Edited by RinRin \(≧▽≦)/
Compared to the popular story of《Princess Rose》,《Princess Donkeyskin》was much less renowned. It was a story about a king who wanted his beautiful daughter for himself. Eventually, the Princess escaped with the help of her fairy godmother, finally going on to find her one true love, the prince.
Shan Ziwei believed that the reason it wasn’t as popular, was thanks to the storytellers having strong and unbending morals… After all, these themes weren’t really appropriate for little children.
Within this story that is perfectly suitable for an “.AV” suffix (ie. rated R), Shan Ziwei’s role was very clearly set by Scenario 3.
[Scenario 3: You are Princess Donkeyskin’s godmother.]
That meant he would play the part of the Fairy Godmother in this story. The role was in charge of helping the Princess escape from her depraved father in the earlier parts of the story, later helping the Princess reveal her identity in front of the prince and giving her a fashion upgrade.
Thus, Shan Ziwei set his target time to when Princess Donkeyskin just came of age. It was around this time that the king set his sights on the Princess and announced that he would take her as his wife.
As Shan Ziwei walked through the shimmering mercury screen with his eyes closed, he could hear talking voices. The voices were so close they were right in front of him.
”Princess, please understand that this is a holy and wondrous union. Everyone in the kingdom wishes for it to go through. As a servant of God, I would never deceive you.”
”There’s no one in the world who loves you more than His Majesty. He is the greatest and most powerful in the kingdom. Who else could be a better match for your highness than him?”
“His Majesty is already preparing for the wedding. I hope that you can be more sensible and live up to his Majesty’s love for you and the expectations of the late queen…”
Although there was only a single person talking from beginning to end, it was obvious that there were two people present. One seemed to be a priest, and the other, silently listening, one should be the Princess. Shan Ziwei quickly figured out the situation in relevance to the story of《Princess Donkeyskin》: in order to convince the Princess, His Majesty the King had invited a priest to assure her that it was perfectly okay for a father and daughter to get married. The more Shan Ziwei listened, the more Shan Ziwei felt like his three views were being severely tested. Listen here, are those words that should come out of a priest’s mouth? He simply wanted to rush out and beat up the priest who was speaking bullshit.
Just as Shan Ziwei was about to snap and charge out there, a hoarse and muffled voice spoke. The speaker sounded like they were talking through a layer of gauze.
”……you may leave”
The priest paused for a beat, ”Your Highness, does this mean you’ve agreed?”
The princess did not speak; it was either a silent consent or she was tired of this topic and did not want to go through another round of brainwashing. The priest took the princess’s silence as acquiesce, and happily left to report to the king.
Shan Ziwei opened his eyes the moment the door closed. The upside-down three views that he’d just been forcefully fed gave him a bellyful of words he wanted to say. Directly to the front was a royal bedroom that was already becoming familiar to him. There was a large European style bed. The red curtains around it draped down in heavy layers, caging the ivory fixture. A girl was sitting against the headboard. She was wearing a white nightgown with both legs bent, her head buried in her knees. Her silky black hair hid her body that was bent into a fragile arc.
This was… the Princess?
The words that were supposed to rush out of his mouth became stuck in his throat. Shan Ziwei’s sight uncontrollably moved along the bent figure, ending at the small white feet under their nightgown. He subconsciously felt upset. The other party gave him the impression of a fragile black butterfly resting on thin ice; it was as if she would disappear at the lightest touch.
“Who is it?”
Even though Shan Ziwei didn’t open his mouth, the Princess was still keenly aware of the sudden change in the room, and gave an order to leave.
”If my royal father sent you, please go back. I want to be alone. ”
The phrase ‘Royal Father’ was like a switch, the words that were originally stuck in Shan Ziwei’s throat rushed out.
“You can’t marry your father!”
Hearing Shan Ziwei’s words, the shoulder of the one on the bed shook. Like a slow motion picture, the princess raised her head, and her long black hair slid from her shoulders. It brought a certain kind of infatuous charm and gave an impression of luring one to spy on the hidden treasure underneath. It was a face that could enter a painting. Her cherry lips, white teeth, and long delicate eyebrows framed a thrilling beauty underneath the neat bangs.
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In a flash, Shan Ziwei fully understood the depraved King’s unfatherly feelings. He even began to think that the plotline of《Princess Donkeyskin》was not so unreasonable. The person in front of him was simply just too sensual and alluring. Shan Ziwei recognized that he’d been seduced by that perfect figure. That kind of temptation stems from men’s natural love and pursuit of beauty and perfection. If Gaia’s beauty was one that instakilled all men and women, whether old and young, then the Princess’s beauty was one created especially for men. She was born to make guys go crazy for her.
