darknovel Chapter 444 Comparing yourself to others will only make you miserable!
Chapter 444 Comparing yourself to others will only make you miserable!
"Hello, King Kona."
Li Luochen stepped forward and extended his hand.
His movements were natural and his posture was composed, as if he were greeting an ordinary elder.
Hello, Li Luochen.
Kona also extended her hand and shook his.
Her fingers were long and slender, her palms were warm, and the touch of her fingers was soft yet firm.
However, Conor used a little more force when shaking hands.
It wasn't the kind of force that could crush a person's hand bones, but rather a just-right, somewhat competitive force, as if saying, "I'm not as old as you think."
As for why...
That's because Li Luochen had previously called her an "old auntie," which made Kona hold a grudge.
Ever since that "old auntie" on the phone yesterday, that title has been like a thorn stuck in her heart, something she can't pull out or swallow.
At twenty-eight, a woman is at the most charming age. To be called "old auntie" by a young man, who wouldn't be angry?
She maintained a polite smile, but her fingers were secretly exerting force, trying to dig her nails into Li Luochen's tiger's mouth.
Li Luochen remained expressionless, and even smiled.
He knew perfectly well why Cona was doing this, but he didn't dodge or retaliate. He just quietly let her squeeze him, as if he were coaxing a tantrum-throwing child.
After holding hands for a while, Conor let go.
She withdrew her hand and looked down at her palm.
She had used her strength, but several faint red marks remained on the area between her thumb and forefinger.
It wasn't from being pinched red, but from being rubbed red, as if it had been gripped by something rough.
She frowned slightly, looked up at Li Luochen, and her eyes were filled with confusion.
Li Luochen remained calm, even with a faint smile on his lips.
His palms had returned to normal, showing no signs of abnormality.
But Cona clearly remembered that at the moment of shaking hands, what she touched in her palm was not human skin, but a hard, rough, finely textured scale.
As for why, it was because Li Luochen deliberately used the power of dragon control, turning a small patch of his palm into dragon scales.
The moment Kona tightened her grip, the dragon-controlling power within him seemed to be triggered, naturally surging into his palm and condensing into a thin layer of dragon scales on his skin.
Kona stared at her hands for two seconds, then looked up at Li Luochen, her lips pursed slightly.
"Hmph, you born evil dragon-riding brat."
Kona spoke in a voice only the two of them could hear, her lips barely moving, yet her voice clearly reached Li Luochen's ears.
If you only look at her expression, it's still that polite smile, and outsiders can't tell anything is wrong.
But the light in those eyes clearly carried a hint of anger and resentment.
Li Luochen: ?
He glanced at Kona and met her eyes, which were staring at him through her glasses.
Tch, this old lady is quite vengeful.
Li Luochen pursed his lips and didn't argue with Kona.
It was just a matter of calling me "old auntie" before, was it really that big of a deal?
He shakes hands forcefully and is verbally abusive; his heart is smaller than a pinhead.
He was telling the truth.
Kona is already 28. If she were two years older, Li Luochen could find two more women.
However, Li Luochen did not respond.
After all, this is the Kanto region, and it's Kona's territory.
He's one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and I'm just an outsider dojo master. If I argue with him on his turf, I'll only be the one who suffers.
Li Luochen understood this principle well, so he simply smiled and changed the subject: "What brings you to Indigo Academy today, Queen Kona?"
Seeing that he had given in, Kona didn't press the matter any further. She snorted coldly, crossed her arms, and turned her gaze back to Regigigas.
"I had nothing to do, so I came here to relax."
Her tone returned to normal, but she emphasized the words "relax" as if she were implying something.
Li Luochen, oblivious to women's hearts, assumed that Kona had genuinely come to relax and asked with sincerity, "Is something bothering Kona... cough cough, is the Heavenly King troubled? Why don't you tell me?"
He almost blurted out "Auntie" again, but luckily he stopped in time and managed to turn into "Heavenly King".
Kona twitched the corner of her mouth.
The reason I came here to relax is because of you!
She repeated those words eight hundred times in her heart, but on the surface she only smiled faintly.
She can't very well say, "I came here because you made me angry," can she? That would be too embarrassing.
"It's nothing serious."
Kona waved her hand, shifting her gaze from his face to the group of students still watching Regigigas in the distance. "I'm just a little tired lately and want to find a place to relax."
She paused, then added, "I just heard that Quartz Academy's training grounds are pretty good, so I came to check it out."
Li Luochen nodded and did not ask any further questions.
He had no idea that the "tiredness" Kona mentioned was partly due to league affairs, and the other half—due to yesterday's phone call.
"If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave now."
The atmosphere was somewhat oppressive, and Li Luochen didn't want to stay in this oppressive environment.
Kona's ambiguous smile, her glaring eyes through her glasses, and her words "a born evil dragon-riding brat" all made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
So he wanted to say goodbye to Cona and leave this troublesome place as soon as possible.
"Wait a moment."
Kona called out to Li Luochen.
Li Luochen stopped and saw her take out her phone from her handbag, unlock the screen, open the QR code business card, and hand the phone to him.
"Adding contact information shouldn't require me to be the governor, right?"
"If it's Lorelei, then of course there's no problem."
Li Luochen smiled, took out his phone, and scanned Kona's QR code. He sent the friend request, and Kona glanced at the screen before accepting it.
The two profile pictures appeared side by side in each other's contacts, one a close-up of an ice flower, the other the emblem of a dojo.
"I'll be going now."
Li Luochen clasped his hands in a fist salute and left with Regigigas.
Seeing this, Rico and Xiao An followed.
The two walked beside Li Luochen, one on each side.
Kona stood there, watching them leave.
Her gaze fell on Rico and Xiao An, and she frowned slightly as she looked at the distance between the two schoolgirls and Li Luochen.
A sour feeling also arose in my heart.
I can't quite describe the feeling. It's not anger, it's not jealousy, it's more like... a sense of loss that can't be expressed in words.
She is 28 years old this year. She is good-looking, has a good figure, and is successful in her career, but she has never even been in a relationship.
The young man, who was in his early twenties, was already surrounded by a group of young girls.
Comparing yourself to others is just asking for trouble!