Chapter 38: To Eat
Lu Qingmian's hands on the quilt suddenly tightened, tightly grasping the quilt, but his face showed no expression. "Jiang Jinyue, you climbed through the window in the middle of the night?"
Jiang Jinyue looked back out the window. The misty morning light was already rising outside. "It will be dawn soon!" It wasn't the middle of the night!
Seeing that Lu Qingmian didn't answer his previous question, he looked at Lu Qingmian's legs covered with the quilt with his blood-red eyes and asked again:
"Lu Qingmian, what are you doing?"
Lu Qingmian looked at Jiang Jinyue expressionlessly, but veins bulged on the back of his hands as he gripped the quilt.
"Jiang Jinyue, go back to your house. I will pick you up in the morning to go to school together."
Jiang Jinyue refused to leave. He stood in front of the window and looked at Lu Qingmian suspiciously, as if Lu Qingmian had secretly eaten something delicious without telling him.
"But I'm so hungry." Jiang Jinyue pulled a corner of the curtain, feeling a little aggrieved.
He walked towards Lu Qingmian and whispered flatteringly: "Lu Qingmian, what delicious food did you hide? I smell it, it's something delicious that can fill my stomach like blood."
Lu Qingmian watched Jiang Jinyue approaching, and his voice became louder, with a hint of urgency in his voice: "Jiang Jinyue! Go home!"
Jiang Jinyue pretended not to hear anything. He walked lightly to Lu Qingmian's side, knelt directly on the mattress, crawled forward, and crawled to Lu Qingmian's side. He raised his head to sniff the side of Lu Qingmian's neck.
Through the skin, Jiang Jinyue could hear the sound of blood flowing, and the unique fishy and sweet smell from the blood also took on some strange fragrance at this time.
Lu Qingmian turned his head away. He could obviously get away from Jiang Jinyue by just getting up, but he just sat on the bed, covered himself tightly with the quilt, and didn't move.
Suddenly, Jiang Jinyue grabbed a corner of the quilt with one hand and pulled it gently.
Lu Qingmian never answered his questions, and he became a little impatient. He wanted to lift the quilt to see if Lu Qingmian had hidden any delicious food inside.
"Jiang Jinyue!" Lu Qingmian suddenly spoke, his voice even a little distorted.
He extended his wrist towards Jiang Jinyue: "If you're hungry, bite here!"
Jiang Jinyue remained unmoved, her hand still clutching the corner of the quilt, her beautiful red eyes flickering. She didn't understand why Lu Qingmian reacted so strongly, and refused to let him lift the quilt.
The thorny roses climbing on the wall were ready to move, as if they would climb down at any time to tie Lu Qingmian up and hang him in the air again.
Seeing that Jiang Jinyue didn't want to bite her wrist, Lu Qingmian opened his collar, held down Jiang Jinyue's hand that was pinching the corner of the quilt, and said in a hurried tone: "Bite here!"
Jiang Jinyue raised his head and his gaze fell on Lu Qingmian's sweaty neck. The hand that Lu Qingmian was pressing on him was also damp and hot.
"Lu Qingmian, why are you sweating so much?"
Jiang Jinyue suddenly thought of something, loosened the corner of the quilt, and crawled forward again, his body almost pressed against Lu Qingmian, his red eyes full of curiosity, "Lu Qingmian, your body is so hot, are you dreaming?"
Lu Qingmian leaned back, unable to leave the quilt, and could not escape Jiang Jinyue at all.
Jiang Jinyue's nose lightly touched Lu Qingmian's neck, feeling his extremely high body temperature. "Did you have a nightmare?"
A nightmare?
Lu Qingmian's dark eyes flickered, but he didn't answer.
Jiang Jinyue looked into Lu Qingmian's eyes, "It's not a nightmare? Then what kind of dream was it? Am I in the dream?"
Lu Qingmian, who had been avoiding Jiang Jinyue's gaze, suddenly turned back and looked at Jiang Jinyue intently, "You were in my dream."
