Chapter 158
"Mom might not be feeling well today, that's why she's not talking much."
Leon gently patted Mu En's head. "Daddy promises you, tomorrow morning, Daddy and Mom will be like before."
Leon prayed that he could appease the Dragon Queen within twenty-four hours.
Mu En blinked her beautiful big eyes, put her arms around Leon's neck, and said in a serious tone,
"Daddy."
"Um?"
"Mu En thinks you and Mom are like two hedgehogs." Mu En's face was full of seriousness.
Upon hearing this, Leon was stunned for a moment.
What a wonderful metaphor!
Why are they like hedgehogs?
"Why do you say that?" Leon asked.
"You and your Mom both have prickly exteriors, but are very soft inside."
"Um... interesting, hmm."
Leon didn't know how to comment on the child's wonderful analogy, so he could only say "interesting."
However, what Mu En said next suddenly touched Leon's heart.
"If either of you doesn't put away your thorns, neither of you will be able to give the other a real hug. Either you will hurt Mom, or Mom will hurt you."
Mu En used the simplest children's storytelling techniques to convey truths that even Leon hadn't considered.
"So, only when both of us put away our thorns can Daddy and Mom hug, right?"
Leon stood there, speechless for a moment.
Even though he and Losweiser had already acted loving and harmonious enough in front of Mu En and Noa, did Mu En still think that Mom Daddy were a pair of "hedgehogs"?
Leon overlooked something very interesting: children's inner world is pure and innocent, which is why they are able to feel the most genuine emotions.
That kind of feeling can't be faked. No matter how well you put on a show, there will still be some flaws that only a child can sense.
Leon had no idea how his two daughters perceived them as a couple.
But clearly, it's not what they thought.
They underestimated their daughter's abilities and the complexity of this large-scale pretend play.
Leon hugged Mu En and remained silent for a long time before finally letting out a sigh of relief and saying, "Yes, Daddy knows what to do. Thank you, Mu En."
Hearing Leon say that, Mu En's serious little face finally broke into a smile, "You're welcome, Daddy!"
"But where did you learn such strange metaphors? Daddy doesn't remember teaching you any of these."
"The Hedgehog Couple from 'Little Dragon Enlightenment Stories'," Mu En replied seriously.
It sounds like a short text from an elementary school Chinese textbook.
However, the simplest stories often contain the most complex truths.
It's so complex that adults can't understand it; only children can grasp its intricacies.
Thank you to the authors of "Little Dragon Enlightenment Stories" Hedgehog Couple!
After calming themselves down, Leon and Mu En began their studies for the day.
At midnight, the man beside her was fast asleep. Losweiser slowly sat up, lifted the covers, and carefully got out of bed.
She wore pink matching pajamas and dragon-wing slippers, and tiptoed out of the bedroom.
As winter approached, the temperature outside was rather low. Losweiser wrapped her pajamas tighter around herself, bypassed the guards at the back gate of the Holy Temple, and sneaked into the nearby bushes.
She looked up and, after confirming that her bedroom balcony was directly above her, looked down and began searching for something.
That photo.
Actually, her sulking wasn't entirely because of Leon.
Another part is due to myself.
Why is Wuyi Qi Baba Lingqi Liuyi so stubborn?
Why are you so concerned about saving face?
If she had softened her stance a little and told Leon, "I just want to keep this photo, what's it to you?"
Wouldn't that make it a perfectly legitimate way to preserve the photos?
Why bother looking for photos in the dark now?
Sigh, being arrogant for a moment is fun, but being arrogant all the time is a recipe for disaster.
You'll have to pay for the sins you've committed.
"Once you find the photo, you must hide it in a place where he absolutely cannot find it!"
Losweiser thought to herself.
More than twenty hours have passed since Her Your Majesty the Queen threw away the photo, and a light breeze even blew in during that time. Who knows where the photo ended up?
It's nighttime now, and I can't see anything on the ground at all.
After searching for about twenty minutes, Losweiser couldn't even find a trace of the photo.
She squatted down somewhat dejectedly, slowly wrapping her arms around her knees, and then burying her face in her arms.
A chill swept up from the surroundings, and her long, silver tail drooped limply to the ground beneath her.
That photo was taken on a whim; it's one of a kind in the world. If it's lost... it'll never be found again.
She didn't know why she cared so much about that photo.
At first, she just didn't know what to do, but as the days went by, the photo seemed to have taken on a whole new meaning for her.
It's hard to explain, hard to define.
Perhaps only by finding it again can Losweiser understand.
However... I'm afraid it'll never be found again—(walking)
"Are you looking for it?" Mio
A familiar voice sounded beside me.
