Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao confronted Kaitles after he revealed that he knew about her son, Su Jin, and could smell his own vampire scent on him. Kaitles said Su Jin carried human, werewolf, and vampire bloodlines but could not recall whether that posed a danger, leaving Su Qiao angry and threatening to beat his memories back.

• Kaitles asked whether Su Qiao was afraid, then suggested their past intimacy made him her husband.
• Kaitles revealed that he knew about Su Qiao's son, Su Jin, and asked who his father was.
• Kaitles said Su Jin carried three bloodlines and had Kaitles's scent, while Su Qiao insisted he had nothing to do with them.
• Su Qiao asked whether Su Jin's mixed bloodlines made him dangerous, but Kaitles blamed his blurred memories.
• Su Qiao threatened to beat Kaitles until he remembered, and Kaitles told her she could not beat him.

Su Qiao confronted Kaitles about the time he drank her blood, then threw him out when his explanation angered her. Kaitles left promising to return, while a bat at the edge of the woods witnessed the King being thrown out.

• Kaitles explained that he had drunk Su Qiao's blood while badly injured and unable to control himself, and that her blood helped him recover.
• Su Qiao blamed Kaitles for nearly draining her dry and revealed that the special energy in her blood came from medicine she had bought with Points.
• Su Qiao angrily pushed Kaitles toward the window and ordered him to leave.
• Kaitles left, believing he could still find Su Qiao, clear up their past, and become her husband because they had a son.
• Su Qiao shut the window and resolved to throw Kaitles out again if he returned, while a bat landed nearby and reacted to the King being expelled.

Kaitles drove Quinn away from Su Qiao and ordered him to search for Selt while she was angry with him. Su Qiao reassured Xiao Jin that the visitor was gone, and Xiao Jin returned to bed after reminding her to take care of herself.

• Kaitles struck Quinn for criticizing Su Qiao and warned him not to speak ill of her again.
• Kaitles learned Quinn had finished his assigned task and ordered him to look for Selt.
• Quinn agreed, eager to avenge Selt's ambush of the sleeping Kaitles seven years earlier.
• Xiao Jin asked Su Qiao about the visitor, and she claimed an ugly vampire had merely passed by and been chased away.
• Xiao Jin returned to his room after urging Su Qiao to sleep and look after her health.

Kaitles visited Alger in a hospital ward to learn what Alger’s family had done to Misu, then killed him when he claimed they had not harmed her. The next day, someone at an ancient castle remarked that it was a good day to sunbathe by the woods.

• Kaitles appeared beside Alger’s hospital bed and pinned him down with an invisible force.
• Alger invoked a thousand-year-old peace agreement between wolves and vampires, but Kaitles said he had never signed it.
• Kaitles showed Alger a photograph of Misu and demanded to know what his family had done to her.
• Alger denied that his family had harmed Misu, and Kaitles beheaded him with black mist.
• Kaitles left through the window in the form of a giant bat.
• The next day, someone in an ancient castle’s courtyard said the weather was good for sunbathing by the woods.

Kaitles’s body continued changing after drinking the half-werewolf woman’s blood, and he decided to seek her out by visiting her home. When she was away, he told Xiao Jin he would look for him instead, and Xiao Jin invited him inside.

• Kaitles learned that Selt had appeared nearby and said Selt would come to him on his own.
• Kaitles noticed his heartbeat, body temperature, and sense of taste had improved, and hoped the changes would make the woman more willing to approach him.
• Kaitles rejected Quinn’s offer of blood and flew away to find a meal.
• Kaitles arrived at Xiao Jin’s home and asked for his mother, but Xiao Jin said she had gone out.
• Kaitles said he would look for Xiao Jin instead, and Xiao Jin invited him inside.

Kaitles visited Xiao Jin’s home and tried to win the boy’s acceptance while hoping to stay close to his mother. Xiao Jin remained polite but made clear that only his mother could decide whether Kaitles stayed.