His voice was very low, and when it reached Jiang Jinyue's ears, it made her feel itchy and numbing.
Jiang Jinyue knelt beside Lu Qingmian, his eyes flashing with red light, looking at Lu Qingmian's neck for a while, and then at Lu Qingmian's legs covered with the quilt, like a curious puppy. His bloodshot eyes were not scary at all, but bright as a small light bulb.
"What do I look like in your dream?" Jiang Jinyue asked.
Lu Qingmian suddenly stood up, pressed Jiang Jinyue down with the quilt, and pushed him down on the mattress.
"Do you really want to know?" The atmosphere between the two people suddenly reversed, and Lu Qingmian's panic disappeared, and he regained the initiative.
Jiang Jinyue was lying on the bed, her black hair spread out, revealing her beautiful forehead. Far from being afraid of this posture, he was a little happy instead. The closer the distance, the more he could smell.
"Yes, of course I want to know. Lu Qingmian, tell me quickly!" Jiang Jinyue urged.
The quilt was between the two of them. Jiang Jinyue's legs were pressed down by the quilt, and with the weight of Lu Qingmian on top, he couldn't move at all.
He tried to kick his legs, but when he found that he couldn't move, he gave up. He raised his neck and twitched his little nose as he inhaled. He looked a little cute and a little funny.
Lu Qingmian pressed on Jiang Jinyue, one hand supporting Jiang Jinyue's cheek, and couldn't help but chuckle: "Jiang Jinyue, are you a dog?"
Jiang Jinyue shook his head: "I am a vampire! A ghost! A ghost! Awooo!"
As he spoke, he opened his mouth wide and roared fiercely. Before he could close his mouth, Lu Qingmian suddenly stretched out his fingers.
"Ah!" Jiang Jinyue wanted to close his mouth, but he ended up holding Lu Qingmian's finger in his mouth. He had small fangs in his mouth now, and was afraid of biting Lu Qingmian, so he could only slightly open his lips and let Lu Qingmian's finger press into his mouth, mumbling in a vague accusatory voice, "Lu Qingmian! What are you doing!"
Lu Qingmian's fingertips groped in Jiang Jinyue's mouth, and his fingertips pressed on the small fangs. These small fangs were not scary at all. They looked like kitten teeth, but they felt a little sharp.
He raised his eyes and saw some panic in Jiang Jinyue's red eyes. He was very afraid that she would bite him, so he stopped teasing him and retracted his fingers.
Jiang Jinyue finally shut up, kicked her legs hard under the quilt, and brought up the previous topic: "Lu Qingmian, you still haven't told me what I was like in your dream?"
Lu Qingmian was silent. He leaned over Jiang Jinyue and looked at her deeply. His eyes were so dark and heavy that Jiang Jinyue's heartbeat gradually became irregular.
He was clearly a vampire, but he was different from the vampires in the legends. His heartbeat could actually be so fast.
Lu Qingmian slowly curled his lips in front of Jiang Jinyue and said in a cold and harsh tone: "I won't tell you!"
Jiang Jinyue's eyes widened, and the next moment his face was covered with the quilt. When he took the quilt off, Lu Qingmian had already rushed into the bathroom. The bathroom door was closed tightly and locked.
Jiang Jinyue stood up and angrily stepped on Lu Qingmian's quilt, "Lu Qingmian!"
He turned the quilt over from beginning to end, but couldn't find out what delicious food Lu Qingmian had hidden behind his back. He walked to the bathroom door again, sniffed gently, and found that the pleasant and delicious smell in the air had disappeared.
His stomach growled, and Jiang Jinyue felt extremely aggrieved. He knocked on the bathroom door and said, "Lu Qingmian, I'm hungry. I'm so hungry!"
The sound of water in the bathroom stopped. Lu Qingmian seemed to walk to the door, but did not open it. "Do you want to bite me?"
Jiang Jinyue became frustrated: "No, you can't bite it."
The bathroom door was opened a crack, but Lu Qingmian didn't come out. He just stood inside and said, "Jiang Jinyue, come in and bite me. I'll let you drink my blood."
