Xu Qichen was awakened by Su Lin’s alarm clock.
He wanted to sleep in for a while, but as soon as the person beside him left the bedroom, he felt uncomfortable, as if a part of him had been cut off. He closed his eyes and tossed and turned for a long time but could not fall asleep again. In the end, Xu Qichen also got up.
It was a weekday, so Su Lin had to work. Xu Qichen blearily made his way to the bathroom to wash up. When he came out, Su Lin was already seated at the table and leisurely eating a piece of toast.
Xu Qichen sat listlessly across from him and found a large glass of red liquid in front of him. He leaned over and smelled the sweetness of blood.
He pointed to the galss and asked, “Is this your blood? You’ve put so much blood into it…”
Su Lin silently drank his coffee.
Xu Qichen was a person who was good at hiding his emotions, but this skill was always greatly compromised when he had just woken up. So at this moment, with the glass held in his hands, the happiness on his face was very obvious.
He licked his lips and swallowed his saliva.
Then happily gulped down the blood.
“This is not your blood…” Xu Qichen’s smile disappeared, and his face furrowed up
Su Lin said mildly, “I didn’t say it’s mine.”
He was not wrong. Xu Qichen put the glass down, unable to argue.
“You can’t always drink my blood,” Su Lin added.
Xu Qichen asked reflexively, “Why not?”
The next moment, he recalled the novel’s setting.
Vampires should not casually share their blood with each other.
Su Lin looked at the unnatural expression on his face and his voice became low. “For now, it’s just been you drinking my blood, so there’s still a chance to reverse it.”
Xu Qichen opened his mouth, a bit hesitant to speak, feeling inexplicably confused.
“I have to go to work. You should take leave from school.” Su Lin cleaned up his tableware. “Since you’ve just been converted, your condition will be unstable this week. I’ll write a note for you, so don’t attend classes for now.”
“Then where will I live?”
It felt good to ask despite already knowing. Xu Qichen gently swayed his feet and found that his legs seemed completely healed, probably because he was no longer a human.
Su Lin stood beside the dishwasher, his white shirt outlining his shoulder and back seductively.
Seductive? Xu Qichen was surprised by his own mental description.
“Live here for now. You’ll be able to live amongst humans when you can control your appetite.”
Xu Qichen nodded. He did not want to hurt anyone.
Su Lin went into the room to retrieve a box and placed it in front of Xu Qichen.
“What’s this?”
“Black coloured contact lenses.”
He had thought of everything. Xu Qichen opened the box, quickly put on his contact lenses and looked in the mirror. They looked quite natural, at least covering his red pupils. He raised his face at Su Lin and said, “Is this fine?”
Su Lin nodded and pointed at the sofa. “Change your clothes.”
Only then did Xu Qichen realised that he did not feel any embarrassment from wearing that white shirt anymore.
Habit was such a scary thing!
He gulped down the average-tasting blood in his glass, then walked barefoot to the sofa, unintentionally swaying his pale legs in front of Su Lin, forcing him to lower his head and busy himself clearing the tableware.
There was a paper bag on the sofa, Xu Qichen reached in and took out a loose red sweater and a pair of black jeans.
“Are these for me?”
Su Lin was washing off the blood stains in the glass, “I threw away the clothes you were wearing.”
Seeing that he was busy washing the cup, Xu Qichen put on the pants, which were the right size, and then he took off the white shirt and put on his newly bought red sweater, which was slightly too large. He ran to the mirror in the bedroom wardrobe and looked at it, shouting, “This makes me look too pale, my face looks as white as paper!”
Su Lin was also very helpless. He just asked which one was suitable for boys with relatively fair skin, and the salesperson at the counter brought him this red sweater.
Seeing Xu Qichen wearing new clothes walking out of the bedroom, “Look, doesn’t it make me look like a ghost?”
Su Lin suddenly felt like he was raising a son.
“No,” he put the glass upside-down on the table and added, “It looks fine.”
Despite his bland tone, Xu Qichen happily accepted the praise, and suddenly found the sweater much better looking than it did before.
