Su Duan: "..."

It will. Your spiritual body will snatch pollen to eat, which will have serious consequences.

After finishing his words, Audrose lowered his eyes and quietly waited for his reaction.

Probably because he tidied up before going out, Audrose's light golden hair was all pulled back, tied into a neat little bun at the back of his head, revealing a broad, full forehead and prominent brow bones, above which a pair of thick, sword-like eyebrows slanted, looking extremely imposing.

In the deep eye sockets were embedded two deep, sea-like ice-blue eyes, usually filled with sternness and indifference, but now calmly looking at him, making the sharp, deep features reveal some inconspicuous gentleness.

It was really very inconspicuous. If Su Duan didn't understand his every subtle expression, he might have directly missed it.

Audrose had a typical Western appearance. His nose bridge was a straight line, extending from the center of his brow bones without any undulation.

...It would definitely bump into his cheeks when kissing, which was a bit unfriendly, Su Duan thought.

Wait, why was he thinking about this—

Seducing him was useless. This was a matter of principle.

Su Duan was in a daze for a few seconds in those beautiful blue eyes, but quickly regained his determination.

But his determination seemed to have no substantive significance. There was no complete clue about the treatment of Audrose's condition, and Audrose seemed to know nothing about his spiritual body acting independently. Telling him this abruptly might cause some unexpected consequences, so Su Duan opened his mouth, but in the end, he dejectedly closed it again.

Audrose watched his little slave stare at him blankly for a while, then seemed to want to say something but stopped. He was obviously very dejected. Suddenly, he even felt a little reluctant to leave.

But there was no time left to dawdle. He could only rub Su Duan's hair for the last time, gently hugging him to his chest, and said, "Wait for me to come back. Remember to eat."

Su Duan leaned his head against his chest without much energy and said, "Okay."

Then he watched the man's back, wearing dark formal clothes, looking wider and more upright than usual, disappear in front of the dining room door.

In the huge dining room, only Su Duan and the dragon encircling him like a treasure remained, as well as a few servants who had just watched the whole process and were now trembling in the corner, scared by Audrose's spiritual body.

The master of this mansion had always been cold and ruthless. They had never seen His Highness treat anyone with such an almost doting attitude.

His Highness had been coaxing the person in a good voice the whole time. In comparison, the person being coaxed seemed extremely unappreciative, pouting with a look of unhappiness. Who knows where he got the guts?

Moreover, this person who received special treatment was, like them, just a lowly slave.

Perhaps normally, these servants would dare to grumble in their hearts that this slave was ungrateful and would definitely be despised soon, but now with that huge dragon standing there, they were too scared to think of anything else.

Even though it showed no signs of attacking or getting angry, just the deterrence emanating from its body as a high-level spiritual power user was enough to make ordinary people tremble from the bottom of their hearts!

Because of their noble origins and strong enough strength, dragons were a very proud and willful creature. Even though Audrose himself was emotionally indifferent, his nature was actually engraved with some pride cultivated by his bloodline and upbringing, which was reflected in his spiritual body—

His dragon would only carefully restrain its oppressive aura for people it cherished, controlling its strength to the tiniest degree even when touching them, but for other irrelevant people, even if it knew they would feel fear because of it, it was too lazy to consider their feelings.

The dining room was quiet for a while. The servants hesitantly cleaned up the dining table Audrose had used and shrank back into the corner of the wall.

—From the conversation between the two just now, it was obvious that this slave who had received the master's favor was going to dine here later, so they couldn't leave yet.

If they didn't clean up the dining table in time, they would definitely be punished. Being able to work at the master's residence was undoubtedly one of the best treatments. No one wanted to casually lose this job opportunity.

After Audrose left, Su Duan was a little dazed until his back was gently pushed, and he blinked and came back to his senses.

The dragon had a very skilled grasp of its strength. The dragon's snout lightly pushed Su Duan's back twice, and Su Duan couldn't help but walk forward.

—Towards the kitchen.

It was urging him to eat.

Su Duan obediently let the dragon nudge him into the kitchen and asked the chef, who also had a terrified look in his eyes, "Do you have nutrient solutions?"

The chef said like spitting beans, "Yes, yes, yes, the freshest potatoes and broccoli, and a small amount of bamboo shoots, green peppers and... uh, nutrient solution?"

He seemed not to have expected Su Duan to make such a simple request, and the chef thought he had misheard, "Nu-nutrient solution, do you really want that?"

Although nutrient solutions were commonly consumed daily foods, they obviously had no competitiveness in the face of precious and delicious vegetables.

He thought he had misheard.

Su Duan nodded and said, "Yes, thank you."

He felt that nutrient solutions were much more convenient to eat than vegetables. With Audrose not at home, he didn't want to sit at the dining table alone.

Seeing that Su Duan looked serious and wasn't joking, the chef took out two bottles of high-grade nutrient solution from the cabinet with a worried look on his face and handed them over.

