Chapter 69: This World Doesn’t Need Anymore Monsters

Yelan looked at the wreckage in front of Noah’s door.

She knelt halfway down, picking up a fragment of the door panel.

“Do you think a human woman in poor health could destroy a castle room door to this extent?” Yelan asked.

Huangwei shook her head. “Clearly not.”

“Anna said she not only saw Luoyao smash the door panel but also jump directly from the second floor, unharmed.”

Yelan tossed the fragment aside, rising slowly.

She gazed into Noah’s room, drawling, “Huangwei, your earlier suspicions are essentially confirmed.”

Huangwei knew what Yelan meant.

Not long ago, during a secret psychic exchange, Huangwei had raised whether Luoyao was Dr. Luo Qiange’s daughter.

Back then, Huangwei couldn’t be certain, but seeing Luoyao’s astonishing destructive power now left no room for doubt.

Luoyao was Dr. Luo Qiange’s daughter.

The “legacy” she left for vampires and humans.

Following Yelan, Huangwei stepped into Noah’s room.

The room’s arrangement differed from her memory.

Noah’s space was always impeccably neat.

Not a speck of dust in even the smallest corners.

A perfectionist, Noah never half-hearted anything.

Yet now, the room felt slightly disordered.

Cushions on the sofa were haphazardly placed.

The fruit tray on the coffee table held not just tomatoes but dates and other fruits.

A faint smell of cooking oil wafted from the kitchen.

A sign of daily meals being prepared.

The bed, once pristine and wrinkle-free, was now slightly messy.

A Miffy rabbit plush sat by the headboard.

This room, though not a perfectionist’s ideal, was… full of life.

Luoyao’s presence had changed Noah profoundly.

Awakening not just her centuries-sealed heart but her passion and yearning for life.

“Quite cozy,” Yelan remarked.

“Yes, cozy sums up Noah and Luoyao’s home perfectly.”

Huangwei looked at Yelan. “Mother, you once told me to keep an eye on Dr. Luo’s daughter, saying she’s a legacy for humans and vampires. Now that we’re nearly certain Luoyao is her daughter, can you tell me more?”

Huangwei knew little.

Yelan had only told her that Dr. Luo’s daughter was a paradox of hope and destruction for both races.

Leaving her to find answers herself.

She was vital to both, potentially ending the millennia-long conflict.

Huangwei never understood why a frail human girl mattered so much.

To her question, Yelan replied,

“Dr. Luo Qiange was the youngest and most brilliant scientist in the Blood Hunt Church twenty years ago. When I found her, she was buried in research, clueless about everything else.

She even dared ask if I wanted to grab dinner after her experiment that night.”

Yelan chuckled at the memory.

Huangwei couldn’t muster a smile.

A human inviting a vampire to dinner… Was Dr. Luo naive or fearless?

“Ridiculous as it was to invite me to dinner, what’s more absurd is that I agreed.”

Huangwei gasped, commenting, “As long as Mother’s happy.”

Yelan gave an amused hum, continuing,

“After dinner, I wanted to… deepen our exchange, you know. But she refused.”

“Refused? A human dared refuse you?”

“Yes. Dr. Luo said she was asexual, uninterested in men, women, humans, or vampires.”

Yelan sighed. “Her exact words were, ‘Only eternal science excites me physically.’ Gifted scientists are always a bit eccentric, aren’t they?”

Huangwei adjusted her glasses, nodding, waiting for more.

“Later, I shared my plan with her, and it aligned perfectly with hers. She, too, sought to balance human-vampire relations, not eliminate one side.

Twenty years ago, her experiment involved injecting humans with a special serum.

Vampires who drank their blood could only feed from that person; other blood caused severe rejection.

That experiment… was Dr. Luo’s half-finished work.

More precisely, a half-finished product forced by the Blood Hunt Church.

The experiment’s true goal was to alter vampires’ physiology, enabling their organs to digest human food nutrients.

This way, vampires wouldn’t need to hunt humans to survive, ideally coexisting with them.

But the Church wanted none of that. They aimed to eradicate vampires entirely.

