The vampire heiress is two-faced

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"Come on, open the door, confused little girl."

A thud was heard from behind the door, followed by a quick movement away from the doorway.

"Oh dear, are you scared?"

Ludwig tilted her head. Almost all clients initially faced this situation where communication was impossible.

But this time, the client was much easier to deal with.

"I'm not going to eat you. In fact, I'll give you something delicious."

“I’m here to help you as a ‘mediator,’ Ms. Xue. You just don’t know what you’ve become, which is why you’re afraid of yourself and of me.”

She heard the breathing behind the door gradually quicken, because the girl behind the door had already realized, through the connection between vampires, that the girl speaking outside was also a "monster" like herself.

A hint of cold, tinged with hunger, seeped from beneath Ludwig's fangs.

"hiss..."

"You're very hungry. And I'm very hungry too."

"Okay, open the door, let's do something fun together!"

...

"Ah—no!"

Xue Xiaolin screamed out in extreme fear.

But after she screamed, she found that the aura that had frightened her behind the door had vanished in an instant.

...

“Eh, eh?”

Has she left? Xue Xiaolin wondered.

She was about to get up from where she had fallen, intending to go and check what was happening on the other side of the door.

Suddenly, the only window in the room was wide open.

"What...?"

In Xue Xiaolin's eyes, the window was suddenly opened...!

This "sudden" event was as bizarre as if she had experienced a memory lapse; when she came to her senses, the window was already open.

There was no sound, nor was there any window opening—it was as if time had been erased, making one feel as if they were in another world.

The cool moonlight illuminated the dimly lit girl's bedroom, and the breeze, which Xue Xiaolin hadn't seen for a long time, brushed against her cheek along with a charming, faint perfume scent.

The silver-haired girl sat on the windowsill, her skirt and long, silvery hair fluttering gently in the breeze.

"you..."

The silver-haired girl spoke.

"Are you deaf?"

She was carrying a large box of carefully packaged, enticingly fragrant blood-based pastries, while her other hand pointed unceremoniously at Xue Xiaolin, who was startled.

"I told you I'd bring you something delicious, is it so hard to open the door?! I've always been very nice, haven't I?"

She jumped down from the windowsill, placed the gift box on Xue Xiaolin's desk, and crossed her arms.

"Hmph, how ungrateful! Do I look like a bad guy?"

Chapter 3 Regaining Life

Half an hour ago, the setting sun, which had driven away the night monsters, disappeared below the horizon;

At this moment, the bright moon is already high in the sky.

It was just a waning crescent moon, yet it generously cast its cool moonlight, allowing even vampires who could not bask in the sunlight to enjoy its gentle grace.

...

Seeing the black-haired girl's face still contorted with fear and confusion, and looking as if she was about to cry again, Ludwig leaned against the window railing and couldn't help but sigh:

Ah, the moonlight is so beautiful.

She spoke with a hidden meaning.

"Sigh, humans are really fragile, don't you think so too, little girl?"

...

After a series of "friendly" and gentle inducements, Ludwig succeeded—

Xue Xiaolin became her delicious food.

“Slurp…”

"I won't be polite."

...

The sharp teeth pierced the girl's fair neck, and the silver-haired girl devoured the food with abandon.

A trickle of "fragrant" blood seeped from the skin pierced by the sharp teeth, but she ignored it, tightly binding Xue Xiaolin, who was already powerless to resist, and drawing away the last remaining "essence" of her human body from her neck.

"What's this..."

Xue Xiaolin resisted in a low voice what was about to invade her consciousness, but she knew that she could no longer resist this "pleasure".

"Ahh... hiss...!"

Xue Xiaolin's body stiffened for a moment, then relaxed completely.

In that instant, the girl's rationality snapped completely.

...

"Hiss...woo..."

Ludwig gently stroked her hair:

"Okay, okay, it's okay."

She gently stroked the girl's neck with her fingers, and in the blink of an eye, the two small blood holes disappeared.

She released Xue Xiaolin and helped her sit down on the edge of the bed.

"Welcome to the world of vampires."

Xue Xiaolin raised her head, and her only remaining black pupil now radiated a captivating crimson under the shimmering moonlight.

Her ears had completely transformed into willow-leaf shapes, signifying that she had become a full-fledged "Dark Night Vampire".

"Big sister... what's your name?"

The fear that had been in Xue Xiaolin's eyes when she looked at her was gone.

