Life Won't Go Your Way!

Night falls on a street in North Ridge City.

Li Heng walked out of the convenience store carrying a plastic bag. The night was filled with twinkling stars and a bright moon overhead, without a single cloud.

It's really peaceful here at home.

It was thanks to this that Li Heng was in a good mood at the moment.

And so, Li Heng carried the plastic bag and headed towards home.

"All I can say is, it's so good to be home."

On the street, a woman suddenly stopped walking, and a man behind her also stopped.

The woman walked, and the man began to follow.

The woman stopped, and the man stopped too.

After catching a glimpse of the man out of the corner of her eye, the woman quickened her pace and eventually started running.

But just as she was crossing a street, a pale hand suddenly reached out from the darkness and covered her mouth.

"Mmm!"

The woman was dragged into the darkness without any chance to resist.

In the darkness, two pairs of blood-red eyes appeared.

"I've never been with an Asian girl before."

"Mmm... this smells so good, little sister."

The woman looked terrified as two pale-skinned men bared their fangs and lunged at her neck!

Pfft!

A burst of blood suddenly exploded, but it wasn't the woman's blood!

It was the blood of two vampires.

A line of blood pierced through their shoulders without warning, pinning them to the wall like a string of nails!

The woman paused for a moment, then saw one of them mutter a curse under his breath.

"Damn it, who is it!"

Another vampire looked up, and under the bright moonlight, a pair of blood-red eyes stared at them in the shadows cast by the moonlight.

At the same time, a suffocating sense of oppression also followed.

He is!

Puff!

The bloodline was pulled out, and one of the vampires instantly knelt on the ground!

"Your Highness!"

Prince?

Upon hearing the vampire's words, the other vampire seemed to remember something and immediately knelt down as well!

Li Heng walked up to the two vampires and sighed as he looked at them, both drenched in sweat.

Okay, I take back what I said earlier.

The home doesn't seem to be so peaceful either.

"Tell me, why are you here? When did you arrive? How many of you came in total?"

Upon hearing Li Heng's words, a Blood Clan hurriedly said, "Your Highness, we are here on the orders of the True Ancestor!"

"It was the True Ancestor who sent us to find you!"

True Ancestor?

Li Heng frowned. "I don't know the True Ancestor. What does he want with me?"

The two Blood Clan exchanged a glance upon hearing this. "Uh... Your Highness, how could you not recognize the True Ancestor?"

How could I not recognize you?

Should I get to know him?

He had only seen the True Ancestor once from afar, and didn't even know what the True Ancestor looked like, let alone recognize him.

But it makes sense, considering the prince is a second-generation Blood Clan transformed from the True Ancestor. It would be a bit unreasonable for the prince to say he doesn't know the True Ancestor.

However, Li Heng's situation is rather special, as he was not a prince who was transformed by the True Ancestor.

"Speak your business, what does the True Ancestor want with me?"

The two Blood Clan exchanged a glance. "Well, Lilith, the True Ancestor, said that the Blood Clan are short of manpower and ordered us to come and find you to return to New York to take over Queens and Brooklyn."

"Wait, who did you say? Is Lilith the True Ancestor?" Li Heng was taken aback.

The two Blood Clan were somewhat puzzled. "Yes, Lady Lilith is a second-generation True Ancestor."

"Where is the original True Ancestor?"

"They were captured by the Nine-Tailed Foxes."

Is that so?

After thinking for a moment, Li Heng said, "Go back and tell Lilith that I will not go back, and tell her to withdraw all the Blood Clan from Asia."

"This..."

"Your Highness, why don't you go and say it yourself?"

"Yes, this really puts us in a difficult position. We need to at least give us a reason!"

"Reason?"

Upon hearing this, Li Heng suddenly moved closer to the two of them and asked, "Are you afraid of dying?"

The two nodded repeatedly.

Li Heng's pupils turned blood red. "If you don't leave, I'll kill you right now. Is that reason enough?"

"Well..."

"This is really..."

Li Heng stood up. "To tell you the truth, I never wanted to get involved with the Blood Clan. If I hadn't been forced into it, I would have just wanted to be an ordinary person."

"I have never changed my mind. I didn't think about it before, and I still don't think about it now. If you don't want to leave, I don't suggest I see you off."

"You can all see for yourselves who is more ruthless, me or Lilith."

Seeing Li Heng's firm stance, the two Blood Clan had no choice but to give up.

After all, both of them are princes in essence. Lilith can make them wish they were dead, Li Heng can do the same.

"Then, let's go back..."

"I will relay your words to the True Ancestor..."

The two Blood Clan left, and Li Heng sighed. He just wanted to go back to his old life, but that seemed to have become a pipe dream.

"Go home."

Li Heng turned his head and saw the woman staring blankly at him.

Li Heng ignored her and left with the plastic bag.

But the woman followed him. When Li Heng walked, she walked; when Li Heng stopped, she stopped.

Sensing that the woman was following him, Li Heng turned around.

"Is there anything else?"

The woman paused for a moment, then suddenly took out her phone. "Um, could I add you on WeChat?"

Li Heng: "..."

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

Upon hearing this, the woman thought for a moment and said, "You're a vampire, aren't you? And those two from earlier were too, right?"

"I saw it in a post on an external website before!"

"So what?"

Li Heng was a little confused, but unexpectedly the woman suddenly revealed her shoulder to Li Heng.

"It's... you know, I heard that if you get bitten by the Blood Clan, you can become Blood Clan..."

Li Heng rubbed his forehead, suddenly feeling a bit of a headache. "Then why didn't you just tell those two people? They could have turned you into the Blood Clan too."

The woman shook her head. "No, they're too ugly. I'm afraid I'll become as ugly as them..."

Li Heng turned his head away and said, "I advise you to give up on that idea. I will not convert anyone."

"Moreover, Blood Clan isn't as wonderful as you think. Once you're transformed into the Blood Clan, there's no going back."

This society is really getting more and more sick.

Is it really a good thing that people yearn to become monsters?

Li Heng shook his head, then flashed away and disappeared from the woman's sight in a few steps.

Two days later.

Li Heng was brushing his teeth in the bathroom when his phone suddenly rang.

He picked up his phone and answered the call, "Hello?"

"Li Heng, do you still remember me?"

The man's voice on the phone sounded unfamiliar to Li Heng. "Um... who is it?"

"I'm Shen Shaoyan. We were deskmates in junior high, haven't you forgotten?"

"Oh, is there something you need?"

"I heard you've returned from abroad. It's been so many years since we last met, I'd like to see you..."

Shen Shaoyan's voice sounded hesitant, or rather, uncertain.

"Okay, let's set a time. I'm free all day today."