Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 190 : There's Another Way

As the speed gradually increased, the aircraft finally broke free from the ground's constraints and soared toward the sky.

The huge noise during takeoff made it impossible for Xifeng to sleep. Making matters worse, due to the rapid increase in altitude, the air pressure inside the plane dropped quickly, causing her eardrums to experience unbearable sharp pain. Even though the plane had a pressurization system, it could only barely alleviate this situation.

"Ugh... my ears hurt so much..." Unable to bear it, she covered her ears and complained unhappily. She slightly opened her eyes and found that Bei Yaoyue seemed completely unaffected, making her feel even more unbalanced.

Xifeng had never liked flying since childhood. The reason was that every takeoff and landing made her eardrums hurt as if pierced by needles. This thing was as mysterious as motion sickness—some people never felt anything, while others hurt so much they wanted to die. Unfortunately, Xifeng was the latter type.

"That won't help." Bei Yaoyue laughed helplessly. "Ear pain is caused by pressure imbalance between the inside and outside of the eardrum. The most effective method is to breathe through your mouth—it'll recover quickly that way."

Nodding lightly, Xifeng did as instructed for a while, then quickly closed her mouth, her cheeks slightly pink as she complained: "But breathing through my mouth feels so stupid, like an idiot."

"It's fine. If you stick your tongue out while breathing through your mouth, it won't look stupid," Bei Yaoyue teased.

"Really?"

Xifeng, upon hearing this, instinctively tried it briefly. After a moment of stunned silence, her cheeks quickly turned red. She then gritted her teeth and stomped hard on Bei Yaoyue's foot, cursing under her breath: "Bei Yaoyue, you bastard!!!"

Breathing with tongue sticking out... wasn't that like...!

Poor her, trusting Bei Yaoyue so much and actually trying it herself, only to realize afterward that she looked like a complete idiot.

Bei Yaoluo, who had witnessed this entire scene from the side, burst out laughing but then felt it was impolite and quickly covered her mouth and turned away.

"Worthy of you, so easy to fool." Bei Yaoyue mercilessly delivered another blow to Xifeng, her blue-green eyes full of mischief.

"Here, chew this and you'll be fine." Bei Yaoluo suppressed her laughter and handed over a piece of gum. "This stuff really works, much more practical than the method Bei Yaoyue taught you."

Unexpectedly, Bei Yaoluo was adding insult to injury. Xifeng's face turned pink again, and when taking the gum, she didn't forget to glare resentfully at the person beside her who had ruined her reputation.

But being stared at like this by Xifeng, Bei Yaoyue felt quite innocent. Actually, she had just casually said it as a joke, never expecting Xifeng to actually do it. Should she say she was innocently silly... or that she trusted her too much?

When the plane stopped climbing and entered level flight, the tilted cabin finally became horizontal, and the noise gradually subsided. Although it didn't completely disappear, it was no longer annoying enough to prevent sleep.

So the already exhausted Xifeng dozed off while leaning on Bei Yaoyue's shoulder, her light snoring drowned out by the noisy engine sounds.

Bei Yaoyue looked sideways at Xifeng's sleeping face. Due to the angle, she could only see Xifeng's long eyelashes like cicada wings, her delicate little nose rising and falling gently with her breathing, and her bangs somewhat messy from lying sideways, revealing her smooth, pale forehead.

The beautiful scene before her made Bei Yaoyue want to lean in for a kiss. Whenever she saw Xifeng sleeping, she couldn't help but secretly kiss her—something she had done many times. But being in a public place, Bei Yaoyue restrained her inappropriate impulses. Moreover, with Xifeng's head resting on her shoulder, trying to succeed without waking her would be an extremely high-difficulty operation.

"Is she asleep?"

Seeing Bei Yaoyue staring intently at Xifeng, Bei Yaoluo on the other side started a conversation.

"Should be asleep." After saying this, Bei Yaoyue thought for a moment and added: "Though I can't rule out the possibility she's pretending. She often likes to use fake sleeping to get out of situations. But this time I think she's really tired—she didn't sleep all night."

Speaking of this, Bei Yaoyue couldn't help but fall silent for a while. She suddenly wondered—when she had previously sneaked tastes of Xifeng's lips while she slept, had Xifeng been pretending to sleep any of those times? If so, wouldn't her misdeeds be exposed?

But if she was pretending to sleep, why didn't she dodge or resist?

"Good that she's asleep. Actually, I have something I want to ask you—things that aren't convenient to ask when she's awake."

Bei Yaoluo's words made Bei Yaoyue pause. What could be inconvenient for Xifeng to hear?

"Ask away."

"You and Xifeng—what do you plan to do in the future?" Bei Yaoluo paused. "I mean... your future lives."

Bei Yaoyue thought for a while, not quite understanding Bei Yaoluo's meaning: "What do you mean, what do we plan to do?"

"You're going to get married, right? But domestic law doesn't recognize same-sex marriage."

"We can go abroad to get marriage certificates." Bei Yaoyue leaned back in her chair, her voice slightly subdued. "Didn't you say before that Germany allows same-sex marriage?"

"It's possible, but..." Bei Yaoluo stopped here, looking hesitant. She hesitated for a long time, finally sighing: "Although our country recognizes marriages registered abroad, and marriage certificates obtained abroad are equally valid domestically, this is all based on the premise that domestic marriage law allows it.

"In other words, even if you two can successfully register for marriage in Germany and get a marriage certificate, because same-sex marriage isn't recognized in our country, your marriage certificate won't be legally recognized domestically either."

Bei Yaoluo's tone was helpless. She genuinely liked her two sisters and was sincerely worried about Bei Yaoyue and Xifeng's future.

"...Is that so?" Bei Yaoyue couldn't help lowering her head, her eyelids drooping. She had thought they'd found a solution, only to discover it was all for nothing in the end.

Blinking, Bei Yaoyue said with a somewhat dry voice: "Well... it's still better than nothing, right? We can't just give up on getting certificates just because domestic law doesn't recognize it, can we?"

Seeing Bei Yaoyue's dejected appearance, Bei Yaoluo scratched her head and smiled helplessly: "Actually, there is one way to solve this problem, though you two might not be able to accept it..."

Hearing there was still a solution, Bei Yaoyue's eyes lit up, and she eagerly asked: "What way?"

"Settle in Germany."