The narrow crack in the door caught Jiang Jinyue's eyes, constantly tempting him. He looked at it for a long time, gently hooked his fingertips on the crack, and slowly opened it a little. When he was about to see the situation in the bathroom, Jiang Jinyue stopped.
He squatted at the door like a hesitant puppy, turned around twice, and finally slammed the bathroom door shut. He snorted loudly, turned and ran to the window, wanting to go back to 1203. But as soon as he opened the curtains, he bumped into the rising morning light. He felt his skin stinging as if it was scalded by boiling water, and immediately pulled the curtains again.
Unable to go through the window, Jiang Jinyue could only run to Lu Qingmian's door, ran out barefoot, and then controlled Thorn Rose to go in through the window of 1203 to open the door for him.
After doing all this, Jiang Jinyue felt even hungrier. He lay back on his bed, too listless to even move.
The thorny roses that had climbed down from 1303 have returned and are occupying the wall of 1303, climbing slowly and looking a little restless.
Lu Qingmian came out of the bathroom wearing a bathrobe, frowned and glanced at the slightly opened curtains, through which a little morning light shone.
Jiang Jinyue turned into a vampire. He was not afraid of garlic, but still afraid of sunlight, which made it a bit troublesome for him to go to H University for classes.
Lu Qingmian was thinking when two rose vines suddenly hung down from the wall. The vines rose high up and instantly pulled over, hitting Lu Qingmian's butt with their huge corollas.
“Bang!”
Amid the loud slapping sounds, Lu Qingmian turned around with a gloomy face, and saw another rose vine coming over, hitting Lu Qingmian's butt twice, one on the left and one on the right, and then quickly climbed back to the wall. The two roses trembled happily, and Lu Qingmian could even see Jiang Jinyue's proud laughter from the trembling roses.
In the bedroom of room 1203, Jiang Jinyue had drawn the curtains tightly and was lying on the bed, hugging the quilt and laughing. "Lu Qingmian, I told you to pinch my butt! I told you to hide the delicious food from me!"
After Jiang Jinyue finished laughing, he lay down on the bed weakly, holding his stomach and sighing, "I'm so hungry..."
There were only a few hours left before the first class in the morning. Jiang Jinyue thought for a moment and sent a message to Chen Keai asking: Are you asleep?
He thought Chen Keai was sleeping soundly and would not reply, but Chen Keai replied immediately: Not yet, I was watching TV series all night. Yueyue, what's wrong with you looking for me so early in the morning?
Jiang Jinyue hesitated for a while, but still told Chen Keai that he had become a vampire.
Chen Keai's reaction was much more normal than Lu Qingmian's. He was shocked for several minutes, then immediately called Jiang Jinyue and asked questions non-stop. Jiang Jinyue answered all the questions he could clearly answer, and finally told him about Lu Qingmian hiding the delicious food from him.
"I'm really hungry..." Jiang Jinyue's voice was small, sounding aggrieved and pitiful.
Chen Keai was silent for a long time. Jiang Jinyue had already told him the reason why he didn't want to drink blood, but he didn't expect that Jiang Jinyue, a vampire, had such a hidden attribute.
He asked hesitantly, "Yueyue, do you really think Lu Qingmian hid some delicious food from you?"
"Yes!" Jiang Jinyue answered as a matter of course, without any doubt, otherwise he really didn't know what the delicious smell coming from Lu Qingmian's quilt was.
Chen Keai thought about it and decided not to tell Jiang Jinyue the truth. It would be better to let Lu Qingmian tell it himself.
But he also didn't want his friends to go hungry!
Chen Keai said on the phone: "Yueyue, wait for me at home. I will send you something. With it, you can be sure to have a meal!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Keai hung up the phone.
Jiang Jinyue was a little confused. Less than 10 minutes later, Chen Keai was already standing at the door and knocking.