Dr. Luo always believed their approach was wrong.

Because…”

Yelan met Huangwei’s eyes, speaking slowly,

“Before becoming vampires, we were all… human.

How the first vampire was born is lost to history.

But it’s certain all current vampires were once humans, transformed by their ‘Mother’s’ embrace.

At some point, ‘vampires hunt humans, Church fights vampires’ became an accepted truth.

Transformed vampires, over long lives, lose their humanity, a trend worsening over the past century.

Some extremists justify it with ‘a big forest has all kinds of birds’—a bit forced.

Better to say that as life evolves to a certain level, it branches into more possibilities.

Vampires are what those extreme humans aspire to be.

Once transformed, with superhuman strength, self-healing, and near-eternal life, are they truly happy?

They endure unavoidable loneliness in life’s river.

They grow accustomed to increasing cold-heartedness.

Their once warmly beating hearts grow cold unnoticed.

Yelan was the first vampire to notice this contradiction.

The first to attempt balancing vampire-human relations.

She hadn’t turned a human in nearly three hundred years.

Noah was her last batch of daughters.

After that, no new offspring.

Even on the day Luo Qiange died, she…

Didn’t turn herself into a vampire.

The world doesn’t need more monsters.

It needs balance.

“I was the first vampire to pursue balance between the two races. Dr. Luo was the first human.

So she began that experiment, its true purpose not to eliminate vampires, but ‘redemption,’ or rather, ‘peaceful coexistence.’

Luoyao is Dr. Luo’s masterpiece, the experiment’s perfect outcome. When she fully awakens, the balance between humans and vampires will be in her grasp.”

After Yelan’s account, Huangwei showed no shock, but the explosive information would take time to process.

She’d thought the “legacy for humans and vampires” was perhaps a “hybrid.”

But the truth was far more complex.

Yelan had orchestrated such a grand scheme.

What Huangwei now understood was just the tip of the iceberg.

Until the plan’s final moment, Huangwei likely wouldn’t guess how many moves Yelan had hidden.

Yet amid these mysteries, she had one last pressing question.

“Mother, what about Noah?”

“Ah, that rebellious daughter—my chest still hurts. She hits hard.”

Yelan smiled bitterly, shaking her head. “Before she awakens fully, she needs Noah’s companionship. So, rebellious or not, I must keep her alive.”

“But you threw them into the Well of Atonement… is that really okay?”

“Any physical and mental tempering accelerates Luoyao’s growth and catalyzes their feelings. If they can’t even survive three days, then I misjudged Noah, and Luoyao.”

Yelan closed her eyes, rubbing her temples. “Enough, Huangwei, end tonight’s Q&A. I’m tired.”

“Yes, Mother, I’ll escort you to rest.”

“Mm. Oh, after the Well of Atonement matter ends, I’ll give you a simple test.”

Huangwei paused. “A test?”

“Yes. As my designated castle manager, you must have a leader’s mindset. The test is simple: analyze the purpose of my actions these past days. Understand?”

Huangwei bit her lip, nodding slightly. “Understood, Mother.”

“Good, escort me back. And find me a blood s*ave on the way. Tonight, I suddenly miss Dr. Luo.”

At dawn, light raced across the horizon, blanketing the land in moments.

A new day dawned, and the three-day punishment in the Well of Atonement began.

Noah was physically and mentally exhausted, but her eyes fixed on the approaching sunlight.

That light was like gathering poison mist, forcing Noah to huddle in the corner.

She knew full well the sun’s destructive power on her body.

Even twenty minutes of direct exposure could kill her.

“Damn, I don’t want to die as unknown as these predecessors…”

She lifted her head, gazing at the well’s mouth, where sunlight fully flooded in.

“Ah!”

Noah instinctively raised her hand to block it.

UV rays hit her arm’s skin, sizzling, burning pain immediate.

But the next moment, a soft, fragrant warmth enveloped her.

Noah cautiously opened her eyes.

“Yaoyao…”

The slender human girl held her, shielding her from the sun as much as possible with her body.

She stroked Noah’s silver hair, whispering, “My turn to protect you.”