Asking me if I had any questions? It'd be more accurate to say everything was a question.

“Let me calm down first. I need to think this through.”

I carefully went over everything An Li had said in my head. In her explanation, there was actually a three-part chain.

First, there was a Queen of Night who was insanely powerful. So powerful that the forces of light feared her, and didn't want her to evolve into something even more terrifying.

And the way that Her Majesty the Queen advanced... was by finding a female vampire to sleep with.

The forces of light went for the scorched-earth option. They carried out a complete purge of the vampires and killed every last one of them.

Because of an accident, I became the last person carrying the vampire virus. To keep the race alive, the vampires' racial instinct upgraded my bloodline into that of a pureblood vampire. And so I could bear children, it turned me into a... female vampire.

Okay. Now if I put the last point together with the second one, it matched up perfectly!

Which meant—

“Doesn't that mean that Queen or whatever is going to capture me?!” I was terrified, my teeth chattering. “And turn me into an RBT!”

“RBT?”

“It's a euphemism. Just read it by the initials of the pinyin.”

An Li showed a teasing smile. “Very vivid. And not wrong.”

“Then aren't I totally screwed?!”

I patted my chest and forced myself to calm down a little. “Wait. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Let me see if I can defect to the enemy's enemy.”

The enemy's enemy was the forces of light.

And the forces of light's attitude toward me was—wipe me out completely.

I suddenly fell silent and looked at An Li with pitiful little eyes. An Li didn't respond, but at that moment, cold as she was, she felt unbelievably warm in my heart.

Right. The forces of light wanted to hunt me down. The Queen of Night wanted to drag me back for sex. Only the pretty young lady in front of me, Miss An Li, who looked cold outside but soft inside, had saved my life.

At that moment, I suddenly remembered something my father, who worked far away from home, once told me—

A person's strength is limited. No one can handle everything perfectly. So when facing certain things, it's normal to feel helpless and lost. But don't panic. Even if you can't do it yourself, you can rely on other people's help.

So the most important thing is to dare to reach out, and dare to ask others for help. As long as you dare to ask, someone will dare to help.

“An Li.”

“Mm?”

I called out to her, then reached out—and like a vampire bat diving into a battlefield, I lunged over and hugged her slender, fair little leg.

“Sis! Sister An! Sister Li! You have to save me!”

An Li didn't move. She glared at me with disgust.

“Let go!”

“No, I'm not letting go. You're the only one who can save me.” My eyes brimmed with tears. “I'm begging youw!”

After turning into a little girl, even my voice naturally became childlike. I still wasn't used to this body's vocal cords, so some syllables came out weird.

Like youw.

“Let go! The fact that I didn't wipe you out like my other colleagues already makes me merciful enough, and you still expect me to save you?”

“Look, since you already saved me once, save me all the way. If you're saving someone, see it through. Please save me again!”

I didn't want to die, and I definitely didn't want to become an RBT.

“No. Why would I care about any of that? When I saved you before, you weren't a vampire yet. And the only reason I didn't kill you later was because of orders from above... wait.”

An Li's phone started buzzing. She forcibly pried me off and tossed me back onto the sofa, then walked to the side to check it.

There was a message on the phone that could only be opened after decryption. An Li unlocked it with practiced ease. There was only one line on the screen—

[Maria: Keep the last female vampire under control. Don't let anyone discover her.]

Maria was the name of her godmother. Although An Li usually obeyed the Holy See's orders, the power structure inside the Holy See was complicated. Maria, who had recently been losing ground in the internal power struggle, clearly had other plans.

An Li couldn't say she respected her godmother all that much, but she needed her.

She touched the slender jade-like neck beneath her fingers, at the collar-like ring around it.

“Wuwuwu, don't leave, missy... eh, you're back?”

I had been rolling around on the sofa in despair when I suddenly realized An Li had come back again. Come to think of it, our sofa was so small, yet I could still roll around on it however I wanted. That just showed how tiny and delicate my body was now.

What was that racial instinct even thinking? Even if it wanted me to have children, turning me into a loli came with a lot of problems.

The best option would've been a mature woman. If not that, then at least a young girl.

Of course, if we were going by my own personal preference, then between loli, young girl, and mature woman, those three choices...

“I've changed my mind. You'll follow me from now on, but you have to behave.”

“Mature women are great, big boobs... huh? What?”

For a moment, I didn't react. I blinked at An Li, then instantly became overjoyed. “An Li, you... you're my real big sis! My great benefactor!”

This was amazing. Father truly hadn't lied to me. In this world, people really could help each other. As long as you dared to ask, someone would dare to help.