Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 114 : The First Milk Tea of Early Summer

Though it was already early summer, Crescent City's weather always seemed unhappy. After the torrential rain stopped, not only did the sky not clear, but it became even more willful in hiding the sun behind layers of dense clouds.

Of course, the person most pleased by such weather was Xifeng—nothing made her happier than being able to walk on the streets without needing an umbrella.

"Want some milk tea?" Bei Yaoyue pointed to a milk tea shop called "Burning Grass" not far away. "My treat."

"Well, thank you so much." Xifeng pouted. It was just a cup of milk tea—why did she make it sound like she was getting such a great deal?

At four in the afternoon, it wasn't peak shopping time yet, so there were almost no people in front of Burning Grass, saving them the awkwardness of a long wait in line.

"Hello, what can I get you?" the clerk asked with a painfully fake smile. "This is our newest product, yuzu passion fruit combo. I recommend you try it."

Directly ignoring the clerk's recommendation, Bei Yaoyue scanned the menu: "One caramel cocoa, seventy percent sugar, warm."

"I want an Oreo milk tea with coconut jelly, half sugar, also warm."

While waiting for the milk tea to be made, Xifeng boredly studied every name on the milk tea shop's menu and casually asked: "Do you know someone named Bai He?"

"Of course I know her." Bei Yaoyue thought briefly. "Why do you know her?"

Xifeng scratched her head. How should she explain this?

"Uh... fate?"

"Fate?" Her brow darkening, Bei Yaoyue locked her phone screen and stared at her seriously. "What kind of fate? Explain clearly."

"Why should I explain to you?" Turning to glare at her, Xifeng's expression was somewhat displeased. "Male friends are one thing, but you want to control my female friends too?"

Xifeng's words left Bei Yaoyue silent for a moment. Yes, she didn't want Xifeng to make male friends because she feared those men would do beastly things to Xifeng—after all, Xifeng's allure was real. But could she also forbid Xifeng from making female friends?

The answer was obviously no—that way Xifeng wouldn't have even one friend.

She certainly didn't want Xifeng to be like her, with almost no friends to talk to, but she was actually equally uneasy about Xifeng making female friends.

Because she felt Xifeng was like a walking automatic pipe wrench, bending whoever she went near. Even a steel bar could be bent into a keychain—how many girls could escape Xifeng's clutches?

Even she, who had always considered herself straight, had been bent in just half a month. He Pingge had very likely also been bent by Xifeng. At this rate, it was hard to say whether there would be third or fourth victims.

Sighing inwardly, Bei Yaoyue chose to temporarily avoid this topic and began answering the previous question: "Bai He and I aren't very close—we've barely spoken. All I know is that she lost her father at a young age and has depended on her mother since childhood, so her family situation is quite poor. But she's always worked hard at her studies and her grades are consistently in the top ten of the class. Her personality is pretty straightforward—like a tomboy type..."

Halfway through speaking, her voice suddenly cut off. Xifeng looked curiously at Bei Yaoyue and discovered she was looking fixedly into the distance with her head turned.

"What are you looking at?" Xifeng asked in confusion.

After thinking for a moment, Bei Yaoyue turned and made a shushing gesture to Xifeng, then hid behind an advertising sign like a thief.

"What's wrong?"

"Speak of the devil." Pointing toward the traffic light at the intersection across the street, Bei Yaoyue lowered her voice. "Look, the Bai He you're looking for is right there. She knows me, so I'll avoid her for now."

What a coincidence? They just happened to run into Bai He?

"But since we've met her, shouldn't we go say hello? Why avoid her?"

"You'll understand once you see."

Xifeng looked toward the traffic light not far away and immediately understood Bei Yaoyue's meaning.

Standing under the traffic light was a girl about Bei Yaoyue's age—that must be Bai He.

Perhaps due to long-term malnutrition, Bai He looked much more frail than girls her age, but with her pretty face and petite figure, this instead gave her a sickly "Sister Lin" feeling.

At this moment, that delicate face bore a happy smile as Bai He generously bestowed all her smiles on the man beside her. Xifeng looked at the man and immediately frowned.

Wasn't Bai He's father already dead? Then who was this man beside her? That man had to be at least thirty years old, right? From his clothing he seemed quite wealthy. Though he looked well-dressed and proper, why did his expression have a hypocritical feel to it? And Bai He was even holding his arm...

"Do you know that man?" Xifeng couldn't help asking Bei Yaoyue. This didn't look like Bai He's relative at all.

"I don't know him." Bei Yaoyue shook her head decisively.

"She couldn't be..." Xifeng paused, having difficulty saying it: "Compensated..."

It wasn't that her mind was full of dirty thoughts, but these clues were just too pointed—a young, cute JK beautiful girl, difficult family circumstances, out shopping with an unfamiliar middle-aged wealthy man...

But just as Xifeng said one word, Bei Yaoyue covered her lips with her finger and shook her head: "Don't make wild guesses."

With Bei Yaoyue's reminder, Xifeng also felt she had been thinking too far, and smiled awkwardly.

Looking at that finger on her lips, as pale and slender as a scallion, Xifeng suddenly had a bold idea. She stuck out her tongue and lightly licked the fingertip, then escalated by opening her small mouth to take it in completely.

At this moment, the clerk who had just finished making the milk tea turned around, and the scene before him struck like lightning on his skull. The two unsealed drinks in his hands almost slipped and fell.

"I, I didn't see anything, please continue." The clerk awkwardly laughed with obvious denial, then hurriedly lowered his head and put the milk tea cups in the sealing machine, thinking: Are girls nowadays so open? Playing so intensely in broad daylight.

Her eyes trembling, Bei Yaoyue snapped awake and quickly pulled out her finger at light speed. A rare pink flush appeared on her cheeks as she scolded: "Aren't you disgusted?"

"How could your finger be disgusting?" Xifeng grinned. "My Bei Yaoyue is always the cleanest. Everyone knows beautiful girls don't..."

"Stop." Bei Yaoyue cut off Xifeng with black lines on her face, preventing her from saying the rest. How had she never noticed Xifeng was so annoying before?

Looking at Bei Yaoyue's cheeks tinged with peach color, Xifeng thought: So Bei Yaoyue is this easy to tease? She blushed just from that—she seems even easier to embarrass than me.

Suddenly, Xifeng felt she had grasped the counterattack code and would definitely have to try it someday.

Her mind had already unconsciously conjured up an image of Bei Yaoyue, face full of shy embarrassment, calling out beneath her: "Xifeng~ no~" She couldn't help licking her lips.

"Crack!"

Forcefully stabbing the straw into her cup, Xifeng took a big gulp. The mellow milk tea combined with sweet Oreo powder created a one-plus-one-greater-than-two effect, treating her taste buds so well that she couldn't help making a satisfied sound.

When she looked again, Bai He and that man had disappeared from sight.