Chapter 737: Chapter 741: Fairy Tale Town (30)

The self-deception exposed without disguise, the Prince’s face turned red with frustrated anger, wanting to loudly denounce it as absurd, yet unable to utter those two words.

Cinderella, apparently not feeling the situation was stimulating enough, actually tried with her tiny bit of strength to drag the dead fish a little closer to the Prince.

The fish didn’t budge, and instead left her quite exhausted.

She kicked the dead fish’s body again in frustration and said, “Your Princess is right here, aren’t you going to hurry up and take her away…”

“Leaving her here takes up space and pollutes the air around here.”

The Prince felt that his Princess Consort wasn’t leaving him any dignity, and his disgust turned to deeper aversion.

How could she be so clueless, truly lacking the proper discretion of a Princess Consort.

“How can you be so rude, utterly unfit to be my Princess Consort, I will petition the King to dissolve our marriage…”

The Prince completely ignored the fish carcass on the ground and aimed his spearhead directly at Cinderella.

No one knew the size of the shadow looming over his head at that moment, but it was certainly tormenting.

Wasn’t the Princess Consort a perfect outlet for his frustrations at this moment?

He, as the Prince who had been pampered since birth, was never at fault; even if he made a mistake, it was surely someone else’s fault.

The Prince had already conveniently rationalized his own behavior in his heart.

It was all the Princess Consort’s fault for not choosing well.

If the Princess Consort were better, he wouldn’t have been so tormented that he wanted to go to the seaside to clear his mind, and if he hadn’t gone to the seaside, he wouldn’t have fallen into the sea during a storm, nor would he have had the chance to encounter this man-eating creature.

And thus, none of this confusion would have occurred.

To sum up, it was all the Princess Consort’s fault.

Yes, that’s right.

In just a short time, the Prince, who had thought it through, spoke even more confidently.

“This time, even if the public might misunderstand the Imperial Family, I will still convince the King and Queen… We were wrong from the very start, we are not suited for each other.”

Men, when they shirk responsibility, are indeed quite decisive.

No, the Prince had no desire to know the role he played in all this.

Nobody knew that he now remembered, the one who truly saved his life wasn’t the Sea Princess, but a beautiful girl with a lovely fishtail.

It was her mouthful of sharp teeth that was somewhat frightening.

She must be the fabled daughter of the Sea King, the mermaid.

But before he could form any thoughts, or even have a chance to take another look at the mermaid, she was, right before his eyes, swallowed whole by a large shark.

Then… then he fainted from shock, and when he woke up, he believed it was the Sea Princess who appeared before him that had saved him.

He, he…

Embarrassingly, he had shared a bed with such a disgusting creature for quite a long time.

Just thinking about it, his stomach began to churn with acid.

But he was determined not to let anyone know that he actually understood the whole truth.

“Princess Consort, I don’t know where you got such a large dead fish from, but please don’t make wild claims that this is the Sea Princess.”

“The Sea Princess already left last night to return to her own country…”

When the Prince spoke, even falsehoods became truths.

The housekeeper by his side quickly followed up, “That’s right, I was the one who arranged the carriage.”

In fact, according to Su Li’s observation, the people around them, including the housekeeper and these maids and guards, couldn’t hide their joy the moment they heard Cinderella say that the dead fish in front of them was the Sea Princess.

The tension in her body relaxed, her expression one of excitement barely held in check.

It seemed all these cunning people were in the know after all. Only the Prince, the poor fool, still thought everyone in the Imperial Palace was as bewitched by the monster as he was.

“That’s what you get for talking nonsense, for your lack of accountability, you deadbeat, why don’t you just die….”

No one expected Cinderella to start throwing punches without a word.

She slapped the Prince’s face with a palm, using both hands in a pincer movement.

The Prince was dazed by the beating.

Even though Cinderella, weakened by her constitution, didn’t have much strength in her hands, putting her full effort into slapping someone still hurt quite a bit.

This was after she had consciously held back; had she struck with the same ferocity as the Princess of Huhai, the Prince would probably be prostrate by now.

Even now, the Prince didn’t look too good.

Cinderella had no intention of stopping, “You’ve given me the cold shoulder, well, let’s have a marital showdown then….”

Su Li: “…..” She couldn’t shake the feeling that Cinderella had unlocked some formidable new level.

It took a while for the housekeeper and others to recover from their shock and start pulling her away.

With so many people, they still couldn’t pull Cinderella back, allowing her to land several more slaps on the Prince’s face before giving up.

“In my dictionary, there’s no such word as divorce, only widowhood.”

The Princess’s fierce and aggressive demeanor caused the servile servants to shrink back and keep silent.

“Stop hitting me, I was wrong, I was wrong….”

Su Li watched on, highly amused by the Prince’s deeply hidden, unknown masochistic tendencies.

Not just her, by the thoughtful look on Cinderella’s face, she seemed to have caught onto the pattern too.

She watched as Cinderella, seizing the Prince off guard, slapped the man to the ground again.

“You promised not to bully me anymore, why the hitting…..”

Su Li shivered with a chill, wondering what it felt like for a strong, masculine man to turn into a whimpering creature in a second?

Her surprised expression said it all.

“So are you still thinking of leaving me or not?” Cinderella asked while her fists continued to wave through the air.

The Prince, his face so swollen his features were indistinguishable, still tried to squeeze out an ingratiating smile, “No, no….”

The landlord’s wife had also never expected the matter to take such a dramatic turn.

She wondered what her shrewd ex-husband would think, knowing that his once timid and ladylike daughter had turned into a violent spitfire.

With the Prince looking like this, Cinderella no longer felt like leaving home.

She thought that some people just have a masochistic streak.

Not satisfied with a good complexion, they force someone to slap them three meals a day to be content.

So she decided to stay and fully accommodate this peculiar hobby.

As for domestic violence, as long as the person involved has no will to resist, then there’s no problem.

After spending one more day at the Imperial Palace, Su Li and her group left.

Back in her own territory, just as Su Li dismounted the coach, the outsiders she hadn’t seen in two days joyfully surrounded her.

She hadn’t imagined that in just two short days, their affection for her had deepened.

Their faces revealed nothing but longing for her.

Su Li felt she ought to be moved.