Edited by Rinrin~
Whoosh——
A gale swept past, plucking a tune from the leaves and bringing life to the silence. After all, the devil’s thorns only put people to sleep; it didn’t stop time.
Using this opportunity, Shan Ziwei shook off those unhappy memories. There were no pointed comments and loudly whispered judgements, nor blatant or discrete gazes. Everyone had their eyes closed, asleep, silent and still as a picture.
Shan Ziwei was the only living person in this picture, weaving between the crowd of wax sculpture-like people.
If all had gone well, this should be the celebration of Princess Rose’s birth. Soon enough, Shan Ziwei found the stars of the celebration.
The moment he saw them, the oil painting in Snow White’s room immediately surfaced in his mind. The family of three on the two dimensional oil painting had become three-dimensional reality: the sickly, but beautiful queen and the intimidating, yet gentle king. The only one who had changed was the princess. Shan Ziwei stepped forward, looking at the small babe in the queen’s arms. Her round face was pink, her skin soft and tender. Even though she was still so young, it was clear she’d grow up to be a beauty. Though he knew the child wouldn’t wake up under the sleep skill, he subconsciously attempted to quiet his breathing, afraid to wake her up.
This was definitely the month old Rose Princess. The little princess seemed to have just finished crying, tears still clinging to the corner of her eyes, a sight that would make anyone’s heart melt. Shan Ziwei looked around. There were people everywhere here. If he deactivated the skill here, then he couldn’t be sure if the first person to see him would be female or male. So, he had to take the princess away from everyone’s sight, deactivate the skill, then return.
This just so happened to adhere to what the queen had said: the witch suddenly appeared at the celebration, took the princess away and soon returned with the princess.
Shan Ziwei carefully extracted Princess Rose from the queen’s arms. The feeling in his arms made him feel like he was holding a lit bomb. He never knew babies were so soft, lying in his arms bonelessly.
The hypersexual felt his scalp prickle. He quickly headed off with the soft little princess towards the place he had his eyes on before —— a table filled with all different kinds of food. More importantly, it was a table covered in a white cloth down to the base of its legs. With the white cloth there, no one could see what was under the table. It was well hidden, and a good place to do unspeakable things.
Shan Ziwei scrambled under the table without a hint of elegance, a waste of his current regal attire. In order to be rid of the soft creature in his arms, Shan Ziwei didn’t hesitate at all, quickly kissing the other. The other reason he didn’t hesitate was that this Princess Rose was simply too small, so small and young that Shan Ziwei didn’t feel even the slightest impurity in his actions.
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This time, there was no need for Shan Ziwei to keep his eyes closed in order to maintain invisibility, so he naturally wouldn’t make the mistake of kissing the wrong place. His lips left but a moment after contact. Shan Ziwei’s breath had quickened slightly, ghosting over the baby’s eyelashes and seeming to blow her eyelids open.
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“My child!”
The queen’s cry of shock almost startled Shan Ziwei into slamming his head against the table. After kissing the princess, the AoE sleep skill was deactivated. Hearing the commotion outside, Shan Ziwei didn’t dare dawdle. He grabbed Princess Rose’s hand and closed his eyes to activate his invisibility skill.
[Scenario Three: You can close your eyes to hide yourself and the person holding your hand.]
Amidst the chaos, no one noticed as a white tablecloth flipped upwards then fell back into its original position of its own volition. Shan Ziwei stumbled his way out from under the table with the princess. Once he was certain his dress and regal demeanor were unscathed, he directly deactivated the invisibility skill.
“Rose! Lady Witch!”
The queen’s love for her daughter was deep and immediately noticed Shan Ziwei and Princess Rose in his arms. She was originally weakly leaning against the king, but now she was the first to arrive in front of Shan Ziwei.
Seeing the queen’s pale face, Shan Ziwei felt rather guilty. He wanted to hand Princess Rose back to the queen as soon as possible, but the queen didn’t take Princess Rose from his arms when he offered, instead desperately asking Shan Ziwei, “Lady Witch, is there a way to break that curse?”
……….what?
Seeing Shan Ziwei’s somewhat lost gaze, the queen’s anxiety and desperation mounted.
“Well, that-that curse that will cause Rose to prick her finger on a spindle when she turns fifteen, and then……then die……” The queen stuttered, as if she really didn’t want to say the last word. She continued, sobbing. “Will my child really die?”
Wait, what? How did the plot suddenly advance to how to break the curse? Shan Ziwei’s mind was in a muddle. Could it be that he wasn’t the only witch in this kingdom? The blessings and curse were made by another witch?
Before Shan Ziwei could organise his thoughts, his face flushed red… because of the child that was suckling at his chest.
Princess Rose seemed to be hungry. She pressed her head against Shan Ziwei, suckling and biting, clearly looking for milk to drink. Shan Ziwei’s arms shook, almost flinging the little child away. The queen was surprised, too. She watched as Shan Ziwei passed her the baby like a hot potato, belatedly taking Princess Rose back into her arms.
