Heartthrob: The vampire princess doesn't want to be a stand-in

Back then, in order to commemorate Feng De, who had shared life and death with him, Edward granted the title of baron to all the descendants of the Bai family, which they could inherit during their lifetime. For thousands of years, the Bai family has been protected under the wings of the Lan family.

This is why the Bai family, although not good at fighting, often occupies a high position among the ten closed cities and no one can shake them.

Speaking of this, Ina and Garland's marriage is closely related to these.

However, the most important thing, and the opportunity that led to their engagement, was a medal.

When the war ended, Edravau restored the families of the ten sealed cities at his coronation ceremony and granted them titles and fiefs, on the condition that they would always be vassals of the Lan family.

In front of all the people from the ten closed cities, he awarded his highest honor medal to the next head of the Bai family and promised him that as long as he had this medal, the Lan family would do anything for the Bai family, no matter how great the price, in order to repay Feng De for his life-saving grace.

In the ten thousand years since Edward sat on the throne, he witnessed the rise and fall of countless families, including the Bai family, the Smith family, the Ford family, the Rhodes family, and so on. Regardless of whether they were the big families in charge of a closed city or their branches, all the families had slowly degenerated into ordinary vampires or even humans because of the influence of the freedom movement at the time.

The only blue-blooded noble family left is the Lan family. However, the Lan family is not very optimistic because of the Anders War hundreds of years ago, and their population is extremely small. This is another story.

Unexpected things happen in life, and people are even more unpredictable. Feng De died so heroically and gloriously, but his descendants were hopeless, each generation was worse than the previous one, and it was only with the blessing of the Lan family that they were able to develop to this day.

The current head of the family used the medal as a means to fight for power and force the Lan family to marry the Bai family. The first reason was that Aina was indeed obsessed with Garland, and the second was that Aina was the eldest daughter of the Bai family but was a girl, so she was the most suitable person for marriage. She could marry into the royal family and become a princess, and assist her younger brother, the second-generation ancestor, to manage the Bai family.

With the means of Aina and his shrewd father, in time, he might be the one to sit on the throne of the Castrasser continent.

The request to let Ina and Garland marry was really an exaggeration, using the medal and the life of the former head of the Bai family. It was unreasonable and shameless. Although Edward was unhappy, he did not say much. He just felt sorry for his deceased friend. If he were still alive and saw this scene, he would be very disappointed.

Everything had been going smoothly so far, but the head of the Bai family did not expect that Garland would flatly reject a request that even Edward agreed to, and the stalemate has remained unchanged until now.

It can be said that this promise represents the king's credibility and the credibility of the Lan family. However, even if Garland is branded as treacherous and ungrateful, he is still willing to attack the Bai family. This shows how high Evelyn's status is in his heart.

After everything became clear, Evelin felt inexplicably tangled in her heart. There was always a voice telling her that even if her hands were bloody and she had a bad record, even if she was not a good person but a complete monster, she could not stop him from marrying her, let alone hurt the Bai family.

If she moved them even a little bit out of selfish motives, it would affect the reputation and honor of an entire continent and a royal family.

She didn't have the qualifications, she didn't have the qualifications to squander the reputation of the entire Lan family.

This feeling of powerlessness penetrated deeply into her flesh and blood, becoming an impenetrable thorn in her heart.

"You are here indeed." Suddenly, Garland's low voice sounded in her ears in the silence, and Evelyn slowly opened her eyes.

There is a thin layer of mist hidden in the azure blue, confusing and wandering.

“Brother.” Evelin called softly, her eyes watching him walk in from the door and sit on the recliner beside him.

The dim light contrasted against his white shirt. He placed the computer on his crossed legs, and with his bony fingers he unbuttoned the two buttons on his chest and rolled up his slightly uncomfortable cuffs. Her eyes never left him from beginning to end.

He was so handsome and so gentle. Even if everyone in the world said that he was cold-blooded and heartless or that he killed people without blinking an eye and had no sympathy for women, she just felt that he was gentle and endlessly gentle to her.

"When you have something on your mind, you will hide here." Garland's fingers tapped the keyboard, his eyes fixed on the bright screen, where the faces of several children and his figure were reflected. The smile of one of the children was reflected in his pupils. Those were a pair of bright eyes, with yearning and expectation for something. Garland moved his slightly uncomfortable gaze away and glanced at the barrier below.

Val Brando, eight years old.

"My brother always accompanies me like this." Evelyn smiled softly. Garland's voice had a magical power over her. It always seemed to take away her uneasiness.

"Are you wondering whether I love her or not again? I counted and I have answered you this question hundreds of times." Garland supported his chin with one hand and returned his gaze to the child's smiling face.

"Why don't you give me some face? I would be shy too." Evelin laughed dumbly and stretched her body which was numb from standing for so long.

"Sorry." Garland smiled softly, and the curved corners of his lips covered the haze in his eyes.

The dim space fell silent again. Evelyn bounced lightly on the springboard, and the creaking sound of the springboard seemed particularly harsh in this lonely space.

"Tell me, is what we call war and justice really right?" Garland murmured, not as indifferent and cold as before. At this moment, he was wrapped in a layer of faint blue light, and even his tone was surprisingly warm.

He seemed to be asking Evelin, but he spoke in such an affirmative form, and it was obvious that he did not agree with this statement in his heart.

Evelin didn’t answer, but smiled coldly, then jumped up and fell into the water.

Tiny splashes of water appeared, and Evelin, who had been at the bottom of the water for a few seconds, quickly surfaced. Her long, dense blonde hair was neatly swung 180 degrees. The blue light in the swimming pool reflected on the water, and the splashes of water stayed in the air for a moment with a bright luster before falling back into the water.

"There is no such thing as absolute justice in this world. It's nothing but the self-salvation of a hero." Evelyn tilted her head to meet Garland's eyes, and her answer was exactly the same as his.

"Although war can bring peace, the prerequisite is the sacrifice of most lives." Garland looked at Evelyn who swam in front of him and spoke again.

Obviously, this was his confusion, he said he gave it to her, and she was responding to him.

"That's why those who live in the present will cherish the hard-earned peace even more, right?"