"That brainwashing education turned me into an idiot. So don't expect me to have any skills. After graduating from vampire school, I naturally became a useless person. I don't want to be a beast of burden, and I don't have the brains to be a bad seed."
Trillian and Hermione exchanged a glance, thinking to themselves:
Who talks about themselves like that?
Selene's gaze shifted slightly.
Just as the group was looking at each other strangely, Draco commented, "It takes courage to admit you're a loser."
Trillian and Hermione looked at Draco with even stranger expressions upon hearing this, but when they thought about how Draco's lifelong dream was to live off a woman, they felt relieved.
Even more surreal, Kraven actually nodded. "Useless is an objective assessment of me, I accept it."
After saying this with a wry smile, Kraven continued:
"Later I gave up. We vampire slaves were indeed not as good at work as Werewolf slaves, and Werewolf didn't need good food or Fawley, so they were extremely cost-effective."
"But there was no other way. At that time, the number of vampires far exceeded the production needs. Anyway, if you didn't do it, there were plenty of vampires eager to do it. In this way, batches of Laodeng died on duty. As soon as one died, someone else would immediately take his place. Anyway, the vampire clan never lacked supplies."
"Furthermore, the vampire branches in remote areas have a high reproductive rate, so the Werewolf do all the dirty and hard work. They don't need to produce offspring, and they don't have much to do—naturally, it's just the matter of male-female reproduction."
Selene added casually:
"And there's also the issue of favoring sons over daughters."
"That's right, exactly." Kraven agreed.
Trillian looked puzzled. "What the heck?"
"It's about having more children if you can't have a son," Selene explained. "One or two daughters might be acceptable, but raising daughters requires preparing expensive dowries, and they can't inherit the family business... there are a whole bunch of reasons. Of course, this prejudice is much better now, but it still exists."
"Indeed," Draco chimed in. "Back then, people didn't have many forms of entertainment, so there were only a few ways to relieve stress. And it was easy to fall asleep afterward, otherwise how could we get through the night? We couldn't all go to bed at eight or nine o'clock, who could fall asleep then?"
Upon hearing this, Trillian looked at him and teased:
"Oh, young master, you seem to know quite a lot."
Draco glanced at Hermione,
"It's not just a matter of ideas and leisure; there are also very practical survival factors," Hermione said quickly, getting worried about him. "Of course, there are many other factors. In the past, without the mechanization we have now, many jobs relied on manual labor such as agriculture and fishing. Men had an advantage in physical strength and power, so naturally, people preferred to have boys."
Draco nodded and continued Hermione's sentence:
"It's really hard to generalize. Our ancestors were able to develop rapidly because of their large population, but it was also because of the large population that they eventually faced the problem of labor surplus. Every generation has its own challenges; it all depends on how you solve them."
"That's true, but I still think that our predecessors enjoyed far more of the benefits of their era than our generation."
Kraven picked up the conversation and then detailed the differences.
"Our predecessors worked hard to make society better, that's true. But it also means they control more resources. The best spots are already taken, and they'll pass them on to future generations. Now, forget about having a spot; you might not even get a chance to be planted right next to one. You'll be relegated to the smallest corner."
"That's certainly true." Draco wholeheartedly agreed.
"My family has a history of nearly a thousand years in Britain —meaning we've benefited for a thousand years. But from my perspective, I feel that I can only enjoy this because of my ancestors' hard work. But if you succeed and secure your position—wouldn't you want your relatives and friends to rise with you? Wouldn't you continue to use your resources to help your descendants?"
"I think... I will too," Kraven admitted.
Draco smiled slightly:
"So, all your complaints stem from the fact that you're not the one who benefits. Tell me your real demands. You didn't run this way in a panic, did you?"
Kraven said directly:
"Yes, I need your help."
"You want to break the current rigid class structure, reshuffle the cards, and carve out a path for yourself to rise to the top?"
"Yes, at that time..."
"Even if you didn't say it, we would still do it," Draco interrupted him. "However, whether you can seize the opportunity then depends on your own abilities."
Kraven was overjoyed upon hearing this and quickly agreed.
Hermione and Trillian were caught off guard by the sudden shift in the topic—they were just discussing son preference and the benefits of the times, how did it suddenly jump to a power reshuffle?
Selene remained silent; she knew all too well Kraven's thirst for power, and this was all within her expectations.
Coming to her senses, Hermione felt a complex mix of emotions—she hadn't expected that Kraven's long-winded display of misery was ultimately because she hadn't benefited from it.
"Stunned, Miss Granger?" Draco noticed her expression, turned to her and smiled, "Isn't this world a bit too magical? You still have a lot to learn."
"Can self-interest really corrupt people so much?"
Hermione muttered to herself, her brow furrowing slightly.
"Yes, that's how pragmatic self-interest is; it never distinguishes between good and evil, right and wrong," Draco affirmed, then continued to use the simplest and most straightforward logic to overturn Hermione's understanding.
"Think about it, you need money to eat, right? To get money, you need to earn it, right? Earning money involves issues of mutual benefit. To put it bluntly, it's all about the distribution of profits."
"Like you, my dear wife, you're the altruistic type. Whether it's self-interest and altruism, or self-sacrifice for the benefit of others, I think you tend to prefer self-interest and altruism. But often things don't go as planned, and you might need to sacrifice yourself for the benefit of others. However, this is something you enjoy and are willing to do; the weak are always more likely to sympathize with the weak."
Hermione's heart skipped a beat, but she was already used to Draco's thorough understanding of her. From the day they fell in love, he could always see right through her deepest thoughts.
" Hermione's considered weak?" Trillian exclaimed incredulously. "If even she's weak, then I'm even weaker..."
"Perhaps it was in the past," Draco added.
These words triggered a memory in Trillian: "Oh right! Hermione was bullied when she was in Muggle school."
Hermione rolled her eyes at her, and said in a slightly annoyed tone, "Why do you always rub salt into other people's wounds..."
Trillian quickly waved her hands, "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry..."
"Not necessarily. The weak not only sympathize with each other, but they might also bully those even weaker than themselves. For example, a security guard might make things difficult for someone who comes to do business," Selene offered a different perspective.