Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 132

Chapter 132

Beili followed Doctor Cassius into the Tower.

The walls were riddled with several large holes from years of exposure to the elements. Sunlight streamed through the openings, illuminating the trails of dust motes as they drifted downward.

She was curious about what treasures might be hidden inside the Tower, but upon entering, she found it completely empty.

Doctor Cassius let go of her and walked to the center of the room. He cast some unknown magic, and after a flash of light, a Teleportation Array appeared on the ground.

Looking at the array, she was slightly surprised. “Doctor Cassius, this is…”

Doctor Cassius made a gesturing motion for her to proceed. “Miss Bartholomew, this Teleportation Array can only transport one person at a time.”

“When I first set up this Teleportation Array, I never imagined I would be bringing someone else in…”

He explained with a smile, “In any case, you go through first. Don’t worry, I’ll be right behind you.”

Beili met the gentle, tranquil emerald eyes behind his monocle.

Pressing her lips together, she nodded and stepped into the Teleportation Array.

After a brief moment of dizziness…

She raised her red eyes, and in an instant-

Soft pinks, pure whites, misty purples… flowers of every color and shape were blooming quietly in countless numbers.

A sea of flowers, as brilliant and dreamlike as an oil painting, flooded her vision.

It was as if she had accidentally wandered into Monet’s secret garden.

The only difference was that Monet’s secret garden didn’t have neatly arranged stone coffins.

…

A light flared behind her as Doctor Cassius followed her through the teleportation.

Standing amidst the sea of flowers, he saw the bewildered expression on Miss Bartholomew’s face and smiled slightly as he introduced the place.

“As you can see, Miss Bartholomew, this is a Magic Space I created.”

He raised a hand, pressing his slender fingers against his smooth forehead as he shook his head with a sigh. “That is why all the Magic Crystals I earn are used to maintain the operation of this space.”

Although the Magic Space created by Doctor Cassius was not as complex or vast as the grounds used by Holy Island Academy for the closing ceremony, maintaining such a space for a long time required a massive amount of Mana.

When his Mana was insufficient, he could only resort to the luxury of using Magic Crystals to supplement it.

“These are…”

The girl’s red eyes shifted, pointedly sweeping over the neatly arranged stone coffins. She was clearly more curious about them.

As if sensing her confusion, Doctor Cassius stepped toward the coffins.

His fingertips gently brushed against one of the stone lids, a tender expression surfacing in his emerald eyes.

It was far more tender than his usual gentle demeanor.

“These… you could call them my obsession. Once I let go of that obsession, it became a habit,”

he said softly.

What…?

Why did she recognize every word individually, yet couldn’t understand what they meant when put together?

Beili didn’t understand and knit her brows in confusion, but she had a faint premonition that she was about to hear a secret regarding Doctor Cassius.

So, while she maintained a calm exterior, her heart was already pounding.

After all, this was a plot point that had never been described in the Original Book.

In the Original Book, Doctor Cassius, as the Male Lead No. 2, had always kept his secrets tightly wrapped. It wasn’t until the later stages of the story that he accidentally exposed his evil identity as an immortal vampire.
In the story, after the female lead, Susanna, learned of his identity, she hid from him in fear and gave him the cold shoulder for a time.

It wasn’t until a series of coincidences that Susanna discovered that although Doctor Cassius was a vampire, he would never harm a human.

He even consumed only animal blood.

Among vampires, this was the equivalent of being a vegetarian.

In any case, everything Beili was seeing and hearing now were things never mentioned in the Original Book.

“…An obsession?”

She tilted her head, asking in a tactful tone.

Doctor Cassius lowered his head, the fine gold chain extending from his monocle swaying gently.

“Her soul has gone to a place I cannot reach. I can only keep her former shells here, preserved with magic so that they do not vanish into decay,” he said.

Beili: …Whoa.

After hearing Doctor Cassius’s words, Beili-who had seen plenty of movies and novels-felt her red eyes instantly light up.

Throughout the long passage of time, this vampire Male Lead No. 2 had been searching for someone-someone who was already dead.

Or rather, after that person died, he wanted to see her in every reincarnation of her soul.

“So that’s how it is…” Beili asked, knowing the answer full well. “Doctor Cassius, is the ‘she’ you just mentioned your lover?”

She turned her head to look at the stone coffins lying quietly in the sea of flowers. “Are the bodies in these stone coffins all the reincarnations of her soul?”

“We were more like friends than lovers…”

The blond, blue-eyed man answered softly. Images of a kiss in front of a carriage flashed through his mind, and his slightly lowered, deep, and quiet emerald eyes shimmered with a faint light.

“Because we never kissed or embraced like lovers do,”

he added in a low voice.

On the other side.

The young girl had already filled in the blanks in her head with an epic romance that spanned time and space-something like Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

“Friends?” she sighed. “But someone you can never forget must be very important to you.”

She was almost moved to tears.

It was too touching, truly heart-wrenching.

Such a devoted Male Lead No. 2, and yet the female lead, Susanna, didn’t choose him in the end. Instead, she chose that Big Ice Cube, Cyril, who was born in the Ice Age!

At the thought of the Original Book’s ending, Beili couldn’t stop sighing in her heart.

However, sentimentality aside, why was Doctor Cassius telling her this?

Wasn’t this a secret identity he should be keeping tightly under wraps?

Although he spoke cryptically, the amount of information revealed was massive-enough to let one’s imagination run wild.

Regarding his earlier conversation with the old man, Beili could still make up an excuse for Doctor Cassius in her head, thinking he had used some sort of ageless magic.

But now, with what Doctor Cassius had personally disclosed, he had essentially slapped a label on his own forehead that said: ‘I live as long as the heavens; I simply won’t die.’

Beili had been trying her best not to expose Doctor Cassius’s secret, but at this point, it would be even weirder if she didn’t show a hint of curiosity.

Therefore, she could only part her lips slightly, testing the waters with a mix of shock and confusion:

“Doctor Cassius… are you unable to age or die? I mean, you seem to have lived for a very long time.”