Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

A beautiful girl walked out from the other side of Chu Zihang, with the enthusiasm and color of summer. She bowed slightly, smiled sweetly like a girl next door, and was very graceful.

"Hello, Mama Chu, my name is Xia Mi!"

Chapter 172 First she was my junior sister, then my wife, and then I brought her home and made her my aunt

"Hey, hey, hey!"

The woman covered her lips, her beautiful face filled with visible surprise. She even felt unsteady on her feet and took two steps back. "It's a girl? It's actually a girl?"

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but chuckle, thinking to himself, such a virgin girl is placed in front of you, can she not be a girl but a big X transvestite? Chu Zihang's top-notch mother is really as out of line as ever!

"Yes, yes, it's a girl. I'm a junior high school classmate of Senior Brothers Chu and Lu at Shilan Middle School. Now I've been admitted to Kassel College." Xia Mi said with a faint smile, "Senior Brother Chu takes good care of me in school. This time we have a project to study together. Sorry to bother you!"

There is probably no one in this world who can refuse a smile like this from a girl. When she smiles, it's as if sunshine can seep out of her face, which can melt people's hearts.

"No, no, not at all. How can you say I'm disturbing you?" Mother Chu finally came to her senses, perhaps because she was surprised by the girl's lively temperament or something else. "It's mainly because my Zihang rarely makes friends. In recent years, apart from bringing Mingfei home more often, he's also invited classmates to a few parties. This is the first time he's brought a girl home alone!"

"Senior Brother Chu is very popular in school. In fact, he is very popular with girls. It has been like this since junior high school." Xia Mi glanced at Chu Zihang intentionally or unintentionally.

Chu Zihang acted as if he didn't see it, his face expressionless and his eyes fixed on the side.

Chu Zihang's beautiful mother had lived like a child her entire life, always having food and clothes provided for her, carefree and unconcerned, as if even the sky would fall and someone would hold it up for her, leaving her no need to worry. But this time, she saw every little move Xia Mi and Chu Zihang made, and the woman's eyes lit up with the perceptive light that only a mother could possess.

"We went to the same junior high school and we can get together in college. What a fate!" Mother Chu invited everyone to her home, actually mainly to greet Xia Mi. The joy she had just felt because of Lu Mingfei's arrival was instantly transferred to this girl named Xia Mi.

It took Lu Mingfei less than three seconds to go from being in favor to falling out of favor.

"Xia Mi, right? Such a pretty girl should be very popular with boys in school, right?" Gossip is indeed a woman's instinct. Mother Chu casually chatted with her family, "Do you have a boy you like? Could it be Ming Fei's girlfriend? They seem to be a good match..."

The woman's seemingly casual questioning hinted at insincerity. Her intuition told her that this beautiful girl named Xia Mi wasn't particularly close to Lu Mingfei, but rather to someone else...

"No, although Senior Brother Mingfei is a very nice person, there is no chemistry between him and me." Xia Mi stuck out her tongue.

"So that's how it is!" Mother Chu seemed even happier, and glanced at Lu Mingfei intentionally or unintentionally.

Lu Mingfei received the woman's questioning gaze. He first glanced at Xia Mi, then at Chu Zihang, and nodded at her with certainty. He almost said directly, "Auntie, don't worry, think boldly. It's exactly what you think."

It's true! Women's intuition is sometimes so accurate!

Mother Chu smiled even more brightly. She was already very beautiful and looked like a blooming flower. If she wasn't in front of Xia Mi, she would probably jump for joy.

The four of them walked from the entrance into the living room, and what caught their eyes was a floor full of beer cans, some of which were unopened, some were empty, and some were half-drunk and spilled on the floor, leaking clear yellow liquid.

Several women lay sprawled on expensive French velvet sofas, sunlight streaming through huge French windows onto their half-exposed buttocks. They clutched half-empty bottles of cognac, their heads barely covered by a thin blanket, like ostriches burying their heads in the sand.

Lu Mingfei clearly saw a trace of unspeakable helplessness in the corner of Chu Zihang's eyes.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Mi. My friends came to my house last night and played all night. They played too much, so the house is a bit messy." Su Xiaoyan rarely showed an embarrassed smile, and inadvertently changed her address from "Xia Mi" to "Xiao Mi".

"No, it's very lively and full of life. Girls drinking yellow beer and brandy are very cool! I heard that this alcohol is very strong and boys can't drink half a bottle." Xia Mi said with her big eyes blinking.

