Chapter 4: The Maids Are All Too Beautiful

Lying on the soft down bed, the low-key luxurious decorations around didn’t distract Li Ruoxi.

Her mind filled with more and more thoughts.

“Are you trying to run away?”

A low, magnetic, seductive voice came from beside her ear.

Vivian held the warm body in her arms, feeling for the first time that aside from cold, warmth could be this comfortable.

“Now, you can’t touch anyone except me.”

Vivian curled her lips into a smile.

“You are this queen’s personal toy.”

As she spoke, Vivian licked her lips with her small tongue, the tip lightly gliding over her two sharp fangs.

She leaned down again and bit into Li Ruoxi’s neck.

Li Ruoxi had no strength at all, her whole body limp like a pile of mud.

Fear and humiliation nearly overwhelmed her.

Tears silently slid from the corners of her eyes.

She refused almost pleadingly:

“No, don’t…”

“Don’t bite this side… Can you switch to the other? Biting the same side all the time makes the wound heal slowly.”

“…”

“Are you provoking me?”

Vivian revealed a sinister smile.

“Interesting woman. Do you want to command this queen?”

Li Ruoxi gently moved her neck and offered the other side.

“Actually, this way tastes better.”

“You’re not afraid of me?”

Propping herself up, Vivian’s sapphire-like eyes looked at Li Ruoxi with a hint of amusement.

“Don’t you… fear death?”

Didn’t this woman know that her life and death were in her hands?

Li Ruoxi didn’t back down and met Vivian’s gaze.

“Would you let me go anyway?”

Slap!

A loud, inexplicable slap.

Li Ruoxi felt her face sting.

A red, swollen handprint appeared on her fair, smooth right cheek, and her whole face swelled up in an instant.

“You…”

Li Ruoxi knew Vivian’s temperament well; this slap was a warning.

“Get up.”

Vivian didn’t like this feeling.

Her being cold didn’t mean she liked others being cold to her.

Vivian got up and stood beside the bed, looking at Li Ruoxi who nervously propped herself up.

A hint of cruelty showed in her sapphire eyes.

She wanted to subdue Li Ruoxi.

Vivian absolutely would not allow anything beyond her control.

“You can move around the courtyard, but… if you dare leave this place…”

Vivian picked up a photo frame from the small round table beside her.

In the photo, Li Ruoxi showed a bright smile, posing with an old woman and a little girl.

Gloomy black flames materialized from Vivian’s hand.

The photo frame couldn’t withstand the strange, intense heat and twisted in front of Li Ruoxi in an instant.

Ignoring the trace of terror in Li Ruoxi’s eyes, Vivian coldly spoke:

“Raphael, take her downstairs.”

A subtle sound, the door opened.

A man in a black tailcoat, like a butler, stood tall by the door, his hair perfectly groomed.

He slightly bowed and respectfully said to Vivian, “Yes, My Lady.”

“Go out with him,” Vivian said indifferently.

Li Ruoxi tried to get up, only to realize her clothes were as thin as gauze, barely covering anything.

She looked up and saw Vivian’s even colder gaze.

Not daring to show her aggrieved expression, she slid off the bed, covering her chest, and walked over to Raphael.

“If she runs away,” Vivian said with a queenly face and a keep-away tone, “you know the consequences.”

Raphael’s heart suddenly constricted, as if a large hand was gripping it tightly.

A flush appeared on his pale face.

“M-My… My Lady… Raph… Raphael… knows…”

After he spoke, the suffocating feeling disappeared.

Raphael quickly led Li Ruoxi downstairs.

Standing before the huge floor-to-ceiling window, outside was a garden-like picturesque view.

Vivian gazed into the distance and murmured to herself, “You only need me. As for the others…”

—

On the cool, smooth cream-colored floor tiles, Li Ruoxi tugged at the gauze and followed Raphael’s footsteps along the cool corridor.

“S-Sorry… I want to ask…”

Raphael didn’t turn back. Li Ruoxi’s voice grew softer.

“…Where… are we going?”

The last two words were almost inaudible.

Li Ruoxi, at 1.6 meters, following this 1.9-meter tall man, could only see his lower back…

She regretted not writing herself taller.

An Amazon warrior’s build would have been nice!

A mistake, a mistake…

But Vivian’s slap earlier had stunned her, and also the burned photo frame…

‘Damn… Grandma and Sister Qing’er…’

Vivian’s domineering personality absolutely would not allow Li Ruoxi—that is, her—to care about others.

But things had already deviated a bit.

Li Ruoxi recalled her original fate: during the transportation, she should have been rescued by a girl named Gu Qingqing…

The story behind it was long, and Li Ruoxi couldn’t remember for now.

