How to Keep a Vampire - Chapter 4

Shi Yu’s appetite was not affected by the matter of the medicinal powder. Even though his current identity was that of a Blood Hunter spy, as long as he was willing to give it up, he would realize that this mission was not a must-do.

His body was weak, so he had to eat more.

Sweeping the food on the dining table clean, Shi Yu narrowed his eyes in satisfaction. His pale cheeks were stained with a shallow red, like a mountain sprite that had fed on human essence.

However, he did not know if it was an illusion, but he still had a desire to eat.

Shi Yu asked Lan Yin, “Does my current body belong to the Vampire race or humans?”

[Strictly speaking, it must belong to the Vampire race, but the current abilities have not fully recovered, and most functions are still at the human level.]

Lan Yin was worried, [Baby, are you feeling something?]

“Not sure yet, just… feeling like I haven’t eaten enough.”

If he had to say, human food should not have much effect on him at the moment.

He had not finished touring the castle earlier, and the newly added treasures might just be the tip of the iceberg. Shi Yu could not help but want to continue exploring.

“Excuse me.” Shi Yu tugged on a maid’s sleeve and stared at her imploringly. “I would like to tour the castle.”

The maid was distracted for a moment. “Okay.”

She turned and walked a few steps, but when she did not sense the youth’s footsteps following her, she felt a bit strange.

She looked back and only saw a blank space behind her; there was no one.

The maid looked down before she saw Shi Yu.

—The youth, who had been full of energy just a moment ago, had collapsed.

Shi Yu had not expected his current body to be so weak that he could faint just from eating a meal.

The key was that the food had not been poisonous…

His eyelids closed slowly, and Shi Yu fainted.

Upon hearing the news of Shi Yu’s collapse, the Duke’s attitude was exceptionally strange.

It was not indifference, nor was it worried concern.

“Humans are truly fragile.” Wen Si’s words were tinged with a bit of playfulness.

The butler, Ger, remained silent for a moment, not daring to answer. He could not guess the Duke’s thoughts; answering “yes” or “no” both seemed wrong.

“Go and call Xie Shi’an over.”

A flash of surprise crossed Ger’s eyes. He suppressed the turmoil in his heart and obeyed.

Xie Shi’an was a famous physician of the Elf race. The current number of living elves was small, and they had possessed the ability to heal from the very beginning of their birth.

The dim, yellow light of the setting sun scattered a floor of fragmented gold, and the evening glow hung down to the edge of the castle, emitting a faint, warm light.

Shi Yu had been in a coma for a long time; he did not realize it was already dusk.

In the center of the black velvet bed, Shi Yu was fast asleep.

There was no one else in the room besides them. Wen Si did not hide the fact that he was using his gaze to trace the youth’s face, the emotion in his eyes intense.

It was like a hunter locking onto a satisfactory prey; the eight-times magnification scope was slowly aiming, and the muzzle could project a fatal strike at any time.

Before then, the hunter would always gently trace the prey; he was most adept at bewitching the other party.

In Wen Si’s hand, he was fondling a wooden box. The wooden box was ancient and dilapidated, exuding the breath of history. As he opened the lid, a dazzling brilliance poured out.

The wooden box was filled with rare gemstones.

“Liar,” Wen Si said in a low voice.

He placed the wooden box on the table in the room, in a position where the person on the bed could see it at a glance.

Lan Yin had mentioned before that Shi Yu used to have gemstones piled high in the center of the table. If Shi Yu were awake at this moment, Lan Yin would definitely gasp in amazement; the wooden box contained his missing gemstones, and there were even many more.

It was a box full of shiny things!

The Elf race was accustomed to not interacting with other races, and the places they lived were mostly quiet.

Xie Shi’an had finished his day’s work and was thinking about going on a date with the beautiful girl from a few days ago when he was pulled away by Wen Si’s people halfway there.

It was a long way from his residence to Wen Si’s castle. The carriage he rode on was essentially traveling at double speed, and the bumpy ride made Xie Shi’an unable to even vomit.

Xie Shi’an couldn’t help but be curious. “What exactly happened at Wen Si’s? We’re in such a rush.”

Ger: “Someone has fainted.”

“Who? Who is ‘someone’? To make him so anxious and panicked, it surely couldn’t be the person he has a secret crush on, could it?”

Ger froze for a moment.

“Wait, did he really fall in love with someone else?” Xie Shi’an had just said it offhandedly, but seeing Ger’s reaction, he paused abruptly, no longer caring about the bumps of the carriage.

