Whispering Poems

Chapter 3195 Hot Spring
Luvia had guessed what gift Shade would give her this year, but she had never expected it to be this. She tried hard to control her smile and looked up at Shade:

"This is really creative. You know, I think no girl would not want to kiss her lover when seeing this kind of gift. But before I kiss you, I want to know why this gift has an expiration date?"

"Just in case you don't need it. This isn't a collector's item. I hope you can really use it."

Shad answered honestly, so Luvia held the cards and kissed him.

1854 is about to pass, and Luvia Annette will not miss it, because she is more looking forward to 1855, which she will continue to walk with Shad.

Resia and Ajelina arrived at nearly eight o'clock in the evening. After the royal dinner, the princesses accompanied their mother to watch this year's fireworks display, and then returned to their respective rooms on the pretext of wanting to rest.

Because it was inconvenient to take a carriage on the almost deserted streets tonight, they ran here in high heels. Of course, most of the journey was done by Leicia's space movement.

As for the gifts for the Cavendish princesses, Resia received the same bark manuscript as Dorothy. While hugging Shade to express her gratitude, she also lowered her voice to remind him:
"The Day of the Red Butterfly has begun~"

Ajelina got the textbooks that Shad had used in the lower grades. Shad encouraged her to read more and learn in advance.

Resia was very satisfied with the gift that Shade gave to her sister, while Ajelina looked betrayed. However, after she brought the pile of books back to the room she shared with Iluna and Emilia, she discovered the clues hidden under the covers of three of the books.

Of course, those three novels were carefully selected by Shade, and there was no illegal content in them. Dorothy even helped to select those three books, so when Leicia knew about this, she just acquiesced to Shade's approach.

So it was okay for Ajelina to read secretly, but if she dared to wave those three books in front of Leicia and said, "I'm reading Shade's old textbooks," then the little princess would probably face a miserable end.

Now that the princesses have arrived, everyone packed their clothes and hot spring supplies in the room and prepared to leave. But this time, Grandma Cassandra didn't go. She wanted to leave time for the young people, and she was not used to not resting so late, but she would celebrate the New Year with the young people after everyone came back.

Mia didn't go either. Although Shad wanted to spend the last day of the year with the cat, the cat really hated the wet hot springs.

Everyone first went from Shad's house to Carina's estate in the south of the city. Then, Resia, Dorothy, Grace and Helen transformed into the chosen ones with butterfly wings. They waved their hands to open the portal to Vista Woods, and everyone happily came to the snowy forest together.

Coming from the bustling "Steam City" to the quiet and deserted woodland, the sudden change of senses caught people off guard. Snowflakes were still floating over the woodland, and the butterfly-winged girl did not stop and set off again to Willendel.

As for the current "Moon Sanctuary", it is very different from when everyone left a month and a half ago. The hot spring itself has not changed, but the cobblestone path surrounding the hot spring has been further widened. Outside the circle of cobblestone paths is a larger circle of corridors, with hand-carved wooden fences on both sides. There are eight entrances to the hot springs on the inside, and several cobblestone paths on the outside, leading to other buildings outside the corridor.

In addition to the functional buildings such as the locker room, sauna room, kitchen, tea room, tool room, etc., an ultra-large-scale ritual constructed by eight great witches covers the surroundings, ensuring absolute safety here.

But for some reason, when the functional area here was designed, only a female dressing room was designed, and there was no male dressing room for Shade. Flora smiled and explained that this was because it was unnecessary. So when the witches and girls began to take turns to change clothes in the dressing room next to the corridor, Shade sat on a chair in the corridor and looked at the snowy scenery in the woods.

Margaret was brought in very quickly. She almost jumped over the railing outside the corridor and threw herself into Shad's arms:
"Shad!"

When she saw Shade standing up to greet her, all the grievances of the blonde princess burst out at once. On the one hand, she was the only one who almost didn't come today, and on the other hand, when they met in Willendel last time, all her preparations were preempted by Sylvia.

"Okay, okay, I'll hold you later. Go change your clothes."

The butterfly-winged girls turned into four people again. Leicia patted Margaret on the shoulder, and then she and Dorothy pulled her out of the corridor again.

Many of the maids and witches' followers also came along, chatting and laughing as they entered the dressing room and then the hot spring, which showed that they were all in a good mood. Soon, the girls all changed their clothes and went into the water. Shade also wanted to go to the dressing room, but Luvia shouted:
"I left you for last, but I didn't mean to ask you to go to the locker room. Come straight over here!"

