Reborn as the Vampire Prince at Server Start, I am Invincible

Chapter 164 : The Truth Comes to Light

The Truth Comes to LightChen Zixuan had always known that he couldn't keep this matter from Gu Yanxi. As long as he couldn't cut off this tie, the day the truth came out was bound to arrive sooner or later.

After all, paper can't wrap fire.

He just hadn't figured out how to explain it yet.

Of course, that was a few minutes ago.

Now, two women were blocking the front door, eyeing each other like tigers ready to pounce, and it seemed tension could erupt into a fight at any moment.

Rationality told Chen Zixuan that when faced with such a situation, the best option was to get as far away as possible. But now that the front door was blocked, just where could he escape?

While Chen Zixuan hesitated, Gu Yanxi's cold voice sounded again from outside the door.

"Put the stuff down. I'll pass it on to him myself."

"No, I bought these things—I have to give them to him in person!"

Lin Wei met Gu Yanxi's gaze, refusing to budge and arguing her point forcefully.

In their argument, Lin Wei even seemed to have forgotten herself that the big bag of sanitary pads she was holding was actually for Chen Zixuan's "cousin."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yanxi was momentarily at a loss.

True, after all, Lin Wei had bought the stuff, and Chen Zixuan was the one who asked her to deliver it. What did it have to do with Gu Yanxi anyway?

A deep sense of defeat rose in her heart, only to quickly turn into intense anger. Gu Yanxi's face grew more and more frosty. She pulled her phone out from her small shoulder bag and, gritting her teeth, said, "Fine. Chen Zixuan, right? Don't you want it handed over in person? I'll call him out right now!"

Inside the room, separated by just one door and hearing Gu Yanxi's words, it was as if Chen Zixuan had heard a horror story. A chill ran down his spine. He hurriedly staggered to the dining table, snatched up his phone, and pressed hard on the power button.

Turn off! Turn off, hurry!

If his phone rang and Gu Yanxi found out he was in the house, he'd really be done for.

Meanwhile, Gu Yanxi had already brought up the dial screen, ready to call Chen Zixuan. At this moment, as if realizing something, she suddenly stopped.

Wait, aren't I standing right at his front door? Why call?

Chen Zixuan, you bastard!

Hiding at home like a turtle while she's here fighting with some wild woman she doesn't even know!

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Gu Yanxi's gaze quickly turned bleak, and a heavy, depressed aura surrounded her.

She bit her lip so hard it seemed she might draw blood.

Even her heartbeat quickened, and the asthma that had been suppressed for so long seemed ready to flare up again.

After a brief silence, Gu Yanxi suddenly put down her phone, clenched her fists, and without a word, marched up to Chen Zixuan's front door. Then she began pounding hard on the metal security door.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Chen Zixuan, I know you're in there! Open the door! If you have the nerve to fool around, have the nerve to open the door too!"

Damn!

Neither of them had expected the usually quiet and fragile Gu Yanxi to have such a tough side. Not only was Lin Wei stunned outside the door, but even Chen Zixuan hiding inside was left with a blank mind.

What to do?

Come clean, or keep pretending to be dead?

Just as Chen Zixuan was caught in indecision, Lin Wei suddenly helped out, stomping her foot anxiously and shouting, "Stop knocking! Chen Zixuan isn't home right now—I'm just here to deliver something for his cousin!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Yanxi paused for a moment.

Looking down at her reddened palm, she took a deep breath and gave a mocking smirk.

"Cousin? I've never heard of him having a cousin. Maybe she's just another wild woman besides you, huh?"

Lin Wei flushed with embarrassment and wanted to refute her, but couldn't say a word.

Gu Yanxi wasn't wrong—if this really was Chen Zixuan's cousin, he would just ask Gu Yanxi next door instead of trouble Lin Wei at all. There was no reason for her to get involved.

Could it be that Chen Zixuan really tricked them both...?

As Lin Wei started to doubt herself, Gu Yanxi began knocking even harder, making the corridor tremble and echo painfully. Just by the sound alone, one could feel her hands hurting.

If she hadn't been wearing strappy high-heeled sandals, Gu Yanxi might have kicked the door instead.

After all, it was their own door—even if it broke, they wouldn't have to pay for it.

