Chapter 46
“Daddy, Daddy, tell me a story!”
After her bath, Liu Yue’s scent exuded from her body . She swung her wet tail then threw herself at me to tightly hug me and act coquettish on the bed . Ling Yue came out from behind, wiping her red hair that water was dripping from . She came out dressed in just a thin bathrobe, thereby partially revealing her white skin that had a tinge of red underneath . The sight of her aroused me . If Liu Yue wasn’t there, I’d most likely be on top of my wife already .
Ling Yue sternly told her daughter, “Liu Yue, didn’t we agree you wouldn’t sleep together with Mommy today? You can sleep with Dad, but Dad is Mommy’s husband . We want to be together, too . ”
Ling Yue seemed to be thinking what I was thinking . It was very cosy to have our family of three together, but it also meant there were many things that Ling Yue and I couldn’t do . Hence, Ling Yue intended to send Liu Yue out for the night .
Liu Yue turned around to look at her mom unhappily . She sulked, “Mommy, you truly are so petty! Why is Daddy your husband? I want Daddy to be my husband when I grow up . That way, Daddy can be with me and not need you anymore!”
I noticed the fur on Ling Yue’s tail stand up . She looked at Liu Yue with a ferocious look and stood akimbo . She seriously exclaimed, “Give it your best shot! Your Dad and I are truly in love! What makes you think a little fox, like you, could do us part?!”
I hugged Liu Yue with a smile . Liu Yue, feeling wronged, curled up and then looked into my eyes . She pitifully pleaded, “Can I really not stay with you, Daddy? Just one night… I promise to sleep on my own tomorrow…”
“It’s useless to plead your dad! Mommy knows you . If we let you have your way tonight, you’ll definitely pull the same stunt again tomorrow, so go back to your room tonight . Your Sister Evelyn and Sister Leah will keep you company . Are you still not content?!”
Liu Yue began to make a scene, crying out and covering my ears . She shouted, “Daddy, don’t listen to Mommy!! Don’t listen to Mommy! Please, Daddy… Please, just five minutes, okay? Just five minutes . I’ll leave once you finish the story . Please…”
Liu Yue looked at me with her puppy eyes . I smiled helplessly . I shook my head at Ling Yue . I couldn’t resist against Liu Yue . There’s no father that could resist his cute daughter looking at him with puppy eyes, pleading him to let her stay with him . I surrendered . I touched Liu Yue’s ears . With a smile, I replied, “Okay, okay, okay, Daddy will tell you a story . Daddy will read you a story . ”
Ling Yue let out a heavy sigh . I tried to placate her with a smile, but I decided to wait for Liu Yue to sleep before sending her back to her room .
Liu Yue cheerfully rolled over to my side and vigorously wagged her tail to dry it . She then leapt at me and hugged my arm . I looked at the book she handed me . The book must’ve been a book from the North . It looked slightly old . Maybe it was a book Ling Yue left behind . The words were still clear, though . It was a story about dragons .
In elven stories, dragons were forever portrayed as evil beings that burn villages, kidnapped Princesses, and the Prince would slay the dragon in the end to rescue the Princess . The stories always followed that route . The fairy tale was totally wrong, as dragons didn’t kidnap female elves . Male dragons considered having a child with another race as a disgrace . They wouldn’t even spare a glance for other races, so they wouldn’t kidnap females . Dragons only kidnapped males . If they really had to follow that route, then it should’ve been about a Princess saving the kidnapped Prince . The Prince of elves did, in actual fact, get kidnapped, but there was no Princess who came to his rescue .
Dragons commonly battled elves . Dragons, humans and the people of the North didn’t reside together . Perhaps humans had seen dragons or heard of them before, but they had never battled them . There were stories about dragons in the human lands, too, but they were essentially all fiction produced by the author’s conjured up ideas . I had never seen actual detailed records related to dragons in humanity’s lands . I never found confirmed traces of dragons having been there, either .
As a result, humanity had tonnes of variations of stories about dragons . That was also the same reason as to why I didn’t believe in the existence of dragons . Humans considered dragons to be entities that only existed in fairy tales for children . Nobody truly believed in the existence of dragons once they grew up . However, when I saw Liu Yue lift the book up, I discovered a clue .
