Chapter 101 Don’t you recognize the face?

Cinderella was in the dressing room, silently waiting for the dance to begin.

Today, Cinderella's dress is extremely gorgeous, as blue as the sea, and dotted with gold, silver, pearls and tiny gems.

"Today is so strange, everything feels like a dream. And it is an incomparable beautiful dream."

At this moment, Cinderella saw stars twinkling in front of her, and Fairy Godmother Leila appeared in front of her.

"Who are you?" Cinderella was confused.

"Cinderella, you may have overlooked that although you have a beautiful dress, you don't have matching shoes - your stepmother neglected this aspect because she was too anxious. But don't worry, I can conjure up a pair of beautiful crystal shoes for you!"

Fairy Leila said, picked up her magic wand and waved it gently in the air.

The starlight fell on Cinderella's shoes, turning them into crystal shoes.

Cinderella was now even more confused about the situation.

"What happened today? Why did everyone come to help me?"

After helping Cinderella change into beautiful dancing shoes, Fairy Reina finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She had vowed before to help Cinderella.

"Although there was a little incident and the main credit was taken by a magician who appeared out of nowhere, at least I was not completely useless." Fairy Leila comforted herself.

"Remember, my magic ends at midnight, and the shoes will return to their original state afterwards." Fairy Leila warned, "But it doesn't matter, you are wearing such beautiful clothes, people may not notice that a pair of shoes has changed."

After saying this, Fairy Leila felt inexplicably strange.

So, it seems like I'm completely redundant?

I was obviously here first!

"If Cinderella takes off that shoe, will the magic end at midnight?" A clear boy's voice suddenly sounded.

"What does this have to do with taking off shoes or not...Ahhhhh!" Fairy Leila turned her head in panic, only to find that Rhine had appeared behind her at some point.

Rhine pointed at Cinderella's shoes and asked again: "You said that your magic will end at midnight, right?"

What he raised was indeed his own confusion.

This involves a very typical logical problem in the story of Cinderella:

According to the original plot, Cinderella would run away in a hurry at midnight and leave a pair of crystal shoes behind. It was with this pair of lost crystal shoes that the prince found Cinderella herself.

However, since the fairy's magic ends at midnight, why doesn't the fallen crystal slipper return to its original state?

Similar bizarre logic loopholes can be found everywhere in fairy tales, legends and epic stories, but they do not affect the classics of these stories.

"Of course... uh, never mind. No one can predict things like magic," said Fairy Leila.

Rhine smiled and walked towards Cinderella, who was looking at the two magicians with a confused look on her face:

"Cinderella, I know you must be very confused now. You don't know why you got help inexplicably and why Prince Eric personally asked you to attend the ball, right?"

"Yes." Cinderella looked at the strange silver-haired boy and fairy in front of her and nodded.

Her stepmother believed that Cinderella must have noble blood and a hidden identity, but Cinderella herself had no such unrealistic fantasies.

She knew very well that she was just an ordinary girl with no background.

"In fact, it was a friend of yours who asked me to help you. I am a magician, and I went to find Prince Eric and performed the scene this morning." Rhine explained concisely.

"My...a friend?" Cinderella looked even more confused.

"His name is Momo. You usually chat with birds."

Momo, it's him! Cinderella was surprised.

After her mother and father passed away one after another, during the years when she was treated as a nanny by her stepmother and sisters, the only pleasure in her life was chatting with a child of the same age named Momo.

They have never met each other, and only birds are the medium for them to communicate with each other. Cinderella cannot leave home, so she can only let Momo tell her about the outside world through birds.

Cinderella believed that Momo might be the son of a sailor or fisherman on the ship, because he was the one who always told her about the things in the sea, from many strange fish to the sights seen by divers in the water.

"So that's how it is, you guys are Momo's friends!"

Cinderella exclaimed, and then she discovered something even more incredible:

"You were actually able to invite Prince Eric, he's the eldest prince of the kingdom. Momo actually knows someone as powerful as you guys?"

Cinderella was very surprised.

What’s the big deal about being the eldest prince of the West Asia Kingdom? I’m still the sage of the Rose Kingdom... Rhine laughed in his heart.

"After the dance, I will definitely thank Momo!" said Cinderella.

"You can go and meet him in person. Because you don't have to stay in that house anymore." Rhine took out a round pearl from his arms.

"This is a gift from Momo. It's priceless. When the dance is over tonight, you can sell it and live a good life outside. You can also learn a skill to support yourself and no longer have to live with your stepmother and sister who bring you nightmares."

