The Little Dragon Kicks Over Its Keeper's Rice Bowl

[A sunny, naive, clingy little dragon as the bottom x a sharp-tongued, black-hearted, nasty marshal as the top]

The little dragon thinks his servant has found another dragon outside.

Just look at how he's treated day after day! He feeds him annoying carrots and greens, refuses to give him shiny gemstones unless he learns a hundred characters, and keeps cutting short their belly-rubbing sessions...

He also stays out all the time and never has time to tell bedtime stories!! He'd never heard of any other little dragon being raised like this! (Outrage!!)

To protest this abuse, the little dragon gathered his strength. As soon as he could take human form, he silently knocked on the door of the research institute next door.

"Excuse me, are you hiring? I mean the kind of job where I can argue with Gu Yanzhou at meetings. I can write thirty thousand characters insulting him in one go!!!"

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Gu Yanzhou has been very busy lately.

The egg that saved his life has hatched. The hatchling is tiny, weak, and a little dazed, but he's an endangered species that went extinct in the Empire long ago.

The little one doesn't want to leave, so Gu Yanzhou has to get his identity papers certified, study the hatchling care manual, feed him, put him to bed, rub his belly, and keep the research institute next door from stealing him for experiments.

He wishes he could split himself into three people.

Then, after one round-table meeting, he spotted a new boy.

The same intern from the research institute with the little cowlick, who acted outrageously arrogant every time, hands on his hips as he argued with Gu Yanzhou, losing again and again but never giving up. Just now, Gu Yanzhou had argued him to the point of tears.

Gu Yanzhou thought it over and considerately chose not to approach him.

Then he saw the boy, eyes red, sniffling as he cursed Gu Yanzhou, while growing little milky-white wings and a white belly. He shook himself, revealing a long, chubby tail.

That same tail had been wrapped around his calf and refusing to let go just two hours ago.

Gu Yanzhou: ...

All right, all right. So that's how you want to play?

The meeting continues! He needs to argue with this little guy for another eight hundred rounds. √

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A little scene:

When the little dragon first came home after hatching, he sat in his nest, lost in thought and worrying himself sick:

What is Zhouzhou doing? Why isn't he paying attention to me? Did Zhouzhou get another little dragon? Maybe I should video call him... But what if Zhouzhou is busy? He isn't ignoring me on purpose. He has things to do, too... A dragon shouldn't be too clingy...

The little dragon shifted position, still staring at his phone, until Gu Yanzhou turned on the camera and said helplessly, "Didn't I buy you the latest claw toys and chew toys for little dragons?"

"But I miss you!"

The heartbroken little one pleaded sadly, "Really, you can't take me with you?"

Gu Yanzhou: "...Fine."

Damn it...!

Theme: Persevere, strive hard, and keep moving forward