Chapter 125 "Queen, are you satisfied with this ending?"
Those white-haired old and wise ministers cried like children in front of the queen.
"Your Majesty, thank you for your good use of the magic mirror. In less than half a year, the White Kingdom will be restored to its former glory. In a few years, the White Kingdom will become a prosperous kingdom that everyone in the Western Continent envies!"
“I knew that Your Majesty the Queen had neglected state affairs in the past few years in order to mislead the enemy and let them down their guard, in fact, in preparation for today’s sudden attack.
"Thank God for allowing Your Majesty to be born in our White Kingdom."
Seeing the ministers praising her for her good governance, the queen's hair stood on end and her back felt cold. She suddenly felt uncomfortable and her face turned as red as the apple she had poisoned.
"Oh my God! Something is wrong. Why am I so ashamed today?" The queen was confused.
You know, in the past, the queen had listened to a lot of compliments from jesters. She was so tired of hearing all kinds of compliments that she had calluses. The poems praising the queen's beauty alone could fill more than a dozen thick poetry collections.
No matter how nice the compliments were, the queen developed a resistance to them and ignored them all.
However, the words of the ministers today gave her a completely different feeling.
The queen did not yet understand this, because what she heard today was sincere gratitude, not the flattery of a sycophant.
"But they're talking about things I haven't done!"
The queen dug her toes into the ground as she faced her ministers who were grateful and crying.
"Well, ministers, think carefully, is it all my credit?"
The queen asked tentatively, trying to figure out what happened while she was asleep.
Seeing the queen say this, the ministers sighed in their hearts:
Her Majesty is so modest!
It was clearly the result of his hard work, but he still shirked responsibility.
The ministers looked at each other and said, "Your Majesty, you are right. The fact that the White Kingdom can have such a reform and move in the right direction is indeed due to the contribution of the wise Lord Rhine.
"But the most important decision maker is still you, Your Majesty! If you hadn't made up your mind to work hard to govern the country, hired Lord Rhine as a wise man to assist you, and used the magic mirror to handle state affairs, how could the White Kingdom be on the right track?"
Huh? Magician Rhine, is he already the sage of the White Kingdom? What on earth happened in the kingdom while I was asleep?
The queen suddenly had the illusion that "I have been sleeping for more than ten years".
She temporarily figured it out: in the eyes of others, she had not disappeared in the past period of time. Instead, she had worked hard to govern the country, handled state affairs with the magic mirror, and carried out drastic reforms that were applauded by everyone!
"What's going on?"
"Could it be that I am sleepwalking or have amnesia?"
The queen murmured in her heart, looking at the deeply moved ministers, and could only respond with a mechanical smile.
Although I don't know what's going on...
But now that things have come to this, I can’t say “I didn’t do this”.
Her vanity wouldn't allow it!
The queen gritted her teeth and forced a smile as she walked through the corridor of the palace escorted by her ministers.
Soon, she met His Majesty the King again.
The king kissed and hugged the queen with great enthusiasm - mainly to make up for the regret that the queen had basically hidden in her room and had not seen him for the past two months.
Although the king had been crazy about her for many years, it was the first time that the queen saw the king being so affectionate to her! "My dear. Last night I thought about it again and again, thinking about how hard you have worked to govern the country in the past two months. I realized that I need you so much!"
The king's eyes filled with tears.
"I can't live without you. The White Kingdom can't live without you! You who use the magic mirror are the wise king of the White Kingdom. You should be the monarch of the White Kingdom!"
The queen nodded slightly embarrassedly.
Suddenly, her heart moved and her eyes froze.
Isn't this what she has always been pursuing? Hunting down every woman who might be as beautiful as her - even fearing her daughter and almost killing her. All this is just to make the king unable to leave her forever, to make him obsessed with her forever, to make him always obey her, and to control everything in the kingdom.
And today, after she had been asleep for more than two months, this ultimate goal was inexplicably achieved.
The queen was a little dazed. She had clearly woken up from the dream, but she seemed to be still wandering in the dream.
She returned to her room in a daze and heard the magic mirror's praise again.
The magic mirror praised the queen, saying that she was not only a beautiful queen, but also a wise leader of the country.
"Does even the magic mirror think I've been here for the past two months?"
"Can anyone tell me what happened?"
"Am I really sleepwalking?"
Confusedly, the queen walked around the magic mirror and sat down on the bed.
She tried hard to recall whether she had the habit of sleepwalking in the past. Suddenly, her eyes froze and she almost shouted out loud.
She saw a silver-haired child with delicate appearance, as if he had walked out of a painting, sitting on a chair beside the bed, looking at her with a smile.
