CH 188.2

The Vicious Female Supporting Character and the White Lotus Female Lead: Ch 188, The Charismatic Vampire

Jing Xun immediately glared at her, "I think you need a beating. What do you want the blood for? Is it possible that you want to copy vampires and taste what blood tastes like?"

"I’m not buying blood for consumption." Luan Qing Xiao had already come up with the reason beforehand. "My dad’s dyeing factory wants to make a new color, but the color won’t come out right no matter what. I read a book before that said fresh virgin female blood was used along with some other materials. Therefore I want to buy some from you to take home and try it."

"It doesn't need to be a lot, a cup is enough. I can experiment several times with that."

Jing Xun felt like Luan Qing Xiao was lying to him, but Luan Qing Xiao seemed serious and her family did have a dyeing factory.

"Cousin. Won’t you help me just this once? If the printing/dyeing factory can’t produce new colored fabric, it will soon face bankruptcy. You wouldn't want to see your uncle enter the hospital again, right?" Luan Qing Xiao tried to move him with reason and emotion.

"Plus, I only want fresh virgin female blood to ensure the purity of the blood to increase the success rate. If the research is successful, the dye composition can be directly analyzed so that any blood could be used in the future. Cousin, please help me."

Jing Xun attaches great importance to family affection. Hearing Luan Qing Xiao mention that Father Luan might return to the hospital because of this, he supported his forehead helplessly, "Are you sure you’re not lying? You should know what the consequences of lying to me are."

"Don't worry, how could I use this kind of thing to lie to you?" Luan Qing Xiao affirmed.

"What are the requirements for the blood you want?" Jing Xun asked, standing up from his seat.

"The fresh blood of a virgin female. Cousin, I'm afraid one cup might not be enough. How about you give me two cups?" Luan Qing Xiao didn't want to know the consequences of lying to Jing Xu. She planned to take the remaining cup of blood back for research, maybe she could really develop a new colored fabric.

Jing Xun gave her helpless look, "Give me a minute."

When Jing Xun left the office, Nie Zhen'er asked curiously, "Can you really use blood as a dye?"

Luan Qing Xiao answered, "I also don't know. When I was a child, I watched a TV series in which the female lead made a golden dye with her blood. I forgot the specific process. I only remember that she used a scissor to slash the palm of her hand and then made golden dye. In a flash of inspiration, I thought of that so I just used that as an excuse."

"How amazing." Nie Zhen'er sighed.

Luan Qing Xiao didn't know whether she meant the screenwriter was amazing or that it was amazing that blood could be used to make dyes.

About ten minutes later, Jing Xun returned to the office with a white foam box. He put the box on the desk, "Keep it on ice and use it as soon as possible. It's best to store it in the refrigerator and use it before tomorrow."

Luan Qing Xiao opened the foam box to take out a bag of blood inside. She gave Nie Zhen'er a glance and put it back after Nie Zhen'er nodded to her

"Cousin, thank you. This time, you helped me a lot. Let me treat you to a meal tomorrow."

Jing Xun replied, "Don't have time, I won’t be going."

He pointed to the door, "Hurry up and go. Whenever I see you now, you make me uneasy."

Luan Qing Xiao picked up the foam box and exited Jing Xun's office with Nie Zhen’er.

When they left the hospital, they were fortunate not to meet Ding Sheng again.

After returning to the castle, they gave Shi Mo De the blood. The next day, the two returned to school.

Goethe University has a public chemistry laboratory, which can be used as long as you pay a certain amount of money.

Luan Qing Xiao rented it for a week and went in to research for two hours every night. On the last day, she came out with a pack of dark dye in her hand.

Back at the dorm, she took the dye and showed it to Nie Zhen'er, "Who knows what color it will be once dyed on fabric?"

On the weekend, Luan Qing Xiao took a trip back to her own dyeing factory and handed the dyes to the workers to test the dyed colors.

Luan Qing Xiao waited all morning and got a cloth with uneven colors.

The worker said, "Little  Boss, this dye can't be used."

Luan Qing Xiao, "... … I see."

"You guys worked hard." Luan Qing Xiao returned to school in a daze.

She thought that she was so talented that she could do anything. However, she was slapped in the face by reality.

When she returned to the dorm, Nie Zhen'er was waiting for her to get food together. Seeing Luan Qing Xiao’s emotionless face, she walked over and hugged her, "What's the matter? Did the dye not work? It’s okay, failure is the mother of success. If you succeed in just one try, then that would be weird."

Having Nie Zhen'er comfort her made her feel much better, "I'm just worried about how to explain to my cousin, I said I would treat him to a meal this weekend."

"Maybe Cousin has forgotten all about it."

The two went to the hospital the next day. Noticing the expressions on the two people's faces, Jing Xun said,"Alright, what do you need now? Don't ask me for blood, it's impossible for me to give it to you."

Luan Qing Xiao stated, "Cousin, I said last week I would treat you to lunch at noon today."

Jing Xun countered, "That was what you said, but I didn't agree."

"We’re already here, do you have the heart to watch Zhen'er run all the way for nothing?"

