“Xiao Fengling, wake up, wake up…”
Fengling groggily opened her eyes to see Lingyue leaning over her, her hanging hair brushing against her cheek, making it itch.
Outside the window, it was still dark.
The bedside lamp’s light cast half of her face in brightness, the other half in shadow.
“Mmm… what time is it?” Fengling rubbed her eyes and asked.
Her voice was still that soft, sticky loli tone… she was getting used to it.
“Three in the morning.”
“…Huh?”
Fengling thought she must have heard wrong.
Then, Lingyue straightened up.
Fengling now noticed that Lingyue was wearing a black silk nightgown, the collar slightly open, revealing a small patch of pale skin below her collarbone.
She was also holding two cups, handing one to Fengling, saying, “Here, drink this.”
Xu Fengling took the cup and sniffed it.
No scent of blood… instead, there was a faint, sweet aroma.
“Is it hot cocoa again?” she asked.
“Mhm.”
Fengling tilted her head back and took a sip.
Very sweet, very warm… exactly the same taste as last time.
“But, Lingyue sister, why are we drinking hot cocoa at three in the morning?”
“Because I wanted to watch you drink it.”
This answer left Xu Fengling completely at a loss for words.
She could only continue sipping the hot cocoa, one mouthful after another.
And Lingyue sat on the edge of the bed, watching her drink with gentle eyes.
Seeing Fengling finish, Lingyue took the empty cup and tucked the blanket around her, saying softly, “Alright, go back to sleep.”
“Mmm… Lingyue sister, aren’t you going to sleep?”
“I’ll sleep a bit later.”
Hearing this, Xu Fengling nodded.
Then she turned over, burying her face in the pillow.
In her drowsy state, she thought she heard Lingyue sister say something softly… but couldn’t make out what it was.
Then came the sound of a door closing.
…
The next morning, Xu Fengling lay in bed staring at the ceiling for a good while before slowly sitting up to go wash up.
Passing by the mirror, she instinctively glanced at it.
That single glance made her freeze.
She moved closer to the mirror, staring at her own eyes in the reflection.
Red… and a very pure, blood red at that.
“Holy crap?!”
Xu Fengling leaned in even closer, almost pressing her face against the mirror.
She blinked, and the pair of red eyes in the mirror blinked back.
The next moment, she hurried out of the room, finding Ye Lingyue in the hallway heading downstairs to make breakfast, and called out, “Lingyue sister!”
“Hmm? What’s wrong?” Ye Lingyue turned back and asked.
“My eyes! My eyes turned red!” Xu Fengling said anxiously.
Uh… but, honestly, maybe she didn’t need to be this panicked.
After all, she’d already experienced turning into a loli.
Changing eye color didn’t seem like a big deal… especially since she was a vampire now.
Ye Lingyue walked over, cupped her face, and looked carefully, saying softly, “So it did change. That was quite fast.”
“So it did? Lingyue sister, you knew this would happen?”
“Mhm. Our vampire eyes fully change color within one to two weeks after transformation. Yours is fast, changing in just a few days.”
Xu Fengling blinked again and asked, “Then why aren’t your eyes red, Lingyue sister? Your eyes are normal black.”
Ye Lingyue smiled, reached up, and lightly touched the corner of her eye.
Then Xu Fengling saw her holding something thin… a contact lens.
“Look clearly~ my eyes.”
The next second, Xu Fengling saw her eyes.
They were a blood red completely different from her own… if her eyes were rubies, then Ye Lingyue’s eyes were an abyss.
“Wow…” Xu Fengling couldn’t help but let out a sigh of admiration.
“What is it?”
“Lingyue sister’s eyes are so pretty…”
Ye Lingyue was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, “Your mouth is quite sweet~”
“I was just telling the truth!”
“Alright, alright…”
Ye Lingyue put the contact lens back in, her eyes returning to the gentle black, “Come on, let’s go have breakfast first.”
…
Today’s breakfast was century egg and lean pork congee with a few side dishes.
Xu Fengling sat at the dining table, her two feet dangling and swinging in mid-air.
Even though Ye Lingyue had previously brought her a small stool to rest her feet on… she still felt the chair was too high.
“Lingyue sister, have I grown taller?” she asked hopefully.
“No, same as yesterday,” Lingyue replied mercilessly.
“Oh…”
Fengling lowered her head disappointedly and continued eating her congee.
She really wanted to grow a bit taller… with her current height of one meter forty-five, she had to look up at everything, and she couldn’t even reach the kitchen counter.