"Oh, what kind of girl is that? She has already grown old and has become an old woman of aunt's generation." Su Xiaoyan said, touching her cheek. There were almost no wrinkles on her pretty face.

"Who said that? Mother Chu looks very young and tender, and her figure is also top-notch! When she opened the door just now, I thought it was Chu Zihang's sister." Xia Mi said seriously, "She looks about the same age as me. If she wore a uniform, she could pass as a college student, no, she could even pass as a high school student! How does she maintain her looks? If I can still maintain this state after giving birth, I will wear short skirts to show my thighs in winter!"

"Hahahahaha, how can that be so exaggerated!" Su Xiaoyan was amused by Xia Mi and couldn't stop laughing. "Xiao Mi is so sweet. My son Zihang is not very good at talking. I'll ask you to teach him more in the future."

"Although Senior Brother Chu looks cold, he is actually very warm-hearted. He has been named a "Three Good Students" student for two consecutive years. The story of him being punished for being late for class because he helped an old lady cross the street is being told everywhere in the school." Xia Mi said seriously.

"Really? Zihang never told me that. This kid never brags to his mother no matter if he does good things or wins awards. I can only hear how great he is from his teacher during parent-teacher meetings!" Speaking of her son, Su Xiaoyan couldn't hide the pride in her words.

"Where's Aunt Tong? Ask her to clean up. You guys have been too messy." Chu Zihang frowned as he looked at the mess on the floor and the aunts who were sleeping soundly and didn't want to wake up.

"Aunt Tong has something going on at home, so I gave her three days off. She'll probably be back around noon tomorrow," Su Xiaoyan said. "Just bear with it, my dear son. Your dad's on a business trip and won't be back anytime soon. How about taking Mingfei to the court for you guys to play? Mom and Xiao Mi will be your cheerleaders?"

"Let me help clean up. I'm free right now and I even took home economics classes in high school." Xia Mi volunteered and started rolling up her sleeves.

"How can that be! Xiao Mi, you're a guest, how can we ask guests to help clean up? Just sit down and rest, and let Zihang and Mingfei clean up." Su Xiaoyan stopped Xia Mi, "Auntie will pour you some tea. My husband brought back some special black tea from somewhere a while ago... Hey, but I can't seem to remember where the key to the tea cabinet at home is. How about some milk?"

"It's okay, I'm not thirsty." Xia Mi shook her head gently, preparing to clean up the wolf strewn on the living room floor. Suddenly, she caught sight of a huge painting hanging in the living room and couldn't take her eyes off it.

The woman in the painting wears a pristine white ballet skirt, her toes tapping gently on the wooden floor, the lace hem swirling in a beautiful horizontal circle. She is as graceful as a noble white swan, illuminated by the light from above, her dancing moves are as ethereal as an elf, and her smile, as she glances back, seems to have dazzled the world.

"Oh, this is a piece from my aunt's performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. My husband insisted on hanging it in the most conspicuous place in the living room. My aunt wasn't good at anything else, but she was good at dancing. She started practicing ballet from a young age," Su Xiaoyan said nostalgically. "I actually wanted to be a ballet teacher, but my husband didn't want me to work so hard, and besides, there aren't many girls who truly love ballet these days..."

"Yes, after all, practicing dancing requires hardship from a young age. I also studied ballet and was the director of a ballet troupe at school." Xia Mi looked at the painting with stars in her eyes. "That's great! I wish I could be as good as Mother Chu one day. Performing at the National Theater, that must be every ballet girl's dream, so beautiful!"

"Xiao Mi also learns ballet? No wonder your figure and walking posture seem to have that kind of temperament. It seems that we will have a lot in common..." The more Su Xiaoyan looked at this girl, the more she liked her. It was like meeting a close friend regardless of age.

She couldn't help but take Xia Mi's hand and said she would go to her bedroom to find the old performance videos, and asked Xia Mi to accompany her to relive her youth and glorious years.

Xia Mi cheered and clapped, saying that she must watch it and she wanted to jump up and show her support.

The two women, as if they had found their soulmates, went upstairs, slammed the bedroom door shut, and immersed themselves in the ocean of ballet art, not caring about anything else.

Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang looked at each other, feeling helpless.

"Brother, if things keep going this way, will your mother accept Xia Mi as her younger sister? Will you call Xia Mi 'Second Mother' from now on?" Lu Mingfei's imagination was full, and he asked Xiang Zihang with a mischievous look, "First she's my junior sister, then my wife, and now she's my aunt when I bring her home?"

"Get out." Chu Zihang's face was full of black lines.

