Chapter 24 - Monster Bunny

The atmosphere during the entire dinner was filled with silence and awkwardness. The only person who was enjoying the food was Min Gu as the girl munched on the tasty dishes without any care in the world.

"Miss..."

Ying Yue stopped eating for a few seconds as she turned her attention to Li Wu who was sitting beside her. She raised her eyebrows in a questioning look as she waited to know why the girl was calling her in a whispered tone.

Li Wu inched her face closer to Ying Yue's ear before asking, "My lady, did you really not know that she can turn into a rabbit?"

The question made Ying Yue grit her teeth as she turned her icy gaze towards Min Gu. But to her utter dismay, the girl did not even spare a single glance towards her as she continued to drink her soup.

A sad smile appeared on her lips as she looked back at Li Wu before shaking her head in denial..

"Miss, is it really safe to keep this girl here?" This time it was Li Qi who asked the question as she also inched closer to her lady.

The more Jiang Ying Yue wished for the twins to stop asking any more questions, the more curious and anxious they were seemed to be getting.

"Do you think we can kick her out even if we want to?" She asked in return as she looked at both of her maids with a questioning look.

The Li sisters first turned their eyes towards the bunny girl before looking at each other to confirm their answer, and then they finally shook their heads in reply to their lady's question.

How could they fight against a person who was a bunny monster? Won't they be courting death on purpose?

"Come on, there's no point in dwelling about this matter anymore. Let's finish dinner and retire to bed. We have a lot of work to do tomorrow." Ying Yue told the girls as she picked up her chopsticks and started eating.

Even though Li Qi and Li Wu were still not happy with the presence of the mysterious bunny girl in the Cold Palace, but there was almost nothing that they could do about it. If it had been a normal human, then they would definitely have tried their best to get rid of her but Min Gu was no normal human and the girls were not brave enough to challenge a monster bunny.

Realizing that they were at a loss, the twins decided to stay quiet for the rest of the dinner and it did not take long before they all were done with the dinner and were ready to retire for the night.

"I'll sleep in your courtyard." Min Gu said in her usual chirpy tone as she clung to Ying Yue's arm like a baby.

Before Jiang Ying Yue could speak, her maids were faster as they immediately showed their denial towards the idea.

"No, you are not."

"Absolutely not!"

"..."

Ying Yue just looked at the twins with a small twitch on her lips. She did not know whether to laugh or cry at her current situation.

"Why not?" Min Gu asked the girls with a genuine confusion on her face. After all, just to stay with her Yue, she had become a girl and now two little girls were telling her that she still could not stay with her Ying Yue.

"How can you even say something like that? Are you trying to disrespect our lady?" Li Wu asked as she glared at the bunny monster.

Min Gu turned her questioning gaze towards Ying Yue who just shrugged her shoulders in response. 

"Alright! If I can't sleep in our Lady's courtyard then I'll sleep with you guys." She suddenly spoke with a charming smile on her face.

However, her words made the Li sisters froze in terror as they stared at her as if they were looking at some kind of monster.

"Girls....., enough! I'm tired and really want to sleep. Let's stop this nonsense for now. Since you two are really that afraid of her, she will stay with me in the fifth courtyard. I'll keep my eyes on her in the future. It's final." Ying Yue suddenly announced in a tired but still a very determined tone.

She did not give any chances to the Li sisters to speak again as she took hold of Min Gu's arm and marched out of the fourth courtyard, leaving behind two dumbfounded girls who kept staring at the disappearing silhouette of their Lady and the bunny monster.

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"What's wrong with you? Are you purposely creating these problems for me? I'm so mad right now that I want to.......ah!"

One moment, Ying Yue was whisper shouting at the Girl, and the very next moment she found herself plastered against the wall of the room as the very same girl caged her there.

"W-what are you doing?" Ying Yue hurriedly asked as she tried to get away from Min Gu. However, her small hands that were resting against the wall on her each side were too strong for Ying Yue to escape.

"I just wanted to have some fun. Also, you don't need to worry about those two girls. They aren't a big deal at all." Min Gu replied as she inched a little bit more closer to Ying Yue.

Right at that moment, the door of the bed-chamber opened and Li Wu appeared in the room with a quilt and pillow in her hands.

"My Lady, I've brought the spare quilt and pillow that we have. It's for the.........."

Li Wu found her words frozen in her throat as her eyes took in the scene at the other end of the room.

"I...I-I.....will.....leave now..."

The girl did not waste a single second before she was out of the room and Min Gu was laughing so hard that she was about to fall.

On the other hand, Ying Yue just wanted to entirely disappear.