Translated by Pure
Edited by Sotti

Prolog (2)

With every step he took, there was a creaking noise, almost like he was a rusted machine. His skin was gray and shriveled. But Xue Lingqiao did not care. This was much better than being in a vegetative state. 

He should really thank this car accident, for it had finally woken him from his long slumber.

He picked up the woman who looked like a limp broken doll. She was young and had pleasing features, but was currently pale and fragile. There were many fractures and bruises on her body. Her organs had ruptured so she was continuously coughing out blood. If left alone in this state, she would surely die within five minutes.  translated by pure tl . com / do not re-post

Save or not to save? That was the question.

The truck, not far from them, was engulfed in flames. Just then, a drop of her blood fell onto his arm. It was quickly absorbed and his previously shriveled skin had become plump and youthful as if he had just had a full meal; dewy like a plant that had just been watered.

He took a deep breath of fresh air. For more than a hundred years, he was in a deep slumber, and when he awoke,  he could not move his body. All he could do was listen to the loud voices of the humans around him. Every day, he would hear someone talk into a loudspeaker: “this mummy’s name is ‘Sleeping Beauty’”, and he had been found in this very coffin on the bottom of a lake. Fortunately, the coffin was air-tight, so the mummy remained dry. Experts had concluded that the cause of his death was a deep cut at his carotid artery, and he had bled to death from his neck. But what was surprising was the suit that the mummy had worn was the trendiest suit at the time of discovery. The expert believed that this mummy, which was at least a thousand years old, had been in the hands of a collector, but somehow was lost and ended in a lake... 

What a dog-headed expert, a bunch of nonsense. The obvious answer was that he was pitted. 

He had been drained of all his blood, put in a coffin, and dropped into the bottom of the lake. However, the culprit was unaware that even if all of his blood was drained, it would not kill him.

Xue Lingqiao shook his head. Even though he had recovered, he could not remember the bastard who had done it to him.

It was at this moment, the woman in his arms coughed out more blood and her pupils began to dilate. Xue Lingqiao looked up into the sky and thought ‘why not toss a coin’?

“...Oh my heavens! Heavens! What a large accident!” A passing truck had stopped at the scene and a middle-aged man had made his way out of it. He waved his hands and yelled, “Hey! That girl is alive, right?”

Alive, but going to die very soon. Xue Lingqiao thought.

“What a sin, such a young girl. What will her parents do if she were to pass…” The middle-aged man took out his phone, “Oh yeah! We have to call an ambulance!” translated by pure tl . com / do not re-post

Xue Lingqiao was taken aback. No longer hesitating, he lowered his head and kissed the girl. Allowing her to drink the blood inside his mouth. 

When the middle-aged man saw this unbelieved scene, he cried out, “Pervert! What are you doing? Let go of that girl!” He ran back to grab a bat from the truck. When he came out, the man was nowhere to be found. And the girl was on the ground, her face had a healthy glow, her eyes were shut, peacefully, as if she was having a sweet dream. 

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