Chapter 144: Dark Fairy Tale, Cinderella Makes a Deal with the Devil (2)

Wangzi smiled mysteriously. [Hehe, well, you'll have to figure this out on your own, host. I wish you good luck.]

After saying that, Wangzi disappeared from his mind space regardless of Shen Yuan's protest.

It was the first time for Chen Yuan to encounter such a situation. Her eyes widened and she couldn't believe that she was being left alone like this.

It must be Wangzai who deliberately took revenge on her, it must be.

Chen Yuan crossed his arms angrily and began to recall the story of Cinderella in the Grimm's fairy tales he had read as a child.

Cinderella was a very beautiful girl. Before her mother died, she was a pampered little princess and was raised in the palm of Ella's hand.

Fortunately, Cinderella did not develop a spoiled and ostentatious personality.

She loves reading, is beautiful, pure, kind, hardworking, sensible, pretty, elegant and generous.

All the beautiful words in the world seem not too much to describe her.

But God will not give all good things to the kind princess.

When Cinderella was three years old, her mother was diagnosed with a terrible and strange disease. She could not smell the scent of roses. Once she smelled it, all kinds of rashes would start to appear on her body, and she would even have difficulty breathing and be in danger of suffocation.

Elas felt sorry for his wife, so he asked the servants to pull out all the roses in the Rose Manor and burn them.

The flames rose slowly, engulfing all the bright red roses. The rich and pleasant rose fragrance could no longer be smelled in the air.

The pungent smell of burning lingered in the air above the Rose Manor.

Unfortunately, although all the roses were burned, Cinderella's mother's illness did not improve, but became increasingly serious.

She began to cough up blood and her skin began to shrink, as if she was aging at an accelerated rate. Soon she was unable to get out of bed.

Elas was so anxious that his eyes turned red and he cried all night long, saying that he was a useless man who could not protect his wife.

Although little Ella is only three years old, she is already very sensible.

When Elas hid in the room crying, she would push the door open, then stretch out her little hand and stroke Elas's head like she was stroking the black cat her mother gave her.

"Father, don't cry. Mother said that men shouldn't cry."

Little Ella always has her own way of comforting people. Ella's heart ached, but he still managed to smile warmly and kissed the top of Little Ella's head.

"Be good, Rilla. Mommy's going to be okay, right?"

Little Rilla's eyes were filled with seriousness.

She pursed her red lips, looked at Aylas and nodded, her voice soft but firm.

"Well, mother will be fine, father, don't be afraid."

She stood on tiptoe and put her short arms around Ailas, trying to comfort him.

Before, when she was sad, her mother also comforted her in this way.

Mother’s arms are warm, and as long as she stays in them, she won’t be sad.

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A year later, Cinderella's mother died.

She died in bed, curled up in a ball, her complexion was sallow and her skin was wrinkled, like an old woman.

But in fact, she is only twenty years old.

That day, it rained heavily in Rose Manor. Elas held four-year-old little Ella and cried loudly.

The maids were infected by his crying and their eyes turned red unconsciously.

"The Duke loves his wife so much. This kind of love is something I long for."

"Yes, why is God so unfair? My wife is kind and beautiful, and she treats us very well. Why did she get this strange disease?"

"It's so unfair, so unfair!"

The maids were so sad that they all took up their handkerchiefs to wipe their tears.

The huge room was filled with the sound of crying one after another. Only four-year-old Ella was held in her father's arms, and there was no sadness in her eyes.

She kept staring at the corpse on the bed, as if she had discovered something. The corners of her lips twitched twice, but in the end she said nothing.

After the maid and Elas finished crying, several servants came in carrying a stretcher. After placing the body on the bed on the stretcher, they turned around and left neatly.

Ella's eyes were red and swollen. He hugged little Ella tightly and kissed her forehead comfortingly.

Little Ella didn't react at all, she just stared at the direction the stretcher was leaving, unable to move her eyes away.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, blowing the white cloth covering the corpse.

Little Rilla's pupils suddenly shrank, her little red mouth opened and closed, and it felt like something was blocking her throat, so she couldn't utter a word.

My mother's ring is missing...

No, that's not my mother..

Little Ella felt like she was about to suffocate. She stretched out her hand, pointed at the departing stretcher, and was about to tell her father about her discovery.

The next second, her gaze fell on the window and froze.

There, a rose grew, a rose that could take her mother's life.

It is bright and juicy, like blood, and glows dazzling red in the sunlight.

Little Ella seemed to understand everything.

Half a year after my mother passed away, the roses in the Rose Manor bloomed again. From a distance, they looked densely packed together, and seemed more beautiful and more red than before.

Little Ella hated these roses very much. Every time she saw them, she would feel like vomiting.

But she said nothing, nor did she show it in front of Ailas.

The more luxuriantly the roses bloomed, the happier she smiled.

Soon, Elas brought a beautiful woman back to Rose Manor, and the woman was accompanied by two girls.

Being older than little Ella, Elas asked little Ella to call them sisters.

Little Ella didn't like it, but she still smiled sweetly and followed them, calling them "sisters" non-stop.

The maids said that the woman's name was Blanchett, and she was a cultured and knowledgeable woman.

The maids all liked her very much. After all, the Duke had been sad for more than half a year because of his wife, and it was time for him to remarry.

Then the maids began to envy and praise the love between Ellas and Blanchett.

At first, Blanchett treats Cinderella very well, almost better than her own daughter.

Whatever Cinderella likes, she will get at any price and then give it to her.

Because of this, Anastasia and Dusula often got angry with Blanchett.

The maids also praised Blanchett for being a good stepmother and being much better to Miss Ella than the previous lady.

Only Ella knew that the way Anastasia and Dusula looked at her was becoming more and more terrifying, like wild beasts in the forest, wanting to eat her.

Soon, Blanchett showed her true colors.

Because she found that Elas didn't care about his biological daughter at all.

He was busy entering the royal family and building good relationships with the prince and the emperor, and directly handed Cinderella over to Blanchett's care.

As a result, Blanchett became more and more unscrupulous.

She begins yelling at Cinderella and tells Dusula to take over Ella's room.

The maids were afraid of her and began to keep their distance from Ella, no longer taking care of her food and daily life.

On one occasion, Elas witnessed her scolding Cinderella.

Blanchett was terrified that Ellas would be angry and blame her.

Elas just looked up at the two of them, then frowned in disgust and looked away lightly.

"Bran, stop making noise in the room. I'm so sleepy and need to go to bed."

Blanchett instantly understood what Elas meant and dragged Cinderella out of the room.

From then on, Ella became a servant at Rose Manor.

No...it's an existence even lower than a servant.

Her stepmother ignored her and allowed her two sisters to bully her. Even the maids no longer treated her as their master.

For ten years, Cinderella's body was covered with bruises.

These are what Chen Yuan saw in fairy tale books.

I wonder if this plane is consistent with the plot in the fairy tale book.

While Shen Yuan was in a daze, the maid who was taking care of the rose field saw her and walked over excitedly.

"Oh, my dear Miss Dusula, you are here! Mrs. Bran is looking for you everywhere. I heard that Miss Rilla stole Miss Tasha's pearl necklace. This is incredible."