kiss the night

The soft touch stayed on the fingertips all the time, Yan Zhao returned to the room, raised his hand, and kept looking around, as if he could see a flower from above.

Kissing hands, if Yan Zhao remembers correctly, in this country, hand kissing is usually only done to ladies, and it is from the bottom to the top, expressing loyalty.

So what is the purpose of Laurentine's actions, to express loyalty?

Thinking of this, Yan Zhao suddenly felt uncomfortable—there seemed to be too much physical contact between him and Laurentine. At first he thought it was caused by the lack of distance between the vampires, but after a while After observing, Yan Zhao suddenly realized that Laurentine had never treated other people in the same way. Gilbert, Elena, and Laurentine still maintained a very restrained and polite relationship with them.

Does this mean that he is quite special in Laurentine's heart?

Yan Zhao couldn't help covering his slightly hot face with his hands: What are you thinking, Yan Zhao, that vampire prince has lived for hundreds of years, in his eyes you must be like a real Child.

"gentlemen."

There was a knock on the door outside the room.

Jenny walked in. She was wearing a maid's long skirt as usual, with a dull and humble expression. This was the expression that a servant who worked for the master all year round should have, not... Anna's.

"His Highness told you to go to the tower." Jenny said.

"The tower?" Yan Zhao recalled the buildings on the side of the castle, which seemed to be uninhabited all year round. "What are you doing there?"

Yan Zhao followed Jenny's pace.

Too many things happened in the past few days, Yanzhao felt that his calf was a little sore when he walked again, he couldn't help yawning, and asked the question just now again.

"It should be related to Anna." Jenny replied.

Yan Zhao yawned halfway and then stopped, he was lost in thought.

The bright moonlight enveloped the territory of Red Moon Castle. The towers are located on the side of the castle. There are two towers on the left and right. One of them houses the servants and blood slaves of the castle. Yan Zhao knows this, and they are going to another tower today. , once Yanzhao thought it was a useless vacant building, but now it seems that it is probably useful for something else.

The tower looks small from the outside, but when you enter it, you find that there is something hidden in the sky. Jenny holds a candle and leads the way, and Yan Zhao follows her. The two of them walk up the spiral staircase. Sometimes, Yan Zhao will hear the sound coming from the depths of the tower. There were some abnormal noises, like a bat flapping its wings, or a cat stepping on rotten wood.

"Is there someone here?" Yan Zhao followed closely two steps forward.

Jenny turned a deaf ear: "This is where the prisoners are kept, sir."

Yan Zhao nodded and did not speak any more. He followed Jenny's footsteps to the top floor of the tower, where he saw Laurentine and Anna kneeling on the ground.

Accompanied by the sound of Yan Zhao walking in, the two people set their eyes on Yan Zhao together.

"You're here." A smile appeared on Laurentine's face, and he took Yan Zhao to the side of the soft bed and sat down. The soft bed was placed on a high place and could easily sweep the whole view of the entire tower.

This is a place similar to a trial court. Until this time, Yan Zhao discovered that there were actually more than a few of them in the room—two attendants in black cloaks stood in the corner, and Gilbert was also there. There is also a maid standing beside her, holding a notebook and a pen in her hand, recording something.

"Since you expressed your dissatisfaction to me, Zhao." Laurentine opened his mouth. He straddled the soft bed, propped his head with one hand, "I decided to meet your needs and make some changes."

"From today onwards, you will participate in my daily work, and I am willing to regard you as my successor..."

Gilbert seemed to be choking on saliva, he coughed violently a few times, and opened his eyes wide: "Your Highness!"

Laurentine was not very satisfied with his performance, and frowned: "Do you have any comments? Gilbert. Didn't you tell me a few days ago that other princes already had heirs at my age? Yan Zhao drank my blood, counted as being embraced by me for the first time, and he has the identity of pure blood, isn't it just right?"