The little princess struggled a little upon returning to her mother’s arms, her dark eyes growing teary. The queen merely patted her back to comfort her, keeping her eyes on Shan Ziwei as if he were her last hope and urged him for an answer, “Lady Witch?”
Shan Ziwei was still utterly bewildered. His mind was practically melting from the pleasure running through his body, so his brain followed the queen’s prompting and recited the line said by the last witch in The Rose Princess without thinking, “Th-th-this terrible curse indeed will come into effect, but the princess will find fortune within this misfortune. She will not die, but only fall into a deep sleep for one hundred years!”
The queen gasped in shock and the king came over, placing a hand on her shoulder to steady her emotionally.
“Thank you kindly for your prophecy, Lady Witch. I apologise that we cannot entertain you any further.” The king raised his voice, calling out to Shan Ziwei and all the other guests, “It is time for everyone to return to their own homes. To prevent this tragedy, we must take action —— Erma!”
“Yes, milord!”
“Gather everyone and have them confiscate all the spindles in the kingdom…”
The king had already started giving orders, and the guests who had been asked to leave slowly began to disperse. Shan Ziwei was the first to leave. He jogged to a restroom in the outer hall, almost bumping into a female guest. The guest had just left the restroom, trembling, her eyes growing wide as she stared at the approaching Shan Ziwei. “Ghost…” she muttered shakily before collapsing in a dead faint.
Shan Ziwei quickly brushed past the fainted lady. He was barely in the state of mind to look after himself, never mind some stranger. Charging into the restroom, Shan Ziwei roughly turned on the tap and soaked himself under it.
He should have realized that the little princess was hungry earlier. After all, she’d stared at him with such a ravenous look the moment she’d opened her eyes and saw him. Why hadn’t he understood immediately?
Shan Ziwei cupped some water in his hands and splashed it against his chest, trying to extinguish the prickling, tingling heat here. What a goddamn professional hypersexual he was, getting sent into heat by a baby.
His depleting Hearts SP (Joy) came to a grinding halt. Once all the weird urges had been suppressed, he could finally use his cooled-down brain to think. The events of Princess Rose’s birth celebration had gone far beyond his expectations. The queen had clearly said to the eight years-old Rose that “there is a witch in this kingdom”. According to her description, it sounded like one person had done all the blessings and made the curse against Rose, but when he arrived at the celebration, the queen only asked him how to break the curse, as if someone else had already given the blessings and curse ahead of him.
Did he misunderstand? In the original ‘Princess Rose’, there were eleven witches who gave their blessings, one witch that gave the curse, and the last witch who weakened the curse. He thought that he’d have to become a one man show and take up all the witch roles, but now it seemed that the system had already automatically gone past the twelve witches part of the plot. All he needed to do was play the part of the last witch.
However, Shan Ziwei quickly threw this to the back of his mind, because no matter which situation it was, it no longer mattered. He had completed Scenario 1 already, after all. Now he had to prepare for Princess Donkeyskin’s plot. Scenario 3 was soon to activate.
“Miss, are you alright? Can you hear my voice?”
A feminine voice drifted in from outside the restroom. Shan Ziwei suddenly remembered the lady who had fainted upon seeing him. He heard a groan and the unconscious lady seemed to begin to wake up under the other lady’s urging.
As soon as she did, she cried out in shock, “I-I saw a ghost in the restroom just now!”
Ghost…..did she mean him?
Shan Ziwei, confused, subconsciously headed outside to ask them what they were talking about. However, when Shan Ziwei appeared at the door, the two ladies outside stared at him with wide eyes, simultaneously letting out a scream.
“AHHHH!”
Shan Ziwei stared at the newcomer lady who stared back at him in disbelief. She looked at him then at the sign on the restroom. Shan Ziwei though “oh fuck” to himself. He suddenly realised he was currently crossdressing, but he had gone into the man’s room without thinking. As for the other, previously passed out lady, she looked like the sight of him was about to make her faint again.
“It appeared again!!”
Their screams caught the attention of others further away. Shan Ziwei looked towards the crowd of people on their way over. If he got caught by this crowd, he definitely wouldn’t be able to leave for a good while.
Thus, Shan Ziwei resolutely took a step back, closed the restroom door and jammed the key into the keyhole in one smooth movement.
“I wish to go to where Princess Donkeyskin, who had just come of age, is!”
Time shenanigans be like @_@
Hahaha him walking into the boys bathroom as a girl 😂
Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤😍💖😍💕😍❤
Eh? Why a ghost did his look alike die or what?
He suddenly “appeared” in front of everyone holding princess rose
Ah, SZ, what a little disaster you are hahhahaha
And again, I think you should be more careful about those princess dear👀👀
if a man can become a queen there’s nothing wrong on another man becoming a princess 😀
thank you for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter! 💕
This is honestly triggering me. Hopefully, he’ll get stronger at the end.
I feel like I’m reading this through my fingers, it’s hard watching him dig that out for himself 😟