Moonlit Forbidden Realm: Brand of the Progenitor

The sanctuary lay in deathly silence deep into the night. Seventeen-year-old Saintess Shen Xingmian was jolted awake from her slumber by a bone-chilling cold. The moment she opened her eyes, she met a pair of faintly crimson pupils gleaming in the darkness—Wenren Jin, the Progenitor of all vampires. He studied her like a rare and priceless treasure, a dangerous smile playing at the corners of his lips. Shen Xingmian did not scream, nor did she pray. She simply, with unnerving calm, made an offer that caught Wenren Jin off guard: take her away. She was weary of the sanctuary's gilded cage, and Wenren Jin happened to have developed a keen interest in her blood. A bargain struck with freedom as the stake was quietly sealed beneath the moonlight.