HHYL Fanfic - in Fairy Tales and Popular Folks Tales.

Cinderella, Once upon a time in Datong

Cinderella, His story. (In hhyl version)

Once upon a time, in one small kingdom, a king and his queen were facing a very serious problem.

Their only son, the Crown Prince, Prince Lu Cang already twenty-one years old this year, but still didn't seem to be interested in taking a wife.

The King had called upon many princesses and introduced them to Prince Lu Cang, but the Prince only glanced at them once then courteously excused himself. Not showing even the slightest bit of getting interested face.

Although all of them were very beautiful, they still weren't up to the Prince's standards.

Prince Lu Cang himself was a very handsome young male. His haughty and arrogant sword shaped brows above his bright and sharp eyes were complimenting his high bridged nose and perfect lips. His outstanding appearance, his bravery and his upright conduct were well-known throughout the land. It was a given if many princesses wanted to be his royal consort. Unfortunately, this Prince set such very high standards, thus, none of the princesses had caught his attention yet.

"Queen Mu Yue, what do you think? Should we force him to marry?" The King, His Majesty King Ding Peng voiced out his concern.

"Is it that important for him to marry to the point you talk about this every day?" Queen Mu Yue frowned at King Ding Peng and glared at him. "Most importantly, why am I the Queen? I am the Great General for crying out loud!!"

King Ding Peng only laughed in helpless expression. "Just bear with it. Anyway, back to our story, do you have any ideas to help solve our problem?"

"Just call all the girls and let him choose by himself. Why do you have to bother yourself, in the end Lu Cang will only be with..." Queen Mu Yue couldn't complete his, ahem, her sentence for King Ding Peng already blocked her mouth with his palm.

"Sshh.... Don't spoil the story!" King Ding Peng sighed as he saw the Queen's face who from the beginning of the story had been wearing a sour and displeased expression.

"What's there to spoil if all already know! Humph!"

Ignoring the Queen's sour expression, the King firmly made a decision. "Alright. I will make an announcement to call out all the girls from the land to a ball and let Prince Lu Cang choose by himself his destined one."

Queen Mu Yue with the least interested face only drew a straight line on his, eh, her lips.

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Meanwhile, in a big mansion down in the city, the most well-known building in the city, Tonghua Mansion, a family of four was sitting at the table having their warm and satisfying dinner before another long and exhausting night.

"Cinderella, how do you find your dinner?" The stepmother caustiously asked when she saw Cinderella's bored expression.

"This is very delicious. You should give some reward to the cook, mother." Without much care, Cinderella commented on the food.

"Of course I will!" Turning his, her eyes to her two daughters, the mother coldly told them: "See, this is how a girl is supposed to act. All elegant and graceful."

The first daughter with a bulky build, Cao Xin, only nodded her head while the second daughter with a much petite body, Xi Zhen, seemed to curl her lips in protest.

"Cinderella, after this, please rest in front of the fireplace. The night can be too cold."

Cinderella only gave his mother a sideways glance. Seemed like Cinderella was annoyed by her busybody nature.