Chapter 157
Chapter 157: Others coax their wives with flowers and money, the big golden dragon coaxes his wife by stretching his neck out for her to bite
Chong Ming saw her staring at the flower bud in his palm. He moved his hand closer to her: “Do you want it? I will give it to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea snapped back to her senses. One hand covered her head, and with the other she grabbed the flower bud out of his hand: “Who told you to be so handsy and yank off my flower bud?”
[What do you mean, ask if I want it? It was my flower bud to begin with.]
Chong Ming frowned a little at her fierceness and asked with a bit of doubt: “So this isn’t the flower bud that fell on your head in the theater, it is something you put on to dress up before you went out?”
Jiang Tea Tea threw down her words: “What does it have to do with you, you are so annoying, get lost!” She shoved open the door of the flying device, jumped down, and ran off.
Chong Ming followed right after her, but by the time he got out of the flying device, she was already gone.
He stood beside the flying device, looking toward the direction where she had disappeared, his face dark and serious.
After a long time, he sat back down in the flying device. His face was blank, his thin lips pressed tight. He logged in again to the forum about pursuing pure humans, described what he had just done in an anonymous post, and asked the people on the forum for help.
As soon as he posted his question, all kinds of comments popped up like bamboo shoots after rain.
Someone commented: “Puhahaha, this anonymous poster is too funny. He asked a pure human girl out on a date, then could not keep his hands to himself and yanked off the flower bud she had woven into her hair. If I were that pure human girl, I would be angry too.”
Another person said: “Right, she went out and dressed herself up, and then he pulled it off in one grab. What is that? That is like throwing flirty looks at a blind man. Who would not be mad? The anger is huge. There is no way the date can keep going now!”
Someone else replied: “What this anonymous poster did reminds me of my first date with my man. I did full makeup and bright red lipstick. The first thing my man said when he saw me was to ask if I had just eaten a dead child and why my mouth was so red. As he said that, he even pulled out a wet wipe to clean my mouth.”
Another user answered: “My goodness, my parents, Beast God above, he said my blazing red lips looked like the mouth of someone who had just eaten a dead child. Hehe, I slapped him hard across the face on the spot and turned around and left.”
Someone burst out: “Hahahaha, blazing red lips equal eating a dead child, hahaha. Sorry, sorry, my sense of humor is kind of low. As soon as I picture that scene, I cannot stop laughing.”
Another said: “Yeah, yeah, sometimes I really do not know how a male’s brain is wired. It is so straight and flat, it never bends.”
Another user wrote: “Anonymous poster upstairs, that pure human girl is right to curse you. You really could not keep your hands still. Now look at you. You still want to chase her? That will be hard.”
Someone else replied: “Exactly. From what this anonymous poster wrote, I can tell his date really liked that flower bud he pulled off. Otherwise she would not have made such a big fuss over one tiny flower bud.”
Another explained: “Only when you like it, really like it, and someone casually yanks it off, will you get angry, super angry, very very angry.”
Chong Ming read all the different replies. Thinking of how mad Jiang Tea Tea had been when she left, he became sure she really liked that dark green flower bud.
He sent out another anonymous question: “How do I fix this?”
The comments came again: “How to fix it, huh. Let me boldly guess, this anonymous poster is already at a mature age and has never been in love.”
Another user replied: “No need for you to guess. We already know. Look at his anonymous browsing history. It is all posts about how to chase a pure human, a pure human younger than him. That is enough to show he is either poor, so poor he has never dated, or rich, so rich he has never dated.”
Another said: “There is one more option. He might have high status and great power, a clean private life, and no love adviser at his side. So he can only come to the forum, ask anonymously, browse anonymously, and look for ways to chase someone by himself.”
Then that same person added: “Of course this chance is zero. But since he is humbly asking how to fix it, I will still say a few words.”
Someone answered: “Fixing it is easy. If you are a beastman with enough money, buy her whatever she likes. Give her whatever is expensive.”
Another said: “If you do not have enough money, then buy some things that are cheap but sincere, and add a heartfelt apology.”
They kept going: “You have to keep at it, because the first apology might not be forgiven. Also, if she likes you and is interested in you, your apology will be forgiven more easily. If she does not like you, then you are in danger.”
