LBRDI Chapter 33

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Sweeping Aside Dignity

Bonus of ko-fi chapter

Fans could never have imagined that their favourite anchor would one day use this kind of method of promotion.

They entered live room 1551 as usual but were shocked by the number of viewers to be double what it usually was. When they entered, they were confused: Why are there so many people (dragons) in my house, did I enter the wrong door?

They left and took a look. It was the right one, mutual attraction channel, room number 1551, it’s our family’s anchor’s live room. What happened while I was asleep?!

When they tried to get in the live room again, they found that the interface actually popped up with a prompt window for being in a queue!

On Cat Eye’s platform, when the big anchors with hundreds of millions of fans begin to broadcast every day, there will be a queue because of the excessive amount of traffic in a short period of time. Fans of big anchors have already been accustomed to queuing. 

The good news is that the Cat Eye is rich and their servers are very powerful. The number of queues rapidly dropped and fans who were blocked outside the live room soon re-entered.

Fans: …I only left for a bit, how come the viewers have doubled again?
Is today’s traffic crazy?

Fans weren’t confused for long because the anchor finally noticed something unusual in the live room when the ribs were done and put down his plate, took the quantum computer and added a line to the caption: Yes, this is the human carrying the dragon in the Peaceful Water Star video.

Peaceful Water Star is… Isn’t that the standard format of the Empire’s public safety administration?
Fans who re-entered the broadcast couldn’t resist, minimized the broadcast to a smaller window to play, going to the Reader app and searching for Peaceful Water Star.

It really showed that this is an official account with a Readers Platform golden frame certification, authenticated as the public safety administration of the Dragon Empire’s Water Star – which translated into the interstellar common language as the Public Security Branch.
These authorities have been registering accounts since the popularity of Reader and have been operating them professionally, interacting with the public and spreading the necessary information through the platform.

The latest development is a video from an officer’s law enforcement recorder.

Opening the video, a clear female voice started to explain the case:

“In the early hours of this morning, our Officer Reed of the Water Star E district precinct received a message from a childcare centre that a habitual thief, a tree dragon, had entered the centre at night. By the time our officers had quickly arrived, the centre’s cub’s had already subdued the tree dragon… Fortunately, there were no dragon casualties…”

Barrage:

[I bet the lady laughed!]

[You laughed, you laughed, I heard you hahahahaha]

[Hahahahahaha being subdued by a dragon cub…how funny, this is definitely going to be in this year’s strange news hahahahaha.]

[It’s so strange, generally, tree dragons are rarely caught red-handed stealing things. Most of the time, the police are called after something has been stolen.]

The policewoman continued her report, “According to the report, the criminal dragon entered through the centre’s backyard by climbing over the wall and lurked near the dragon grass fields and because they hadn’t eaten dinner, their stomach rumbled from hunger, attracting the attention of the centre’s dragon cubs…”

The policewoman’s voice suddenly paused for a few seconds, then tried to continue reporting, “Because some of the dragon grass was found to have been completely plucked, the cubs at the centre, believing that a small animal had mistakenly entered, decided to drive the small animal away to protect the centre’s cash crops. Upon arrival at the dragon grass fields, they found that it was not a small animal, but an adult dragon, so they subdued them.”

[I’m gonna die laughing here today hahahahaha!]

[Oops. Am I the only one who’s angry? The tree dragon was lying on the ground, right?]

[I had to change my clothes…I’m also angry. I would’ve given this tree dragon a severe beating instead. They even dare to steal from a childcare centre!]

[Childcare centres in District E? Is it Qiming? District E only has that centre, which used to adopt many children, but it’s only recently developed a bit. Not even a welfare home turned childcare centre is spared?]

[??? A welfare home? What’s wrong with this dragon’s conscience? Even picking from a childcare centre’s cash crops!]

[Can I make a donation?  Thinking about it.]

[Qiming is developing nicely now. The last time the Dean live broadcasted, he said that he would get a library with a studio for Qiming. He estimated that it would be quite expensive but it was necessary.]

The policewoman in the video goes on to report, “To his credit, the centre’s dean chose to call the police rather than assault the burglar as soon as he was informed, avoiding a physical confrontation and handling the situation in a very sensible manner…”

As the policewoman said this, the video played a certain dean picking up the human form of the tree dragon with one hand.

[Very, sensible.]

[He’s really sensible…I would’ve beaten him until he lost his teeth if this was my house.]

The barrage, however, didn’t have many “hahaha’s”, they were all concerned about the centre. In the comment section, a hot comment with the most likes happened to be a fan of Shen Mian’s live room.

Crown Prince’s Medal:
I followed Peaceful Water Star because it was recommended to me and I never thought that one day my favourite anchor would appear in front of the public this way, worthy of my excellent dean (official praise!).

As a fan, first of all, thank you for your concern. The situation in the centre has been much better than before. Advertising the Dean’s personal virtual store, all kinds of mana plants are available. The Dean is also an anchor on Cat Eye, ID is Shen Mian and he is currently participating in the mutual attraction event in Cat Eye’s new channel. Please show some support on Cat Eye for everyone that is interested.

Also, the dean is human. So don’t miss out if you like humans. The dean often cooks human food that won’t go into your stomach but can be addictive.

Top replies: 

I want to drink sweet milk: A human dean??! I thought all humans were- soft and cute. Is this something we’ve assimilated? (Panic)

Have a Coke: @I want to drink sweet milk, it hasn’t been assimilated… In fact, the dean’s temper has always been a little grumpy, it’s just that he’s more restrained in front of the dragon cubs and that’s what made me fall headfirst into the dean’s pit and not want to leave, he’s super gentle.
We secretly call him “violent but cute thing”.

