Li Qing’s excessive enthusiasm was undoubtedly a shock to Li Ruoxi.
She immediately fled.
She took small steps, heading back to her residence.
Why didn’t she run?
The problem was, could she even escape?
To control Li Ruoxi, Brooke only gave her a tiny bit of food—just enough to sustain life.
Strolling through the neighborhood was something she did on her own, sneaking out.
Brooke was very confident.
A lone, helpless Li Ruoxi could never break free from his grasp.
After dumping her here, Brooke had vanished.
Of course, Li Ruoxi had tried to escape before, but did it work?
No.
Maybe in her personal file, she was already listed as dead.
Right. If this storyline hadn’t changed, she was already a deleted identity.
She crossed the grass, skirted around trees, and on the way greeted a few mothers, playfully winking at their babies.
Li Ruoxi slowly walked back to where she was supposed to live.
Building 13, fourth floor… an entire floor originally housing four families, with two elevators, now connected into one.
About six hundred square meters… decorated like a hotel apartment.
Vampires were probably all rich.
The clothes she wore and the room’s low-key, luxurious, dark-themed decor truly seemed out of place.
“So tired.”
Li Ruoxi kicked off her slippers casually and lay down on the soft, large sofa.
All around was pitch black.
Blue transparent glass refracted the outside lights.
A pale white halo fell on her face.
She stretched her waist, adjusting to a comfortable angle.
To create a prison-like environment, Brooke had cut off the power here.
He’d also heard that he’d casually swapped the original top-tier furniture for a cheap leather sofa.
In his imagination, no matter how crappy a prison was, it couldn’t be this bad, right?
In this empty, dark six-hundred-square-meter house, just the living room the size of a volleyball court made Li Ruoxi feel the malice of the rich.
She vaguely recalled Brooke’s words: “This prison should be enough for you.”
In the corner was a huge pile of food and drinks.
She recalled his words again: “These foul-smelling things are perfectly suitable for garnishing prison meals.”
Li Ruoxi casually picked up a piece of beef jerky from “Three Squirrels” and nearly burst into tears.
Look at that—Brooke’s words didn’t sound human at all.
They were exactly like a vampire’s unique personality.
Her jaw felt a bit sore from chewing, so she stopped eating.
“Hot water, hot water…”
Li Ruoxi got up, hummed a little tune, and found the kitchen area to boil water.
In her hand was something Brooke called the number one enemy of humanity—junk food—Kangshuaifu.
She glanced at it. It was sauerkraut beef flavor.
Gurgle—
Thinking about the satisfaction of a big bowl of instant noodles, Li Ruoxi, who hadn’t eaten lunch, felt hungry.
To Brooke, these things couldn’t fill you up and were harmful to the body.
Naturally, they couldn’t be considered food.
“What an ignorant vampire~”
Li Ruoxi waited happily for the water to boil, humming a nursery rhyme as she did.
“Love’s magic spins around and around~ Missing you…”
“Heh? Missing me?”
A soft, low, and feminine voice resounded.
“Aren’t these things something I told you not to eat? This garbage!”
The soft voice suddenly turned fierce.
A candle flame flickered to life.
The first thing she saw was the man’s white handmade shirt, the diamond buttons at his cuffs faintly glimmering.
Soft footsteps slowly approached.
Brooke’s soft, handsome face, faintly reflected in the firelight, was strikingly beautiful.
“Chicken, you’re so beautiful…”
The phrase inexplicably popped into Li Ruoxi’s mind.
“What did you say?”
Brooke stepped forward with slight anger, snatching the Kangshuaifu away.
“My… Kang… Kang…”
“Your what? Everything is mine now.”
Brooke looked at the thing he’d fought to get, only to find she was degrading herself with this stuff.
“You think that by eating this, I won’t drink your blood?”
Brooke said angrily.
He shouldn’t have left this garbage here.
He thought a prison needed some trash to feel like a prison.
But he never imagined that Li Ruoxi, this woman, would even eat something like this.
“Are you trying to provoke me?”
After taking a deep breath, Brooke returned that elegant, gentlemanly smile.
“It’s useless. As one of the Thirteen Princes, I am universally recognized as a gentleman vampire.”
“Then… why do you always take deep breaths…”
Li Ruoxi regretted saying that as soon as she finished.
Brooke slammed the stove shut, turning it off.
Li Ruoxi panicked and stepped back, afraid he might do something to harm her.
“Don’t… don’t mess around. Careful, I’ll call for help.”
Li Ruoxi clenched her small fists and crossed them over her chest.
Even Vivian, a female vampire, had done those embarrassing things to her.
And Brooke was a male vampire—it might be even worse…
“You want to defile my noble body?”
Brooke asked incredulously.
“What makes you think you’re worthy of someone as noble as me? You’re just my blood bag. And you think I’d lay a hand on you?”
Brooke scoffed.
