Chapter 755: Chapter 755: Moving Away

Xu Ke forced himself to suppress his body’s instinct and refrained from snapping the hand reaching out to him. But Xu Ke’s gaze uncontrollably followed Claude’s hand, which eventually stopped at the corner of his eye.

"There’s a bit of blood here." Claude noticed Xu Ke’s tension and explained as he wiped the blood drop from Xu Ke’s face.

"Thank you." Xu Ke couldn’t help but touch the spot on his face that had just been touched when Claude’s hand moved away, suppressing the discomfort and awkwardness in his heart as he spoke.

"You’re welcome. You’ve also had a long day today and should go back to rest. I’ll handle this matter myself." Claude put one hand behind his back, his expression returning to its previous aloofness, but the hand behind his back rubbed his fingers, as if feeling something.

Claude watched Xu Ke leave until Xu Ke’s silhouette completely vanished in the sunset’s afterglow before retracting his gaze.

"Master, shall we go back?" the butler in the manor whispered to Claude.

"No, let’s go to the secret chamber and have a look." Claude refused the butler’s suggestion.

hasn’t been cleaned yet, it might dirty your shoes and sully your eyes." The butler

inside." Xu Ke turned his head and calmly looked at the butler, saying: "You don’t need to follow me in; just

outside and walked into the dim and damp chamber alone, gazing at Xu Ke’s various masterpieces with a look of obsession. He even took deep breaths of the air laden with the scent of blood, shedding his

so sweet." Claude gazed at

He approached the piece of human skin Xu Ke had skinned, extending his hand to trembleingly caress it, his fingertips gliding inch by inch

work in the world; I wish I could add this to my collection." Claude muttered to himself while looking at the piece of human skin, his fingers curling, several times wanting to take the skin but ultimately giving up, as

a look of regret, rendering the situation particularly eerie. The person fortunate enough to survive Xu Ke’s hands clutched their own body

their life ended before Claude left the chamber. Claude would never allow anyone

chamber, the butler had prepared tea and

discreet, don’t let it

will have someone handle it

handle it personally this time." Thinking of the scene in the chamber, Claude’s fingers holding the teacup unconsciously tightened for a moment,

Claude’s specific instructions but followed orders

unmatched. Thus, after pondering Claude’s action a bit, he felt it was a sign of trust, and a wrinkled smile appeared

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