Ludwig patted her head and said with a smile:

"Ludwig. You can just call me Lulu."

...

The gift box was opened by the eager Xue Xiaolin, and inside was a scarlet "strawberry cake".

"This was made by my lovely maid. I love it!"

Ludwig cut off a large piece of cake with "strawberry" on it and put it into Xue Xiaolin's mouth.

But it's best not to delve too deeply into what the "strawberries" on this cake are actually made of...

"what--"

"Aww."

Xue Xiaolin's eyes lit up. She took the plastic knife and fork from Ludwig's hand and silently ate the cake until it was completely gone.

"Hooray! (Delicious!) Burp."

Judging from her appearance, she was clearly starving. Ludwig smiled and picked up a glass of pale red beverage.

"Here, have some flavored blood drink."

These foods, which look extremely strange and smell unbearable to humans, are undoubtedly the most delicious delicacies in the world to vampires.

Although vampires are now permitted to drink artificial blood bags to alleviate their dietary needs, blood bags are... in Ludwig's words, tasteless.

Therefore, by using human cooking techniques to make blood into various kinds of "human-like food," it is possible to make it easier for them to swallow.

Vampires, who originally didn't need to be fancy with their food, have had to develop many new "recipes".

Ludwig licked her lips, seemingly still wanting more.

"Indeed, real blood is the sweetest."

—Of course, that's true.

...

"Sister, I'm back! Miss Ludwig, how is your mediation going...?"

When Xue Fan returned home, he smelled a strong stench of blood in the living room, and his younger sister was sitting at the dining table, eating a plate of "something" with her mouth full of blood.

"Brother, you're back! Sister Lulu brought me some delicious food..."

Pfft!

"Brother, brother? Waaaaaah!"

...

Xue Fan, who was so frightened that he fainted on the spot, was only able to be revived with great difficulty.

Ludwig, standing nearby, wiped the blood from her mouth.

"Remember to spray this first next time." Ludwig handed Rin a bottle of spray. "It can suppress the smell of blood. Although the smell of blood is tempting and delicious to us, it can scare humans. Look at your brother..."

Xue Xiaolin and Xue Fan embraced tightly. Seeing his sister regain her spirits, Xue Fan finally felt a huge weight lifted from his heart.

"But, Miss Ludwig. From now on, will she only be able to live as a... cough cough, a vampire like you?"

Ludwig tilted her head and smiled:

"What's wrong? Is there something amiss?"

After much hesitation, Xue Fan finally spoke:

“But my sister always thought she had become a monster... Although it may offend you, I actually thought so too.”

Ludwig smiled; she could even guess what Xue Fan was about to say.

"Vampires are monsters that drink human blood. Even if my sister becomes a vampire, I will not despise her or be afraid of her."

"But how can humans and vampires, my sister and I... possibly coexist?"

Ludwig tiptoed on her high heels, leaned against the wall, and straightened her slightly askew headdress.

"Heh, vampires only drink human blood, which is practically the same as feeding on humans. How can cats and mice live together, or wolves and sheep live in the same den?"

"The way to maintain the coexistence of vampires and humans is neither to make new vampires like her continue to live painfully as humans, nor to make humans accept us 'man-eating monsters'."

"Instead, it makes the hearts of the newborn vampires completely fall into the vampire realm, drawing a clear line between themselves and their past human selves—so that they can live with humans without hesitation or confusion, and without conflict with humans."

"Mediators use all sorts of methods to 'mediate,' but I prefer to 'mediate' vampires like this: make them realize that they are no longer human. Getting new vampires to accept their identity is much simpler than getting humans to accept their vampire identity."

"If humans could understand that we vampires don't eat people, but only enjoy drinking human blood, then perhaps this ridiculous order between vampires and humans would become a little more reliable?"

...

Xue Fan looked at his younger sister in his arms and lovingly stroked her cheek.

"I understand. I will try to get to know my sister again."

"Alas, after getting to know you, my initial impressions of vampires have already been shaken."

Xue Fan bowed to her politely.

“I never expected you to be such an elegant and well-mannered woman, not at all like some kind of ‘man-eating monster.’ I’m so sorry, my previous words were entirely due to my ignorance, please don’t take them to heart. I’ll transfer your payment to your account right now.”

"Oh, and also, if you don't mind, I bought you a vampire cake... I don't know what it's made of. I'm sure you'll love it, right?"

Ludwig looked surprised and asked, "Huh? How did you know?"