"The pureblooded vampires are different from converts . A long time ago, the purebloods came to this world from another world . They settled down here . They drank from humans . For some time, they also ruled the human world in disguise . Some humans treated them like G.o.ds . Others treated them like devils . There were some purebloods who tried to save humans and created the first converts . "

Jin stops in front of the large window opening to a breathtaking view . The moon is bright tonight, clear through the fog . The stars are twinkling, claiming the night sky quietly . She follows his line of gaze . How many people are looking at the moon in this moment? 

"Humans hate us for creating monsters who create more . They went to the witches who were afraid of the purebloods since the beginning . They created hunters who would hunt down both converts and purebloods . There were wars . We were hunted like dogs . The purebloods decided to take responsibility for their creations . They made laws . If the laws were broken, the vampires would be killed by purebloods . For years, there was peace . When the council was formed for the first time, the purebloods went to them to make an alliance . However, humans never trusted purebloods . "

Huang Qiuyan senses rage mixed with sorrow rising in his body . Jin looks in the distant . It's been two hundred years, but it feels like it was yesterday .  

His voice becomes faint . "Two hundred years ago, the council organized a grand gathering to celebrate the years of peace in the hidden world inside the human world . Thirty-six purebloods went to that gathering and only nine of them returned . "

The supernatural world and the members of the council watched as the hunters used that opportunity to kill as many as purebloods they could . They called it purge -- purging the vile creatures out of this world . The council was always afraid of the powers that the purebloods wielded .  

"The purebloods paid a price for trusting humans . " Jin croaks .  The nine of them lost their families and friends . There's no one left except them . His sisters, father, and mother turned to ashes before his eyes . "That's why the king hates humans . They don't trust us . We don't trust them . All of us are trying to survive . In this castle, no human or convert is allowed to enter . The converts often have lingering attachments to the humans . That's why they are prohibited to enter the castle . "

In this moment in time, does it matter who started the war? Both sides have lost . The current world cannot be home to either of them .  

"Fu Mian is an exception . You are another exception," He adds solemnly . "We were surprised when the king brought her here . If she stayed with her family, converts would have attached them and killed the girl along with her family . The hunters would have raised her like a weapon . The king didn't have the heart to kill her . He brought her here and raised her like his daughter . For her, he would destroy the whole world without a second thought . "

Jin becomes quiet, trying to compose himself . He rubs away the tears from the corners of his eye . His family will never come back to life, but he will never stop missing them .  

"The true bond . . . " Jin takes a deep breath before he continues . "It's not limited to only vampires actually . The other supernatural creatures also experience it . Sometimes, even humans experience it, though they rarely can explain what they are feeling . "

"Really?" Huang Qiuyan is surprised . "Humans too?"

"It's in the records taken by my ancestors . My ancestors devoted their lives to studying the true bond and other a.s.sociated magic . " He states, "It was around two thousand years ago . They couldn't find out how or why these true bonds appear between two souls . But it's nothing less than a blessing to two souls to experience something beyond love . "

Something beyond love? She frowns deeply . All she and Fu Sheng has done is . . . She turns away from him . It's all about s.e.x, isn't? Of course, she won't say it out loud to him .

"Before she came to my life, I lived in a delusion that I had everything . I thought that I was happy . I never knew that there was an emptiness in my soul . I never recognized that emptiness as a weakness . I thought that it was common as the hair growing on my head . I laughed and cried . I ate and slept . I played and worked . I never felt that my life was missing anything . Then, she appeared .  I realized that I was choking my soul a little each time I laughed at things that gave me an illusion of happiness . I realized that I cried every night, but there were no tears . I realized that I was never happy . She gave me a smile that taught me how to breathe . "

Jin speaks with a dreamy voice . "During my darkest night, she becomes the moon that illuminates the night sky . During my hardest days, she becomes the clouds that protect me from the harshest rays of the sun . She becomes the sun that dispels the darkness from my life . She shares my pain, my happiness, my burdens, and my breaths . When she holds me, I know that she will be there for me even if the whole world went against me . When she makes love to me, I hear her soul singing to me .  Even if I am offered heaven, I will throw it away and go back to her because there's no one who can sing to my soul the way she does and I know that she will do the same for me . "

Huang Qiuyan is watching him with a half-opened mouth .

"Lady Huang . " Jin's lips curve into a smile when he sees her baffled expression . "These are not the words of a vampire . These are words of a human male who experienced the true bond . "