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Not long after Bosi left, Ji Lian came in to serve Su Liu.
"City Lord," Ji Lian burst into tears when she saw Su Liu's miserable state, "I'm sorry, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't..."
"I was just protecting myself," Su Liu said pertinently. "If they hadn't chosen to rescue you immediately, you should know what would have happened. What would Chu Liu have done if something happened to you?"
Ji Lian looked at Su Liu blankly.
If she died, Chu Liu would kill his way out and kill anyone who got close to him. He might even take his anger out on others, like a madman who had lost his mind.
By that time, he must feel that the whole world is hateful, and perhaps... he will completely betray the vampires and stand on the side of humans.
She is Chu Liu's only belief in life and the driving force for him to run back and forth between humans and vampires in search of balance.
It was that afternoon ten years ago when that commoner boy locked her in the door and faced the powerful search dogs alone with his initial belief.
He ran in the mountains and became a mountain.
He is her mountain.
And she is the god who lives on this mountain.
"This is the smallest price to pay," Su Liu pulled the wound and hissed softly, "It's just a slap, lighter than I expected."
That wasn't even a slap, you're so delicate and tender.
But he was almost beaten to death.
Lord City Lord!
You overestimate your tolerance!
Ji Lian reached out distressedly, but didn't dare to touch Su Liu's red and swollen face directly, "...City Lord."
"Okay, don't cry," Su Liu said calmly, "Don't make me feel that I made the wrong decision."
Ji Lian burst into laughter while crying, "The City Lord is always right."
"Then why did you apologize? Do you think you deserve to die?" Su Liu put down the ice pack.
"Of course not, how could I be the one who deserves to die?" Ji Lian took a box of ointment from the low table beside her and gently applied it to Su Liu. "How can I die? I still have to follow the city lord to Spark City as an official."
"I don't like sacrifice," Su Liu looked at Ji Lian, hesitated for a moment, and said, "If the price of saving you is to sacrifice myself, then I won't save you. Ji Lian, you'd better not do such a stupid thing for someone else."
"I... City Lord..." Ji Lian lowered his head, "I understand, City Lord."
"Your husband does this better than you," Su Liu said. "If you touch my people, you have to pay the price. Blood debts must be paid with blood."
Ji Lian raised her head suddenly and almost couldn't hold the cotton swab in her hand.
"I want to make the person who hurt me suffer as much as I do," Su Liu laughed, "otherwise it can't be called an apology. What, are you scared?"
Ji Lian shook her head, her expression somewhat unnatural. "Doesn't the City Lord think Chu Liu is too extreme? He killed a lot of vampires last night."
"You are quarreling with him because of this," Su Liu glanced at Ji Lian and saw her eyelashes, as thin as cicada wings, trembling rapidly.
Ji Lian remained silent.
"Were there any innocent vampires among the ones he killed?" Su Liu asked.
Ji Lian shook his head.
"Are you the Virgin Mary?" Su Liu asked again.
Ji Lian bit her lip and shook her head shyly.
"I really don't understand what you're thinking. Anyway, I'm going to find a way to get back at the king for slapping me," Su Liu hissed again and complained, "I hold a grudge. It hurts so much. This rude man has no gentlemanly manners."
Listening to Su Liu's somewhat angry complaints, Ji Lian's troubled face finally relaxed. She confessed, "Perhaps I'm not as brave as the city lord. I dare not offend this person, and I dare not resent that person. In the end, I have become a contradiction, a wolf in sheep's clothing."
"If you really find yourself in a situation where you're doomed, will they let you go if you act docile?" Su Liu lectured her. "Scold them. You're going to die anyway, so it's good to curse them a few times before you die. Tell them you're not a coward."
Ji Lian was amused by Su Liu. She whispered in a dreamy voice, "How could I not hate them? In my dreams... I even wanted to kill them."
"It's a good thing to keep your blood," Su Liu said. "At least in this era. I'd rather you be extreme than numb."
"Okay, I don't need you here for the time being. Cheer up and talk to Chu Liu," Su Liu said again.
Ji Lian bowed and left.
Before leaving, she looked back at Su Liu and smiled with relief as if she had figured something out.
Not long after Ji Lian left, Lu Yao also came over.
"Sir, I also want to go back to Spark City with you. I don't want to stay here," Lu Yao tentatively massaged Su Liu's legs. Seeing that Su Liu didn't stop her, she increased the strength of her massage hands.
"Tell me about your value." When dealing with a blood slave like Luyao who is full of servility, you have to use a different approach, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
Luyao lowered her eyes and bit her lip, then said hesitantly, "I'm very good at serving Omegas. I'm very skilled."
"What else?" Su Liu remained unmoved.
