in Chief’s seat.
That was, when she gave birth, she would start a live stream to the whole M31 Star System and broadcast herself giving birth to a litter of five dragons. She would definitely blow up in fame.
As soon as that idea came out, it was strongly rejected by the remaining consciousness of the fake young miss inside her body.
The fake young miss’s remaining consciousness said that relying on giving birth to a litter of five dragons to get famous was not true fame and did not count as a woman’s shining moment.
She was just amusing herself by thinking about it. She would never really do it. The fake young miss’s remaining consciousness was totally overthinking things.
Chong Ming’s lips curved up: “The Three Armies Commander in Chief is under only one person and above hundreds of billions. When he gets angry, he can even argue with Sui Xuan Chu. How is that not a good job?”
Jiang Tea Tea sneered: “If it’s such a good job, then you can stay in it. Why do you have to push me into that position?”
Chong Ming simply said a few words: “You are suitable.”
Jiang Tea Tea slapped her belly with a smack: “I still have to raise my baby.”
His eyes followed her hand to her stomach. He opened his mouth and volunteered: “I can take full responsibility for raising it.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a “wow” and cheered: “So after saying so many prefaces, you were waiting to say this?”
Chong Ming closed the holo projection screens in front of him and snapped the light-brain wrist terminal tablet shut. Then he started to reason with her: “First, the youngling is yours. I won’t fight you for it. In the records, it will be registered under your name. Whatever you want to call it, that will be its name. You will have absolute guardianship over it.”
“Second, the decision to register marriage with me is in your hands. Whenever you want to register, I will cooperate with you anytime, anywhere.”
“Last, if you are still not at ease with me, we can sign any legal contracts that are beneficial to you and the youngling.”
Jiang Tea Tea walked over and stood in front of him, looking at him with disdain: “You, a person who changes laws, talking to me about signing legal contracts, is really not convincing.”
“As for my youngling, back then you were able to hatch Sui Xuan Chu on the battlefield and raise him. By the same logic, I can do it too.”
Chong Ming’s gaze met hers. From there he could see her lower belly, and if he reached out he could touch it. He really wanted to touch it, but he did not move. He lifted his chin slightly and looked at Jiang Tea Tea: “I am the one who revises laws, but any contracts signed before a change will be carried out according to the old version. My revisions will not make the contracts we sign lose their legal force.”
“I hatched Sui Xuan Chu on the battlefield and raised him because I couldn’t get away. After your youngling is born, I will help you raise it. You can climb toward the position of Three Armies Commander in Chief and toward the top tier healer rank. With your speed-type ability, you will climb faster.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled without warmth: “Thanks for thinking of me. I still won’t consider it. I’ll just work hard. If I can do it, I will. If I can’t, then I’ll drop it.”
Chong Ming compromised: “All right, I respect all your choices. So, can I touch your belly today and say hello to it?”
Jiang Tea Tea took two steps back and refused: “No.”
Chong Ming nodded without changing expression: “Okay. Go wash up. After you finish, bring out the homework you don’t understand, and I’ll explain it to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea was thrown off by his topic change and let out a sound: “Do you monitor me 24 hours a day whenever you’re not sleeping?”
Chong Ming explained: “Not that bad. It’s just that the homework you handed to the teacher was graded and got an A. You didn’t even get an S.”
“The reason I know you got an A is that I made the study plan for all eight of you. Your learning process and exam scores are all stored in a separate monitoring system.”
“I have access to that monitoring system, so when I have nothing better to do, I check it and take a look. That makes it easier to grasp your learning progress.”
Mainly, he wanted to keep track of her and Sui Xuan Chu’s progress. The other six also deserved praise; they were all doing their best.
Jiang Tea Tea snorted and said nothing more. She went straight to wash up, left the pajamas in the bathroom, and put on her school uniform.
The pajamas she had just worn belonged to Chong Ming’s bathroom, so she did not put them into her own space knob storage device. She simply left them where she had taken them.
When she came out, Chong Ming handed her half a cup of water.
After Jiang Tea Tea finished the water, she sat down across from him, took out her textbook, opened a screen on the light-brain wrist terminal, and started asking him the questions she did not understand.
With a big tea table between them, the two sat face to face, one breaking down the lesson and the other listening.
Jiang Tea Tea found that Chong Ming had a real talent for teaching. His explanations were simpler and easier to understand than the teacher’s. When she did not understand, he would give an example, and in a few sentences he could point out the inner logic and make her able to infer more from one case.
After about half an hour, everything Jiang Tea Tea had not understood was clear to her now.
She retook the test, redid her homework, and in the meantime downed two cups of milk, gnawed on two red fruits, and ate three nutrient fruits.
When she finished organizing her textbook and stretched, she lifted her loose school uniform a little, revealing a bit of waist. Just at that moment, the baby in her belly moved, and the skin of her stomach visibly shifted.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes suddenly darkened and fixed on her lower belly. He wanted to touch it, but he held back, curling his fingers into a fist.
Noticing his gaze, Jiang Tea Tea yanked down her clothes to cover her waist and said, soft yet fierce: “What are you looking at?”
Chong Ming lifted his gaze to meet hers: “I just saw the youngling in your belly. It was moving.”
Jiang Tea Tea did not care: “It’s alive. Of course it’ll move. Why are you making such a fuss?”
Chong Ming’s voice was low: “I am the one making a fuss.”
[Wasn’t he the one who hatched his good nephew son and raised his good nephew son? How could he still act like he had never seen a youngling before?]
Jiang Tea Tea despised him in her heart, then stood up: “You keep making a fuss. I’m going to eat.”
Chong Ming relaxed his clenched hand: “I’ll go with you.”
Jiang Tea Tea did not answer him and walked straight out.
Chong Ming stood, tidied things up, and followed her.
When Jiang Tea Tea walked out of his palace gate, she heard faint broken dragon roars from far away and silently mourned for Sui Xuan Chu for two seconds.
The golden Dragon Clan royal family was truly not a place just anyone could stay. He was already very outstanding, but in front of his uncle he was still just a little piece of trash.
Other people’s trash could lie flat and slack off. For him, being trash meant he had to spend more time learning and being drilled. So tiring.
[It was still better to be a demon. If you could win, you fought. If you couldn’t, you ran. As long as you kept your life and lived long enough, you could survive however you wanted.]
At breakfast today, Jiang Tea Tea packed up some extra food. When Sui Xuan Chu boarded the flying device, she shoved the breakfast into his arms in one go: “Eat!”
Sui Xuan Chu had already drunk two tubes of nutrient injection and was not hungry at all, but his roommate remembered him, thought about him, missed him, and packed breakfast for him.
He hugged the breakfast and looked at Jiang Tea Tea with deep emotion: “Roommate, if you don’t marry my uncle in the future, when I officially take the throne as Emperor, I’ll grant you a great noble title, let my younger brother or younger sister become second in line to the imperial throne, and turn my uncle, the current second heir to the throne, into the third heir!”