Chapter 768

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

Staying in the castle was dreadfully boring, but thanks to Weilan and the System's thoughtful companionship, Shen Yao still managed to pass these dull days with relish.

System: ……

Really? Why don't I believe it.

Shen Yao: ……

"Are you saying I'm two-faced?" Shen Yao silently glanced at the System still jumping up and down in frustration, thinking this little thing had become truly sensitive lately — probably also related to the constantly changing situation outside, after all their mission difficulty had skyrocketed, and that affected its state directly.

"Host, what do we do? This war really can't be avoided," not even the novel protagonist's death changed what was originally supposed to happen.

Even because of Xize'er's death, some situations that should have occurred years later suddenly advanced by a long time; the balance between vampires, werewolves, and humans has already been broken.

"Adapt. Could it be you can stop it?" Shen Yao made the System face reality as soon as possible — some things aren't avoidable just because you want to avoid them.

Besides, if they really were avoided, it wouldn't be the mission world's difficulty anymore, and they'd be even less likely to keep raking in this many rewards.

"A three-way melee — mainly it's still a question of the power struggle between vampires and werewolves." Humans are too weak; even with the Hunter Association as a force to check the even more perverse vampires and werewolves, external force has its limits. Besides, who knows how many in the Hunter Association have already been turned; when the dust settles, the human side might just get screwed over.

The System had no rebuttal to the Host's words, because this was the essence of it.

Vampires and werewolves — previously vampires occupied the top suppressing everyone, human society was controlled by both sides, werewolves hid waiting for their chance.

Right now……

Roughly speaking, the werewolves feel their time has come, coming out to fight the vampires tooth and nail. Winning would naturally be best; if they can't win, they can still tear a wound from the vampires' bodies and plan from there.

After all, compared to vampires, werewolves have long had nothing left to lose — unlike vampires who've always hidden in the human world enjoying themselves, would they really be willing to give up all this wealth in hand and return to the pastoral life of old?

"The Toweier Family has already purged a batch of unstable members, but even so, internal thoughts are a mess — quite a few are entangled with werewolves or the Hunter Association." Weilan had barely returned from outside, and didn't hide from Shen Yao the predicament he faced.

During this time, Weilan could truly be described as leaving early and returning late — genuinely extraordinarily busy. On top of that, Shen Yao's pregnancy required him to spare extra energy to watch over her — his haggard look was plain to see.

"There are many in this situation?" Although Shen Yao's words were a question, both knew it was an affirmation.

Weilan silently nodded, and reminded Shen Yao that recently she absolutely must not go out — especially with her about to give birth.

Shen Yao: ……

Looks like the situation outside is even more severe than what the System brought back. The System is artificial intelligence after all — its grasp of human hearts isn't as good as theirs; what it sees is mostly surface-level situations. Weilan, as the Toweier Family heir, already controls the entire Toweier Family — what he learns is the inside story.

"Rest assured, during this time I'll stay home peacefully nurturing the fetus. Outside matters needn't be rushed." The more rushed, the more mistakes — easily giving the other side openings and leverage.

Weilan has only one soft spot — Shen Yao and the child in her belly.

Saying this might sound like aggrandizing herself, but Shen Yao genuinely felt she wasn't wrong. Vampire emotions aren't very rich; thanks to the Toweier Family's problems, Weilan has no strong desire for family belonging. If not for survival, he wouldn't be willing to get involved with the Toweier Family at all.

Weilan smiled at this, and simultaneously reached out to pull Shen Yao into his embrace.

"I'm fine on my end — it's you who've had it hard." Not just the pregnancy, but the unwavering determination to accompany him back to the Toweier Family.

Weilan didn't feel Shen Yao had this obligation. The vampire essence is still beasts wearing human skin. His feelings for Shen Yao had also changed again and again from the start. If possible, he would certainly settle Shen Yao and child properly before going to handle other matters.

Shen Yao leaned in Weilan's embrace indicating it wasn't hard. If staying in a castle with food, drink, and lodging counts as hardship, then the vast majority of people in this world wouldn't live satisfactory lives.

The two had a rare tender moment, until a butler came knocking to report that several Toweier Family elders had matters to report and needed Weilan to go handle them.

Hearing this, Shen Yao simply rose from Weilan's embrace. She smiled and touched Weilan's sharply defined face — smile not reaching his eyes — "Don't worry." Go be busy then.

Weilan lowered his eyes and kissed Shen Yao's head, then gently placed his hand on Shen Yao's swollen belly. The natural attraction from bloodline made the originally inactive belly show fluctuations. Shen Yao raised an eyebrow, thinking: as expected, it's bloodline affection — this unborn child has an innate instinct to curry favor with its father.

"This is nature." Vampires are animals — faced with something threatening, survival comes first.

Shen Yao smiled and pushed Weilan's hand away, telling him to hurry up and work instead of staying here scaring the child in her belly.

Weilan helplessly shook his head, and before leaving didn't forget to reach out and ruffle Shen Yao's hair.

