I Raised the Fallen Lop-Eared Rabbit into a Yandere 53

Chapter 53: Capture

The carriage was speeding along. Adele sat in the swaying compartment, her suspended heart pounding wildly.

The scenery outside the window had long since blurred into rapidly flowing blocks of color. Soon, she had left the familiar town and entered a desolate mountain road. The small copper bell hanging from the roof of the carriage jingled.

The sound was rapid and chaotic, beating against Adele’s nerves over and over again. She touched her chest for the third time. Her heart was pounding in her chest.

She had left without saying goodbye, leaving only a hastily written letter. Would the sensitive rabbit let her imagination run wild? Would she self-harm again? Without her, had she been eating properly? Could she sleep peacefully at night?

Too many questions swirled in her mind. Adele only felt waves of suffocation.

She could even imagine Lina’s hurt eyes. The terrified rabbit ball might be trembling, curled up in a corner, crying helplessly…

Adele almost wanted to jump out of the carriage. She wanted to go back now.

Immediately.

But she couldn’t.

She could only pray over and over, praying that the letter she had left could briefly warm Lina, soothe her unease…

In the letter, she had frankly expressed her affection and also made clear her return date. She hoped that those words, filled with apology and love, could replace her and gently wrap up her sensitive lover.

Hopefully.

…

Lina had walked around the manor three times and still hadn’t found a trace of Adele.

In the dining room was a bowl of minnow and vegetable chowder that had already gone cold. On the desk in the study was an open picture book, still on the page they had discussed together. On the clothesline hung Adele’s coat, dripping wet.

Adele’s things were everywhere.

But Lina couldn’t find a trace of her.

Finally, a cold, spider-silk-like suspicion flashed through her mind.

Adele had never been like this, disappearing for so long without a word.

Could it be…

Lina promptly cut off the dark conjecture, but her face had already darkened.

She strode to the door, her voice tense. “Where is the lady?”

The gate-keeping maid was startled and answered respectfully, “My lord, the lady went out early in the morning, looking very hurried. She only said she had something to do.”

“Went out?!” Lina’s temples throbbed. She almost blurted out, “Where did she go? Did she take any luggage? Was she alone, or did someone come to pick her up? When will she be back?”

The string of questions made the maid’s head spin. She said, “The lady didn’t take any luggage. A carriage came to pick her up. She went by herself. But she didn’t say when she would be back or what she was doing.”

The maid’s voice grew lower and lower. She felt that the person before her was about to get angry.

Lina’s breathing quickened.

An urgent matter? What urgent matter would require such an unannounced departure?

And there was even a carriage to pick her up? Could it be that it was premeditated?

She didn’t even take her luggage? Was she afraid of being seen?

Not long ago, the two of them had had a big fight. Although they had made up on the surface, the problem had never been resolved…

Could it be that Adele was really fed up with her?

The bad conjectures were infinitely magnified. Deep love breeds deep suspicion. A spider-silk-like suspicion crawled up her back. Lina turned and ran, rushing into their bedroom in one breath.

She pulled open the box where the money was kept. The gold bars and jewels inside were all there.

How could someone who wanted to run away not take money?

Lina let out a long sigh of relief.

Perhaps… Adele really just had something urgent… she should give her lover a little more trust and freedom…

Lina tried to comfort herself.

Everything in the room was as usual. The clean and tidy bed gave off a faint fragrance under the sunlight. All the toys lay quietly in the corner. On the table…

What was that?

Lina caught sight of the abrupt white on the table.

She walked closer and saw that it was an envelope.

Her heartbeat suddenly went out of order. An ominous premonition shot to her head. Lina hesitated for a few seconds before she mustered her courage, took the letter with a trembling hand, and broke the wax seal.

Lina pulled out the letter. She hastily glanced at its length, not daring to look at the content.

She hoped it was a love letter from Adele, or an explanation for her unannounced departure…

It couldn’t be a farewell.

It absolutely couldn’t be.

Lina clutched the letter and walked around the room in a large circle before she finally prepared herself mentally.

However, the first line that entered her eyes was like an ice pick, stabbing fiercely into her heart:

【Lina,】

My dear baby,

【When you see this letter, I have already decided to leave.】

When you see this letter, I have been entrusted with a very urgent matter and have to temporarily leave home, leave you.

【I’m really fed up with you. I can’t stand being in the same room with you anymore.】

I’m sorry I can’t say goodbye to you in person, so I’ve specially left this letter.

【Even one more second of pretense suffocates me. I’m never coming back!】

Don’t worry about me, and don’t let your imagination run wild. I will definitely be home within three days, before sunset.

【You make me feel utterly disgusted.】

As I write this, I’m already starting to miss you.

【I shouldn’t have saved you in the first place!】

I came too late. My heart aches for all you’ve been through, and I understand your changes.

【I’ve finally seen your true colors. you’re just a devil!】

In my heart, you have always been my most precious baby. I will help you solve the troubles before you and accompany you as you slowly shake off the gloom.

【My efforts these past few days have been a complete waste!】

Your growth makes me gratified.