Someone agreed: “Yeah, females now are very proud. They do not like to bend and put up with things. When they are a little unhappy, they will not spoil you at all.”
Another snorted: “Why should we spoil them? Some males just need a beating and a scolding. If you do not hit or scold them, they do not know their place and think they are so great.”
Then someone changed the topic a bit: “But back to the point, the status of males in our Empire is still very high. It is not like in the Insectoid Race. There the male to female ratio is 1 to 100. One female can openly have one primary husband and fifteen secondary husbands. Besides that, the primary husband has to hand over 50 percent of his salary and property to the female. The secondary husbands have to hand over 90 percent of their salary and property to the female.”
Another user added: “Even the imperial princes of the Insectoid Race, as long as they are male, have to marry out when they register marriage. The only difference is that in terms of property, they do not need to hand it over to the female. That is the only good point of being part of the imperial clan.”
The comment went on: “Just thinking about it is scary. A fine male who lacks nothing has to share one female with many other males in such a humble way, and he is left with no money. Ugh, our Empire is still better. No matter what the male to female ratio is, it always insists on a one male, one female system.”
As he watched the replies move further and further off topic, Chong Ming exited the forum. Thinking about how Jiang Tea Tea liked dragon blood and was interested in his meat, he knew how to coax her now.
Jiang Tea Tea piloted her flying device to the back mountain of the academy. She threw her light-brain wrist terminal, her space knob storage device, and all her other electronic products into the flying device.
She activated her spiritual power, used the Shrinking Ground to Inches Technique, and leaped several times into the deeper part of the back mountain. There she set up a spiritual power barrier, returned to her original form, rooted herself into the ground, and let her soul leave her body.
With her soul, she examined her original body. She found that on the tips of her branches, besides the flower bud that Chong Ming had yanked off, there were eight other small flower buds.
All eight little flower buds were very small. If you did not look closely, you could not see them at all. The biggest one had been the one that Chong Ming plucked.
She was the only glory of the Tea Tree family and had lived for a few thousand years. It had been so hard to finally grow flower buds, about to bloom and truly grow up, and he had yanked off her flower bud in one grab. It was too much, far too much…
The more Jiang Tea Tea thought, the angrier she became, the hotter her temper burned, and the stranger it all felt. A tree was a plant. Plants bloomed so they could be pollinated and reproduce. They grew fruit, the fruit fell to the ground, and new seedlings grew.
Right now she was not just a tea tree. She was a great demon tea tree. She could not find another great demon tea tree like her, so she could not be pollinated by her own kind…
[No, that is still not right.]
She was a great demon, different from normal plants. Now she had suddenly grown flower buds and was about to bloom, wanting to be pollinated. That meant she was moved. Her heart had been stirred!
She remembered what her maternal grandmother had told her. Plants that had cultivated into demons were not the same as normal plants.
Normal plants followed the four seasons and their own nature to grow buds, bloom, be pollinated, and bear fruit.
But plants that became demons broke free from the four seasons. They still carried plant traits, but they did not easily grow flower buds or bloom. Unless their hearts were moved, they would not unconsciously sprout buds, want to be pollinated, and want to bear fruit.
She sucked in a sharp breath.
Jiang Tea Tea drew in a cold breath, but it still felt wrong. There were already five dragon cubs in her belly, which was equal to bearing fruit. How could she still be moved? Who was she moved by?
[Huang Da Zhuang? Pah, he is a dog.]
[Cheng Xiao Ting? Pah, he is a wolf. A wolf is no different from a dog.]
[Sui Xuan Chu? Hehe, that is not right either. The two of us see each other every day. There are only sparks of mutual dislike, not sparks of secret love.]
[That old loach Chong Ming is even more impossible. I drool over him because I want to eat him. I dream of burying his half dragon, half human body under my roots as fertilizer. How could I be moved by him?]
[Not this one, not that one. The people I have met can be counted on one hand. Who am I moved by? For whom did this flower bud appear? Could it be I have lived too long and mutated?]
Jiang Tea Tea would rather believe she had mutated and bloomed for no reason than figure out who she was moved by.
