He immediately returned to his mortal form before shaking Lu Meili to wake her up as carefully as he could, "Meili? What is going on with you? Wake up!" He said voice laced with panic, afraid that whatever was happening to her was all his fault. 

Lu Meili did not open her eyes. She was making sounds of discomfort but not screaming anymore, it felt like she was in great pain. Her breathing was laboured like she was having a hard time doing so. Then she suddenly grabbed his arms and held it tightly, her nails biting into his skin. 

"Mother... Mother… Where are you?" Lu Meili was consistently murmuring through her sleep. There were beads of sweat on her forehead, clearly showing her discomfort. 

".... Shhh. Relax... I am here. We will find your mother later," He said, a.s.suringly as he wiped the sweat off her face. Long Cheng looked at her worriedly as he held her closer to him. 

When she stopped trembling and seemed to be relaxed in his arms, Long Cheng released a heavy sigh. 

He then glanced at the sky. The thunders were already subsiding. They were not as many, like before. Earlier was a storm of thunder. This time, it was the usual pace of lighting that he was familiar with. 

Long Cheng was suspicious of Lu Meili when she suddenly moved closer to him. He could still not ignore the possibility that she was the main cause of the rain of lightings, causing further havoc in the forest. However, with her looking so fragile right now, he decided to leave it alone. 

The death of one dragon s.h.i.+fter could not be ignored though, and that would be something they would talk seriously whenever she woke up. 

"What am I going to do with you?" Long Cheng could not help but ask softly, before caressing her cheek. Long Cheng did not waste the chance to study her face carefully.

For him, she was mesmerizing in every possible way. Even the scar on her right brow gave the impression that she was a real fighter. 

Long Cheng grinned mischievously before he checked the other parts of her body. He was not able to do so earlier because of licking her wounds so he could fully focus on helping her heal first. Everything else was secondary for him. 

So while she was asleep, he was not going to waste the opportunity to do so.

'Well, it was bad timing. Now the coast is clear,'

He thought to himself defensively. 

"My mate, I am just making sure there are no other wounds unhealed yet," He said slyly before letting his hand check every part of her. 

Long Cheng greedily scanned her skin with hands. He started with her lower left hip, where the end of her tattoo was. This was one part of her that he found exciting and fascinating at the same time. There was this s.e.xy aura around her all the time for having one. 

'Would be nice to just look at riding on top of me...'

Long Cheng's imagination started, that immediately caused his throat to run dry. 

After shaking his head to remove the enticing image for the meantime which was not to come any time soon, Long Cheng got back to his 'inspection'. 

He could see that the tattoo started from somewhere under her s.h.i.+rt, ending near her left hip. It was an intricately designed tattoo that was created with calligraphic characters. There were designs of animals and some styles that he did not recognize. 

The colours were a mixture of red, yellow and a bit of blue. There were also dark green. 

 Long Cheng traced the tattoo carefully. Just at that moment, Lu Meili made soft noise that made him stop his so-called survey. 

"Mmmm..." She moaned in her sleep but did not wake up. Then he noticed the gooseb.u.mps on her skin. 

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Curiously, he tried touching the tattoo again, and she reacted the same way. 

Long Cheng eyes brightened and he tried to touch further. This time, he slowly caressed her tattoo, upwards, until he was at the hem of her hanging s.h.i.+rt. 

His fingers made some circular motion. Not only did Lu Meili moaned her approval for his action, she even s.h.i.+fted closer to him. Her b.r.e.a.s.t.s were now against his chest, and he could feel their softness over his tattered white s.h.i.+rt. 

He was aroused but knew that he could not fully take advantage of his mate. Long Cheng felt like a man who had finally tasted nirvana. 

'That's a stupid a.n.a.logy. I'm more like a man that could taste Ambrosia,'

He argued to himself with a silly smile on his face.

'Well, let's see how Ambrosio looks like. I am just looking for an educational purpose.'

He then slowly lifted the hem of her s.h.i.+rt to 'look' at the rest of the tattoo. 

Sadly, before he could completely do so, someone grabbed his wrist tightly, stopping him from moving any further…