• Xiao Jin let Kaitles into the house and offered him tea, explaining that the household avoided coffee and other drinks for his mother’s health.
• Kaitles examined the tea set and learned he was the first guest Xiao Jin had welcomed, apart from Uncle Wen.
• Xiao Jin explained that serving tea was a family tradition meant to show respect for guests.
• Kaitles asked whether Xiao Jin would mind him staying with his mother, and Xiao Jin said the decision belonged to her.
• Kaitles agreed that Xiao Jin’s opinion did not matter to his pursuit of the boy’s mother.

Kaitles asked Xiao Jin about his father and tried to convince him that Su Qiao needed a powerful man to protect and support her. Xiao Jin rejected the idea of needing Kaitles, but Kaitles encouraged him to earn money for the woman he might love in the future.

• Kaitles asked Xiao Jin whether he knew who his father was, and Xiao Jin repeated Su Qiao's dismissive guesses about the man.
• Xiao Jin said he wanted only a peaceful life with Su Qiao and poured Kaitles a glass of milk.
• Kaitles argued that Su Qiao needed a man who could support and protect her, and he believed he could fill that role.
• Xiao Jin insisted that he and Su Qiao were strong enough on their own and that he enjoyed earning money for their household.
• Kaitles told Xiao Jin to keep earning money so he could make a future partner happy and stand out among other men.

Kaitles explained the wealth and preparations he had made for Su Qiao and Xiao Jin, and Xiao Jin agreed to think about his offer. When Su Qiao returned home with Wen Yicheng, Kaitles openly claimed to be her partner and Xiao Jin’s father, then pleaded for her forgiveness.

• Kaitles told Xiao Jin he had spent thousands of years building a fortune so he could give Xiao Jin’s mother a comfortable life.
• Xiao Jin considered the danger facing him and his mother and said he would think about Kaitles’s offer.
• Kaitles said he would return that night and left with Xiao Jin seeing him to the courtyard gate.
• Su Qiao and Wen Yicheng arrived, and Su Qiao asked Wen Yicheng to check on Xiao Jin while she confronted Kaitles.
• Kaitles put an arm around Su Qiao and told Wen Yicheng he was Su Qiao’s man and Xiao Jin’s father.
• Kaitles explained that he had only recently awakened from his injuries and begged Su Qiao to forgive him, but she pulled her hand away in shock.

Kaitles insisted on taking responsibility for Xiao Jin as his father, while Su Qiao rejected his claim and questioned how a vampire could have a child with a human. The chapter ended with Kaitles invoking the vampires’ duty to raise and protect their young until they reached vampire adulthood.

• Kaitles visited Su Qiao and claimed he wanted to fulfill his responsibility as Xiao Jin’s father.
• Su Qiao denied that Xiao Jin had identified Kaitles as his father and demanded to know what he was trying to do.
• Su Qiao argued that Kaitles was a pure-blooded vampire and could not have children with a human.
• Kaitles said vampires could have children with humans, though it was extremely rare, and questioned whether he was really a pure-blooded vampire.
• Kaitles told Su Qiao that vampires had a duty to raise and protect their young until they reached adulthood among vampires.

Su Qiao learned that Xiao Jin might need a First Embrace and worried about the long life and bloodlust it would bring. Kaitles reassured her, but their talk ended with Su Qiao rejecting his claim on her and telling him to visit less often.

• Kaitles explained that Xiao Jin's vampire blood was stronger than his werewolf blood and that he could safely give him the First Embrace.
• Su Qiao worried that immortality would make Xiao Jin lonely, and Kaitles said Xiao Jin could find love, sleep, or choose to end his life.
• Su Qiao asked how Kaitles had endured his long life, and he said he still had a wish to fulfill.
• Kaitles asked about Su Qiao's relationship with Wen Yicheng, and Su Qiao told him it was none of his business and that they had nothing to do with each other.
• Su Qiao told Kaitles to visit less often, then went inside while he walked into the woods.

