Chapter 32: We, Pure Friendship
“Editor…”
“Completed!”
In front of the computer, Xia Li successfully uploaded his first chapter.
The medium of the Record of Experiences is different from novels. Most of the stories in it are presented in the form of diaries and episodic dramas, interspersed with legends and anecdotes from the other world, as well as a large number of settings.
Xia Li thought for a long time about the opening story of this record of experiences.
The story of an Earth boy traveling to another world, pulling out a holy sword, becoming a brave hero, and defeating the big villain of the other world with one punch was too cliché.
It was as cliché as Xia Li’s own experience.
This kind of story is everywhere in online novels, and all kinds of plays are already overused. Since Xia Li has positioned the track as a short story in the form of a diary, he must come up with something different.
So, he changed the protagonist in his book from a regular male human to a female silver dragon.
And a silver dragon born and raised in Azure Continent.
Xia Li intends to perfect the worldview of Azure Continent from the perspective of the silver dragon, and to look at every little story that happens around her from her standpoint.
Starting from a young dragon, the silver dragon’s experiences, her attitude towards her people, towards humans, towards enemies…
As well as the family affection, friendship, and even love between dragons.
What Xia Li wants to write is not only the growth of a giant dragon, but also the growth of her heart.
Since there is a wicked dragon beside Xia Li as a prototype, those stories don’t even need to be written, just ask the wicked dragon beside him directly.
This is not a record of experiences, it’s simply an autobiography!
“I’m using your name as the female protagonist, is that okay?”
Looking at Lucia, who had moved a stool beside him, eating beef jerky and staring at him working, Xia Li asked for her opinion.
“Mhm!”
But what opinion could Lucia have? Every time Xia Li asked her anything, she only needed to answer with “mhm, mhm, mhm,” “okay, okay, okay,” or “yes, yes, yes.”
“If I’m the female protagonist…”
Lucia chewed on the beef jerky, and Xia Li could see her bulging cheeks from his side view.
“Then there’s a male protagonist?” Lucia asked.
After all, this kind of male-female combination is the most common in human stories.
Praising the great human hero and the beautiful princess of the kingdom, they will hold a grand wedding in the magnificent castle after the dragon slaying is over.
However, Xia Li’s story seems to be a little different…
He was actually willing to use a dragon as the female protagonist.
Obviously, whether in human or dragon stories, once a hostile race appears in the book, it is definitely the villain.
“There should be a male protagonist.” Xia Li nodded.
“But it’s not his turn to appear yet.”
“Oh…” Lucia was still very curious.
“Then who is the male protagonist?”
Of course it’s me.
Xia Li really wanted to blurt out these words.
After all, he planned to add a dual perspective later on. The Azure Continent from the dragon’s perspective has limitations, and Xia Li needs to add a human brave hero to perfect the worldview.
That world is not black and white. The conflict between races is all due to different positions. Dragons have territories that they have to migrate to, and humans have homes that they want to defend. Xia Li wants to use this method to shape the reality of that world.
So that brave hero is naturally shamelessly called ‘Xia Li’.
“If possible, I hope the male protagonist is the brave hero.”
A sentence that Lucia suddenly blurted out beside him made Xia Li stop typing.
“Why?”
He looked at Lucia in astonishment.
Lucia’s expression was pure, without any other meaning.
“Because it’s fresh.”
“In the dragon’s story, it’s all about destroying the human kingdom, taking the castle and gold for themselves, and then courting the pure-blooded female dragon…
And in the human story, it’s the brave hero who successfully slays the dragon and returns to the kingdom to marry the most beautiful princess.”
Lucia said seriously, “There has never been an ending where a dragon is paired with a brave hero.”
Xia Li thought about it, it was true.
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This kind of thing is quite novel.
In Azure Continent, the brave hero and the giant dragon are equivalent to lions and tigers. If these two species are put together, there will definitely be a bloody storm.
To make these two species fall in love or something, even those priests who like to exaggerate wouldn’t dare to make up such a story.
However, if it were on Earth…
The combination of lions and tigers ━ ligers, are quite common.
“But mine is not a romance, it’s an adventure.” Xia Li felt that it was necessary to correct her.
Lucia paused for a moment before saying: “But, but I didn’t think it would be a romance… Friendship is also a kind of love, the friendship between a brave hero and a dragon is also very fresh in our world!”
Although Lucia has always been unable to distinguish between love, family affection, and friendship.
But in her heart, love is definitely the highest level.
After all, in terms of companionship time, love is a lifelong existence.
“Yes, that’s right, pure friendship.” Xia Li nodded along.
His story hasn’t even thought that far yet, what kind of friendship or love ending, it’s still a long way off.
However, when Lucia said this, Xia Li subconsciously agreed with her statement as if to prove something.
“But, can you really make money by typing like this…”
Lucia shifted her butt on the stool and moved her head closer to the square box called ‘computer’.
When Xia Li first said that he was going to write some record of experiences, Lucia didn’t understand.
But when Xia Li explained again that he was going to write folk tales from Azure Continent, Lucia understood.
Isn’t that just a bard?
The kind that only tells stories and doesn’t sing.
“Yes, different from manual labor, I use mental labor,” Xia Li explained, “Manual labor pays with the body, while mental labor pays with the mind.”
“…”
Listening to Xia Li’s explanation, Lucia was filled with respect.
Thinking about it this way, she pays with her body every day when she washes dishes and sweeps the floor?
Paying with the body and paying with the mind, just listening to it, paying with the mind seems easier.
“I should be able to pay with my mind too.” Lucia said very seriously.
Xia Li smiled, “Come on, you don’t even know a few words, you can’t be a mental worker…”
“However, you can tell me your growth story from childhood to adulthood, which is also a kind of labor, and I can give you a commission.”
Lucia automatically skipped the unfamiliar word ‘commission’ in her mind, she has her own unit of measurement.
“Then how much fried rice cakes are there?”
“That depends on the specific income.”
“Oh… So, the reason you asked me those questions about reproduction just now is because you want to write a story about dragons?”
“Yes.” Xia Li nodded matter-of-factly.
After saying this, Lucia suddenly stopped talking.
It seemed that for the first time, she had encountered something that made her dragon life awkward.
Lucia felt her head was heavy and she couldn’t lift it up.
She even thought of a name for the little dragon baby??
“Bang, bang, bang~”
At the same time, there was a short knock on the metal door in the living room.
Lucia was about to be on guard, but was pushed back by a hand.
“You sit still.”
“It’s takeout.”
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