That afternoon, Xu Fengling was curled up on the living room sofa, playing video games.
She had recently been playing that open-world game… riding a horse all over the place, fighting monsters whenever she saw them, opening chests whenever she saw them, having a blast.
As for Ye Lingyue, she was sitting at the other end of the sofa reading a book.
Xu Fengling stole a glance at her… then quickly turned her gaze back to the screen.
It was mainly because Sister Lingyue was just too beautiful!
So, she stole another glance.
“What are you looking at?”
Ye Lingyue asked without looking up.
“N-nothing!”
Xu Fengling was so startled her hand twitched, causing her game character to fall off a cliff and die.
Ye Lingyue looked up and saw her flustered appearance, a slight curve forming at the corner of her mouth.
“Little Fengling, do you have something you want to say to me?”
“No, I don’t!”
“Really?”
“Really, I don’t!”
Xu Fengling frantically pressed buttons on her controller, trying to respawn her character.
Then, Lingyue moved over from the other end of the sofa and sat down beside her.
Xu Fengling could feel the sofa dip… then Sister Lingyue’s body leaned in, bringing with it that faint, pleasant fragrance.
“Then why have you been stealing glances at me?”
Ye Lingyue whispered, leaning close to her ear.
This instantly made Xu Fengling’s ears turn red.
“I… I just… I just think Sister Lingyue is beautiful…”
Her voice grew softer and softer, until the last few words were almost inaudible.
Hearing this, Lingyue ran her fingers through Fengling’s hair, gently stroking it.
“Little Fengling, your mouth is so sweet~ It’d be even better if it wasn’t just flattery.”
“I… I was telling the truth just now!”
Fengling said quietly.
And Lingyue’s fingers continued to slowly comb through her hair, making Xu Fengling feel her heart racing wildly, her little face growing warm.
Just as she closed her eyes, ready to enjoy it, she felt Lingyue’s fingers suddenly stop.
Xu Fengling opened her eyes and found Lingyue’s gaze now fixed on the collar of her clothes… the neckline had gotten a bit askew from her earlier movements, revealing the edges of the two bite marks on her neck.
“Sister Lingyue?”
Fengling tried calling out.
She saw Lingyue’s hand withdraw from her hair, then use a fingertip to trace along her cheek, slowly sliding down her jawline to her neck.
Fengling instinctively shrank her neck back a little.
At the same time, Lingyue asked softly, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s a little… ticklish,” Fengling answered honestly.
“Oh.”
Then, Ye Lingyue’s fingers continued downward, pressing on the collar of her sweatshirt and pulling it down a bit, fully exposing the two puncture wounds.
She reached out a finger and pressed on one of them.
“Does it still hurt?”
“No… it stopped hurting a long time ago.”
Hearing this, Ye Lingyue’s finger moved away from the bite mark, then slid along her neck to her shoulder, pressing on the small red marks she had left there with her nails.
And she pressed each one… not hard, but Xu Fengling could feel the tips of her nails touching her skin, a little cool.
“Sister Lingyue? You… what are you doing?”
She couldn’t help but ask.
Ye Lingyue didn’t answer her.
Her fingers lingered on Fengling’s shoulder for a moment before withdrawing, then she straightened her collar and said with a smile, “It’s nothing, nothing, I was just checking how well you’re healing… Go on, keep playing your game~”
Xu Fengling was a bit puzzled, but obediently went back to playing her game.
However, she couldn’t shake the feeling that even though Sister Lingyue was reading… her gaze kept drifting over to her.
Could it be that Sister Lingyue thinks she’s cute?
I really don’t get it…
Fengling decided not to think about it since she couldn’t figure it out, and immersed herself back in the game.
—
That evening, after her bath, Fengling changed into that dark red nightgown, her hair loose over her shoulders, holding her usual comb.
“Come here,” Lingyue patted the edge of the bed and said softly.
Once Fengling sat down, Lingyue immediately started combing her hair for her, asking as she did so, “Little Fengling, were you happy today?”
“I was! Every day spent with Sister Lingyue is happy!”
“You really know how to talk~”
Lingyue said with a laugh, pinching Fengling’s lips lightly.
