Fu Qian wasn't making things up.
He had a reason for judging that what Taylor had taken out was actually a diary.
Because when Fu Qian casually flipped it open, he saw this on one of the pages:
"Lei Aier doesn't truly have feelings for me. What draws her to me is her desire for the power within me, and she's using her superb acting skills to conceal it..."
And that was quite a lot to take in!
Fu Qian kept nodding as he read, then gave Taylor a meaningful look.
"So this is a romance novel?"
"Strictly speaking, it's an ancient notebook."
Taylor, seated across from him, had clearly seen the words on the page too. He gave a light cough and explained.
A notebook? That sounded a lot more plausible.
Fu Qian looked thoughtful.
"How ancient?"
"At least a thousand years old. It's been passed down through the generations by the elders of my family."
Taylor answered Fu Qian calmly, a faint smile playing at the corners of his mouth.
So I just read a tragic romance from ten centuries ago?
Fu Qian rubbed his temples and turned another page.
"...After repeated testing, garlic does affect the state of vampires. Although it poses no direct harm, it suppresses fertility... This is an effective way to avoid getting human women pregnant when I'm intimate with them, so I won't kill them like I did before..."
Hm?
Fu Qian checked to make sure this really did come right after that tragic romance.
Of course, he had no comment on the original author's romantic history.
What he wanted to point out was that the writing style felt off!
A notebook from over a thousand years ago, and it was all written in plain modern language?
No matter how well it had