December 14, 2022
I actually had already blown the bull on Weibo about two months ago, and I said that from 2023, I would create a serialized novel.
So I decided, and it was called The Vampire Queen's Diaries. Because in 2022 I completed a contract novel called "True Detective Love", which was delivered yesterday.
I found that I had developed a good habit of writing novels for a long time, so I decided to carry forward this good habit of writing every day.
Because didn't I say that there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book, it seems that these things have come true, that is, the dream has come true.
So I started my writing career in front of Christmas Eve 2022, which I loved, and wrote this diary novel, trying to stick to it every day, but occasionally it might fall for a day or two, and I would make it up the next day.
So let's embark on a journey of "The Vampire Queen's Diaries" together. Find the paradise of your dreams, realize the dreams in your heart, and even conquer the world, change the world, improve the world, and purify the world.
So I think it's very meaningful to write a novel.
So let's start the first part of the diary:
December 14, 2022
I'm a vampire queen and today I'm going to start a diary.
One might think that the Vampire Queen's diary must be particularly terrifying, but that's not the whole story.
This diary is just like my person, it's very colorful, it's everything, you can find everything you want. Because I've sucked a lot of "blood". This is from the ancient legend of the Chinese people, words can suck blood, but the funny thing is that modern people only know that mosquitoes can suck blood, which is really interesting.
This event is not only the origin of the Gothic style, but also contains the legend of the blood queen who has been thrilling for thousands of years.
In fact, the legendary 10,000-year-old blood queen is me: the vampire queen. It's a secret that no one knows my name, no one knows my true heart and true psyche. Maybe you won't have to read the whole novel to understand what I really mean.
So let's get started, because no one knows my name, so to comfort everyone, I told them that my name is Lucy, and everyone believed me, and called me that.
In fact, I have unparalleled beauty, and the most beautiful soul, and I am a fashionista, but I have a special function, that is: I can suck blood.
I am a judge of life and death, and a judge, that is, I can manage and judge people's life and death.
Regarding whether I can make blood, since I am in charge of life and death, in fact, I can.
I'm in Beijing tonight, and the winter in Beijing is really cold, even if you turn on the heating and don't turn on the air conditioning, it's still so cold.
Now that night has fallen, the warm winter sun has slept peacefully, and it will not get up until tomorrow morning, so I will wake it up and say good morning to it.
Want to know my story? Want to know my secrets?
So let's get started, and let me open my heavenly magical world for you!
I remember once having a friend of mine who was a woman in the past, maybe she was a vampire who had been in love for 400 years, and she once told me that some online writers wrote 10,000 words a day.
I was only writing an average of about 2,000 words a day, but when I thought about it, she was just a vampire who had been in love for 400 years, and I was a vampire queen for tens of thousands of years.
So I don't think I'll have a problem writing 10,000 words a day about "The Vampire Queen's Diary."
Now that the plan was set, I decided to put it into action as soon as possible.
What should I talk about today? First of all, I stick to "Fetish Notes" every day in my diary. Then a while ago I heard a song called "Storytelling Girl", and I think that now there are books in libraries, bookstores, and on the Internet, and there are so many books in all kinds of places, and I just say that the essence of the books is enough to talk about it for a long time.
As the saying goes, there is a golden house in the book, and there is a beautiful jade in the book. If we all talk about pure positive energy and spiritual wealth, we can't say that we are the richest man in the world as soon as possible? What's more, if this thing is really realized, it will also benefit mankind and the world.
Because I estimate that the world can form an endless Marxist and common prosperity wealth explosion cycle as soon as possible. Because through writing, I can make my dreams come true, make my wishes come true, and my dreams come true. Because this matter can also benefit the world, benefit mankind, and promote the development of the world economy.
Let the world economy be fully fired, and go all out!
So I've probably talked about some simple plans, but let's start with my Vampire Queen diary today.
Today's "Fetish Notes" I want to tell you about a red high heel perfume.
Before I can say that, I have to repeat three key questions three times out loud:
There is no jealousy in this world, there is no jealousy in this world, there is no jealousy in this world.
In fact, I can also translate this sentence, which I simply repeated three times out loud and simply translated:
There is no garbage in this world, there is no garbage in this world, there is no garbage in this world.
