Chapter 289 (1/2)

As conceited as they got, the Lucas Family had been very careful not to slight Vivian, who was the ultimate vampire ancestor, living since the Prehistoric Era. The day before, Hessiana sent a messenger to the Lucas Family. And today, their patriarch had come to pay a visit. The vampires were a race attaching great importance to bloodline and tradition. They respected seniority more than anything else. So, even if Vivian had a screw loose, she was still their senior. Never mind the vampires, if Emperors Yan and Huang or Adam and Eve came back, wanting to see you, would you not meet them with hat in hand? Vivian’s history was no shorter than theirs…

Meanwhile, the Lucas Family had already arrived early in the morning. However, the person they wanted to see had just woken up. As Vivian pushed the door open and got out of her room, she saw Hao Ren as well as the two maidservants in the corridor. She was all yawny when she greeted them and she looked like a scarecrow. Hao Ren was very surprised: Vivian was extremely particular about her appearance; Lily said she was pretentious. Vivian would never let herself look down-at-heel, always making sure that not a hair was out of place. But now, she was a real sight to behold.

“Didn’t you sleep last night?” Hao Ren looked curiously at Vivian. The biological clock of a vampire was different from a human’s. Sometimes, Vivian could do with an hour of sleep, but now she looked like sh*t as if she had not gotten a wink of sleep for five days.

Vivian raised her hand and pointed to Hessiana who was coming out from another room. “She gave me a hard time last night. I almost went crazy.”

Hao Ren’s mind was instantly filled with age-retricted scenes. He had his eyes on Hessiana, looking at weirdly. So Hessiana got agitated. “Why are you staring at me like that? I just wanted to sleep in Lady Vivian’s hair, just like old times. But she wouldn’t let me.”

Hao Ren turned his curious eyes to Vivian. Vivian looked back at him with arms akimbo. “I broke myself up into a swarm of bats, dispersed and slept around the house. She inherited my ability, she can’t fight me…” Vivian said, still yawning.

“You slept like that the whole night?” Hao Ren still looked at Vivian uncannily. “Didn’t you feel tired? What’s the point?”

“All right, let’s not delve into this. I heard that the Lucas Family is here. Lead me to the washroom. I’ll meet them once I get myself sorted.” While she walked away with the two vampire maidservants, she looked back and said to Hao Ren, “You haven’t kicked your habit of throwing the blanket off yourself while you sleep, eh? You scared me as I hung over your head last night!”

Then she swaggered away, leaving Hao Ren and Hessiana behind. Hessiana’s glaring eyes were like razor blades piercing into him; he got the feeling that Vivian had done that on purpose!

Out of nowhere, Hessiana yanked out an iron hammer and smiled at Hao Ren like the Cheshire Cat. “Come on, get your head over here, I’ve got something for you…”

“Please, calm down! It was just a bat even if it was her! What could I do to a bat, right?”

“Shut the f*ck up! Everybody knows that humans are peverts! Especially you, shaman. Who knows, maybe you like things with wings?”

Hao Ren was speechless.

Vivian should not have left her daughter and allowed her to grow up alone! Look what became of her.

Despite that, Hessiana knew her limits. Perhaps she was wary of being whacked by Vivian, so she took a chill pill. As a matriach, she had to play host to the guests that day. As Hao Ren walked along the corridor, he knocked on each door and collected his team members before going to the long hall downstairs. He came with a curious state of mind to meet the patriach of the Lucas Family. Lily came with a hungry state of mind—for breakfast, lunch and dinner; Doggie had no clue which meal it was. She was a zombie, waking up from oversleeping. The city had no sun and no moon to mark time, so no one would know what time it was.

As he got down the stairs, he saw the Lucas Family representatives, whose sense of existence was off the chart. He immediately recognised the difference between them and the Hessianite Family: they were the real deal—the type of vampire everyone was familiar with.

There was a large table in the middle of the long hall. Hessiana and her men were sitting at one end of the table, looking well-mannered, for the moment at least. Sitting across them were 10 males and females; they were envoys of the Lucas Family. Everyone was wearing the Blood Clan’s favourite costume: dark suits with blood-red stitches or ribbon trims, however the clothes were not old-fashioned. They were modern-looking, not functionally out-of-place even by today’s standard or too plain in a vampire party. Without a doubt, the Blood Clan members were meticulous about their looks no matter what. In that sense, when Lily called them “pretentious”, it was a fair statement.