Lucian saw that the blonde princess was a little flustered. Her perfect expression was slightly cracked by the dragon scale girl. She tried to cover up her gaffe: "Excuse me, sir..."
After seeing the other person's face clearly in the moonlight, Chloe finally couldn't control her surprise. She called out softly, "I've seen you! You're the one in the lake..."
"What?" The red-haired girl tilted her head to look at her. There was a strange accent in her voice, as if she was not familiar with the way humans speak.
"I… "
The princess was a little speechless, but when the girl's golden eyes looked at her, she had to stammer out the truth because of the pressure from the dragons - the gaze of a powerful dragon does have the ability to make humans without magic power unable to lie and only speak the truth. After hearing the content of these words, Lucian couldn't help but feel that the current scene was indeed like a shameful play.
The princess said that three months ago, when she was going to hunt at the lakeside outside the city, she got lost and saw a girl with red hair and golden eyes by the lake. The girl was naked and emerged from the bottom of the lake as if no one was around.
She had a beautiful and slender figure, with drops of water falling from her red hair onto her agile and beautiful body. The princess saw the red scales at the corners of her eyes, which looked like flames with a halo in the sun. At that moment, she forgot to breathe because of the free and wild beauty.
… The princess finished her words. After she finished, she covered her lips, her face flushed red. She kept asking the girl how she got into the room, but the red-haired girl just walked towards her and lifted a strand of her long hair with her hand.
"you… "
At that moment, the princess almost froze like a stone sculpture.
"They say you are the sapphire of the Kingdom of Ester. How strange." The red-haired girl measured her body in the manner of a dragon. "Your skin is very white, and it doesn't look blue at all."
"I… "
"I see."
The princess's chin was pulled, and at that moment the face of the red-haired girl was right in front of her. The ancient and beautiful face and the pair of golden eyes made her forget to breathe again in fear.
"Your eyes are blue, aren't they? They do look like gemstones."
"Gemstone?"
"I like to collect gems. I came here because I heard there is a sapphire in the cave. It's a pity that you are a human."
The guards' footsteps could be heard outside the door. Just as the princess was about to speak, she saw the girl standing on the balcony and jumping downstairs.
Princess:!!
She threw herself on the balcony railing, forgetting her princess' manners and politeness, and even forgot to put on her slippers. The messy night wind blew up her always elegant golden hair, and blew her snow-white nightgown into a fluttering flower. At that moment, she raised her head because she felt something!
The blonde princess stood on the high platform of the castle. Her blonde hair was like a waterfall, her white dress fluttered, like a delicate flower in the vast castle. Above the vast night of the royal capital and the sea of twinkling lights, a huge red dragon with wings flew across the sky, soaring at a height that no one could reach.
The red dragon wings fell into the princess's blue eyes. At that moment, she stared at the sky blankly, as if struck by the magnificent and epic beauty. The huge castle, like an insurmountable prison, became so low, and she became so small. Only the red dragon's wings passed through the sky, like the magnificent fairy tales that her mother had read to her by her bedside.
It was like her life would change because of this moment.
The servants were knocking on the door and shouting noisily. At that moment, Chloe returned to reality from the legend. She quickly combed her long hair, restored herself to the meticulous princess, opened the door, and apologized to the noisy servants.
After sitting back on the bed, she returned to her real world. Tomorrow she was supposed to attend the banquet. As a representative of the royal family, she had to deal with the greedy wolves in the church for her sister, be a beautiful mascot, and not leave any room for criticism. Being a perfect princess was not easy.
Just before going to bed, she looked at the windowsill and suspected that what she saw was a dream.
Maybe the girl was just a skilled thief, she thought.
Until she saw something shiny.
The princess got out of bed barefoot and found a dragon scale in front of her bed.
…
Wade stood on the bell tower, which had a clear view of every corner of the castle, and looked down coldly at the story that had happened in his memory. Lucian struggled in his arms for a while, but stopped moving after seeing the extremely high fall distance below the bell tower.
A gentleman's revenge is never too late. Lucian was not a gentleman. He decided to scratch a few claw marks on Wade's body in the name of "accidental" after reaching a safe area.
He cleverly found a more comfortable position.
When Vader looked down at him, the white long-haired cat had already been lying in his arms contentedly, watching the story between the princess and the red dragon with great interest. After Vader pressed down on its own tail due to changing its posture, the long-haired cat, who was originally watching the show with great interest, even pulled its tail out from under his hand and swung it to slap Vader in the face.
As if realizing what it had done, the cat raised its face. It meowed coquettishly at Wade and rubbed its chin against Wade's chin.
After turning into a cat, Lucian became very adept at this.
Even more shameless and ignorant than when they were human beings.
Vader thought.
The surging dark emotion seemed to reappear. After rubbing Wade's chin, Lucian ruthlessly leaned over to watch the princess and the red dragon meet again. The red dragon appeared on the balcony again. The princess was obviously very scared, but she also carefully returned the dragon scale to her. Her eyes were uneasy, with some fear that the red dragon would leave soon, and some deeply buried, cautious expectations. Lucian shook his head and followed their movements.
There was no him in Lucian's eyes.
Vader thought.
Lucian always felt that... just this kind of behavior was enough to soothe and control his emotions.
Lucian always feels...
He could continue to be cynical and act like he was playing an interesting game, running away from him in a coquettish manner.