A joke in the face of physical discomfort and rare gossip, eating melon [gossip] was naturally more important.

“The Duke has not fallen in love with someone else, and he is not in love.”

Xie Shi’an did not believe it. “Gossip that has spread for thousands of years cannot be false. Who doesn’t know that Wen Si has a secret crush on the vampire Prince who has long since disappeared?”

Ger did not answer again.

When he reached the destination, Xie Shi’an suspected that he was cursed today.

“This room is not…” He looked around uncertainly, confirming he hadn’t made a mistake. “Isn’t this room forbidden to everyone?”

Ger confirmed, “It is this room, there is no mistake.”

As his voice fell, he did not follow him in.

He did not know who had fainted.

Thanks to this person, Xie Shi’an was lucky enough to enter the most mysterious room in the castle.

“This is not a room; this is clearly a house built of money.” Xie Shi’an only dared to complain in his heart.

He followed Wen Si’s gaze; the youth on the large bed was truly eye-catching. Even though he had seen many beauties, he couldn’t help but be dazzled.

“I didn’t expect this.” Xie Shi’an held his medical kit, forgetting the bumps of the road. “You also have a time when you hide a beauty in a golden house.”

The arrangement in the room could only be summarized in two words—luxurious.

The golden house was there, and the beauty was indeed there too.

Wen Si glanced at Xie Shi’an lightly, his gaze implying a warning.

“If you don’t want your future dates to be canceled at the last minute, then continue talking.”

Xie Shi’an: “…”

When it came to treating patients, Xie Shi’an had always been conscientious. He put aside his joking thoughts and seriously examined the patient. However, after only a moment, he could not maintain his calm expression and asked in confusion, “Are you sure you aren’t looking for trouble with me specifically?”

Wen Si raised his eyebrows, looking at him in confusion.

Xie Shi’an sighed. “The preliminary judgment is that he ate the wrong kind of food.”

“The food wasn’t poisonous.”

“It’s not about whether it’s poisonous or not; it’s that he ate the wrong type.” Xie Shi’an thought for a while. “To give an analogy, it’s like a vampire eating human food.”

So, he had eaten the food of the wrong race.

Wen Si looked amusingly toward the center of the large bed and retorted, “Bread and fruit, which one is not something humans can eat?”

“This…”

Xie Shi’an also had nothing to say, but he firmly believed his diagnosis was correct. He had never encountered this situation before, so the medicine still had to be prescribed.

“Take one pill of this purple one every night, one pill of the blue one in the morning, noon, and night, and put the white one in water and drink a cup every day…” Xie Shi’an took them out one by one from his medical kit and explained in detail.

Wen Si interrupted him. “If he takes so much medicine, he’ll be drooling just from the side effects of being cured. Has your technique regressed? You’re treating patients based on the quantity of medicine now.”

“At the very least, it also has a nourishing effect. This medicine of mine definitely won’t hurt the body.” The medicine Xie Shi’an prescribed was always the expensive kind; the rarer the medicinal materials used, the better.

Anyway, Wen Si was the one paying.

“Besides…” His smile was suggestive. “He doesn’t look very old, and you are already thousands of years old, so you have to nourish him well…”

Wen Si looked at the colorful medicine on the table: “Cross out the medicines that can be reduced, and report the original cost to Ger.”

“Fine.”

Anyway, the money was in hand; that was the golden rule.

Xie Shi’an cleaned up the colorful pills neatly, leaving only the white medicinal powder. He couldn’t wait to slip away.

Before leaving, he secretly stuffed a small bag into Wen Si’s hand, mysteriously saying, “This is a free gift; you’ll like it…”

After his voice fell, Xie Shi’an left on his own without waiting for Wen Si to kick him out.

Wen Si stared at the small bag in his hand, chuckled angrily, threw it into the wooden cabinet at the bedside, and ignored it.

He stared at Shi Yu and said after a long time: “So, I fed him the wrong thing.”

Dusk was replaced by night, stars decorated the deep curtain, leaving only a little light.

“No…”

Shi Yu fell into a dream.

In the dream, Shi Yu was still a vampire. He supported his chin and looked indifferent, his medium-long chestnut curly hair falling beside his cheeks. He reached out to curl a strand of hair and listened to the high-ranking vampires gathered around him introducing the treasures they wanted to offer him.

