I Live on the Land in Global Games-Chapter 491 - 474: The Timely Prince

"How about... just taking one life then! Both of you, tell me the worst thing you’ve ever done. The most evil one can keep their life, and the other, I’ll feed to my thorny vine. Look, it’s hungry," Mu Ying said sinisterly.

The thorny vine that bound the King and Queen seemed to move slightly, scraping against their necks.

She didn’t actually want to kill anyone; she just wanted to see if there was anything else to be gained from the King and Queen.

"Who will speak first?"

The prickling pain on his neck terrified the King so much that his teeth chattered, but speaking later always had its advantages. "The Queen first!"

The Queen turned her head to look at the bedroom door. Her son was still young; she couldn’t die.

"I am a very wicked stepmother. I’m jealous of anyone more beautiful than me. Shirley is about to come of age, and she’s too beautiful, so I added poison that causes obesity to her pastries, and I personally handed them to her. I even told the King it was her lack of control when eating that caused it, pitting their father-daughter relationship against each other. Unfortunately, she found out and ran away, but that didn’t stop me. Disguising myself as an old lady selling pears, I poisoned her, and now no one is prettier than me!"

"Shirley got fat because of you?" the King hadn’t realized his own wife was jealous of their daughter!

"Alright, your turn, Your Majesty!" Mu Ying tapped her cane but didn’t expose the Queen.

"What I’ve done is much worse than the Queen. I ordered Shirley’s death because Jin Jing said her existence would bring disaster to the Rose Kingdom. And the former queen, she didn’t die from illness—it was I who killed her! I’ve killed two people, one my wife, the other my daughter. I’m worse than the Queen!" the King said.

"Why did you kill the former queen?" Mu Ying hadn’t expected to dig up something interesting.

This was apparently true, and her mission progressed a bit further.

"Because she was injured while giving birth to Shirley and couldn’t have more children. The Crown Prince of the Rose Kingdom had to be a male, and I didn’t want to pass the throne to my daughter. I needed a queen who could bear a son, so I had to ask her to step down," the King explained.

"Oh, it looks like you are indeed worse," Mu Ying directed the thorny vine at their neck arteries. "But I’ve changed my mind. I’ve decided to do a good deed today and kill a villain instead. Don’t be afraid, Your Majesty, it’ll be quick."

"No, no, no! The Queen personally killed someone and I did too, but I killed the former queen not just for a son but also to protect my daughter!" the King quickly said.

"Oh?" Mu Ying was a bit interested, the King was really a treasure trove of contributions!

"The former queen was insane. After giving birth to Shirley, because Jin Jing said I loved my daughter Shirley the most, she would always secretly strangle her to death. Her death was well-deserved! It seems the Queen is still worse!" the King explained.

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This was also true, and the mission’s progress increased by another percentage point.

The royal family of this kingdom was really terrible, such messy jealousy continuing on without needing any prophesy to foresee that the kingdom might not last long.

Poor Shirley, her evil stepmother, ironically, treated her better than her own parents.

The mission progress was now down to the last 30%, and no matter how much more she asked, there was no further progress.

Mu Ying realized she likely wouldn’t dig out anything more from the King and Queen, leaving the rest to the scene where the Prince kisses Shirley awake.

Mu Ying cast a Deep Sleep Magic on the two of them, then gathered up the thorny vine, erasing any trace of herself from the room.

Although the King was rather treacherous, she didn’t feel a need to act as a force of retribution; Shirley herself was also rather naive, and since she was playing the role of the Evil Witch today, not killing anyone was already good enough.

Mu Ying left the Royal Palace, ready to go to the forest and check on Shirley, who had eaten the poisoned pear and fallen into a deep sleep, waiting for that passing Prince to complete the final piece of her mission.

But when she reached the forest cottage, she was stunned.

The cottage looked the same from the outside as it always had, but inside it was much more luxurious, and all the dwarfs’ beds were now covered with real silk sheets.

The dwarfs’ meals had improved significantly; they started drinking red wine and eating cake, and all the hunting tools hanging in the room were brand new.

The seven dwarfs were still well, and there was no sign of sorrow on their faces. There was no trace of the legendary Crystal Coffin.

What was going on? Where was the Crystal Coffin? Could it have been buried?

Had the dwarfs become wealthy? They used to live quite sparingly, didn’t they?

Mu Ying, still looking like an Evil Witch, knocked on the dwarfs’ door. As soon as it opened, she took control of them.

The seven dwarfs had been cursed by the witch for offending her in the past, suffered harshly, and were terribly afraid of the witch. When Mu Ying questioned them, they dared to hide nothing and spilled everything.

It turned out that on the day Shirley was presumed dead, the dwarfs had planned to bury her.

But they didn’t have money to purchase the legendary Crystal Coffin.

At that moment, a Prince with a drawn carriage happened to pass by, who fell in love with the "dead" Shirley at first sight and wanted to take her body away.

The dwarfs then sold Shirley’s body.

The Prince brought a Crystal Coffin, placed Shirley inside it, and took her away.

When asked about the identity of that prince, the dwarfs did not know either.

Timing it out, the prince had left several days ago.

Mu Ying sighed. She hadn’t expected the prince to come so quickly; Shirley had only just eaten the poisonous pear, and in the brief time she was detained at the Royal Palace, the trace of Shirley was lost.

But this wouldn’t stump her; she had long left a Magic Mark on the protagonist—Shirley’s hair.

After interrogating the dwarfs, she sensed the direction of the Magic Mark and followed the trail.

The direction seemed to head towards the Green Wall Kingdom.

This prince’s timing was too coincidental, and the direction he took Shirley directed towards the Green Wall Kingdom—it couldn’t possibly be another scheme from them?

The competition for the throne in the Green Wall Kingdom was fierce.

From the affair of the Mermaid Princess, Mu Ying had realized that the princes of the Green Wall Kingdom were ambitious men who put interest above all else.

The notion of love at first sight, she would never believe could happen with these princes, and even if Shirley slimmed down, she hadn’t become stunningly beautiful!

She rode a Flying Carpet and after two days, caught up with a carriage escorted by Cavalry within the Sunset Forest of the Green Wall Kingdom.

Shirley had actually woken up, sitting in the carriage, resting her chin on the window, gazing at the scenery of the forest.

By her appearance, she seemed to have been well these past days.

On the carriage was a blond, blue-eyed handsome man in riding gear, presumably the prince.