Lin Xi still couldn't have Lanzhou ramen at noon. She slept until three in the afternoon and took a lot of effort to put on the complicated Gothic-style long skirt. The wide and layered skirt was very heavy.
It turns out that beauty comes at a price.
Lin Yan pushed the door open with her heavy skirt lifted up, and when she looked up, she saw Chen Chu waiting in the living room. Chen Chu also changed into a tuxedo bought from the store. Unlike Lin Yan's careful selection, he just randomly picked a piece of clothing of the right size without even trying it on. However, the ready-made clothing bought for only 200 Euros made Chen Chu look noble and exquisite as if it was custom-made.
When Lin Yan was looking at Chen Chu, Chen Chu was also looking at Lin Yan. Complexity and gorgeousness were the biggest features of the Gothic style dress. The wide black skirt was decorated with blood-red lace, and gorgeous golden silk threads were interspersed with exquisite patterns. The chest was a piece of pure black thin lace, revealing a large area of snow-white. On the girl's neck, a black silk ribbon was tied with a blood-red rose and decorated on one side, like a kiss mark, extremely tempting.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?" Because the dress was hard to wear, Lin Yan struggled for a long time. Seeing Chen Chu waiting in the living room, she hurried out. Halfway through, her skirt got caught in the door frame, and she almost tripped.
Chen Chu subconsciously wanted to help her, but as soon as he moved, Lin Yan stood up again, grabbed the edge of her skirt and squeezed out, half complaining: "This dress is really inconvenient to wear."
Lin Xi let down her skirt and went to adjust the silk ribbon around her neck. She didn't know if it was because she hadn't washed it, but she always felt itchy from the rose thorns.
Chen Chu's eyes darkened as Lin Yan moved, and he caught a glimpse of a hint of pink in her fair complexion: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Yeah, it's a little itchy." Lin Xi nodded.
"Then don't wear it." Chen Chu came over at some point, stretched out his hand to peel off the rose on the ribbon, and pulled it off along with the ribbon, "I'm allergic to it."
"Allergic reaction?" Lin Yan hurried to the mirror to look at her neck, and indeed saw a hint of red. "No wonder it's so itchy."
Chen Chu looked at the red color and suddenly felt an urge to tie the ribbon back on.
"I'll ask the front desk if they have any allergy medicine." Chen Chu said as he walked to the side and picked up the room phone.
"No need, it's just a temporary rash. It will heal in a while if you don't scratch it." Lin Xi knows her body very well. Her skin is like this. It looks very delicate, but it has strong recovery ability. This rash will heal in a while if you ignore it.
"Let's go quickly. The ball at the Ghost Castle will start at 8 o'clock, and we still have four hours to get the invitation." Lin Yan walked towards the door excitedly.
Chen Chu had no choice but to put down the phone and walked over to help Lin Yan block the door so that she could squeeze out first holding up her skirt. When they got into the elevator, Lin Yan's skirt alone took up nearly half of the elevator, and her presence was so strong that when the elevator stopped on the 17th floor, the two guests waiting outside the door did not dare to go in for a while.
"I'm sorry, am I taking up too much space?" Lin Yan quickly shrank back, trying to reduce the space she occupied.
"No, no, no, beautiful lady, I am stunned by your beauty." A well-dressed blond gentleman said to Lin Xi with a smile.
"Yes, such a beautiful skirt should not be treated roughly. You go down first and we will wait for the next bus." The woman next to the gentleman also agreed with a smile. The two of them linked their arms together and looked like a couple.
Lin Xi had never been praised so directly for her beauty before, and her face turned red for a moment. Just when she didn't know what to do, Chen Chu had already thanked the two of them politely and then pressed the button to close the door.
"My dear, they are such a perfect match. They remind me of our youth," the woman said to her husband.
"Me too, dear," the gentleman replied.
"Dear, do you think they can get an invitation to the castle?"
“It all depends on luck.”
Lin Xi didn't count on luck, but didn't she have Chen Chu? So although Lin Xi didn't arrive near the main street until almost five o'clock, she was not panicked at all, and even took Chen Chu out to have dinner first.