【You don’t understand what love is at all. Being by your side, even one more second of pretense suffocates me.】

I support you in climbing up. My embrace will always be open for you.

【From now on, you and I, we go our separate ways! Your life and death have nothing to do with me! I never want to see you again!】

For these three days, I won’t be by your side. You must, you must take good care of yourself. You can’t miss a single one of your three meals a day.

【If I were given another chance, I would definitely not save you! This is a stain on my life!】

If I come home and find that you’ve lost weight, I will serve you with family law. My lord Lina doesn’t want to be spanked on her bare bottom, right?

【I hate you.】

I love you, baby. No matter where I am, my heart is always with you.

【I won’t even leave my name】

Your Adele.

Every word was like a red-hot iron. One read, and it burned.

Lina read it from beginning to end, and then from end to beginning.

She stared at the ink on the paper with a self-torturous intensity, as if as long as she looked long enough, the strokes would reassemble into the gentle and soft words she expected.

【Fed up with you】

【Devil】

【I hate you】

Lina clutched the letter, which was soaked in malice. What came out before the sadness was disbelief.

Adele had really left.

Adele really didn’t want her anymore.

With hatred and disgust for her, she had proposed a final farewell!?

How is that possible?

How is that possible!

Crack—

A crease appeared on the letter.

Crack crack—

Two more creases appeared.

All the sounds came to an abrupt end. After a long silence—

The letter was abruptly crumpled into a ball and then slammed against the wall with a thud.

Lina felt that the most important part of her life had been uprooted, leaving a bloody hole.

Adele was the only one who could tie her down.

Now she’s gone…

She trembled uncontrollably, her teeth chattering. “Someone…”

Her dry throat barely managed to let out a broken gasp.

No one heard.

“Some…” Lina was on the verge of collapsing. She held onto the table. “Someone!”

The second cry was extremely sharp, even breaking, filled with a madness and panic that was on the verge of collapse.

“Someone! Someone!”

Dilys, hearing the sound, rushed in, startled. She saw Lina standing in the darkness with one glance and asked in surprise, “My lord, what’s wrong?!”

“Find Adele! Find her!” Lina’s pupils constricted, terrified to the extreme. “At all costs! All the docks! All the carriage houses! Go and find her immediately! Use all the connections! Before dawn, before dawn, I must know where she is!”

She spoke extremely quickly, almost hysterically.

Dilys didn’t dare to ask another question. She was so shocked by Lina’s unprecedented loss of composure that she hastily lowered her head and said, “Yes, my lord! I’ll go right away!”

She almost ran out of the room, her footsteps quickly disappearing at the end of the corridor.

The courtyard immediately became lively. All the carrier pigeons were released and quickly flew in all directions.

The maid in charge of sending telegrams quickly sent out the order to find her in Morse code. The information network that covered the entire country all received the order. The dozen or so carriages parked in the backyard plunged into the night in an instant, rushing to the various ports and carriage houses.

To the ends of the earth, there was no escape.

The moment Dilys left, Lina was alone in the room again.

She stared at the large double bed. A slight indentation, where Adele had slept, still remained on the pillow.

Impossible.

Adele’s pity for her could never be faked.

Without love, it would be impossible to act.

But—

A terrible fate is like a curse. When misfortune strikes, it can make one doubly panicked.

A person who was used to being abandoned was completely stressed at this moment.

Lina had thought that with wealth and status, she would have the capital to no longer be afraid.

Only at this moment, when Adele had disappeared, did she discover with despair that her spiritual world was still so fragile.

The prominent power could not fill the bloody hole in her heart at all.

She needed love.

A lot, a lot of sincere love.

Lina stood in the dim room, like a young beast abandoned in a storm.

The helplessness and panic of her childhood once again washed over her.

She instinctively crawled under the bed.

Crawled into the safest “harbor” of her childhood.

The space under the bed was dark and cramped, covered with a thin layer of dust.

Lina curled up. The cold, hard floor made her joints ache.

But she still curled up tighter and tighter.

She had to hide herself, just like when she was little.

She hid here, trying to escape the pursuit of fate, trying to escape the curse of a worthless life.

A violent tremor once again swept through her.

Lina hugged herself, as if Adele were hugging her, and gently patted her own back, pretending she was still being coaxed.

She clenched her teeth, but she still couldn’t control the tremor that came from the depths of her soul.

Tears rolled down fiercely, one after another, hitting the floor.

On the wooden board was a color that was clearly darker than its surroundings. It was the mark left by years of being soaked in tears.

Before Adele had burst into her life, on countless desolate and cold nights, she had been just like this, curled up in this corner she thought was safe, crying alone.

Desperate tears had soaked this piece of floor over and over again.

Adele was like a ray of sunshine, descending from the sky, illuminating this damp and dark corner, allowing her to finally dare to crawl out from under the bed, to embrace her own warmth and favoritism.

But fate seemed unwilling to let her go.

She was destined to return to under the bed.

To curl up in the shadows was the fate of a lop-eared rabbit.