Chu Zihang glanced at the beautiful aunts lying on the sofa like corpses, went back to the room and got several blankets to cover the aunts' plump thighs and slender waists. Lu Mingfei groaned as he took a large woven bag and threw the empty and unfinished cans into it.

"Brother, how are you feeling recently?" Lu Mingfei asked as he laboriously pulled an empty cognac bottle out of Aunt Shanshan's hand.

He couldn't help but sigh at how soundly these beautiful aunts slept and how strong they were. Once these women got drunk, 90% of the fitness coaches in the gym probably wouldn't be able to beat them in an arm wrestling match, right?

"What do you mean?" Chu Zihang adjusted the air conditioner to the most suitable temperature for the human body and turned on the humidifier.

"It's just a blood rush. The blood in your body should be better than before, right?"

"Much better." Chu Zihang nodded. "I asked Xia Mi, and she told me that it was you who asked your hunter friend named Lao Tang to use alchemy to draw the blood of the Dragon King to cleanse my blood vessels?"

"Yes, and Xia Mi and Fenrir, they all contributed."

"Thank you." Chu Zihang looked at Lu Mingfei and said seriously.

"Hey, why are you thanking me so formally? It makes us feel like strangers." Lu Mingfei waved his hand.

"I'm not just talking about helping me clean my blood." Chu Zihang's tone was still serious. "I thought about what you said to me in the ward for the first time. And when you stabbed Jörmungandr at the end... awakened me from my Deadpool state."

"In the final analysis, it's not that I'm helping you. All I'm doing is letting you face your true innermost thoughts," Lu Mingfei said. "Anyone can see that you like Xia Mi, and Xia Mi likes you too. But you're both blank slates when it comes to your feelings, like two ignorant children. Plus, each of you has your own stance and difficulties, so neither of you is willing to speak up..."

"But feelings are like that. Sometimes speaking up or not can make a world of difference. It's like the innocent love of school days, one party is shy and timid, the other is proud. In the end, you can only bury this endless relationship and regrets deep in your memories. Laugh in front of others, cry secretly at night."

"Missed, missed. Some things are not wrong, but have passed. No one can change what has passed. Brother, you... and I should both feel deeply about this." Lu Mingfei said in a low voice.

"Well...it's explained very thoroughly." This time, Chu Zihang really took out a mini handmade notebook from his pocket to take notes.

There is a picture of Winnie the Pooh on the cover of the book. Winnie is holding a balloon in his hand, and the balloon also has Winnie the Pooh printed on it.

This was the gift Xia Mi gave him yesterday to celebrate his discharge from the hospital. She painted the picture herself, and it also included a pair of Winnie the Pooh keychains, one for each of them.

"Hey, that's too much, senior brother. Are you showing off? You must be showing off, right?" Lu Mingfei glared, his tone full of sour envy.

"Do you like it very much? I asked Xia Mi to draw one for you. What character do you like?" Chu Zihang looked up and asked.

"As for me, I prefer Robin from One Piece..." Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped talking, "Hey, hey, hey, I'm getting off topic, Senior Brother! How could you let Xia Mi give me this thing! Sometimes I really wonder if there's something rotten in your head!"

Their phones suddenly rang simultaneously, making an unusual noise. They both moved in unison, glancing at each other before quickly pulling out their phones. The difference was that Chu Zihang quickly read the urgent email twice before looking up, while Lu Mingfei was still absorbed in the text, unwilling to raise his head.

"What's wrong?" Chu Zihang asked in a deep voice. He had almost never seen Lu Mingfei act like this. His eyes scanned the short text over and over again, as if he wanted to chew and swallow every word... It was as if his soul had been sucked away.

"No." Lu Mingfei let out a long sigh and came back to his senses from the email.

"This is an 'SS'-level emergency mission, likely related to the Dragon King. Details will be announced later. Right now, we only know the target is deep sea off Japan, and we're heading there three days from now." Chu Zihang briefly summarized the text message and looked at Lu Mingfei. "I remember you seem to know a lot about Japan."

"Yes, I understand..." Lu Mingfei whispered, "I understand very well."

Chu Zihang looked at Lu Mingfei deeply, but didn't say anything more. At this time, the door of the bedroom on the second floor opened, and Xia Mi took Chu Ma's arm and jumped out.

"Hey, Chu Zihang, your mother has already adopted me as her godsister!" Xia Mi stood on the second-floor fence, looking down at Chu Zihang with a savage smile. "From now on, we can go our separate ways. I'll call you Senior Brother, and you call me Auntie. How about that?"