The pounding outside continued, each blow hammering at her ears. At this moment, Chen Zixuan finally understood what it felt like to be the mistress, caught inside by the wife at the scene.

No, wait, I haven't done anything wrong—why am I afraid of someone knocking?

He patted his own cheeks gently, forcing himself to calm down.

Gu Yanxi had mild asthma and couldn't sustain strenuous activity—this, Chen Zixuan knew.

Letting her keep banging on the door wasn't an option, either.

Given the situation, the only choice was to open the door.

Of course, before opening the door, one thing had to be done—he needed to send Lin Wei, the outsider, away.

Lin Wei wasn't a Legend of Kaloran player. There was no reason to drag her into this mess.

Should anything happen to this shy, introverted girl because of this, Chen Zixuan couldn't forgive himself.

He hurriedly picked up his phone, opened Gu Yanxi's private chat window, and quickly typed a message.

[Chen Zixuan: Let Lin Wei leave first. I'll explain everything you want to know later.]

The message showed as sent, but the noise outside the door never stopped.

For convenience, Gu Yanxi had already stuffed her phone back in her shoulder bag, and, caught up in her anger, she wasn't going to notice the faint vibration.

Seeing that texting wasn't working, no matter how helpless he felt, Chen Zixuan could only abandon the plan.

It was his fault for lying to Gu Yanxi, for hiding things all this time.

He'd hurt himself, and had wounded the fragile and sensitive heart of the girl as well.

Due to blood loss and anxiety, her delicate lips had turned pale, and the stabbing pain in her abdomen kept intensifying, the chill from her body never letting up.

Her first period after inheriting the new body was worse than she'd ever imagined.

Damn it... This body is way too weak...

Outside, the knocking grew weaker too, mixed with the sound of painful short breaths. The girl's voice, tinged with tears, sounded low and pitiful:

"Chen Zixuan... open the door..."

That one sentence completely broke the last bit of Chen Zixuan's emotional defense.

Supporting herself weakly with her right hand on the dining table, she forced herself to stand. Fighting through discomfort, she staggered step by step toward the door.

Because of severe abdominal pain, limp limbs, and constantly needing to watch that the toilet paper she was using in place of a pad didn't fall out, a path she usually covered in a few steps took her half a minute to cross. Only then did the door finally come into her sight.

Just grasping the doorknob and pressing down gently seemed to exhaust all her strength.

Yet outside this wooden door, there was still the heavy metal security door—an insurmountable barrier between inside and out.

She had no more strength left.

Her vision blurred, any remaining energy drained completely—this was the final warning from her new body.

At last, Chen Zixuan couldn't stand any longer. Her legs gave out, and she collapsed in front of the door, her weight pushing down on the handle and making the spring mechanism click.

Creak—the wooden door opened a crack, immediately stopped by the heavy security door outside.

Gu Yanxi was still sobbing quietly outside when she saw, through the iron grille and the cold bars, a frail, paper-thin girl appear in her view.

The girl had deathly pale skin, blue eyes, thin lips, and a willow-like fragility; her fluffy silver hair tied into two neat pigtails, but drooping feebly like the ears of a sick puppy.

Wearing a simple pure-white short spaghetti-strap dress, for a moment, Gu Yanxi even felt she saw a life-sized porcelain doll.

A familiar face, a familiar hairstyle, a rare hair color in the world... When all these details connected, a nickname that couldn't be any more familiar suddenly surfaced in Gu Yanxi's mind.

In slow motion, her eyes widened, her face full of disbelief.

"Cecilia!"

Her mind a chaotic tangle, before she could work through why Cecilia would be at Chen Zixuan's home, she watched as the silver-haired girl slumped and collapsed forward.

Losing control of her body, her forehead slammed hard into the iron door with a dull thud.

Thud—!

At the same time, dark red blood slowly seeped through the white skirt beneath the girl.

"So cold... don't make noise... just let me sleep a little..."

Her half-lidded eyes could no longer stay open, her consciousness faded, and with one last unconscious murmur, Chen Zixuan's world went black.

In the final moment before fainting, she seemed to see Gu Yanxi clutching her chest in panic and shouting behind her: "Watch her! I'll get the spare key!"

......

Wonderful. The world is finally completely quiet...

(Volume One, end)