Chapter 2305: Silver Moon Liturgy Song (4)

Chapter 2305: Chapter 2305: Silver Moon Liturgy Song (4)

Chuzheng raised her brows, her gaze sweeping one by one over the places where they were touching, finally landing on Yin Bai’s hand gripping hers.

Yin Bai happened to be holding her wrist, and there was a black ribbon tied around it.

The ribbon fit snugly against her wrist, and tied there it didn’t feel like anything at all. It was covered by her sleeve, so when she touched it earlier she didn’t feel anything different and just ignored it.

"Xiao Bai? Xiao Bai?"

Someone outside seemed to be calling Yin Bai.

"Mom." Yin Bai signaled Chuzheng not to make a sound, then answered toward the door.

Footsteps came from the bedroom side toward them, and then a slightly kindly voice sounded outside the bathroom: "Why aren’t you in class yet?"

"It’s the weekend today." Yin Bai said.

"Oh dear, look at my brain, remembered it wrong."

Yin Bai seemed used to this: "Didn’t you say you wouldn’t be back for another two days?"

"I came back to grab something." The person outside clacked back to the bedroom, then came out again after a moment and knocked on the door: "Why aren’t you coming out?"

"I... my stomach doesn’t feel well."

"You’re sick? How did that happen? Do you feel bad? How about Mom takes you to the hospital?"

"No, no." Yin Bai hurriedly said: "I just ate something bad, you go ahead and get busy."

The person outside hesitated: "All right then, but if you really feel bad, you must go to the hospital. Do you still have enough money?"

"Enough."

Chuzheng looked at him. Didn’t he only have fifty bucks left on him?

Yin Bai met Chuzheng’s gaze and guiltily lowered his head.

Yin Bai’s mother nagged him a few more times before finally leaving.

Once it was quiet outside again, Yin Bai let out a slight breath: "Um... if my mom saw you, she’d probably overthink, so... sorry."

"It’s fine."

Yin Bai then belatedly realized he was still holding onto Chuzheng. He quickly let go: "S-sorry."

Chuzheng turned her wrist, and grabbed his instead.

Yin Bai was so startled he took a step back, pressing himself flat against the bathroom door.

"You..."

Expressionless, Chuzheng took off the ribbon from her own wrist and tied it around Yin Bai’s.

"A gift to thank you for taking me in." Chuzheng said. "You have to wear it all the time. You’re not allowed to take it off."

"Uh..."

Since when does a gift come with a mandatory dress code? Who does that.

"Did you hear me?"

"H-heard." The little bunny was probably scared by Chuzheng’s icy tone, his voice even carried a tremor.

Chuzheng stretched her devil’s claw toward his head and roughly ruffled the hair that looked kind of soft.

It really was pretty soft...

After a couple of tugs, her fingertips slid along his cheek, falling to the side of his neck, pressing down on his pulsing artery with a light pressure: "If you dare take it off, you know what the consequences will be."

Yin Bai’s body went rigid, his little head nodding nonstop.

The blood vessel throbbing under her fingertips carried a tempting fragrance at this moment, and Chuzheng could even feel the blood flowing under his veins.

Chuzheng’s fingertips felt as if pricked by a needle; she quickly pulled her hand back: "As long as you behave, I won’t hurt you."

Yin Bai kept nodding.

"Let’s go out."

"...O-okay."

Yin Bai opened the bathroom door, and the moment he stepped out he was hit by the glaring light filling the room, so bright he couldn’t open his eyes.

Probably his mom had opened the curtains just now...

He raised a hand to shield his eyes from the light, and hurried over to the window to draw the curtains shut.

"I’m not that sensitive to light," Chuzheng said. "For Blood Clan like us, only newborn cubs are really afraid of sunlight. As long as we’re not exposed under direct sun for a long time, it’s usually fine."

Of course, the "Blood Clan like us" in Chuzheng’s mouth meant pure-bloods like her.

The other Blood Clan still had to follow the usual rules.

"I... I see."

Chuzheng looked doubtful: "The Blood Clan really exist, and you don’t seem surprised at all?"

Is that how a normal person is supposed to react?

Yin Bai’s small face suddenly turned serious: "Why should I be surprised? There are lots of things in this world that we don’t know about."

Chuzheng: "..."

Fine.

This one’s not a normal person.

-

Chuzheng got in touch with the original host’s people and waited for them to come pick her up.

Chuzheng didn’t know how long it would take for her to heal, so she left Yin Bai her contact info.

"If anything happens, you can call me."

"Aren’t you going to school?" Yin Bai held the slip of paper, asking cautiously.

"I can’t for now." The original host had taken about a month to recover from her injuries back then, and she was still using this body; it’d probably be about the same.

"Oh..."

Yin Bai walked Chuzheng downstairs.

Chuzheng’s people were already waiting outside. Everyone was holding black umbrellas. The sun was nice and bright right then, so the scene looked a bit odd, and passersby all detoured around them.

Yin Bai watched as Chuzheng got in the car and waved at it.

He took two steps forward, his feet right on the dividing line between sunlight and shade, then slowly drew back again, retreating inside. He hugged his arms to himself in mild discomfort, watching Chuzheng’s car drive away until it disappeared from sight.

-

In the car, Chuzheng asked that Bastard for a copy of Yin Bai’s file.

Yin Bai’s family conditions were fairly comfortable. His parents were both alive, but their relationship wasn’t good, and they were often not at home.

They did care about Yin Bai, but most of the time it was by satisfying him materially.

And Yin Bai’s personality was... kind to a fault.

He believed whatever anyone said.

Practically a carbon copy of Gui Lan.

The difference was, Gui Lan’s kindness always ended up causing trouble for other people, while Yin Bai’s kindness always ended with him being the one who suffered.

Chuzheng felt that wasn’t kindness at all; it was plain stupidity!

Yin Bai’s parents gave him plenty of living expenses, which meant that at school he was often treated like a fat sheep.

And with a personality like his, you can imagine what kind of people he kept running into.

After he entered his current school, he was quickly targeted. He foolishly treated them as friends, but they only saw him as a gofer to order around, and a source of cash to squeeze.

This time they tricked him into going out to that deserted place, where he ran into a wildfire and got half his face burned off.

Ever since that incident, Yin Bai didn’t want to see people anymore, and his temperament gradually became more and more odd.

Back at school, he was pointed at and whispered about, treated like some kind of freak.

It’s not like that many people actually bullied him physically.

But those comments and looks were a kind of violence to him.

So in the end he went down the road of blackening...

Running into the fire was an accident, but those people tricking Yin Bai out to that kind of place... they clearly weren’t up to anything good.

"Ah Gui, go check who the friends around Yin Bai are." Chuzheng ordered the person in front.

Ah Gui looked puzzled: "Miss, Yin Bai is...?"

"That boy just now."

"Understood." Ah Gui paused for a moment, then added: "Miss, how did you get injured this time?"

"Ran into Werewolves and Blood Hunters."

Ah Gui frowned: "Blood Hunters? Those guys are really hard to deal with. Once they lock onto someone, it’s trouble. We didn’t provoke them, and we haven’t broken any of the rules. Why would they target you, Miss?"

Could it be that Miss secretly did something?

...Thinking of Miss’s habit of causing trouble all over the place, that was actually pretty possible.

"Miss, why don’t you go back to the clan and recuperate first?" Ah Gui immediately suggested.

"I’m not their target." Chuzheng waved her hand. "I’m not going back."

The Good Person Card is still here!

How could she leave!