"Your Excellency can try it first. No one who has tried it is dissatisfied," Luyao was anxious. She suddenly felt her own shallowness, as if these were all she could show off.
"Which Omegas are there?" Su Liu seemed to be interested. "Tell me about them."
"...," Luyao's charming little face flushed slightly, "they are the young masters, young ladies, and... wives of those masters."
"Tell me more specifically," Su Liu was dissatisfied.
"It's just..." Luyao said while crying, "They asked me to kneel down and help them take off my clothes, and then..."
Luyao couldn't continue.
"Keep talking," Su Liu frowned, "I didn't ask you to stop."
"My lord, I...I shouldn't have disturbed your rest without my permission. I didn't know how to behave. I...I was wrong," Lu Yao knelt on the ground.
"You've already done it, why are you still afraid to talk about it?" Su Liu said indifferently, "A girl like you still has a sense of shame?"
Luyao didn't dare to cry out loud and knocked her head to the ground.
"If you want to come with me, it's not impossible," Su Liu changed the subject, "but you have to do something for me."
Luyao raised her head with tears in her eyes, and blinked rapidly, trying to shake off the tears and see Su Liu clearly, "Sir, I am willing to do anything."
"Kill Su Tao for me," Su Liu looked down at Lu Yao, "Can you do it?"
Luyao was stunned.
"Why, you think I'm a good person?" Su Liu smiled softly, "Who gave you this illusion?"
Luyao didn't move, her beautiful eyes were filled with tears. She looked up at Su Liu quietly, as if she was looking up at the mysterious stars.
"If you can't do it, get out," Su Liu said coldly.
Luyao was extremely desperate, and suddenly a fierce force emerged from her body. Not only did she not leave, she stood up and said angrily.
"Why should I kill him? What right do I have to kill him? He's not the one who deserves to die! Why do you bully us? Just because you have noble blood? If I were born in a family like this, I could be as noble as you, but I can guarantee that I will never trample on other people's lives like you do! People like you make me sick!"
After saying that, he clenched his fists and walked out with his head held high.
Su Liu couldn't help laughing as if she had heard a joke.
"Come back," Su Liu's voice was filled with a faint smile and an irresistible majesty.
After Luyao finished her classic speech similar to that of a grassroots heroine, she originally planned to die in front of the door in one go, so that a spoiled aristocrat like Su Liu would know what it meant to die gloriously.
But he was soon brought back to his original form by Su Liu's "come back".
The moment she stopped, she deflated.
"Come here," Su Liu said again.
Luyao deeply hated her slave nature. She was like a chick that had done something wrong, with her head lowered and her hands clasped together in embarrassment.
"You've wanted to scold me for a long time, right?" Su Liu put away her smile and pretended to be angry.
Luyao lowered her head and muttered to herself quietly, "I don't just want to scold you."
Su Liu pretended not to hear clearly, "What are you mumbling about?"
Luyao pretended not to know, "Sir, I didn't open my mouth."
"You just said that if you were born into a noble family, you would definitely do better than me." Su Liu smiled again, "Then from today on, you will be the city lord. Let me see what you can do."
Su Liu stood up from the bed, supporting his face with one finger and pointing at the room with the other. "This place belongs to you now. Do you need me to leave, Lord City Lord?"
Luyao couldn't believe it. "I... haven't read many books."
"I'll teach you as my duty as the former city lord." Su Liu's tone was serious, and he didn't sound like he was joking.
Luyao was standing unsteadily, and her slender waist began to tremble like a lotus leaf trembling after being hit by raindrops.
"You're brave enough to scold me, but what's wrong?" Su Liu glanced at her with contempt in his eyes, "Are you planning to go back and be a coward again?"
"I haven't read much!" Lu Yao said louder and louder, more frankly. "Don't I want to? But how can I treat such an important position as the City Lord as a joke?"
Su Liu's fingers, which were supporting her face, moved to her chin. "Well, I won't make things difficult for you. I'll give you two days. I want to know the details of the hundred or so blood slaves with you, including who they served and what special experiences they had. The more detailed the better, but I have to do this secretly. It would be best if even Su Tao, who is close to you, can't guess your mission. Can you do it?"
"If I leave here and go around visiting people everywhere, it will be too obvious, right?" Luyao is not that stupid.
"That's your problem," Su Liu said, using the capitalist rhetoric again. "Do you still need me to teach you?"
Luyao's face was no longer submissive as when they first met. She had already released her true nature and bargained, "It can't be counted today... The sun is almost setting."
"Then it will start from tomorrow," Su Liu waved her hand, "Go down, and come find me again at this time on the third day."
Luyao nodded vigorously and ran out in a hurry.
