WLWM World 7: White Moonlight as White as Lotus the Seventh, Ch. 1

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After leaving Yang Chongyin’s world, while the system has sealed his emotional fluctuations early as usual, but Bai Lianhua is still crouching down dispiritedly in the system space… This has basically become a constant side effect of him detaching from the worlds.

The system wants to cheer up its unenergetic host. Even though it’s usually quite the troublemaker, but it still loves its host very much.

“Host, don’t be sad… You’re an artefact, you know! Artefacts can’t be so depressed all the time, can they?”

Bai Lianhua “???” Da heck?

The system goes on confidently, “Yang Chongyin said he was looking for a blessed artefact, which I think was definitely right! Look, he found you and then actually managed to rewrite the direction the dynasty was heading on and gave peace and prosperity to the world. So you must have been a great artefact.”

“Come on, as a professional artefact, host, we must be cheerful at all times.”

Bai ‘the Artefact’ Lianhua “…”

My apologies, but this joke is so cold it’s freezing… Are you really expecting me to laugh? Bai Lianhua tries to lift the corners of his lips in response.

The system then puts its chin on its palms, “then what might help cheer you up, host?”

Bai Lianhua gives it a bit of thought, “mm. If you give me a computer and the internet?” With these two things, he can definitely stay until the end of the world in the system space happily.

Yet, Bai Lianhua himself starts sighing with resignation right after saying that… Sigh. It’s impossible. He’d already mentioned this countless times to the system since he first started his missions, but it’s never been fulfiled before.

Though Bai Lianhua didn’t notice that the system seems to have fallen in thought from what he said, and then blinks its eyes like it’s up to something as usual.

…

In the next world, Bai Lianhua first feels that where the system projected him to seems to feel a bit cold.

Looking around, he discovers himself standing beneath the shadows of a small grove of trees. These trees have great branch and crowns and the shadows have practically blanketed this small spot.

It would be a great place to enjoy the breeze in summer, but this world is probably in autumn, and it’s already cool enough. When the breeze comes, Bai Lianhua starts shivering even. So without further ado, he wants to leave this cold place and enjoy the warmth of the sun.

The system immediately calls out to him hurriedly, “eh?! Host, wait!”

Bai Lianhua is already at the edge of the shadows, and he looks back puzzlingly as the system calls out to him. His hand naturally swings around him into the sunlight, and then——

With tears welling up in his eyes, Bai Lianhua hugs that pawing limb of his and quickly scuttles back to the middle of the shadow of the trees.

That brief moment the sunlight shone on him made him feel pain as if he was burning up. It took all he had to restrain himself from screaming out ‘awoo,’ since he still wants to save face in front of the system no matter what.

Is the sun poisonous? No no no, it’s probably himself who is toxic.

Emm… Mustn’t expose to sunlight, is it? Given the system projected him to this cool, covered place with that shout just now… Bai Lianhua uses the tip of his tongue and pushes it against his little canines, then he finally understands his current identity, since he’d only experienced this type of setting once——That’s right, he’s a vampire.

And then, Bai Lianhua can feel himself healing up, and even his pitiful little paw doesn’t seem to hurt that much anymore… In that world where he’s a vampire, it’s a modern setting! Even if it’s an unscientific modern world, but it’s still that paradise where he can happily go back to being his familiar shut-in.

Bai Lianhua has this excited expression on and all those little moodlets of his clear up.

——Seeing Bai Lianhua smiling with his little dimples again, the system quietly shows a smile that is gentle; motherly, even.

After enthusiastically celebrating for a few minutes, Bai Lianhua then slaps himself on the head and starts recalling what the antagonist is like in this world.

As mentioned, this is an unscientific world. The serene surface gives way to the chaotic currents ebbing and flowing underneath. There’s quite a lot of odd species in this world, vampires being one of them.

Yu Chenqing, the antagonist of this world, became the target of a vampire’s malicious hunting one night. The reckless vampire didn’t know to hold back if their life depended on it, and definitely didn’t see Yu Chenqing’s life as anything significant. They only wanted to suck up all the blood in his body… Though, as the antagonist himself, of course Yu Chenqing has characteristics that separates him from the common folk.

After being bitten by a vampire, he actually didn’t immediately lose all ability to resist as normal humans did. His consciousness was clear and he still had the power to resist——In fact, Yu Chenqing felt like he was suddenly several times stronger physically than usual, and he had greater senses and reaction. When the vampire was distracted, Yu Chenqing did all he could to struggle, which saved his life, but also happened to make some of the vampire’s blood infect him… After he barely got out of danger, Yu Chenqing was forcibly transformed into a vampire.

His experience being attacked and the fact that such an abominable vampire transformed him made Yu Chenqing unable to accept such a change. He thought of himself as human still, and tried to maintain his human relationships.

Yet, interacting with humans often means all the oddities on him would reveal him sooner or later… Like how he couldn’t stand the sun, like how he needs to drink blood, even if it’s just from a blood bag.

Speaking of, it would be prudent to mention Yu Chenqing’s family background here.