If you translate these three sentences that are repeated aloud and simply in the form of executing commands, it will look like this:
I, the Vampire Queen, Lucy, hereby give a solemn order:
Remove garbage, clean garbage, empty garbage.
Actually, I said a total of 9 sentences.
I guess if I had repeated each sentence three more times, it would have been nine times, and I would have said too much. This is not an international joke? Otherwise, people will accuse me of saying: Is this vampire queen chanting scriptures like Tang Seng?
Isn't this style of chanting scriptures the style of Tang monks chanting scriptures in "Journey to the West"? People are fucking born of people, demons are fucking born of demons, if this person has demon nature, he can't be called a person, that's a shemale.
But this Tang monk did not impress us enough. It seems that in order for our memory laws to be truly opened, the most impressive must be done, loudly, simply, repeatedly, and adhere to these three principles.
So what is the most memorable story for all of us? That's still a story about chanting scriptures, because chanting is repetition, nagging, rambling, and endlessly talking, and now have you guessed what this story is?
The time has come for the answer to be revealed. The name of this story is "The Old Monk and the Little Monk". The story goes that once upon a time there was a temple in a mountain, and there was an old monk in the temple who told stories to the little monk. This is what the old monk said when he told the story to the little monk, once upon a time there was a temple in a mountain, and there was an old monk in the temple who told a story to the little monk, and the story that the old monk told to the little monk was like this, and there was a mountain in the past......
That's why this story is so impressive to all mankind because it repeats itself over and over again, so we have to recognize that this simple rule of memory is loud, simple, and repetitive.
Then we have already said the important things three or three times nine times. Even if we want to carry forward and inherit the quintessence of the country, we will say ninety-nine eighty-one times.
The reason why people often say that ninety-nine is one, on the one hand, is because jiu represents the meaning of eternity in China, and it is also the same as the number nine. On the other hand, the answer number in the multiplication formula table of 9981 is ending with 1.
Therefore, a sect in China's quintessential culture seems to be a sideshow, and it often says that ninety-nine are one.
This is especially evident in Hong Kong and Taiwan literature. For example, Jin Yong's martial arts novels often say that heroes practice all kinds of martial arts cheats, but in the end they succeed in cultivation, and those who do not go astray will find this truth, that is, 99 is one. Even many of the famous scientists in the "100 Famous People of the World" ended up believing in God. This incident also illustrates the 99 to one, for example, Newton, who invented the law of attraction, believed that the force of force is equal to the reaction force, Newton is a famous physical mechanics scientist, and is also an important part of the "100 World Celebrities", Newton in the end he no longer believes in science, he finally chose to stand on the shoulders of giants to believe in theology, which fulfills the 99 to one in Hong Kong and Taiwan Jin Yong culture.
Therefore, we can only keep this event in our memories if we repeat the truth 9981 times.
This is the principle of the growth of all things and the cultivation of the soul in spirituality. That's why we have to cultivate, and we have to practice. It takes a lot of time to do it.
Okay, now that we've said the topic of repeating it out loud, let's go back to the red heel perfume.
This red heels fragrance is one of my favorite fragrances. His perfume bottle is made up of a red glass heel body, and his perfume lid is made up of a plastic heel and a gold heel that rises high.
This red glass is just like the exquisite red crystal glass we saw when we went to the temple fair when we were children in Beijing. At that time, I remember people would make all sorts of animal crystals out of fine crystal red glass, just like Swarovski gemstones are today. But it is a kind of quintessence of traditional Chinese culture and art, and I have the impression that there are rabbits made of red glass, baby elephants, and all kinds of animals. Then the craftsmen would put the red glass animal shape on the temple fair and sell it. Because it is so beautiful and catches my eye, I always buy these gifts when I go to the temple fair.
And these works of art are not expensive at all. Because it is made of red glass, the price is far cheaper than Swarovski crystal.
The same is true for this red high heel and perfume. Its perfume bottle is a red glass heeled body, and the cost is not very high.
But the plastic gold part of the heel of this shape is a particularly tall kind of heel.
Its plastic is made with a gold-plated spray paint pattern, and the perfume smell inside is also very touching and sexy. Give people a kind of Fi
The feeling of st lovely lady.
It is a feminine fragrance that is very much in line with the style of Sex and the City.