Tears once again wet that old water stain. Everything seemed to have returned to the starting point.

The past four months of fulfillment and happiness were like a long dream.

Lina bit her lip hard.

Was she going to die?

So she had a dream.

When she woke up from the dream, would she be beaten again? Would she be hungry again?

The fear that was carved into her bones dragged her back into the nightmare of her childhood. Power and money seemed so pale at this moment. She didn’t even have hatred anymore, only an endless fear.

She was afraid of fate.

So scared.

Adele was gone, leaving only this pathetic creature, trembling under the bed.

From now on, was the lop-eared rabbit going to be all alone again?

*

When Adele arrived at her destination, it was already late. The elder’s meeting of the Sacred Cult was usually held by the sea. There was an underground city there, with passages in all directions, making it difficult to locate.

The specific meeting place would be announced by a letter from the bishop’s magpie.

A sentient magpie, Herte had once had one.

They could understand human speech. To avoid alerting the enemy, only Adele walked into the small inn. The others were ambushed a hundred meters away.

The night grew darker. The bumpy journey had almost exhausted all of Adele’s strength.

She hastily ate a couple of bites of cold bread. The water for washing was also just warm, not enough to wash away her fatigue.

The worry for Lina was also lingering.

Adele lay on the hard single bed, praying that these three days would pass quickly…

She was really not at ease with Lina.

Soon, her consciousness grew dim, and she fell into an uneasy, light sleep.

In the middle of the night, all was quiet.

A rustling sound came from outside the window, as if something were lightly scraping against the window lattice.

Adele frowned in her sleep, unconsciously turned over, and then fell into a deep sleep again.

The sound was too light, swallowed by the deep night. The tired Adele was completely unaware—

A pair of eyes was staring at her from outside the window.

…

Lina crawled out from under the bed. She sat by the window, watching the sky turn from white to black, and then to a fish-belly white.

She sat motionless, enveloped in the deepest light before dawn. Her pale profile was very much like a porcelain doll in a glass display case.

Exquisite and hollow.

The tear tracks on her face had long since disappeared, replaced by an almost inhuman calm.

She looked at the rising sun in the distance, her eyes a thick gloom that could not be stirred.

Lina’s long and bloodless fingers slowly, lightly tapped on the crumpled letter on the table.

Tap—

Tap tap—

The sound was very light, but it made one’s scalp tingle, like a countdown to death.

All night, the spies coming and going had already collected enough information.

She already knew that Adele had entered the palace and then left.

Perhaps Huaguang had some mission for her…

Perhaps…

Lina had thought of all the possibilities.

Including the authenticity of the letter.

Even though Dilys had repeatedly assured her that the envelope was exactly the same as the one Yuan You had sent.

But Lina still vaguely felt that Adele would not treat her like this.

At least, not so decisively.

But her spirit would not allow her to think any further.

In any case, Adele had left her.

She was going crazy.

No.

She was already crazy.

Lina’s gaze was cast to the distant sky. The rich azure was gradually fading, revealing a hint of a blurry gray-white. The daylight did not bring any warmth, but rather, like a cold blade, it cut at her already sensitive spirit.

From beginning to end, she had never healed.

Fear still lurked deep in her heart. The abandoned, helpless little girl had never left.

Adele was gone. Her medicine was gone.

Her emotions were getting more and more out of control.

Lina once again grabbed her own forearm. After a long moment, scarlet drops of blood dripped onto the floor.

Adele, I will find you… your life belongs only to me… I am the entire meaning of your existence… from today on, I will monitor your every move… you will never be able to escape me…

“Knock, knock knock.”

The knocking was cautious.

Lina had picked her two arms raw. Her voice was strangely calm, without a single ripple. “Come in.”

Dilys took out a piece of paper and said, “My lord, we’ve found her.”

Lina held out two blood-stained long fingers and took the piece of paper. By the faint daylight, she glanced at the address on it.

“My lord… your arms?” Dilys said, “Let me bandage them for you.”

“This is my gift to her.” Lina rolled up the piece of paper and threw it into the candlestick.

Dilys’s arm felt a phantom pain, her lips twitching.

“All those who participated in the search will be rewarded with gold. The one who found her will get ten times more. That box of precious minerals in the storeroom, you can take it.”

The corners of Dilys’s lips immediately broke into a grin. The fatigue of a whole night’s work instantly vanished. “Thank you, my lord!”

Lina’s expression was still blank.

She looked out the window again.

The sun was about to rise.

Dilys asked, “The lady? Should I send someone to invite her immediately? Or?”

Lina’s expression changed several times, finally settling into a cold calm.

She said—

I’ll go and get her myself.

/

“I had prepared ropes, prepared chains, and even prepared a completely soundproof room. On the way to get her, I thought, I will never give her a chance to run away again. I will lock her by my side forever, so she can’t go anywhere.”

“But when I saw her face, I had only one thought: she seems to have lost weight. I want to hug her.”

“Of course, when I really held her, I wanted to bully her again.”

“She has a suspicion of abandonment in my eyes!”