51 Blood coagulation

As soon as Huang Qiuyan disappears with Fu Mian, Izo and Lei follow her. The hunters are startled. Some of them lose control over the weapons and shoot in the direction of purebloods. Fu Sheng manifests a wall of fire around the hunters, burning away the arrows and the daggers advancing toward the purebloods.

\"You tricked us.\" Abel snarls at them. 

\"Fu Mian will never be used as a weapon,\" Fu Sheng states calmly. \"If hunters are interested, we will cooperate in stopping this apocalypse.\"

Ian looks in the direction Huang Qiuyan ran to. The vampire fooled them. She seemed pretty against Fu Sheng, but she chose to help Fu Sheng in the end.

Still, she didn't say wrong. Fu Mian can't be used against all the vampires since her blood cannot be cloned. 

Eradicating the vampires might be the hunters' first goal, but stopping more humans turning into vampires is also their aim.

Lastly, Huang Qiuyan is quite interesting. 

\"Fu Sheng, the hunters are interested in the alliance against the apocalypse.\" Ian hears the dissatisfied grumbles in the crowd behind him. He turns to the crowd. \"Everyone, stopping the apocalypse it the first necessary action that we must take. We can't let more humans turn into the new vampires. The new vampires are evolving as we speak. All of our weapons are useless against them. We must stop it before it becomes worse.\"

The remaining purebloods watch the hunters whispering among themselves. They aren't happy with this either, but it's their King's wish. So, they must accept it anyway. 

\"I want to see how these so-called noble vampires can help.\" Abel scoffs. After Huang Qiuyan tricked them, he dislikes them more. \"I am sure that they are happy about the current state of the world. They just want to see the world burn.\"

Fu Sheng replies calmly, \"If you are that unhappy, you can try solving this problem alone. As of now, you don't even know how to kill them without Fu Mian.\"

The 9 vampires can't handle this mess alone. The hunters can't handle this mess either. Abel shuts his mouth. Even though he's young, he knows that they are nothing without Fu Mian. 

Seeing that the hunters have calmed down and thinking rationally, Ian shows a foxy smile to Fu Sheng and says, \"Let's discuss the alliance.\"

***

In the woods, Huang Qiuyan stops running and puts down Fu Mian. She checks on her first. The child has no physical wound, but she's scared witless. 

\"Princess, you are safe.\" Huang Qiuyan smiles at her. \"They won't get you again. Your father is having a talk with them.\"

Fu Mian blinks at her slowly. She thinks about her father's words and everything else that the hunters have said. She's confused. \"Mommy, does Daddy really loves me?\"

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Huang Qiuyan looks into her soft brown eyes. \"Did your father ever mistreat you?\"

Fu Mian shakes her head. Her father has always been good to her.

\"Did he ever hurt you?\" Huang Qiuyan asks her seriously.

\"No, he never hurt me.\" Fu Mian stares back at her mother. \"He hurt the people who tried to hurt me.\"

Whether it was a hunter or a human, they faced Fu Sheng's wrath when they tried to hurt Fu Mian in the past. 

\"Think about how he has treated you so far.\" Huang Qiuyan tells her with a kind voice, \"Do you think that he doesn't love you? Listen to your heart. What does it say?\"

Fu Mian thinks how her father has been acting toward her so far. 

\"Didn't you say that you are wise for your age?\" Huang Qiuyan chuckles when she sees the confusion in Fu Mian's eyes. \"Your father nearly died while he tried to save you. He came to find you when you were abducted. He brought you away from your real parents. If he didn't do that, the hunters would have killed your parents and taken you away. They wouldn't be good toward you as your father was. Even if you aren't connected by blood, your father loves you more than a real father would. Believe me. If you can't understand now, you will understand in the future.\"

Huang Qiuyan's father was always partial. He loved her brother more than her. She was ignored by her father because she always got mediocre marks in school. She wasn't pretty either. 

That's why she's both envious and relieved to see Fu Sheng's love for his daughter.

\"I love Daddy.\" Fu Mian mumbles softly. Fu Sheng and the 8 uncles have definitely treated her better than the hunters. She doesn't know her real parents. She only knows Fu Sheng as her father. She even has a mother now. \"Daddy loves me too.\"

\"That's all that matters.\" Huang Qiuyan kisses her forehead. \"If you ever become confused, listen to your heart. I always followed my brain and I wasn't happy while I lived that way. Even if I end up with nothing after following my heart, I will still have no regrets. If you don't follow your heart, you end up with a constipated feeling in your chest. I am telling you from first-hand experience.\"

\"Mommy, does heart gather poop if one doesn't follow it?\" Fu Mian wrinkles her nose. She looks at her suspiciously. \"But you are a vampire. You can't poop.\" 

Huang Qiuyan blinks at her before she answers, \"Blood coagulation.\"