Bai Muqiu squatted down, clutching his head. He trembled at the thought of his mother's murderous gaze.
No wonder his dad wanted to beat him up.
Long Chengxiu looked down at Bai Muqiu, puzzled. "Are you unhappy?"
"Nonsense! My parents came to stand up for me, but I ended up ruining it myself, boohoo—I'm afraid I won't be able to get back home!"
"You can stay here."
"No way! I have my own home!"
Bai Muqiu lowered his head and pondered for a long time before suddenly standing up.
"No, I have to go back! Even if my mother beats me, I'll accept it; she won't really kill me!"
As he spoke, he turned to look at Long Chengxiu, "Open the barrier, I want to go home."
Long Chengxiu looked at him, raised his hand and waved, opening the barrier. Bai Muqiu quickly used his escape light to chase after Bai Jingyao and Bai Shuo.
After Bai Muqiu left, the barrier was restored to its original state.
Long Chengxiu stared in the direction he had left, looking somewhat confused. He didn't quite understand what had just happened, but they were Bai Muqiu's family, and he seemed to have done something wrong in front of them.
But he didn't know how to face...his family.
He sat back on the bed. There were still leftovers of Bai Muqiu's food on the low table. He waved his hand to clean them up and put the tea set back on.
Meng Zhang taught him how to make tea. Long Chengxiu learns things very quickly, which is why he is very strong. However, he never learns anything he is not interested in or considers useless.
For example, when it comes to interacting with people, even among the dragon race itself, there aren't many who can be spoken to by him.
He can still speak thanks to Meng Zhang and Geng Chen, especially Geng Chen, who talks a lot, though he hasn't fully learned everything.
Geng Chen integrated into the human world very early on, and Meng Zhang also traveled around the Mountain and Sea Realm. Only he stayed in the East Sea, spending his time either in seclusion to cultivate or going out to fight.
Over millions of years, fewer and fewer people have been able to defeat him, and some are not used to fighting, so he goes out even less often.
Many of the external objects in the Dragon Palace were brought by Geng Chen and Meng Zhang. Xi Rou and Huo Ming also came here out of curiosity, as well as the fire dragon Yao Yan and the wood dragon Di Fu.
But it was too desolate and lonely here, and no one could stay for long. In the end, Long Chengxiu stayed here alone for the longest time.
As for his family, Long Chengxiu didn't remember. His biological parents died in a war long ago, and many members of the Ancestral Dragon lineage were killed or injured. Later, due to interbreeding with other races, he was the only one left with pure Ancestral Dragon blood.
Although dragons live in groups, they are all proud, so there is no such thing as mutual help. Long Chengxiu has been lonely since childhood, and he is used to it.
He always used dragon language and only learned human language very late. He didn't understand human culture very well; he could only communicate.
Later, I heard Geng Chen and Huo Ming talk a lot. He could occasionally speak in long sentences smoothly, but he would stumble when he encountered something he didn't understand.
Long Chengxiu did not understand what Bai Muqiu was saying. He still retained a great deal of animalistic instinct and was clueless about human morality and shame.
However, he knew that Bai Muqiu was unhappy because he hadn't understood his words and didn't understand his thoughts.
Long Chengxiu promised Bai Muqiu he would learn, but he didn't actually know what to learn or how to learn it.
Mating is something easy to learn; the tribe has various secret techniques. He had read a small part of it, but because he didn't have a partner he was interested in, he stopped reading later.
Now that he had Bai Muqiu, and he was still not satisfied, Long Chengxiu decided to go to the sect's secret archives to retrieve and review the secret techniques.
There's also what Bai Muqiu said about the human world: getting to know each other, understanding each other, and falling in love.
He doesn't understand any of these things.
He drank a cup of tea, lowered his head in deep thought, and considered whether or not he should go to the human world.
However, if I go to the mortal realm, I don't know how long it will take, whether it will interfere with my official duties or my cultivation. Moreover, I won't be able to see Bai Muqiu.
He frowned slightly, somewhat displeased.
"Bang—" A sound suddenly came from the bookshelf inside the study, and Long Chengxiu looked up.
Bai Yu was holding a book and covering his head. He was so engrossed in reading that he got so excited that he stood up and bumped into the bookshelf.
The pain brought him back to his senses, and he remembered that he was still in the Dragon Palace. He grabbed the book in his hand and headed out, wanting to see how Bai Muqiu and Long Chengxiu's conversation was going.
Bai Yu walked out and was stunned when she saw Long Chengxiu all alone.
"Muqiu is gone?"
"Um."
"Huh? When? Why didn't you call me!" Bai Yu was annoyed; he didn't want to face Long Chengxiu alone!
Long Chengxiu looked at Bai Yu, noticing his engrossed reading, and then, remembering that he was Bai Ze, he began to ponder.
"Could you please help me?"
"Huh? Me? How can I help you?"
Bai Yu was completely baffled.
"I want to learn about people, how they get to know each other, and how they fall in love."
"Uh...you mean you want to learn about human emotions and how to please people you like?"
Bai Yu tried to understand Long Chengxiu's words.
Long Chengxiu nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.
Bai Yu's curiosity was piqued, so he sat down opposite Long Chengxiu and put down his book.
"To learn about human relationships and social customs, one must first experience the world and engage with it. Only through personal experience can one gain insights. Different people have different understandings of the same thing."
Long Chengxiu remained silent.
Bai Yu paused, "So... why did you transform into a human? Why do you look like this?"
"Tifu said, 'That's very strong.'"
"..."
Bai Yu opened her mouth, as if to say something, but hesitated. After a long while, she asked again, "Then why do you imitate human speech?"
“Gengchen cursed me in human language, which I couldn’t understand.”
"..."
Bai Yu remained silent for a while.
Have you read any of the books in your study?
"I flipped through a bit, but I didn't understand it, and I wasn't interested."
"..."
Bai Yu put his hand to his forehead and pondered for a while.
"Well then, given your current situation, the best way is to engage with the world, go to the human realm, experience human emotions, the vicissitudes of life, and the warmth and coldness of human relationships. Only then can you make friends with other humans and truly understand."
"Entering the WTO...will take a long time?"
"Is a hundred years a long time?"
"It will only be a short while, a brief moment."
"Then let's go to Bai Nian."
"I went, but I couldn't see him."
"...Uh, you mean late autumn?"
"Yes, he's angry. I think I did something wrong, but I don't understand. I promised him I would learn."
"Oh?" Bai Yu used her innate divine power to sense things with great interest. After a while, she chuckled and poured herself a cup of tea.
"You care about Muqiu, don't you? Muqiu just returned from the mortal realm not long ago. He spent a hundred years in the mortal world and originally had a lot of pent-up feelings, but after meeting you, he felt better."
Long Chengxiu was slightly taken aback. Bai Muqiu had been in the world for a hundred years, no wonder he didn't understand what he was saying and what he was thinking.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Yu gave Long Chengxiu an object that could transmit messages, and the recipient of the message was Bai Jue.
Bai Yu sent Long Chengxiu to the mortal realm to find Bai Jue, who would teach him how to navigate the world.
Bai Yu originally thought of Bai Hao first, but after remembering the mass message Bai Hao sent, she decided against it. Bai Muqiu's arranged marriage was not something she wanted to make things difficult for him.
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