The Vampire Marquis

Chapter 4

She thought unpleasantly, why are men always so keen to meddle in her affairs? "Are you lending it or not? If not, I'll look for someone else."

Jackson responded with a beaming smile, pulling out ten thousand-dollar bills from his wallet to give her. Suddenly, Liu Li stretched out her hand and snatched the money away quickly.

His face turned grim, "Liu Li, you..."

"This PUB is mine, don't forget you're just a nominal boss."

"I know, but Shanyi is in urgent need."

"She wants to take the money without even working?"

"Can you consider it as a loan from me?"

Watching the screaming couple, Chen Shanyi couldn't bear it anymore and turned around, "Forget it. Pretend I never came."

Jackson was shocked for a moment, calling out hurriedly, "Shanyi, wait."

"Let her go!" Liu Li angrily held back Jackson who wanted to chase after her.

"I'll come to dance on time tomorrow night, and you can give me my salary a week later." Chen Shanyi left indifferently. She needed to think about where else she could borrow money. Actually, she still had some money, but that was for her grandmother's dialysis next week, so the living expenses for these few days were in question.

Seeing her departure, Jackson looked at Liu Li coldly.

"You..." She swallowed and involuntarily stepped back, "What are you trying to do?"

"How come you're not so arrogant anymore when it's just us?" He said with a chill in his voice.

"I... don't forget I know your unspeakable secret, and I also have to provide fresh blood for you every month." She swallowed hard.

Step by step, he approached her, "True, but don't really anger me. If I want to find a young nurse to get a bag of blood for me, it shouldn't be a problem."

"You..." She was stunned into silence.

"I want Chen Shanyi, remember this well!" After casting a cold glance at her, he turned around and left in a huff.

Liu Li fell onto the floor, tears welling up in her eyes. She knew she could never hold his heart, for she would age while he would remain young and handsome forever.

After leaving Nissan, Shanyi returned home.

The old quadrangle was where her father grew up. Her farmer grandparents scrimped and saved to send her father abroad to study, even selling their farmland to afford his expensive living expenses. But, after settling abroad and marrying, he forgot about his aging parents.

Even crueler, after divorcing his wife, he threw her, a burden, back here, leaving her, who was seven at the time, to two nearly sixty-year-olds.

Her father was heartless, and her socialite mother didn't care for her either. For seven years living with them, she often felt unnecessary. While one was busy with business and the other was a social butterfly, she was left with a Black maid, often lonely. They never attended school events, always saying they were too busy... Shaking off her thoughts, Chen Shanyi stepped into the quadrangle's threshold.

"Shanyi, you're back!" Chen Rongming, with his dark and wrinkled old face, was overjoyed to see his beloved granddaughter, he hurriedly moved towards her.

Chen Shanyi was coldly indifferent to everyone else except her grandparents who truly loved her.

She hastened her steps towards him with a smiling face, "Grandfather, what's up? You seem very excited today."

"Not only I but your grandmother too. She just fell asleep tired from waiting for you!" He said with a radiant smile.

She laughed and walked with him towards the living room, "What's so exciting?"

"Here, look at this." Chen Rongming patted her hand fondly, walked over to the old bamboo cabinet against the wall, and carefully took out a check, turning it to hand it to her.

She looked curiously at it and couldn't help but open her eyes wide, "Ten million? Where did this come from?"

At those words, his eyes welled up with tears, choking a little. After wiping the hot tears from the corner of his eyes with his thin shirt, he managed to say, "I always knew that one day your father would remember us. Look, this time he sent someone with ten million for us. I..."

"What! This is from my dad!" She raised her voice in disbelief.

"Yes, that's what the foreigner said, and his Mandarin is very fluent!"

"A foreigner?"

"Yep."

Chen Shanyi carefully studied the signature on the check, "This is not my dad's name, and certainly not his handwriting. Besides, I don't believe my father, who hasn't been in touch with us for over ten years, would suddenly think of us, let alone drop such a large sum of money!"

So who could it be?

She carefully examined the signature on the check again, muttering to herself, "'Season-Si-Card'?... It's the Marquis of Jiska!"

Her pretty face drained of color, filled with furious indignation. She tucked the check into her bag, "Grandfather, did the foreigner say where he lives?"

"Oh, I asked him that. I thought we could go meet him together when you come back, and perhaps ask about your father's situation abroad. He said he lives at the Kai... Kai Le?"

"The Hyatt hotel?"

Chen Rongming nodded repeatedly, "Yes, exactly! He said he's only staying until today. He'll be leaving Taiwan first thing tomorrow."

Chen Shanyi was seething, but in order not to worry her grandfather, she forced a smile, "Grandfather, I'll go. You stay and take care of grandma."

"Your grandmother wanted to go too."

No way! If they really went, how could she give that inexplicable Marquis who gave her money a piece of her mind?

She shook her head, "Grandpa, I think it's better if I go. Ah, grandma's health isn't good. I'll invite him over for dinner, can you both prepare?"

Chen Rongming considered for a moment, then nodded happily, "That's a good idea too. It's only right that we return the hospitality. Alright, you go ahead and invite him. When your grandmother wakes up, we'll go to the market to get some food."

"Mmm, I'll go then." Chen Shanyi gave her grandfather a small smile, but the moment she turned around, the smile on her face vanished.