"You—"
Gu Yue was trembling with rage.
That look again.
That dismissive attitude—it was exactly how she usually looked at humans.
She was the Co-Lord of Soul Beasts, the Silver Dragon King, half of the Dragon God.
Since when had anyone been allowed to look at her that way?
The vortex of energy gathering in her palm swelled a little larger.
The air began to shriek as the elemental power teetered on the brink of losing control.
"All right, all right."
Lin An squeezed between them.
He looked at Gu Yue first.
The silly dragon was baring her teeth.
She looked like a little beast whose territory had been invaded, her fur bristling as she readied herself to pounce on the intruder and tear them apart.
Looking at her like this, Lin An felt a strange sense of déjà vu.
It was a little like—
his own cat spotting a stray outside.
He couldn't help smiling.
Then he reached out and gently rested his hand on Gu Yue's head.
His fingers slipped through her cool silver hair and settled at her crown, gently ruffling it.
"All right, all right, don't make a fuss. You're a grown dragon, but you're acting like a kitten."
Gu Yue's body shuddered.
Her slit pupils instantly rounded.
The frost set on her face melted away like snow beneath the spring sun.
A tingling sensation spread from the crown of her head through every limb, racing from her tailbone all the way to the back of her head. Her whole body went limp.
Her face turned bright red.
The flush spread from her ears to her neck, even showing through the gaps in her silver-white hair.
The silver scales on her arms receded of their own accord, vanishing back beneath her skin.
"You... you..."
She stammered,