Kaitles rejected Quinn’s suggestion to kill Su Qiao’s rival and decided to learn how to win her over, while Quinn went to protect Su Qiao and her son. Su Qiao was detained over five murders, but two more killings with the same method occurred during her interrogation, weakening the case against her.

• Quinn offered to get rid of Su Qiao’s rival, but Kaitles told him the real problem was winning over Su Qiao and her son.
• Kaitles ordered Quinn to protect the mother and son, then went into the human world to observe how young people courted women.
• Police took Su Qiao to the station as a suspect in the murders of five male Saint Han Academy students, including Alger.
• Su Qiao explained that she had been home during the killings, but investigators could not verify her alibi because she lived in a remote area.
• A Black police officer reported two more murders matching the earlier cases, and Su Qiao asked An Lun if she could leave.

Su Qiao was released after the police cleared her in the murders, and Carlya vowed to keep investigating her brother’s death. As Su Qiao left the station with Wen Yicheng, she suspected Jiang Han had killed the men to avenge her and began preparing for the trouble she feared was coming.

• An Lun released Su Qiao after her family doctor confirmed she had not been at the scene of the crime.
• Carlya confronted Su Qiao and promised to pursue clues connecting her to her brother’s death, while Su Qiao challenged her to try.
• Wen Yicheng met Su Qiao outside the Police Station and wondered whether the murders were part of a conspiracy to frame her.
• Su Qiao suspected Jiang Han had killed the men in retaliation for causing her trouble and agreed with Wen Yicheng that she should be careful.
• Su Qiao thanked Wen Yicheng, recalling that he had supported her during her pregnancy and helped her raise Xiao Jin.

Su Qiao told Wen Yicheng that she planned to return home and explained that Xiao Jin’s father had been seriously injured and only recently awakened. She chose to let things unfold naturally with him, leaving Wen Yicheng disappointed as he realized she did not hate the man.

• Wen Yicheng said he also planned to return home to visit his aging parents and relatives.
• Su Qiao confirmed that the man was Xiao Jin’s father and said he had been taken home after a serious injury and only recently awakened.
• Wen Yicheng asked what Su Qiao planned to do, and she said she would let nature take its course.
• Wen Yicheng felt disheartened when he saw that Su Qiao neither disliked nor hated Xiao Jin’s father.
• Su Qiao left to return to her car, while Wen Yicheng stopped himself from saying what he wanted to tell her.

Xiao Jin challenged Kaitles over whether he could give Su Qiao and their family a peaceful life, while explaining Wen Yicheng’s history of supporting Su Qiao. Kaitles warned that their bloodlines would always attract danger, but Xiao Jin revealed that he and Su Qiao had prepared ways to fight back.

• Xiao Jin told Kaitles that Wen Yicheng had supported Su Qiao through her illness, pregnancy, and years of recovery.
• Xiao Jin questioned whether Kaitles could offer them peace, despite being Su Qiao’s biological father and a powerful vampire.
• Kaitles argued that Su Qiao and Xiao Jin’s mixed bloodlines would make them targets of werewolves, vampires, and humans.
• Xiao Jin said Su Qiao had developed medicines against werewolves and weapons against vampires, and Kaitles asked whether she had told him all of this.

Xiao Jin told Kaitles that Su Qiao would feel bad seeing him because he had gotten her pregnant and refused to take responsibility. Kaitles argued that Su Qiao had initiated what happened and that he had been unconscious when she became pregnant, then stayed to confront her as she arrived.

• Xiao Jin warned Kaitles to leave before Su Qiao arrived, but Kaitles asked why she would feel bad seeing him.
• Kaitles explained that Su Qiao had broken into his home and led what happened between them, and that he had not known she was pregnant because he had fallen into a deep sleep.
• Xiao Jin blamed Kaitles for his weak security after Kaitles said an attacker had injured him while he slept.
• Kaitles insisted that Su Qiao should take responsibility because she was the only woman he had ever touched, and Xiao Jin called him an old virgin.
• Kaitles got out of the car to face Su Qiao, who asked why he had come instead of Uncle Liu and whether he had nothing to do every day.

