My Wife is an Evil Dragon-Chapter 38

Chapter 38: So I’m the Girlfriend
Lucia didn’t understand what holding hands on the street meant.
She couldn’t even distinguish between love and affection, let alone understand the subtle actions between young couples.
She just subconsciously thought that Xia Li was holding her hand to prevent her from being hit by a metal car.
But she was a dragon.
Dragons weren’t even afraid of swords and guns, so why would they be afraid of metal cars?
Therefore, it should be her holding Xia Li’s hand.
Xia Li: “…………”
Xia Li had a bit of a headache.
He tried several times.
He wanted to take the initiative in holding Lucia’s hand——
It should be him holding Lucia’s hand, not the other way around.
Lucia’s tiny hand could only grasp three of his fingers at most. If she wanted to hold his hand, she would have to use both hands to hug it. Otherwise, it wouldn’t work!
However, after Xia Li tried to correct it a few times…
He discovered that things were not that simple.
No matter how many times he tried to grab that little hand, the evil dragon’s claws would slip out of his hand like a loach and grab him back.
Cats have the principle of “cat paws on top.”
Do dragons also have the principle of “dragon claws on top”?
（Cat Paws on Top Principle:
Under any circumstances, as long as you put your hand on a cat’s paw, the cat will pull its paw out and press it back on your hand. Even if you repeat this many times, the result will be the same. ）
After struggling for more than ten rounds, Xia Li gave up.
Forget it, let her hold my hand.
It’s just acting anyway.
It doesn’t matter who’s holding whose hand.
Beside Xia Li, Chen Tao looked at the two of them with a strange expression.
What were they doing?
He just thought that the way Xia Li and Little Lu interacted was not like that of a couple in love.
Now…
Weren’t they clearly in love?
Their hands were intertwined like cotton candy, pulling and tugging at each other.
It was quite interesting.
However, Chen Tao didn’t feel envious.
What’s so great about having a girlfriend? He was living just fine without one.
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Xia Li took Lucia to a chain steak restaurant.
Although he said he wanted to treat her to a good meal, Xia Li didn’t plan to go to a fancy Western restaurant where everyone was dressed in suits and looked like high-class people.
Even if he wanted to let Lucia taste all the delicacies, he should start from simple to luxurious——it wasn’t because he was broke.
However, the steaks in this restaurant weren’t cheap either. The most basic one cost 88 yuan, and a slightly better couple’s set meal cost almost 300 yuan.
In the past, this meal would have been enough for Xia Li to eat for a week.
But today Xia Li decided to splurge.
“You order first, it’s on me.”
Xia Li pushed the menu towards Chen Tao.
If it weren’t for Chen Tao covering for him during the week he was missing, he would definitely have been bombarded by Mrs. Fang when he returned to Earth.
So, Xia Li intended to treat him to this meal.
“Heh~Then I’ll forgive you for secretly finding a girlfriend behind my back.”
Chen Tao didn’t hold back, his old face showing a hint of pride.
He and Xia Li were sworn brothers, but this guy brought back a girlfriend without saying a word, and even lived with her. He, as a brother, had to hear about it from the elders.
Was that even right??
Chen Tao angrily ticked a steak worth 128 yuan.
Thinking about it, his good brother hadn’t found a job yet, and he was raising a girlfriend at home, so he silently crossed out the 128 yuan steak and changed it to the 88 yuan basic steak.
Beside Xia Li, Lucia waited quietly.
Because Xia Li had secretly told her that this human male was a ‘guest’, and guests should choose dishes first, Lucia obediently waited by the side.
Her little feet in white socks dangled from the high chair of the Western restaurant.
She casually picked up the transparent glass in front of her and took a sip. Lucia frowned and stopped swinging her feet.
“This is lemonade,” Xia Li belatedly reminded her, “it’s for whetting your appetite.”
Lucia had already finished the glass of water, it was too late for Xia Li to say anything.
The expression on her little face was twisted for a moment, Lucia smacked her lips and leaned towards Xia Li beside her.
“Xia Li, why did you tell him that I’m your ‘girlfriend’?”
“…”
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It was fine if she didn’t ask, but once she did, Xia Li felt a little guilty.
How could he explain their current situation to the evil dragon?
Speaking of which, did this evil dragon even know what ‘girlfriend’ meant?
“Well… it’s hard to explain,” Xia Li said in a low voice, “we’re living together now, and in the eyes of our peers, this kind of relationship is just an ordinary boyfriend and girlfriend…”
“So you consider me a friend.”
Before Xia Li could finish speaking, Lucia suddenly sighed.
It was the first time Xia Li had seen a shy expression on a dragon’s face.
Lucia pursed her lips, not knowing what she was thinking, staring blankly at the table.
Looking at her, she even seemed a little happy.
“……Huh?”
No.
It seemed he had misunderstood.
This silly dragon didn’t understand the difference between ‘friend’ and ‘girlfriend’.
To the silly dragon, girlfriend = female friend.
“Yes, didn’t I tell you?”
Xia Li said sternly, “We’re purely friends.”
“Mhm, purely friends.”
Lucia nodded in agreement.
Although she didn’t know the specific concept of ‘friendship’ among humans, this emotion was easier to understand than family affection and love.
Lucia had encountered this basic social relationship before.
When Lucia was still a young dragon, there was a female fire dragon of similar age who played with her. They roared together, breathed fire together, hunted together, and rolled in the mud together.
Later, a human duke claimed that area as his territory, and Lucia moved her lair and never saw that fire-breathing female dragon again.
That kind of relationship… should be what humans call ‘friendship’, right?
Now that she and Xia Li were friends, did it mean they could do what friends do?
Oh right, they were already doing those things.
She and Xia Li ate together and lived together.
“Xia Li…”
Thinking of this, Lucia whispered in Xia Li’s ear.
“Can you breathe fire?”
“……” Xia Li was stunned by the silly dragon’s inexplicable question.
What was going on in this silly dragon’s mind??
“Breathe fire? I can even spray water.”
“Spraying water is fine too.” Lucia nodded.
Xia Li knocked on her head and then took the menu.
“What do you want to eat?”
Lucia didn’t even look at the menu and immediately replied, “Rice…”
“There’s no rice here, the main course is steak.”
“Oh! Then I want steak.”
Xia Li sighed.
Lucia didn’t understand anything, it was useless to let her order.
So Xia Li tried to order a steak and snacks for Lucia according to his own preferences.
Lucia stared at the food pictures on the menu the whole time, her mouth watering.
“Excuse me, how would you like your steak cooked?”
The waitress took the menu and asked Xia Li about his preferred level of doneness with a smile.
Lucia, who was beside him, was very excited when she heard this.
“Cooked? Of course, our dragon race eats it raw…”
“Medium-well for her… forget it, well-done.”
Xia Li pushed the evil dragon’s head down as she tried to speak and pointed to the menu for the waitress.
“Yes, this children’s set meal, well-done, eggs fried on both sides.”