"Boss, two bowls of ramen, no cilantro." After shouting, he felt something was wrong and turned back to ask Chen Chu, "By the way, senior, do you eat cilantro?"
"No." Chen Chu shook his head.
"I don't want to eat either." Lin Xi suddenly became happy.
The boss recognized the two and asked with a smile, "Didn't you say you'd come over at noon?"
"I overslept." Lin Xi said embarrassedly.
The boss smiled kindly, but his hands kept moving. He quickly made two bowls of ramen and brought them over: "I put an extra portion of beef in it for you."
"Thank you, boss." Lin Xi hurriedly thanked him.
"You have to take care of your fellow countrymen." The boss asked with a smile, "By the way, did you get that invitation letter?"
"No, we just came out and planned to try our luck after dinner." Lin Xi said.
"Then you better hurry up. It's already five o'clock. The dance starts at eight o'clock. I guess the invitations will all be distributed by seven o'clock." said the boss.
"Thank you, boss. We'll go after we finish eating."
"Boss, how much is this noodles?" At this time, another customer came. The boss nodded at Lin Xi and hurried over to greet him.
"Here." Chen Chu handed the disposable chopsticks to Lin Xi.
"Thank you." Lin Yan took it and the first thing she did after picking up her chopsticks was to put the beef slices in the bowl into Chen Chu's bowl one by one. "There are actually eight slices. The boss is really nice."
Lin Yan smiled and looked up, but Chen Chu picked up the chopsticks in a panic, hummed a little slowly, and took another mouthful of noodles. When he tasted the fragrance of the soup, he frowned and said, "This is bone soup, can you drink it?"
Lin Yan, who was about to eat the noodles, was stunned for a moment. Looking at the delicious ramen with fresh soup, she couldn't bear to eat it: "I'll try it."
Lin Yan dipped a little soup with chopsticks, smacked it in her mouth, waited for a while, and didn't feel nauseous. She was so happy that she almost jumped up: "It's edible."
“Beep!”
"Hmm?" Lin Xi seemed to have heard a prompt from the system and paused in eating noodles.
"What's wrong?" Chen Chu looked at Lin Xi.
"It's okay." Lin Yan lowered her head and continued to eat noodles, while asking the system in her mind, "System, did you speak just now?"
"No." The system replied.
"Oh, I must have heard it wrong." Lin Xi said nothing more and concentrated on eating noodles.
They were both very satisfied to have a bowl of authentic Lanzhou ramen in a foreign country. After paying the bill and saying goodbye to the boss, they walked towards the main street, planning to rely on Chen Chu's luck and wait for the vampire to come to their door with an invitation.
As a result, Lin Yan came with full confidence, but after shopping for more than half an hour, she didn't get a single invitation.
How come there is nothing? Lin Yan stared at Chen Chu.
Chen Chu was confused by her gaze: "What's wrong?"
"It's almost half past six, why is there still no invitation?" Lin Wei asked.
Chen Chu was speechless. He was not the organizer, so how could he know why? "Maybe we came too late and all the invitations have been sent out."
"No, it must be my problem." Lin Xi said with certainty, having a clear understanding of herself.
Chen Chu raised his eyebrows.
"It must be because my luck is so bad that it makes you unlucky as well. So, let's go our separate ways from now on." Lin Xi made arrangements.
"How to separate?" Chen Chu asked.
Lin Yan walked straight to a bench by the road and sat down: "You go shopping by yourself, I'll wait for you here."
Chen Chu thought it was unnecessary, but he couldn't resist Lin Yan's insistence, and he didn't want to spoil the fun, so he said, "I'll just take a walk, and forget it if it doesn't work."
"Okay." Lin Xi agreed.
"Yeah, yeah." Lin Yan nodded hurriedly, "I'll wait here and promise not to go anywhere."
Chen Chu had no choice but to turn around and walk to the other end of the main street, intending to make a quick circle and come back.
Lin Xi waited until Chen Chu disappeared before she averted her gaze. She waited for a while, feeling a little bored, and subconsciously wanted to take out her cell phone to check it for a while. She touched her decorative handbag and suddenly remembered that her cell phone had "died in the line of duty". The remains were still in a river on the border of the motherland, together with Chen Chu's cell phone, and she didn't know where they were washed away.
