April’s fluff was utterly insignificant, but the fluff of these snow rabbits… It seemed like one would be sent flying if struck by it. They were veritable beastly rabbits.
The snow rabbits stood still, sizing up our party and the butterflies blocking the front, as if guarding us.
These rabbits all had pure white fur(?)… though, actually, I couldn’t tell if it was fur or snowflakes.
And astonishingly, the rabbits’ eyes were pale blue. Because of that, they looked more like fairies than rabbits.
‘The largest one among them… Is that the leader rabbit?’
Just as I thought that, a small rabbit peeked out from over the shoulder of the largest rabbit.
“……?”
A baby rabbit?
It’s incredibly small compared to the others.
“Squeak.”
The baby rabbit spoke to the large rabbit. The big rabbit nodded politely and slowly approached us with the baby rabbit on its shoulder.
‘…Wait a minute.’
Could that be the boss? That baby rabbit?
It’s impossible! It’s so small!
“Squeak— Squeal.”
The big rabbit stopped a short distance from us, and the baby rabbit addressed us with a stern expression.
…Of course, I couldn’t understand it. Nor could Grayan. But…
“Whine!”
April could understand. She’s one of their kind(?).
April, who had somehow ended up on top of Grayan’s head, steered Grayan like a spaceship by grabbing his hair.
When she pushed his hair forward, it was ‘Forward!’ and when she pulled it back, it was ‘Stop!’. …Poor Grayan, reduced to a mere vehicle, humbly obeyed April’s commands with a smile.
Despite being treated like a vehicle, he didn’t get angry. Truly a gentleman…
“Squeak, squeal?”
April approached the baby snow rabbit and asked in what I’ll call ‘Rabbitese.’ How strange, giving a name to rabbit noises…
“Whine, squeak!”
“Squeal, squeak squeal.”
What on Earth are they saying?
That incomprehensible conversation went on for about 5 minutes. During the conversation, the baby rabbit got angry, then calmed down, then got angry again, then quieted down.
I had no idea why the baby rabbit was angry, since I couldn’t understand Rabbitese. I couldn’t even tell what April was saying to the angry baby rabbit…
“Whine.”
“Squeal?”
“Squeak.”
It seemed the conversation was over. The large rabbit carrying the baby rabbit turned its back on us.
I blankly watched the two as they headed toward where the snow rabbit herd was. …So what exactly was that conversation?
‘…I should ask April—.’
Before I could even think it, April, who had jumped down from Grayan’s head, changed her expression completely.
Her snowwhite hair fluttered like feathers. April closed her pink eyes into a crescent moon shape and happily exclaimed,
“The snow rabbits will carry us to the exit!”
“What…? Really??”
I widened my eyes in…
“But the snow rabbits seem to be angry with Tiberi… We’ll have to apologize and compensate them appropriately on our side.”
“Tiberi?”
When I showed confusion, April said, “Ah.” and bent down to pick up the gray puppy. Then, she held out the gray puppy to me as if to show off, and said,
“You might not know, Duchess… This little gray wolf is Tiberi. Mrs. Milton’s nephew.”
What? Mrs. Milton’s nephew?
And a gray wolf?
Not a puppy?!
“So, here, this… It’s a wolf humanoid? Now it’s in the form of a wolf cub?”
“Yes… Tiberi is small when in wolf form.”
No, it’s not just small. I thought it was a puppy!
“Whine…”
Staring blankly at me, the gray puppy… no, the wolf cub let out a cry. Am I scary? It seems to know Gloria’s notoriety well.
‘Its gray fur looks so soft. I want to touch it.’
Suppressing the urge to reach out, I asked politely,
“What did this child do to make the snow rabbits angry?”
“It seems… Tiberi stole and ate the snow rabbits’ perennial snow fruit.”
“Crunch, crunch…”
“He couldn’t help it because he was hungry.”
The fruit that tastes like snow… He must have been really hungry to steal and eat it.
Indeed, this Tiberi had been missing for several days now… If he hadn’t eaten properly during that time, even a hard tree root would have tasted good.
“Tiberi, you must have had a hard time. It’s pitiful.”
Grayan, who had approached me at some point, said, stroking Tiberi’s head. Then Tiberi looked even more pitiful and crunched.
“Crunch…! Crunch!”
“Yes, good boy.”
“Whine…!”
“You’ll be able to leave here soon, so don’t worry.”
‘…What? Can they communicate?’
Can they communicate as fellow wolf humanoids? When I looked at Grayan with a curious expression, he smiled briefly at me and opened his mouth.
“It’s difficult to fully understand the meaning, but I can grasp the general nuance. Because we’re both wolf humanoids.”
“Ah… I see.”
“If I were in the form of a wolf, I would have understood perfectly… Anyway, it’s fortunate that the snow rabbits are giving us a ride. Thanks to that, we’ll be able to find the exit quickly.”
I don’t know if it’s just a feeling, but I got the impression that he was evasive. On second thought, it was strange. Why doesn’t Grayan take the form of a wolf?
‘Even if I ask… Hmm.’
I had a premonition that he wouldn’t answer me now.
“Kyawoong!”
April, who had turned back into a rabbit, bravely shouted as she climbed onto the back of a large snow rabbit.
Then the boss rabbit (a baby snow rabbit, in fact…) shouted something else, and as if that was a signal, the snow rabbits began to move.
‘Aaaaack…! Is this okay?’
Snow Rabbit Express!
The feeling of riding on a snow rabbit’s back, as if touching cold snowflakes…! Really…!
‘Scary!!’
It was a roller coaster itself.
These guys were runaway rabbits. It wasn’t for nothing that they made a noisy rumble… Even now…
Thump, thump, thump, thump―!!
They were really racing at a terrifying speed!
‘Save me―! Aaaaaah!!’
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
