Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 12 : Sorry, I'll Get Up Right Away

"Time to get up."

Bei Yaoyue extended her index finger and poked Xifeng's little cheek. It was slippery and soft, and combined with that purely white complexion, it looked exactly like delicious milk pudding, making one unable to resist wanting to take a bite and taste it.

"Huu~~"

Xifeng didn't wake up as she wished.

"Get up."

Bei Yaoyue's finger applied more force until Xifeng's little head was poked to sway left several times before she slowly awakened.

"Ah... is it morning already...?" Xifeng rubbed her sleepy eyes and asked drowsily. Logically, it shouldn't be Bei Yaoyue waking her up, but her alarm clock.

"It's already 8 o'clock."

Bei Yaoyue just felt a groundless headache (mental). She was clearly the master—why wasn't it the maid waking the master but the master waking the maid?

She felt something must be wrong.

"What, it's only 8 o'clock." Xifeng lazily muttered. No wonder her alarm hadn't gone off—this was still a full hour before her set wake-up alarm.

Strong drowsiness made it difficult for her to open her eyes. Her upper and lower eyelids were like long-separated siblings, hugging tightly together and unwilling to part.

"Get up." Bei Yaoyue frowned, her voice becoming more stern. "I don't care what your usual habits are. Starting today, you must change them. From now on, get up at 7 AM on school days and 8 AM on weekends. Not a minute later."

"I don't want to." Xifeng turned away dissatisfied. Only she knew the drowsiness and fatigue in her body.

"Get up right now, immediately."

Finding that Bei Yaoyue wasn't buying her tough act, Xifeng's voice immediately softened. She used a voice that could make all bones completely numb and said coquettishly: "Let me sleep another half hour, okay~~"

When people are pushed to desperation, they can do anything. Selling sex appeal and acting cute was completely nothing.

If it were her former self, she could get up in minutes without hesitation, the kind that could immediately bounce up from bed full of energy even after only two hours of sleep and stay alert all day without getting sleepy.

Youth was just that willful.

But the problem was... she was no longer her former self.

How reckless she used to be, how helpless and destitute she was now.

She really didn't want to stay in bed, but she couldn't help it!

This weak body was like giving her a death sentence. The warm blankets were like a powerful magnetic pole, tightly attracting her to the bed so she couldn't move.

"No." Bei Yaoyue mercilessly rejected Xifeng's request directly.

Since she had become her maid, she had to listen to her. She absolutely couldn't indulge Xifeng's reckless behavior.

She wasn't afraid of Xifeng being disobedient. She was confident she had ten thousand ways to make Xifeng obediently get up.

"Wuu~~~"

Xifeng pouted sulkily and was about to continue acting cute when she caught sight of Bei Yaoyue's expression, cold as an iceberg, and suddenly snapped awake.

It was all because her brain was muddled from just waking up. She should have known that the one calling her to get up wasn't some gentle, virtuous girl next door, but her master, the evil spirit who held power over her life and death!

As long as Bei Yaoyue was willing, she could immediately plunge her into irredeemable hell!

She was actually here discussing human rights and freedom with a capitalist. Her brain had really short-circuited.

"Sorry, I'll get up right away!"

Quickly apologizing, Xifeng sat up from the bed and reached for the clothes at the bedside.

Slightly stunned, Bei Yaoyue expressionlessly looked away and said: "It's showing."

"Huh?" Xifeng was momentarily confused. What was showing?

"Your chest." Bei Yaoyue gave a shocking answer.

Saying this, she quietly shifted her gaze back a bit and observed with her peripheral vision.

So flat, so flat.

As majestic as a young lady's dignity.

Looked very cute.

"...!!!!"

The awakened Xifeng's cheeks immediately heated up rapidly. She hurriedly pulled up the blanket and, like someone who had been violated, tightly wrapped her body in the blanket, shouting in panic: "Get out!"

Like a Peking opera face change, her cheeks that had been frighteningly pale the previous second instantly turned completely red, almost dripping blood.

Having just become a girl not long ago, she hadn't yet formed the instinct for self-protection in such matters, which led to her carelessly exposing her private parts to Bei Yaoyue's eyes.

Intense shame continuously gnawed at her soul, making her entire heart burn with humiliation.

Her willow eyebrows instantly stood up. Bei Yaoyue asked somewhat displeasedly in a cold voice: "Are you ordering me?"

"No... no..."

Under Bei Yaoyue's forceful questioning, Xifeng's meager momentum instantly dissipated, and her voice unconsciously became timid.

"Sorry, I... got a bit excited..." Directly swallowing her dignity, Xifeng lowered her head and apologized with a red face.

"Actually, you don't need to be so shy. We're both girls, and it's not like I haven't seen them before." Bei Yaoyue said matter-of-factly, then turned and walked toward the door. "I'll give you half an hour to get dressed and wash up, then come out with me."

"Where are we going?"

"I'll tell you after you get up."

Click—

The bedroom door was gently closed, leaving only Xifeng still struggling hard against drowsiness.

It took her one minute to put on the change of clothes she had brought. Xifeng dug out her toiletries from her bag and walked out of the bedroom.

Bei Yaoyue, who was sitting on the sofa playing with her phone, saw Xifeng holding only a cup, toothpaste, toothbrush, and a towel, and asked somewhat surprised: "That's all the toiletries you brought?"

