Bloodline Survival Guide

"Vidal—!! Come back to your senses!"

A pair of white hands in front of him shook, trying to recall his distraction.

Vidal sighed, put down the pen in his hand, and smiled helplessly at Lilith.

"Beautiful Fourth Elder, you are a lady who is about to hold a wedding, shouldn't you try on your wedding jewelry with Blood Warrior now, and then confirm the details of the wedding?"

Lilith was holding her chin, looking at Vidal worriedly, "But you need company now, as a friend I should stay by your side. Raphael told me to talk to you more. He said you It can be lonely alone."

Lilith's Chinese is not as good as Vidal's, and her tone of voice is a bit strange.In fact, there is no need for them to talk in Chinese, but the two of them have been bored recently, so they have been communicating in Chinese, which can be regarded as language practice.

"I..." Vidal thought for a moment, not knowing how to answer, and finally said, "I actually prefer to be alone."

Lilith sighed, "You don't go to the party either, you don't see the princes and counts who came to pay homage, you don't see the messengers of other races, you don't go out, you don't care about things, you just stay in your room watching anime movies and listening to music all day long, just like before... …I’m still reading this “Guidebook” all day long… The most outrageous thing is to leave everything to Raphael! Vidal! Can you let me spend more time with my fiancé!”

Vidal smiled, "Because your Raphael is worthy of being trusted, and I don't know anything, I just want to stay in the room and waste time."

Lilith glanced at him, "You are in a daze every day, is it so interesting?"

Vidal nodded, "Yeah, it's fun to be in a daze."

"How interesting! You said it yourself, wasting time...we have so much time, obviously you can use it to do more things."

"Lily, think of it this way—if people work hard to create value to get a sense of meaning, and if I can get a sense of meaning when I am in a daze, then my time in a daze is not a waste of time, at least I am happy."

"But you don't look happy." Lilith took a bite of the cake and said vaguely, "Are you missing the wolf king again? Why are you still thinking about that violent coyote?"

"?" Vidal raised his head with raised eyebrows, "What coyote? He went to college anyway, okay! He's very smart, a literate wolf!"

Lilith let out a chuckle, "You are such an educated wolf, you have mesmerized Your Highness, you are super scheming, you are deceiving people in all kinds of ways... Hey, that is amazing, he is educated."

"Don't talk about him like that." Vidal frowned, and then began to sigh, holding his head and said: "Lily, tell me, it's been more than half a year, why didn't he come to me? Would he? Do you not like me anymore and want to give up?"

Lilith rolled her eyes: "My Vidal, I have answered your question almost a hundred times! If you want to know the answer, go find him yourself! Instead of hiding in the castle and waiting... My idiom uses Right?"

"Probably right." Vidal frowned, "I've told you almost a hundred times, it was he who did the worst thing to me first... He was obviously kidnapping me in the name of love Personal freedom! And he should apologize to me first, right?! Think about it differently, if Raphael wants to lock you up for a lifetime, and every day... Anyway, it doesn’t respect your wishes, wouldn’t you be angry? ?”

Lilith thought about it for a while, then said quietly: "... I'm sorry Vidal... Although it sounds crazy, I think it's a bit romantic... If Raphael treats me like this, it must mean that he loves me very much ..."

Vidal frowned: "...Lily, you are such a masochist..."

"I've always been, what's more, when you fall in love with someone, you have to be prepared to be abused." Lilith shrugged, "And you know, Raphael is gentle to me, so sometimes I I really hope that he can be stronger. If he is like that, I might... enjoy it? I really hope to give myself completely to the person I love. Maybe in your eyes, the wolf king treats you too much, and you can't bear it. But if Put it on me, I will feel that I feel sorry for the wolf king, because he gave everything first. In fact, he is showing weakness to you, because he loves you more."

Vidal was silent for a long time after listening.

"You're right." He stirred the scarlet liquid in the cup with a small spoon, and added some syrup into it, "So I don't want to go to him now, I'm such a bad partner, he should go to find someone with whom A mate as brave as he is, I don't deserve him."

"That's not true." Lilith pierced him with a glance, "You are thin-skinned and proud, and you just wait for someone to apologize to you and bow your head. You want to lose face."

Vidal was immediately annoyed and threw the spoon away, "I'm not! I'm just... I'm just kind of..."

"What is it?" Lilith's face was indifferent, and she looked at Vidal's cowardly expression that couldn't hold back for a long time, "I understand, I understand, but I can't accept doing that kind of thing with the beast so quickly, this is easy!"

After speaking, Lilith took out her tablet, clicked on a folder, and stuffed it into Vidal's hands, with a sly expression on her face: "Vidal, as a sister, I can only help you here! I will pick and choose for you. You have selected more than a dozen meaningful educational films, and you should watch a few more, especially the one with the tiger...don’t be so resistant! Everyone is not a normal person, why are you racist? We are enlightened race!"

