Country Z.

Imperial Capital, Imperial Hotel.

Mi Yao lay on the soft bed, and in her drowsy state, she felt someone on top of her, their scorching lips and tongue wandering across her skin, sending shivers down her spine.

Who?

Who is it?

With all her might, Mi Yao struggled to push the person off her. Her cherry lips parted slightly, and she resisted in a tender voice, "Don't... let go of me... let go..."

At that moment, a sharp pain pierced her neck as the man on top of her bit her.

"Hiss," she grimaced in pain, knitting her brows.

However, her frown soon relaxed, "Brother Sheng, is that you?"

The first time she met Brother Sheng, he had bitten her just like this.

"Mhm," the man on top nodded.

Mi Yao inhaled sharply from the pain, but she was overjoyed; it was Brother Sheng, her Brother Sheng.

If Brother Sheng wanted her, she was willing regardless of the pain.

She extended her pale, delicate hands to embrace the man's neck, whispering affectionately, "Brother Sheng, I've missed you so much... don't leave me, hold me tight..."

Mi Yao had a long dream, a flashback to a distant past.

When she was 8 years old, one day, while picking roses in her family's garden, she suddenly saw a teenager lying among the flowers – it was Gu Yunsheng.

That year, Gu Yunsheng was 15.

At that time, Gu Yunsheng was unconscious, and she ran over and pushed him. Seeing no response, she was about to call for help, but at that moment, Gu Yunsheng suddenly moved and pinned her down.

A painful bite on her neck – he ferociously bit her skin, sucking the blood from her tender neck. She was terrified, suddenly recollecting tales of vampires.

She wanted to struggle, but Gu Yunsheng held her tightly in his embrace, blending her into his arms.

It was the first time a boy had held her, and she had made skin-to-skin contact with him; from that moment on, she considered herself to be his person.

For the following ten years, she became his shadow, always trailing behind him.

She would often say— "Brother Sheng, I like you, do you know that?"

— "Brother Sheng, why do you always ignore me?"

— "Brother Sheng, turn around, just a look and you'll see me..."

Dreaming of the past, Mi Yao felt like a small boat tossed and turned amidst stormy seas.

She was happy; she was finally together with Brother Sheng.

...

The next morning.

The dawn's sunlight filtered through the light golden gauze curtain, Mi Yao's feather-like long eyelashes trembled, and then her eyes opened.

Her head was spinning; she had drunk too much last night.

In two days, she was to marry into the powerful Feng Family of the Imperial Capital, so last night she went to the bar alone to drown her sorrows.

Mi Yao slowly sat up, feeling a sudden chill as the silky white duvet slid off her. She glanced down and her beautiful black and white pupils contracted sharply.

Kiss marks littered her milky-white skin, clearly the result of a night of chaos.

She moved, and pain engulfed her body as if she had been torn apart.

There was even a faint trace of blood on the snow-white sheets.

Mi Yao felt as if she had been struck by thunder; what had she done last night, did she sleep with a man?

Who slept with her?

Last night, she seemed to dream about Gu Yunsheng; he had taken her.

With her fine white teeth biting into her lower lip until a trace of blood emerged, Mi Yao was so confused. Gu Yunsheng had been missing for a whole two years, how could he have suddenly reappeared!

Was it because she missed him so much that she had hallucinated?

There was a bit of pain around her neck; reaching to touch it, she realized that the man who was with her last night had also bitten her. With this bite, she had mistaken him for Gu Yunsheng.