To be honest, this was an idea that the mermaid boy Momo came up with after Rhine reminded him.

——As a mermaid in the sea, Momo had no concept of human money. She had never realized that the beautiful things found everywhere in the sea could actually change the life of that poor human girl.

"Such a precious gift..." Cinderella took the pearls tremblingly and put them away carefully. Her eyes were slightly sore.

She knew that the nightmare of all these years was finally coming to an end.

"Thank you, and thank you Momo! After the dance is over, I must go and see Momo in person. He said he is the same age as me. I want to see what he looks like!"

"By the way, Cinderella. You may have heard that one of the purposes of this ball is to find a fiancée for Prince Henry. Do you think Prince Henry will be interested in you?" Rhine asked again, trying to test Cinderella's psychology.

"How is that possible? There are so many beautiful girls in the kingdom, so many women with beautiful dancing skills and figures coming to the ball, and I haven't even learned to dance. I'm already satisfied just to be able to attend this ball in a glamorous and beautiful manner," said Cinderella.

"That's good," Rhine said with relief, "Prince Henry is not a reliable person. You will know it later."

According to the original work, he could measure the feet of girls all over the country in order to find a girl.

"Prince Henry is not a reliable person... not really..." Cinderella savored Rhine's words.

In her perspective, the prince is a high and mighty, noble, and unattainable figure!

In the fairy tales she had read, the princes were all handsome, brave and flawless! "Well, time's up. I'm going to the ball first. Thank you again, and thank you Momo." Cinderella waved goodbye to the two magicians.

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Looking at Cinderella's back, Fairy Leila smiled with relief, knowing that this girl's life would undergo tremendous changes in the future and she would embark on a beautiful life from then on.

"etc!"

Fairy Leila finally realized that something was wrong.

"Cinderella seems to think that you and I are in the same group! We were all invited by Momo." Fairy Leila complained.

"Actually, I don't know you at all, nor do I know that Momo!"

Fairy Leila turned around angrily, only to find that the little magician had disappeared without a trace.

…

The dance scene.

After putting on the luxurious dress, Cinderella looked so elegant, beautiful and charming. On the dance floor, she was like a blue elf.

Prince Henry, who was dancing with other girls, was immediately fascinated by Cinderella's unique temperament when he saw her.

Prince Henry walked towards her, and in Cinderella's confused eyes, he held out his arm, took her, and asked her to dance.

He never danced with other girls again, and he never let go of her.

Whenever someone else asked her to dance, Prince Henry would say, "This lady is my partner."

However, Cinderella never actually learned to dance.

She just made stiff movements, her mind still thinking about the magical things that happened today, the help of the two magicians, and the mysterious boy named Momo.

She thought that after today's dance was over, she could leave home and go see the boy named Momo.

——In the past, her stepmother never allowed her to go far away, because the family still needed Cinderella to work. But from now on, she will have nothing to do with the evil stepmother.

The clock struck midnight, signaling the end of the dance.

Cinderella knew it was time for her to leave.

She didn't want to wait even a moment and left in a hurry, totally unaware that the prince behind her was extending his hand to keep her.

As if it was a scene destined by fate, Cinderella lost her left crystal shoe on the stairs because she walked too hastily.

Watching the girl he loved so much disappear into the night, Prince Henry sighed reluctantly.

"Wow, what a beautiful elf! Her temperament is different from the noble girls I have seen before. She has a light fragrance. Let her be my wife."

Prince Henry was recalling the beauty of what had just happened, and suddenly he remembered something: "Oh, oh no, I was so busy admiring that girl's figure that I forgot to ask her name!"

Prince Henry was devastated.

Just then, Prince Henry discovered that a crystal shoe was left on the stairs.

"Is this the girl's shoe?"

He picked up the crystal slipper and suddenly a brilliant idea came to his mind.

…

"What? Henry, you want to measure the feet of every girl in every household across the country, find the girl who can just fit into this shoe, and marry her?" The king of the West Asian Kingdom was shocked.

"Yes." Prince Henry laughed, "So I can find the beautiful girl at the ball!"

Aurora, who happened to be passing by, heard this and couldn't help asking, "I really don't understand this. How could there be such a ridiculous thing in the world? Can't you remember the girl's face? Why do you have to measure feet one by one?"

Rhine next to her also secretly said that she wanted to ask the same question as Aurora.

Your Highness, you are not looking for an excuse to touch the feet of girls all over the country, are you?

(End of this chapter)