Tifa and Matilda, who had also changed into bathrobes and put their hair up, walked over barefoot on the cobblestone floor. They first smiled and pulled Shadra to the hot spring, then helped him change his clothes despite his objections.

However, the clothing of men taking a hot spring bath in this era was not complicated. They wrapped themselves in a knee-length bathrobe and tied it with a belt, and then Xia De was pushed into the water.

He has the ability to "breathe underwater", which makes his vision surprisingly good underwater. Therefore, when he opened his eyes, he could see dense white thighs. Xia De thought it was "desire" coming, and stood up from the water in fright. Luvia smiled and asked:

"Shad, what did you see?"

When Shad sat down comfortably on the edge of the pool in the middle of the long side of the hot spring, Leicia and Dorothy came over from the left and right. Shad subconsciously opened his arms to embrace them, and they naturally leaned into his arms.

"Ok?"

Only then did Shade realize what he had done, and then he found that the girls in the pool and the female sorcerers beside the pool were all looking at him. Although the hot spring attire of this era was relatively conservative, the scene of so many girls wearing bathrobes was not conservative at all, even if the clothes were conservative.

Everyone laughed, and Leisia thought Shad would push them away, but he didn't.

He sighed and closed his eyes. Leicia and Dorothy beside him both smelled very good:

"After a busy year, it's time for me to take a break. Once a year, I don't care about anything tonight."

"That's right."

Flora, who was not far away, said with a smile, looking at Shad's figure on the water. She couldn't see it so clearly last time when she looked through the crack in the door.

Karina beside her picked up the wine glass from the floating tray and added:

"See the cabin next to it? I've arranged for a maid to provide an.mo in it. If you want to use the sauna, you can do that. Also, Xia De, you probably don't know, but I've prepared a lot of hot spring games."

Xiwei also put up her long wavy hair. Although witches don't lose their hair, no one wants to have floating hair all over the hot spring. She smiled and narrowed her eyes:
"Shad, do you want to play a game of Rhodes with us?"

"Ok?"

Shade, who had just closed his eyes, opened them again. On Shade's left side, Leisia, who had just quietly put her hand under the water, put her head on Shade's shoulder to hide her movements.
"Look, Mr. Knight is getting excited."

This is the year-end gift they prepared for Xia De:
"Shad, do you want to play a multiplayer card game with us? The winner can unconditionally order the loser to do anything."

Vanessa said as she held Hillis's arm, thinking of providing Hillis with an opportunity. Their hair was both blond, but it was obvious that the older Vanessa looked plumper, while Hillis looked quite girlish.

But unexpectedly, Xia De shook his head:
"I bet I won't lose. And do you have any misunderstandings about me? I just like collecting cards, not playing cards, at least not the kind of person who would force everyone to play cards with me at the end of the year.

Everyone is celebrating tonight, so don't go out of your way to take care of me. Play cards, chess, riddles, water polo, whatever you want."

Leisia's hands were doing something extreme underwater, so he had to control his emotions when he spoke:

"We plan to be back at 11:30, which still leaves us more than three hours. Please enjoy the festival, and I will arrange better activities next year."

"So the reason you gathered all of us here is probably not because of fate, but because of your own charm. Sometimes I wonder how someone like you could appear."

Luvia laughed, and then everyone dispersed in twos and threes to play and have fun. She walked towards the three people who were leaning against each other and said to Leicia:
"You don't want to do that here?"

The red-haired princess, with half-closed eyes, of course denied it:
"Although today is the day of the Red Butterfly, I won't be so proactive in front of so many people. I'm just taking advantage of Shade. But you have to keep an eye on Megan and Audrey. We all know that they can show their own in the palm of their hands."

"Someone mentioned us, didn't they?"

The Edwards sisters also came over at this time. They were wearing the same style of bathrobes and holding a deck of cards in their hands, but it didn't look like Rhodes cards:
"Want to play cards together? In the summer, Xia De talked to us about many card games. There was one that was very interesting, so we tried to recreate it. What was it called?"

Megan answered her sisters' questions:

"Game of Kings."

PS: Figure 1 in this chapter is "Lesia Cavendish";
Figure 2 in this chapter: “Moon Sanctuary”.

This picture of Lecia is better than the previous one. I will use this one as the character design for now.