After combing her hair, Ye Lingyue put down the comb, placed her hands on Fengling’s shoulders, then rested her chin on top of Fengling’s head from behind.
“Little Fengling is so tiny, really, just like a doll~”
“I’m not tiny! I’m just… just… one hundred and forty-five centimeters tall!”
Xu Fengling protested, flailing her arms wildly.
“One hundred and forty-five isn’t tiny? I’m over twenty centimeters taller than you.”
“Well… that’s just because you’re too tall…”
Xu Fengling muttered under her breath.
In response, Lingyue gave a light laugh, then wrapped her arms around her from behind.
The two of them sat quietly like that for a while.
Leaning against Ye Lingyue’s chest, Xu Fengling could feel the coolness of her body, and also that… wait, do Vampires have heartbeats?
“Hey, hey, Sister Lingyue, do Vampires have heartbeats?”
She asked.
“We do, just much slower than humans.”
“Then why can’t I feel it?”
“You’re too silly.”
“I’m not silly!”
“Still saying you’re not silly? When you get shy, doesn’t your heart beat very fast?”
Lingyue said with a smile, tapping Fengling’s little nose with her index finger.
Fengling immediately fell silent… because she really couldn’t refute that.
Then, Lingyue tightened her arms, holding her a little tighter… and the next moment, Fengling felt a cool sensation on her neck.
It was Ye Lingyue’s lips pressing against it again, moving slowly from the back of her neck to the side, directly against the skin there.
This time, two sharp fangs pressed against her skin but didn’t pierce it.
“Sister Lingyue… you… are you going to drink blood again?” Fengling asked.
But upon hearing this, Lingyue immediately withdrew from her neck, saying, “Not today… I drank quite a lot yesterday. If I drank more, you’d probably faint.”
As she spoke, she turned Xu Fengling around to face her, looking down into her eyes, and whispered, “But, little Fengling, your eyes are getting redder and redder.”
“Really?”
Xu Fengling blinked.
“Mhm, very beautiful~”
And those words turned our adorable little Fengling’s face red again.
Ye Lingyue smiled and gave her a kiss on the forehead.
“Let’s sleep for now.”
“Okay… Sister Lingyue, aren’t you going to sleep?”
“I’ll go to sleep a bit later.”
Then, Fengling’s small body quickly burrowed under the covers.
Perhaps because she was too tired, she fell asleep very quickly.
—
However, tonight, Fengling was awakened again by a certain kind of pain.
Opening her eyes, she found Sister Lingyue’s sharp fangs had already pierced her skin.
She was drinking blood again… and this time, she was drinking so fast… it made her dizzy… but more than that, it was disappointment that Sister Lingyue had lied to her again.
“Si-Sister Lingyue, you lied to me again… you clearly said you wouldn’t drink today.”
Even though Fengling said this in a tearful voice, Lingyue didn’t stop.
Then, Fengling weakly called out again, “Sister Lingyue…”
This time, Lingyue finally withdrew those sinful fangs.
But just as Xu Fengling was about to ask her why she broke her promise, Ye Lingyue, under Fengling’s shocked and fearful gaze, turned her head to the other side.
The next second, she opened her mouth and bit down on the side without puncture wounds, continuing to drink.
Wh-why… Sister Lingyue, what are you doing…
Fengling’s tears fell uncontrollably, yet Lingyue showed no sympathy, covering her mouth with a hand, still drinking her blood in large gulps.
It hurts… stop drinking, Sister Lingyue… please don’t… sob…
For the rest of the time, Fengling could only lie in bed, feeling her blood being rapidly drained away.
Finally, just as Fengling was about to lose consciousness, Lingyue released her mouth.
Then, Lingyue showed Fengling her familiar gentle smile and said, “Little Fengling, sorry~ Little Fengling’s blood is just too tempting~”
Having said that, regardless of what Xu Fengling wanted to say next, she directly covered Fengling’s little face with her hand, and immediately that hand emitted a faint glow.
Once the glow faded, Xu Fengling’s eyes closed, and she fell into a peaceful sleep.
Lingyue then gently wiped away the tear stains from the corners of Fengling’s eyes, pulled the blanket up a bit more for her, and only then left the room.