Chapter 762

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

"Oh, that's Weilan's personality."

If he can make a move, he definitely will, unless making a move is unnecessary or the gains from making a move aren't significant, only then will he honestly watch the other party court death.

Right now, without the System needing to fully recount the scene's contents, Shen Yao could tell it was definitely Weilan's cheap father saying something that infuriated Weilan; those words far exceeded the original show of authority, causing Weilan to no longer want to continue entangling with him, simply making a move directly, sending those half-brothers of his on their way first.

System:...

"Host, that's true, but Weilan did it so satisfyingly," not a shred of hesitation or struggle, making a move right in front of his biological father; the last time it saw this kind of scene was when Xize'er was seizing power from his own father at home, but Xize'er was like a mad dog, and he didn't actively kill his father either, at most just driving his father away, letting his father fend for himself outside.

"If he weren't decisive, what if others persuaded Weilan to show mercy? There are plenty of people who love being generous with someone else's life; after all, they're not the ones suffering the loss."

One must admit, Shen Yao really understands this set of rules; no matter how much the vampire world reveres status, it still retains the old habits of human society.

The Toweier Family has been rooted in the Sins Empire for who knows how many years; the vampires inside have long been pickled in the hypocrisy and personas of the human world, just like Weilan — despite loathing his own origins, in the end he still chose to return to the Sins Empire and take charge of the Toweier Family.

Letting the System pay more attention to these vampire nobles when it has nothing to do makes it very easy to reach a conclusion: aside from their physical nature differing from humans, in other aspects they really can be summed up with similarities.

System:...

The System muttered a few more perfunctory lines, mainly because Weilan was too overbearing, directly intimidating the surrounding vampires into silence; nobody dared speak up to refute, so it could be said Weilan's word was law; as for Weilan's cheap father, seeing his own son kill without blinking an eye, he wouldn't dare say anything about showing authority either, just honestly lowering his presence.

"Hahahaha, this old geezer caved so fast, but Weilan didn't let him off either, directly ordering him to leave the Toweier Family, and even set a time limit."

By tomorrow afternoon at the latest, he must move out of the Toweier Family, and that person connected to him, all of them cannot stay.

"Being able to leave he should be grateful, but Weilan's cheap father has never been a vampire with self-awareness; no bargaining?"

Shen Yao raised a hand to rub her forehead, continuing to complain in her heart at the same time.

"How could there not be? The cheap father even dragged out the long-dead mother of Weilan to defend himself; unfortunately Weilan seemed even angrier, those eyes looked like they wanted to cut the cheap father into a thousand pieces.

Tsk, could it be Weilan's mother died because of the cheap father?"

The System felt it had touched the truth; otherwise why would Weilan and the cheap father be at such an impasse? There must be a blood-deep hatred mixed in.

"Doesn't count; I remember Weilan told me his mother died of illness.

Oh, his mother was a human, and she refused to transform into a vampire."

Shen Yao recalled that night Weilan held her, his voice sad as he spoke of the woman who didn't occupy a large proportion in his memory; perhaps because of his mother's fate, it made him loathe his vampire identity even more.

Anyway, from Weilan's words Shen Yao could tell Weilan's mother had a tragic life, all because of Weilan's cheap father; even if the final death had nothing to do with Weilan's father, Weilan ultimately couldn't help but displace his anger.

After all, according to Weilan, if not for his father's deliberate inducement, his mother could have safely lived out her ordinary human life, but because of his father's meddling, his mother died of depression.

Shaking her head to stop bringing up old matters, Shen Yao had the System watch Weilan's situation; since the show of authority was resolved, the matter of taking power over the Toweier Family could be put on the agenda; those old geezers of the Toweier Family should agree.

"Agree, of course agree; just now Weilan showed a little skill and scared them."

They wouldn't have enough lives even if they had several for Weilan to make a move on; moreover, a done deal is a done deal whether given early or late, why would they offend their own top superior?

"When is Weilan coming back?"

"Should be soon; after handing things over, he'll probably arrive home before midnight."

Sure enough, when Weilan appeared in Shen Yao's room again, it happened to be exactly midnight.

Shen Yao:...

At this time Shen Yao was lying on the bed half-asleep; hearing movement she hurriedly sat up and opened her eyes, only to see Weilan appear at her bedside.

