Then, Ling Yue pulled her finger out of Feng Ling’s chest, bringing with it a small cluster of dark red flames.
The Flame of End danced on her fingertip for a moment before extinguishing.
Little Feng Ling’s eyes were open, tear tracks still on her face, and the hole where the finger had pierced her chest was ringed with scorch marks.
“Oh my, she really is dead…”
Ling Yue tilted her head, looking at Feng Ling’s body.
Then she reached out to close her eyes and wiped the tears and snot from her little face.
“Honestly, crying so messily~”
Ling Yue picked Feng Ling up from the floor and gently laid her on the bed.
“Wait a moment, little Feng Ling. Big sister is going to get something~”
With that, she turned and left the room… and now in the corridor, only her own footsteps could be heard.
No one else.
Ling Yue went all the way to the private area on the third floor and pushed open the door at the far end…
The room was filled with various bottles and jars, as well as some ancient-looking books and scrolls.
She took down a few bottles from the shelf and pulled a roll of parchment from a drawer…
It was covered in the ancient script of the Vampire.
“Found it, found it! This is it!”
Then, Ling Yue returned to Little Feng Ling’s room with the items.
First, she placed those bottles and jars on the nightstand, then opened one and poured the liquid inside into her palm.
“This is a preservation magic potion. I made it myself. The recipe took a lot of effort to find.”
As she applied the potion to Feng Ling’s body, she muttered to herself.
“Once this is applied, the body will never rot or stink. It’ll stay just as cute as it is now~”
She applied it carefully—face, hands, feet… not a single patch of skin was missed.
After applying the potion, she opened another bottle and sprinkled the silver powder inside over the wound on Feng Ling’s chest.
The moment the powder touched the skin, the wound began to heal at a visible rate…
When it was done, Feng Ling looked like she was just asleep.
“Alright, perfect now~”
Ling Yue stepped back and admired her work.
Feng Ling lay on the bed in the soiled white nightgown…
That made Ling Yue frown.
“This dress is too dirty. Let’s change it.”
Then, she pulled a deep red dress from the wardrobe…
It was one she had bought for Feng Ling before, but Feng Ling had always refused to wear it, saying the color was too bright.
“Now you can wear it, right? It’s not like you’re going to complain anymore.”
Ling Yue helped Feng Ling out of the dirty sleeping dress and into the red dress.
After that, she picked up a comb and began to brush Feng Ling’s hair.
She brushed slowly and carefully, just like she had every night before.
“Little Feng Ling’s hair has grown again… time for a trim… but it’s okay if you don’t cut it. Long hair looks very nice too~”
After brushing, she fetched some cosmetics from the vanity.
“A girl has to put on makeup when she goes out~ Even though you never do it usually. But today is different… Today is the day Little Feng Ling becomes ‘forever Little Feng Ling,’ so of course she has to be dressed up beautifully!”
Ling Yue applied lipstick to Feng Ling, drew her eyebrows, and added a little blush to her cheeks.
Then she said with satisfaction, “Mm, much better!”
After that, she climbed onto the bed and lay down beside Feng Ling.
“Hey… Little Feng Ling.”
She turned on her side, propped her head on her hand, and looked down at Feng Ling’s face.
“You know? When I said I was planning to forgive you in a couple of days… that was true. I really did order a cake, and I really did plan to teach you some new magic. I even thought about where to take you to play.”
“But I also know you wouldn’t change…”
“Even if I forgave you, even if I was good to you, that thought of ‘I want to go out’ in your heart wouldn’t disappear… You might act obedient on the surface, but you’d definitely be looking for another chance to run away behind my back.”
“Because, you’re just that kind of person~”
Ling Yue reached out and touched Feng Ling’s cold cheek.
“You like freedom… You like sunlight… You want to live like a normal person… I know all that. But Little Feng Ling, I can’t give you those things. Because I’m not human, and I will never become human.”
“So I thought about it for a long time, and finally understood.”
“Since you want to leave me so badly, I’ll just make you stay by my side forever… That way, you won’t suffer anymore, and I’ll never have to worry about you running away again… Everyone’s happy, right?”
Feng Ling didn’t answer…
Of course she wouldn’t.
“Why aren’t you talking? Are you still mad at me? Oh, don’t be angry anymore. Big sister apologizes, okay?”
Then Ling Yue lowered her head and kissed Feng Ling’s cold lips.
“I’m sorry, Little Feng Ling… But I really, really like you.”
“Like you so much that I can’t let anyone else have you.”
“Like you so much that even if you die, I have to make you stay with me forever.”
Then she buried her face in the hollow of Feng Ling’s neck…
A faint smell of blood still lingered there.
“Hey, Little Feng Ling… Can you say something to me? Anything is fine… Even scolding me, or crying…”
She kept talking.
“Please, just say something… sob…”
“Why… Why did you have to say that kind of thing…”
Tears spilled from Ling Yue’s eyes, soaking Feng Ling’s hair.
“Why did you say ‘I wish I had never met you’… Do you know how much it hurt me to hear that?”
“I really do like you… I liked you from the first time I saw you… I turned you into a Vampire because I didn’t want you to die… I locked you up because I was afraid you would leave me… I did all those terrible things to you because I didn’t know how to express myself…”
“I’ve lived for thousands of years… But no one ever taught me how to love someone normally. You’re the first person I’ve ever truly fallen for… I really didn’t know what to do… So I only knew how to use the methods I knew… Those methods might have been wrong… Might have been too much… But that was all the love I had… And why couldn’t you accept it…”
“Why… sob sob…”
She cried for a while, her face buried in Feng Ling’s small chest.
Then, slowly, the crying stopped.
“But you know, Little Feng Ling…”
She reached out and stroked Feng Ling’s hair.
“Now you’ll never say those hurtful things to me again… Never try to run away, never lie to me, never disappoint me again.”
“You’ll stay this good forever.”
“Stay with me forever and ever.”
“Right?”
A smile slowly crept onto her lips…
The smile grew wider and more twisted.
In the end, it became a mad grin.
“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
“Perfect! Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect! Little Feng Ling finally belongs to me forever! No one can take her away! No one!”
She hugged Feng Ling’s cold body tightly.
“We’ll be together forever! Forever and ever, until this world is completely destroyed, until the end of the universe… You will never leave me!”
The light in Ling Yue’s bright red eyes had gone out completely.
“Good night, Little Feng Ling~ See you tomorrow!”