The System hid to the side making snide remarks — mainly about the outside situation and layout — and denied Weilan's overly worried thoughts. "The Toweier Family still has backbone in the Sins Empire. Unless the Sins Empire completely falls into chaos, chaos won't reach the Toweier Family."

Shen Yao touched her round belly. Compared to its liveliness in Weilan's hands, right now the belly was calm and steady — like a child whose energy had been drained, lying there honestly without moving a muscle.

"Pull one hair and the whole body moves. The Sins Empire's essence is still political power. Right now the political power here is unstable. The Crown Prince the Toweier Family supports has little ability." He'll most likely lose to his several brothers and sisters. Then the Toweier Family wanting to stay out of it is basically ruled out.

"Know the fate of those ancient great clans? Since they placed their bets, they must bear the consequences." Who knows how many clans were shattered to dust because of a new emperor's ascension. The current Sins Empire is exactly like those dying old emperors. The Toweier Family? Just special because the people here are vampires who can fight one against many. Once other vampire nobles take advantage to kick them while they're down, what can the Toweier Family do?

"With this effort, you'd better spend more time considering our escape route arrangements. Before this child grows up, we can't leave this world." The consequences of failing the mission are terrifying — believe me, the System doesn't want to experience them either.

System: ……

The System certainly doesn't want to experience them — after all, the System doesn't want to be purged again, and on top of that have to find a new task-taker.

Shen Yao gets along with it, and doing missions yields harvests. The System long ago got used to this bumper harvest — making it go back to an ordinary guaranteed-minimum life would be the greatest cruelty.

【47】 Drip-drip-tick-tock it pondered inexplicably for a long while. The System finally still bypassed Shen Yao, turned tail, and ran outside to scout the situation — and conveniently, following the Host's meaning, found escape routes in advance. Yes, escape routes in the literal sense!

Drip-drip-tap-tap, Shen Yao pondered meaninglessly for a long while, but in the end the system bypassed Shen Yao, turned around and ran outside to investigate the situation, and at the host's convenience, found the retreat route for escape in advance—well, the retreat route in the literal sense!

Time flashed by, and several more months passed.

Shen Yao's belly had grown larger and larger, reaching the brink of childbirth.

Weilan had already pushed aside all matters, devoting himself entirely to guarding Shen Yao's side — not letting a single rustle of wind or stir of grass slip by.

Shen Yao smiled and told Weilan not to be so nervous. Besides, she'd given birth who knows how many times in other worlds. Moreover, she still had alchemy pills for support in hand.

Weilan: ……

"Yao Yao"

Weilan was quite helpless toward Shen Yao, but more than that was heartache and worry.

Even though Shen Yao now has a vampire body, giving birth still consumes her greatly. What's more, the child she's carrying is a natural-born vampire — its abilities will most likely be far stronger than this biological father Weilan.

"Don't keep frowning." The originally gentle noble son now turned cold as ice. Shen Yao raised her hand to smooth the creases between Weilan's brows, and by the way softly comforted him not to be like this — she had absolute confidence and assurance of a safe delivery.

Speaking of which, from birth to growing into someone who can stand on their own, it should also be much faster than ordinary people, right?

Even at a time like this, Shen Yao's thoughts could still expand outward — one must say, in a certain sense Shen Yao is quite suited to the identity of a System task-taker.

The two were still talking when, not long after, Shen Yao suddenly felt a thread of pain from her belly, followed by cramping pain.

Hmm.

A familiar feeling...

Raising her hand to grasp Weilan's fingertip, Shen Yao couldn't help but say she was about to give birth.

Weilan immediately held Shen Yao in her arms while notifying the family doctor in charge to prepare for the upcoming childbirth.

The whole castle became busy, especially as Shen Yao's pain intensified, accompanied by wave after wave of impact from inside her body; Shen Yao raised her hand to put a pill into her mouth before slowly easing the situation.

Weilan was stopped by the family doctor outside the door, but he could still hear and see what was happening inside; Shen Yao's condition was now stabilizing, and with one word of encouragement after another, the child in her belly was seizing the time to come out.

Shen Yao had been worn out until she lost all strength, finally remembering only the baby's crying and laughter.

Shen Yao:...

No wonder it's a vampire's child? Being so different from birth.

But putting that aside, now that the child is here, more attention will have to be paid to the situation outside.

Tilting her head, the somewhat exhausted Shen Yao slept soundly, and when she opened her eyes again, it was already evening.

Weilan held the child in her arms; although the father and son met most often, thanks to some earlier exchanges, they still got along very well.

"This little thing seems more afraid of me," Weilan sat by the bedside, unable to help but put down the baby in her arms and complain softly to Shen Yao a couple of sentences.

"He's still young."

Shen Yao shot a glare at Weilan, turned her head to look at the not-small-at-all Weilan, thinking to herself that she had finally given birth to this tormenting little thing, and in the days to come, things would probably be even more chaotic.