Hm?

"You're back?"

Weilan hummed in acknowledgment and nodded, then sat down and pulled Shen Yao into his embrace.

"I drove him out of the Toweier Family, along with those people dependent on him.

Guessing, we probably won't see him again in the future."

This isn't nonsense; Weilan's cheap father has stirred up all kinds of romantic scandals outside these years, after all this person's looks are truly good, plus his reputation of not discriminating between meat and vegetables, if not for the Toweier Family helping cover for him, he would have died over and over.

Now Weilan has spoken, directly exiling and driving away the cheap father, precisely to let this person go die.

Even if he's unwilling, with so many people around him, they won't tolerate Weilan's cheap father continuing to stir trouble; after all, having a backer or not is really important.

Weilan saying so much isn't to seek comfort from Shen Yao; it's more a mentality of letting go; he can't keep wiping the other's ass forever; moreover, the Toweier Family's top priority right now is self-preservation, clansmen are all required to keep a low profile and not cause trouble, Weilan's cheap father fundamentally cannot do that.

Shen Yao raised her hand to hug Weilan's waist back, not forgetting to raise her hand and lightly pat him.

Like soothing, more like persuading, but even more it was heartache for Weilan.

Even a heartless beast has a trace of warmth; it's just the other party doesn't cherish it at all, grinding away all of Weilan's little bit of affection.

Another early rise; Shen Yao rubbed her eyes and asked the System, "When did Weilan leave yesterday?"

He came back too late, and she fell asleep fast again; she only remembers not long after soothing him she fell asleep in his arms.

"After the Host fell asleep, Weilan went to the study; right now he's still in the study handling Toweier Family matters."

Compared to the previous busyness, Weilan now truly has the feeling of holding full authority; the Toweier Family from top to bottom, after a night of fermentation and brewing, all know what happened yesterday evening.

The obedient ones choose to stay honestly at home; the bold ones run out stretching their hands to test the waters; as the saying goes, wealth and honor are sought in danger; a new eldest brother takes the position, certainly needing to replace some unstable positions.

Then their opportunity hasn't come? They don't hope to reach the top in one step, but only by gaining the superior's appreciation can they obtain more resources.

A clan is a miniature society; worldly wisdom and human relations are indispensable.

Weilan never had any intention of blocking; even after taking over Toweier Family affairs, he actively delegated certain matters, just to find a few more usable people to handle things for him.

Thump thump thump —

The door was knocked; Shen Yao turned her head; behind her was the open window.

Servants pushed in a row of beautiful wedding dresses, expressing respectfully that these all needed Shen Yao to choose, and finally confirm the attire for the wedding.

Shen Yao put down the tea cup in her hand, walked to the hanging wedding dresses and touched them casually.

Indeed very pretty, although these wedding dresses are mainly white, the patterns and designs on them would surely make any young lady unable to resist being moved.

Shen Yao nodded in satisfaction, then had the servants take off the wedding dresses one by one, trying them on one after another in front of the full-length mirror in the room.

In the blink of an eye several months had passed, and Shen Yao and Weilan's wedding was only two months away.

The invitations had been sent out in advance, the invitees spread across the entire continent, among them Shen Yao's grandparents, whom Shen Yao had thought over repeatedly before deciding to invite.

After all, this place was not very peaceful; Kain and Cui Si's kindness toward Shen Yao was remembered in their hearts, and now that she had the ability to repay them, even if only by attending this wedding, when they encountered trouble in the future they would have one more path to survival.

'More likely it would be a dead end; the Toweier Family is not without enemies.'

Couldn't deal with Weilan, so they had to take it out on other in-laws as a punching bag? The Kain family didn't have much response capability, and once targeted they would be unlucky.

'Everything has two sides; I've already attached a letter to the invitation, whether they come or not is entirely up to them.'

Shen Yao couldn't unilaterally decide the future direction of the Kain family; ultimately they still had to choose for themselves.

However, judging by Shen Yao's understanding of Kain and Cui Si, they would most likely come to attend, even if it meant not hesitating to waste time and energy.

Setting out from the Kain family to reach the Sins Empire would take at least a month, and adding accidents caused by delays on the road, it would probably be very hard.

"Miss Shen, look."