Chu Zihang looked at a certain crow's mouth, his face so gloomy that water could be squeezed out of it.

Chapter 173 Senior Brother’s Villa is Big, Junior Sister Can Live There

"Let's discuss our own affairs?" Lu Mingfei rubbed his chin, as if pondering some age-old dilemma. "So, should I call you Junior Sister Xia Mi, or Sister-in-law?"

Mother Chu obviously understood this straightforward joke and started to giggle, while Chu Zihang's face turned even darker.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound on the sofa, as if something was waking up behind him.

Chu Zihang, who still had a gloomy face, quickly exchanged glances with Lu Mingfei. Both of them could sense the bad intentions and deep fear in each other's eyes, as if some man-eating beast was about to wake up.

They were just about to flee this chaotic place... but it was too late. The screams had already pierced the sky. There were several of them, and the combined screams were enough to overturn the terrace on the top floor of Chu Zihang's villa.

"Oh my, is that Zihang? Zihang is back? I haven't seen you for half a year and I miss you so much. Come here, come and sit with me for a while!" Aunt Shanshan said excitedly, as greedy as a wild beast seeing a little white rabbit caught in a trap.

"Mingfei is here too? It's been a long time since you came. Do you remember me? I'm Aunt Annie. When you came here as a guest in high school, I kept praising you for being so cute! No wonder they say boys change a lot when they grow up. Mingfei is so handsome now. So manly! Will you go shopping with your auntie next time? I'll buy you sneakers and a game console!" Aunt Annie was so happy that she rolled on the sofa.

"I'm not picky. Whether it's Zihang or Mingfei, I like them all! Does anyone want to be my godson? My little princes..." Aunt EB said affectionately.

"Don't dream! I already knew Mingfei as my godson before you did!" On the second floor, Su Xiaoyan sneered, "You old, faded women, you dare to seduce my precious son and precious godson? Do you still think they are children?"

A woman who protects her calf is truly a tigress.

"Yingying, you bad woman, what are you talking about?" The beautiful aunts complained. Suddenly, Aunt Shanshan noticed something sharp. "Hey, Yingying, who's that girl next to you? She's so pretty. She looks like you when you were young. Have you brought your illegitimate daughter back?"

"Illegitimate daughter! She's Zihang and Mingfei's classmate. Her name is Xia Mi. The little girl is very cute!" Su Xiaoyan introduced proudly, her tone as proud as if she was introducing her own outstanding daughter-in-law.

"She is indeed a very beautiful girl...but is she really just a classmate? I don't think so!" Aunt Shanshan's eyes wandered between Xia Mi and the boys. This aunt was obviously very gossipy and had a keen sense of smell.

"What classmates! This girl and our Zihang are such a perfect match, they are simply a pair made in heaven! Look at the expression on Yingying's face, she is even happier than when I introduced her to her own daughter!" Aunt Annie smiled mischievously.

"I remember that college students can get married now, right? Especially in universities abroad, there are so many people getting married! When can you bring home a little boy Hang for us to play with?" Aunt EB was obviously more explicit.

Chu Zihang twitched the corners of his mouth, and Lu Mingfei pinched his thigh to stifle laughter.

"Don't mind me, Xiao Mi. These friends of mine have no bottom line when it comes to joking around." Su Xiaoyan apologized to Xia Mi, and rushed down the stairs while scolding her with a smile: "You stinky bitches are really asking for a beating. Don't scare away my son's classmates!"

Taking advantage of the time when the aunts were fighting, Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi quickly fled from this place of trouble.

After the three men left, the aunts gradually calmed down from their noisy fights. These aunts, who were known throughout the city for their beauty when they were young, lay on the expensive sofas with their legs spread out, their spring flowers blooming, looking up at the sky.

"Old ladies." Su Xiaoyan suddenly smiled and said softly, "Thank you very much."

"Thanks for nothing. We are doing this for Zihang. We have watched him grow up and we are happy for him. Do you think you can be so proud?" Aunt Shanshan scolded with a smile.

"I noticed the way the little girl looked at our Zihang. She was so affectionate, and so was Zihang. He never interacted with girls before, only playing with Mingfei. I almost thought he liked boys." Aunt Annie smiled like a rotten girl. "What a shame! It's a waste of two high-quality resources."

"We all saw the little girl. She's amazing! Yingying, you just said she's studying ballet, right? No wonder she feels so familiar. She's just like us when we were young... There's no such thing as a bad girl who likes dancing." Aunt EB said with heartfelt emotion, "She's a good girl. Zihang has good taste, too."

