Chapter 76 - The Strange Atmosphere at the Dinner Table
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"Don't worry! As long as I have enough power, I can repair your injuries." Chaos' voice came into Iris's mind.

"Huh! What if Lilia is going to kill me now? How can you help me repair my wounds when all your power is used for my cultivation?"

Chaos: "..."

Chaos froze for a moment and said, "From what I've seen recently, your grandmother still likes you quite a bit. Even if you do something terribly wrong, Ye Li will protect you."

"Let's hope so!"

"Knock, knock, knock! Knock, knock, knock!"

"Does it take so long for Iris to change her clothes? Are you thinking of some bad idea again?" The voice of Mavis came from outside the door.

Iris casually grabbed a black nightgown and walked out of the dressing room wearing flip-flops and said slowly, "What bad ideas? Is this what I look like to sister Mavis?"

"Iris, your dressing is too casual. You just dress black nightgown and wear flip-flops, and you have this messy silver hair..."

"Of course I am at home. My dressing is naturally casual. Besides, I go to bed about 4:00 a.m.. So can you let me rest a little longer?" Iris interrupted.

"Today, auntie is here, you ..."

Mavis had not finished her sentence, but was thrown out of the bedroom by Iris. And then Iris lay down on the bed to sleep again.

White sun crawled into the arms of Iris and slept together with Iris.

"Ugh! You really don’t understand the etiquette at all."

Li Xi and Xue Youyue cleaned up the house and sat on the sofa in the living room chatting.

"Eh! You two cleaned up!"

"Yes, what's up? Mavis."

"It's still early before lunch. Why don't we go out and have a snowball fight!"

"Uh ... is it not a good idea ..."

"Oops! It's okay! Auntie won't scold us."

With the persuasion of Mavis, they went outside the castle.

Thick snow covered the ground, and a silver world presented in front of the three. With each step, deep footprints emerged on the ground.

The three were not very different in age and were all taught by Lilia herself. Now Li Xi was Lilia's left escort and Xue Youyue was the right escort.

"Mavis! Look at the move!"

Mavis just raised her head, "Pah!" A snowball hit her face.

The cold snow made Mavis's cheeks turn red, "Li Xi! I will make you in the snow. Just wait to be a snowman!"

“Look at the move!” Two snowballs smashed towards Li Xi and Mavis.

Mavis gently dodged the snow balls from Xue Youyue, while Li Xi was not so lucky.

Li Xi thought her sister would help her attack Mavis, but she didn't expect this guy would even dare to hit her. Li Xi thought that she had to teach Xue Youyue a lesson at night.

They threw snowballs in the snow, made snowmen and enjoyed good time.

The dark guard on the roof was watching the three playing with snowballs, with wistful memories in his eyes.

"Brother! What are you looking at?" A Ghost sat next to the dark guard.

"Nostalgia for the days of snowball fights together when we were kids!"

"Pfft!" The Ghost on the side laughed out.

"Holy shit! The brother, as the dark guard of Her Highness the Empress, would be nostalgic?"

"At least I will remember them!"

...

"Xiao Tao, go to get the three little guys outside to have meals! Oh yes, there are two more little guys on the roof." Ye Li said.

"As you command! Your Highness the Empress Dowager."

"They are not so young, isn't it good to call them like this?"

Xiao Tao left the kitchen and came outside the house and shouted, "Your Highness, the two guards, Her Highness the Empress Dowager is calling everyone to have meals."

"I’m coming! I’m coming!" Mavis responded, but cupped the snowball in her hand and smashed it towards the two.

“Dou Gu..." Before Xiao Tao could finish, Dou Gu patted her on the shoulder behind Xiao Tao.

Xiao Tao covered her heart and said angrily, "Can you walk with a little sound? Every year you walk like this ..."

Dou Gu spread his hands and said, "I'm the dark guard of Her Highness the Empress Dowager, so I'm easy to be discovered with a loud voice."