After opening the door, Chen Keai rushed in and circled around Jiang Jinyue several times. She sighed that Jiang Jinyue's snow-white hair and eyelashes were so beautiful, and she wanted to lie on Jiang Jinyue to look at his bloodshot eyes.
Finally, Chen Keai shyly opened her collar, looked at Jiang Jinyue, and said, "Yueyue, can you smell the blood on me?"
Jiang Jinyue nodded. In fact, he smelled it as soon as Chen Keai came in, but he found that the smell of blood coming from Chen Keai was just a simple fishy smell, and it did not have the sweet smell of Lu Qingmian.
Chen Keai pointed at her neck and said, "Come on, Yueyue, I don't mind you taking a bite! I heard that when a vampire bites someone, it makes the person being bitten feel very good! I want to try it!"
Jiang Jinyue's gaze fell on Chen Keai's neck. Chen Keai moved closer while talking. The smell of blood became stronger and Jiang Jinyue's stomach kept rumbling, but he had no desire to bite down at all.
"I..." Jiang Jinyue wanted to refuse, but didn't know how to say it.
Fortunately, Chen Keai was just joking. He straightened his collar, took out a USB flash drive from his pocket, and solemnly placed it in Jiang Jinyue's palm. "Find a time when it's just you and Lu Qingmian together. Plug this into the computer and show him what's inside. I guarantee you'll be able to eat soon!"
Jiang Jinyue was puzzled: "What's inside?"
Chen Keai couldn't help but pinch Jiang Jinyue's cheek, saying sincerely, "Believe me! I don't believe Lu Qingmian can hold it in!"
After saying that, Chen Keai ran away like a gust of wind again.
He was afraid that Jiang Jinyue would be miserable as he was the only one with blood here, so before leaving, he said, "Why don't you ask for leave from school? The school is full of living people, and you will be miserable."
Jiang Jinyue thanked Chen Keai, but didn't tell her that Chen Keai's blood didn't smell good because he was afraid that Chen Keai would be sad.
When Chen Keai opened the door and left, a black butterfly floated down onto Chen Keai's shoulder and left with her.
Jiang Jinyue was stunned. Why were there butterflies in the corridor? And black butterflies at that?
He didn't think much about it and quickly put the matter behind him.
Although he became a vampire, Jiang Jinyue found that he was still a very picky eater. He seemed to only like Lu Qingmian's blood and the strange aura that emanated from Lu Qingmian's body.
If he doesn't drink blood, he'll definitely have to eat that kind of anger! Holding the USB drive in his hand, Jiang Jinyue nodded with determination.
An hour before class, Lu Qingmian came to find Jiang Jinyue, bringing with him a bowl of hot duck blood and vermicelli soup and holding a large black umbrella.
His face was calm, without any of the panic he had when Jiang Jinyue climbed through the window in the early morning.
As soon as Lu Qingmian entered the room, Jiang Jinyue curled her nose and smelled the pleasant and sweet scent of blood on Lu Qingmian. Her previous aversion to Chen Keai's blood was not an illusion.
This Mary Sue incident is called the Maverick Vampire. Does this maverick refer to his picky eater status?
Lu Qingmian set out the duck blood and vermicelli soup and waved for Jiang Jinyue to come and eat.
"I'll accompany you to class after dinner." Lu Qingmian pointed to the big black umbrella.
Jiang Jinyue sat down at the table and drank a few sips of duck blood vermicelli soup. Although animal blood was not tasty, eating a lot of it would make him feel a little full and would not make him feel too hungry.
He ate very slowly, put down his spoon after finishing his meal, thought for a moment and said, "Lu Qingmian, how about I ask for leave from school? If I go to school like this, what if I hurt someone..."
Lu Qingmian glared at him, "Jiang Jinyue, who can you hurt with me here?"
Jiang Jinyue was stunned for a moment, and Lu Qingmian said, "From today on, I will always accompany you to class, and I will never leave your side."
"But you have classes too..." Jiang Jinyue murmured.
Lu Qingmian said indifferently: "I know all of them."
Jiang Jinyue added, "If you're absent too often, you'll fail the course..."