A bell rang outside the door.
Time flies, and it's dinner time again.
After handing over all matters related to the territory, Qi Fengling finally returned to Su Liu.
"Su Liu, I asked you to wait for me again," Qi Fengling hugged Su Liu from behind and rested his chin on Su Liu's slender shoulders.
Su Liu was sitting in the small living room eating wontons. She didn't say anything when she heard this, and continued to chew the food in her mouth carefully.
After swallowing it, he calmly pushed the other person and said, "Sit next to me and don't touch me. I have something to ask you."
Qi Fengling obediently let go of Su Liu, pulled out a chair and sat aside.
After sitting down, he supported the table with one hand, supported his chin and watched Su Liu eat slowly, while his eyes were looking at Su Liu's face.
"What did you say to that bastard King? How come he has become so easy to talk to?" Su Liu wiped his mouth with a silk handkerchief. The wonton soup made his lips particularly moist, and even after wiping, his charm could not be concealed.
Qi Fengling's eyes darkened.
"Go ahead," Su Liu pushed him. The anxiety that had been hidden deep inside her since Bosi's conversation with him finally erupted. "What are you standing there for? Did you agree to some obscene conditions? Where's your virginity? Are you not going to use it as a betrothal gift?"
Qi Fengling smiled.
"He doesn't like me, but he's not a pervert," Qi Fengling took Su Liu's hand and brought her over to sit on his lap. "I used to think he was a pervert, too. After all, those male favorites he had..."
"His feelings for me are more of a possessive desire stemming from the loss of his mother. They're very complicated, but he really doesn't have that kind of intention towards me," Qi Fengling restrained Su Liu, who was struggling to escape from his arms. "Why, haven't I officially become your boyfriend since last night? Why are you shy?"
"You..." Su Liu pushed away his lips, "No, I'm talking about last night. It doesn't count after that time."
Qi Fengling was not annoyed, his eyes revealed understanding, "As expected of a capitalist."
Without waiting for Su Liu's reply, Qi Fengling lifted Su Liu's chin with his fingers and looked carefully at Su Liu's face, which was still swollen. "It's taking too long to heal. Do you need my help?"
The saliva of high-level vampires seems to speed up wound healing. Qi Fengling had used this method to heal the wound on Su Liu's finger before.
"Are you hinting at a reward?" Su Liu was pinched by Qi Fengling's waist and sat on his lap. She couldn't break free for a while and could only let him go.
"Shouldn't it be?" Qi Fengling brought up the past. "Last time you were unhappy but said you were hungry, and this time you used your body in exchange to coax me. Su Liu, am I that kind of person?"
Su Liu felt a little guilty, but immediately took the initiative and said, "You just wanted this, why are you still angry when I gave it to you?"
"Su Liu," Qi Fengling sighed softly, "Why do you want to use something you don't like in exchange? What do you want me to do? When have I ever refused you? Does it have to go to this extent between us?"
"I didn't do this to just anyone," Su Liu said angrily. "You make it sound like I'm unscrupulous. Have I ever treated Bosi or any other vampire like that? Besides, don't you know I'm lying to you? I never meant to give it to you."
Qi Fengling gently pinched Su Liu's waist and said, "You don't want to give it to me, but you still come to provoke me. Have you ever considered the consequences of doing this?"
The red in Qi Fengling's eyes deepened, as if saying: If you were another Alpha, you would have been unable to get out of bed long ago.
"Stop pinching me, it's itchy." Su Liu's face turned red as he pinched her. She twisted her body to avoid him, "Let me down."
"Don't move," Qi Fengling's eyes darkened again, as if he was restraining something.
"If you touch me, we will break up." Su Liu felt something and her face turned even redder. The intact side was even redder than the swollen side.
"I'm not that kind of person," Qi Fengling said helplessly, "Don't move, I just want to show you my face."
"Then look at this, why do you have to use this posture?" Su Liu was embarrassed and angry.
"To teach you a lesson," Qi Fengling said as he kissed Su Liu's face.
A cool feeling swept over me.
The pain that had been appearing and disappearing on his face disappeared.
Su Liu couldn't help but close her eyes.
When Qi Fengling's lips slid across her jaw and continued down her neck, Su Liu suddenly opened her eyes and pushed him away.
"What are you doing?" Su Liu was frightened.
"I'm sorry, you smell so good," Qi Fengling said a little embarrassedly.
Su Liu climbed down from Qi Fengling, and this time Qi Fengling no longer restrained him.
He picked up the mirror on the table and looked at himself.
The swelling on his face had almost completely subsided, but there were still a few blue and red bruises, revealing the rudeness of a certain Alpha.
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