Drink

'Mommy!'

It's Fu Mian's voice. Fu Sheng grits his teeth. Something has happened to Huang Qiuyan and Fu Mian. He can't hear anything else. Since Fu Sheng is alive, he knows that Huang Qiuyan is also alive. Fu Mian won't be killed.

The barrier is only keeping the purebloods out. He will break it today even if it means dying.

He stabs his heart. Drops of blood fall on to the circle drawn on the ground. The six vampires cut their palms and drop their blood in the circle. The blood from each vampire flows individually through the glimmering paths. It reaches the center and blends together. 

In the HQ's prison cell, Huang Qiuyan opens her eyes when she feels a sharp pain in her chest. She clutches her heart. It feels like someone twisted a freaking knife through her heart. She coughs up some blood. 

[System: Dear Host, why is your body acting strange?]

She is not in the state to answer him. The system is freaking out. He analyzes her state. She was unconscious a moment ago. Now, she's coughing her blood. There's a wound on her heart out of nowhere.

[System: Dear Host, is your mate hurt? That would explain this.]

[Host: How would I know? This stupid bond is literally a death of me.]

She screams when she feels the invisible knife twist in her heart again. Her screams attract the people in the HQ. Even Fu Sheng hears her scream. But he can't stop. He twists the knife for the third time to shed more blood as he mumbles the incantation. 

[Host: If I live through this, I will kill him.]

[System: Dear Host, we have to survive first. Wait.]

The system has noticed that the magic is being drained from her blood. Her muscles are turning hard. Her veins are turning black as coal. The life source is moving around erratically. Something is trying to suck the magic out of it. They are done if that invisible magic sucker takes the life source.

"What's going on here?" Ian walks into the prison cell. No one else has dared to come inside. She is writhing on the floor in pain. He frowns a bit. The woman is only wearing a shirt. Her pale legs are bare.

Why is he thinking of her as a woman in the first place? She's an abomination. She's also Fu Sheng's mate. 

"Is it because of the blood?" He sits down on his one knee. Young converted vampires experience excruciating pain. if they don't get blood for a long time. He already knows that she's different from the other new vampires. It must be because of the true bond.

"If you need blood, nobody will feed you that here."

Huang Qiuyan clenches her teeth. The life source is trying very hard to escape the clutches of the invisible suction force. The wound on her heart is not healing. Her flesh feels like it's being torn apart in each passing second.

[Host: Do something!]

[System: Dear Host, I am trying to keep the life source out of its grasp. Don't distract me.]

"I don't want to die." She squeezes her eyes shut. "I am only 28. I haven't even got married yet."

Ian had met many vampires who had begged him to spare their lives before he killed them. All of them told him once that they didn't want to die. But, no one ever said that they didn't want to die because they didn't get married.

He snorts. "Don't you have a mate? You are married more or less."

"Don't even talk about that dreadful bond thing." Huang Qiuyan screeches at him. "I will break that bond."

Break the bond? "Woman, even death can't break the true bond."

"I will find it." She scratches her nails on the floor. She chokes out the blood again. "I won't die again."

He rarely meets a vampire who has the energy to complain while being on the pain due to the bloodthirst. Despite the bloodthirst, she didn't try to bite him once. She didn't bit any human in the HQ. 

Peculiar. 

"Drink." He presses his wrist against her mouth. "Then, tell me how do you plan to break the true bond between you and Fu Sheng."

He doesn't even flinch when her canines pierce his wrist.