northernbook Chapter 128 The original owner's memory (9)
Chapter 128 The original owner's memory (9)
After returning to the villa, Gu Chang unexpectedly ran into Neve in the corridor.
She was wearing a black and white long maid outfit, and followed Carlos with her head lowered, with iron handcuffs on her wrists and ankles.
Carlos smiled slightly when he saw Gu Chang, "Good afternoon, Mr. Heinlein."
Gu Chang smiled and asked, "Excuse me, what are you doing?" His gaze passed Carlos and stopped at the handcuffs on Neve's wrists.
Carlos answered his question: "This maid was disobedient, so Mr. Seedes ordered me to cuff her hands and feet to prevent her from escaping."
Niv looked up at Gu Chang. When she looked at Gu Chang's face, she always felt that Gu Chang gave her a familiar feeling.
Gu Chang was slightly surprised: "I don't think it's necessary to put handcuffs on her. She's not a prisoner."
Neve echoed, "That's right."
So Carlos uncuffed Neve, but he didn't remove the cuffs on her ankles.
"Please forgive me, Mr. Hein. My master, Mr. Sides, has instructed us not to let her run around freely. Therefore, I will not remove the shackles on her feet."
Neve rubbed her wrists, looked at the back of Carlos's head, and curled her lips. Sidse hadn't said that, he just wanted her to learn how to be a maid today.
Gu Chang nodded calmly and said, "Thank you, Mr. Carlos, for doing this." After saying this, Gu Chang walked past them.
Neve subconsciously looked back at Gu Chang's back, then turned to Carlos and asked, "Mr. Carlos, who is this young man named Hailain?"
Carlos said indifferently: "I don't think our relationship is that close yet."
Neve paused, then smiled. "Mr. Carlos, I sincerely apologize again for my reckless behavior. I'm sorry, Mr. Carlos. I swear I had no other thoughts at the time. I was just exercising."
Before putting on this maid outfit, Neve was doing a handstand in the room.
When Carlos opened the door, he saw Neve doing a handstand. Her face was flushed with blood. Carlos thought Neve was desperate and trying to commit suicide. So he frantically tried to get Neve to stop.
But Carlos's help only made things worse, and in the end, somehow, Neve even tripped Carlos.
This man in his fifties almost thought he had seen the god of death in advance.
Although Neve helped the man up and apologized at the time, Carlos obviously did not trust Neve and handcuffed Neve's hands and feet in the name of Sidse.
Neve blinked her sparkling eyes and softened her tone, "Please, Mr. Carlos, just tell me." Although Carlos had ridiculed her before, after several contacts, Neve realized that Carlos was a man with a sharp tongue but a soft heart.
What he said before may have been well-intentioned. After all, humans and vampires cannot have too much contact.
For example, Carlos' family has served the Egbert family for generations, and obeying the Egbert family is a family motto engraved in their bones.
Carlos sighed helplessly and had to tell her: "That is His Royal Highness's companion."
"Partner? But he... is a human." Neve said doubtfully.
Carlos pulled Neve aside, looked around to see if there was anyone around, and then said, "He will be embraced by His Royal Highness the Prince and transformed into a vampire."
"First Embrace? What is that?" Neve asked, puzzled. Now that she was a human in this world, she could only pretend she didn't know what the First Embrace was.
Carlos frowned slightly, looking at Neve's puzzled expression, and sighed, "Only pure-blooded vampires can embrace a human for the first time. This means they simply have the desire to transform a human into a vampire while drinking blood."
Neve thought for a moment, then looked at Carlos. "Mr. Carlos, what do you think, is it better to be a vampire or a human?"
Carlos adjusted his tie on his collar and motioned for Neve to follow him.
After a while, Carlos brought Neve to the balcony.
It was noon and the sun was scorching.
Neve raised her hand and placed it in front of her brow to prevent her eyes from being unable to open in the sun.
Carlos also raised his hand to his forehead. He spread his other hand palm upward and spoke slowly, "The biggest difference between humans and vampires is that humans are not afraid of the sun, but vampires are."
"If you become a vampire, you will never feel the warmth of the sun again. My family has served the Egbert family for generations. While chasing the moon, we will never choose to give up the sun." Carlos spoke slowly and seriously.
At this moment, there was a warm light in his eyes.
Neve was stunned for a moment. It wasn't until Carlos took her to the living room that she came to her senses.
"Ms. Neve, your task today is to clean this place. Every place must be spotless." Carlos seemed to have returned to his previous indifferent attitude towards Neve. He handed the rag and bucket to Neve.
Niffe held a rag in one hand and a bucket in the other and said with a smile, "Okay, Mr. Carlos."
