Chapter 44: Blood Clan Ancient Text (Bloodstains) 20 Seduction
The banquet was horrible enough, let alone a night banquet with the theme of the Embrace Ritual.
It is more of a feast of blood and sin than a night banquet and dance.
Percy accompanied Song Qingqing in the VIP lounge. Because there were no other humans in the castle tonight besides blood slaves, vampires could be found in every corner. Without a strong enough pureblood to accompany her, it would undoubtedly be extremely dangerous.
Song Qingqing sat on the red velvet sofa with a pale face, and her fingernails pinched out small crescents on her palms. Percy pulled the heavy curtains to block the view in the room to prevent attracting the prying eyes of the vampires coming and going outside.
After drawing the curtains, Percy turned around and looked at Song Qingqing who was fidgeting in her chair.
The girl seemed particularly frightened tonight, and had been like this since she got on the carriage and left Gesher Manor.
Percy walked up to Song Qingqing, took off his gloves, and held her hand in his palm. Song Qingqing, who was imagining all kinds of bloody and brutal scenes, was frightened by the cold temperature that enveloped her and almost jumped up from the sofa. She was relieved after seeing that it was Percy.
The soft, warm fingers in his palm curled slightly. Percy raised his other hand and smoothed the loose hair across Song Qingqing's forehead. His gentle gaze was filled with concern and worry. He whispered, "If you're scared, Miss, you can rest here and not leave. I'll tell the prince for you."
The prince was naturally referring to Hades, but how could Song Qingqing really let Percy go and talk to Hades? She knew very well how great the psychological trauma Hades had brought to Percy was, and Hades himself asked her to watch the ceremony together.
Because she was also going to go through such a ceremony, in fact, Song Qingqing was not quite sure whether she died after the first embrace due to failure in escape or before the first embrace ceremony in the original plot.
She was more inclined to believe that he had died after failing to escape before the first embrace ceremony. Comparing humans and vampires, humans with weak bodies were undoubtedly more likely to die.
Song Qingqing didn't say anything, but just looked up at Percy quietly.
It was a silent answer.
Percy sighed inwardly and stopped insisting.
Although Percy couldn't be allowed to do this, Song Qingqing's nervousness was dissipated a lot because of him. She suddenly pursed her lips and smiled lightly, her eyes curved into two lovely crescents. She raised her hand and waved in her direction, indicating Percy to lower his head.
Percy bent down like a docile animal, lowered his head and approached the smiling girl, and then was gently held on the cheek by the girl.
Song Qingqing raised her head and kissed his cool, shallow lips. It was just a simple touch, without any desire. It was more like a soothing gesture to tell him not to worry.
Percy tensed up for a moment, then relaxed, letting the girl peck at his lips.
After Song Qingqing finished the kiss, she realized that Percy was still in the same position, with his eyes still closed. The tips of his cold white ears were stained with a little crimson, like star-shaped dots of watercolor paint.
You can tell he's nervous, it's always like this.
Song Qingqing covered her mouth and burst out laughing. Percy opened his eyes after hearing the laughter and saw the girl curled up on the sofa, laughing.
Percy straightened up and stood there trying to endure it, but he couldn't help but reached out and pinched her face. The force was not strong, more like a light caress.
He said in a hoarse voice: "Miss, please don't tease me like this..."
Percy blushed, his bright red eyes drooping. How could he dare to admit that he had such an outrageous thought just now? When the girl's soft and warm lips touched his, he thought the lady was going to...
Just as Song Qingqing was about to make an excuse, there was a knock on the door of the VIP lounge. The calm and polite voice of the castle's butler came from outside the door, "Miss Sif, Prince Hades is waiting for you. Are you dressed?"
The cold moonlight grew like a vine through the gap in the curtains, spreading all the way to the feet of the two people in the room. Song Qingqing looked up at Percy, whose face changed instantly. She stood up and raised her hand to ruffle his meticulously combed silver hair. She smiled with a curved brow and said, "Don't worry, Percy."
When Song Qingqing turned around and was about to walk towards the door, Percy hugged her waist from behind and tried to beg her to stay with a soft and sad voice. He placed a cold and lingering kiss on her white earlobe: "Miss, it will scare you. Please, don't go..."
Hades sent a servant to call her, and Song Qingqing certainly couldn't refuse his respect in front of everyone.
Song Qingqing turned her head and kissed the pitiful Percy who looked pleading. "Don't worry, I will follow Hades well."
The arm around his waist tightened and unclenched, and Percy looked uneasy.
