She could never hide her weariness. Fortunately, as evening approached, her spirits gradually lifted.
When her fingers finally stopped on the black keys, the last note lingered in the room for several seconds before gradually fading away. The afterglow of the setting sun filtered through the heavy curtains, leaving behind only a dim, gray-black light.
Zhong Luoyue lowered her head, shifting from a half-awake state into complete wakefulness.
Click—the lights came on.
The door opened, and Elizabeth walked in barefoot, dressed in a white dress and carrying a basket in both hands.
"You're awake." Elizabeth smiled brightly.
She was the kind of woman who could make most men flock to her... if she were not a vampire.
Like Snow White, Elizabeth suffered from a congenital defect caused by long-term malnutrition. She looked like a patient with albinism, and nearly all the hair on her body was white.
That trait had already become permanent. Even after she broke the taboo and drank fresh human blood, she still did not recover... But in Zhong Luoyue's eyes, Elizabeth, with her white hair and white eyebrows, was so extraordinary, like a work of art. As a woman herself, she could not help marveling at such ultimate beauty.
Modern times were different from the Middle Ages or earlier eras. White hair and white eyebrows would not be mistaken for something monstrous, and some people with particular tastes even adored them.
If Elizabeth's ears had been a little sharper, she probably would have been mistaken for a true elf of the human world.
The last time she had returned to the Zhong Family's main residence, she had only met the eldest son of the Zhong Family once. Yet her elder brother had been unable to forget her to this day... If it had been before she