Vidal was holding the tablet with trembling hands, as if he was holding some hot potato... Lilith poked open the folder, showing dozens of jaw-dropping video cover images, this...

"Your Highness—"

Raphael's voice came from the door, and the two froze. Vidal immediately hid the tablet behind his back, and Lilith immediately moved the legs on the stool under the table reservedly, and straightened her skirt put.

Raphael walked in with a stack of documents, and saw Vidal's flustered face, and Lilith forced a calm smile to herself... This scene gave Raphael another kind of feeling that he gave in the training classroom back then. The illusion of their class.

"Your Highness." Raphael glanced at the white tablet behind Chen Zhen, but said nothing, "Are you busy? I have a few documents that need your signature."

Lilith directly answered the call for Vidal: "We are not busy, we are talking about the works of the three masters of the Renaissance, Vidal——! Raphael asked you to sign the document!"

After she finished speaking, she kicked her foot, calling back Vidal who was distracted and not listening to others, and it was the same as before.

Rafael frowned, turned to Lilith, and said with a serious tone: "Lily, I have told you many times, you can't talk to His Royal Highness Vidal like this in the future, and you should also pay attention to your behavior. You just kicked Did you kick your Highness? Should a polite lady realize that this behavior is inappropriate, and then sincerely apologize to our king?"

Lilith's kick just now was completely conditioned reflex. She was scolded like this, and she hasn't figured out how to make it right. Vidal has already taken the document from Raphael's hand and smoothed things over: "Raphael, Don’t talk about Lily in the future, now everyone treats me like porcelain and treats me with care. Only Lily is my friend who still treats me as usual... If you let her be respectful and serious to me, then I will be in this castle There is really no partner to talk to. And, my dear elder, don't be so strict with your fiancée, okay?"

Raphael was silent for a moment, then glanced at Lilith again, and said to Vidal: "I understand, Your Highness."

Vidal flipped through the documents absently, thought for a while, seemed to be hesitant to speak, but still asked: "Rafael, are there really no letters, packages, etc. from me recently?"

He never received anything from Shen Mingguang again, and he thought there would be more.

Vidal added: "Did someone detain it again? Raphael, you know that I don't want this to happen. If you detain any of my letters and things, I will be very angry."

Raphael smiled inwardly, and said, "Your Highness, there really isn't. I followed your instructions and checked with the blood envoy who sent and received letters and expresses three times a day. There are no letters or expresses from China."

The light in Vidal's eyes dimmed, "...All right, I understand."

Raphael asked: "The letter sent by His Highness... Didn't the Wolf King reply?"

And Vidal has already changed the subject, pointing to the thing in his hand and asked: "What's the matter with this data? Why do they drink so much blood in Northern Ireland? This application is not approved, let them learn to eat vegetarian..."

Lilith on one side sees through everything but is too lazy to speak.Vidal did write a lot of letters, writing every day, almost a box full.But what's the use of it, hehe, I dare not send a single one.

Vidal put away his emotions and didn't ask any more questions.After signing the document, he returned it to Rafael and smiled, "The wedding is going to be held tomorrow, don't worry about business, let others help you, and relax. Believe me, tomorrow will be a beautiful day, and you will too. Happy forever."

Raphael also smiled, his expression relaxed, and he replied, "Thank you, Your Highness."

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"Tuesday, overcast.

200th day after leaving Fenrir.

Before going to bed, I tried to dial Shen Mingguang's number, but that number has become empty.

Before Lilith left today, she asked me: Vidal, how do you feel when you sleep?She said she hadn't slept for so long that she almost forgot what sleep felt like.

I didn't answer it at the time, because I couldn't describe the feeling of sleep.After all, I have been used to sleeping at night since a long time ago, so as to escape the scary night.

Sleeping is very important to human beings. For me, it is an "exit" and a refuge. It allows me to calm down temporarily, sink into the night, and listen to my own solitude and the sound of my heart.

If I were to describe the feeling of sleep now, I would say that sleep is Shen Mingguang.

When I couldn't fall asleep, I just looked at the flickering candles in the room, looked at those lights... I thought, nothing to be afraid of.Those lights belong to him, and he accompanies me.

It was him in my dream when I fell asleep.There is his shadow in every sweet, sad, desperate and even ruined dream.

Lilith said that he gave everything first... In fact, he was showing weakness to me, because he loved me more, so he wanted to use madness to imprison me and monopolize me... Lily said she could accept it, but I couldn't, this is I am different from Lily.And I don't think I did wrong, I have my own persistence.

But the scary thing is that I've been convincing myself lately... Maybe it's not bad to be locked up by Shen Mingguang and love for the rest of my life, maybe I can slowly accept it if it lasts longer.

So I thought, after attending Lily and Raphael's wedding tomorrow, I want to leave London, find him, and ask him... if he would like to start over with me, in a way that both he and I can accept.

I can't deny that I love him.

AM01:02, Vidar."