I remember that I bought this perfume on Taobao's online store. And its price is also very close to the people, it seems to be only 30 yuan, so this cost performance is full of great temptation for me. I think this perfume must be a money-making product.
You must be wondering how glass is made, glass is a high-temperature heated, can be turned into glass water shape, containing quartz.
Quartz is supposed to be a stalactite, so many craftsmen know how to blow glass, and can make glass into a variety of artistic shapes. So I looked up the internet to see how glass was made.
In fact, the ingredients here are the same as crystals, which also contain quartz. The traditional tube glass in our country is called colored glass, because glass actually contains a lot of sulfur oxide components. Nowadays, some chemical plants can have a very mature process technology to manufacture glass.
Therefore, when we melt the glass at high temperature into glass water, we can add pigments to dye, such as red pigments, which are dry powders made of some tomato sauce or red flowers, and then make red pigments, and these red pigments are dyed and added to the glass water, and they are evenly mixed to produce red glass.
Of course, the manufacturing of each item in my "Fetish Notes" is a kind of conjecture, but these conjectures are probably similar to the actual industrial manufacturing.
And then when it comes to manufacturing, we're going to blow this red glass out of the shape of this heeled shoe, and put a bottle in the middle, and then install a plastic gold-plated perfume hat, and a plastic perfume spraying straw device.
The composition of plastic is mainly extracted from rubber, and a variety of shapes are manufactured with industrial production techniques, and finally dyed and painted, for example, gold dyes are mostly colloidal liquid dyes synthesized from some metal dry powders, which is alloy plating technology.
In this way, the various parts of this perfume bottle are basically manufactured, and they can be assembled together.
After talking about the appearance of this red heels perfume bottle, let's talk about it, how is perfume made?
I think there are many plants in nature, especially the flowers of plants are very fragrant, all kinds of flowers, there are all kinds of different fragrances, so each perfume has a different floral plant formula. Then add some chemical ingredients, such as some chemical components that can make it not easy to volatile, which can ensure that the smell it sprays on the body is maintained, and then there may be some liquid ingredients, for example, the most basic composition is water, and some other chemicals, so each perfume will have a different flavor with different formulas, and there are different medicinal experience effects, and some can even arouse desire, that is, some special plants, or chemicals made of them, Of course, perfume is mainly used to make people feel pleasant through smell.
I'm the vampire queen Lucy, but I have a lot of work today, and I'm sleepy tonight, so my mind isn't the most open. So there may be some limitations to the conjectures about the manufacturing of these products that I think today, and I think tomorrow will be another day that will be a better day, tomo
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day, so I will definitely open my mind better, and in "Fetish Notes", I will make conjectures about product ideas.
Why do I love this fragrance? On the one hand, it's because the smell is something I really like, and it has a bit of a Sex and the City feel, and on the other hand, because of the shape, the heel of this heel is the highest, and because red glass has always been a crystal-like product that I've loved since I was a kid.
I think its practical red glass can be used for a lot of other things. For example, red plexiglas can be used to make translucent works of art, even large bead-shaped necklaces, or bracelets, bracelets, or large button earrings are very beautiful.
What do I mean by all that plexiglass? In fact, it is similar to plastic, glass, which is what we called plexiglass when we were young.
These materials may be cheaper than glass, but they are more flexible than glass, not afraid of falling, and very tough. And I found out that this kind of thing is really cheaper than the price of crystals, and crystals are actually quite afraid of falling.
However, plastic glass and plexiglass are both translucent and hazy or frosted, which are the same as glass and crystal, and can be made into various gemstones or works of art, but it has an additional flexible, tough and not afraid of falling, which is a good thing. And the price of this material is really cheap, and the cost performance is really good, so the products made of such materials must be profitable, and they can make small profits and quick turnover.
Since we said that Titanic is full of firepower and turns around with all its might, then we have to achieve this full effect. The province made people laugh at me, the vampire queen Lucy, the ancestor of the sick man of East Asia. Actually, I am an eternal ancestor.
Whether it is the "Peach Blossom Sutra", the "Fox Sutra", the "Diamond Sutra", or the "Tao Te Ching", I can recite the Sutra for you every day, and you can recite it for a long time, forming a perpetual wealth machine effect.
So today in my diary, "Fetish Notes" is completed, and I am very happy.