But after being pressed down by the queenly Vivian, Li Ruoxi’s mind went blank.

The overly seductive scene made her lose some ability to think.

‘No… no… And where did this Raphael come from…?’

Li Ruoxi had no impression of this vampire before her.

Li Ruoxi, lost in thought behind him, her legs already sore and weak, but Raphael continued leading.

Finally, the corridor went down two flights of stairs to the first floor.

Milk-white lights illuminated the entire hall, the light emanating from the large ceiling above.

The walls were decorated with European-style murals, and the space was as vast as a circular fortress.

A group of maids in black-and-white uniforms were scattered around, tidying the entire hall.

“Moyila, this is arranged by My Lady.”

Li Ruoxi saw a tall figure with long legs, wearing black stockings and a short skirt, a white cloth ornament on her head, and a small gold badge on her chest.

Moyila had fair European skin, a high nose bridge, and emerald green eyes.

Her chest was proud and straight.

She walked toward Raphael and the others with elegant, noble steps, clearly a person of high education.

Moyila was only a head shorter than Raphael.

She slightly lowered her head to look at Li Ruoxi behind Raphael, who was wearing only a thin gauze nightgown that couldn’t hide her fair, baby-like skin.

“Raphael, letting a petite little girl follow you like this is not gentlemanly behavior.”

Moyila showed a precise, elegant smile.

She walked to Li Ruoxi, bent down slightly, and gently hugged her.

“Don’t be afraid. Since you can enter here, nothing else will happen.”

Moyila, like a big sister in her twenties, hugged Li Ruoxi and gently patted her back, comforting her.

Raphael shook his head.

“My Lady’s arrangements are not for you or me to decide. My Lady wants her… you know, she is just a mobile blood bank.”

Moyila’s body stiffened, and her flawless standard smile slowly faded.

Her emerald eyes looked at Li Ruoxi, petite and weak like a little sister.

After looking, she suddenly sighed and said, “Moyila understands. I will follow the master’s orders.”

Li Ruoxi’s mind was full of question marks.

This sounded like arranging last affairs.

“Um… can I ask… what’s next?”

Li Ruoxi’s face was pale.

Already lacking color, and after Vivian sucked her blood again, plus being captured, she felt she couldn’t hold on.

Somehow, Li Ruoxi felt her cold body slowly warm up a bit, but the scene before her became blurry.

“Can… tell me…”

“Tell… me…”

Li Ruoxi fell forward into Moyila’s arms.

Moyila crouched and held Li Ruoxi in her arms.

A flush slowly appeared on Li Ruoxi’s pale face.

She wanted to carry Li Ruoxi to see the doctor, but Raphael blocked her way.

Moyila said, “The master just wants her to obey, not to die.”

Only then did Raphael move aside.

“Explain it to the master yourself.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Moyila just felt sorry for Li Ruoxi.

“What’s her name?”

Moyila held Li Ruoxi, still not knowing her name.

“The master calls her Li Ruoxi.”

“Li Ruoxi…”

Moyila, in heels, walked toward the maid’s room.

—

Li Ruoxi woke up and pulled the blanket.

Suddenly, she sat up abruptly.

She looked around… and felt a bit disappointed.

“Still here…”

From initial surprise and vague anticipation, now she was a bit scared.

This lack of control, everything arranged to the worst, Li Ruoxi was afraid…

Afraid she would lose her life.

And for some reason, she was worried about her grandmother and Sister Qing’er.

It had been a week since she came to this estate.

Aside from the first time Vivian sucked her blood, she had also sucked her blood yesterday.

Every time after being blood embraced, Li Ruoxi felt like she had a serious illness and needed several days to recover.

Unfortunately…

Li Ruoxi had her first period since coming to this world…

This added illness to her already blood-deficient state.

Weak-limbed, she still had to clean the backyard today.

This was the lightest task Moyila had arranged for her, hiding it from Vivian.

The only thing that surprised Li Ruoxi was the communication.

What she said, they understood.

What they said, she understood.

But they were clearly two different languages.

She didn’t dwell on it.

Dragging her weak body, Li Ruoxi put on the maid uniform and shyly stuffed a sanitary pad underneath.

“It’s okay~ It’s okay~ We’re all girls~ Why be embarrassed about this~ Whew… It’s fine…”

“Li Ruoxi!”

“Ah… yes…”

As if caught doing something wrong, Li Ruoxi waved her hands frantically and hid them behind her back.

“Hurry up, you’re the slowest today!”

Outside, another maid, named Susie.

Vivian’s maids were all rare beauties.

Each one was tall and graceful, with curves and long legs.

The only bad thing was probably that they collectively ostracized Li Ruoxi…

Li Ruoxi hastily put on her black leather shoes and trotted out.