Winter Rabbit in Wonderland

Chapter 77

March locked the door and returned to his room. Li was sitting on his bed. When she saw him, her eyes drooped like a puppy nervously waiting to get punished. March brushed her tousled hair and smiled.

“Good job.”

“Huh?”

“That girl did something bad to you, right? Then you can’t just sit around and take it. Good job, Li.”

He brought over ointment and bandages and treated her arm. Li secretly glanced at him and nervously opened her mouth.

“Um, March?”

“Yes?”

“Didn’t you like that girl?”

“What?”

March lifted his head in utter horror. He saw Li’s clear green eyes. She did believe that he liked Alice. He sighed.

“White Rabbit kept saying that, and now you too. Hey, I don’t want to hear that, especially from you...What I mean is, I don’t like her. No, I hate her. That is a secret to White Rabbit. White Rabbit cares for Alice.”

Not yet calmed down from the fight and anger toward Alice, Li blurted out her thoughts. “How can someone care for a girl like her? That girl thinks that she can make White Rabbit do whatever she wants.”

“What are you talking about?”

Li, realizing what she just said, jumped in surprise and closed her mouth. Knowing no one would believe her, she had decided to take this secret to the grave.

But this was March. Li thought back to the one that had protected not Alice but her. It was March. She hesitantly opened her mouth.

“My real name is not Alice. I—I’m the real...”

She told him her real name and about her parents’ death. She told him how Alice had snatched her body and how she had completely lost it to her and ended up waking up in this new body.

***

Alice was a mess when she arrived at Heart’s house. She went up to her bedroom. Only after being alone in the room was she able to review the situation.

Her name was Li. She was a character nonexistent in the original story. She had seduced March, so he must be the target. How angry she would be if he were taken from her. She read over the notes she had made about the original story in regards to March. Soon, there would be a perfect situation to fix this problem. She smiled joyfully.

Someone knocked lightly on the door. Was it Heart? Alice planted a smile on her face and opened the door. The person who stood there was not Heart, but Peter.

“Peter? What brings you here?”

Peter didn’t miss the look of disappointment on her face. But there was something more urgent at the moment. When he saw the state she was in, he blurted out.

“Alice, right now...”

“What?”

“Who—who did this to you? You aren’t hurt, are you?”

At his words, she remembered the fight and hurriedly looked at herself in the mirror. She realized she had walked all of the neutral zone in this state. She patted down her hair and hid her bruised face.

“It’s not a good time for me to be seeing anyone at the moment.”

“I asked you who did this?”

Alice calculated quickly. Should she tell this man and hope the rumor reached Heart, or should she tell Heart directly? Peter’s widened eyes were full of anger. If she told him, she was sure that he would run after that Li girl. That wouldn’t be so bad, she thought as she came to a decision.

“I’m okay, Peter. I want to rest...”

After she had turned March back to her side, she decided to tell Heart and cause that girl hell. Thinking this, she dismissed Peter.

***

That night, Peter was drinking at Central by himself and ended up meeting a drinking buddy. He was a man good at listening and was very considerate. His light blond hair was thick and tousled, and he introduced himself to Peter as Chester.