The Vampire Heiress’s Contract Husband

As a child, Seraphina was abducted by enemies of the Ashford family and sold to the underground criminal syndicates in Blackharbor City. On the brink of death, she was rescued by Rosalind from the reclusive vampire household, the Millers. To save her life, Seraphina was turned into a vampire. Rosalind used a blood‑mark pendant to suppress her vampire traits and taught her herbalism, combat skills, and how to conceal her true identity. Years passed and Rosalind passed away. On the day of her funeral, her foster mother Martha seized the pendant. Together with Harold and Lydia, she drove Seraphina out of the Miller manor. Deprived of the pendant, Seraphina’s blood‑lust instincts began to spiral out of control. Meanwhile, the Miller household was shut down by the Vampire Elders’ Council for violating the vampire code of seclusion. Seraphina returned to the Ashford Manor. Richard and Eleanor, filled with guilt, welcomed their long‑lost daughter home. Her five elder brothers — Grayson, Cedric, Julian, Felix and Philip — came back one after another. Isabella, the foster cousin raised by the family, greeted her with a false show of warmth. Secretly, she lived in constant fear that Seraphina would uncover the truth of what had happened fifteen years ago. While slowly adjusting to this long‑overdue family affection, Seraphina had Jules track down old criminal syndicate transaction records from that fateful year. At the home‑coming banquet, Isabella sabotaged the piano, hoping to humiliate Seraphina in public. Drawing on her superhuman hearing, Seraphina still managed to give a complete performance. She then had Jules present hard evidence proving that Isabella had bribed competition judges, getting Isabella blacklisted from the piano industry. The Ashford and Wentworth families had signed an old business marriage contract. Darian, the powerful head of the Wentworth Group, had originally planned to call off the engagement because of their age gap. However, he saved Seraphina at the Blacktide Club while she was investigating old crimes. After her true identity came to light, he tore up the termination document. He invited her out for dinner first, before they attended a public cocktail party. The two got to know each other through constant testing and probing. Seraphina refused to be protected at the cost of losing her own agency, and for the first time, Darian learned to respect her right to make her own choices. Later, her mother Eleanor was suddenly poisoned. Using her sharp sense of smell and knowledge of symptoms, Seraphina spotted the flawed injection prepared by Martin. Risking exposing her supernatural nature, she saved Eleanor’s life. Following clues from Martin’s suspicious medication and contradictory statements, she forced out the truth about how the back gate had been opened fifteen years before. Later, in her identity as the owner of a herbal‑medicine laboratory, she stood up to her exploitative foster family. She also rescued Darian’s grandmother. With her family’s acceptance and mutual protection, Seraphina gradually found a true sense of belonging. During social‑business conflicts, Seraphina turned Isabella’s greedy schemes against her and publicly exposed her plots. Darian openly declared that he only pursued the genuine engagement partner — Seraphina. Desperate and cornered, Isabella cut her own arm, intending to trigger Seraphina’s blood‑lust and make her lose self‑control. Seraphina held onto her sanity. After clearing the venue, she voluntarily revealed her vampire identity to her family and to Darian. Everyone chose to accept her. But when the three‑day time limit expired, the Vampire Elders’ Council arrived and ordered her to go back to stand trial.