Whether as a cat or as a human, he told himself not to approach Lucian, and told himself that Lucian did not deserve any of his emotions and attention. He had the same distant and cold need for the human Lucian, and a deeper, unspeakable, malicious desire to humiliate him. In order to get rid of this bewitching irritability, he turned him into a cat. At first, he did feel that he no longer had to feel the almost uncontrollable feeling when facing the human Lucian.
But now Wade thought that the person in his arms was still Lucian.
And Lucian always felt that he...
Can escape all punishment.
He wanted to upset him, wanted to make him know that he couldn't always get away with it.
He hugged Lucian's soft cat body, but he felt that his arms were touching Lucian's body - a human body.
At that moment, a malicious voice belonging to him sounded in his mind.
He wanted to remove the spell on Lucian at this moment. Let him transform from a cat back to a human at such a high place. Lucian would then show a panic expression and hug his body tightly to avoid falling. His long hair would fall on his naked back. And he would use secret magic to block everyone else's sight...
The key point at this moment is to obtain the blood drops of the dragon clan.
The voice of reason told him.
Wade closed his eyes and suppressed his surging emotions. The rational and cold king returned.
What on earth is he thinking, Vader wondered.
He must never have such thoughts about Lucian.
In the room, the red dragon girl took the scale, but her eyes were fixed on a silver plate on the princess's table. The princess followed her gaze and saw the shiny, translucent dessert on the tray. She told the red dragon that the shiny thing was called "pudding".
The red dragon girl soon became interested in the puddings, and in addition, there were all kinds of hard fruit candies. She tried to eat the puddings, but accidentally crushed them all. The princess then suppressed her fear. She kindly found a small petal-shaped spoon and taught her to scoop out the puddings one spoonful at a time.
The princess was relieved by the red dragon girl's departure, but also felt a little disappointed. However, she soon threw herself into the intense social activities. Chloe didn't like socializing, and it could even be said that she was afraid of such occasions. She was weak since childhood and rarely appeared at banquets in the past, but after the queen ascended the throne, everyone knew that Chloe always smiled perfectly at banquets.
She was more suited to being a poet or painter than a socialite, and her teacher praised her talent when she was very young. Unfortunately, when she presented her paintings to the Queen on her birthday, her sister just smiled and said, "Chloe, stop doing those little girl things."
A minister also came, and this was a princess who was always "naive". Chloe tried to keep her composure to entertain them and arranged everything in an orderly manner. Duke Taylor also came to the Queen's birthday. Chloe didn't like the ambition in his eyes - she knew that this man in his early thirties did not obey the leadership of the young Queen and had always wanted to usurp the power of the royal family. Chloe smiled with a stiff face. She greeted him awkwardly and returned to her room after the banquet.
On the way she heard the news that the pudding had been stolen from the kitchen. Her surprise was resolved when she returned to her room - the red-haired girl was sitting on her balcony with a plate of pudding in her hands.
Somehow, at that moment, Chloe's bad mood became more cheerful. She used to be very afraid of dragons, but at this moment, she felt relieved to see the girl who always frightened her.
"When did you come?" she asked.
"I saw you at the banquet." The red-haired girl tilted her head and said, "You were smiling the whole time. But you didn't look happy."
"Why?"
"Your eyes don't open," she said. "Why should they open when you don't want to smile?"
"Because of the responsibility and courtesy of being a princess. This... may be difficult for me to explain." Chloe said, "Politeness is always troublesome."
The red dragon girl thought for a while and said, "Oh, if you don't want to laugh now, you don't have to. There is no etiquette called 'politeness' in our dragon dictionary. If you feel tired, you don't have to treat me with 'politeness'."
The businesslike expression on Chloe's face disappeared. Instead, she lowered her eyes, trying not to show a tearful expression. The red dragon girl kept staring at her, and Chloe tried to change the subject: "Are you really a dragon?"
"If you don't believe me, I can take you on a flight." The girl said, "Do you want to try the feeling of flying?"
"What… "
Chloe was caught off guard, but before she could protest, the girl grabbed her wrist and took her to the balcony.
The girl leaned back, her long hair flying in the air, her eyes shining like light. She said, "Let's jump out of the hole, and then I'll take you flying - do you want to?"
Chloe's throat was filled with rejection, abandonment, and hesitation. But when she met those blazing golden eyes, she spoke out the truth because of the unique pressure of the dragon race.
And that sentence is.
"I do."
She couldn't lie to the girl, and those words were her true feelings.
The red-haired girl smiled, with a hint of pride and cunning in her expression. She suddenly exerted great strength and dragged the princess, who was still in her dress, down. Both of them fell from the tower at the same time. The wind whistled wildly in her ears, and just as Chloe was about to scream out of suffocation—
"Catch me!"
Her body suddenly found support in mid-air and flew into the air!
When she dared to open her eyes again, Chloe found herself riding on a red dragon. She had never seen such a huge and magnificent creature, so powerful that it seemed like a creature from mythology. The royal city and the castle became very small under the night, and the castle that she was responsible for decorating for the queen's birthday became a beautiful sea of stars. She traveled among the clouds and felt that she had become a part of the sky. At that moment, she suddenly realized that she didn't know the name of the dragon girl.
She took her to such a high place.
"Do you want to visit my home?" the dragon girl said to her proudly. "I have many beautiful gems at home, as beautiful as puddings."
"… "
Chloe looked back toward the castle. She knew the servants would know of her absence—even if only for an hour. And her sister was in the castle.
Now she sat on the dragon girl's back. She couldn't see her eyes, so she could lie to her.