I remember a few days ago on a whim on Taobao and bought a few books, which are a set of books called "Heroes", "Magic" and "Power". I have said some of this after reading, plus I have a lot of books in my private collection in recent years, all of which are some of the good books that I have carefully selected, so I think I can write the feelings of these books in my diary.
I would record the essence of the book, that is, the reading notes, in my diary. I think it's a very rewarding thing.
There is a saying in China that we can take the essence and discard the dross, correct the past, and correct the mistakes. And it is a very meaningful thing to carry forward those essences above board. After all, positive is positive, negative negative is positive, and negative can turn negative things into positive things, which is also a way to get positive.
The kind of thing that turns a negative thing into a positive thing is what we generally call a healing person in medicine. This doctor treats people, and only when they are cured, that is, the negative thing of the patient's illness is transformed into the positive thing of human health. In addition, in the garbage renovation project, there is a method of turning waste into treasure, which is also a good way to save and not waste. This is to turn some garbage into some treasures and wealth through some production, processing, manufacturing, reuse, recycling and other processes, so this is to turn negative things into positive things, which is the third way to get positive wealth after positive and positive.
So I think today I have basically explained this matter comprehensively, there are three ways to generate wealth: They are the method of abundance, and they are right. The emptiness method is positive and negative. There is also a method called the change of direction and turning around, which is often said in Buddhism to correct mistakes, put down the butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the ground, and turn back to the shore. Because turning back is the shore, it definitely needs to be turned around. This is the third method that is a powerful addition today, and the examples given in life are such as curing diseases and restoring them to health, or reusing garbage and turning waste into treasure.
It's a very pleasant thing that I've done to supplement this piece of wealth and positive energy in a comprehensive and complete way. There is also the method of wealth creation, which is to sow wealth or create wealth.
So speaking of which, I wrote some stories about "Heroes", "Power", and "Magic" in my diary, and the feeling after reading these books has really become very meaningful. And the reason why I went to Taobao to buy these books is because I have read a book called "Secret Practice Edition" before, which was also written by this author, and I think it is a rare and valuable book that can inspire me deeply. So I started taking notes on my books.
I'd like to remind you to remember that this is Lucy, the Queen of the Vampires, taking another reading note for you.
When we actually want to be our true selves, we feel happy when work becomes our happiness. Work should follow your heart and discover what makes you different, so that your talents and skills will be revealed.
Business investment mogul Warren Buffett said something similar.
Sometimes we have to check, that is, look at our own life. It's nice to see if you're happy with where you're doing.
But if you feel unhappy, you should carefully analyze what makes you happy. Is it because you are tired from work, so you can't be happy? Isn't it time for a different job? What about a job that you really love, or a job that you can do well?
After all, there is an ancient Chinese saying that I am born to be useful, and there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village.
Now that we have decided to start changing ourselves, then this change must always take the first step, the most crucial step, which is to follow our own dreams and happiness.
If you are an accountant and you don't feel happy at all, should you change your job? Think about how maybe being a chef, doing some cooking, or doing some handmade art, would you feel happier as an art worker?
I'm not saying that people should give up what they're doing right away, because a lot of people work to make money and pay their bills.
But we can think of it this way: we can work while we can make a new change plan, change plan, or find a part-time job that we love to do when we have time and free time. In this way, you can plan well, and every penny you earn will be used to ensure that you follow your dreams and save a lot of money, so that if you are short of money, you will not be crushed by the inability to pay the bills and be in debt, or completely crush your dreams.
And in any case, saving wealth is the basic principle of Capital, which is much stronger than a debt-ridden life. The first benefit of this is that it is safer. The second benefit is more stable, and the third benefit is more secure. The fourth benefit is more relaxed, that is, there is less stress, which will bring us physical and mental health, and the fifth benefit is more self-confidence and confidence.
Those who have studied "Capital" will understand that the so-called capital is savings. Coupled with the strong proof of these five advantages, it is proved that savings are much stronger than debts.
Here's a story about a woman who needs to feed her family. So she planned for two years before taking the risk of starting her own business, which means that she planned for two years before starting her own business. Then she now has a global company and is living the life of her dreams. If this woman does not have such a plan and plan, then how can she follow happiness? If she hadn't taken her first steps and was still working in a salon or salon for 15 hours a day, how could she have achieved her dream of becoming a global company, and how could she financially support her entire family? Even now, she feeds the entire global company.
