After reading all the information, Xia Linyin suddenly felt a great responsibility on her shoulders. This girl named Cinderella was indeed as tragic as Cinderella in the fairy tale.

She even seems more pitiful than in the original fairy tale, since the fairy tale only briefly touches on Cinderella's life at home, without going into much detail.

Now, this document details Cinderella's inhumane life of abuse. Her stepmother dismissed all the servants in the house under the pretext of saving money, so all the housework fell on Cinderella's shoulders.

Cleaning the house, trimming the grass and trees, cleaning the stables, doing laundry and cooking...

She was made to do all the dirty and tiring work. Cinderella was busy like a spinning top every day, with little time to rest, and could only go to sleep very late at night.

The next day, before dawn, she got up early again to work, preparing breakfast for her stepmother and two older sisters.

What's worse, her stepmother and two older sisters treated her like a servant, but didn't even give her the worst treatment a servant could receive.

Even if other people's servants don't get paid, at least they can eat their fill and stay warm, while Cinderella can only eat cold, hard, moldy bread every day, and her dress is patched and patched again and again.

Who knows that Cinderella today was once a pampered aristocratic girl, spoiled by her parents?

In Alice Town, probably no one is worse off than Cinderella.

What she needs to do now is to rescue this beautiful and kind girl from her miserable life.

Xia Linyin learned that Cinderella would go to the woods to pick mushrooms almost every weekend. She tapped her fingers on the table, and soon, a plan to save the damsel in distress formed in her mind.

"Make arrangements. I'm going hunting in the woods in the eastern suburbs this weekend. There's no need to block off the woods, and I don't need to bring too many people. Just keep a low profile," Xia Linyin said to the head guard.

The head guard bowed. "Yes, Your Highness."

"Um...the man I asked you to find hasn't been found yet?" Xia Linyin asked.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness, it's my fault for not doing my job properly. I still haven't found this person." The head guard lowered his head, his face full of shame.

Xia Linyin comforted her, "It's alright, you can leave now."

When she was alone in the spacious study, Xia Linyin walked to the window, looked at the staggered rooftops outside, and whispered, "Xiao Li, where will you be?"

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There are many small animals in the woods on the eastern outskirts, but of course there are no large, ferocious carnivores. At most, there are a few wild boars, which are the most ferocious beasts in the woods.

Otherwise, the king would not have felt comfortable letting his prince come here to hunt, even with highly skilled guards accompanying him.

Xia Linyin was dressed in riding attire, with protective sleeves on her elbows and knees, fingerless leather gloves on her hands that were holding the reins, armor on her body, and a helmet on her head. She was fully armed and sat on the horse.

She carried a quiver of arrows on her back and held a longbow made of pure gold in her hand. Her eyes moved around, seemingly searching for prey, but in reality, she was looking for the girl picking mushrooms.

"Cinderella, Cinderella, where are you?" Charlene murmured in her heart.

Suddenly, a sharp-eyed guard spotted a plump rabbit crouching in the grass in the distance and immediately whispered a warning: "Your Highness, there's a rabbit over there!"

"Where?" Xia Linyin looked in the direction the guard pointed, drew an arrow from her back, nocked it, aimed, fired, and hit the target! All in one smooth motion!

Immediately, a guard dismounted and went into the bushes to retrieve the wild rabbit.

Everyone was used to this situation. You might think His Highness has good eyesight, but sometimes he can't even see the prey right in front of him.

You might say His Highness has poor eyesight, but every single arrow he shoots hits its prey perfectly, a hundred shots, a hundred hits, making even the guards who have been trained since childhood feel ashamed.

Only the head of the guards knew what was going on. Their prince's real intention was not to hunt for prey, but to find that beautiful young woman.

He reported this matter to the King, who, after learning about Cinderella's story, believed that this well-born, hardworking, kind, and resilient girl, who was indomitable even in adversity, was a qualified candidate for a queen and thus acquiesced to what His Highness the Prince wanted to do.

As Xia Linyin and her friends got closer, a girl who was taller than others her age was picking mushrooms. She was carrying a small bamboo basket, which was already full of mushrooms.

The girl had long, light blonde hair, braided into a long plait that hung down her back. Some naturally curly wisps of hair curled up on either side of her forehead. Her skin was very fair, and there were some light brown freckles on either side of her delicate nose.

It added a touch of playfulness and cuteness to her exquisite, otherworldly beauty, making her seem less distant.

Her light gold eyelashes, though not long, were very thick. The two short, fine rows of eyelashes outlined two thin gold lines on the girl's upper eyelids, as if they were coated with a fine gold powder.

Her pupils were also a light gold color, so beautiful that one would want to dig them out and collect them, because no pearl in the world could compare to even a tenth of the beauty of those eyes.

The girl walked through the woods carrying a bamboo basket, like a fairy who had strayed into the mortal world. Even her patched cloth dress could not hide her elfin charm.

The moment Xia Linyin saw the girl's back, her heart skipped a beat.

Pressing her hand against her chest, which was suddenly pounding faster, Xia Linyin's face felt slightly hot. Her heart was beating so fast not because she was attracted by Cinderella's back view, but because she was excited to suddenly see Cinderella.

She finally found her—Cinderella, the kindest girl in Alice Town!

Xia Linyin gave the head guard a wink, and a moment later, several hunting dogs suddenly darted out of the woods, barking wildly as they charged toward the girl who was picking mushrooms.

"Watch out!!" Xia Linyin shouted, spurring her horse toward the girl.

In her imagination, she would rush to Cinderella's side, scoop her up before the hounds could pounce on her, put her on her horse, and then ride off into the distance, until they were rid of the hounds.

A lone man and a lonely woman, alone in the deep forest, a frightened girl and a handsome prince—it's hard to believe they wouldn't spark a romance. If a beautiful story didn't begin from there, how could it be a fairy tale?

Furthermore, she also set up classic scenes later on, such as the waist-hugging gaze and the princess carry. Just as the girl was about to fall, she grabbed her slender waist, spun her around 180 degrees, and then their eyes met, gazing deeply into each other's eyes.

It would be even more fitting if a few petals were to fall at this moment.

Xia Linyin thought that winning over Cinderella would be a simple matter, but the way things turned out left everyone dumbfounded and astonished.