For some reason, Chen Shuo thought back to the gaze of that girl in the red dress.
While walking like a god, Su Xiyan asked, "What's wrong? Did you think of something weird?"
Chen Shuo replied, "Yeah, I recalled a girl's gaze."
Su Xiyan: "..."
The next second, her slender, fair hand fiercely pinched Chen Shuo's arm.
Chen Shuo: "Oww oww oww!! What are you doing? Getting physical over nothing."
Su Xiyan's eyes were like daggers: "With a super beauty like me in front of you, yet you're still thinking about another girl's gaze??"
Indeed, when girls get jealous, they really become unreasonable!
Chen Shuo rubbed the arm that Su Xiyan had painfully pinched: "I told you that you were jealous, yet you still won't admit it!"
"Just now wasn't there a girl who stepped on your dress? I unintentionally saw that the look in that girl's eyes was very suspicious, not like the ordinary female gaze of envy, jealousy and hatred. I also can't say exactly, just very complicated."
"Also, I feel like her target wasn't to be jealous of you, but of me instead."
Su Xiyan calmed down and helped analyze: "Aren't you a vampire too? Can't you vampires closely sense the existence of your own kind?"
"Just now when she stepped on my dress, she was so close. Shouldn't you have been able to sense whether or not she was a vampire?"
Chen Shuo shook his head: "I didn't sense anything."
Now they had hit another dead end.
Su Xiyan had felt all along that something was off. Based on reason, there's no way the intelligence that Tang Zhiyuan had given about the demon-hunting organization could be wrong.
But why couldn't they find any traces of vampires at the whole event?
How could it be that Su Xiyan, Su City's highest-ranked demon hunter, and Chen Shuo, a vampire himself, hadn't noticed any vampire presence there? It was just too abnormal!
After thinking hard for a long time, Su Xiyan still hadn't figured out exactly where the problem was.
Chen Shuo was still rubbing the arm that Su Xiyan had hurt. Su Xiyan also felt that she was being too petty, why had she become so nitpicky? Chen Shuo called this jealousy.
Thinking of this, Su Xiyan felt a little guilty. She raised her hand. This small gesture frightened Chen Shuo so much that his instincts made him recoil backward as he spoke in a terrified tone: "What are you doing??"
Su Xiyan: "We're in public, are you afraid I'll eat you?"
"I'm helping massage you, it looks...quite painful, doesn't it?"
Chen Shuo: "That's nonsense! If not, why don't I pinch you once and see if it hurts?"
Su Xiyan's hand gently touched Chen Shuo's arm, gently massaging while comforting him: "Okay okay! I won't pinch you next time."
Seeing Su Xiyan carefully helping massage his arm, her long lashes trembling like butterfly wings resting on a flower.
Chen Shuo couldn't help but smile.
Not bad, at least she's learned to show concern for others!
When not using her demon-hunting skills, Su Xiyan's palms and fingers were all soft and tender, not much different from an ordinary girl's small hand, except prettier.
After some time, Su Xiyan raised her head and asked gently: "Doesn't hurt anymore right? Feeling better?"
Chen Shuo pretended to shake his arm and twist it around: "Hmm~! Seems like it doesn't hurt anymore."
"But it still feels a little sore."
Su Xiyan blinked her big, bright eyes, the clear pupils hiding a deep spring: "How could it still feel sore?"
Chen Shuo: "Because someone was jealous."
The next second, Su Xiyan raised her hand again.
Chen Shuo: "Who was it that just said she wouldn't pinch me again?"
Su Xiyan put her hand down with a smile on her face, then fiercely stomped on Chen Shuo's foot.
He was caught completely off guard! If not for sitting on the sofa, Chen Shuo felt the pain might've made him directly jump up.
She said she wouldn't get physical, yet she used her feet!
Su Xiyan raised her proud little chin, looking at Chen Shuo victoriously.
Right then, a waiter wearing a suit vest and bow tie came over very politely, bowing as he walked: "Hello you two, Mr. Chen and Ms. Su I presume?"
Chen Shuo nodded: "Yes, something the matter?"
The waiter quietly reminded them: "It's like this - some guests reported that your car, plate number ending in 1016, is blocking the emergency passageway. Please go move it in the parking garage. Or if you don't mind, you can hand me the car key and I'll go move it for you."
Since Su Xiyan never liked others driving her car, Chen Shuo stood up: "Sure, I'll go move it."
Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan both found it strange. Clearly they had properly parked in a spot just now! What did it have to do with blocking any emergency passageway?
The venue hosting this ball was at a high-end private club.
After parking in the parking garage, there were shuttle vehicles to take guests from parking to the ballroom venue.
From the ballroom to the parking garage, there were also dedicated shuttle vehicles for Chen Shuo.
When Chen Shuo arrived at the parking garage entrance, he walked in.
The open-air parking garage was surrounded by scenery as beautiful as a tourist hotspot. As expected of a high-end private club, luxury cars filled the area. Su Xiyan's white AMG wasn't conspicuous among the tens of millions of dollars worth of cars.
Yet Chen Shuo was still able to spot Su Xiyan's car at first glance.
Parked near the artificial lake, what did that have to do with any emergency passageway?
Not only was it not blocking any so-called emergency passage, it also didn't prevent any cars from passing through.
Chen Shuo had always been a very civic-minded person who also tried to be considerate of others when parking to avoid causing inconvenience.
Could that waiter have gotten it wrong? But he even clearly stated the license plate number!
Just as Chen Shuo was about to leave, a girl came out from a nearby car.
It turned out to be that same girl in the red dress from earlier!?
She looked Chen Shuo up and down and asked: "You're not an ordinary person, are you?"
Chen Shuo: "I don't think we know each other?"
Girl in red dress: "That's not important."
Chen Shuo glanced at her. No wonder when they unintentionally made eye contact back at the ballroom, he felt her gaze was too complicated and that something was off. His instincts were indeed correct now that he realized.
He just didn't know what business this girl in red had with him?
The parking garage was quite a distance from Su Xiyan, so Chen Shuo's system had already activated.
After scanning with his system panel, Chen Shuo confirmed that this girl in the red dress was neither a demon-hunter nor vampire, just an ordinary human.
But why had she gone through such effort to lead him here?
And directly say that Chen Shuo was no ordinary person?
From her shifty eyes, she was likely acting under someone else's instructions.
Because her gaze lacked confidence, seeming to just be carrying out some task.
Chen Shuo's eyes narrowed slightly under the moonlight: Since that's the case, time to lure out just who is hiding behind you!
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ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