Su Lin took out a small vial of medicine from the refrigerator, which was a strange dark blue color, resembling ink.
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“Do you think this bottle of medicine can be obtained easily?” Su Lin sighed. “I am a high-level vampire who has lived in human society for a long time. Many of my body’s properties have changed, so I am able to maintain my human form in the sunlight.”
Xu Qichen drank the hard-earned potion. Before going out, Su Lin put a baseball cap on his head, and handed him a mask. He was now fully armed.
This was his first time coming downstairs after the accident, and Xu Qichen still had a shadow in his heart. He followed Su Lin out of the elevator, and the light outside was very good. The two evergreen trees below the apartment were green, with their leaves shining beautifully. He, who was afraid of light, retracted his hand into the already long sleeve and wrapped his fingers around the cuffs from inside.
Su Lin, who was walking in front, suddenly reached out and grabbed Xu Qichen’s arm. He had never taken the initiative before, not even once. Xu Qichen looked up slightly in surprise, and his eyes under the brim of his hat showed a puzzled expression.
Su Lin reached out with his other hand and patted the brim of his hat. The black brim covered Xu Qichen’s eyes, so he had to lower his head and let Su Lin grab his wrist and lead him away.
Through the fabric of the sweater, his wrist felt itchy due to friction.
Upon regaining his composure, he realized that Su Lin had led him to avoid the road he had been accustomed to walking on before, and had turned in a different direction to reach his parking spot. He opened the car door for Xu Qichen, who obediently entered and fastened his seat belt.
Through the glass window, he glanced at the place where he had been killed before and said, “That pervert who wanted to kill me…” He turned to look at Su Lin and asked, “What did you do to him?”
Su Lin turned the steering wheel and drove out of the estate without saying a word. Xu Qichen didn’t continue to look at him, sensing that Su Lin seemed to be holding down his anger.
After a few minutes, Su Lin suddenly said, “I killed him.”
Xu Qichen was surprised. He recalled what he said yesterday, “Last night, you…”
“I tracked him down and sent him to the nest where vampires gather.” The green light at the intersection ahead turned red, and Su Lin calmly stepped on the brake and stopped. “He’s probably been sucked dry by now.”
Upon hearing this, Xu Qichen was at a loss for words. He knew that Su Lin would come to save him when he was on the brink of death, but he never thought that Su Lin would kill for him. Although this was not a big deal for a vampire, it did not conform to Su Lin’s character.
He was a vampire who sincerely hoped to live like humans, so he had been suppressing his desires and loneliness for thousands of years, learning how to become an ordinary human.
“Actually, you didn’t have to do that for me…”
Su Lin quickly cut off Xu Qichen’s words, “It’s natural for a scumbag like him to pay with his life for killing someone. Allowing him to continue living would only create more dangers for everyone. I transformed you when you were dying, so you have to continue living as if nothing happened, but that means that murderer can escape legal consequences.”
Green light. Su Lin stepped on the accelerator, his fingers tight around the steering wheel.
“Since he murdered someone, he has to pay the price.”
That’s very reasonable. but Xu Qichen still felt that this was not Su Lin’s style, “Wouldn’t the police find out that he’s missing?”
Su Lin’s face sneered, “They won’t find him there, and they dare not even search, unless it’s a vampire hunter.”
Vampire hunters?
This is also one of the settings in Xu Qichen’s novel. They are a group of supernatural humans specialized in chasing vampire criminals. In the original text, due to being a newborn vampire, Lu Xuan fell into someone’s trap, lost control of himself, and consumed the blood of an innocent human boy, causing him to lose too much blood and die. As a result, he was targeted by vampire hunters. In order to protect him, Su Lin engaged in a battle with many vampire hunters, but was outnumbered.
In the end, Su Lin gave up one of his eyes. The leader of the vampire hunter agreed not to kill Lu Xuan, but took him away and brainwashed him into becoming a vampire hunter. After that, Su Lin disappeared and his whereabouts remained unknown.