Normally speaking, it wasn’t surprising that the North had records pertaining to dragons, for the North was where elves were exiled to . While the elves didn’t embody pure bloodlines and had very poor mana, they did know about elves and dragons . Hence, it came as no surprise that there were stories of dragons there . With that said, the book was composed when Ling Yue was young . Put another way, it had only been over a decade ago . It wasn’t a very ancient book . It wasn’t the type of fairy tale with mini stories, but more similar to a long novel .
This novel told the story of how the main protagonist searched for traces of a dragon in the North, only for a dragon to kidnap him and take him to a valley, where he then lived with many other dragons . In the end, he even fell in love with the dragon and went as far as to help them defeat the invading elves .
Perhaps that was indeed a story for children, because one could tell that the populace of the North didn’t believe in dragons based on Ling Yue’s reaction . Actually, it would be more precise to say that elves didn’t believe in their existence . If Ling Yue and my other family members didn’t meet Dragon Mom, they’d assume the dragon race went extinct ages ago . Ling Yue knew a lot of stories about dragons . Still, she firmly believed they had gone extinct . She didn’t believe there were other dragons still in existence .
The story must’ve been thought up for kids, intended to be reading material . Indeed, I saw Liu Yue wag her tail excitedly . From the standpoint of children, who didn’t know much about the world, every step taken in the outside world was considered an adventure . They had a desire to investigate the world they had never seen before and see races they had never seen before . The powerful and mysterious dragon race was even better at fulfilling their imaginations . Stories of adventuring with dragons involved were popular with children . However, I didn’t consider it a fictional story .
If it was a fictional story, I’d have to say the author possessed some frightening imaginative skills . He fully described a dragon’s lifestyle which, based on how much I knew about Dragon Mom, was the exact same . He said dragons came from a faraway land . He said the dragon’s civilised city became a desolate desert . These dragons were, supposedly, the last surviving dragons that wanted to live there . He also mentioned a war between elves and dragons . As a matter of fact, he even described in great detail the process dragons followed to form caves . What he described was practically a rewrite of Dragon Mom’s cave . Even the gold coins he wrote of were the exact same as the gold coins I saw in Dragon Mom’s cave . I could go and take out a coin that was exactly as described in the story from the national treasury immediately .
It wasn’t a coincidence . I wasn’t convinced that somebody who hadn’t ever seen a dragon before could describe everything correctly solely through his imagination . It was too convenient to be coincidental . I was certain the author wasn’t just telling a story . In fact, the story might not be a novel . It could be an autobiography or travel record . In other words, it was a record of real experiences .
There were dragons in the North . The author stated lots of dragons resided at the valley he was taken to . Further, they were a horde of dragons, the last dragons and they were in the North . The issue was where exactly was the valley? He didn’t mention its location, because he was kidnapped and taken there . I could testify that he was unable to get a clear view of the path they took while flying in the air in a dragon’s claw due to panic .
There were lots of valleys in the North, so exactly which valley was he referring to, though?
Ling Yue quietly tapped me . I returned to reality to discover that Liu Yue had curled up next to me and was deep asleep while clinging to my arm . I shut the book and tried to move, but Liu Yue clung to me; I didn’t dare to forcefully yank her off .
Ling Yue let out a hopeless sigh then lied down next to us . She stroked Liu Yue’s head and, with a soft giggle, said, “This little fox got her way again . I really surrender to her . ”
I nodded . I smiled and, in a soft voice, responded, “Sorry, Ling Yue . I’ll spend tomorrow with you . We’ll have to let Liu Yue have her way tonight . ”
Ling Yue pointed to Liu Yue: “You’ve paid much less attention to me and your feelings have me have faded a lot after Liu Yue joined us . What a philanderer . You’re gentle and patient with Liu Yue, though . God, that makes me jealous . She’s just a little fox . ”
Although she said that, she pinched Liu Yue’s ear with a gentle smile . I doubt Liu Yue often saw that gentle side of her mother when she was awake .
I leaned over and kissed Ling Yue on the face: “You’re my wife; Liu Yue is our daughter, isn’t she? She’s our daughter . She reflects you, so it’s natural for me to like her . ”
“Hehe . ” Ling Yue softly laughed and leaned over while trying to avoid crushing Liu Yue .
Liu Yue then happily shut her eyes . I watched my wife and daughter taking slow and soft breaths . It was a very blissful and cosy moment .
I pondered, “I should be sleeping right now . My heart is filled with boundless warmth and bliss . Their scent and warmth is right here with me . As a man, I have what I want right next to me, but why can’t I fall asleep?“
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