Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

……

Aecilia walked through the vegetable market and saw a group of people gathered in front of a bulletin board, so she crowded up and took a look:

"Urgently summon the brave men to go to the palace to rescue the princess from the evil dragon!"

She looked at the other notices around and found an earlier and older notice that read:

"The princess is about to marry the prince of a neighboring country."

So, this is a cliché "a princess who is about to be happy is snatched away by a greedy evil dragon, and a brave man goes to save the princess and then gets a title"? It just deletes the "brave man marries the princess" link. But, given the status gap, it’s understandable.

Moreover, the princess has to get married. From a practical point of view, of course she cannot marry a hero.

I didn't expect that one day she would be involved in such a vulgar ancient story...

"New student Ethelia Green unlocks the main mission: Save the princess!"

Um?

An electronic sound sounded in her mind, and at the same time, small blue words appeared in the upper left corner of her vision:

"Main mission: Save the princess!"

Aecilia:…

Ethelia took a deep breath.

She, a weak and helpless new student, went to fight the evil dragon head-on?

Oh, the welcome dance.

In order to eat more delicious food, she came here without eating dinner. She was really hungry now. Showing her seriousness in facing the "opening exam", she managed to cheer up.

But this broken world is really disappointing.

For example, after she walked back "home" in a daze, a broom flew toward her again. She weakly grabbed the broom stick and asked:

"what happened again?"

"Where did you go and come back? How dare you let people wait for you? Come in and eat!"

She didn't buy groceries. It doesn't matter, the dungeon will automatically correct the plot for her. Buying groceries is just an excuse to let her go out and explore.

Knowing that she had food to eat, she happily entered the house. On the wooden table in the house were a plate of vegetables, a plate of pork, a plate of peanuts and two bottles of wine.

There were three men sitting on the chair that she had never seen before. One of them had dark skin and a white beard hanging under his nose. He looked to be in his thirties or forties.

The other two were very young. One was tall and thin with sunken eyes. When he saw her coming in, he put on a playful smile. The other one was fat, smelled of blood, and looked at her with a smile.

The fat man asked her to sit down, as if he regarded this place as his home. The other two men smiled apologetically and poured wine and food for him.

As she sat down, she turned around to look for the woman, and found that she was squatting on the kitchen floor, holding a broken bowl with four or five corners missing in her hand. It was unclear what was in the bowl, with black floating on the top. Mixed yellow stuff.

...Actually, it looks familiar. It was the kind of thing she fed when helping people feed pigs in Lawrence. The black ones were vegetable leaves and the yellow ones were juice.

There was also an equally broken but smaller bowl placed at the woman's feet, presumably where she usually stayed.

She had watched many historical films in general education school, and she had a rough prediction of the upcoming plot.

After the man with the white beard poured the wine for the fat man, he scolded her:

"What are you doing so stupidly? Sit over here."

She obediently changed places with the white-bearded man.

The fat man laughed and said:

"Your name is Aecilia, right? What a beautiful little girl!"

The man with the white beard just stood there and smiled:

"Not only that, this girl probably does all the work at home! She can do any kind of work and is not afraid of getting tired. You can do whatever you want after you buy it back!"

Aecilia stared at the greasy plate of pork in front of her, remembering the fat man's greasy gaze, then looked down at her hungry belly, and fell into silence.

The man with the white beard refused to let her go, pulling her and shouting:

"Talk to Mr. Black! Why are you so stupid? I sell pork at home. Are you afraid of wronging you?"

After saying that, he smiled again:

"This girl is probably too happy to react...Look at the previous price, can it go up a little? Haha..."

Mr. Black took a sip of wine, smashed the bottle on the table, and looked at her carefully.

"Well..."

Aecilia held back her nausea and thought for a moment.

Saving the princess only requires defeating the dragon, right? There’s nothing wrong with defeating the evil guy first before defeating the dragon, right? But will the academy be able to see what she has done here...

While she was struggling, several men had already discussed the price, and the man with the white beard filled the man with the fat head with wine:

"Yes, yes, you have many connections... Then let's see if there is any way to find a job for Barry?"

The man with the sunken eyes is most likely Barry.

The fat-headed man thought for a while and said:

"There is a pig farm outside that is short of people..."

Barry immediately shouted:

"I'm not going to a pig farm!"

The white-bearded man suddenly became angry:

"What do you want to do if you don't go to the pig farm? Continue to cut wood for others?"

"What's wrong with cutting wood? I can get money for cutting wood and go home every day."

"Do you have enough money to feed yourself for a day? What are you doing when you go home? What are you doing when you go home?!"

"You can't starve me to death! Can't I come back and catch crickets to sleep with?"

"You're almost thirty, why don't you go out quickly to find money to buy a wife to go home and live in peace of mind!"

The man with the white beard was furious. He suddenly remembered that the fat man was still there, so he had to restrain his anger and said with a smile:

"Boys, you are used to freedom."

The fat man also smiled, dropped the topic, and several people started chatting again.

……

"Then it's settled, you will find someone to take her away tomorrow!"

"I'll definitely come on time, I'll definitely come, haha!"

The man with the white beard locked the wooden door and turned around to see that the woman was clearing away the dishes. Aecilia was about to help, and he hurriedly said:

"Go to bed early tonight! Serve Mr. Black well tomorrow! You damn girl is really lucky!"

Aecilia nodded obediently on the spot, and when Barry and the man with the white beard returned to the room, only the room by the door was left with no one in it. After the woman finished cleaning up, she saw her still standing and cursed:

"Is it deafening to tell you to go to bed?"

She moved towards the room near the door. The woman glanced at her and walked directly to the room where the white-bearded man had just entered.

...Fortunately, she went right. She was still worried that she was the one sleeping on the floor...

After entering the house and closing the door, she looked at the straw mats, mice and cockroaches at her feet and smiled.

He really slept on the floor.

She opened the window and looked outside. The moon hung high on the branches, and the night breeze was cool. She squinted her eyes.

Withdrawing her hand, a small snowflake formed on her fingertips and circled continuously on the pad of her index finger.

After a while, she sighed and crushed the snowflakes.

With her palm facing forward, a cold air came out of her palm and spread forward, condensing into ice along the way.

She raised her legs and stepped onto the ice. The moment her feet came into contact with the ice, a familiar instinct was awakened. She adjusted her pace slightly, and she slid freely on the ice, moving forward to embrace the night wind.

The ice spread out into the distance, and the moon hung high above her head.