Brooke had already caught the scent of Li Ruoxi’s delicious blood.
The moment the blood touched his lips, he couldn’t help but get excited, like a child stealing candy.
As if the blood naturally carried an effect that stimulated his excitement.
Thump thump thump…
Sip…
Brooke stopped his mouth without biting down.
Instead, he licked up the tiny beads of blood that had seeped out.
“Food that doesn’t resist—eating it gives zero sense of accomplishment.”
Brooke angrily pinched Li Ruoxi’s philtrum.
“Wake up. Wake up now.”
With his right hand pressing her philtrum, his other hand shook her shoulder incessantly.
“Hey! I’m still sick! Can’t you get lost and stop bothering me?”
Li Ruoxi’s spirit body protested angrily from the side.
When she saw Brooke about to do something else, her heart tightened.
What was this all about?
How could he bully me like this?
Li Ruoxi was furious but completely helpless.
Thump—thump thump—
“Strange… I’m a spirit body, so why do I feel a heartbeat?”
Brooke switched tactics and started performing CPR on Li Ruoxi.
“Big shot!! Don’t mess around! I passed out from blood loss, not cardiac arrest!!!!”
Li Ruoxi clutched her chest.
She actually felt a force transmitting from her physical body to her spirit body.
Wait—
Did this mean she could return to her body?
The heartbeat grew stronger.
The pounding sensation caused Li Ruoxi to feel her spirit body hit by a massive sonic wave.
Layers of phantom images began to appear on her form.
Pain!!!
A sharp, intense pain suddenly shot through her chest.
“You…!!”
Brooke had extended his sharp nails.
The long, slender claw pierced straight into the position of Li Ruoxi’s heart.
And that three-to-four-centimeter nail had already sunk in halfway!
Her spirit body was in so much pain she couldn’t move.
Her soul felt like it was being thrown into boiling water.
White smoke visibly rose from her spiritual power.
But only Li Ruoxi could see all this.
Brooke was still doing his thing.
“Let’s see if you wake up now…”
Brooke said with a smile.
“I want to see how long you can keep pretending.”
“Hm?…”
“How disappointing.”
Before Brooke could celebrate halfway, noise came from outside the door.
He glanced resentfully at Li Ruoxi on the bed.
He pulled out his nail hastily.
A stream of blood oozed from Li Ruoxi’s chest.
“Help! Help!”
Li Ruoxi’s spirit body said frantically.
But no one could hear her.
She could only watch as Brooke pulled out his nail, yanked open the curtain, leaped out the window, his figure disappearing into the treetops.
Raphael paused at the door but eventually entered the room.
“Brooke… still my master’s defeated opponent. Can’t even handle such a trivial matter.”
Raphael looked out the window with contempt, then shifted his gaze to assess Li Ruoxi.
“What’s so good about you that my master cares about you this much?”
Raphael was cold and indifferent, paying no attention to the blood seeping from Li Ruoxi’s chest.
“If my master weren’t coming…”
He sighed helplessly. If Li Ruoxi wasn’t properly taken care of, the trouble would fall on him—and even his master.
“A human body… as fragile as a rag.”
A layer of cold energy spread over Raphael’s hand, as if it had just come out of a freezer.
He pressed his finger against the wound.
Li Ruoxi shivered. Cold…
An icy chill suddenly pierced her spirit body’s chest.
She had no doubt that if it lasted another dozen seconds, her heart would simply stop.
What could she say?
Even if she said anything, no one could hear her.
Clatter!
The water glass on the bedside table was knocked over by Li Ruoxi, who had fallen onto it.
Raphael raised an eyebrow.
He swept a suspicious glance over Li Ruoxi and stopped his hand.
“Raphael!”
Vivian walked in from outside and saw this scene.
“Who did it?”
She didn’t suspect Raphael, because he never played such tricks.
When Raphael acted, corpses were separated from bodies—that was normal.
“It was Brooke, My Lady.”
Raphael returned to his meticulous butler persona.
He quickly adjusted his posture, placing his hands in front of his abdomen.
“It was Raphael’s failure to properly watch over Miss Li Ruoxi.”
Raphael spoke as if confessing a crime.
Vivian walked over slowly without blaming him.
She asked, “When will she wake up?”
“Three or four days, they said.”
“Three or four days?”
A mysterious smile curled at the corner of Vivian’s lips.
She suddenly noticed something.
The anger she had before seemed to dissipate quite a bit.
Still, she said sternly, “Don’t let me see this happen again.”
“Yes, Mistress.”
“Also, have Pigusi buy up the surrounding area. There’s no need for other patients here.”
“Yes.” Raphael agreed without hesitation.
Vivian didn’t care whether things were reasonable; she only needed results.
Such trivial matters, Pigusi and Raphael would handle for her.
After the sound of the door closing, Raphael left.
Vivian walked in front of Li Ruoxi’s spirit body and reached out to help her up.
Li Ruoxi naturally let herself be helped up, but she couldn’t help muttering, “Why is this woman so black-hearted? She’s so beautiful, yet she always wants to suck my… suck…”
Vivian said teasingly, “What’s wrong?”
