Chapter 181



181 Snow in Summer

Selma Payne’s POV:

It was so cold.

In a daze, I curled up into a fetal position to resist the bone-piercing cold.

‘Where’s the blanket? Why can’t I feel the blanket?’

I couldn’t feel the blanket’s warmth anywhere, so I opened my eyes reluctantly…

What had just happened?

My sleepiness instantly dissipated. I looked at the white world in front of me and had the illusion that I was still asleep.

Why was it snowing in my room?

“You’re finally awake. I thought I was going to freeze to death in the middle of summer with you,” said Maxine in a faint voice.

I found a coat from the closet covered in snow and put it on. I shivered and asked, “What’s going on? The palace was attacked?”

“I don’t think so. Rather, you were the attacker.”

“What?”

“I don’t know what happened to you when you were sleeping, but you suddenly showed off your power, as if you had suddenly learned sorcery, and emitted cold air, so the room was snowing for most of the night. I tried to wake you up, but just like the last time you were hypnotized, I couldn’t contact you and take control of the body.”

“Me? It’s snowing?”

I recalled that strange dream, and without thinking, I grabbed a handful of snow and tasted it.

Ptooey!

It was a familiar, disgusting taste.

This was the snow in my dream!

I was shocked. How could dreams and reality be connected? Could it be that after I purified the stream water in the dream, the disgusting snow didn’t disappear but ran to the real world instead?

Speaking of which, what the hell was this snow? What was that shallow stream?

It was just 4:30 am, and the sky was dark and bright simultaneously. There were flashes of light and shadow behind the curtains from time to time, as if something was falling from the sky.

“No way…”

An ominous premonition welled up in my heart. I pulled open the curtains and saw that in the summer, which should have been bright and sunny, snow was falling heavily!

‘We’re finished! The snow has come to reality.’

A thick layer of snow had accumulated in the garden, and it was not an exaggeration to say it was a snow world.

Wait a minute.

Such abnormal snow, yet it didn’t attract any attention?

It was reasonable to say that the servants on night duty should have started laying anti-slip blankets long ago, and the guards should have stepped up their patrols to prevent accidents from happening.

However, the garden was empty. The garden, the foyer, the corridor, and the rooms visible through the large glass windows were quiet. It was as if the entire palace had fallen into hibernation in the snow.

I immediately ran out of the room. As expected, the maidservant on duty in the tea room had already fallen asleep on the floor. I then looked at the guard on duty in the corridor, sleeping with his sharp spear as his pillow.

“Wake up, quickly, wake up!”

Their skin was already pale from the cold. I shook their bodies hard, and after a few seconds, they woke up.

“Oh, it’s so cold,” a servant mumbled with her eyes half-closed. “Did I forget to turn off the ice maker?”

Seeing the anxious look on my face, she immediately cheered up and said, “Miss Selma! Oh, do you need anything?”

“I need your help to wake up everyone in the palace.” I pointed at the quiet world outside the window. “For some reason, everyone has fallen asleep, and the room temperature is dropping. It’s almost below zero. We must wake everyone up, or they’ll be in danger!”

The servants looked out of the window in surprise at the heavy snow. Although they were full of doubts, they did not say anything and immediately left.

The guards also followed.

I turned around and ran to my father’s room. I thanked my parents for not following the tradition of sleeping in different King and Queen suites, which saved me from wasting my time.

After shaking the attendants and guards awake, I rushed into the bedroom. My parents hugged each other tightly. Their beds were covered in snow like the entire palace, and the room temperature was dropping.

“Father! Mother! Wake up now! Wake up!”

I woke my parents up, and my mother sneezed several times after opening her eyes.

“What’s going on?” My father, who had always been calm, found it difficult to keep his cool. “Selma? What was happening? The palace was attacked?”

I shook my head. “No, it’s because of me. Sigh, it’s complicated to explain. I’ll explain it to you later. Anyway, you guys should leave this place first. The servants have turned on the heater in the outer room. It’s too cold in here.”

It was a false alarm, but fortunately, no one was injured by this strange snow. The snowfall didn’t cover a large area. It only covered the palace and the surrounding forests and grasslands, which immediately put me at ease.

At around seven o ‘clock, the snow stopped, and the entire palace began to get busy removing the snow. The strange thing was that the snow removal agent could not remove the snow as effectively as it had in the past. The servants could not even find a way to melt the snow. It was as if the palace was covered with cold powder disguised as snow.

“I think I know why,” I said guiltily. “This isn’t snow. It’s a crystal of some negative energy. If we want to get rid of it, we might have to invite the werewolf grandmasters.”

“How did you know?” my parents asked, puzzled.

I rubbed my hair and said embarrassedly, “Because I was the one who expelled it from my body.”