Completely confused by such a question, Xifeng looked puzzled and said: "What else? What else would I need?"

Just brush your teeth and wash your face, and that's it, right?

At most, wash your hair too, but shampoo isn't like toothbrushes or towels—personal items. Using Bei Yaoyue's should be fine, right?

"...Never mind, pretend I didn't ask."

Seeing Xifeng's completely genuine confused expression, Bei Yaoyue forcibly suppressed the urge to complain extensively.

As a girl, she had no awareness of skincare at all. Such an important care time during morning washing was dismissed with just brushing teeth and washing face.

Yet Xifeng's skin was several times more delicate and flawless than normal people's, feeling silky smooth to the touch and irresistible.

Having lived who knows how long without deliberate maintenance yet still having such outstanding skin quality made a small flame of jealousy rise in Bei Yaoyue's heart.

She had thoughtfully given Xifeng a full half hour to groom herself, which now seemed completely unnecessary.

Xifeng was completely bewildered by Bei Yaoyue's inexplicable question, but seeing that Bei Yaoyue had focused on her phone and apparently didn't intend to answer any of her questions, she didn't pursue it further.

Walking into the bathroom, Xifeng completed her washing in just three or four minutes.

This was a skill she had honed in college to be able to stay in bed a few more minutes. At the most extreme times, from crawling out of bed to finishing washing and leaving for class only took three minutes.

But next she encountered a fatal problem—washing her hair.

Last night's heavy labor had made her sweat a lot. She could tolerate her body being a bit dirty for a day or two, but dirty hair was too ugly and had to be washed no matter what.

Of course, she knew how to wash hair, but previously her hair had been at most ten centimeters long, which was extremely convenient to wash. Now with hair reaching her waist, she was completely stumped.

How do you wash such long hair?!

Bending down, it almost dragged on the ground, damn it!

"Master..." Xifeng poked her head out from the bathroom door and asked with a sheepish smile: "Could you wait for me to take a shower?"

Washing her hair while showering was the only solution she could think of.

"Go ahead and shower, just be quick." Bei Yaoyue nodded in agreement. Although she could indeed be somewhat domineering sometimes, she wasn't unreasonable. She had no reason not to agree to such a reasonable request.

Retreating into the bathroom and locking the door tightly behind her, Xifeng quickly stripped off all her clothes and threw them aside.

Her gaze inadvertently swept across the bathroom mirror, and Xifeng's eyes suddenly froze.

The petite, delicate body was so thin it made one feel sorry for her, but the proportions were impeccably perfect, extremely difficult to find flaws in. Her frighteningly pale complexion added a somewhat sickly air to the girl, (—DATA DELETED—).[ TN: Don’t ask. That’s what in the raw. ]

The absolutely beautiful body like a heavenly beauty made Xifeng's blood surge instantly. If she said she had no thoughts about such a girl, she definitely wouldn't be a normal man.

But unfortunately, the girl in the mirror was herself, and she immediately felt uninterested.

Quickly walking into the shower, she turned on the showerhead and adjusted the water temperature to the lowest setting.

"Whoosh—"

Ice-cold water from head to toe finally cooled down her agitated heart slowly.

Afraid of touching some strange switches on her body, Xifeng just randomly rubbed herself a few times and hastily finished cleaning her body, concentrating all her energy on the hair that nearly reached her butt.

A few minutes later, Xifeng, with a head full of black lines, understood a principle: when hair doubles in length, washing it isn't just twice as troublesome.

Hair length and trouble index weren't a direct proportional function, but an exponential function.

The energy spent washing this waist-length silver hair clean was more than washing her hair a hundred times before.

And blow-drying her hair after showering made Xifeng suffer again. Only when her hand holding the hair dryer was so sore she could barely stand it did she manage to blow-dry her hair to ninety percent dry.

"When I have time, I'm definitely cutting off all this troublesome hair!" Xifeng muttered through gritted teeth.

"Finished washing?"

Bei Yaoyue asked, looking at Xifeng emerging from the bathroom, feeling somewhat regretful in her heart.

It would have been nice if Xifeng had come out wrapped in a towel instead of fully dressed—she could have enjoyed a beauty emerging from bath scene.

Nodding, Xifeng combed her hair and asked: "Where are we going later?"

"First, let's go eat."

"Eh? Are we eating out?" Xifeng was stunned. She clearly remembered that preparing three meals a day was one of the work duties Bei Yaoyue had outlined for her. This should definitely be within her job scope.

Bei Yaoyue wouldn't have just said it casually and then forgotten, would she?

"Mm."

To prove her worth, Xifeng put on a confident smile and volunteered: "Let me make breakfast. I..."

Before Xifeng could finish speaking, Bei Yaoyue directly waved her hand and interrupted: "There are no ingredients at home."

She felt Xifeng's brain sometimes didn't work too well. How could someone who ordered takeout every day have usable fresh ingredients at home?

Her smile froze directly on her face. Xifeng dejectedly lowered her head like a defeated general: "Okay."

"You'll buy ingredients later yourself. Come to me for reimbursement for what you spend."

Nodding lightly, Xifeng asked again: "What do we do after eating?"

Since Bei Yaoyue had said "first go eat," there must be other things to do after eating.

"Go get you fitted for two maid outfits."