What if His Highness came back and found out about this, thinking that he deliberately didn't cook for this black-haired slave?

Su Duan didn't know what he was worried about. He took the nutrient solution, said thank you in a low voice again, and wanted to take it back to his room, eat half a tube, and then store the remaining one and a half tubes in the refrigerator.

He was now a poor Poria herb and had to be frugal.

While making calculations in his heart, he encountered some accidents before he could start implementing his plan—

As soon as he was about to turn around and leave the kitchen, the dragon waiting behind him suddenly lowered its head, accurately biting the nutrient solution in his hand, and then with a lift of its head, Su Duan's hands became empty.

Su Duan: ???

He tapped the hard wing bones hanging by his hand in puzzlement, urging: "Give it back to me."

The dragon stared at him with its icy blue eyes for a few seconds. Not only did it not obediently return the nutrition pack to him, it even raised its head higher, taking on a rogue stance of "I won't return it no matter what".

Su Duan: "..."

This bandit dragon!

Spiritual bodies don't need to eat nutrition packs, so why steal his?

Stealing pollen was one thing, but it even had to steal nutrition packs!

Su Duan angrily kicked the tip of its wing, condemning its outrageous bandit behavior.

However, the dragon was not moved in the slightest. It held the nutrition pack high above, unable to use its mouth, and used its wings to push against Su Duan's back, herding him towards the chef again.

-- What was it trying to do?

Could it be wanting him to ask for a few more bottles of nutrition packs, and then -- have them stolen away again?

Just then, the chef suddenly spoke in a trembling voice: "This -- Mr. Su, Su, the master probably wants you to eat vegetables."

Although they were all slaves, it was obvious that the black-haired slave in front of him was especially favored. So even though Su Duan looked much younger than him, he still used respectful language.

Su Duan was stunned for a moment before realizing that this "Mr. Su" was referring to him.

He looked up at the dragon holding the nutrition pack, then at the chef who was nearly scared stiff in front of him, and slowly let out an "oh".

So that was the plan?

Realizing that things seemed to be different from what he had thought, Su Duan felt a little guilty. He touched the place on the dragon's wing bones where he had kicked earlier and said softly, "Sorry."

Of course, the dragon couldn't respond to him in human language, and only used its wings to nudge Su Duan again.

Su Duan added seriously, "I'll eat vegetables, but you have to give me back the nutrition packs later. Those are mine."

He still wanted to put them in the fridge and save them up.

The dragon made a low sound from its throat, as if agreeing to his request.

Only then did Su Duan feel at ease. He ordered a few simple dishes and quietly waited in the dining room under the chef's still frightened gaze.

After the dishes were served, Su Duan discovered that eating alone didn't seem as lonely as he had imagined. Audrose' spiritual body was always by his side. While Su Duan struggled to eat with chopsticks and forks, it kept poking him here and there with its snout, being very clingy.

So Su Duan had to shoo the dragon away while eating, making the meal very busy.

After eating, Su Duan went outside to take a walk and digest, as well as to walk the dragon.

Although Audrose had sent him a message saying not to wander around, when he walked outside, the dragon also showed no intention of stopping him and just followed closely behind.

To show its presence and act as a deterrent, Audrose' spiritual body did not conceal its form and appeared in the courtyard with great fanfare. Its terrifying shape scared the slaves who saw it so much that they didn't dare to raise their heads.

To avoid causing a commotion, Su Duan took it to a less crowded place.

After walking for a while, they arrived at the small garden where Su Duan had briefly worked for half a day before.

The irises planted here were an improved variety with a much longer flowering period than ordinary irises. Even now, they were still blooming shyly and just right, like the first time Su Duan saw them, forming a small sea of light purple flowers.

Su Duan raised his hand to look at the iris ring on his finger. Under the gentle sunlight, the tiny purple diamonds on it refracted a soft, pale glow.

It was very beautiful.

Looking at the ring, then at the flowers in the garden that looked very similar to the ring, Su Duan felt for the first time that observing the reproductive organs of his own species was not an unbearable thing.

A gust of wind blew by, bringing a faint floral fragrance.

Su Duan: "..."

......He silently took back his previous words and added seriously in his heart: if the wind wouldn't blow the pollen of these reproductive organs of the same species onto his face.

Su Duan wiped his face in vain and turned around to leave, looking for a place without flowers to stay.

He wanted to go back to the room, but Audrose's spiritual body was too huge. Although his bedroom was not small, it was still too difficult to fit a dragon. It would be very cramped to just squeeze in a head and shoulders, so he had to find some open space.

Just as Su Duan was about to leave, the dragon began to be uncooperative again.

It lowered its head and stared at the patch of irises for a few seconds, then suddenly sat down on its butt, stuck its head into the irises, and explored left and right as if searching for something.

Su Duan: "!!!"