His mother passed away when he was still small. And, it was barely half a year before his father remarried. This brevity created an irreparable rift between Yu Chenqing and his father.

So, after he reached adulthood, Yu Chenqing decided to move out and live by himself. It was not often that he would return to this home. Even if he went to such lengths, this was still not enough for his stepmother, who didn’t like this cold stepson, and was staying alert in case he might steal away the inheritance her own son would receive.

After his stepmother accidentally discover the quirks on Yu Chenqing, he not only called him a ‘monster’ with a spiteful tone, and she even did what she could to get in contact with others who would try to capture Yu Chenqing in the name of ‘treating his sickness.’ If he did get caught, he would however immediately be transported to the black market or some underground laboratory.

Yu Chenqing might have been able to withstand his stepmother’s hate and fear of him, but the last straw for him was that his father was aware of all of this, but he decided to turn a blind eye to all this… And thus far, Yu Chenqing had harmed absolutely no one yet.

The antagonist chose to leave. To abandon his identity as ‘Yu Chenqing’ the human. Yet, the story didn’t end there.

Since there’s still occasionally incidents of vampire attacks, there would be people that dealt with the matter investigating and interviewing residents, asking discreetly if anyone noticed any odd acts. Then, his father and stepmother acted as if relieved as they reported the name of Yu Chenqing directly during one such interview. They told investigators he was nocturnal, broody, prone to attacking people and probably committed some crime or another, and they were horrified.

——They happened to be terrified that Yu Chenqing would bear grudges against them and harm them… Yet, they didn’t know who to tell this to as normal people would only think they’d have gone mad, when someone who seemed to ‘know’ these things came along.

Then, Yu Chenqing had definitely transformed into a vampire, from the blood of that vampire that had harmed people, which meant that they could tell he was evil. Therefore, once they confirmed his vampire identity, he faced pursuit from bounty hunters who dealt with this. He was always carrying wounds and there were times when he was on the brink of death.

It was hard to explain he was simply a turned victim, since vampire turning didn’t happen from blood being sucked, and could only happen if one took in a vampire’s blood. Vampires, however, would never just casually offer their own blood to a human when they thought of him as prey.

In any case, at the very least he must have been an accomplice.

Yu Chenqing can’t explain the unexpected circumstances that arose after he got bitten, like how he didn’t lose the ability to resist, and was even strengthened… Nothing of the sort had ever happened before, so there were almost nobody that believed him.

Yu Chenqing grew cold from all this, and he stopped acting passively to all this. Given his specialness, he would get stronger from each and every near-death pursuit. After he got strong enough to be able to resist his vampiric instincts and exact revenge on that original vampire that harmed him, whenever hunters showed up, Yu Chenqing would strip them of their abilities, which further raised his level of danger, which forced even more bounty hunters into actions, which led further into this vicious cycle…

Thankfully, this was only in the original timeline.

Bai Lianhua’s identity in this world is a weak little vampire… Yes, exactly the kind of identity you expect the system to give him. He hasn’t any respectful background or abilities.

The night that the antagonist should have been bitten, he saved Yu Chenqing in a very unvampiric way, stemming everything that followed from its source. With the guidance of the system, he soothed and neutralised the trauma the antagonist felt from the incident and his grudge towards vampires as a species.

And after Yu Chenqing’s life turned back to normal, he detached from this world.

In a certain sense, Bai Lianhua felt that it was super simple when he was completing this mission the first time he transmigrated. It was short as well… So short that he hadn’t enjoyed enough air conditioning, computers and the internet. He only left reluctantly after the system repeatedly urged him to.

Great. Now his identity is certain. Then, wehre is he?

Just looking at this grove and nature, he almost thought he had transmigrated into some weird world again.

The system can see that Bai Lianhua has realised who the antagonist was, so it tells him directly, “you’re in the national park in city A… You know, modern setting. There’s a lot of traffic everywhere, which means only deep inside tourist areas during workdays would be good for you, the host, to appear.”

Or it would be the second time the host suddenly pops out in the middle of a crowd like in his second return mission.

Bai Lianhua nods, and accepts what the system said.

The system then asks, “so host, what do you plan to do?”

Bai Lianhua says without much thought, “since it’s city A, where I lived… Then I think I just need to return to the home I used to live in. By experience, even if the antagonist isn’t there right now, he would definitely show up soon.”

——Eh, he’ll never admit he just can’t wait to experience his long-waited shut-in life again.

System “…” Something seems off, but it can’t seem to find a point to counter.

While the trees are verdant here, of course not everywhere is under such intense shade, and there’s always rays of sunlight that find their way through the gaps.

Bai Lianhua takes a look at the bright spots on the ground other than the small area where he is standing, and is thinking even if he does hopscotch around them he can never fully dodge them all.

Why did the system not project a UV-blocking umbrella since it was projecting his body anyway? Or, at least, give him some big, protective clothing, you know.

Sniff. Sad. Sob.

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TL’s notes: The vampire world at last! I think this is the fluffiest and sweetest of them all, so you might not like it that much if you enjoy faceslapping or our protagonist growing superpowered… Still, if you made it this far, I’m sure you’re not in it for those anyway.