This ending was worse than your average bad ending… Xu Qichen did not even know why he wrote such a terrible plot. His back was cold with sweat. “Then… What if the vampire hunters find out you did it?”
“Whatever.” It was a little stuffy in the car, so Su Lin lowered the windows and rested his left arm on the door, holding the steering wheel with only his right hand. “I wasn’t the one who drank the blood of that scum.”
What a way to throw the blame away. The villain in Xu Qichen gave him a round of applause.
“I’m so sleepy…” Xu Qichen yawned.
“As a newborn vampire, you’ll need a lot of blood and sleep. It’ll get better once you get through this phase.”
Xu Qichen leaned his head weakly against the car window and said to himself, “When will I get through it…”
Su Lin’s car was driving very steadily. Xu Qichen accidentally fell asleep and only woke up when he heard the sound of the horn. When he opened his eyes, he realized that Su Lin had already driven the car to his school gate.
“Are we here?”
“En.” Su Lin turned off the engine. Seeing Xu Qichen, who was still in a daze, tugging at the buckle of his seat belt with both hands for a long time, he leaned over and opened the buckle for him.
With a click, the safety belt was open. Xu Qichen laughed a little, looking as silly as a drunkard. Su Lin sat back in his seat and did not move any more. Xu Qichen opened the door, then turned back to look at Su Lin, “Aren’t you going to work?”
“I have half an hour.”
It seemed like Su Lin intended to wait for him, Xu Qichen realised.
He jumped off the car, “Go on, I’ll look for you after I’m done here. I’ll be quick.” His hand was locked in the long sleeve of his sweater and he waved vigorously outside the car window. “Goodbye!” He then turned around and walked into the school, drowning in the crowd.
It was hard to avert one’s eyes from his bright red back.
Xu Qichen was walking alone on the way to the hospital office when he suddenly heard someone shouting Lu Xuan’s name behind him. He turned around and saw that it was his classmate.
“Why are you so wrapped up? I almost didn’t recognise you.”
Xu Qichen chuckled twice, pretended to be sick, coughed a few times, and said, “I’m sick, flu… stay away from me, it’s contagious.”
“I was wondering why you’re wearing a mask and look so pale. If you’re so sick, why didn’t you go to the Third Hospital?”
Xu Qichen entered the building, “I’m going to take leave now.”
On the third floor, a classmate patted him on the shoulder and said, “Then I’ll go to class.”
“En, go on.” Now, Xu Qichen understood why Su Lin wanted to follow him.
What used to be ordinary classmates and friends were all walking blood bags to him now. It’s hard not to feel uncomfortable watching a large group of rations swaying in front of you.
Xu Qichen could not understand how Su Lin dealed with it.
Fortunately, Lu Xuan had a good personality and was also enthusiastic, so he was popular with the staff. As soon as the counselor saw his pale face under the brim of his hat, he immediately signed a leave notice and earnestly advised, “You should exercise well and eat more food. You’re so thin that your clothes look two sizes bigger.”
It was already big when he bought it…
Xu Qichen took the slip, “Thank you, teacher.” Then he left the office.
When he reached the corner of the second floor, a girl ran out of the classroom, rushing downstairs. Suddenly, she tripped over her high heels and fell down the stairs. Xu Qichen, who was half a flight above her, was startled and ran down to help the girl up.
“Are you alright?”
He was greeted with the sweet smell of blood.
The girl was crying a little. Her knee had been scraped and was bleeding quite heavily.
“I’m fine, I’m fine, it’s not very serious.” Xu Qichen tried to help her up, but realised her face was very pale and her body was weak.
“What’s wrong?”
“I’m… I’m afraid of blood.”
Xu Qichen was shocked.
After all the adventures of being converted, he even forgot his own basic settings.
“Chen Jia! Are you okay!?”
Xu Qichen looked up and saw two girls coming down from the second floor. Coincidentally, he was worried and didn’t know how to handle it. When he saw her classmates coming down, he explained and handed the girl over to her classmates, leaving on his own.