The servant bowed and bent over, still dragging the beautiful wedding dress skirt hem in hand.

"Not bad, change into the next one."

The girl in the mirror wore a beautiful wedding dress, her hair scattered loosely behind her; although she didn't wear much makeup on her face, her beauty like a white moonlight could still make people fall for her.

The servants were all well-trained vampires; they wouldn't say a word they shouldn't, but in private they would still discuss this lady born of ordinary humans, saying she was truly too beautiful.

Although they didn't understand why the heir married an ordinary human, as servants shouldn't they just do their proper job well?

Quickly taking off the wedding dress she had put on, then taking out another wedding dress with a very large skirt hem to help her put on again, Shen Yao spun around in front of the mirror, commenting on each wedding dress after trying it on, until finally choosing one with a skirt hem dragging on the ground like a blooming flower, gorgeous and beautiful, before ending this exhausting work.

Shaking her somewhat tired arms, she went to the study next door to discuss with Weilan; Shen Yao thought whether their wedding could be simpler and more brisk.

Weilan:...?

Weilan smiled and took Shen Yao's hand, the two sitting on a relatively spacious chair.

"What's wrong?"

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao scratched her head embarrassedly, not daring to say it was because she was too lazy, always feeling the wedding was too troublesome and problems would arise.

Weilan smiled and raised his hand to touch Shen Yao's head, "I need to apologize first about this wedding," because this wedding was not held simply for the two of them; it itself carried relatively deep political significance, and even the two of them were not the protagonists of this wedding.

"Before I returned, I had received news about disputes and trouble in the Sins Empire; the kingdom side was still making trouble, and other nobles were also itching to move."

For so many years, the Toweier Family had always kept a low profile; occasionally someone jumping out to cause trouble would soon be pressed down by family members.

"But, Yao Yao, you should know that if we don't show our trump cards, the Toweier Family will face questioning and pressure from the outside world."

Weilan was also unwilling to cause trouble, because it not only required bearing high risk but also many unnecessary matters.

But not holding it was truly impossible; even among Weilan's many contingency plans, this wedding had the possibility of ending abruptly.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao couldn't help but rest her chin on both hands, her gaze unconsciously turning toward Weilan's face.

"Alright, I was just saying it casually," she knew the wedding couldn't be simple; the three words Toweier, once spoken, represented the honor belonging to nobles.

You must know that right now it was still a society of royal power; the power of nobles was still not small, but because war was not frequent for some reason, nobles had to bow down to royal power and be honest and obedient; if it were a period of civil war, it would be whoever had soldiers had reason, similar to the feudal kings carving up territories in ancient times.

Staying with Weilan in the study for half a day, Shen Yao casually flipped through the books here; some non-human species insider information she was more interested in was all found by Shen Yao.

Oh

Shen Yao also found in a book with kraft paper pages the owl they had encountered when they were in the town; it was a kind of slime monster that could drop san value, essentially a creature with no thoughts at all relying entirely on instinct, feeding on all living creatures.

She didn't know how that owl was doing in the town, or whether it had been discovered by people outside.

If not, once the owl grew up, it would be another trouble. Putting down the book in her hand, Shen Yao greeted Weilan and left the study.

The servants had already prepared dinner; because she didn't want to go to the hall downstairs, Shen Yao had been eating in her room these past few days; after eating she would move around a bit, and unless necessary she wouldn't go out.

The system was curious and hurriedly asked why?

'Because Weilan is relatively busy, and the people around are all from the Toweier Family; I'm not familiar with them,' rather than going out and pretending to be close with these people, it was better to stay in the room to relax and recuperate.

The system felt the host was really thinking too much; as the future mistress of the family head, these Toweier Family clansmen would definitely require themselves to cater to the host; the feeling of being surrounded by stars and moon was unknown how good.

'And then become like Weilan's cheap father, acting recklessly and causing trouble?'

'...'

The system suddenly went 'ah', 'Weilan's cheap father seems to have had an accident!'

'Oh, he just left this morning and had an accident? That must be because he was too hateful.'

'... Host, that person died just a few meters outside the Toweier Family's sphere of influence; clearly it was done on purpose.'

'Hmm, actually this counts as provocation; Weilan should retaliate.'

After all, he could slap faces at will, but couldn't allow others to slap his face.'