“Don’t worry. Vampire physical development is very slow. Maybe in a few decades, you’ll grow to one meter fifty,” Lingyue took a sip of hot cocoa and said softly.
“Five centimeters in a few decades?!”
Xu Fengling almost spat out her congee.
“Just kidding, probably just over a decade.”
“That’s not much better!”
Xu Fengling indignantly took a bite of a side dish, her cheeks puffed out like a hamster.
Watching her like this, the smile on Lingyue’s lips deepened.
She used her thumb to wipe a bit of congee from the corner of Fengling’s mouth, then very naturally put it in her own mouth… an action that made Fengling’s little face turn red.
“L-Lingyue sister! That’s…”
“What is it?”
“That was from my mouth…”
“I know,” Ye Lingyue blinked, her expression utterly innocent.
Then, Xu Fengling lowered her head and buried her face in her congee bowl.
Ye Lingyue chuckled lightly, then continued drinking the blood from her own cup.
After finishing the meal, Ye Lingyue immediately went to the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Xu Fengling wanted to help… but as soon as she picked up a plate, Ye Lingyue glared at her, sending her back, and calmly said, “I’ve told you many times already, you don’t need to do anything.”
“But…”
“No buts.”
Xu Fengling had no choice but to obediently retreat from the kitchen, curl up on the living room sofa, and turn on the Switch… but she wasn’t really playing.
Her attention was entirely on the kitchen.
Because, Ye Lingyue seemed to be humming a song, though very softly; through the wall, it was hard to make out clearly…
Fengling pricked up her ears for a long time but could only tell it was a rather old tune, the melody sounding a bit melancholic.
“Lingyue sister, what song are you humming?”
She couldn’t help but ask.
“Nothing, just humming casually. What, doesn’t it sound good?”
“It sounds good! Really good!”
“Mhm.”
Then the humming continued.
Xu Fengling hugged the Switch, rested her chin on a cushion, listening to the sounds coming from the kitchen…
Actually, this kind of life was pretty good.
Even though turning into a vampire loli was indeed outrageous… but now she didn’t have to go to school, didn’t have to face bullying, and didn’t have to go home to face that drunken, abusive father… and Lingyue sister was really good to her.
So… she would definitely cherish her!
Definitely!
“Xiao Fengling, what are you thinking about?”
Ye Lingyue had finished washing the dishes at some point without her noticing.
Xu Fengling was startled, nearly dropping the Switch.
“Lingyue sister! How come you walk without making any sound!”
“Vampires can walk without making sound, didn’t you know?”
“I didn’t know! You never told me!”
Ye Lingyue smiled, walked around from behind the sofa, and sat down beside her.
“Come, let me see your hand.”
“My hand?”
Fengling obediently stretched out her hand.
Lingyue took her hand, turned it over to look at the palm, then turned it back to look at the nails, saying, “Indeed, this has changed too.”
Fengling followed her gaze and saw that her nails had grown quite a bit longer than before… She sighed, “Wow! When did they grow…”
“They’ve been growing slowly these past few days. You can try it out; your nails can be used as weapons now,” Lingyue released her hand and said.
Hearing this, Fengling curiously extended her hand and lightly scratched the wooden armrest of the sofa.
Immediately, four rather deep marks appeared on it.
“Holy crap, that’s too strong!” She stared wide-eyed at the marks.
“You’ve only just transformed, your strength isn’t fully formed yet… In a while, you could split this sofa in half with your bare hands.”
“Uh… then I better not use too much force,” Xu Fengling quickly withdrew her hand, afraid of accidentally breaking something.
Lingyue watched her reaction and smiled, saying, “You’re so adorable.”
“I-I’m not adorable! I’m a real man!”
Xu Fengling raised her hand in protest, but her soft, sticky voice made the protest completely ineffective.
In response, Ye Lingyue just ruffled her hair.
“By the way, I’ll teach you some Blood Magic today,” Lingyue suddenly suggested.
“Really?!”
Xu Fengling’s eyes instantly lit up.
“Mhm.”
“Great! I want to learn! I want to learn!”
Xu Fengling jumped down from the sofa and excitedly spun in place twice, making her nightgown skirt flutter and reveal her two fair, tender calves.
Ye Lingyue’s gaze lingered on her calves for a moment before shifting away.
“Go change your clothes first. You can’t learn magic in your pajamas.”
“Oh, right, right!”
Then Xu Fengling hurried upstairs to change.
Ye Lingyue sat on the sofa listening to the commotion from upstairs, a slight smile on her lips.
Then she lowered her head and looked at the hand that had just held Fengling’s, slowly clenching her fingers, and whispered, “My little Fengling…”