My Wife is an Evil Dragon-Chapter 41

Chapter 41: Pure Friendship Doesn’t Come at This Price
Inside the moving car.
Chen Tao consciously sat in the front row, leaving the spacious back seat for Xia Li and his girlfriend.
At this time, the sun was at its most scorching. The glaring sunlight was blocked by the window film, and the air vents blew out cool air, filling the car with the scent of cheap car perfume.
Beside Xia Li, Lucia only glanced out the window before turning around and sitting upright.
Her sitting posture always seemed strange to Xia Li. Her hands rested on her knees, her legs tightly together, looking like a kindergartener receiving a lesson from the teacher.
Xia Li wasn’t interested in the scenery outside the window. He stared intently at Lucia, afraid that she might suddenly punch the car.
However, the dragon’s behavior was unexpectedly quiet.
Restraining her usual mischievousness and restlessness, Lucia lowered her head, staring at her shoes, looking like a wilted flower.
Huh? What’s wrong?
This was Lucia’s first time in a car, right? Xia Li thought she would be excited, why wasn’t there any sense of novelty?
Xia Li was surprised. He saw Lucia’s hands on her knees slowly clenching into fists, and then her bright amber eyes gently closed.
Wait…
Could this guy be carsick??
“Are you carsick?” Xia Li shifted his position, moving closer to Lucia.
Lucia raised her head and looked at him weakly.
“Carsick? No…”
Lucia’s slender eyebrows furrowed slightly as she whispered, “Just, just a little nervous…”
“Nervous?”
Xia Li thought for a moment.
He suddenly recalled that on the first day Lucia arrived at his house, when he took her to see the small dark room, Lucia adamantly refused to sleep there and instead went to sleep on the windy and leaky balcony.
This dragon…
Could it be that she has claustrophobia?
The dragons of Azure Continent built spacious lairs for themselves, often hollowing out an entire mountain to make their nests.
A windowless room like the one in Xia Li’s house, and a small car that could only seat five people, were quite cramped for Lucia.
Xia Li had experienced this fear of enclosed spaces when he first rode a box elevator as a child, and he deeply sympathized with her.
Xia Li leaned over, his arm reaching past Lucia.
He rolled down the windows on both sides of the back seat and said to the person in the front.
“Master, please open the windows.”
“Okay, I’ll turn off the air conditioning then.”
The driver in the driver’s seat complied, and air began to circulate in the enclosed car. The unpleasant smell of perfume quickly dissipated.
“Feeling better?”
Lucia’s small hands were colder than before, her palms sweating.
She leaned back against the cushion, her snow-white face completely devoid of its usual liveliness. Her eyes were gently closed, and the wind blowing into the car ruffled her dark hair.
Xia Li rolled the windows up a bit and then moved closer to her.
“We’re almost there.”
“Mm…”
Lucia responded weakly.
Seeing her head swaying from side to side, Xia Li suddenly remembered what Chen Tao had said before getting into the car.
‘She only has you.’
Perhaps Chen Tao had imagined a lot of tragic dramas, but what he said was indeed true.
Lucia had no relatives or friends. Dragons were born solitary creatures, with only their innate strength and loneliness.
Now, without her powerful body, the only thing Lucia had left was loneliness.
A kind of loneliness that shattered her worldview, abandoned by the old world and unable to integrate into the new one.
If Xia Li hadn’t chosen to follow his heart and take Lucia home that day…
It was hard to imagine what would have become of her.
“Come closer,” Xia Li said with a hint of relief in his voice.
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Lucia’s head was dizzy from the wind, and this narrow space gave her an inexplicable feeling of suffocation. Sitting here was like having some invisible giant hand strangling her neck.
Looking up at Xia Li with hazy eyes, Lucia leaned towards him without any hesitation.
She pressed her thigh against Xia Li’s, her shoulder resting on his strong arm.
Lucia never liked to have contact with humans. She disliked those ubiquitous violent races who always had weapons and forks in their hands.
But Xia Li was different. Now, Xia Li had the same scent as her.
Lucia knew what this scent was.
It was the scent of ‘home,’ on the third floor of that apartment complex.
She had now stained the Brave Hero Xia Li with her own scent!
However, she was just a little uncomfortable today, so she was just leaning on Xia Li to recover.
She wasn’t showing weakness!
A dragon would never bow to a Brave Hero! （Except for the Brave Hero with the Demon Repelling Sword）
Lucia didn’t expect the iron carriages of the human world to be so uncomfortable. It was unbelievable that five people had to sit in this small space…
Next time, if Xia Li mentioned taking a taxi again, she would definitely punch the car without hesitation…
No, Xia Li said that damaging other people’s things required compensation, and their family couldn’t afford to pay for it.
Lucia felt her head spinning, and after leaning on Xia Li, her body felt like it had melted, becoming incredibly soft.
She tried to stretch her neck, but Xia Li’s shoulder was too high, and she couldn’t rest her head on it.
“…”
Xia Li silently watched the dragon wriggling beside him like a caterpillar.
After thinking for a moment, he lowered his body, offering his shoulder for the dragon to lean on. Then, he wrapped an arm around her, pulling the swaying, weakened, soft little dragon closer.
Sigh, they clearly agreed on pure friendship.
Pure friendship doesn’t come at this price.
This kind of physical contact that transcends pure friendship requires extra payment, dragon.
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“Thanks, Master.”
“Take care.”
Getting out of the car, Xia Li went around to open the door for Lucia.
Lucia, who was listless just a second ago, instantly revived as soon as her feet touched the ground.
“That steak was so delicious!”
Lucia said energetically.
Xia Li was shocked by the dragon’s optimistic attitude. She was like a completely different person.
Shouldn’t she be acting pitiful and complaining about her discomfort, then muttering something cutely?
Xia Li had seen many girls do this, and it would often get them extra sympathy and care from guys.
But why didn’t Lucia play by the rules at all?
What a steel straight dragon.
“If you liked it, Old Xia can take you to eat more. That restaurant has takeout, it’s very convenient.” Chen Tao chimed in.
The three of them walked towards the apartment complex together.
Since Chen Tao and Xia Li lived in the same building, they were heading in the same direction.
“Okay!…No.”
Lucia’s answer changed at lightning speed. “That’s too expensive, we can’t eat it every day. Let’s eat rice at home, rice is also delicious.”
After hearing this, Chen Tao gasped.
He looked at Xia Li with teary eyes.
Where the hell did you find this girlfriend??
With a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for?