This woman must be crazy.
“Who said anything about defiling you! You shameless vampire! Go eat poop!”
“Filthy words.”
Brooke raised his hand and placed it on Li Ruoxi’s head, his five fingers extending sharp claws.
“If you dare make a fuss again, I’ll kill you immediately.”
Hiss—
A breath of cold air escaped Brooke’s mouth.
A sudden gust of wind blew across her face, but Li Ruoxi didn’t dare lose her temper.
Vampires were all eccentric creatures.
Could it be that Brooke liked men?
When Li Ruoxi originally designed the mission, she never wrote about his personal life, so she naturally didn’t know.
Back then, as a “goddess,” the only thing on her mind was Vivian; everyone else was just a side character.
She let out a breath.
At least her life was safe.
As for having some blood drawn or something, Li Ruoxi couldn’t resist anymore.
Gurgle…
After being gusted at, Li Ruoxi’s stomach growled.
“In a few days, the other uncles will come to taste your flavor. For now, move somewhere else with me.”
They should have moved long ago.
You bought the entire floor, but there are people above and below.
This floor alone is like a haunted house.
Are you trying to show off how unique you are?
“But still, we’ll stay here for a while. Forget it, why am I explaining so much to a captive? Don’t eat this.”
Brooke carelessly threw the Kangshuaifu into the trash bin.
Then he left.
Just like that? That’s it?
Li Ruoxi only saw the firelight extinguish, and Brooke had vanished.
“Truly comes and goes without a trace… Good, good, it wasn’t crushed.”
She was about to pick up the instant noodles from the trash when—
Bang!
A heavy blow to her stomach sent her flying straight into the glass door four meters behind her.
Crash!
Shatter!
“Didn’t I tell you NOT TO EAT IT!”
Another candle flickered with dim light.
Brooke appeared in front of Li Ruoxi again.
“You’ve angered me.”
Brooke suppressed his rage.
This human had trampled on his noble character.
He had given an order, and this human dared to disobey?
Even Vivian couldn’t ignore him.
Who did Li Ruoxi think she was?
Just Vivian’s toy.
And because she was a toy, she could ignore his words?
He roughly grabbed Li Ruoxi by the neck from the ground.
Cough, cough!
Li Ruoxi kicked her feet wildly, trying to pry his hands away.
“I… I… screw… your… mother…”
BAM!!!
Brooke’s eyes instantly turned bloodshot.
This lowly bitch dared to insult him like this?
“Heh… hehehe…”
Brooke threw Li Ruoxi—threw her hard—sending her flying across the hall a full thirty meters.
Li Ruoxi was grateful she landed on the soft sofa.
If there had been another sheet of glass to crash through, she might have lost her life.
But her current situation wasn’t much better.
She was barely alive, her head hanging down as if she’d slide off the sofa.
Every breath felt like fire scorching her chest.
Her internal organs felt dislocated from Brooke’s attack.
Brooke stepped lightly, elegantly and gentlemanly, placed the candle on the floor, cracked his knuckles, and rolled his neck—pop, crackle.
Completely indifferent to the dying Li Ruoxi, he came before her and grabbed her neck again.
“Remember this: you’re just a waste, a fat pig.”
Brooke’s pupils turned a grayish white.
Two fangs protruded from the corners of his mouth.
His entire face became gaunt and ferocious, completely losing the appearance of a noble young master.
Now he looked more like a dried-up vampire corpse—creepy to behold.
“And I don’t like people acting arrogant in front of me. Those who did in the past—do you know what happened to them?”
“DO YOU KNOW?”
Brooke’s arm tightened slightly, as if he would snap her neck in the next second.
Then he released her.
Li Ruoxi fell straight to the ground.
When her knees absorbed the impact, the glass shards still stuck to her skin stabbed deeper into her flesh.
The pain nearly made Li Ruoxi unable to breathe.
Damn it.
She wanted to talk trash back, but now she couldn’t even speak.
Her muscles cramped, her whole body trembled, enduring excruciating pain.
Her face looked even more pitiful and charming, tears on the verge of falling, half biting her lips.
Unfortunately, the person in front of her was—a gay man.
“You think I’ll let you off just because you act pitiful for me?”
Brooke was very satisfied with Li Ruoxi’s expression.
He casually grabbed her again, this time by the collar.
Li Ruoxi was like a corpse, her eyes even starting to lose focus.
Everything she saw grew blurry.
“Pitiful blood bag. This is what happens when you anger the noble me.”
Li Ruoxi was once again flung away like a sandbag—hard!
‘This is so painful… Am I going to die again?… Or will I fail and go through inexplicable beatings again?… So tired… Just let me die like this… I don’t want to conquer this world anymore… I don’t want to be the protagonist anymore… Sob…’
At the last moment of consciousness, Li Ruoxi thought.
Then, a sharp pain in her head, and she completely passed out.