Chapter 149 It's Okay for You to Be a Little Willful
"Cangcang, why are you in the Gemstone Den again? Did I do something to upset you?"
Whenever he went to his gemstone den, he was always in a bad mood.
This time will probably be no exception.
Thinking this, Qiao Mei reached the Gem Nest and tentatively reached out to hug him.
I thought he would reject me, but to my surprise, he was very compliant.
His dragon body was a bit too cold and damp.
It was probably caused by the rain and wind that blew in when the window was wide open.
"Cangcang, it's okay if you're angry with me, but how can you not take care of your body? How are you feeling right now? Do you feel hot and cold all the time?"
It's currently the transition period from spring to summer, and the rain during this time is quite cool. Given Ao Cang's relatively poor health, the chances of him getting sick from a little wind and rain are very high.
Ao Cang let Qiao Mei pull him into her arms. When he heard her question, he tried to lie and say that nothing had happened.
But the next moment, he couldn't help but sneeze.
Qiao Mei then noticed a tiny sticky note stuck to Ao Canglong's tail.
It's the same kind of sticky note she just picked up from the floor.
However, now was not the time to worry about that. She pressed her forehead against Ao Cang's and found it was unusually hot, probably due to a fever. She then dialed Li Chonghua's personal computer and asked him what to do if her familiar had a fever.
Li Chonghua: "Just like with people, you can give them some fever-reducing medicine. However, because dragons have scales, their scales reduce their heat dissipation function, so they cannot dissipate heat on their own. Therefore, during this period, you will need to work hard to cool them down with cold or ice water."
This was the first time Qiao Mei had heard of this. After noting it down, she asked Li Chonghua if there were any other things she needed to be aware of.
"Yes, there's one more thing. The little black dragon's body is different from other familiar beasts. Whenever it has a fever, its body will first become hot, and then it will become cold. You'll have to find a way to keep it warm then."
Qiao Mei nodded: "Okay, I've got it. Anything else?"
Li Chonghua: "That's all for now. Go and prepare some fever-reducing medicine for him. If the situation is still serious, then contact me again."
"Okay, thank you very much."
"It's nothing."
After hanging up the phone call, Qiao Mei carried Ao Cang to the bed and laid him on the soft bedding. Then she got up to get ice from the refrigerator and put the ice cubes into a transparent plastic bag.
She filled a bag with about ten ice cubes, and when she felt that was enough, she hurriedly returned to the bedside and placed the ice cubes beside Ao Cang, instructing him to apply them every now and then.
"I'm going to take a quick shower, and I'll come back to help you after I'm done."
After saying that, the girl took only ten minutes, almost just a quick shower, changed into a pink tank top and off-white pajama bottoms, got into bed, and went to touch the bag of ice.
The ice hadn't melted much, and it was still very cold to the touch.
She touched Ao Cang's dragon body again, thinking it would alleviate the pain, but to her surprise, it not only didn't alleviate the pain, but became even hotter.
Furthermore, his dragon scales felt completely dry to the touch.
Realizing this, Qiao Mei looked at Ao Cang, who had his dragon eyes closed and was either truly asleep or pretending to be asleep, with a sense of frustration, and made him transform into human form.
Ao Cang opened his golden dragon eyes and looked at the girl whose eyes were red with anxiety. The anger that had been weighing on his heart suddenly dissipated.
He obeyed and did as he was told, his gaze fixed on her face as he observed her.
Qiao Mei had no time to pay attention to this. She saw Ao Cang appear in human form, take off the black hair tie from her wrist, and tie up his shoulder-length silver curly hair in a way that looked like she was hugging him. Then she picked up the bag of ice and pressed it against his forehead to cool it down.
She was so concerned about him that she didn't even realize when the distance between them had grown so close that their noses were almost touching.
Her eyelashes fluttered, and her lustrous ruby-red eyes looked at Ao Cang's handsome face so close to hers. She felt his breath, which was too hot to breathe on her face because of his fever, and her heart suddenly tightened.
“Cangcang, you..”
"sorry."
The two spoke almost at the same time. When Qiao Mei heard Ao Cang say "I'm sorry," she picked up the ice that had been chilling for a while to prevent him from feeling uncomfortable if it was chilled for too long. She asked him in confusion, "Why did you say that?"
Ao Cang lowered his long eyelashes and muttered that he was the one who had opened the window.
"That's it?" Qiao Mei seemed to know this in advance.
Seeing the boy's stunned expression, she placed the ice pack back on his head and looked at the spot where the water had just fallen.
"Your dragon claws are wet, and you left a tiny footprint by the window. Didn't you know that?"
Ao Cang lowered his head slightly, never expecting that Qiao Mei already knew. He then looked at the desk where books and trinkets had already been arranged.
"And what about those things, do you know about them too?"
Qiao Mei hummed in agreement and pulled out the sticky note that had been stuck to Ao Cang when he was in his little black dragon form.
"You forgot to take this off."
Upon seeing this, Ao Cang glanced at the notepad on his desk, which was missing a notepad, and felt his entire dragon face burning.
"You knew all this, so why didn't you expose me and reprimand me?" Ao Cang's voice was deep and muffled, feeling that his previous act of pretending not to know was a joke.
Qiao Mei sighed and pinched his cheek with her hands, which were now cold from touching the ice. "Why should I expose you? If you want to do this, you must have your reasons. Besides, what kind of relationship do we have? It's okay for you to be a little willful, as long as you're happy."
Ao Cang had been in a bad mood ever since he went to Shang Duojin's house today.
This wasn't ideal; it reached its peak after Qiao Mei used her lightning-based superpowers to create a defensive electric shield for Xu Heyu.
At that moment, he really wanted to control the dragon body to get off Qiao Mei's neck, but what would happen after that?
He didn't know where he would go if he went down there, and even more absurdly, he found that he, who used to be used to being alone, found it very difficult and distant to return to solitude.
So he suppressed his impulse and could only continue to cling to Qiao Mei's neck, seething with displeasure.
Even just now, when Qiao Mei came into the house and cleaned up the mess he had made, he was still thinking about whether or not to tell Qiao Mei that he didn't want to sleep with her tonight.
But when he saw how anxious she was to ask around after discovering he had a fever, and how her eyes welled up with tears because she was worried about him, he suddenly realized that all the inexplicable anger he had felt before was completely unnecessary.
The emotions seen in a person's eyes are genuine. He saw himself reflected in her eyes, and her mood changed accordingly.
It gave him the feeling that they were already the same person, one entity.
So the Dragon God lowered his already bowed head even further, burying his head in Qiao Mei's chest, and said sorry again.
Ao Cang: Oh, I'm getting teary-eyed.
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