Hunting for a Husband in a Vampire Apocalypse

Fancy Restaurant [Check]

Candle Lights [Check]

Red Wine [Check]

Flashy Flowers [Check]

A man [Check]

'I am going to get married!!!'

Huang Qiuyan tries her best to look like she has no idea what was going on here. There is no way that she couldn't guess what is about to happen. She has been visualizing this scene ever since she attended her friend's wedding.

After more than a hundred and fifty-six rejections (Yes, she counted them), there is a man who wants to marry her. She wants to cry the tears of happiness. She already has everything planned -- a western-style wedding, her wedding gown, guests, music, food, even the location of the wedding hall, the best month to get married, and the number of children they would have after their wedding.

She will get married before her thirtieth birthday.

This is their third date. It's not like she loves this man. Zhao Zhu is a lawyer in his late thirties. They have been set up by their relatives. He is good-looking enough if she squints her eyes.

"Huang Qiuyan, you look nice in that dress," Zhao Zhu tells her with a smile.

"Thank you," She replies politely.

It is the third week of December. The restaurant is crowded with couples. She looks at the couples in love and wonders if she could find happiness with Zhao Zhu. She feels her heart resisting for some reasons. She doesn't feel anything for him. But, she is already twenty-eight. All of her high school female friends are married with kids. Her twin brother is also married. She has waited for so long for love to knock on her doors.

The love never came.

In high school, she is rejected by every boy she confessed to. Her situation didn't change in the university. Her life didn't improve after she got the job. Her age is a ticking clock. After many failed blind dates, she is tired and ready to marry anyone who has a decent background.

Huang Qiuyan is lost in her thoughts. Zhao Zhu coughs twice to get her attention. She doesn't look at him all. He becomes irritated and taps the table hard.

"Hmm?" Huang Qiuyan snaps back to reality. She finds Zhao Zhu staring at her. She pretends to be shy and looks down meekly like a new bride. Her mother trained her to act like that.

Zhao Zhu sighs.

"I think that we are a good match." Zhou Zhu rests his elbows on the table. Huang Qiuyan's eyes become bright when she hears him.

"We should get our marriage registered next week. Don't worry about the procedure. Just come to the civil office with your documents."

"Yes...I mean, sure. Let's get married." Huang Qiuyan laughs and hides her disappointment. She didn't expect the proposal to be this way. The romantic side of her wants more. But, it is a marriage of convenience. What could she expect?

"Let's order food, shall we?" Zhao Zhu picks up the menu.

Just then, a dishevelled and shaken woman in her mid-twenties walks toward their table. Her eyes are red and swollen eyes like she has a bad cold. Her flawless skin is pale. She is wearing a thigh-length crimson dress. She stops near Zhao Zhu who is preoccupied with the menu. He doesn't notice her at all. Huang Qiuyan feels awkward when she sees the woman's fixated stare on Zhao Zhu.

Bad feeling x 1

"Is something wrong?" She asks the woman. Zhao Zhu also turns to the woman. He is startled when he sees the woman.

"Qi-er? Why are you here?" He asks.

Clingy Ex-Girlfriend to ruin everything [Check]

Qi-er doesn't say anything. She steps closer to him. Zhao Zhu tries to stand when she grabs his shoulder. She forces him to sit back.

"Qi-er, what are you doing?"

Bad feeling x 2.

Qi-er opens her mouth and bars her teeth. Zhao Zhu is horrified to hear the animalistic growl from Qi'er. Huang Qiuyan notices the pointy white canines of Qi-er. Before anyone could react, Qi-er bites his throat. The people close to Zhao Zhu could hear the sound of flesh tearing when her canines puncture into his skin.

'What just happened?'

Only the sound of gurgling could be heard in the air. Huang Qiuyan is bewildered by the scene to make a move.

'What's she sucking?'

Zhao Zhu's expressions are ecstatic. He groans and moans lewdly. Maybe it is his fetish. She is questioning herself whether she could marry someone with such weird fetish.

