CHAPTER 733: CHAPTER 737 FAIRY TALE TOWN (26)

The terrifying visuals caused the Princess to scream out loud, but even with such a loud voice, everything around her remained eerily silent, as if everyone was deep in sleep and no one appeared.

What was even more horrifying was the Sea Princess, who was smiling at her, baring her teeth from a distance, the Princess could see the food residue in her teeth.

She thought she must have seen wrong, and in her fear, she frantically shook her head, but it turned out that her vision was so good that she saw even more clearly.

At that point, she truly wanted to just gouge out her own eyes.

A fingernail was spit out from her mouth...

The Princess’s pupils shrank to the size of needle points all at once, her whole body’s blood seemed to freeze, and her throat felt as if it was being choked, making her unable to make any sound.

When in extreme fear, people often stiffen like statues, unable to move or speak.

Although her body was as if someone had applied a paralyzing point, her eyeballs uncontrollably glanced at the cold body on the ground.

She saw that the left hand of the body was missing a section of the middle finger.

The frightful, timid Princess could no longer bear it and rolled her eyes back, fainting.

When she woke up, she was still in her pajamas, lying in the last place she stayed the night before.

She quickly checked herself from head to toe, having neither missing arms nor legs, nor any missing parts, and sighed with relief.

Looking towards a nearby clean spot, there was neither a horrific scene nor any traces of blood, as clean as if what she had seen last night had merely been a nightmare.

The Princess very much wanted to convince herself that all this was a hallucination that appeared after she went crazy.

However...

Standing on the balcony of the second floor, looking down with a bird’s-eye view, the drag marks were still clearly visible.

This made it impossible for her to deceive herself.

In her panic, she became even more concerned for the Prince’s safety.

She ran frantically to where the Prince was but was stopped outside his bedroom by a guard.

At that time, the Sea Princess who had left a deep impression of terror the previous night appeared nonchalantly.

She was wearing the Prince’s coat, swaggering out of the bedroom, not the least bit concerned that the person in front of her was the legitimate Princess.

Instead, it was she, the Princess, who retreated in her presence.

Although the Sea Princess looked completely normal at this time, her impression of her still lingered on the horrifying image of her smacking her lips while chewing food.

Just thinking of that image made her stomach churn uncontrollably.

She couldn’t help but vomit on the spot, and some of it accidentally splashed on the Prince who had come out looking for the Sea Princess.

The Prince was extremely disgusted, and naturally, the Princess got no favors.

When she returned, everyone said that the maid she saw yesterday had just taken temporary leave and would be back in a few days.

Only she knew that this poor woman had already become someone else’s meal and would never return.

What frightened her more was the meaningful look the Sea Princess gave her,

as if to say, she was the next prey.

She wanted to flee quickly from there, but there was no way out.

Without the Prince’s consent, she couldn’t leave.

Yet, the fear of being closely watched as prey made her live in constant trepidation day after day.

A sharp dagger hung just above her neck, never knowing when it might suddenly come chopping down.

But the other side was like a cat playing with a mouse, not killing the prey right away but instead teasing it from time to time, watching the fear and despair in the prey’s eyes increase daily, and finding great interest in it.

The Princess was extremely frightened, her body visibly thinning at a rapid pace.

She wrote to her father outside more frequently, constantly expressing her post-marital fear and unease, yet she dared not reveal the truth in the letters.

Because she knew the Sea Princess’s eyes were surely fixed on her.

When her fear reached a tipping point, no family bonds, not even the father-daughter relationship, could outweigh her hope to survive.

Although she knew involving her father could endanger him in front of that monster.

But she really couldn’t care about that anymore.

If things continued this way, even if not devoured by that monster, she would be driven mad by fear and terror.

Moreover, the closest father-daughter relationship she had with her father had developed a significant rift since her mother’s death.

Over the years, even though she knew she might have misunderstood her father, the estranged rapport could not be quickly mended.

Faced with life or death and father-daughter affection, she wrestled briefly before choosing the former.

She held onto hope that once her father arrived, he might be able to take her away from there...

However, she hadn’t anticipated that her father, considering various factors, wouldn’t appear. Instead, her stepmother showed up.

She breathed a sigh of relief, but a surge of uncomfortable emotions began to brew inside her.

When she heard the Sea Princess suddenly appear before them, she had a moment of epiphany.

Perhaps she would never be able to leave this place.

After her last shred of hope vanished, the Princess finally broke down and spilled everything.

In truth, when she spoke about the terrifying situation, she wasn’t too troubled.

The so-called hesitation and struggle only lasted a very short while.

The Princess had thought she hid her emotions well, but the two present were millennium-old fox spirits, far too cunning to be deceived by her inadequate power.

It was like how she had been transparent in front of her stepmother for years.

But it seemed she didn’t have a proper understanding of this yet.

When the truth turned out to be as such, the boss lady’s eyes shimmered with a hint of regret.

Curiosity killed the cat, and sometimes people shouldn’t have too strong a desire for knowledge.

If the Sea Princess was really as the stepdaughter described, that would be truly terrible.

From the first word they heard about her from their stepdaughter’s mouth, they were already under her watch.

The stepdaughter’s little scheming infuriated the boss lady.

It was fine for her, but she had her two foolish daughters standing behind her.

If she really fell here, her two foolish daughters would be devoured alive in the next second.

"Clap"

A few sharp claps sounded, particularly jarring in the silent night.

The Princess let out a sharp scream and, agile as a squirrel, abruptly jumped behind the boss lady.

Just a few hours ago, the Sea Princess, now alone and emerging from the dark doorway, walked in.

Different from the image seen before, her appearance was now hardly human, somewhat eerie...