A little fence: No need to be secretive, we all directly say it in front of him hahahahaha. The dean only corrects us to call him “dean” with a paralyzed face anyway since he doesn’t really get angry about such trivial things.

……

Because of Peaceful Water Star’s “promotional” video, Shen Mian rushed from 13th place to 5th place on the last day of Cat Eye’s mutual attraction event.

The video of Shen Mian carrying the dragon with one hand was forwarded by the public security accounts of several planets one after another in the next few days. Many dragons went to Shen Mian’s live broadcast from that video, bringing Shen Mian a considerable amount of revenue.

The library he’d had in mind for a long time finally came to life – building a library from this amount of money was impossible, but a large number of books could be purchased.

Shen Mian opened the light screen on his quantum computer and selected books. He didn’t wear holographic glasses because he wore them for the live broadcast for several hours and didn’t want to wear something like that again.

He Xing coaxed the three dragon cubs to sleep and gently entered the room, sitting next to Shen Mian.

Shen Mian’s sight did not leave the light screen and directly held out his hand: In order to stabilize his human form, He Xing will come over at night to scrouge two mouthfuls of mana. He has now developed a conditioned reflex to the point that as soon as He Xing next to him, he subconsciously held out his hand.

He Xing pushed his hand back, “No, it’s fine already.”

Shen Mian finally looked up, “Hm?”

He Xing, “It shouldn’t change back, even in the future.”

Shen Mian put his outstretched hand into his pocket, “That’s good. When are you leaving?”

“Leave?” He Xing thought for a bit, “I’ll leave whenever I need to.”

Shen Ming hmmed.

He Xing poked Shen Mian, who didn’t move a muscle, “Dean Shen, will you welcome me back in the future?”

Welcome him back?
Shen Mian’s tapped his fingers. The entire centre had traces of He Xing – the extra bed in the room, the conqueror who was bullied by the dragon cubs every day, the two robots who worked hard and diligently…

He wakes up in the morning to pick dragon grass leaves, takes the cubs to frisk about in the mock battle arena in the afternoon and take turns putting the cubs to bed at night.

Shen Mian clicked on a set of reading books for young dragons and dropped, “Whatever.”

He Xing immediately took out his quantum computer and dialled a number, “Hello, is this Vick?”

“Yes, it’s me. Can you help me pack up everything in my residence and send it to the quantum computer’s location?”

Shen Mian, “???”

You’re going to bring everything?

He Xing, “You need the Dean’s autograph, is that right? Okay I understand, Yan Huan really can’t do anything right, leave it to me, I’ll try to get you a fancy autograph.”

Shen Mian, “????”

Who’s going to give you a fancy autograph?

He Xing, “My mock battlefield arena? No don’t send it, it won’t fit here…you’re right, I should apply for residential land and then build it next to the centre.”

Shen Mian, “?????”
He set aside his quantum computer so he wouldn’t accidentally touch the light screen later.

He Xing was too busy to hang up the call and Shen Mian had already elbowed him in the chest.

He Xing coughed, quickly grabbed Shen Mian’s wrist and laughed while dodging, “I’m not reluctant to leave you and the dragon cubs, Dean, Dean…Shen Mian! I was wrong!”

He didn’t fight back and promptly shouted as he was about to be pinned to the ground, “I just took a shower! Showering again will wake the dragon cubs.”

The strength in Shen Mian’s hands loosened and he picked him up by his collar and pinned him down on the bed instead.

He Xing laid on his back on the soft bed and was suddenly caught in the other’s scent and was a bit stunned.

Shen Mian didn’t feel that anything was wrong and his knee bumped into He Xing, “Fancy autograph? Applying for residential land?”

He hit him a few times and noticed that He Xing didn’t say anything, just fixedly staring at him. Then Shen Mian finally realised one thing – he seemed to be an omega.

This devilish gender setting was as forgettable as a spotted dragon cub.

Shen Mian moved his body away with a blank expression, “Sorry, I often forget that you’re an alpha.”

He Xing, “…”
It’s fine for an alpha’s dignity to be swept to the ground, but it feels like it’s also been hit a dozen times by little Gian’s tail and completely shattered to pieces.

Shen Mian picked up the quantum computer again. His books hadn’t been ordered yet, so he didn’t have time to mess with He Xing. Just after flipping through two sets of books, the quantum computer received a communication request.

The source of the communication was an unfamiliar number from the neighbouring Lan Kui Star.

Shen Mian connected the communication and a man’s restrained voice came from the other end, “H-hello, is this the dean of Qiming Childcare Centre? It took me a long time to find this number.”

Shen Mian, “I am and you are….”

“I’m Usher, I adopted a girl from your centre in June of this year…”

Of course, Shen Mian remembers this. The parents adopted the only girl in the centre while refusing to let the dragon cub visit the centre.

The reason seems to be – if the children come too often, they will miss Qiming Childcare Centre.

Because the law did not explicitly state so, there was no contract signed at the time of adoption in order to allow the child to be adopted smoothly. In the predicament of not being able to eat, the old dean could only agree. Although he couldn’t leave the other’s quantum computer number, he begged the other party to leave the centre’s quantum computer number, which is the communication account of the original owner’s current quantum computer.

Usher, “Here’s the thing…my wife is pregnant, but of course that’s not the main thing, it’s that the child has bad health, which is something you didn’t tell us. Now we’re under a lot of financial stress… You’re an anchor now and I’ve seen all the videos that Peaceful Lan Kui Star forwarded, so we want you to take the child back.”

sauced

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Now that’s a bad move but the centre gains another cute baby!

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