I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 398, 1.25, 21: The Rabbit Duke's Crazy Tea Party
"My name is Jolin, and this is my master, Olycia. Nice to meet you." Jolin nodded to Shui Qi and introduced himself.

He didn't say another word, clearly indicating that he didn't want to be associated with Shui Qi.

Olycia glanced at Shui Qi from head to toe, then looked at Mu Yegui and said, "The person with you last time we met wasn't this one. Did you change to someone else?"

“I don’t know him,” Mu Yegui shook his head, denying it in a serious tone.

Shui Qi: "..." What's with this feeling of being disliked? I'm inexplicably a little annoyed.

Upon hearing this, Olympia choked up. She thought Mu Yegui would say something, but she didn't expect him to be so blunt as to say he didn't know her. Did he think what she just saw was fake?

"Is there some unspeakable secret you can't tell others, so you're rushing to deny it?" Olycia sneered, pressing her aggressively.

The more she denied it, the more she felt there was something fishy going on.

With her cool, silver eyes fixed on Olycia, Mu Yegui replied calmly in a soft, childlike voice, "You're so gossipy. Xu told me that women who like to gossip are likely to become nagging old women in the future."

"What did you say!? You've been hiding something all along, Shui Qi, you need to take a good look at this girl. She always has a different man by her side, who knows what kind of man he is..." Olivia's words became more and more outrageous, but she was interrupted by Shui Qi before she could finish.

Shui Qi wore a gentle smile, her narrow blue eyes fixed on Olycia, yet it sent chills down one's spine.

He chuckled softly and said slowly, "Don't make assumptions about others if you don't know the facts. Mu Yegui and I have no relationship. We just did dungeons together before, so we just came in together when we met at the entrance this time."

"It was you who kept pestering me; I never wanted to go with you," Mu Yegui muttered, turning her head to the side.

Shui Qi: "..." Can you please stop undermining me, little ancestor?
Normally, Shui Qi would avoid explaining himself if he wanted to test the waters. But with Xie Er in this instance, who knew what his relationship with Mu Yegui was? He didn't want to offend the world's most powerful person right now.

"Olicia, do you still want to see Sher?" Mu Yegui asked.

The topic instantly returned to its origin.

Before Olycia could return, a strange voice came from behind, "Who wants to see the Duke?"

The four turned their heads and saw a white rabbit, dressed in a mature black vest and looking extremely gentlemanly, slowly walking towards them from a distance.

It walked on two legs like a human and wore a black top hat. It reached out its furry paw to remove the hat, gave the four a deferral, and said very respectfully, "The Duke invites you."

The three frowned, but Mu Yegui made no move, only asking, "Duke Meas or Duke Sher?"

"Is there any difference?" the gentleman rabbit asked respectfully.

"If it's the Rabbit Duke's crazy tea party, I would naturally be happy to accept it as the owner of the instance. But if it's Sher, I don't really want to see him for personal reasons; it's too much trouble."

Shui Qi's lips twitched slightly, thinking to herself, "How much do you dislike Xie Er that you don't even want to see him?"

The gentleman rabbit moved his three-lobed lips, remained silent for a few seconds, and then said softly, "Both dukes are here, but it is indeed Duke Rabbit who wants to see you. To be precise, he is inviting four guests to a tea party."

Enjoy a tea party...

In other words, the prelude is finally over, and the main event is about to begin. The Rabbit Duke's crazy tea party—I wonder what "crazy" he means?
“However, before that, all the bills for the manor’s losses will be sent to His Highness Nightmare’s house. After all, 90% of the losses were caused by you alone, which is really troubling for us,” Gentleman Rabbit added.

"Ugh, Jill's about to go crazy again. Maybe we shouldn't go back. I don't want to listen to my mother's nagging." Mu Yegui blinked her cool silver eyes and murmured.

After spending a lot of time together, I found Jill to be even more annoying than Sher. At least Sher would indulge her, but Jill was always against this and that. When she accidentally broke a wall, she started to break down and shout, "The finance department can't hold on!"

Are all people who manage money this stingy? Or is Jill just an exception?
"By the way, there is a special guest from the Kingdom of the Unbelievable waiting for His Highness Nightmare, and Duke Rabbit has taken the liberty of inviting him to the tea party."

"A special guest from the Kingdom of the Unbelievable?" Mu Yegui pondered. "I don't know anyone from the Kingdom of the Unbelievable."

"It's that legendary high priest who's in charge of wine and etiquette. It seems like he has something important to discuss. Are you sure you don't want to meet him?" Gentleman Rabbit said to her as he walked forward.

"Are they here to collect a debt?" Mu Yegui asked.

"How much debt do you owe?" Olycia twitched her lips in disgust and couldn't help but mutter to herself.

“Hmm…” Mu Yegui lowered his head and counted on his fingers as he spoke, “I made a promise with Qi Gu to go to the Entertainment Kingdom but we haven’t gone yet; Lanlos said we should have afternoon tea together, but I left first; I made an appointment with Rong Yi to have lunch together, but I didn’t have time; I made a fight with Zhu Yan, but I had too many things to do and stood him up; I said I was going to find Adele, but I accidentally forgot; I gave Shu Ming a New Year’s gift, but I accidentally gave him sour coffee beans.”

It seems like you've offended all seven giants; it's amazing you're still alive and well.

Shui Qi glanced at Mu Yegui. No wonder when he went to see Shu Ming in January, that guy was very aggressive and seemed to be angry. It turned out that he had been tricked by Mu Yegui.

Shu Ming, who treated coffee like his wife and his lifeblood, didn't chase after Mu Yegui after being tricked; he really had a good temper.

"How did you know it was sour?" Shui Qi asked.

"Rongyi told me that Shuming gave him a bag of coffee beans for his birthday. While he was thinking about what to do with them, he accidentally dropped them into a vat of vinegar. When he remembered them later, they had been soaking for too long."

When he heard me struggling to find a gift for Shu Ming, he casually handed me the bag of freshly dried coffee beans. Although I later learned that this bag of coffee beans had gone through many trials before finally returning to Shu Ming's hands.

"Did Shu Ming say anything?" Shui Qi asked curiously.

"He messaged me saying he wanted to quit coffee for a month and that no one should bother him," Mu Yegui said softly, reflecting on what had happened back then.

Shui Qi: "..." What kind of blow must he have suffered to want to give up coffee? Could it be that the bag of coffee beans made him doubt his love for coffee?

That's really...

Happy to hear and see.

He felt he should set off fireworks in front of the police station to celebrate when he got back. Shu Ming wanted to quit coffee because of a bag of coffee beans that had been soaked in vinegar.

Hahahaha, that's hilarious!

(End of this chapter)