Lin An: Treating This Foolish Dragon as the Female Lead, I Was Indeed Too Naive

Gu Yue withdrew her hand.

She wiped it against her hem with an expression of disgust.

"Trash."

The two words were cold and hard.

She turned around.

The very moment she turned, all the killing intent and frost on her face vanished in an instant.

Her shoulders slumped, and the corners of her mouth drooped.

Though the crimson in her eyes had yet to fully fade, a thin layer of moisture welled up in her purple irises.

Her entire body seemed to lose its bones, and she collapsed softly toward Lin An.

"Hubby..."

She reached out her arms, wrapped them around Lin An's waist, and buried her face deep into his chest.

Her body trembled slightly.

Her voice was soft and clingy, thick with a heavy nasal tone.

"It hurts... it hurts so much... I need a hug..."

She nuzzled into his embrace, ignoring her messy silver hair.

"Wuwuwu... I think I'm going to die..."

She tilted her face up.

Her damp purple eyes gazed at Lin An, her lips pursed into a pout of grievance.

"If I still have a chance... before I die, I want to..."

Her face suddenly flushed red.

Her voice became coy, hiding a certain expectation she was too shy to voice.

"Enter the realm of adulthood."

Lin An looked down at her.

There was no expression on his face.

His heart was equally calm.

This silly dragon's acting was even worse than that Black-Robed Person's.

But he didn't push her away.

Forget it.

Regardless, she had saved him.

He would let her hug him for a while.

He sighed and raised his hand, placing it gently on the back of Gu Yue's head.

His fingers combed through her long, silver hair.

The strands were soft and cool, flowing through his fingers like water.

Gu Yue's body stiffened slightly.

Immediately after, she buried her face even deeper.

In a spot he couldn't see, the corners of her mouth curled upward uncontrollably.

Lin An didn't notice.

His thoughts had already drifted far away.

The Holy Spirit Cult.

They had started to set their sights on him.

This meant that the expansion of the Universal Group had finally touched upon the interests of certain factions.

Or rather, the things he had revealed over these years had finally attracted the eyes of those hiding in the shadows.

His train of thought was suddenly broken.

Lin An felt a sudden, ominous premonition.

"What is touching me?"

His voice was as cold as ice.

Gu Yue's body froze violently.

She slowly looked up.

Her face flushed red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The redness spread from her cheeks to her ears, and then down to her neck.

She looked like a boiled shrimp, her skin flushed red even down to her roots.

"I... that... it... not... this is..."

The corners of her mouth twitched as she stammered, unable to form a coherent sentence for the longest time.

Lin An's gaze grew increasingly cold.

He reached out and pinched Gu Yue's face.

He applied pressure, deforming her soft cheeks until her mouth was squeezed into a goldfish shape.

"Mmph, mmph, mmph..."

Gu Yue let out a muffled sound, not daring to struggle.

Just as Lin An prepared to kick her out of the dream—

Thwack.

A silvery-white tail sprang out from behind her waist.

A dragon tail.

Long, sleek, and covered in fine silver scales, it shimmered with starlight under the dark red sky.

The tail flicked playfully twice, then affectionately rubbed against Lin An's ankle.

"It's a tail! A tail! Where did your mind go!"

Gu Yue's face turned beet red as she shrieked in defense, her voice cracking.

Her dragon tail swayed frantically behind her, as if trying to prove her innocence.

Lin An stared at the tail for three seconds.

Silvery-white.

Dragon scale patterns.

It was indeed a tail.

Then, with an expressionless face, he raised his hand and punched Gu Yue in the face.

"You motherfucker."

His voice was as cold as a frozen lake.

"If you enter my dreams again, I'll kill you."

Gu Yue's face was knocked to the side.

The dragon tail froze in mid-air, motionless.

She looked as if someone had pressed the pause button, stuck right there.

Then—

The dream shattered.

Lin An snapped his eyes open.

The gray ceiling was the same as it had been before he fell asleep.

Outside the window, the sky had darkened, and the last sliver of sunset leaked through the gap in the curtains, casting a dim yellow streak across the ceiling.

His heart hammered like a drum.

His temples throbbed.

His back was drenched in cold sweat.

It was all that bastard Gu Yue's fault, calling him "wife" all day long, making him paranoid now.

He was terrified she would pull out something bigger than his own.

I really can't look at her through the eyes of a normal person anymore.

Lin An covered his face, his voice leaking out muffled through his fingers.

To think he had actually felt pity for this silly dragon for a split second.

He had even considered that if she simply liked him, maybe it wouldn't be impossible to give it a try.

Thinking about it now—

Sure enough... it was too naive of me to treat her as the heroine.

He lowered his hands and stared at the ceiling, his eyes filled with the weariness of someone taught a lesson by life.

Come to think of it, the Dragon God was originally a male dragon, right?

This creature always thought of herself as the Dragon Queen, so what exactly did she consider herself to be?

A partner?

Prey?

Or was it simply looking for a female dragon capable of bearing little dragons?

Recalling the entry for the Wife of the Dragon God, Lin An suddenly felt a chill run through him.

The more he thought about it, the colder his back felt.

Just then, a warm sensation came from his chest.

He looked down.

That piece of silver Reverse Scale had slipped out of his Soul Device at some point and was lying quietly on the pillow.

Lin An stared at the scale, silent for a long time.

The image from his dream, of Gu Yue killing the Black-Robed Person, was still vivid before his eyes.

"Forget it."

He sighed.

"At the very least, I was saved by a silly dragon like you."

He paused, his voice tinged with helplessness.

"But really... I still can't accept you."

The temperature of the scale seemed to rise slightly.

It flickered, as if expressing dissatisfaction.

Lin An said nothing more.

He leaned against the headboard, closed his eyes, and let his chaotic thoughts slowly settle.

His heartbeat gradually returned to normal.

His temples stopped throbbing.

And then—

A figure appeared from nowhere.

It was so fast that even the afterimage was blurred.

Lin An didn't even have time to look up before he was fiercely tackled onto the bed by that figure.

Two slender but powerful arms clamped tightly around his waist.

Gu Yue pressed her entire body against him, burying her face in the crook of his neck, her arms locked tight.

Her body was trembling violently, carrying a tremor that bordered on terror.

"Wife... are you alright?"

Her voice came out muffled from the crook of his neck.

"I sensed it; a dangerous aura of a curse was closing in on you."

"Are you okay? Were you hurt?"

Lin An instinctively wanted to push her away.

His hand rose.

Then, it stopped in mid-air.

Because he felt the trembling in Gu Yue's body.

It wasn't faked.

It wasn't the soft, coquettish act she put on when playing the victim in his dreams.

It was real.

A fear that seeped from her very bones.

The fear of losing something important.

Lin An's hand froze in mid-air.

He was silent for a moment.

Then, he slowly lowered it.

He rested his palm gently on Gu Yue's head.

His palm touched her soft hair, which felt slightly cool to the touch.

"It's alright."

His voice was very soft.

"I'm not hurt."

Gu Yue's trembling slowly subsided.

But she did not let go.

Instead, she buried her face even deeper into the crook of his neck.

Lin An looked at the silver-haired girl in his arms, hesitating for a moment.

"Right, did you just..."

He stopped mid-sentence.

"What is it?"

Gu Yue lifted her face, looking at him with an expression of pure innocence.

Those violet eyes were clear to the very bottom, her eyelashes slightly curled.

Paired with that delicate little face, she looked completely harmless and pure.