Durin's Diary

Chapter 1019 Loss

Back at the Candle Dragon Pavilion, Dulin took off his shoes, thinking that tonight must have been the most satisfying meal Lina, the little female dragon, had ever had in her life.

Because she had been stroking her belly all the way back, with a look of satisfaction on her face that Du Lin had never seen before, and when she saw Du Lin's gaze, the silly girl even smiled.

"The food today is really delicious, especially the braised crab meat lion's head, Biluochun shrimp, cherry pork, Dongpo pork, braised mutton..." "Stop, I know, the meat is delicious, don't list the dishes." Du Lin quickly reached out to stop her, otherwise this girl would probably have been listing the dishes for several minutes.

Moreover, he noticed that his little female dragon only ate meat and wouldn't eat a single vegetable.

"Dulin, can you help me with some things in the future?" The little female dragon launched a coquettish offensive, and the several dozen kilograms of the little female dragon almost made Dulin's brains spin.

But Dulin was more responsive to gentle persuasion than force; since the little female dragon had pleaded so earnestly, he could only agree.

"This meal has really exhausted me. Just thinking about how the two elderly people sitting across from me are the emperor and his wife of this vast empire still hasn't quite registered it," Elaine exclaimed, taking off her coat as she looked at Dulin. "I used to only go to banquets at other dukes' houses with my grandmother. Speaking of which, those dukes' mansions were clearly much bigger than today's, and the food looked much better, but I've never eaten anything as delicious as today. I feel like the taste and preferences of the food are all tailored to me. Is the chef of Changtang some kind of mind-reading monster?"

"This is the Emperor! I didn't even know where to put my chopsticks, so I didn't drink a drop of soup at first, until I figured out how Dulin should put his chopsticks." Dulin's Melinda-style rabbit spirit covered her face with her hands, clearly ashamed of her primitive behavior, but she still praised the dishes: "But speaking of which, the soup today was really delicious. I've never had such delicious soup in the Eternal Flame Nest. And that dish called Stewed Crab Roe Lion's Head was so good. I don't even like meat, but I fought with Lina for several of them today."

Dulin felt quite satisfied watching his rabbit spirit grinning foolishly. He turned to the other girls and asked, "Yara, what about you?"

Dulin's wife looked up when she heard this. She was sitting in a chair resting and smiled somewhat awkwardly: "The food is very good, but like Elaine, I feel very reserved today. After all, you should know that people from the Western Continent do not have the opportunity to dine with an emperor and his wife all the time, but I am fortunate enough to do so... so I am worried that I might be impolite in some way, you understand?"

“Dulin and I both understand, so when I noticed you hadn’t eaten much food today, I didn’t care about manners and helped you pick out a lot of food for the second half of the meal.” Anta smiled and walked behind the tigress, patting Yara’s head: “Tanya, what about you?”

"Don't even mention it. I feel like I'm just a fake emperor showing off in my own territory, but today I met a real emperor, an emperor who can control a land larger than the entire Western Continent. His aura is truly unmatched by any king I've ever seen." Tanya said, looking embarrassed.

“You really don’t know, I felt like an idiot. It was like when I was very young and went with my grandfather to meet His Majesty Robert, who didn’t look that old at the time. But His Majesty Robert was just a king. All the territories of the Northern Kingdom combined were not even as big as the province of Shangjing. There was really no comparison. I felt very nervous when I was with everyone, and we were using chopsticks. At first, I didn’t even know how to use them. I learned them all by stealing from Dulin, Lan En, and Xiang Shu.”

Once inside the club, Tanya laughed somewhat awkwardly: "You're really amazing. It took me ten minutes to master it, and that's only because I'm good with my hands. Dulin, how did you do that?"

“Just imagine them as an old man and an old woman. As for chopsticks, you forgot that we grassland elves use chopsticks to eat snacks.” Dulin said with a smile, then looked at Lide: “Our Lide is amazing. She ate quite a lot and wasn’t affected.”

“I… I was very nervous too, you know. Just thinking about sitting with the master of a huge empire and his wife made me feel like I couldn’t breathe, so I ate like crazy.” Reed blushed as she said this: “Dulin, don’t laugh at me.”

Her sisters all laughed.

Dulin smiled and shook his head, then looked at Lan En and Xiang Shu: "In the end, it's still you two sisters who are used to it."

“It’s still a bit of a shock, after all, he’s the emperor. But like you said, Du Lin, in the eyes of the people of Changtang, His Majesty the Emperor and His Majesty the Empress are ultimately just a pair of elders who like their juniors. From that perspective, you won’t feel too constrained. It’s understandable that you sisters aren’t from Changtang and are not used to it,” Lan En said. Xiang Shu agreed that Lan En was right.

At this point in the conversation, the girls giggled and said they were going to take a shower, leaving only Du Lin and Xia Li in the large room.

The kitten looked at Dulin and asked, "My lord... will you become a god?"

"Did you notice?" Dulin asked curiously.

"The druids' secret arts, and the recent stargazers have all been talking about you. They say you... will become a god." The kitten looked at Dulin with a nervous expression.

“They’re talking nonsense,” Dulin said with a laugh.

“Right? How could Lord Dulin become a god?” The kitten laughed. “Although Lord Dulin has always been very strong, invincible, how could he abandon my sister and me?”

"No, Xia Li, your Lord Dulin is going to become a being greater and more remarkable than God, another nameless person," Anta said with a smile as she returned to get her clothes.

The kitten squeaked, and its pupils dilated.

Dulin reached out and grabbed the unconscious Xia Li, then turned to look at Anta.

"Why are you looking at me? Do you really not consider her an outsider, or do you really not consider yourself a human being? Mr. Dulin, if you're going to let her join the family, can't you at least give her a sense of security?" Anta said with a smile and then left.

Dulin watched as Anta closed the door, then looked at the limp Xia Li, and finally sighed.

How could I have done such a beastly thing!
Then Dulin was moved and turned to look out the window.

Outside the window, the big orange figure had a ferocious expression and a distorted face. His hands formed a hand seal as fast as lightning, instantly producing a line of sign language.

She's your half-sister! Today I'm going to see you do something monstrous! You horned monster!
"You're so talkative," Dulin said, opening a portal behind Big Orange while using Mage Hand to knock him into it—the other side of the portal was the Everburn Nest.

Don't come back today!

(End of this chapter)