"No, you simply cannot imagine..." How horrible is the vampire's so-called Embrace Ceremony. It is not a gift of eternal life, but a curse of eternal life, which deprives humans of their vitality and transforms them into dark and bloody creatures, no, it is better to say it is a cold corpse.
Song Qingqing suddenly thought of something and asked carefully, "Percy, are new vampires who have just experienced the Embrace Ceremony very fragile?"
Percy was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand what she meant, and then he responded to her question softly: "Yes, every newborn who dies under the silver blade of the Blood Hunter is a huge loss to the vampires."
It can even be said that the blood hunters can kill any newborn without any effort, and they have no power to struggle in the hands of experienced blood hunters.
Holy water would cause them to wail, the Bible would crush their souls, and the silver blades would destroy their bodies.
Those hunters had no idea what the new vampires had to go through to survive the Embrace Ceremony, and they cruelly and directly deprived them of the "eternal life" they had earned with so much pain. This was not fair.
But after answering, Percy felt that Song Qingqing's question was a bit strange, but he didn't know what caused the sudden uneasiness. He subconsciously wanted to grab her and ask her why she suddenly asked such a question.
The hand he stretched out reached nothing.
After getting the answer, Song Qingqing turned around, opened the door and walked out. Percy's fingertips only had time to catch a small piece of her lifted skirt, almost giving him the illusion that he missed the answer.
Percy stood quietly in the darkness where the moonlight had not yet reached, his brows slightly furrowed, a look of confusion on his face.
But no one would answer the questions and anxieties in his heart.
As soon as Song Qingqing walked out of the lounge, she met Hades leaning in the shadow against the wall at the corner of the stairs.
He was tall and slender, wearing a pure black windbreaker, with his eyes slightly closed, as if he was taking a short rest.
However, as soon as he heard the girl's cautious footsteps approaching, Hades opened his eyes. His dark eyes, covered with a watery gray mist, still retained a scarlet color that had not completely faded.
Song Qingqing lifted her skirt and curtsied.
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Lord Hades."
In a quick glance, Song Qingqing keenly caught the undisguised satisfaction in the man's deep eyebrows and eyes, which made his mature and cold face have a hint of indescribable temptation and sexiness, which blended together like dark desire.
The temptation brought by blood.
He just went to eat, probably.
So they didn't let me follow? But Song Qingqing didn't understand the meaning of this action, and she was a little confused.
Before this, the two brothers Karan and Anx had never avoided her when eating. Oh no, it might be because she was also a mobile blood bag and a delicious food, so there was no need to hide it.
But in a flash, there was no sign of anything unusual on Hades' indifferent and cold face. He stood up and walked out of the shadows. The candlelight in the corridor was dim, and his tall figure almost completely covered the fragile girl in front of him.
Hades didn't say anything, turned and walked towards the stairs, and Song Qingqing hurriedly followed.
Her heart was beating fast.
Song Qingqing vaguely felt that Hades, who was walking in front of her, did not seem to be in a good mood, which was a bit strange. Normally, after eating, the vampires would inadvertently reveal their laziness after satisfying their appetite, but the satisfied look on the man's face quickly disappeared completely.
Is it because I made him wait too long?
Or perhaps Hades heard Percy's conversation with himself? Given the vampires' keen sense of smell, hearing, and vision, this didn't seem surprising.
In Hades' eyes, the Embrace Ceremony is a gift, so he would definitely be displeased if he heard what Percy said.
Moreover, Hades originally thought that his half-brother was a cowardly pure-blood.
Song Qingqing pursed her lips, reached out and carefully grasped the hem of Hades's clothes.
Hades stopped and looked sideways at the girl who was lowering her head behind him. She was wearing a dress that he had chosen personally tonight.
A gorgeous and elegant off-shoulder pure black dress, with a dark red velvet rose embellished in the center of the chest, and black satin roses handmade by craftsmen carefully sewn on the layers of the skirt, and even a small black gauze hat on the head.
Under the hazy black veil, the beautiful face that is vaguely visible has a natural sense of temptation.
The graceful shoulder and neck lines are also fully displayed.
There is no doubt that this dress suits her very well.
Song Qingqing felt that Hades was asking a question even though he knew the answer, because he asked her patiently in a low and mellow voice.
"What's wrong?"
Hades' dark red eyes stared at her quietly, and the girl's snow-white teeth bit her soft and red lips to bring out an alluring blood color.
She bit her lip and whispered, "Lord Hades, may I follow you?"
It wasn't so much a request as an inducement.
This is a very smart child, because she knows very well that only by following her can she avoid being targeted by those vampires who are in a frenzy.
So the older vampire raised his hand and gently stroked her cheek as if he were treating his lover hidden in the dark.
"certainly."
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