[Interstellar] A Guide to Raising a Dragon

After dying, Ming Lu was bound to System 12306 and became the minor villain who serves as a foil in an interstellar novel about everyone doting on the protagonist.

At first, the minor villain is a pitiful country bumpkin. Chosen to come to the capital because he carries the bloodline of the Sacred Dragon, he's timid, cowardly, and vicious. He keeps saying, "Don't blame me," while doing one awful thing after another. Soon, the Sacred Dragon clan comes to hate him. He loses his status as the Holy Son, turns evil, and becomes a foil to show just how adored the protagonist is.

Ming Lu is scared. Ming Lu meekly hugs his own tail.

System: Wait! Why do you have a tail?! Aren't you human?!

Ming Lu touches his horns and tries to look serious. "Of course I'm human! My dad is human!"

System: Wait!! Why do you have horns too?!

Ming Lu guiltily pulls in his horns and tail, putting on an utterly obedient face. "D-Dragon doesn't know either."

He's just a frail little dragon who can't even take care of himself!

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As the protagonist's foil, Ming Lu is supposed to come from a junk star system, timid and cowardly, meek and malicious.

But when the protagonist's childhood friend insults him, Ming Lu's eyes sparkle

"Hmph, I bet someone from a junk star system like you has never been to an auction." His childhood friend waves a hand. "Tell me what you want. It'll be my way of looking after you for Zhizhi's sake."

Ming Lu, who should be too timid to answer, gazes starry-eyed at the enormous red gemstone up for auction: "Can I have that one too?"

It's so sparkly! Dragon wants it! Dragon gets it!

When one of the protagonist's friends, a young aristocrat, frames him, Ming Lu, who should meekly accept the blame, ponders the situation

"XX, say something~!" So this is how humans flirt nowadays? I'll try it next time!

When the protagonist casually shows off his "dragon form," Ming Lu, who should retaliate with a vicious scheme, instinctively and meekly hugs himself

"Of course I'm nothing compared to Big Brother. I'm just a w-weak, utterly ordinary human."

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A junk-star native came to the Imperial Capital, and at first, no dragon paid him any mind.

After all, even if humans talked about studying how dragon-shaped psychic power could pass on a dragon's bloodline to young ones, humans were still humans. They would never become dragons.

But during an inheritance ceremony, every dragon heard a young dragon's cry for help.

"Dad, save Dragon, save-save-save-save-save Dragon!!"

The dragons: !!!

It's a dragon! A young dragon we've never seen before! We have a baby!

The dragon clan was stunned and in an uproar. Even the Lord of the Sacred Dragons, seated at the center of the ceremony, couldn't help sitting up straight.

But what appeared before his eyes was the dusty little cub, who let out a roar and changed back into dragon form, then pounced into the arms of his sworn enemy on the other side, the Empire's rebel general, Jiang Biezhi.

Ming Lu hugged his tail, his eyes red, and made a pitiful little sound.

"Dad~ They bullied Dragon~~ You have to avenge Dragon!"

"Dad? Dad, why aren't you saying anything? Say something, Dad~"

Theme: Hope is right before us