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“I won’t marry him.” She slowly revealed more of her face, her face became more tender and charming. She looked at Shan Ziwei and repeated her words happily with some shyness, “I’m not going to marry him.”
The hoarse voice didn’t sound nice by far, instead, it involuntarily reminded one of an ominous crow. Her voice seemed to be the beautiful princess’s only flaw. However, she was well at the age of puberty, vocal changes were normal. Or, perhaps the princess had cried herself hoarse before he arrived. At the thought of this, Shan Ziwei was filled with pity for the princess in front of him. A depraved father was not as scary as a depraved father with the power of a kingdom in his hands. This caused the princess to look at him as if he was her last lifeline.
“You don’t have to worry. I’m your godmother. I’m a……a mage. ” Shan Ziwei finally remembered to introduce himself. However, both “a fairy” and “a witch” were too shameful to say, so instead, he replaced them with a related synonym. He cleared his throat and began to act out the story of《Princess Donkeyskin》. “I know what happened, so I’ve come to help you.”
Seeing that the Princess had no intention to interrupt, Shan Zi Wei continued, “Tomorrow, go tell your father that you have a wish: you wish for him to make you a dress the color of the sky. If you don’t receive a dress like that, you refuse to marry anyone. “
In actuality, Shan Ziwei thought that only a brain-dead individual could come up with a retarded idea like this. ‘A dress the color of the sky’… I can make an entire closetful ok?! But that’s what the fairy godmother in《Princess Donkeyskin》said, so he could only bring up the same dumb idea.
“Your royal father won’t be able to do it (as if), thus, you can avoid marrying him without causing a scene.”
The princess stared at him without blinking before nodded obediently.
The room fell silent, and Shan Ziwei found that he didn’t have anything more to say. He had said what needed to be said. The princess was so soft and lovely that he didn’t even need to spend time to convince her. Thus, Shan Ziwei smiled with abSoLUTely nO embarrassment and decided to leave.
“Take some time to rest before going tomorrow. I’m leaving first.”
Shan Ziwei’s farewell seemed to shock the princess. Her dark eyes widened. She got out of bed in a panic and stepped on the floor with her bare feet.
“You’re not going to stay?”
Shan Ziwei’s heart squeezed for a second as fuck flitted across his mind. Looking at the princess standing opposite him, to call her slim and graceful was a bit excessive. As a man, Shan Ziwei was of average height, but the princess was only half a head shorter than him.
Prin- Princess Donkeyskin was really the epitome of ‘black haired, tall, and straight’. Those long and straight legs are seriously sinful.
“I have something else to do.” Seeing the princess’s pale face, Shan Ziwei assumed that she was afraid of her incesteous father, so he comforted her. “Don’t be afraid. As long as you follow my words, you won’t be hurt.”
“Don’t go.” The Princess’s black eyes stared unwaveringly at Shan Ziwei, revealing her thoughts and willfulness for the first time in front of him. “Don’t….leave me.”
If he could, he also wanted to accompany this cute little girl to face that incestious father, but this was obviously unrealistic. Besides being responsible for Snow White and Princess Rose, he also had less than 8 hours left in the game. He could only use Bluebeard’s Key to appear for a few critical scenarios. There was no way for him to accompany Princess Donkeyskin through every scene.
“……I’ll come back soon.”
Right after finishing his words, Shan Ziwei ruthlessly closed his eyes and hid himself. He heard the princess’s gasp, and the flurry of footsteps and she approached where he was standing. He hurriedly stepped back and slipped out of the room through the door behind him.
Why did he have to escape from the princess’s side like a thief every time? With Snow White it was like this, with Princess Donkeyskin it was also like this… Speaking of which, it’s been a long time since he’d last seen Snow White. Shan Ziwei thought of the child who had been ‘plucked’ by him. According to the time traveling logic, Snow White should currently be like Princess Donkeyskin, having just come of age. It should almost be time for the queen to look for hunters to kill her.
Thus, Shan Ziwei took out Bluebeard’s key and decided to go back to deal with Snow White’s plot first.
”I want to return to my room. ”
This time, Shan Ziwei walked through without closing his eyes. His starting point in this chessboard should be the safest place. As the Queen in Snow White’s story, he’d already decreed that only female servants could enter his room. There definitely won’t be a dude in his room.
Shan Ziwei walked through the mercury screen, and raised his head to see a frightening figure.
A beautiful girl with long straight hair was standing in front of the enormous painting of the Queen’s wedding. Her head was slightly raised, and her slightly skewed bangs revealed her beautiful brows and eyes. Even her patched old dress could not deter her beauty. Hearing Shan Ziwei’s entrance, the girl turned her head in surprise. At that moment, Shan Ziwei almost had a heart attack. It was like Princess Donkeyskin had reappeared in front of him with a different set of clothes.
