All Chapters of After They Drained My Pure Blood, I Sent Them to Hell: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Julian had shaken me off with brutal force.Weakened by the silver poison, I lost my balance and fell hard onto the cold corridor floor.Crack.The impact drove the silver arrowhead lodged in my back even deeper.I curled up in a pool of my own blood, the pale light from the domed ceiling stinging my eyes."Attendant..."The low-ranking attendants lining the corridor looked on, unmoved, as if I were a dying rat, then turned away."Someone... bring me a bottle of antidote..."No one answered."Get it yourself, my lady!"It was a young attendant who had finally spoken up, her voice thick with mockery and wariness. "Lady Howard gave strict orders. Any low-ranking attendant who gives you a potion behind her back will be thrown out of the sanctum!"Last week, Rhen gave you a bottle while he was doing your blood check, and now he's been sent down to the blood dungeon to scrub bone tools!"Violent tremors racked my body. My lips trembled, and black blood kept trickling from my mouth.That so-

After my father died, my mother raised me alone.My bloodline was so rare and pure that I was extremely sensitive to my surroundings. To care for me, my mother, a master alchemist, had even given up her run for a seat on the Elder Council.Julian had protected me like an older brother since we were children.Whenever I was sick, he stayed by my bed. No one could persuade him to leave.After graduating, he turned down offers from other families and chose the Howard family's Alchemy Sanctum instead, where he became my mother's most trusted subordinate. He told me, "Aria, I want to take care of you for the rest of my life."When did everything begin to change?Probably after my mother adopted Vivian.Vivian was a pale, frail, low-ranking vampire whose parents had abandoned her. Yet she always put on a brave face. "I'm fine. I can get through this."At first, my mother told me, "Vivian has no family to depend on, and her health is poor. As her big sister, you need to look after her."Later

The laughter in the alchemy chamber stopped dead.A deathly chill cut through the warm, cozy air.Victoria had been gently wiping Vivian's cheek. At the sound of the array failing, she frowned, irritation spreading across her face.She turned around, not sparing Aria's lifeless face even a glance. "Aria! What are you doing now?!"Her voice was cold and full of disgust. "You think breaking the stone table on purpose is funny? The alchemy chamber is sacred. It's not a stage for your cheap attention-seeking stunts!"She strode over and glared down at Aria.She shoved Aria's shoulder with none of the care anyone would show a patient. "Get up! Stop playing dead for sympathy! Vivian's still weak. Stop trying to steal the spotlight!"But instead of the angry pushback she expected, her fingers met skin so cold and stiff that Victoria shuddered.Victoria froze. The color drained from her face, and her pupils contracted sharply."Aria... you... don't scare me like this..."She thought Aria was i

My mother had been accusing me moments ago. Now she changed her tune.Her face brightened with eagerness, pride, and a sudden show of motherly warmth.She took a big step forward. "Your Highness! This... this is all a misunderstanding!"She was practically fawning, barely able to contain her excitement. "Aria is my own daughter! She inherited my blood and my talent, and that's how she got this far! Everything she's done, she did under my careful guidance! For something this important, the Howard family, her own family, has to be involved!"She turned to Julian and gave orders as though she had every right. "Julian, what are you waiting for? You're about to marry Aria. From now on, you and the Howard family will manage her research, her sanctum, and her Elder Council affairs!"Julian's face flushed with excitement, his breathing quick. He chimed in eagerly and even pushed forward to bow to Castor. "Yes! Your Highness, Aria may be gifted, but she's frail, and she's impulsive! She has no

No one spoke. Only the hum of the arrays echoed off the stone walls."There's more," Castor said, breaking the silence. "The inspectors need to see what happened during the ambush."A knight entered carrying an image crystal.It showed the moments before the attack.Julian sat up front holding the reins, with Vivian snuggled close beside him. She even kissed his cheek. Far from pulling away, he freed one hand from the reins to hold hers.I sat in the back, leaning against the window with my eyes closed, with no idea what was going on between them up front.Then the hunters' silver bolt came screaming toward the carriage. In that instant, Julian did the exact opposite of what my knight should have done. He shut off the shield over the back seat and threw all its power around Vivian in the front!The carriage was knocked sideways, and I took the full force of the silver bolt in the back seat!The inspectors gasped and swore under their breath. "Disgraceful! He was Aria's fiancé and her k