Anna's brows furrowed instantly with anger, and she demanded, "My dear King Dracula, is what Nian said true? You don't actually want to open this barrier at all, do you? You don't really want to be Nian's enemy!"

Dracula was so angry when Chu Nian called him funny that his face turned out to be contorted. To others, his words sounded like he didn't want to actually open the barrier, but to him, it sounded like Chu Nian was mocking him.

Unexpectedly, Anna's question rang in his ears again at this moment, and he shouted angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? Let's go back first."

His words immediately convinced everyone that he didn't actually want to storm the manor and break ties with Nian. It seems the power dynamics within the vampire clan, and the positions of Nian and Princess Anna, are about to shift!

The nobles exchanged glances. Whether it was Nian or Anna, they were both women in the King's first embrace. One was designated as a prince, and the other as a princess. Both were second-generation vampires. The third and fourth-generation vampires couldn't afford to offend either of them, so they simply sat back and watched the fight, and in the end, they would see who Dracula favored more.

Everyone sensed Dracula's anger, and as soon as Dracula told them to go back, they quickly dispersed and disappeared in an instant.

Outside the manor, only Anna remained, coldly glaring at Dracula.

Dracula had embarrassed himself twice that night and was furious. He wouldn't have noticed Anna's rage. He turned to return to his royal court—standing here only made him angrier. Considering the repeated humiliations he had suffered since his return, he felt that any place here could make him furious, and he didn't want to stay here for another minute.

Anna grabbed him and snapped, "Wait a minute!"

Dracula asked somewhat guiltily, "What are you doing?"

He was indeed furious; but on the other hand, he was worried that Anna would blame him for sending vampires to besiege Sophia, so he didn't want to face Anna right now.

In fact, Dracula was overthinking things. Thanks to the servants' clever answers, Anna thought that Sophia had started the battle first, and had no idea that it was the vampires who had launched the attack.

Sensing a hint of resistance in Dracula's attitude, Anna frowned and said, "Dracula, tell me honestly, do you... not want to break through this barrier at all?" She couldn't help but feel sad as she spoke.

Dracula noticed her unusual mood and patiently explained, "I was indeed the one who originally set up this barrier, but Nen Stewart must have tampered with it, I suspect..."

Seeing him hesitate, Anna pressed, "What do you suspect?"

Dracula: "I suspect a wizard is helping her; this barrier has been enchanted."

Anna said in surprise, "But I don't sense any magical energy in this barrier."

Dracula: "The wizard who helped her is very strong. It's normal that you can't sense his energy."

Anna asked suspiciously, "Strong? How strong? The strongest wizard was Sophia's father, but he's dead. Sophia is currently the strongest wizard, but I can sense her magical energy."

Dracula said helplessly, "Anna, are you saying this to doubt what I'm saying?"

Anna: "How can I believe you? These past two days, you've been doing that to Nian one after another."

Dracula asked, puzzled, "Which one did I pronounce correctly?"

Anna: "You...you...you..." She blushed as she spoke, "I can hardly say it."

Seeing Dracula looking at her with a puzzled expression, she finally mustered up her courage and said, "I mean, you've been coming to see Nian naked these past two days. Who doesn't know what you mean by doing this? Do you think I can still trust you?"

Dracula suddenly realized that Nian's earlier shouts at him weren't simply meant to embarrass him; her main purpose was to drive a wedge between him and Anna.

Dracula immediately flew into a rage and roared into the manor, "Nian Stuart, get out here! You've used any means necessary to drive a wedge between me and Anna. Do you really think that after my relationship with Anna breaks down, you'll have a place in my heart?"

Chu Nian chuckled. This guy actually thought he wanted a place in his heart. He really had no self-awareness.

Sofia was actually near the manor gate. Thanks to the barrier, she could clearly see and hear what was happening outside, but those outside couldn't see or hear what was actually happening inside the manor. All they saw was an empty manor.

By this time, Sofia was quite certain that Anna still deeply loved Dracula, and in a very blind way.

Anna in this state would never team up with her to kill Dracula. She was glad that she broke the contract with Anna in time, otherwise she would have had to act as Anna's henchman in order to protect herself in the future.

Dracula kept shouting, almost like he was waging a verbal battle. Sophia found this vampire king quite ridiculous, and suddenly remembered what Chu Nian had told her earlier: "Dracula is just here to make people laugh." And that was absolutely true.

Chu Nian initially listened quietly in the room, but Dracula kept calling her, and his voice got louder and louder, which annoyed her, so she threw out a spell.

Sophia was quite surprised to feel magical energy fluctuations rushing past her. Then she saw the back of a very elegant noblewoman appear outside the manor. She had a very slender figure and looked like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl.

At that moment, Dracula and Anna saw a woman being blown out of the manor like a kite by the wind and landing in front of them. It was Nian, the very woman Dracula had been calling out.

Both of them were somewhat surprised. Such a thought was clearly not from a real person, but vampires did not possess this ability, nor did werewolves; only wizards could cast this peculiar magic.

Then, they heard Nian's slightly aged yet magnetic voice ring out: "Dracula, haven't you caused enough trouble?" It was an air of authority.

Dracula, having become the first vampire over four hundred years ago, had not heard anyone dare to speak to him in such a tone for a long time. He immediately felt his royal dignity had been challenged and shouted, "Nian, do you think you can fool me with such a little trick?" As he spoke, he raised his hand and sprayed out a powerful burst of blood energy.

However, the delicate figure of the woman, who resembled a kite, once again flew away just as quickly as a kite, and the blood fell to the ground, blasting a huge crater in the ground.

The Kite Woman landed before them again, her voice still ringing out across the entire vampire territory: "Dracula, as the King of the Vampires, instead of striving for progress and thinking about how to lead the vampires to a bright future, you are leading the entire vampire race towards a dark abyss..."