Cinderella, however, paid no attention to the Magic Mirror's words.
For her, suddenly voicing the secret buried in her heart was like opening a breach in a riverbank about to burst. Everything she wanted to say poured out like rushing water, impossible to stop.
"I want to know whether my Prince still loves me. Why is he so intimate with that countess? How can I win back his affection? Why did his heart change? Does that countess have some other motive for approaching him? I..."
Forced to listen to a barrage of questions, the Magic Mirror felt utterly overwhelmed.
"Stop, stop, stop!" It raised its voice, cutting Cinderella off mid-sentence.
Cinderella finally stopped.
She bit her lip awkwardly, belatedly realizing she had spilled everything in her heart, and felt rather embarrassed.
Zhao Xun, who had remained silent throughout, was completely speechless.
He hadn't expected Cinderella to want the Magic Mirror for this...
Sure enough, fairy tales always ended at the happiest moment, when the prince and princess married. Their lives afterward weren't much different from ordinary people's.
Still, after hearing all that, the Magic Mirror certainly wouldn't want to form a contract with Cinderella.
It already found the Queen's daily question, "Am I the most beautiful woman in the world?" boring and tiresome, let alone Cinderella's endless questions about whether her Prince still loved her.
Sure enough, a moment later, the Magic Mirror asked disdainfully, "You want me just so you can ask every day whether your Prince still loves you?"
"I don't want to keep guessing what the Prince is thinking. It makes me terribly insecure and damages our relationship," Cinderella answered honestly. "Asking you every day would give me peace of mind. If our relationship really did run into trouble, I could find out early and work out