Chance Encounter at the Station? The Dragon King's Stirring

East Sea City, inside the bustling train station.

"Excuse me, beautiful, could I get your contact info?"

Lin An looked up at the young man standing before him, dressed in a sharp suit and clearly convinced of his own dashing charm.

He remained expressionless, spitting out two words.

"I'm a man."

The young man's smile froze instantly on his face.

His gaze swept from top to bottom.

That face was so exquisite it didn't look real, and the skin was pale to the point of translucence.

How could he possibly look like... a man?

"A... a man is fine too."

The young man gritted his teeth, his eyes actually brightening.

Lin An rolled his eyes, his voice turning abruptly cold.

"Get lost."

That was the seventh one today.

He had only been standing here for two hours.

Lin An took a deep breath, suppressing the irritation in his heart, and continued to hold up his communicator to make a call.

A busy signal came from the receiver.

Still couldn't get through.

"It's been two hours already. What happened to someone coming to pick me up?"

He frowned.

A show of force?

He had heard that East Sea Academy's school culture was "martial and aggressive," and they always loved preparing "welcome ceremonies" for new students.

He looked down at himself.

With this physique that looked like it would topple over in a breeze.

His expression darkened further.

The communicator suddenly connected.

"Son! Where are you? Don't you dare wander off, I'm calling to ask right now!"

Lin An's father's voice exploded out, his anger laced with obvious anxiety.

Immediately following was a woman's voice, thick with tears.

"Little An-An, wasn't Shrek City good? Wasn't Ming Capital good? Why did you have to go to such a remote, barbaric place for school? Do you know your mother has been washing her face with tears every day this week..."

Lin An's mouth twitched.

He replied without changing his expression.

"This is the choice of Steins;Gate."

Then he decisively ended the call.

He looked up at the surging crowd in the station, his expression somewhat dazed.

Having transmigrated into this Douluo III era, he had awakened the Rainbow Dragon, a beast martial soul hailed as the "number one support type in the world."

It should have been a cause for celebration.

Yet, due to revenge from his father's enemies when he was a child, he had been born with a weak constitution.

Despite being a man, he was as frail as a block of tofu.

Fortunately, the heavens had compensated him with a cheat.

He could see the talent entries above everyone's head.

As long as he helped the other party develop their talent, he could copy the entry and make it his own.

Lin An shifted his thoughts.

Three entries appeared before his eyes.

[Heaven's Favor]

[Succubus Physique]

[Wife of the Dragon God]

Heaven's Favor.

Literally, the favored son of the heavens.

The reason the Lin family business could grow so large was entirely due to this monstrous luck.

His father had been nothing more than a small-time peddler in his early years, but over the years, thanks to his own advanced business ideas and a stroke of heaven-defying luck, the family business had snowballed.

From daily necessities and food to soul guidance devices, they had infiltrated almost every industry.

The loop trains in the station and the communicator in his hand both bore the logo of Lin Family Universal Heavy Industry.

As for the Succubus Physique—

Lin An touched his own face and sighed.

It was nothing more than taking this face to the absolute pinnacle.

And what left him most speechless was the third one.

[Wife of the Dragon God]: Noble, elegant, holy.

As the Wife of the Dragon God, you possess a fatal attraction to every dragon.

What a load of crap, Wife of the Dragon God!

I'm a man!

Lin An cursed in his heart a hundred times over.

His expression was so dark it could drip water.

He looked around, deciding to find a place to sit and wait.

He couldn't just stand here all day.

If the person coming to pick him up arrived and couldn't find him, that would be even more troublesome.

He chose a coffee shop and took a seat by the window.

He ordered a hot drink.

His gaze swept carelessly across the window.

On the other side of the station.

In front of a grilled fish shop, the voice coming from the communicator was loud enough to burst an eardrum.

"Where is he?! Where is the person I told you to pick up?! Tang Wulin, do you have any idea that's a big shot from Ming Capital! If something happens to him, ten lives between you and me wouldn't be enough to pay for it!"

Wu Zhangkong's voice was filled with irritability and anxiety.

It was a stark contrast to his usual cold and arrogant demeanor.

Tang Wulin held the communicator, stunned.

"Isn't... isn't that a bit much? We live in a society ruled by law now; the Federation isn't that corrupt, is it? Besides, we already sent Gu Yue to pick him up, what could possibly go wrong?"

"Still eating? Let's go."

Xie Xie, standing to the side, keenly sensed that something was wrong.

For Teacher Wu to be this anxious, the new junior student was definitely no ordinary person.

Tang Wulin looked down at the unfinished grilled fish in his hand, then back at the communicator.

With a conflicted expression, he was dragged away by Xie Xie.

Inside the coffee shop at the station entrance.

At a table not far behind Lin An, a silver-haired girl buried her head deep into the table, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Gu Yue felt as though she must be ill.

She hadn't wanted to pick up the new student in the first place.

But the Federation's corruption was just too deep.

The stench of money was so strong that even she, the Master of Soul Beasts, couldn't resist it.

However...

Gu Yue secretly lifted her head, peeking through the gaps in her fingers at the side profile of the boy by the window.

Her heart skipped a beat, as if it had been gripped tightly by someone.

"W-Wife..."

Her lips trembled slightly, her voice so low that only she could hear it.

"There can be no mistake... this aura, this appearance... this is the Dragon Queen... she has reincarnated too... did she come here to find me?"

Gu Yue felt her head spinning, as if her blood were flowing backward.

The boy's side profile was as exquisite as if carved by the heavens.

His brows, eyes, bridge of his nose, and the shape of his lips—every detail pushed the limits of her perception.

That frail, pale appearance didn't diminish his beauty; instead, it stirred an almost instinctive desire to protect him.

She wanted to pull him into her embrace.

She wanted to hide him away.

She wanted him to belong to her, and her alone.

Gu Yuena shook her head violently, her face burning intensely.

"My Lord, have you sensed it too?"

A black shadow condensed silently onto the seat beside her.

It transformed into a middle-aged man in his thirties.

He had black hair with two golden streaks at his forehead, his expression grave.

"Eep!"

Gu Yuena was so startled she nearly jumped out of her chair.

She quickly straightened her posture, and only after realizing no one around had noticed did she let out a sigh of relief.

The next second, she turned her head to look at Di Tian.

Her gaze was cold and dark, as if tempered in poison.

It was as if she were saying, you had better have a good reason for this.

Di Tian did not notice his Lord's dangerous glare.

His gaze rested on the youth by the window, his voice filled with admiration.

"The aura of the Dragon Queen... I never expected the Dragon Queen to have reincarnated as well. It seems she is doing quite well in the human world. Though she is in a human form, by the standards of our Dragon Clan, one cannot find a single flaw. Noble, elegant, holy—it makes a dragon unable to help but..."

"Oh?"

Gu Yuena's voice suddenly became extremely soft and cold.

Silver scales appeared silently between her fingers.

"Unable to help but what?"

"I dare not! I dare not!"

Di Tian was so frightened he nearly knelt, sweat breaking out on his forehead.

"This subordinate is loyal to you, My Lord, with my heart set only on becoming a god and reviving the soul beast clan. How could I dare harbor any improper thoughts toward the Dragon Queen!"

Gu Yuena paused, stunned.

She felt she was being far too nervous.

She rubbed her throbbing temples.

In just the short two hours that had passed, she had watched with her own eyes as seven people approached him, only to be scolded away by Lin An's cold face.

Her emotions had been like riding a rollercoaster seven times over.

What if she went up to him, only to be rejected as well?