LBRDINI

Chapter 45: Fierce Alpha

Adeline has judged many sessions of the Rising Stars call for papers, and has read many stunning poems with the kind of bursting imagination that amazes all dragons who read them.

But this poem was not characterized by imagination.
It was romance.

Comparing the existence of their beloved to the blossoming flowers in winter, praising him for the sweet fragrance in his chest and holding a galaxy in his palm.

Adeline has seen many amazing ideas of dragon cubs flying into the sky. The different races of the cubs have their own characteristics and the ones that can go into the sea and still go on land have different habits, so they see the world from a different perspective.

But romance like this is rare.

Who are you writing about? Are you writing about your teacher or your parents? With what affection did you write such a poem?
Adeline couldn't help but read it again, wishing to snap the entire poem off the light screen and put it in her palm to carefully admire it.

Adeline took out a pen and paper and prepared to copy the poem.

When she reached the end of the copy, Adeline realised that the instructor seemed familiar.
Adeline thought about it carefully – The dragon cub who bought the starship seemed to have the same instructor and was from the same centre.

Adeline was silent for a moment and couldn't help but laugh: This Shen Mian must be a childlike and romantic childcare teacher too.

Adeline thought about it for a while and gave "Cold Winter" an appropriate score, then sat down with satisfaction to read the next one – Title: "Dear Teacher".

Adeline sighed – It was this type of formatted poem again.

It also can't be helped, Nova was originally intended to be a draft contest for the childcare teacher assessment and it has yet to get rid of its roots. Many childcare teachers ask their cubs to write such essays or poems to praise themselves so that their moral character can be added to the assessment score.

On the other hand, the judges in the short essay category were not as relaxed as Adeline thought they would be. They received half as many submissions as the poetry category, but they couldn't resist the hundreds of words in each piece, which seemed like a lot of work.

The judge who read four or five short articles took off their glasses, sighing, "Fortunately, all manuscripts are submitted electronically, I'd go blind if I had to approve the originals."

The dragons, who can't learn the anthropomorphic form yet, have their own ugly characters, some of which are so ugly that they drive a judge crazy. It's a repetitive pattern, with a small half of the essays on parents, the other small half on teachers and the rest on friends or pets. Half of the ones written about parents are about them taking time off work and not sleeping to take care fo them, teachers taking classes when they were sick, friends that got hurt/left to help them...

It's all old-fashioned lyrical type of writing, in fact, not to mention dragon cubs entering kindergarten, high school adolescent dragons wrote lyric essays with the same tropes. The call for submissions was also more suited to lyrical writing, which is supposed to be a beautiful subject, but the repetitive routine fatigued the judges.

The judge scored a short essay about a teacher who spewed out too much fire, causing their throat to be inflamed and brought up the next essay.

Short essay title "What a good Dean of a childcare centre will bring to the cubs"

Judge: Huh?

He couldn't help but look at the interface. It was the Nova submission interface, so why does this title look like an academic paper? The style difference with other dragon cubs is too great.