Losweiser stiffened, then slowly peeked her face out from the crook of her arm. (2)
The photograph she had been searching for was now right in front of her.
In the photo, she and her prisoner are looking into each other's eyes, smiling. ④
Sunlight streamed through the photo studio window, illuminating her silver hair and highlighting the man's dark, captivating eyes. (8)
The man beside her also crouched down, sitting close to her side. (Scar)
He held the photo in the center of their line of sight. "I picked it up while practicing with Mu En today. Listen carefully, I just picked it up casually, unlike you, I didn't come looking for it on purpose." (4)
Losweiser suppressed a smile. "I didn't come here on purpose. I was just... taking a walk."
"Oh, Your Majesty, you've wandered into the bushes for a stroll? Have you gotten lost?"
"Go to hell." Losweiser nudged Leon on the shoulder.
Because he was squatting, it was difficult to maintain his balance, and Leon fell flat on his backside.
He then sat cross-legged on the ground, looking down at the photo in his hand, muttering, "Hey, do you know what Mu En said about you?"
"How so?"
"You're like a hedgehog."
The Queen rolled her eyes and chuckled, "Don't try to fool me, Mu En must be talking about the two of us."
"Haha, honey, you're so smart."
"Shut up, who's your wife?"
Losweiser stood up, kicked Leon in the backside, and then walked towards the Holy Temple entrance without looking back.
Leon also jumped up and jogged after him.
When the guards at the back gate saw His Your Majesty and the Prince returning in their pajamas in the middle of the night, they initially thought they were seeing things.
"Your Majesty, Your Prince, good evening!" the guard said.
Losweiser nodded slightly and gave a soft "hmm".
As Leon brushed past him, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Well, Your Majesty and I are here to check up on you. You did a good job; you'll be promoted tomorrow."
Hey, you two are checking up on me in matching pajamas?
The guard stood tall and proud, saying, "Thank you Prince!"
The couple returned to the bedroom one after the other.
"Where should we put the photos?" Leon asked.
"Put it wherever you want." Losweiser burrowed into the covers.
"Tch, you're ungrateful for my kindness. If you don't care, then I won't care either."
Leon casually tossed the photos he had painstakingly retrieved during the day onto the bedside table, then crawled into bed as well.
The couple slept soundly that night.
The next morning, Leon slowly woke up.
Losweiser was already getting ready at her dressing table.
He slowly sat up, glancing at the bedside table out of the corner of his eye.
The photo of him and Losweiser had been placed in an exquisite frame and was displayed next to a family portrait of the four of them.
Noa's winter vacation has arrived.
Leon had promised her that he would teach her some advanced Lightning magic during the winter break.
Therefore, Leon had to accelerate the process of resolving his Magic Power depletion problem.
Although he has not yet found the real "cause of the disease", in the past month or so, Leon has successfully deceived his body by "secretly crossing the Chencang River and deceiving the heavens", thus storing a lot of Magic Power in the Dragon Mark.
The stored Magic Power is more than enough to give Noa a demonstration or a lesson.
Of course, Leon was able to accumulate so much Magic Power in just over a month thanks to the Dragon Queen.
Their relationship had eased somewhat since the night the photos were taken.
At least the previous situation of "starting a fight at the slightest disagreement, and having sex every day if there's a disagreement" is no longer as dire.
However, Leon felt that this was largely due to Losweiser's increasingly prominent belly and the fact that she hadn't yet come up with any "new ways to play".
But whatever it is, accumulating Magic Power is a good thing.
If one day Losweiser ever becomes arrogant and suddenly gains a newfound reputation, wanting to relive the feeling of handing in homework with Leon, then Leon will definitely make sure that evil dragon never returns.
With so much Lightning Element Magic Power, I'll eat my hat if it doesn't electrify your tail.
In winter, the first snowfall blanketed the Silver Dragon Sanctuary in white.
In the practice area, Mu En, wearing pink dragon claw earmuffs and thick gloves, was pushing a huge snowball that was completely disproportionate to her size.
Daddy said that freshly fallen snow is the stickiest and the best choice for building snowmen, so now is the perfect time to build a perfectly round snowman.
Dragon girl has just finished the lower half of the snowman and is now actively working on the upper half.
After teaching his younger daughter how to build a snowman, Leon turned around and began teaching his older daughter advanced Lightning magic techniques.
"Noa, tell me about your studies at the academy first."
This will make it easier for Leon to determine where to begin.
If the explanation is too superficial, Noa has already learned these things at the academy, so it would be a waste of time;
However, if the explanation goes too deep, even if Noa is very smart, she might still be confused, which won't help her learning efficiency.