Her wandering soul returned to her body. Her small body grew in an instant into a towering tea tree. Her roots in the ground stretched out without end, catching the nutrients in the earth and drawing in the pure spiritual energy from the air.
Her emerald green leaves under the moonlight seemed to be covered in a layer of soft glow. Deep in the mountains of the primeval forest, she shone as a unique, sparkling presence.
Three hours later, Chong Ming called Jiang Tea Tea.
The call did not go through. Her communicator was turned off.
He opened the satellite surveillance system. He could only see her flying device, parked on the back mountain of the academy, at the edge of the primeval forest.
Inside the flying device, everything was pitch black. He could not tell if anyone was there or not. The flying device seemed to have merged with the night.
Chong Ming sent her a message, then stayed at the Imperial Military Headquarters working overtime all the way until the early hours of the morning. She still did not reply, and the surveillance image was still dark.
He could not sit still anymore. He left the Imperial Military Headquarters, piloted his flying device, and flew to the place where Jiang Tea Tea’s flying device had landed.
He pulled open the door of the flying device. No one was inside. There was only the space knob storage device, the light-brain wrist terminal, and a pile of messy electronic gear.
Chong Ming gathered all the things together. In the next moment, he changed into his beast form, a dragon body more than two hundred meters long, close to three hundred meters. He let out a loud dragon roar, leaped into the air, and soared above the primeval forest.
In the primeval forest that spread out for hundreds and even thousands of kilometers, all kinds of birds and aberrant beasts, under the sound of the dragon roar and the oppressive aura of the giant dragon, covered their heads with their wings, tucked their tails, and shivered in fear.
Jiang Tea Tea also heard that dragon roar. She had been a towering tree, a unique height in the primeval forest.
After the dragon roar passed, she shrank at once into a small tea tree only as tall as an arm. She hid under the other big trees, and the glow on her body faded away.
Chong Ming flew one circle above the primeval forest but did not sense Jiang Tea Tea’s aura. He returned to the landing spot of her flying device.
Jiang Tea Tea’s small body had long, huge roots that spread through the whole forest that was over a thousand kilometers wide. The cubs in her belly were calm and peaceful and did not cause any trouble at all.
Just like that, the night passed in a flash. Jiang Tea Tea changed from tea tree back into human form. Her whole body felt relaxed. The cubs were lively, and her spiritual power at three and a half layers was full.
The flower buds had not grown out again yet. The tiny ones on her head could not be seen at all. She rubbed her belly and soothed the cubs. Then she used the Shrinking Ground to Inches Technique again, jumped a few times, and returned to the spot where her flying device was parked. There she saw Chong Ming leaning against her flying device.
Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth twitched: “That Chong guy, what pose are you showing off on my flying device so early in the morning?”
He wore a black military uniform. All his disguise was gone. His golden hair and big golden dragon horns were fully exposed. His arms were crossed over his chest as he leaned against her flying device, eyes half closed. Only when she arrived and spoke did he look at her properly.
Chong Ming opened his mouth and asked: “Where did you go?”
Jiang Tea Tea rolled her eyes at him: “Do you even need to ask? I was right here in the mountains. I did not go anywhere.”
His golden eyes locked on her: “I did not see you.”
She shot back: “Is that my fault?”
She was still angry, angry that he had yanked off the flower bud on her head.
He really had not known that flower bud was something she had carefully placed on her head.
He had thought it was something that had fallen onto her.
Chong Ming shook his head: “It is not your fault. It is my eyes that are not working.”
Jiang Tea Tea snorted: “As long as you know. Move.”
Chong Ming stepped aside.
Jiang Tea Tea pulled open the driver’s side door, sat down inside, and shut the door with two loud bangs. She turned her head toward the passenger seat: “Who told you to get in?”
She was going back to the academy. If he came along and stood at the academy gate, wow, today’s StarNet headline would be about them.
Chong Ming took off his military jacket and unbuttoned his shirt. With his big, long-fingered hand he yanked his shirt open, revealing a large stretch of chest. He leaned his body sideways and brought his neck close to Jiang Tea Tea: “Aren’t you interested in my meat? Come on, I will let you bite!”