Magician Rhine? When did he come here?
The queen was about to scream, but suddenly she remembered what the ministers had said. She remembered that Rhine was now the sage of the White Kingdom and a magician who assisted her in governing the country.
"No, if I show surprise at seeing Sage Rhine, doesn't that mean I know nothing? Wouldn't it mean I was responsible for all the great achievements before? That won't do, absolutely not!"
The queen could only pretend to be calm and smiled at Rhine:
"Hello, respected Sage."
She didn't know what role Rhine played, but she could only guess that Rhine, like those ministers, had come into contact with "another her" or "her when she was sleepwalking" and mistook that queen for her current self.
The queen raised her chin slightly, facing Rhine, trying to recall the words of the ministers, the king, and others, and pretending to be very natural: "Sage Rhine, you have worked so hard over the past period of time!"
No way, Your Majesty, you are still pretending when you see me... Rhine couldn't help but laugh in his heart.
The young man looked at the magic mirror in the corner of the room, then looked at the bright sunshine streaming in from the window, then turned to the queen again with a gentle and warm smile:
"Your Majesty, are you satisfied with this outcome?"
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The queen's expression suddenly froze.
Her back felt numb, as if an electric current was running up her spinal cord, and she suddenly understood something.
The queen hurriedly looked at the magic mirror in the corner of the room, but found that the magic mirror seemed not to hear their conversation.
The surroundings seemed too quiet. I could neither hear the birds singing outside the window nor the rustling of wind through the treetops.
Rhine seemed to know the queen's concerns and said calmly:
"Don't worry, I used magic to create a sound barrier. The magic mirror won't hear what we say next."
The young man paused and continued:
“So, in the eyes of the magic mirror, you are still the great queen.
“You single-handedly put the White Kingdom back on track.
“It was you who asked the magic mirror questions and found all the spies and underground criminal organizations lurking in enemy countries, and caught them all in one fell swoop.
"You were the one who selected the virtuous and capable, and relied on the magic mirror to discern people. You found the available talents among the most inconspicuous shoemakers and grooms, and entrusted them with important tasks.
"It was you who punished the corrupt officials and the lords who exploited the people, and brought a bright and sunny sky to the White Kingdom.
“In the eyes of the magic mirror and others, all this is your credit.
“From now on, the king can no longer live without you, and neither can everyone in the White Kingdom.
"Whether the king grants you the title of monarch or not, you will always be the greatest king of the White Kingdom."
Rhine finished speaking calmly.
His tone was calm, as if he was talking about something very ordinary.
However, the queen's heart was moved when she heard it.
How many years have passed? How many years have passed.
She searched for every woman in the kingdom who might be more beautiful than herself and was on guard against them. Once she heard that someone was prettier than herself, she would become extremely terrified, fearing that the king would fall in love with someone else and the magic of his obsession would become ineffective, and she would no longer be able to control the kingdom.
On cold nights, listening to the seemingly endless hum of the night breeze and watching the cold moon hanging in the dark sky as always, the queen looked in the mirror and couldn't help asking herself:
When will such days come to an end? Even if Aurora, who is more beautiful than her, dies, sooner or later, another woman more beautiful than herself may appear in the White Kingdom - perhaps her daughter Snow White, and then she must kill her daughter.
What happens after Snow White dies? When will the next more beautiful woman appear?
Every day, women from other kingdoms come to the White Kingdom to live here temporarily or permanently; every day, a beautiful girl grows up in the kingdom, becoming a graceful young lady, praised by her family and friends.
Even if all the above assumptions had never existed, she would eventually succumb to the passage of time and grow old. She would watch helplessly as her beautiful face in the mirror was swallowed up by time, her delicate and white skin was covered with wrinkles and age spots, and her long black hair turned yellow and fell off.
By that time, the queen knew that the magic that had made the king infatuated with her would surely fail.
How would she face such a future? How would the king treat her for having killed his daughter? What about the people of the kingdom? How would they view her for holding great power while the kingdom was in decline?
Will the witches of the Witch Society kick her out because she can't control the kingdom? Will they kill her because she knows too many secrets? On cold winter nights, listening to the cries of jackdaws and watching the snow falling from the sky, the queen can't help but think about these questions. Then, she has to control herself to divert her attention and not think about such long-term things.
However, during the two months she was in a coma, everything she pursued was achieved just like that?
Rhine looked towards the queen. The woman's eyes became crystal clear, as if liquid was flowing in them. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something but choking up.
The young man smiled gently and warmly again and asked:
"So, Your Majesty.
"Are you satisfied with this ending?"
(End of this chapter)