"Your Highness...he is not your heir after all." Gilbert bit the bullet and said.

"I will have no children, nor will I marry a woman for the sake of children." Laurentine's tone was flat, but the words he said were quite shocking.

Yan Zhao was also shocked by Laurentine's frankness: he once thought that Elena would be Laurentine's heir, but later found out that this was not the case. The vampire prince seemed to have no partner around him.

Although the ethics of the vampire world are not very clear, Yan Zhao also understands the importance of heirs through the clan system of human aristocrats.

Now, Laurentine said that he would give him the title of heir?

Yan Zhao couldn't help saying: "But, sir, I don't know anything."

"That's why I asked you to learn, and this is not your own request?" Laurentine's expression was indifferent, and he raised his chin sideways, "Okay, if you have any objections to my arrangement, we will completely You can say in private, look, the recorder over there is still recording, or do you want our private affairs to be recorded as well?" He emphasized "private matters", which made Yan Zhao's face brighten red.

"The first lesson to be taught is about the setting up of the court." Laurentine straightened up, sat beside Yan Zhao, and actually started the class, "Every lord will set up a court in his own territory. This is because the vampires themselves have not established a modern judiciary like humans, and the number of vampires is rare, so in most cases, the lords will personally judge the vampires who violate the rules, and of course, it is not only the vampires who are judged."

"There are also humans related to vampires, for example, blood slaves kneeling in front of you."

The "heir" that Laurentine suddenly mentioned just now interrupted his thoughts, and Yan Zhao remembered Anna kneeling in front of him. He met the woman on the ground with a complicated expression.

Anna had already taken off the clothes of the castle maid, and she was wearing a gray coarse cloth dress, kneeling there, her lovely eyes looked at Yan Zhao with tears, there was fear and tension in her eyes, but more Unwilling and angry.

She looked at the black-haired boy sitting next to the vampire prince, the kindness that had been disguised had faded away, leaving only a lot of negative emotions.

Yan Zhao didn't understand why Anna looked at him with such eyes, she was obviously deceiving him.

"The blood slave in front of you has betrayed her master. She betrayed herself to Quentin Royce and revealed to them your schedule of activities in the villa." Laurentine wrapped one hand around Yan Zhao's waist , petting it repeatedly, as if petting a house cat.

"Ask what you want," he said.

Although Yan Zhao was not used to looking down on others so high, he still blurted out because of confusion: "Why did you do this, Anna? Why did you lie to me that you have a younger brother to get close to me, but... betray me?"

The woman on the ground looked directly at Yan Zhao, and instead of answering his question, she spit out two words: "Devil."

"You are all demons."

"Answer the question." The guard guarding her behind her took Anna's head off without hesitation and knocked it heavily on the floor.

Yan Zhao turned his face away, and looked at Laurenting as if asking for help: "Forget it, I don't want to know what kind of crime she is and what punishment she should be dealt with. You make the decision." Yan Zhao got up to leave, but Laurentine pushed him back into the seat.

"This is what you want to know, Zhao, you will have to face this sooner or later." Laurentine said, "I told you a long time ago that there is no mutual tolerance between humans and vampires, just like hunters and prey , you can’t expect us to be equal.”

"Yes, you are right." Before Yan Zhao could speak, Anna on the ground suddenly laughed. She laughed miserably, revealing a chill, "We are born to be food... Hey, kid, don't you want to Do you know why I hate you guys so much? Because I did have someone who died, it wasn't my brother, it was my boyfriend who was one of the victims of the beast attack because of your brutality and die."

"And what makes me even more angry is that human law enforcement agencies and the media actually want to help you cover up your crimes! Ha, and our great prince can still collect taxes from humans with the title of nobility. There is such an unfair thing!"

"No, it's not like that." Yan Zhao couldn't help standing up, and his tone was eager to defend, "Do you think you are taking revenge, Anna? But the fact is that you were cheated by Royce! Laurentine , he's never done anything like this."