Without a cell phone, Lin Yan dared not move around. She sat quietly on a chair, her wide skirt almost covering the entire bench, and looked at the people passing by bored. Almost 90% of the people on the main street were dressed in medieval style, and being in it made Lin Yan feel like she was in a medieval movie. The streets of the town were beautifully decorated, with brightly colored flowers, colorful lights, and carefully decorated windows, making the whole town look like a fairy tale world in a crystal ball.
It’s so beautiful, it’s a pity that I don’t have a mobile phone. If I took a picture and showed it to Ranran, she would be so envious.
Lin Yan only thought that everything in front of her was scenery, but she didn't know that she was also scenery in the eyes of others. She was an oriental girl with black hair and black eyes. Her long braids hung down in front of her chest. Her bright eyes shone like stars. Her tender face was surrounded by a complicated black dress with a smile. She was perfect like a Barbie doll carefully made in a window. And she was an oriental doll full of mystery.
"Bloom Duncan, 28 years old, he's going to have his ribs broken tonight."
Lin Xi looked at the silently unfolded signature and raised her eyes in surprise. Just as she was wondering who this unlucky guy named Bloom Duncan was, a handsome blond man in a pure black long suit and a slicked-back hair walked towards her.
"Beautiful lady, please allow me to introduce myself to you. I am Bloom Duncan, the vampire viscount in the castle. I wonder if I have the honor to invite you, beautiful lady, to be my dance partner and attend the dance tonight." Bloom Duncan leaned forward slightly, extended his hand towards Lin Yan in an extremely gentlemanly manner, making an invitation gesture.
vampire
Lin Yan's eyes widened little by little: "You want to invite me?"
"Yes, beautiful lady, your beauty struck me at first sight." Bloom Duncan praised without reservation.
"Yes, yes." Lin Xi never thought that a vampire would come to invite her. Was her bad luck not playing tricks on her today
And the gorgeous lines that sounded like those in a movie. Although she knew that the other party said that because of his character setting, which woman could stand being praised by a handsome guy with such straightforward and explicit words? Lin Yan almost used all her strength to control the scream that was about to come out.
"Beautiful lady, please come with me to the castle." Bloom Duncan once again made an invitation gesture to Lin Xi.
Um
Lin Yan blinked: "Go with you? Didn't I get an invitation?"
Bloom Duncan patiently explained, "There are two types of invitations. One is to send out an invitation letter. The guest who receives the invitation letter can bring a partner to attend the dance tonight. The other is to be invited directly by the vampire and become the vampire's dance partner."
"Um... I'm sorry, I have a dance partner. Can you give me an invitation?" Lin Yan was not good at rejecting people, especially when the other party invited her so earnestly, she felt even more guilty.
"It turns out that you already have a dance partner, ma'am. What a pity." Bloom Duncan's blue eyes were full of regret, but he gracefully took out an exquisite card from his suit jacket and handed it to Lin Yan, "This is an invitation. I look forward to your visit at 8 o'clock tonight."
"Thank you." Lin Yan quickly stood up and took the invitation.
Bloom Duncan smiled, and suddenly a bunch of beautiful roses appeared in his hand. "These are the roses I picked in the garden this morning. They are the most beautiful ones in the field. Although it is a pity that you cannot be my dance partner, I still want to give the most beautiful roses to the most beautiful lady in my heart."
Lin Xi stared in amazement at the rose that suddenly appeared.
"Don't be surprised, beautiful lady. Vampires always have some super powers." After saying that, Bloom Duncan took off his hat, saluted towards Lin Xi in a gentlemanly manner, and then turned and left.
Lin Yan waited until the other party walked away before she came to her senses: "I forgot to tell him the result of the divination."
Forget it. For a divination like this that doesn't clearly tell you who broke your ribs, it would be hard to avoid it even if you knew it in advance, so it's better not to tell the other party.
Lin Yan looked at the invitation letter in her hand, and then at the flowers she received. Her smile was brighter than the flowers: "Beautiful flowers are given to beautiful ladies. Foreigners are really good at talking, hehehe."