After around two minutes, a woman screams. Some people bring out their phones to record the scene. Others joined the woman's screaming. Someone yells at her to make her stop Qi-er. Huang Qiuyan doesn't move.

She is worried.

What if Zhao Zhu breaks their engagement because his ex-girlfriend is back and publically satisfying his fetish to make up with him?

Finally, a waiter taps that Qi-er's shoulder. She doesn't pay him attention. She is busy sucking. Her body is half leaning on him. Her bulky breasts are touching his chest. Huang Qiuyan doesn't feel jealous. Instead, she looks down at her chest and feels that she lost 3/4th of the battle.

"Miss, please stop. This is a public place." The waiter requests Qi-er to stop. She wouldn't budge.

"Madam, please stop sucking...," The waiter says awkwardly. That sounds a bit wrong to Huang Qiuyan's ears. Those are the perks of reading too many erotic novels in her free time. There is no medicine for a perverted mind.

He touches her arm hesitantly. This time, Qi-er lets go of Zhao Zhu. She straightens her back. A trail of blood leaks out from the corner of her lips. She turns her empty eyes on the waiter and reveals her canines.

"Madam, would you like some wine?" The waiter asks with a businesslike smile.

That is the last thing the poor waiter said before she jumps on him and bites his neck.

Some women scream on the top of their lungs. Some people rush to the door to escape. Huang Qiuyan has different worries. She turns to Zhao Zhu who is looking listlessly at the ceiling. He doesn't answer her when she calls his name. She grabs his face hesitantly and realizes that his skin is leathery and cold. There is a deep bite mark on his throat, but there is no blood leaking out of that wound. She checks his pulse hesitantly.

She feels like her world is over. Zhao Zhu is dead. Qi-er killed him.

How could this happen? She was finally going to get married. He was the only one who wanted to marry her. All her efforts were in vain.

Qi-er is already done with the waiter. Her next victim is a woman in her mid-forties. That woman's companion shrieks and runs away. Some people point at her and scream, "Vampire! Vampire!"

'Zhao Zhu's clingy ex-girlfriend is a vampire? That's not possible.'

Huang Qiuyan's throat is dry. She picks up her glass of water and drink. She needs to calm down. Thankfully, Qi-er is busy grabbing and biting people. A few men gather their courage and try to stop her. But who could stop a vampire? She snaps their necks in a blink of an eye.

Huang Qiuyan's anger is gone when she sees Qi-er snapping people's neck like chopsticks. She is rather afraid that his crazy ex-girlfriend would hunt her down and drink her blood for stealing her boyfriend.

She runs to the crowded door. She turns around to look at Qi-er. She sees Zhao Zhu standing up behind Qi-er. His eyes are also red and swollen. His skin is pale just like Qi-er. One by one, the waiter and other bitten people also stand up behind her.

Bad feeling x 3

"Lian'er?" A man runs to the bitten woman's side. She should be dead. Huang Qiuyan had seen Qi-er snapping that woman's neck after biting her and sucking her blood.

He grabs the woman and asked, "Lian'er, are you alright?"

The woman answers the man by biting his neck. The crowd scream again. Huang Qiuyan doesn't delay anymore. She slips through the shocked crowd, going as far as possible from Qi-er and her people. She runs through the streets. She stops only when she reaches the train station. She is trying to catch her breath when she realizes that she forgot her purse and phone in the restaurant.

At the same time, she sees a crowd running out of the train station in a hurry.

She stops a woman and asks, "What happened?"

"Vampires!" The woman yells. "There were vampires in the train"

Huang Qiuyan purses her lips. Where should she run now? She doesn't have the money or phone. She hears painful cries coming from the train station.

"They are coming!!!" The woman is horrified when she hears the cries. She grabs Huang Qiuyan's arm in fear. She runs and drags Huang Qiuyan along with her.