So, if we want to pursue following happiness, there are really a lot of things that we can start doing and a lot of things that can be done right now.
If we have financial surplus, we can take it as an elective or study it on our own. Work-related courses, buy some books and magazines, as reference books and teaching materials. Get to know those who have relevant experience with the job and build up more contacts.
Think about what kind of job you should start with and make some career plans. There is also the management of a highly effective family. We can use the Internet, social media, write some blogs, Weibo reports, and do some related social research. These opportunities are at our fingertips, but they can lead to better opportunities in front of us than ever before. Therefore, we should devote as much energy as possible to our dreams and love the work we are good at, and give full play to our true talents and talents, so that we can live up to our mission and make our work and mission consistent.
There is an old Chinese saying, 30 and stand, 40 do not be confused, 50 know the destiny of heaven, and so on. This seems to be a sentence in the "Analects" in Chinese studies.
What I want to say is that the 50-year-old Zhitian's destiny refers to is the mission, that is, the mission of our life, or the mission of being born as a human being.
According to the laws of nature, which are also the laws of the universe, each person's own mission in life must be what they are best at.
Therefore, we should think carefully about how we can make our work more consistent with our mission, or even completely consistent.
This kind of work will definitely be what we are good at, and what we really love in life.
Speaking of 365 lines, the line is the champion, and everyone's mission is different. In this way, you can discover how important it is to discover what you are good at and pursue your life dreams, which can not only enable us to find the mission of life, but also allow us to complete the mission of our life, and draw a perfect end to each of our lives.
A person who has completed his mission is a successful person, and only those who have lived in this life are worthwhile.
True success in life mission can bring us a very strong sense of self-confidence and glory, and the most successful career we are born to be is a career that is completely consistent with our life mission.
So no one wants to be a slave to anything, so we'd better ask ourselves, can the work we do change from what I do to what I want to do? In this way, it will be easier to achieve success, and get enough funds to complete the things you like, maybe this inadvertent major change will put you in a job that you really love and love, but let yourself rise to the top, and even get success and glory in life.
In fact, this transformation can be carried out while continuing to do the current work.
In education, we pay attention to teaching students according to their aptitude, and there is a very good leader, in addition to rewards and punishments, in addition to appointing talents, in addition to loving talents, there is also the ability to employ people. What does it mean to be able to employ people? It's about really bringing out everyone's true mission and talent and letting them do their part.
I think that if everyone finds their calling and takes a job that aligns with their mission, the society will be efficient and smooth sailing. There will not be too many obstacles, obstacles and contradictions, and everyone's life will be very pleasant, even close to bliss.
So in order to pursue the mission, we can slowly create a relevant business, and then seek to change.
In addition to creation and creation, there is also a mythologist who says that following our own happy universe, or that God will open a door on the wall that surrounds you.
We say something light, so that we can follow our own happiness. For example, do some people like to dance, like ballroom dancing, or even some people like to sing, they like to rap, and some people like to surf, that they like rafting, do they have the urge to learn to act? Learn to paint, garden, fashion design, fashion, interior? Do you have the leisure to learn how to play a musical instrument? This will make us feel very relaxed or happy, and we will learn again if we have the urge to learn.
Learn the eight Chinese languages. Do something you wanted to do as a child, but put it aside for various reasons. Realize the things that your heart desires and desires, and do these things. We should act on it and not forget about it.
In fact, the laws of the universe or God, or the laws of nature. It is calling us to follow happiness. This is a person's instinct, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and to pursue happiness. It is also the life force of a person. What about this impulse? It's a natural occurrence. So this allows us to find the path of our dreams. It's all a natural law, so we'd say go with the flow. The natural laws of the universe have clearly shown that this is the path to your dreams.
It is to do what we really want to do in our hearts, what we really love, find our own mission in life, and then complete and realize it, and we will find the path to our dreams.
Then I think everyone will have this experience, some things will move you very much, and some things can even make you feel very melted, and that feeling of melting is actually a manifestation of being moved.
So what attracts you and what moves you? What do we often have to do about it? We have to follow our inner voice and follow our happiness, Even if my sister didn't agree with him and the ultimate dream at that time, it was this power of following my inner voice and following happiness that led me to find my dream and find my own path.