“Mother……” The girl’s eyes widened at first, then she lowered her eyes, trembling a bit as though her eyes stung, “Your Majesty the Queen.”
He didn’t expect to meet Snow White immediately. Moreover, compared to Princess Donkeyskin, the pitiful appearance of Snow White standing in front of him in rags was simply unbearable.
“What are you doing here?”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Shan Ziwei realized his mistake. His mind still lingered in Princess Donkeyskin’s room, where he was the princess’s savior. Whereas with the relationship between him and Snow White, who got along as well as oil and water, his tone just now had been too mild.
Snow White also discovered this, her shoulder trembled for a moment, as if she wanted to look up at Shan Ziwei, but she held back.
“I’m cleaning Your Majesty’s room……”
That’s right, making Snow White clean her room like a servant was what she should be doing as her evil stepmother. Through the dialogue, Shan Ziwei adjusted his state. He put on a chilling expression and said to the princess, “Get out.”
The princess’s shoulders were suddenly no longer taut, but relaxed. She no longer restrained herself and raised her head to greet Shan Ziwei with proper courtesy.
Her expression was immaculate, her actions meticulous, her posture impeccable, but from beginning to end, Shan Ziwei could see his darkened to the pits of hell figure in her eyes.
Only after Snow White left, did Shan Ziwei unconsciously let out a suppressed breath. He quickly called for the palace maid.
“Go and find me a hunter.”
The royal maid answered and left. Shan Ziwei paced around the room restlessly. He felt a certain sense of urgency. It felt like if he didn’t do these things immediately, he wouldn’t have the time to do so later.
The hunter was quickly brought in.
“Take Snow White to the deepest part of the forest and kill her.” Ignoring the shock on the faces of his listeners, Shan Ziwei continued on quickly and without mercy, “Then, bring back Snow White’s heart to prove that the deed is done.”
After the hunter left, Shan Ziwei’s indescribable sense of oppression gradually disappeared. Sitting on the sofa, he felt that his panic just now was a little unreasonable. Even if he forced the princess into a corner, it wasn’t like that pure white lotus would bite back.
Anyway, the story of Snow White was already nearly complete. Next, it seemed like he needed to make a trip to Princess Rose’s world. According to the story of《Princess Rose》, the cursed princess was also at her coming of age day when she met the witch disguised as an old lady. Subsequently also coming into contact with the prophesied spindle and falling into a magical slumber.
#EveryPrincessMustRunIntoAWitchWhenTheyComeOfAge#
#TheWitchIsSoBusy#
Complaining was just complaining though. Shan Ziwei still had to acknowledge his destiny and began making preparations. He asked the court maid to find some spindle——the Queen’s identity was really too convenient —— and then used the disguise skill to appear as an old lady.
The white haired Shan Ziwei, walked a few steps in front of the mirror and felt that the old granny in the mirror was terribly awkward. Although the disguise skill gave him a completely realistic appearance, his movements were full of flaws. Elderly movements were slow and slightly shaking. Even if Shan Ziwei were to deliberately slow down his movements, he still looked strangely stiff. After all, he was just an ordinary computer geek. Forget acting, just altering his voice was already at the limit of what he could do.
Aiya, just tough it out yeah? Shan Ziwei gave up trying to act. He put on his hooded cloak and held the Devil’s-Thorn, which was finally going to be used for proper business, and took out Bluebeard’s Key.
“I want to go to wherever Princess Rose is”.
Bluebeard’s Key opened the door, and Shan Ziwei walked through the simmering mercury film with closed eyes. As soon as he walked out, Shan Ziwei heard rapid footsteps. There was only one set of footsteps approaching. The other party seemed to be walking in a relatively enclosed space, their footsteps echoing as they fell. The sounds seem to approach from below. Shan Ziwei sketched out a room with a height difference in his head. He seemed to be standing on a higher plane as the other party climbed the stairs towards him.
Feeling that the other was still a distance away from him. Shan Ziwei quickly blinked his eyes with lightning speed to determine the situation before him. He was standing in a typical medieval tower. Cold grey stone layered around him to form the wall of the tower. He stood at the end of the stairs, in front of a wooden door.
The footsteps grew louder. Since it was where Princess Rose is, the identity of the approcher was evident.
Shan Ziwei quickly turned around. The wooden door at the end of the stairs lead to a small attic. The floor was covered with white cotton wool. Shan Ziwei carefully closed the wooden door and sat down in the room full of cotton padding. He hid the Devil’s-Thorn behind him, and held the spindle while waiting for his victim.
The reverberating footsteps stopped outside the door, and the wooden door was pushed open with a creak, revealing a beautiful girl with black hair.