Li Ruoxi, held by Vivian’s arms, glanced at her body on the bed, then at Vivian in front of her.
“You… you…”
This damn vampire!
How many BUGs did I set for her back then?!
Vivian saw her flustered expression and instead laughed.
Black flames erupted from her body, spreading from her hands to engulf Li Ruoxi’s entire form in an instant.
In a flash, Li Ruoxi’s spirit body was completely swallowed.
Without a trace of hesitation or doubt.
“Contract: Spirit!”
A black hexagram array appeared beneath their feet.
Li Ruoxi and Vivian stood in the center of the six-pointed shape.
A black light enveloped their figures.
The surroundings instantly turned pitch black, as if it were night.
The hexagram array beneath Li Ruoxi’s bare feet kept shrinking until it disappeared.
Then, on her pulse point, a miniature black hexagram array appeared, glowing with a mysterious, eerie black on her pale wrist.
She saw a similar mark on Vivian—except… in Vivian’s pupils…
Li Ruoxi suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, as if her fate was now firmly in Vivian’s hands.
“What did you do to me?”
Vivian could detect her spirit body and then casually cast some mysterious spell on her.
Li Ruoxi had absolutely no impression of this kind of spell.
How is that possible?
You’re a vampire—how can you know this kind of mysticism?
Shouldn’t this be the domain of a witch…
Thinking this, Li Ruoxi felt like slapping herself twice.
She suddenly realized: This spell was something I taught her… but she’s modified it into a master-servant type.
Her past life as a witch made it normal for her to know such things.
But now, without awakening her power, she could only be completely dominated and controlled by Vivian.
“You seem… a little different.”
A flicker of thought and sudden realization passed through Li Ruoxi’s pupils.
Vivian caught it.
“Is it you, Zuo Mi’er?”
“Zuo… Zuo your head! What exactly did you do to me?”
Vivian suddenly grabbed her throat.
“Don’t be insolent in front of me. You don’t have the qualifications. You didn’t before, and you certainly don’t now.”
This time, Li Ruoxi’s soul nearly suffocated for real.
What kind of setting is this?
Does a spirit body need to breathe?
“From now on, obey me obediently. Otherwise… the only two family members you have left will die because of you.”
Earlier, when Li Ruoxi escaped, Vivian almost killed her sister and grandmother.
She had only stopped because she had to enter cultivation to recover after fighting Mu Tu, and her anger had subsided a bit afterward.
She was different from ordinary vampires.
She had started from the weakest bloodline and gradually purified and cultivated to her current Prince-level power.
Raphael and Pigusi were also vampires she had taken in when she was weak.
Hundreds of years of cultivation had brought them to where they were now.
Li Ruoxi beat and pulled at her arm, trying to get Vivian to let go of her neck.
After Vivian released her, the first thing Li Ruoxi asked was:
“How do I get back into my body?”
Earlier, Li Ruoxi had noticed the instability of her spirit body.
Now, less than half a day had passed, and if you looked closely, you could see she was becoming more and more transparent.
“Go back!”
Vivian didn’t waste time.
Her nails suddenly grew long and black, like iron hooks, and slashed viciously across Li Ruoxi’s spirit body.
The moment Li Ruoxi’s spirit body was hit, it turned into a white light and returned to her physical body.
In a daze, Li Ruoxi woke up on the hospital bed.
The feeling of having a body again brought a sense of groundedness.
She couldn’t wait to get up…
Uh—
Cold. Pain.
The lingering cold energy remained in her body.
Raphael had pressed too hard.
Li Ruoxi clearly felt her heartbeat slow down by half a beat.
Her head was dizzy from insufficient blood supply.
Vivian looked at Li Ruoxi with a cat-and-mouse expression, as if she had found something amusing.
Yes, her toy had returned.
As long as Li Ruoxi hadn’t awakened her power, Vivian could bully and humiliate her without restraint.
But even if she awakened now, what did it matter?
Her spirit body had already been contracted.
She would be Vivian’s slave for life!
Vivian didn’t need Li Ruoxi to like her.
She just needed Li Ruoxi to stay by her side forever.
“From now on, no one can take you away.”
Now that the contract was signed, her power could protect her, couldn’t it?
“You… I just woke up… there’s no blood… please don’t suck, okay? Really, it’s dry. There’s no water left—pfft—no blood left. Look here…”
Vivian made a familiar move, and Li Ruoxi explained nervously.
In front of Vivian, whose queenly aura was fully unleashed, Li Ruoxi couldn’t even speak smoothly.
Not to mention mustering the courage to resist.
Half-pushed, half-acquiesced, Li Ruoxi still couldn’t push Vivian away.
Feeling the slight coolness from the other’s body, Li Ruoxi shivered herself.
Hugging a vampire is definitely not a good experience…
The only nice thing…
Vivian’s little butt had a pretty decent feel.
Uh—
Just as she thought that, a cry of pain burst from Li Ruoxi’s throat.