For example, some people want to conquer the world, others want to be president, and some people want to be a writer.
We should see clearly what is blocking, hindering, hindering the path of our dreams, and remove the obstacles on the path of these dreams, and we will also achieve our dreams.
Of course, our dreams also include what kind of partner we want to find to form a family, for example, the conditions and images of the ideal partner in everyone's mind are not exactly the same, but there is something in common.
When it comes to finding our ideal partner, we can only be truly happy if we fulfill our dreams and visions, which means that our ideal partner is what satisfies us, and this is true for everyone.
Finding the ideal partner is the same as finding the dream path on our mission. If we say that we are unhappy, we also have to look at what is the obstacle, the blockage, the hindrance to our happiness in the matter of finding the ideal partner. So in the same way, we also need to clean up and remove these emotional barriers.
In Buddhism, it is often said that the removal of karma is actually based on this principle. If we don't remove our karma and clean it up, how can we be happy? How can we possibly find our true dream path? What about fulfilling your dreams of happiness? How can we make our dreams come true?
We're going to see what occupies our place in the mission? Or is it something that occupies our emotional position? Those are the obstacles in the way of our dreams, and we have to get rid of them. Without eliminating them, we will not be able to follow the path of our true dreams, nor will we be truly happy, nor will we be happy.
So, to follow the Buddhist teachings is to remove karma.
Those karmas are against the laws of nature, and soon the laws of nature will destroy them completely.
We call karma that is against the laws of nature anti-human.
For example, there is a story about a woman whose dream is to become a writer, and then find her ideal partner and form a happy family, but she has all these conditions, but after a few months, her crush still does not appear, why is this?
It turned out that it was because this woman had karma that took her place.
Later, the woman was lucky enough to eliminate and eliminate all her karma. Soon she became a successful writer and found her ideal partner.
When people asked her to share her experience, she just said that it was the laws of nature that helped her a lot.
Even though the laws of nature have their own function of purifying nature's karma, most of the evil creators who oppose human beings are called karma, that is, those karma hinders the happiness of all of us and the realization of our dreams.
Therefore, the laws of nature, also known as the laws of the universe, will definitely help us clear up these karmic obstacles.
In that way, we can follow the true dream in our hearts, achieve perfection, complete our dream of happiness, find the path of happiness in our hearts, and truly find the path of our dreams.
We can't do it right now and the next day to achieve all the dreams in our hearts in one go. Although the happiness and dreams in my heart are a very grand dream. But there is no contradiction between this matter and our constant listening to the voice of our hearts, and our ability to follow the true happiness in our hearts, find the path of our dreams, see the direction of the road, and know what our happiness is, what our mission is, and what our ideal other half is.
So my vampire queen Lucy has clearly known today that my karma is the usurper and the third party who destroys the feelings of true love, and they are my karma.
However, those usurpers are always united with third parties who destroy true love, so it seems that this anti-human karma package is still a little bigger, and this karma will not be eliminated immediately the next day.
The third parties referred to here are not only the same sex as I am talking about, but also some people of the opposite sex, in short, those anti-humans who hinder my true love and affection, which are collectively called emotional disorders.
The obstacles to my career are also karma, the usurpers.
Therefore, only by eliminating the obstacles in our careers and emotions can we truly find our inner dreams, embark on the road of happiness, and open the door to a happy paradise!
I think it's been the dead of night today, and it's been so late that my vampire queen, Lucy, has finally come up with my answer today, and it's clear that my answer is clear. I think I also basically know what my mission and my ideal partner should look like. Each of us can know this matter, as long as we really ask ourselves from the heart, that is the correct answer that cannot be wrong.
That's why Lucy, the queen of the vampires, wrote such a long journal today, and what a valuable psychological lesson for all mankind. Of course, I am grateful, and this is also the most valuable psychological lesson in my life for myself.
I believe that we will definitely eliminate karma, eliminate emotional obstacles, make dreams come true, and sweet dreams come true.
I think this story will be horrible to no one, and everyone will be happy. Of course, this is just a funny and comforting joke.
Do you know who I am? I'm the real Vampire Queen Lucy, and this is my first Vampire Queen Diaries.
Let's all embark on our journey to find our dreams, and remember to be grateful!