Dragons and humans. They were like the sun and plants.
At least, that was how Xia Qiao had described the relationship between the two creatures before she heard how the Emperor suddenly said something that managed to knock her unconscious.
She thought plants would always depend on the sun even if they also needed water. With its light, the sun would help the plants to stay alive. The sun appeared to be far away from the plants, but it actually protected the plants with its light that managed to travel the distance so it could reach the Earth where the plant lived.
The sun was always there, and it wouldn't harm the plants no matter what. That was how Xia Qiao innocently thought about the relationship between dragons and humans. Innocently, she thought dragons would always protect humans and would never harm them, but the Emperor said otherwise just now.