"Where did the flowers come from?" At this time Chen Chu walked back and saw Lin Xi holding a bouquet of flowers and smiling foolishly, and asked puzzledly.
"You're back? Did you get the invitation letter?" Lin Xi asked subconsciously when she saw Chen Chu coming back.
Chen Chu smiled, and imitated the action of a man inviting a lady to a dance party at the other end of the main street. He bent down slightly and extended a hand to Lin Yan, and said in a gentle tone: "Beautiful lady, may I have the honor to invite you to be my dance partner to attend the dance tonight."
“Got it?!” As expected of senior Chen Chu, he has great luck.
Chen Chu smiled and nodded.
"I got it too, look." Lin Yan hurriedly showed the invitation letter hidden in her sleeve to Chen Chu, looking very proud.
Chen Chu looked at the invitation letter, then at the rose in the girl's arms, and vaguely understood something. He kept his posture unchanged and asked again: "Lady, who already has the invitation letter, are you still willing to attend the ball with me?"
"Yeah, yeah." Lin Xi smiled and nodded. People are indeed animals influenced by their environment. Even Senior Chen Chu has been affected.
"But this way, we have one more invitation." Chen Chu stood up and his eyes swept across the roses in Lin Xi's arms.
"It seems to be the case." Lin Xi said.
"One invitation letter is enough for two people to go, so we might as well give it away since we have an extra one," Chen Chu suggested.
"Okay, but who should we give it to?" There are so many people waiting for the invitation on the street tonight, it would be a shame if it was wasted.
"When I came here just now, I saw a couple over there arguing because they didn't get an invitation. Why don't we give it to them?" Chen Chu thought for a moment and added, "You can pretend to be a vampire and give them the flowers and the invitation together."
Lin Yan's eyes lit up, and she thought Chen Chu's idea was really great. And the vampire's lines just now were very interesting, and she also wanted to learn to do it again.
"where are they?"
"I'll take you there." Chen Chu led Lin Yan to the other end of the main street. Not long after they walked, they met the quarreling couple he mentioned. Both of them were wearing beautiful court costumes, and the man with brown hair and bright eyes was gently coaxing the girl in the white dress.
"It's all my fault for coming out late. How about we try our luck near the castle?"
Lin Xi walked over, recalling what Bloom Duncan had said to her just now, and said in her not-so-authentic but fairly fluent English: "Beautiful lady, your face is more beautiful than the rose in my hand. Why are you crying?"
The girl looked up in surprise.
"I am willing to give you the rose in my hand, and I only hope that you can smile again." Lin Xi said as she gave the rose in her hand to the girl.
The white girl took the rose blankly, then felt something smooth in her hand. She looked down and found that it was an invitation to the castle.
"Oh my God!" The girl opened her mouth wide.
"I am the vampire Count Lin Yan, and you are welcome to attend the dance tonight." Lin Yan was very happy in his performance and gave himself the identity of a count.
"Thank you, thank you! Honey, we have received an invitation from the vampire. Oh my God, he's a count." The girl couldn't believe her good luck. She hugged her boyfriend excitedly and screamed.
Having had enough of the drama, Lin Xi happily slipped back to Chen Chu.
"Here." Chen Chu suddenly handed Lin Yan a bouquet of flowers tied with a silk ribbon. The style was somewhat similar to the one she tied around her neck in the hotel suite, but it was more beautiful and exquisite.
Lin Yan looked at Chen Chu in surprise.
Chen Chu said uncomfortably, "I saw girls wearing this on their wrists when they went to the ball at the castle, so I bought it. Do you want it? If you tie it on your hand, you shouldn't have allergies."
Lin Xi remembered that in the last scene of the movie, the female vampires attending the ball did have such bouquets tied around their wrists.
"Yes." Lin Yan stretched out her right hand.
Chen Chu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his head to wrap the silk ribbon around Lin Xi's wrist.
"Let's go to the dance."
After tying the bouquet, Chen Chu bent his arm and Lin Yan took it, and the two walked along the street towards the castle.
(End of this chapter)