That’s when it happened. Footsteps were heard from nearby.
Turning my head in that direction, a man with an unrealistically familiar appearance entered my field of view.
April’s adoptive father, and the leader of the wolf beastmen.
It was Duke Grayan Salisbury.
…Definitely, an inaccessible atmosphere flowed from him.
Shall I say it makes you involuntarily shrink back?
Without realizing it, I watched him with tension.
Grayan, seeing April nestled in my arms, paused as if surprised, and then began to approach us.
His walk was like a beast at the top of the food chain. Well, he’s the leader of the wolves, so it’s natural…
“…What’s the matter?”
Grayan asked me instead of Mrs. Milton. At least he seems to treat me as the mistress of this house for now. I calmly replied while stroking the bunny ears.
“It seems the princess was startled. I’m not sure why, but she’s been crying a lot, so I’ve been comforting her.”
“…The mistress?”
“Yes, me.”
Grayan seemed to find it hard to believe. This is a bit sad. Is Gloria’s image that bad? Of course, it would be… Let’s not expect anything about Gloria’s past. It’s sure to be a dark history full of landmines.
“…Anyway, I understand. I will take April. April? Come here.”
Grayan reached out with both hands, speaking in a tender voice. I was momentarily stunned by the ‘Father’ aura that I had only seen in letters. I almost took his hand myself.
This wolf… It’s enticing in many ways? Too dangerous! If I’m not careful, it’ll be a big problem.
“April…?”
Grayan approached a little closer and called out cautiously, but bunny April shook her head and firmly grabbed the hem of my dress with her forepaws.
Grayan, looking flustered, glanced at me. It was an expression of concern that if I were to throw April away right now, what would happen… Can you please respect the presumption of innocence?
‘It seems like it’s going to be hard to live as Gloria in the future.’
I sighed deeply and the bunny in my arms flinched. She raised her head slightly and looked up at me. It was a very timid gaze.
“…”
Unconsciously, I smiled and, hugging the bunny closer, I spoke to Grayan.
“I’ll just keep her with me.”
[This is the time separator]There is a terrible problem that everyone in this house (perhaps everyone in the world) seems to regard me as a villain, but the start wasn’t too bad.
‘At least I didn’t imprint on April as a terrifying being, unlike the original.’
How was April’s first encounter with Gloria in the original story…? It was a level that should be reported to the police immediately with ‘There’s a child abuser here!’
In the original story, April, who had caught a cold, was walking down the corridor when she bumped into Gloria, and she turned into a rabbit at that moment due to shock.
And what followed… You know what happened. Gloria kicked the rabbit away, shouting that it was disgusting…
‘Are you crazy…? Even thinking about it again, she seems really insane.’
However, ‘my’ first meeting with April was different from the original. First of all, April was not sick, and she did not bump into me as a human, but was a rabbit from the beginning.
Yes, a rabbit…
What is her plan to stay in rabbit form?
Aside from the question of why the development is different from the original, April, who didn’t think of turning into a human even though she was not sick, bothered me a lot.
“Are you hungry?”
On the soft cushions on the sofa, I asked the small and white fluff that was squirming.
From the round fluff, pointed ears suddenly sprouted, followed by a head. No, it was raising its head.
Once its ears were raised and its head lifted, it finally looked like a rabbit, not a fluff. It still crouched down sneakily, spying on me. I shook a carrot cut into bitesize pieces in my hand and asked.
“Do you want to eat?”
“……”
Then, it stared at me with its black eyes and suddenly turned its back.
…Did it just get disgusted now? Because I shook a carrot in front of it? What’s wrong with the carrot? It’s a rabbit. Don’t rabbits like carrots?
‘What did rabbits eat?’
I seriously pondered, but I couldn’t remember anything. Rabbits… I only know they are herbivores. But thinking about it, the diet of beastmen was similar to humans.
I remembered clearly that the author stated, ‘The dietary habits of beastmen are similar to humans.’ more than twenty times.
‘Hmm, if the dietary habits of beastmen are similar to humans…’
I rang the bell to call for a servant. And asked them to bring lunch for two people to my room.
A while later, a few maids opened the door and entered, setting the table abundantly. It was full of deliciouslooking food.
At the savory smell, the rabbit also raised its head and sniffed. Seeing this, I gently smiled, the rabbit was startled and pretended to turn its back again.
I sat down first, chuckling, and started an ASMR mukbang as if to show the rabbit.
I made a sound of enjoying the food and exaggeratedly sighed. Then, the rabbit’s ears kept perking up.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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