User blog comment:ThatRomeo/Bloodbound Ending Theory/@comment-36277500-20200321144402

I believe you misunderstood something.

Adrian's riddle couldn't refer to Rheya, because he never knew her. He clearly referred to Gaius.

There lived a man in a distant village. Indeed, Adrian lived in a small settlement in the woods.

A wife, three kids, a village of friends. Adrian actually had a wife and a child. His neighbours were also his friends, and helped him to built his house.

'While plowing his field, he found a buried lamp. And when he rubbed it, a genie appeared.' Adrian: And then... he found me. Kamilah: Gaius.

'For the first wish, he asked for great wealth. A pile of gold appeared all around him. But the rest of the village suffered instantly. Their crops withered, wells dried, larders went empty.' If vampire doesn't want to suffer, they have to feed on humans, what make humans suffer.

'Next, the man wished for immortality. The genie granted it... But when he ran into his house, his wife and children were all dead.' Gaius granted Adrian immortality, but it didn't bring back Adrian's wife and child back from the dead.

Adrian asks MC what he should do in this circumstances: In result: ALL of the answers are correct.
 * 1) To undo his last two wishes: Adrian tried to create a serum that turned him back human...
 * 2) Infinite Power: ...but the serum made him more pure instead.
 * 3) To murder the genie: Adrian, Vega, Priya, Baron, Lester and Kamilah defeated Gaius. If not Adrian, they would also kill him.

'''The genie's obviously evil, right? He's just sitting there, tempting good men, and using their wishes to do terrible things.'''

Yes, the "Genie" is also described as "charming" and "seductive"...

"The most terrifying thing about Gaius wasn't his capacity for evil... but rather, his ability to make it so tempting. So dark and delicious that you wanted... no, needed''... to take part in it." - Kamilah to Your Character about Gaius in Book 2, Chapter 5''.

Sometimes the most simple option is the best option. Why complicate things and seek for metaphors, when sometimes the meaning (wife, children) is literal? I'm 100% positive that the whole riddle refers to Book 1, and all those fragments are the answer.