Lu Qingmian suddenly smiled: "Don't worry, no one dares to let me fail the exam."
Jiang Jinyue tilted his head, and Lu Qingmian kindly explained for him: "I just donated a teaching building."
Jiang Jinyue slowly widened his eyes.
"I will take the exams normally and will definitely not fail. I just turned a blind eye during the roll call in class... I don't think any school leader would refuse this deal."
Jiang Jinyue nodded as if he understood, not quite. He only knew that Lu Qingmian was rich, but he didn't know that Lu Qingmian was even richer than he thought.
Lu Qingmian didn't say much about this matter. After breakfast, it was almost time, so he took Jiang Jinyue downstairs. Jiang Jinyue brought a laptop with him. Lu Qingmian just thought he would need it for class and didn't ask much.
They stood downstairs. Lu Qingmian opened the big black umbrella and put his arm around Jiang Jinyue's shoulders, allowing him to stand completely under the umbrella.
Jiang Jinyue looked at the sunlight outside and felt a little nervous.
Lu Qingmian asked: "Are you ready?"
Jiang Jinyue nodded.
The two of them walked into the sunshine together. With the big black umbrella as a shield, Jiang Jinyue didn't feel any pain on his skin, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Qingmian had been secretly observing Jiang Jinyue, and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this.
As Jiang Jinyue walked out of the Rhine Community and onto the street, he was almost unable to stand because of the smell of blood all over the street.
Lu Qingmian hugged Jiang Jinyue, who was about to fall, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Jinyue covered her nose with her hands, her face full of disgust: "It stinks, the smell of human blood."
Lu Qingmian paused, a hint of deep thought flashing in his eyes.
Jiang Jinyue, the vampire, is not just picky about food, he is extremely picky about food. It seems that apart from Lu Qingmian's blood, no other human blood tastes good to him, and he is lucky that it doesn't suffocate him to death.
After entering H University, Jiang Jinyue finally adapted a little and put down the hand that was covering his nose, but he still felt uncomfortable.
They walked towards the teaching building, and many people looked at their backs and whispered to each other.
When they sat down at the last row against the wall in the classroom, Lu Qingmian propped up the black umbrella on the table beside him, occupying a seat for one person. Fortunately, the tiered classroom was very large and could not be filled.
Because the two people's behavior was too strange, the students sitting in the front row turned around to look, and exclaimed after seeing Jiang Jinyue's white hair and red eyes. Some people had already secretly taken several photos.
Jiang Jinyue pursed her lips, feeling scared and nervous.
Lu Qingmian took out Jiang Jinyue's textbook from the small backpack he was carrying. "Not only will they secretly take photos, they'll also post them everywhere. Are you scared?"
Jiang Jinyue nodded: "Afraid."
Then Jiang Jinyue looked at Lu Qingmian again and said seriously, "But I can overcome it."
Lu Qingmian was amused by Jiang Jinyue's serious expression and couldn't help but raise his hand to touch Jiang Jinyue's white hair.
Jiang Jinyue was very serious in class and took very detailed notes. When Lu Qingmian saw this, he did not disturb him but just lay down beside him and slept.
During the break after the 39th class, Jiang Jinyue couldn't help but open the school forum and took a look. He found that the photo of him and Lu Qingmian had been posted there. There were all kinds of comments on it, such as "strange clothes", "good at showing off", and "to attract other people's attention". Jiang Jinyue took a quick look and suddenly found that these words could not hurt him. Apart from making him feel uncomfortable when he first saw them, that was all.
Putting down his phone, Jiang Jinyue stopped paying attention to everything on the Internet, so he didn't know that a sophomore girl was madly arguing with those who talked about him, and fighting for him in every post that mentioned him.
This girl is none other than Zheng Yue.
After the morning class, Lu Qingmian asked the restaurant to deliver food for lunch.
Lu Qingmian was carrying the thermos bucket. Jiang Jinyue touched the USB flash drive in his pocket and led Lu Qingmian into the empty storage room with a mysterious look on his face.