His mind is in a mess now, always feeling that there are many doubts in the world, but there was no clear logical line to connect them and get an accurate answer.
His fear of blood is the setting in the original text, just like Ye Han’s fear of dogs in the second world, which was imposed by the system and could
be eliminated. After being converted, he was troubled by his changing body and uncontrollable bloodthirsty desire every day, and had no time to consider anything else. Moreover, he himself did not feel dizzy, so he did not even remember that Lu Xuan was afraid of blood.
“0901, I have a question for you.”
0901 replied very quickly: “Mr. Xu, please ask.”
“Where did my fear of blood go?”
0901 replied, “Mr. Xu, after you were converted, I helped you consume all the remaining medicine you purchased last time. Of course, this happened while you were unconscious, and I am very sorry for it.”
For some reason, Xu Qichen felt very suspicious. “Really? Show me that bottle.”
0901 remained silent for another two seconds, “Okay, Mr. Xu.” As soon as he said that, an empty bottle of medicine appeared in the form of holographic light and shadow in front of Xu Qichen.
Xu Qichen’s eyes seemed to be looking at the empty bottle, but his mind was thinking of other things.
0901’s two-second hesitation made him even more skeptical, because this AI has almost never lagged, always responding immediately, so his silence was too abnormal.
This indicated two things:
Firstly, 0901 was lying. The reason for the disappearance of his fear of blood had nothing to do with the medicine.
Secondly, 0901 knew the truth but could not say it.
Xu Qichen did not continue to inquire, he was very clear that at this point in time, even if he pressed 0901, the answer he obtained may not necessarily be true.
He must look for some other clues.
He arrived at the hospital right after exiting from the side gate of his school.
Xu Qichen walked with his head down. The burning sensation brought by the sunlight on his body made him feel uncomfortable all over. And it was only spring. If it were summer, he might not even be able to go outdoors.
Xu Qichen, who had sneaked into the hospital, went straight to the orthopedics department, but there was no one in the department. Just then, a familiar nurse walked over from the corridor, so Xu Qichen leaned against the door and lifted his mask.
“Big sis!”
The nurse paused and squinted at him for a long time. “Oh, Xiao Xuan! Why are you so wrapped up?”
“I’m a little sick. Where’s Dr. Su?”
“He went to the inpatient department, I think he’s right next door to the room you stayed in last time.”
Xu Qichen gave her a sweet smile, “I see, thanks sis!” Then he ran to look for Su Lin.
This can be considered his home ground, strolling around the corridor on the third floor, meeting many acquaintances and greeting the various gentlemen and aunties.
Xu Qichen happily walked to the room where he had been hospitalized last time, wanting to see if his former roommate was still there. Xu Qichen curled his lips, feeling a bit disappointed, and moved to the next ward.
Before he reached the entrance, he heard a little boy’s voice, “Dr. Su, Dr. Su, I want that candy, take it for me~”
Xu Qichen actually got upset at that. When he walked to the door, he saw Su Lin standing inside, a child of five or six years old lying on the hospital bed, with his injured elbow hung up. Su Lin tore open the packaging of the soft candy for the child, and the child’s only movable hand tightly grabbed Su Lin’s white coat, calling, “Dr. Su~”
Where did this clingy kid come from?
Xu Qichen stood motionless outside the door, his eyes fixed on the troublesome child. He felt like he had built a tall block tower in his heart, steady and secure. However, the little chubby hand holding Su Lin by the coat corner was pulling away the blocks he had worked hard to build, one by one. He watched his tower begin to shake.
He cleared his throat.
As Su Lin fed the candy to the boy, he heard a cough behind him and turned around. He saw Xu Qichen wrapped up like a small red envelope standing outside the ward door, his sweatshirt sleeves drooping listlessly. Only a pair of black eyes full of displeasure were exposed.
“You’re here,” Su Lin’s tone was light, as if he didn’t understand the meaning of his cough just now. Xu Qichen was even more unhappy and strode towards the ward. Across a hospital bed, he took out a piece of soft candy from the bag that Su Lin was holding, opened his mouth and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it a few times.
