Chapter 11: Another “normal” day

“Sister Lingyue, why does my neck hurt so much?”

Feng Ling asked.

“Hehe, who knows…”

Lingyue just smiled mysteriously in response.

…

After that, Feng Ling enjoyed several more days of very comfortable, very pleasant daily life.

She didn’t have to think about anything, and she didn’t have to do anything.

Hmm… aside from being woken up by Sister Lingyue every one or two nights to have her blood sucked, everything was great.

Oh, right, sometimes when she was playing games, Sister Lingyue would suddenly use her fingernail to draw a shallow blood mark on her arm.

Feng Ling asked her what she was doing…

She just smiled and said, “It’s nothing~”

Sometimes when she was reading a book, Sister Lingyue would hug her from behind and then use her nail to draw circles on the back of her hand… and as she kept drawing, that sharp nail would break her skin.

“Sister Lingyue, you scratched me again.”

Xu Fengling would protest every time.

“Hmm? Does it hurt?”

“Well, it doesn’t exactly hurt, but…”

“If it doesn’t hurt, then it’s fine.”

Ye Lingyue smiled and licked away the blood mark.

After that, Feng Ling figured this was probably the vampire’s way of showing affection.

After all, Sister Lingyue had said that blood held many meanings for vampires… although she did feel a little annoyed every time she got scratched.

But… seeing Sister Lingyue looking so happy, she felt like it wasn’t really a big deal.

…

Today, Feng Ling was in the study reading that book on European Medieval History.

As for Lingyue, she was sitting on the other side of the desk writing something.

After a while, Feng Ling closed the book and said, “Sister Lingyue, I’m finished.”

“Mhm, then starting tomorrow, I’ll tell you about vampire history.”

Lingyue looked up and gave her a smile.

“Great!”

Feng Ling put the book back on the shelf, then stood in front of the bookcase looking at the other books… there really were so many books here!

“Hey, Sister Lingyue, have you read all these books?”

She asked curiously.

“I’ve read them all, yes.”

“Huh? All of them?”

“I’ve lived so many years, I had to find something to do, didn’t I?”

True… that was several hundred years… even if it were her, she could probably read the entire library’s collection several times over.

Then she pulled out a relatively thin book from the shelf and flipped through it… it was a book about vampire legends, and the cover had a bat and a moon drawn on it, looking a bit chuunibyou.

“Is everything written in this book true?”

She asked again.

“Hmm… some of it is true, and some is false… the one you have was written by humans, it has a lot of imagined, fake things in it.”

“Like what?”

“Like being afraid of garlic, afraid of crosses, afraid of sunlight… all false. We just don’t like sunlight, we don’t turn to ash like humans write.”

“What about silver? Holy water?”

“All false… sigh, humans always like to imagine us as being afraid of this and that, making it seem like we’re so fragile~”

“Then… then what are you afraid of?”

“You?”

Lingyue gave Feng Ling a meaningful smile.

This made Feng Ling shiver, and she hurriedly corrected, “Us! What are we afraid of?”

“There’s nothing particularly scary… but if I had to say, it’s loneliness.”

Hearing this, Feng Ling froze.

She remembered the contents written in that diary…

Sister Lingyue had lived for hundreds of years, watching the people close to her die one by one.

That must have been so painful.

“Sister Lingyue…”

“What is it?”

“I… I’ll stay with you forever.”

Lingyue stared at her for a few seconds, then smiled and said, “Mhm.”

And at that moment, a flash of red light passed through her eyes, which were wearing contact lenses.

…

“Charge! Charge! Go go go!”

Feng Ling gripped the controller, staring intently at the game screen while shouting non-stop… she was playing an intense and exciting racing game.

After successfully crossing the finish line, her excitement caused the controller to slip from her hands and fall to the floor.

She bent over to pick it up, but as she reached under the sofa, the hem of her nightgown slid up a bit, revealing her fair thigh.

This caused Lingyue’s gaze to shift from her book, landing directly on it.

“Little Feng Ling, come here.”

Then she called out softly.

Hearing this, Feng Ling obediently shuffled over.

She saw Lingyue reach out and lift her nightgown hem up a little more.

“Sister Lingyue?”

Feng Ling asked, a bit nervous.

“Don’t move…”

Lingyue’s finger traced a line on her thigh.

This time, it didn’t break the skin, merely leaving a white mark.

Feng Ling breathed a sigh of relief at this.

However, the next second, Lingyue traced another line.

This time she applied pressure, turning that white mark into a red line that beaded with tiny droplets of blood.

“Ouch!” Feng Ling jerked her leg back.

“Don’t move.”

Lingyue pressed down on her leg.

The force wasn’t heavy, but Feng Ling’s leg still couldn’t move… after all, Sister Lingyue was too strong.

She could only watch helplessly as Lingyue lowered her head, pressed her lips against the wound on her thigh, and licked away the blood that had seeped out.

“Mhm… this place is quite tender too.”

Lingyue looked up and licked her lips.

“Sister Lingyue!”

Feng Ling’s face was now as red as an apple.

“What is it?”

“You… how could you bite there!”

“I didn’t bite, I just scratched it… and besides, I told you long ago that every inch of your skin is mine. What’s wrong with me touching it?”

Feng Ling was left speechless.

Then, Lingyue smiled, reached out to help her pull her nightgown hem back down, patted her on the head, and said softly, “Alright! Little Feng Ling, go back to playing your game~”

Little Feng Ling, clutching the controller, couldn’t get the heat to fade from her face for a long time.

…

When night came, Lingyue sat down by Feng Ling’s bedside again and said, “Come here.”

After Feng Ling sat down, Lingyue, as usual, helped her brush her hair.

“Little Feng Ling, is there anything you want to do?”

Lingyue suddenly asked as she brushed.

“Huh? Things I want to do? That… I want… I want to learn that fire attribute magic!”

“Fire attribute magic? Is there something special about it?”

“Mainly, the Flame of End you used last time was so amazing, I wanted to learn something similar… of course, if I could directly learn the Flame of End, then…”

“No. You can learn basic fire magic, but the Flame of End is not allowed. That’s too dangerous for you.”

Lingyue directly cut her off.

“Wah… okay…”

Feng Ling pouted.

After finishing brushing her hair, Lingyue placed the comb on the nightstand, then hugged her from behind and asked, “Little Feng Ling, do you really want to become stronger?”

“Yes! After all, if I become stronger, I can protect myself~”

Lingyue fell silent for a moment, then pressed her lips close to Xu Fengling’s ear and whispered, “You don’t need to protect yourself. I will protect you.”

“But…”

“No buts.”

Ye Lingyue’s voice was still gentle, but Xu Fengling felt her arms tighten a little.

“You don’t need to become stronger. You just need to stay by my side.”

Feng Ling opened her mouth to say something, but ultimately didn’t speak.

She always felt there was something not quite right about what Sister Lingyue said, but she couldn’t put her finger on exactly what it was.

“Sleep for now.”

Lingyue kissed her on the forehead.

Feng Ling turned over in bed, burying her face in the pillow, thinking about the things that had happened today…

Mainly, when Sister Lingyue scratched her thigh, that feeling was really strange.

It clearly hurt a little, but deep down, she didn’t want to refuse her at all.

Also, when Sister Lingyue said those words, “every inch of your skin is mine”… her heart was beating so fast.

What kind of feeling was this? She truly didn’t know.