Jia Xiu met the vampire Carol in the owner's office on the fourth floor of the bathhouse.
He hadn't expected the fourth floor to be an office. It was nothing like the rumors he'd heard.
Carol wore no jewelry, only a long purple dress, and was barefoot. Her skin was deathly pale, her eyes crimson. Her features weren't especially beautiful, but she had a distinctive air about her.
The kind that said, "You can't win against me."
By comparison, Margaret, whose looks were even more striking, seemed as inexperienced as a college student.
And she was still young enough to be in school, so the comparison wasn't even inaccurate.
Jia Xiu looked at Carol's feet.
He swore he didn't have any peculiar fetish. He was simply observing her from a professional, academic perspective to see whether she had an ingrown toenail.
If she didn't, then her resistance to ingrown-toenail attacks would be lower, and there was a good chance he could restrain her a little.
Yes, that was the entirely practical reason.
If they got into a fight, Margaret and Bubu would definitely be their main fighters.
But he could still use the Ingrown Toenail Technique to help out.
Carol said with an amused smile, "Why would the youngest lecturer in Saint Dero and a prodigious young genius who stood out in the entrance exam come to my bathhouse?"
"I came to ask about the source of a vampire inscription," Margaret said bluntly, as if she didn't want to spend a second longer here than necessary.
"Oh, how interesting. A vampire inscription. I doubt the Capet family would be troubled by such a trivial matter, and this handsome young man doesn't seem to be the one. That leaves this little friend."
Carol's gaze swept over the three of them before