Jing Xun couldn’t handle Luan Qing Xiao’s pestering any more, so he raised his hands and surrendered, "I still have five minutes until I get off work."

There was a cafeteria in the hospital, where Jing Xun usually eats his meals. Today he still wants to bring Luan Qing Xiao and Nie Zhen'er there to eat, when Luan Qing Xiao said, "Wouldn’t that be you treating us instead? Across the hospital is a restaurant, let's go eat there."

Jing Xun reluctantly nodded in agreement, thinking that it wasn’t too far from the hospital and wouldn’t delay his work in the afternoon.

When the three of them got off the elevator, they accidentally met Ding Sheng again. He was still spraying holy water with a spraying bottle just like last week.

"Hello, Professor Ding." Luan Qing Xiao greeted.

Nie Zhen'er didn’t react as fast. She also greeted him half a second later.

Jing Xun exclaimed surprise, "Professor Ding, it turns out you all know each other."

Professor Ding looked at Jing Xun, "Last week, you gave the blood to these two little girls?"

Luan Qing Xiao and Nie Zhen'er couldn't help but glance at each other.

Jing Xun smiled, "Yes, Qing Xiao said that she wants to research some type of dyes. I don't know if she made any progress this week."

"Oh, I heard she has been spending two hours in the chemistry laboratory every afternoon. How’s it coming along?" Ding Sheng asked Luan Qing Xiao as if he had returned to normal.

Luan Qing Xiao shook her head, "Not well, I had one of the factory’s workers try it and it failed. Sure enough, I’m not suitable for this."

"So you research it yourself, Classmate Nie Zhen'er didn't help you?" Ding Sheng asked.

Luan Qing Xiao answered, "Zhen’er, this delicate girl, isn’t interested in these matters regarding blood or dyes. I can only go crazy researching by myself."

"By the way, Professor Ding, are you heading to lunch? Why don't you come join us?" Luan Qing Xiao only asked this, knowing Ding Sheng wouldn’t go.

Jing Xun also piped in, "Professor Ding, let's go together."

Ding Sheng shook his head, "I'm used to being alone, you guys go ahead."

After lunch with Jing Xun, Luan Qing Xiao and Nie Zhen'er had nothing to do later that afternoon. Instead of going straight back to school, they went shopping.

On the weekends, there are a lot of people shopping in the central commercial street of C City. Only a few big-name shops have relatively few people.

The two of them went shopping in a small shop first to bring a similar style of clothes as a couple's outfit and then continued shopping.

Walking to the front of a shop selling women's clothing, Nie Zhen'er saw a familiar figure through the glass.

She thought she had seen it wrong. But after thinking about it, she didn't think she did.

Nie Zhen'er grabbed Luan Qing Xiao, and Luan Qing Xiao turned around, "Found any stores you want to check out?"

Nie Zhen'er pointed to the women's clothing store where the two had just passed by, "Let's go in and have a look."

Luan Qing Xiao nodded. The two turned and walked back.

Entering the women's clothing store, Luan Qing Xiao opened the door to let Nie Zhen'er go in first before following in behind him.

The women's clothing store was pretty small. With one glance, one could tell how many people there were inside.

After Nie Zhen'er came in, she only saw a tall and gentle man standing in front of the fitting room, and not the person she had thought of.

Luan Qing Xiao walked to her and whispered, "Zhen'er, what are you looking for?"

Nie Zhen'er said, "I think I saw my mother just now."

"Your mother?" Luan Qing Xiao scanned the entire shop. Excluding the two staff and the man, she could see anyone else.

"Could it be that your mother came with that man and is now changing clothes in the fitting room?" Apart from this, Luan Qing Xiao couldn't think of any other possibilities.

Nie Zhen'er wondered strangely, "My mother doesn't like this type of man ah. Why would she suddenly change her taste? Weird." Or did she really make a mistake just now?

Luan Qing Xiao gossiped, "What type of man does your mother like?"

Nie Zhen'er pretended to pick out some clothes, "She likes the bad-boy kind of man."

The man in front of him was not only not that, but also had the temperament of a good gentleman with a holy light shining from his body. At first glance, people could tell he is a good person and isn’t connected to bad people in any sort of way.

Luan Qing Xiao suddenly remembered something, "I remember the first time when I went back to the castle with you, while I was sleeping, I  vaguely heard Shi Mo De say that your mother changed her style from a charming red rose to a delicate little white lotus."

"At that time, were you really asleep?" Nie Zhen'er asked, "How come you remembered this better than me?"

Luan Qing Xiao took an article of clothing and compared it on Nie Zhen'er, "I have better memory when I’m in light sleep."

"You said you saw your mother just now, what was she wearing? Did she have big wavy curls and nail polish on her hands?"

Nie Zhen'er pushed away the clothes Luan Qing Xiao was comparing on her body, "I only saw her face vaguely. How can I notice so many details in just a glance?"

Luan Qing Xiao put the clothes back on the hangers. She still wanted to say something when she heard the slight sound of the door of the fitting room slowly pushed open by a pair of clean hands.