Kaitles drove Su Qiao and Xiao Jin away after their encounter with Wen Yicheng, then tried to reassure Su Qiao and explain that he did not consider her rude. The trip continued with Su Qiao still distrustful of him and baffled by his admiration.

• Kaitles opened the car for Su Qiao and asked whether she had been frightened or hurt.
• Su Qiao asked where Xiao Jin was, and Xiao Jin reassured her from the back seat.
• Kaitles admitted he wanted to protect Su Qiao, and she called him violent based on their first encounter.
• Xiao Jin revealed that he had taught Kaitles to drive, prompting Su Qiao to tell him to sit near the window in case they needed to escape.
• Kaitles told Su Qiao he admired her conduct at school and did not think she was rude, leaving her convinced something was wrong with his judgment.

Su Qiao confronted Kaitles about killing people and warned him to stop causing trouble, while Xiao Jin offered to teach him how to dispose of bodies. After they returned home, Su Qiao let Kaitles stay but made him sleep downstairs, and he asked if he could sleep with her.

• Su Qiao accused Kaitles of killing people at the school, and he said they deserved to die.
• Su Qiao scolded Kaitles for killing more people and leaving their bodies behind, while Xiao Jin offered him Bone-Dissolving Water.
• Kaitles insisted he had killed openly and quickly, so Su Qiao told Xiao Jin to handle him and ordered Kaitles to focus on driving.
• Su Qiao, Kaitles, and Xiao Jin returned home, ate, and prepared to rest.
• Su Qiao gave Kaitles a quilt and pillow and told him to sleep downstairs, but he asked if he could sleep with her.

Su Qiao refused to share a bed with Kaitles, telling him that sleeping together depended on her mood. When she said to wait ten minutes, Kaitles returned with an antique tea set he had collected a thousand years earlier, hoping to please her.

• Su Qiao refused to sleep in the same room as Kaitles because they were not familiar enough.
• Kaitles pressed Su Qiao about when they would be close enough, and she said it depended on her mood.
• Su Qiao told Kaitles to wait ten minutes, and he left the room.
• Kaitles returned with a rosewood chest containing an antique tea set and said he had heard from Xiao Jin that Su Qiao liked tea.
• Su Qiao admired the tea set, and Kaitles explained that he had taken it from an emperor who treasured it a thousand years earlier.

Su Qiao learned that Kaitles had stolen treasures from the Imperial Palace and turned down his offer to fetch more. After Xiao Jin asked whether she planned to accept the man downstairs, Su Qiao told him that Kaitles was his biological father and defended him.

• Kaitles told Su Qiao he had stolen the emperor’s crown, jewelry made for the Empress, and her Phoenix Robe from the Imperial Palace.
• Kaitles wondered whether Su Qiao would prefer the emperor’s chair and regretted not bringing it back.
• Xiao Jin came to Su Qiao’s bedroom with Da Bai because he wanted her help installing a Daylight Laser Gun.
• Xiao Jin asked whether Su Qiao had decided to accept Kaitles, and Su Qiao explained that Kaitles was his biological father and had done nothing to wrong her.

Su Qiao asked Xiao Jin what kind of man would suit her, and he bluntly listed her flaws and the traits she needed in a partner. She protested that she was a good mother, but Xiao Jin accused her of being lazy and secretly eating foods she had been told to avoid.

• Su Qiao denied hating the Western man and said she had only been angry about certain things.
• Xiao Jin suggested Su Qiao might love and hate the man at the same time, and she told him to mind his own business.
• Xiao Jin insisted he knew what kind of man suited Su Qiao and listed the qualities she needed in a partner.
• Su Qiao objected to Xiao Jin's assessment and pointed out the effort she had made to raise him well.
• Xiao Jin accused Su Qiao of sleeping in, leaving housework to him and Da Bai, and secretly eating cold, spicy, and fried foods.