After five bigwigs in Beijing's elite circle fell into their trap, I fled.

Chapter 253 Extra: Demon 1
The vampire heiress's favorite things, besides sleeping with Li Yubai, were playing with puppets.

Li Yubai is undoubtedly a beauty among vampires, but the puppet... Jiang Shu likes its long legs.

After touching it for a while, even Li Yubai sometimes couldn't bear to watch anymore and sighed helplessly, "Go easy on it. After thousands of years of tempering, it's no longer just a sacred artifact. Recently, I've gradually felt that it's starting to have its own consciousness..."

The young lady chuckled softly: "I'm not afraid. Even if he asks me to take responsibility one day, I'll just deny it to the death."

Li Yubai looked at the young lady and smiled gently and indulgently: "Yes, when the time comes, I'll be on your side."

At that moment, they didn't know that the words, "Take responsibility, I'll deny it to the death," were the first sounds the puppet heard after it gained consciousness. For a vampire artifact that had existed for tens of thousands of years without joy or sorrow, those words were the very essence of human life.

The puppet had no idea how many missions he had accepted or how many merits he had made against the vampires.

Each of his missions, from beginning to end, returned to Li Yubai's palm as his black true form, as if an automatic formatting program had been set up, completely erasing his past.

What he had to do was to become someone else, year after year, in a cycle, replicating their life, including their abilities and memories, but... without any emotions or desires.

His master, like him, lived a life of quiet desolation for thousands of years, unaware of love, the meaning of perseverance, or even the meaning of life.

Until that day, Li Yubai met the young lady, and the cold moonlight was pulled into the mortal world, experiencing love and desire. From then on, he felt that the cold world had become splendid.

Later, even the puppets became the young lady's playthings.

He was played with in her hands for two hundred years in the form of a puppet.

Two hundred years later, he was on a new mission, and dared not tell anyone. He began to feel a sense of reluctance.

However, due to internal strife within the vampire clan, when he returned after completing his mission, all he saw was a pile of ruins of the vampire clan, and... the young lady lying lifeless in Li Yubai's arms.

At that moment, the puppet stood beside Li Yubai, outwardly expressionless, but the overwhelming sorrow in his heart left him helpless.

He transformed into the puppet once more, entering programmed mode one last time, forgetting his past. But within the puppet's small body, his consciousness grew uncontrollably…

Li Yubai led him to the altar.

Then, he drew out his own heart's blood and placed it on the puppet:

"This is my blood at its peak. I will sacrifice all my remaining strength to bring the young lady back to life. If I die, you will take my place in your prime and protect her until the end of time, never leaving her side."

He paused, then looked at him tenderly: "This is also the last order I give you. From now on, you will experience all the wonders of this world in my image..."

The puppet remained silent, showing neither sorrow nor joy.

Later, Li Yubai, who had been sacrificed, miraculously survived.

He still carried the puppet, staying with the comatose young lady year after year, waiting for her to wake up, just like waiting for the moonlight in the night sky that can never be grasped.

The puppet waited. As the days passed, the monotonous time slipped away. In those slowly flowing moments, his consciousness grew more complete, and he began to develop his own personality. He wanted to travel the world, to roam freely in the sky and sea, to mingle among people and play the human world…

Later, Li Yubai really took him to the human world. He changed his name and established his own capital in the human world. Over the centuries, he became the richest man in the region. In order to hide his vampire identity, he deliberately created the illusion that the head of the Li family died at the age of fifty. This cycle continued until the day the young lady opened her eyes.

"My time is running out, but fortunately... I can still spend some more years with her." Li Yubai held the baby-like young lady, as if he had returned to the splendid time when the young lady was wantonly bullied under the roses.

Yet the puppet could still clearly sense Li Yubai's life slipping away faster and faster. As the young lady grew up, Li Yubai placed the glass bottle containing his blood from his prime in the drawer along with the puppet, and gently told him:
"Puppet, you should prepare yourself. Perhaps you still don't understand love, but from now on, learn the way I love her. Even if you don't love her, I hope that when she is with you, she can feel loved."

The puppet was frustrated, but had nowhere to vent its frustration.

He followed Li Yubai around every day, taking him to various occasions. One day, he suddenly felt an urge to break free from his constraints, transforming into a phantom and escaping into the world.

He encountered a dying boy in a sea area.

The boy had a beautiful face, but his body was truly weak.

So weak, even if he replicates it, how many years can he last?
But the boy's personality is so similar to the personality that arose from the puppet's consciousness—both are arrogant, haughty, and passionate, yet also undisciplined.

He wants to try the puppet.

The boy closed his eyes in the medical cabin of the cruise ship, waiting to die in despair.

The puppet's phantom floated to his side, its voice languid: "I can continue living in your place."

Seeing the illusory figure, the boy, perhaps because he was about to die, felt no fear. He weakly asked, "What do I need to pay?"

"A drop of blood."

Without hesitation, the boy gave him a drop of blood, watching him transform into another version of himself, his eyes filled with complex emotions: "If possible, please take me home when the time is right."

On that day, the FY heir, who had been declared dead, came back to life!

Not only did he survive, but he became even more arrogant and reckless than before. His favorite thing to do was to make people unhappy, as if only in this way could the old stories buried deep in his heart disappear along with the sad past.

The person he most liked to provoke was Li Yubai. That man who took even life and death lightly, the puppet loved seeing his emotions displayed, his vivid and lively demeanor.

He also had a penchant for stealing medicinal herbs. With countless herbs piled up, was there a chance that one day he could save that person's life?

Later, he met his family's sugar daddy.

The girl slowly walked towards him, her eyes filled with surprise at their first sight, and a hint of trepidation.

He lay quietly on the medical chair, wearing a burgundy shirt and exuding an aura of impending death. All his organs had ceased functioning properly, and the medical team regretfully informed him to prepare for his passing.

He gazed at the surging sea outside the window, his face ashen, his lifeless peach blossom eyes gently closing.

After five years, the body he replicated was naturally weak, only able to sustain him for five years before he was about to return to his puppet form.

Who should I choose next?
A weak, mocking laugh escaped, carrying with it resentment and a helpless resignation:

"He hasn't lived enough yet, what a pity..."

Then the girl appeared out of nowhere, wearing a black cloak, with a dirty little face and bright, sparkling eyes. The young master, a seasoned veteran of the world of beauties, recognized her stunning beauty almost instantly from her disheveled appearance…

Like a flame from the deepest darkness, it crossed the boundary between life and death, burning away his dying soul...

Ah! That's his young lady!
My heartbeat was just like that, missing several beats.