Chapter 10: Punishment
This time, bathing went much more smoothly than yesterday. White Anan didn't ask White Xueruo any more questions. Although she still showed some resistance during the bath, it was much better than yesterday.
After the bath, her most nervous moment finally arrived. As White Xueruo carried her to the sink in front of the mirror, her heart couldn't help but pound rapidly as she watched White Xueruo wiping her body without moving.
As her hair was finally dried and put up, White Anan's eyes revealed a flicker of hope.
Great... just as I thought, as long as I behave properly in front of this witch and don't say things she doesn't like, I won't be fed flowers or get shocked by unknown things!
White Anan mentally popped champagne for herself, her mouth gradually curling into a smile, as if she had mastered the way to survive.
This plan came to her after learning about White Xueruo's personality from the maid sister. Now it seemed her guess was correct.@@novelbin@@
If she were treated with those clicks every day, perhaps one day she would truly have a mental breakdown and choose suicide.
Perhaps because she understood what she needed to do going forward, White Anan didn't feel such strong rejection when White Xueruo dressed her in pajamas. She was quickly dressed in cute bear pajamas and carried back to the bedroom upstairs.
This time, White Xueruo didn't leave the room for Yan to come in, but instead held her daughter and lay on the same bed with her.
Today, White Xueruo was gentle, just like her name suggested—gentle white snow.
Her embrace didn't cause White Anan pain; rather, it was quite comfortable. Apart from her body, all four limbs could move freely. Perhaps tonight she could sleep peacefully.
That's what White Anan thought.
Unfortunately, reality was not so kind.
Shortly after falling asleep, she quickly felt something strange in her body. A sharp pain came from her lower abdomen, first as a burning sensation, then scorching hot, as if it would melt her skin.
"Mmph?!!?"
White Anan was immediately awakened by the strange sensations in her body. She opened her eyes but found she couldn't move anything except her eyes, and there was something with a familiar texture in her mouth.
Soon she remembered—what was in her mouth was the same rose as yesterday...
"Oh my, you're awake? I'm so sorry, Anan."
Under White Anan's terrified gaze, White Xueruo turned her body around and gently stroked her little face that had turned pale.
"Although you were indeed very much to my liking today, once the transformation has begun, it can't be stopped. After all, one day you might become willful like yesterday. To make sure you always remain mommy's good child, I have no choice but to do this."
"Don't worry, I'll be gentler today."
White Xueruo smiled tenderly, kissing her daughter's forehead. A red light passed from her mouth into her daughter's mind. She might have said these words, but if not for the burning heat spreading from her abdomen, White Anan would almost have believed her.
What scared White Anan even more was White Xueruo's kiss just now. Her forehead began to itch, as if insects were crawling over it.
Later, the itching turned into bursts of stabbing pain that spread throughout her body, as if she were being eaten by insects. The pain filled White Anan's large, watery eyes with tears.
Her skin felt like it was melting, her bones felt like they were being gnawed on. White Anan wanted to cry out loudly to ease the pain, but at this moment, she didn't even have the right to cry out...
Once again, White Anan passed out from the excruciating pain.
When she woke up again, she didn't know what time it was, only that the sun outside was strong and shining on her bottom.
Looking dazedly at the unfamiliar ceiling, her mind was still replaying what had happened last night, lost in thought.
"Young miss... it's time to get up for lunch..."
Perhaps by coincidence, just as White Anan woke up, the maid sister opened the door and reminded the dazed girl.
At Yan's prompting, White Anan got off the bed like a wound-up doll. But as she walked past the floor-length mirror, she couldn't help glancing at it.
This one glance made White Anan's eyes widen instantly.
In the mirror was not the tiny black-haired, red-eyed little girl from before, but a girl who looked about eleven or twelve, with snow-white skin and red eyes, her hair alternating between black and white.
The bear pajamas White Anan wore now looked as if they had shrunk, exposing her fair, soft little belly button and slender, delicate legs.
If not for the distinctive red eyes, White Anan would have thought this was some beautiful girl who had suddenly appeared.
White Anan pressed her jade-red lips together and silently followed the maid sister downstairs. White Xueruo had been waiting at the dining table for some time.
She had her hands clasped together under her nose, looking somewhat displeased, like the father of a protagonist in some religious anime.
"Anan, you got up rather late today. That's not what a good child should do."
"Wait, mistress, the young miss is just not feeling well today, please forgive the young—"
"Enough!"
Just as the maid tried to speak up for White Anan, she was cut off by a shout from the very young miss she was trying to defend. What White Anan said next made her eyes widen even more.
"You're just a madwoman! You don't deserve to be my mother—no, you don't deserve to be anyone's mother!"
White Anan, who had been suppressing herself for so long, finally had her psychological defenses collapse. She cursed at White Xueruo regardless of her appearance, showing no signs of obedience.
"What did you just say?"
White Xueruo frowned slightly, her expression becoming increasingly terrifying, but White Anan clearly didn't notice and continued insulting her.
"I said you're just a psychopath! Bad woman, big witch, a monster that's not human! Let me go back quickly, I want to be with Gu Xue!"
"Anan, stop. This is not what a good child should do."
White Xueruo's tone now lacked any gentleness; instead, it was almost commanding as she spoke coldly.
"No, I don't want to be a good child anymore. Being a good child means being abused, being a bad child also means being abused, so... I might as well just be myself..."
In White Anan's eyes, White Xueruo knew all her little thoughts, so she no longer concealed them. Crying and laughing, she shouted at this witch she once called "mother."
"Be yourself?" Hearing these words, White Xueruo's pupils trembled, as if triggered by some keyword. She rose from her chair and walked toward White Anan step by step.
"Wait, Xueruo, stop. Anan just misspoke..."
"Get out of the way!"
Just as Yan tried to step forward to stop her, she was pushed against the wall by White Xueruo. A red punch hit her abdomen, embedding her entire body into the wall.
White Anan, who had just been cursing White Xueruo, instinctively looked toward the wall out of concern for the maid sister upon seeing such terrifying power. But the next moment, her face was forcibly turned back by White Xueruo.
"You want to be yourself? Then I'll let you be!"
White Xueruo forcefully grabbed White Anan's hand. Being just a child, how could she possibly match the strength of this monster-like witch? She was instantly dragged upstairs.
On the stairs, White Anan's entire back was scraped against the ground, bloody wounds starkly visible against her snow-white skin, like roses blooming in the snow.
"Argh...!"
White Anan was thrown onto the bed and cried out in pain. But when she saw a rose bigger than her entire body appear before her, she froze in terror.
Is this witch going to stuff such a big flower into my mouth?
White Anan couldn't help but think, her entire body curling up and trembling.
"No, it won't fit..."
"What? You know you've done wrong?"
White Xueruo tilted her head back, now in her witch form, speaking in a mocking tone.
"But too bad, mommy is going to give you a big punishment."
As soon as White Xueruo finished speaking, that enormous rose slowly approached White Anan, emitting a hypnotic fragrance.
"Inside there, you will properly accept your punishment."
Before White Anan lost consciousness, she only heard White Xueruo say these words, and then she saw herself swallowed by this rose as big as a person...
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