"Little Iris, do you want to go shopping in the night market belonging to the blood race?" Lilia looked at Iris kindly, "Well ..." Iris was a little hesitant. Did her grandmother say something to Lilia so that Lilia changed a lot?

Ye Li saw the concern of Iris and said: “Hesitate for what? Just go shopping with Xiao Ya.”

"Well~ Does Dear Mother want to come along with me?"

"I will not bother you both."

"Then I will take Iris to go shopping!" Lilia carried her skirt and gave a farewell salute to Ye Li.

Iris followed the same example and gave a farewell salute. Then she followed Lilia to leave her grandmother's place.

Lilia waved her hands, and then a silver portal appeared in front of the two. Lilia took Iris's arm and walked into the portal.

This makes Iris feel a little strange because Lilia is not like this as usual. Lilia should be stern but today she looks kind.

In the blink of an eye, the two arrived at the Blood's night market. Here the lights were bright and bustling. Children were chasing and playing in the night market, and the magistrates were still holding their posts, guarding the safety of the people.

"Dear Mother, why are you so nice to me, should you be ..."

"Pfft!" Lilia laughed, stroked the silver hair of Iris , and said: "I am your mother. I should be good to you! Besides, the contract is over. I don't have to be so mean to you."

"Uh ..."

"What do you want? Just take your pick."

Lilia walked in the night market while holding the small hand of Iris. Rather than being a night market, it was more like a street market. The blood race's schedule is different from that of humans. Even if the blood race doesn’t sleep for long periods, it is possible.

"Your hand is a little cold. This is for you." Lilia took out a white scarf from the storage space, with the word "Iris" and a small bat embroidered on it.

The sudden kindness made Iris a bit awkward. Could it be that she had indeed wronged Lilia before?

Lilia put on the scarf for Iris and said, "It's cold at night! Don't catch a cold."

Iris nodded slightly, and held Lilia's hand so the two continued to stroll through the night market.

The bright moon hid in the soft and light clouds shyly looking at Lilia and Iris. The moonlight was scattering a pure light, and illuminating the two on their way home.

All the way back, Iris had many doubts. Why did her mother not use teleportation magic, but walk the way back? And why did the mother's attitude towards her change a lot? Is it just the end of the contract?

The two did not have any communication on the way, just holding hands and walking in the direction of home.

At about two o'clock in the morning, the two returned home, "Protect yourself! If you don't understand anything in cultivation, just find Mavis."

Then Lilia took out a piece of heraldry from her pocket, "This is the blood bat heraldry. You keep it. If you really have something you can't solve, you can call the nearest blood troops relying on it, and they will set everything right for you."

Iris took it and gently stroked the blood bat heraldry. She did not understand why Lilia gave this to her.

"Dear Mother! Didn't the contract already end and it was me who lost? What did you mean as well as what is the meaning of this blood bat heraldry?"

Iris looked at Lilia in confusion.

"Humph!" Lilia laughed and said, "My mother has said that she wants you to stay by her side. Since she has given this order, can I not obey? In accordance with my mother's character, she will let you continue to complete so-called studies with the humans."

"Thank you, Dear Mother!" Iris bowed respectfully towards Lilia.

"Don't be in a hurry to thank! I also have requirements for you. You must not be greedy for fun, resulting in stagnation of cultivation, otherwise I will take you back despite the wishes of my mother. Then at that time you will honestly stay in the Realm of Scarlet to cultivate, and may not leave without my permission."

"Yes! Dear Mother."

"I will send you here. Say goodbye to my Mother for me. I am going back to the Realm of Scarlet." As soon as the words fell, a portal appeared in front of Iris 's eyes. Lilia looked back at Iris and departed.

Iris returned to the castle with a complicated feeling.

"Crunch!" Iris carefully pushed the door open, afraid to disturb her grandmother's rest.

"Little Iris is back!" Ye Li put down the books in her hands and looked at Iris at the door.

"Eh? Grandma, why are you still not resting at this late hour?" Iris walked to the bed.

"Huh! I am not you. I need to rest like a human. Besides, I will rest when I am tired."

"Eh~ By the way, Dear Mother went back. Mother asked me to say goodbye to you on her behalf!"

"I know. You and Xiao Ya have been running outside for so long. Go take a hot bath and relieve your fatigue."

Iris nodded, then took a step towards the bathroom, while Ye Li picked up her book and continued reading.

The bathtub was already prepared with a rose bath. Iris guesses her grandmother has a rough idea of when she would return. Iris took off her clothes and soaked in the bathtub, thinking about everything that had happened recently.

Iris never thought she would be so comfortable soaking in the rose bath after the contract ended. She thought that after the contract was over, Lilia would punish her badly, or at least shave off a layer of her skin and break a few bones. She did not expect that she just endured a simple whipping ten times, and this whipping was not mixed with magic. So the wound also recovered very quickly.

According to the words that Lilia said to her before she left, it means that Iris will probably become a human again. She won't have to drink blood bags in the future, and she can eat something else.

Soaking in the bathtub, Iris's fatigue with the bath gradually recedes. Does she need to kill Lilia? Or resist? She no longer cares about her, and the previous restrictions are all gone. As long as her cultivation does not stagnate, it is okay. Besides, how could her cultivation stagnate? It was for the sake of learning magic that Iris left Aghasas.

"Huh! Is hatred that easy for you to satisfy? What did she do to you earlier? Have you forgotten? The merciless whipping in the snow; the conspiracy with the castle maid to cheat your sympathy; making discipline seal on your back; chopping off of your left arm with a sharp sword. Do I need to recall these for you?" Chaos's voice was cold, and his tone was full of ridicule.

"But ... I am fine now. All the limbs are there, and there is a grandmother who loves me." Iris replied calmly.

"Loving? Who knows if your so-called grandmother is pretending? Don't forget. They are the blood too. Don't think that the next generation Queen of the Blood is you. You have a sister! She is also a royal bloodline. It's just a matter of you two fighting each other. The winner is the king, and the loser dies! You wouldn't not understand this, would you?"

"Mm-hmm!" Iris replied perfunctorily.

Chaos clearly felt that Iris 's vengeful desire was dissipating. If Iris became well-behaved and obedient, and no longer disobeyed Lilia, she would not need him at all in the future. And Iris would even inform Lilia of his existence. At that time, Lilia would definitely try to get rid of Chaos, and perhaps join forces with the angels to deal with him.

Chaos does not want to wait another million years!