177 2.2.2: Blood Demons

When she woke up, she felt silly like a damsel in distress for easily fainting. However, she blamed her body for being unnecessarily weak. Juliet was just born with a natural weak and submissive nature, so any type of alternating from Xiao Yunhua might change it, but could not fully. But it really had rendered her a shock. Her next target was the crown prince, but how was the Duchess so sure that she would get him to be her escort for her debut to society party?

First, there were many flaws for this, such as her illegitimate bloodline. Second, she might be able to marry a prince since her status as the only daughter of a nobility below the royal family and the daughter with the backing of the Duchess—who came from a powerful family herself—but to get the crown prince...Wasn't the Duchess being too unrealistic? Most likely, the crown prince was going to marry the a princess of the opposing nation, Ayrelie, to keep peace. Escorting her, wouldn't that mean they had a close relationship?

She summoned herself to her dimensional space again, needing to do some research.

"Taotao, show me the Delavan Royal family." The little fairy didn't say anything about taking points since this was common knowledge and world knowledge, requiring no extreme action from the system.

Suddenly, in front of her was a list. Xiao Yunhua squinted her eyes and noticed that it was a list of names, all ending in Delavan. It was a really long list, the first person being from the current time period and the last being from centuries before. She tapped on the 'Current King' and a subcategory replaced the current list. There, she saw the King and Queen and noticed two particular people: Adriel...and Jaxton?

She tapped on Adriel first and other than his name, everything else was locked and unclear.

"Things about him are locked because they require points. The only thing free about each person...is their name." Xiao Taotao shamelessly said.

Points! She had to give away more points...sigh. She really expected too much from a greedy system who would use any chance to rob her of points.

"Fine, fine. How many points?" Immediately, Xiao Taotao told her that five thousand would be deducted, meaning her balance would be 935,000 points. She didn't care for such a trivial thing and the information about Adriel appeared in front of her fully.

His name, his hobbies, his dislikes, and a picture of his appearance. Minor things that shouldn't have costed so many points, so alas...she was robbed.

She already knew his name, so she shifted her eyes to his hobbies. There weren't many other than trivial things like swordsmanship and reading. Xiao Taotao saw her curiosity and explained, "He is, after all, the Crown Prince. Seeing as he's been learning and training to be the future king, he couldn't have time to do many things." Suddenly, she felt bad for this prince. It seemed like his life was planned and he did nothing but train to appease the adults around him...like her life. They were very similar, in that aspect.

She moved to dislikes and saw that dislikes people that schemed and blood demons?

"What are blood demons?" She asked out loud, turning her head to look at the little fairy.

Xiao Taotao sighed, unsure on how to explain this. "Demons that like blood."

Her face filled with amazement. "Do you mean...Vampires?" That's the only thing she could remember that fit the description from her original world. But weren't vampires a mythical and fantasy creatures? Did they exist in this world?

"In a sense? Taotao isn't completely familiar with Host's world but blood demons are scarier than what Host thinks. They're also very inconspicuous and can be anyone." Xiao Taotao explained meticulously. She couldn't explain further because this had already already revealed major things about this world that her host wasn't supposed to find out until much later.

As much as she wanted to ask more about blood demons, she realized that she didn't have the time at the moment. She changed her focus to the last thing, which was a picture of his appearance. Once she saw his portrait, she was stunned. He had midnight blue hair and a pair of royal blue eyes. His face was chiseled and regal, matching with his broad shoulders. Overall, he was extremely handsome. Yes Dominic was handsome, but Xiao Yunhua wasn't sure she had seen anyone as handsome as him in this world.

"How old is he?" She had forgotten to ask this in the beginning.

"He's eighteen years old, so he's four years older than your current body." Xiao Yunhua nodded and went back to the list of royals, tapping on Jaxton. She was surprised to see that it was locked too.

"Why is he locked despite not being her target?" Xiao Taotao was probably doing it to scam more points out of her.

"Well, any thorough information about any character is going to be classified and will cost points," Xiao Taotao explained.

'Thorough' information? In which way was the information about Adriel 'thorough?' She rolled her eyes and left the system, getting the basic information about her target.

Once in her room, she heard a small knock on her door. A couple of servants came in to help her get dressed. She dressed simply and for the first time in what felt like forever, she was allowed to have breakfast with the family.

Augustine was surprised to see her and the Duke didn't even bother with her. She wanted to roll her eyes. The first day that she arrived in the mansion, he was a 'fatherly' figure but it appeared that he quickly forgot that his first daughter died and his second one even existed. The Duchess didn't spare her a glance and Alistair shot her a glare. She ignored everything and calmly took her seat.

"Violet has been lead astray for the past few months, so she's been eating alone to reflect on her behavior. Fortunately, she's much better and will do better." The Duchess, explaining why they had an extra visitor after months of not eating with them. Augustine rolled his eyes at his mother's excuse and his father for easily believing it.

He looked at Violetta and silently asked if she was okay. Xiao Yunhua was confused on why he cared, but then remembered that they had a better relationship and he didn't hate her...as much.

"Since her debutant party is happening in three months, many people will be coming in and out to prepare. She will be formally entering high society." When he heard his wife, the Duke was astonished. Was his daughter already turning fifteen? Had it really been that long? He turned to look at her properly. His eyes met a pretty face that showed signs of maturing to a great beauty, sharing his blue eyes and blonde hair.

The Duke was bewildered. From the faint memories of her mother, she didn't facially and fully resemble her nor resembled him except for her physical features.

Xiao Yunhua felt the Duke's gaze piercing through her, trying to figure her out. She averted her eyes and pretended to eat mindlessly whatever was in front of her.

"Violet," the Duke said, somewhat affectionately. She was startled and turned to him. The Duke didn't expect such a drastic reaction from his own daughter, but didn't think that it was from the years of negligence towards her. "Have you decided on who you want to escort you for your first entrance to high society?"

Wait, she could choose!? She turned to the Duchess with accusative eyes, to which were ignored as the Duchess quickly intercepted her reply. "Yes, Violet said that she would pick the crown prince." A hushed silence fell on the table and even the servants were stunned. How arrogant was she to demand for the future king to escort her in a minor coming of age party?

Xiao Yunhua could feel their heated stares and wanted to cry out that they were blaming the wrong person! She didn't want or pick him, it was purely that evil woman across from her.

"I...see." The Duke's words held no emotion but she could tell that he was amused. Who wouldn't be? The illegitimate daughter wanted the future king?

A blush formed itself on her cheeks and she excused herself, going back to her room. She grabbed a book and carelessly flipped through the pages.

The next few months were going to be long ones...