“Who are you? That’s my candy!” the boy on the bed exclaimed angrily, grabbing both of Su Lin’s wrist with his chubby hand, “You can’t eat that!’
Xu Qichen didn’t know what was wrong with himself. Usually, his most often used words were, “sure”, “anything is fine”, “you decide”, and “it’s okay”. But today, he suddenly felt competitive around a child.
He pulled out the soft candy bag in Su Lin’s hand and placed it in front of the child. Then he sat down by the bed, hugging Su Lin’s waist and saying, “This is my Dr. Su, you can’t touch him.”
Su Lin didn’t know if he should laugh or cry.
After a long standoff between the two ‘children’, Su Lin finally spoke up and said, “Stop making trouble and wait for me in the department. I’ll go over after the checkup.”
Xu Qichen hugged his waist, refusing to move.
Su Lin tugged at his arms until he had no choice but to let go and leave.
When he turned back at the door, he saw Su Lin patting the boy on the head.
The little chubby hand in his heart, tired of removing the blocks one by one, simply pushed down the tower.
The tall tower he had taken forever to build, collapsed with a loud clash.
Xu Qichen spent a bored morning leaning on the small sofa in the department. When Su Lin returned, he had already finished a movie. Xu Qichen glanced at him, displeased, and lowered the brim of his hat, pretending not to see him.
“Shall we go for lunch?”
Xu Qichen mumbled, “I’m not hungry.”
Su Lin changed the white coat for his own and said, “Get up.”
His tone did not allow for disobedience, and Xu Qichen stood up from the sofa and followed him glumly.
The two of them entered the empty elevator and Xu Qichen retreated into a corner. Su Lin looked at him from the reflective inner wall of the elevator. He looked pitiful and adorable.
“Let’s go out for noodles. I have a long break this afternoon.”
Xu Qichen remained silent and walked out of the elevator until he reached the parking lot. He remained silent and obediently followed Su Lin.
Su Lin didn’t start the car directly, but glanced at Xu Qichen’s profile and asked, “Why are you upset?”
Xu Qichen opened his mouth and didn’t speak, but after a few seconds of silence, he wanted to speak again, so he took off his mask and said, “I just don’t like that little thing clinging to you.”
“You’re even clingier than him.”
Upon hearing this sentence, Xu Qichen couldn’t help but ponder the deep meaning of Su Lin, whether it was disgust or teasing.
Su Lin stopped speaking, and Xu Qichen was too lazy to continue pondering. He only muttered in a low voice, “Anyway, I’m just not happy.”
“Your possessiveness only stems from the chick complex of being a newborn vampire, and it will be over in a few days.” Su Lin inserted the car key and was about to twist it when his wrist was caught.
“That’s not it.”
He lifted his head and met Xu Qichen’s gaze. His eyes were hidden under the brim of his hat, like a faint lamp in the dark night.
“It’s not just that.” Xu Qichen slid his hand up and grabbed Su Lin’s finger. His tone was light and gentle, with a hint of calmness in his childish tone. “It’s because I like you, I don’t want to share you with others, and I don’t want to see you give such rare tenderness to others, not even children.” He took a deep breath, “The other day, I heard you. I heard you very clearly.”
Su Lin’s expression faltered.
“The night you converted me, I didn’t completely lose my consciousness.” Xu Qichen’s every word was spoken firmly, as if holding a very precious card, “I heard you say you love me.”
“This morning, you said it’s just been me drinking your blood, so there’s still a chance to reverse it.”
Xu Qichen frowned slightly.
“I know that sharing blood between vampires is a very intimate behavior,” he said, leaning over the handbrake to hug Su Lin, with his chin buried in his neck. “But I have no intention of reversing it. I want to be your partner.”
gasp I love these two! And now I’ve caught up qwq
Thanks for all your hard work! <3
Isn’t it OOC for Xu Qinchen to not faint when seeing the glass of blood? He has a phobia…
Nvm, he noticed it himself. I feel like I get slapped in the face every time I say something. At least that means the writing is good 😅