She had a beauty that was familiar to Shan Ziwei, yet she didn’t have Princess Donkeyskin’s fragility or Snow White’s pitiful countenance. She was beautiful in a straightforward way, a beauty that was impossible to defend against. Shan Ziwei, who was hiding under the cotten, only used his peripheral vision to glance at her, but just with that, he could feel his heart burning. However, what shook him even more was that the beautiful girl, who was obviously Princess Rose, was holding a blue doll.
It was normal for an 8-year-old girl to carry a doll around all the time. However, the princess before his eyes was already 16 years old, yet still seemed inseparable from the doll. The blue doll was the exact same as those cloth dolls that Shan Ziwei had seen in Princess Rose’s room last time. She was holding hands with the girl, her small body hanging in the air, and her heavier head tilting slightly due to the gravity. The doll’s eyes stared straight into Shan Ziwei’s eyes.
At the moment, the doll seems to laugh at him as it’s expression said: I’m you ah!
Shan Ziwei’s hand shook and the spindle fell on the ground, rolling until it hit the tip of the princess’s shoes. Shan Ziwei took the opportunity to lift his head and speak slowly, “Lovely child, won’t you help me pick that up?”
His hand held the Devil’s-Thorn tightly behind his back. As soon as the princess touched the spindle, he would activate the AOE sleep skill.
The princess’s sight moved from the spindle on the ground to the one who just spoke. She looked at him with a fixed gaze, not showing any sign of interest in the spindle. “Who are you?”
That’s the wrong line ah your highness!!! Aren’t you supposed to be curious about the spindle?! You’ve never seen a spindle before, right?! Don’t you want to pick up that mysterious object that you’ve never encountered before in your life?!!
“I’m only an old granny spinning yarn here.” Shan Ziwei put heavy emphasis on spinning yarn, working hard to direct the princess’s attention. “My knees aren’t what they used to be, can you help me pick that up, kindhearted child?”
The princess still didn’t bend down, as if she’d been asked to pick up soap dropped in a prison shower unit instead of some mysterious object. She stared at Shan Ziwei with a strange look, as if she couldn’t take her eyes off him.
“Are your legs crippled? How sad. ” The princess’s body leaned forward slightly, her black hair sliding down. Her red lips curled up as she chatted about the other party’s grim condition with a cheerful expression, “Seeing as you can’t hold things firmly, your hands should be unstable as well, right?”
A chill crawled up from the base of his spine. Shan Ziwei gulped, and felt a sliver of indescribable fear.
“If you’re like this, you probably need someone to take care of you right?” Without waiting for Shan Ziwei to reply, the princess continued on joyfully, “Of course you must need someone to take care of you. Then——”
“I’ll take care of you.”
Under Shan Ziwei’s shocked gaze, the princess held the blue doll in the crook of her arm, and spoke as she pointed to the doll’s mouth, hands, and legs.
“I can feed you meals, be your hands, and support you as you walk. ” She seemed to imagine the scene, as her face flushed with happiness. “You won’t have to do anything. You only need to lay back and let me take care of you.”
Shan Ziwei suddenly realized that the princess’s attitude towards him was just like her attitude toward the doll in her hands. He asked dryly, “Why do you want to take care of an old lady like me? We’ve just met, and we’re complete strangers.”
“There’s no reason why. I just want to take care of you, isn’t that okay?”
A noble princess was willing to take care of a granny with no background. Everyone should praise her for her kindness and purity. However, Shan Ziwei felt an indescribable chill. Perhaps it was due to the princess’s overeagerness to take care of him, causing him to react defensively.
“…….don’t you want me to take care of you?”
The princess was unusually sensitive to Shan Ziwei’s thoughts. Even his flash of hesitation was caught by her.
She stared fixedly at Shan Ziwei for a moment, then she turned around and shut the door.
Iz: OMG
Rinrin: Poor, poor Shanzi. You’ve already activated three crossdressers’s frigid desire…..and you don’t even know
Iz: @_@
Poor Shanzi, you got a big storm coming…
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omfg yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Not 1 or 2 but a whooping 3, good luck!
Thanks for the chapter! 💕
This reminds me of the monster arc already…
How do I feel that Shanzi is starting to get more stupid and naive… Is he forgetting about the info given to him about other players…😓
Damn, he is too rigid in his thinking..I mean he can crossdress so why cant others….think Shanzi think otherwise you gonna end up dead…For some reason I always get goosebumps reading this arc…😱
Thanks for the chapter…😍
Ahh thank you so so much for the chapter!! ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪
This novel is one of my favorites, I always look forward to your guys’ updates!
lolz is it because he was cross-dressing that’s why instead of male it triggers the female 🤣🤣🤣
He’s getting more foolish and it triggers the fuck out of me. What the hell. I thought he was quick-witted but goddamnit, I’m just getting disappointed.
😂 enjoy the popularity I guess, even if it’s going to end badly