Even if there was something satisfactory, the precious and elegant Prince Shi Yu would not reveal an expression of liking; he only gave a few indifferent glances and nodded slightly.

In this way, the other party was as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

The scene changed, Shi Yu’s vision turned pitch black; he felt as if someone was prying his mouth open, intending to feed him something.

He frowned, subconsciously pursing his lips tightly.

Although the other party’s movements were light and careful, he still did not dare to relax. What if they wanted to poison him…

Shi Yu’s lip color was very light, and at this moment, he bit them unconsciously.

Suddenly, the corner of his lip seemed to be bitten by something sharp; the pain forced him to open his mouth. Unexpectedly, the next second, what followed was the bitter taste of medicine. The bitterness of the medicine spread from his mouth, and every cell in his body seemed to be soaked in it.

“Bitter…”

The youth’s beautiful face scrunched into a ball. The lips that had been nourished by the medicine were crimson, and moist wateriness permeated them.

As if seeing his displeasure, the man fed another sweet thing into his mouth—a small piece, and the overflowing sweetness was about to spill out—it was strawberry flavored after all.

The youth’s scrunched face finally unfolded. He was still in a coma, but it was more like he had fallen into a deep sleep.

“You… are very good, reward.” Shi Yu said in a low voice, appearing to be murmuring in his dream, his tone very soft.

What this person gave him to eat was very sweet, and Shi Yu couldn’t help but want more; he grabbed the person’s sleeve accordingly.

The texture under his hand was also extremely soft.

The other party seemed to have stiffened, but Shi Yu didn’t care; he greedily reached down from the sleeve, and his white, delicate hand found its target.

Shi Yu grabbed the person’s palm, and his other hand pulled at the person’s sleeve without letting go.

The texture in his palm was not completely soft; on the contrary, it was a bit hard. His finger joints were different from his own, and there were rough calluses on his fingertips, but he imagined that such slender hands would not be too hard on the eyes.

It was not bad to fall asleep holding such a pair of hands.

Thinking like this, Shi Yu couldn’t help but pry open the other party’s knuckles, pressed them against his own one by one, and then locked them together.

Shi Yu’s sleep quality tonight was superb.

He had a beautiful dream, in which there was a super gentle blood servant who gave him candy and also…

“Clothes…”

The feeling in his hand seemed…

Shi Yu was completely awake. He was not mistaken; the clothes in his hand had the exact feeling of the sleeves in his dream.

Shi Yu woke up. He poked the corner of his mouth and couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

It hurt; it should be broken.

“It wasn’t a dream.”

[Baby!!!]

Lan Yin, who had been holding it in for a long time, finally could continue talking: [Why is your lip broken… It wouldn’t be…]

Not allowed, ah ah ah! No one else is allowed to steal a kiss from you, QAQ.]

“It should be that I bit it myself while sleeping.” Shi Yu licked the corner of his mouth and explained while enduring the pain.

He recalled everything from last night, that person named Xie Shi’an who had diagnosed him.

“Ate the food of the wrong race.”

“Does this mean my body’s instinct is still that of a Vampire?”

Lan Yin said excitedly: [If this is the case, we can recover faster.]

“Mm.”

Not knowing what he saw, the originally calm youth quickly got up from the bed and ran violently toward the table in the room.

“This…”

He carefully picked up the wooden box on the table.

“Tanzanite, benitoite, red beryl…” Shi Yu counted the gemstones in the wooden box one by one; there were even a few that he could not name.

Shi Yu’s joy was undisguised; he only had eyes for these shiny things.

The happiest thing in the world is waking up to receive a box full of gemstones~

If he transformed back into his small bat form, Shi Yu would definitely not be able to help but hold the gemstones and jump in circles, and he would even want to hold them while sleeping at night.

“You are awake.”

The butler, Ger, knocked on the door a few times.

Shi Yu did not respond immediately, but instead, holding the wooden box, asked expectantly and sincerely: “Did you send this to me?”

“You can go and ask the Duke about this.”

One could guess that the gemstones were worth a fortune without looking closely; Ger did not say much more.

Shi Yu nodded. He ran back to the bedside and picked up the jacket he had been clutching all night; obvious creases remained on the sleeves.

“This is…?”

“Last night, you wouldn’t let go of the Duke’s hand, so after the Duke stayed with you until dawn, he had things to deal with and had to take off his coat and leave it for you.”

“Oh.” Shi Yu understood.

“Wait… so this is Wen Si’s?”