On the other side, Gu Chang returned to the room and looked at Cedric who was still awake and asked, "Don't vampires sleep during the day?"
"Pure-bloods generally don't need to rely on sleep to recover their strength." Cedric closed the book in his hand and placed it on the table.
"Hei Laiyin, what did you do outside?" Cedric watched Gu Chang walk to his side, raised his hand and took Gu Chang's hand, letting him sit next to him on the sofa.
Gu Chang recounted what happened when he went out.
"Your memory is fully restored now, isn't it?" Cedric said with a smile. He put his arm around Gu Chang's waist and with his other hand took off the rose brooch on Gu Chang's chest.
Gu Chang nodded gently, "Well, my identity is a bit special."
"How special is it?" Cedric placed the small and exquisite brooch on Gu Chang's chest. The brooch was inlaid with a silvery-white, translucent, round gemstone. The bottom was designed in the shape of a falling lightning bolt, and the part holding the gemstone was designed in the shape of a circular clock. This brooch was named "Silver-white Falling"
The person wearing the "Silver Drop" represents that he is the supreme leader of the Gareth family and has the same status as Prince Cedric.
"I am the fifth prince of the empire, Helain Gabriel."
Gu Chang didn't expect that the name he said was exactly the name of the original owner.
Moreover, in the original owner's memory, he was cursed into a rabbit by the black witch arranged by his eldest son Lotus because of his jealousy.
The original owner's mother, Anna, was a beautiful dancer. Because of her outstanding dancing skills in front of the king, she was chosen by the king and became one of his mistresses.
The king now had five children. Aside from the eldest and fifth princes, the rest were princesses. Helain was the youngest. Furthermore, the original owner's mother, Anna, was very sociable and had good relationships with other mistresses and even the queen. Helain gradually became the king's favorite son.
Heihein is a dozen years younger than Rots, so he can be considered the king's late-born son.
Two years ago, Rotus didn't care about his younger brother at first. There were just rumors that Helain would be chosen by the king as the heir.
So, Rotus began to pay attention to Hailain's every move. He found that his younger brother had won the hearts of most of the ministers and was able to easily maintain good relations with various nobles.
Moreover, because of his outstanding appearance and gentlemanly manners, Hei Laiyin has won the hearts of many noble ladies.
However, Lotus's reputation was not very good because he was as philandering as the king, with countless mistresses and a somewhat frivolous behavior.
So Lotus went to find a minister who supported him, and the minister gave Lotus a gift and asked him to find the black witch who hated humans.
Then the prince spent a lot of money to find out the news about a black witch.
He bribed the maid next to the Black Witch to speak ill of Helain in her ear and then began to spread rumors against Helain.
The rumor probably said that Heinlein had affairs with many noble ladies and did not admit that he had mistresses.
At first, no one believed that Hei Laiyin was such a person. Later, a noble lady said that he was also having affairs with other women while dating her. This rumor began to change dramatically.
Later, Hailan went to find this noble lady, but learned that she was paid by Lotus to do this. If they did not do as Lotus said, their family would be ostracized by other nobles and would never be allowed to appear in the royal city.
Helain forgave her, and then Helain planned to go to Rots to ask for clarification.
But when he was riding back in the carriage, he met the black witch.
He was then cursed and lost his memories of being human.
The people of Rotus took him away at night and abandoned him outside the royal city, intending that the rabbit-turned Helain be eaten by wild beasts.
A hunter found this rabbit and wanted to kill it, but his child didn't want to kill it. So the hunter asked the child to keep the rabbit in a pen to make him happy.
Anna only learned about this a few days later. She anxiously went to find the White Witch, wanting to know if Helain was still alive and where he was.
Fortunately, the White Witch found the location of Helain and knew that he was still alive. Anna originally wanted to protect Helain, who had turned into a rabbit, but the Duchess beside Anna said that the royal city was the most dangerous place.
If Rotus knew that Helain was still here, he would use all means to kill the fragile rabbit.
So Anna had to let the trusted guards take Helain away.
It took the guards three days and three nights to reach the town where Neve was.
He observed the Neves family for a while and finally decided that their farm would provide a good life for a rabbit.
So the guard wrote a letter to ask Anna for her opinion. After receiving a positive reply, the guard placed the rabbit where Neve often grazed sheep.
After seeing Neve raising rabbits, the guards obeyed Anna's orders and left the town.
Because Lotus will seize the clues and investigate what Anna has done recently.
Anna couldn't let Lotus's people find out Heilain's location, so she had to come forward and tell everyone that Heilain was seriously ill and had gone somewhere else to recuperate.
Anna also invited the noble lady to come and, combined with other evidence she had collected, she finally cleared her son's name in front of everyone.