DNDAS

Chapter 114: Nian

The winter fog and rain as fine as silk threads was both cold and entangling. With one breath, a slight chill would penetrate the depths of the heart.

Zhuang Qing was slightly regretful after the words escaped his mouth. Telling any yao straight to their face that their race was unable to continue reproducing as normal was always a surefire way of infuriating the other party.

Fu Li looked at Zhuang Qing with his mouth wide open, seemingly not having thought that Zhuang Qing would consider such a thing. He blinked dazedly and touched his chest in an attempt to press the continuously hopping rabbit down. "But I don't have any intentions to have a little Hou with a female yao."

Just thinking about how much energy his elders on Reflecting Mist Mountain had spent on raising him was enough for Fu Li to feel that raising children was an extremely scary affair, particularly for people like him.

"Since you don't have any intentions to have a little Hou with a female yao, then you can consider being together with a male yao. Best if the male yao can cook, fight, has cars, houses, and status in the human world, dislikes having ambiguous relationships with other yao or humans, and won't scheme against you," Zhuang Qing's face was solemn. "And also good-looking."

Fu Li remained silent, his eyes wide open. But the rabbit in his left chest still hadn't been pressed down by him and instead started bounding about with heightened intensity.

"For example..." Zhuang Qing's luminous eyes were fixed on Fu Li. The expression on his face was even more solemn and serious than usual. "Me."

"Ah?!" Fu Li felt that he might be heavenly law's dearest son. He just had a tiny bit of unspoken intentions towards Zhuang Qing when the person in question took the initiative to confess. He hadn't made things difficult for Fu Li at all.

Seeing Fu Li's stupefied look, Zhuang Qing pursed the corners of his mouth. "I thought about it carefully. Other than me, no one else of age in the yao world is worthy of being with you."

Fu Li silently wondered why he had never known about Zhuang Qing's narcissism.

"It's fine if you're unwilling to be with me now, I'll ask you again after a period of time," Zhuang Qing wasn't accustomed to saying thick-faced words. His cheeks and the tips of his ears had turned a subtle red. Even then, he still said it. As if only by doing so would he have a reason to continue being with Fu Li and to be present in Fu Li's future. "Until you agree."

In Fu Li's memories, Zhuang Qing was a taciturn yet arrogant young dragon who didn't indulge in small pleasures like his other colleagues. He was the symbol of the management bureau – calm, rational, brave, with virtually no emotional weaknesses.

"Okay," Fu Li squinted as he smiled, nodding.

Zhuang Qing stared blankly, momentarily uncertain whether Fu Li was saying that he could continue asking in the future or if.. he agreed to be with him.

Seeing the way Zhuang Qing stood there foolishly, Fu Li extended a hand and poked him on the forehead. "Didn't we agree to make the twelve zodiac buns today?"

"En..." Zhuang Qing gradually came back to his senses and realized that Fu Li had already dragged him to the entrance of the kitchen. His flawless shirt sleeves were wrinkled by Fu Li's grip, completely lacking the flair of a high-end product.

"Fu Li, are you..." Zhuang Qing wanted to ask Fu Li if he agreed for them to be together, but when he saw Feng Ruizhong and Kang Gu seated at the doorsteps of the kitchen, he swallowed his words.

If these two elders knew that he harbored such intentions towards Fu Li, they might chase him out of the flying palace right there and then, never allowing him even one step near the flying palace.