……

"Eh? So you're going to Japan soon?" Xia Mi took Lu Mingfei's N96 and browsed the urgent task sent by Norma.

"According to the regulations of the Executive Department, confidential missions cannot be leaked to anyone." Chu Zihang reminded Lu Mingfei in a low voice.

"Hey, Chu Zihang, what do you mean? Are you planning to hide it from me?"

Xia Mi glared at him fiercely, and Chu Zihang was instantly speechless.

"Besides, you are not allowed to disclose it to any 'person', but you didn't say you are not allowed to disclose it to Long. What does it matter if I know it?" Xia Mi snorted coldly.

"It's okay, senior brother. I still have something to ask you, junior sister. Don't be so stingy. It would be a shame for such a powerful helper like junior sister to be just a vase. She has to be useful, right?" Lu Mingfei said with a smile.

Chu Zihang was speechless. He had no idea what to do with this useless couple.

"But speaking of which, Japan might be a tourist destination for ordinary people, but for mixed-bloods, especially those like you who are about to carry out dangerous missions... it's really not a good place to go." Xia Mi's expression suddenly became serious. "It's not an exaggeration to say it's a den of dragons and tigers."

"You know something, right?" Lu Mingfei asked Xia Mi in a low voice.

"I do know some of it, but these are the secrets of the ancient dragon race, unspeakable, just like the origins of 'Odin,'" Xia Mi said softly. "Although the Dragon King possesses immense authority, he is not supreme. This is a mark borne from the depths of our blood and souls, like some kind of shackle that imprisons us. Only by taking further steps can we break free from our fate... the fate of being devoured."

"So that's why you're willing to do anything to evolve into Hela, even if it means devouring Fenrir." Lu Mingfei looked at Xia Mi. "Even the Dragon King has his own sorrows. We are all pushed forward by fate."

"This is the fate of the Abandoned Clan." Xia Mi looked up at the pristine white ceiling. "If you don't eat your own kind, you'll be eaten. My brother won't eat me, but if none of us are ruthless, we won't be able to escape the shackles of fate in the end... We will all be devoured and reduced to the dust of history."

"The guy who ate the Dragon King, even Jörmungandr is beyond description... So the part of this world hidden in the darkness is so huge? I have only uncovered the tip of the iceberg so far..." Lu Mingfei seemed to be deeply immersed in Xia Mi's words, muttering to himself.

"I remember there being no records of dragon civilization in Japan. There have been no revival events in the country, and there are no remains of dragon civilization. It can be said to be the 'cleanest' region in the world, with no dragons active there. The origins of the Japanese hybrids have always been a mystery, and they themselves don't know which lineage they are descended from." Chu Zihang asked Xia Mi, "You just said that Japan is a den of dragons and tigers. Is that related to their mysterious origins?"

"Yeah." Xia Mi nodded, her expression solemn. "But actually, that area isn't as...clean as you think." Xia Mi said, "Thousands of years have passed. I haven't participated in the disputes there, and I only know fragments of it through rumors. I can't tell you directly what happened in that land surrounded by the ocean, but in fact, everything is recorded. If you want to know, you can look through their history. There will be clues hidden there."

"Japanese history?" Chu Zihang was stunned. "Do they really have such a thing as 'history'? The first ten emperors only have written records and cannot be verified. Until before World War II, many Japanese believed that the emperor was a descendant of God. Their history is completely a myth."

"Myths certainly have some exaggeration, but how do you know they're not based on reality?" Xia Mi stared into Chu Zihang's eyes. Her gaze had never been so heavy, as if thunder and lightning, wind and clouds were churning in them. "In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr is the giant snake that encircles the courtyard. That's me, a real person. In Chinese classics, Baidi is the god of autumn who controls the metal element. You've also seen Norton, the hunter Old Tang... We exist in every corner of history. Whether it's myths or allusions, you can find the figure of the 'dragon' in them."

Xia Mi seemed to be speaking the divine law, and Chu Zihang was so shocked that he remained silent.

He suddenly realized that the shocking feeling emanating from the language was familiar. He had first heard something similar in Principal Angers's open class on "Dragon Family Trees" after he enrolled. Back then, the principal had also said that the myths of each nation were rewritten based on the histories written by their ancestors. Those seemingly absurd myths actually had historical origins. We, too, would be swept along by the mighty wheel of history, becoming part of it... A dragon might be right next to you!

"I understand. I will study Japanese mythology and historical texts in the next few days." Chu Zihang looked at Xia Mi and said softly, "Thank you."