"Fuck! Every year your excuse does not change. Besides, now it is the New Year, Dear Queen, Her Highness and her guards are there. How can something dangerous happen?"

"Hey! Brother is scolded by Xiao Tao again." The Ghost on the side laughed.

Dou Gu: "..."

Iris was lying in bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep. She didn't know how she should face Lilia.

"What do you think I should do, White Sun?"

"Hiss~Hiss~" The White Sun spitted out its tongue towards Iris.

"Eh...forget it, you can't talk anyway."

"Knock knock knock! Knock knock knock!"

"Let's have lunch! Iris." Mavis shouted from outside the door.

"We'll eat later. You guys have lunch first!"

"Later? Are you afraid of my aunt? That's why you're hiding in the bedroom."

Iris didn't make a sound, "No way? There are people who are afraid of their mothers." From the doorway came Mavis's scoffing voice.

Iris casually stroked her hair and left the bedroom in her flip-flops, looking like she was too sleepy: "Afraid? I would be afraid? Are you kidding?"

"I hope you'll still be confident when you get to the dinner table." Mavis seemed to have predicted what would happen at the dinner table.

"Eh? Dear Mother, why do you add an extra chair?" Lilia looked at Ye Li in confusion.

"As a mother, what a dereliction of duty." Ye Li's tone was slightly reproachful.

"Dereliction of duty? I don’t understand. Please let me know what happens."

"Little Iris is back! Don't you know?"

"Little Iris??"

At this time, Mavis walked down the stairs with White Sun in her arms, while Iris was stretching and yawning behind her.

Lilia saw Iris’s behavior. Then the smile on her face disappeared instantly and was replaced by a stern one.

Iris does not look like Princess of the Blood by her look, which is extremely detrimental to the dignity of the royal family. Especially the nightgown with flip-flops is really unsightly. If others know it, they will think that the royal family is poor. There is also messy hair draped over the shoulders, which looks no different from junkman.

Iris walked with steps, respectfully bowed towards Lilia, and tried to show a smile out of her face: "Good afternoon! Lilia."

The crowd looked at Iris with strange eyes, and Mavis was dumbfounded that her cousin was so brave as to call her aunt by her first name.

Mavis gave a thumbs-up to Iris quietly and looked at her helplessly.

Lilia gave a soft "hmm". Iris seemed to be very sleepy, so she did not pay attention to the words just now.

"Dinner is ready!" Xiao Tao and Ye Li brought all the food to the table.

The crowd sat in their seats, but the atmosphere was very strange.

Dou Gu said after casually eating a little food, "Your Highness the Empress Dowager, Her Majesty the Queen, Your Highness Mavis, Your Highness the Princess, I have had enough and will leave first."

"Eh? You've only eaten a few bites of food!" Ye Li said.

As soon as the words left her mouth, Dou Gu was out of sight.

"Your Highness, I have important matters to attend to, so I will leave first." Butler Tantra bowed towards Ye Li and left the table.

"Has Li Xi eaten enough?" Mavis asked.

"No...I am full!" At this time Li Xi's feet were stepped on hard by Mavis' high heels.

"What about you, Xue Youyue?"

"Yes, I am full too!" Xue Youyue wiped her mouth.

"Let's go! Let's go shopping, because we have made a deal."

Li Xi: "????"

Li Xi was then dragged away unceremoniously by the two. Before Li Xi left she didn't forget to take two bites of the food on the table.

When Mavis left, she also took the White Sun with her.

Xiao Tao left the table on the pretext of cleaning up the kitchen.

At this time, only Ye Li, Lilia and Iris were left at the table.

Apparently, Iris had not realized the seriousness of the problem and was eating the food on the table by herself.

"Is it delicious? Little Iris." Ye Li asked.

"Yes! It's delicious."

"Eat more if it is delicious. Eat slowly. There is no hurry. Eat your fill and then go to sleep for a while. I will call you for dinner in the evening."

"Thank you, grandmother."

"No need to be polite. I am your grandmother." Ye Li said with a kind smile. She must be very fond of this granddaughter.