The Elusive, Enigmatic Male Lead, Part 31

“So you can transform. That’s really impressive!” Si Jiu folded her arms, gazing at the man before her with black hair and black eyes.

“So you were pretending not to speak, too?”

His eyes remained as focused and gentle as ever, making Si Jiu feel as if she were faced with a large, docile animal.

Perhaps the impression of his dragon form was too deep to erase in a short time.

But even so, it couldn’t conceal the fact that he had pretended to be ignorant and taken advantage of her.

Thinking of this made her angry; her eyes grew cold.

Xiu noticed her displeasure and reached out to take her hand, but she shook him off.

He immediately wore a wounded expression, leaning his head closer. “Kiss.”

Si Jiu detected an unusual hoarseness in his voice, the pronunciation awkward, as if he hadn’t spoken for a very long time.

“Kiss, my foot.”

Xiu: “…”

His tail appeared again at some unknown moment, wrapping around Si Jiu’s waist. Si Jiu had no doubt that if they weren’t inside the room, with limited space, he’d have already changed back to his original form.

“Kiss. Feels good.” He persistently rubbed his head against her, his long arms and legs pulling her fully into his embrace, his tone sticky and clinging.

Si Jiu, expressionless, yanked his long hair and pulled his head away. “Don’t be so clingy.”

“I’m not in the mood to play with you right now. Go sit over there for a while.”

She used force, showing not a hint of pity. Xiu, dejected, released her, not wanting to provoke her too much.

Deep down, he felt that if he pushed her too far, she’d never see him again—and she absolutely would follow through.

Xiu quieted down, and Si Jiu sat aside. Only then did the system speak up, cautiously: [Host, wasn’t I very cooperative just now? Are you satisfied with the spoilers you received?]

The only reason Si Jiu had been able to expose the High Priest’s identity and unravel his schemes so easily was because the system had provided her with the plot.

Gifts with ulterior motives—Si Jiu wasn’t so easily fooled.

System: [This High Priest is the one who secretly hid the dragon egg back then, and later allowed Da Hei to suffer heavy injuries. He’s a descendant of that High Priest, and has been colluding with the necromancer from the Kingdom of Haman to research forbidden magic, planning trouble.

Da Hei’s situation isn’t as safe as it seems.

But now he has a magic immunity buff. If you, Host, help him heal the wounds caused by the Light God’s curse, he’ll be fine. Host, you can do it, right? The mission…]

Seeing that Si Jiu still ignored it, the system was on the verge of tears.

[The reason Charles was identified as the male lead is because, while he was in the womb, the evil High Priest injected him with Da Hei’s blood that was secretly stored away.

His entire being was transformed by black dragon blood while still in the womb.

This is an experiment the High Priest’s lineage has been conducting all along.

It’s also why Da Hei, as a hatchling, was left scarred and bleeding.

But the High Priest used adults for the experiments back then, and it always failed.

Humans couldn’t withstand the immense elemental power contained in dragon blood; nearly all the subjects died from their bodies exploding.

Later, the young dragon broke free of his shackles, inherited his bloodline, and the High Priest was no longer his match.

But the High Priest had prepared a backup plan, using magic to hide a portion of dragon blood for his descendants, along with secret notes that the current High Priest obtained.

Following the unfinished plan, he chose Charles’s mother as the subject, experimenting on her while she was pregnant.

Charles was different from ordinary people at birth. He possessed great strength, high intelligence, and an exceptionally resilient body.

But Charles never liked the temple much, ultimately joining the palace and becoming a member of the Royal Guard, his relationship with the High Priest strained.

The High Priest was already old, perhaps sensing his life nearing its end, so he grew desperate.

He planned to overthrow the royal family and take their place, to control Charles. At the same time, he colluded with the necromancer, intending to use bone dragons and forbidden magic to subdue the black dragon, and once again research ways to acquire the power of the dragon god and immortality.]