Dragon Raja: Reboot

Lu Mingfei sat upright in the passenger seat, his hands neatly placed on his knees, like a well-behaved child in kindergarten being supervised by his teacher.

Chu Zihang drove his Porsche through the traffic, heading home.

"Senior brother, where are we going now?"

Lu Mingfei broke the eerie silence inside the car.

"My home..." Chu Zihang said in a low voice.

"Isn't this progressing too fast?" Lu Mingfei scratched his head and asked.

"What progress?" Chu Zihang asked, puzzled.

Lu Mingfei rubbed his hands together, slightly excited, and said, "Aren't we going to my senior brother's house now? Doesn't that mean we're fast-forwarding straight to meeting the parents?"

Chu Zihang fell silent.

"Senior brother, are you alright? Are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital to have your wound treated?"

Lu Mingfei suddenly asked.

Just moments before, he had witnessed his senior brother's rough and horrifying bandaging method.

Because he couldn't find a suitable bandage in time, the senior student sealed himself up with transparent tape like sealing a cardboard box—the kind of tape used for express delivery—just to prevent the blood from flowing out.

"I can still manage. Going to the hospital will only make me get a physical check-up... It's too much trouble, and there's not enough time, my flight is about to start."

Chu Zihang was pale and covered in cold sweat.

After the blood explosion ended, he transformed back into a human body. The burning of the dragon blood left him extremely weak, and the injury to his abdomen nearly made him faint. However, he knew he couldn't afford to fall.

"Oh, senior brother is such a punctual and good man!" Lu Mingfei said softly.

In his previous life, he remembered that his senior brother had broken his promise once, which was the time when he had arranged to meet Xia Mi's parents for lunch. He only found out about it later from Fen Gou.

This broken promise caused my senior to lose the angel who looked down at him in the sunlight as if she wanted to kiss his lips.

But speaking of which...

Whether he breaks his promise or not, he will lose that girl, right?

Lu Mingfei leaned the back of his head against the seat back, tilting his head to look at his senior brother's cold profile.

Senior brother, can humans and dragons really put aside their old hatred and come together to live a carefree and happy life?

Please give me an answer, you two.

……

……

Chu Zihang turned off the engine, and the car lights went out, plunging the garage into darkness.

He breathed heavily and silently, trying to conserve his strength so that he could climb to the second floor before setting off.

"Senior brother, shall I help you?"

In the darkness, the care from the junior brother beside him was quietly delivered.

Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, his breathing rhythm was unconsciously disrupted.

According to the original plan, he should be sitting alone in the car to conserve his energy, and then go to the bathroom to treat his wounds. But his junior brother's unexpected appearance at that scene changed everything.

He was also curious as to why Lu Mingfei was there. Could it be that the teacher was worried about him and had secretly notified Lu Mingfei?

Logically speaking, Lu Mingfei should be the commissioner, but based on the actual situation, the professors cannot let Lu Mingfei take charge of the overall situation.

This wasn't an attempt to reassure General Chu, but rather a scheme to use someone else to kill him, allowing Eunuch Lu to legitimately "die" on the battlefield.

Furthermore, the seemingly monstrous battle was also highly suspicious, but Chu Zihang was not prepared to interrogate his junior brother, nor was he prepared to report it to the school.

Because everyone has their own secrets, and also because he could sense his junior brother's... kindness towards him.

"No need... It's too obvious for you to be supporting me. I don't want my family to find out I'm injured," Chu Zihang said in a low voice.

Feeling he had regained enough energy, he opened the car door and hesitated, "Are you... going to wait for me in the car, or come inside with me?"

"Let's go together! I'm going to visit my uncle and aunt!" The junior brother, looking sneaky, jumped out of the car, inexplicably excited.

Chu Zihang was silent for a moment, then said, "You just stay behind me and be ready to support me at any time."

"Yes, sir!"

"Don't talk to them too much, it's a waste of time," Chu Zihang instructed, still feeling uneasy.

"I understand, I understand. Senior brother, you're so shy, how are you going to meet other people's parents in the future!" the junior brother said with great distress.

"Why should I go and meet someone else's parents?" Chu Zihang frowned.

"The girl's parents want to meet you!" the junior brother said matter-of-factly.

Chu Zihang paused on the lawn, looked back at Lu Mingfei, and asked, "Your parents want to see me?"

"...Senior brother, I'm not a girl!" Lu Mingfei stared in disbelief, arms crossed, looking terrified. "Senior brother, I was just joking with you earlier, don't take it seriously!"

Chu Zihang's lips twitched slightly, a fleeting smile seemingly crossing his pale face.

"Senior brother, you just laughed?"

"Stop fooling around, we're here."

Chu Zihang carefully pushed open the door. Right now, his biggest wish was that his parents weren't home, so he wouldn't be stopped in the living room and questioned.

When he pushed open the door, he was stunned to see his mother curled up asleep on the sofa.

At this time of day, she's usually out in bars, drinking whiskey or brandy and laughing loudly with those aunties. Why is she different today?

And her sleeping posture was truly appalling; she had tossed and turned countless times, her entire thighs exposed, her silk nightgown wrinkled and resembling a rag. She clutched a thin blanket in her arms like a child holding a doll.

Chu Zihang walked over silently and helped her cover herself with the blanket again. A strong smell of alcohol hit him. Faced with his eccentric mother, he didn't know how to react.

He suddenly froze, remembering that his junior brother was right behind him. If his junior brother had seen this "family scandal," it seemed the only option was to silence him.

Chu Zihang turned his head and saw his junior brother covering his eyes with his hands, muttering something under his breath.

He stepped forward and heard his junior brother muttering, "Don't look at what is improper, don't look at what is improper..."

A silent laugh.

Chu Zihang patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder, gestured upstairs, and turned to walk away.

They went into the second-floor restroom.

Chu Zihang carefully locked the door and checked the lock again to make sure no one would suddenly break in.

Then his breathing suddenly became rapid. He leaned weakly against the door, one hand gripping his waist, the other pulling off his soaked T-shirt. Layers of tissues were pressed against his lower right abdomen. The wound underneath had begun to scab over, but it would reopen with the slightest movement, and small streams of blood flowed down his body and onto his leg.

He reached into the cabinet, and Lu Mingfei quickly stepped forward to help him open the cabinet door. At his suggestion, Lu Mingfei took out a first-aid kit and found tetanus vaccine, iodine, and bandages inside.

Chu Zihang gritted his teeth, ripped off the tape, and blood gushed out.

He immediately pressed the tissue paper against the wound to absorb the blood, and at the same time, he pinched something inside the wound through the tissue paper.

It was a sharp shard of glass, about an inch long, that was completely embedded in the wound.

Even touching the glass caused him excruciating pain, as if the thing was growing inside his body, a bone, and removing it would be like removing a bone from his own body.

Chu Zihang took a few deep breaths, grabbed a towel, bit it into his mouth, and suddenly exerted force...

Tiny drops of blood splattered onto the mirror. Exhausted, he gently placed the blood-stained shard of glass on the sink counter.

Lu Mingfei's eye twitched, and he silently took out a disposable syringe from the side, drew out the tetanus vaccine, and injected it into his senior's deltoid muscle.

"Thanks."

It took Chu Zihang a full minute to catch his breath before he could softly thank her.

"You're too kind, senior brother. Don't be so formal. We're fellow disciples; being so formal will only alienate us!"

The junior brother said in a serious tone.