H University is very big, and Jiang Jinyue is just a freshman. He doesn't know much about the school. The storage room he can clearly remember is the sports storage room that Lu Qingmian brought him to last time.
This time, there were a lot more things in the sports storage room. Lu Qingmian moved in a table, and Jiang Jinyue took out two chairs from the stacked chairs in the corner, wiped off the dust with a paper towel, then took the initiative to set out the food and urged Lu Qingmian to come and eat.
Lu Qingmian stared at Jiang Jinyue's face with some doubt.
Jiang Jinyue looked away, picked up the spoon and started eating. He just took two bites perfunctorily and put down the spoon, then kept staring at Lu Qingmian, waiting for him to finish eating.
Lu Qingmian glanced at Jiang Jinyue's almost untouched blood tofu and asked, "You eat so little, you'll be hungry soon in the afternoon."
Jiang Jinyue shook his head, "No!"
He quietly touched the USB drive in his pocket, thinking that he would soon be able to taste that pleasant smell, so he didn't want to eat the animal blood.
Lu Qingmian frowned slightly, but didn't ask any more questions.
After dinner, Jiang Jinyue was very diligent in packing up the lunch boxes, wiping the table clean, placing the laptop on it, plugging in the USB drive, and looking at Lu Qingmian expectantly:
"Lu Qingmian, I'm going to show you something good!"
Lu Qingmian frowned even tighter: "What good stuff?"
Jiang Jinyue shook his head honestly: "I don't know either, but it's a good thing anyway."
Something good to keep him fed.
When he turned on the computer, a prompt about the USB drive popped up. Jiang Jinyue clicked on it and found that it contained videos with names and numbers.
He clicked on a video file, but the next moment a scream came from the laptop, and a white, trembling figure appeared on the screen. Jiang Jinyue was so frightened that he kept backing away, and the chair made a sharp creaking sound.
Although he was naive, he was not a fool. Now he understood what those video files were. He wanted to explain to Lu Qingmian, but he didn't know how to say it. His heart was beating so fast that it was about to burst out of his chest.
Lu Qingmian seemed very calm. He reached out to turn off the sound of the video, but did not turn off the video.
He pulled Jiang Jinyue's chair over and brought her back to his side. He placed his arm around her shoulders and leaned close to her ear, asking coldly, "Is this the good stuff you were talking about?"
Jiang Jinyue moved his lips but said nothing.
Lu Qingmian asked again: "Why do you want me to see this kind of thing?"
Jiang Jinyue looked away, not wanting to look at the computer screen, nor did she dare to look at Lu Qingmian. After a long while, she found her voice and said tremblingly, "I, I'm so hungry, I want to eat..."
Lu Qingmian's tone became even colder: "I'll let you bite me."
Jiang Jinyue shook her head: "I don't want to bite anyone..."
Lu Qingmian grabbed Jiang Jinyue's neck with one hand and forced him to look at the computer screen. "Didn't you bring this? Why don't you look at it?"
The white color on the computer screen was too shocking. Not only that, Jiang Jinyue also felt a little nauseous.
He closed his eyes, refusing to look, his voice filled with grievance: "Lu Qingmian, I didn't know it was this... I was just so hungry, I wanted to eat that sweet and fragrant smell, the smell that came from you, but you didn't let me eat it..."
Lu Qingmian laughed in anger: "Jiang Jinyue, do you really know what those so-called angers are?"
Jiang Jinyue slowly opened his eyes and saw Lu Qingmian's eyes, which were pitch black, like a bottomless lake, almost drowning him.
"I don't know, you won't tell me." Jiang Jinyue felt more and more aggrieved as she spoke. Her snow-white eyelashes became wet, and her blood-red eyeballs were soaked in tears. She looked extremely pitiful.
Lu Qingmian paused, and the anger in his heart dissipated immediately.
But he didn't intend to let Jiang Jinyue go. He pinched the back of Jiang Jinyue's neck and said viciously, "Don't you want to eat? I'll let you eat your fill tonight."
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