"Too close, too close! Get away from him, you red-eyed vixen!"

"They're holding hands interlocked, how bold."

"Why isn't Sect Master reacting?"

"Sh-she can actually do that? Interlocked fingers?"

Beihai, Azure Cloud Sect.

The true-transmission disciples gathered together, along with Susan from the Beihai Disaster Control Bureau, were currently watching the live broadcast from the center and commenting.

The one constantly telling the Prince to get away was naturally Super Qinghua.

As the only professional in Azure Cloud Sect, Qinghua had recognized the Prince's danger level at first glance.

High status, magnificent appearance, that innate royal arrogance—in a galgame, she'd be a super-popular main romance target.

Both her character model and personality were top-tier. Most importantly was her status—a genuine king from the old world. She had old world members for population and Mirror Kingdom technology for power.

Forget Jiang Si; if dialogue boxes could appear below, Qinghua would be tempted to go up and romance her herself.

She was too easy to make people feel a desire to challenge and conquer.

I say the most important thing about a galgame heroine is her identity and status, does anyone get it...

However, the immature true-transmission disciples of Azure Cloud Sect clearly hadn't perceived the Prince's threat. Among the entire true-transmission group, aside from Lady Bingtang, it was actually very difficult for anyone else to rival the Prince in status.

Yet these true-transmissions were still foolishly watching the show. Even when the Prince directly interlocked fingers, these girls didn't react much. Yumo was still muttering over there, "When Sect Master comes back, I... I want to try too..."

When Sect Master gets taken by such a bad woman, what will you even try!

Qinghua curled up on the stool, gnawing on her fingernails resentfully. "Who among us has actually interlocked fingers with Sect Master? What right does she have..."

"Lady Bingtang has."

Following Yumo's soft response, Susan couldn't help but glance at Bingtang.

At this moment, Bingtang held a beautiful ball of yarn in her hand, like silk thread, with a crystalline, ice-like translucence.

On the computer in front of her, unusually, no documents or office software were open. Instead, a small video was playing.

A woman in the video was giving step-by-step instructions on knitting gloves.

Holding two knitting needles, she clumsily knitted gloves bit by bit with the silk-like yarn. Noticing everyone's gazes turning to her, Bingtang was momentarily stunned, then nodded. "Sect Master doesn't mind such things."

"However, be careful not to sweat. Sect Master dislikes sticky feelings. Also, fingernails—Qinghua, yours should be trimmed..."

Qinghua finally understood why Lady Bingtang didn't care at all.

It was all stuff she had already experienced...

"Lady Bingtang, is your recent work not busy anymore?" Susan shifted her gaze from the ice crystal, looking at Lady Bingtang who was knitting gloves with full concentration, and couldn't help but ask, "Won't it delay things a lot?"

"After recently taking control of the Disaster Control Bureau, many troublesome tasks can be thrown to Jincha to handle, so my workload has lightened considerably."

Bingtang took the half-knitted glove and put it on her hand, slightly bending and moving her fingers, feeling the comfort and texture of the finger cover. The ice silk feeling was quite nice.

That thread was carefully chosen by you.

Every time she changed to different thigh-high socks, she would deliberately make contact with Jiang Si, letting him test the feel. Based on the strength and duration of Jiang Si's touch, she ultimately selected this thread that Jiang Si seemed to prefer.

Of course, since the difference in dwell time was only a few milliseconds, whether Jiang Si truly particularly liked it, Bingtang couldn't really confirm either. But it was still better than choosing randomly.

"Wouldn't it be better to just buy them directly?"

Super Qinghua immediately shook her finger, looking at Susan with an expression of 'this child is beyond teaching.' "Of course, gloves knitted by oneself have value as a token of love."

Bingtang didn't deny it either, just saying, "I've been very interested in hand-knitted items recently."

Qinghua immediately nodded. "I get what you mean." 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

"Better pay more attention to the other screens. Sect Master said that when entering the Mirror Kingdom in the future, we must not let a single Alice escape. We must clean out the Mirror Kingdom completely in one go."

Following Bingtang's reminder, the other true-transmissions also didn't dare to relax too much, continuing to watch the images transmitted from the Sect Master.

Returning to the Mirror Kingdom this time, Jiang Si had made thorough preparations. From the beginning, he had Bingtang cooperate with his act, embedding ice crystals into his eyeballs. As pure transmission devices, the ice crystals' mana reactions were extremely weak, plus there was Jiang Si's disguise and concealment.

Even with the Mirror Kingdom's technology, it was unlikely to be discovered.

Moreover, under Bingtang's control, these ice crystals could transform into harmless, non-reactive water droplets soaking the pupils at any time.

The only flaw was no sound.

After the Sect Master and Prince interlocked fingers, the Sect Master's expression remained calm, his lips moving slightly. Qinghua immediately guessed based on lip-reading, "What Sect Master is definitely saying here is 'Your hand is so small, why is it so much softer than mine, we can enter the Mirror Kingdom...'"

"The lip shape doesn't really match," Susan stroked her chin. "Here, it should be a very simple 'let's go together'?"

"I... I think Sect Master is saying 'Let go, or I'll... kill you'!"

Yumo said this sentence with such murderous intensity it actually had a bit of the Sect Master's flavor.

Everyone watched as after the lingering ended, the Prince was about to pull the Sect Master into the spatial rift. Qinghua immediately clapped her hands.

"I said it was about entering the Mirror Kingdom, right? Look how eager the Prince is."

After saying that, she hugged herself, imitating the Prince's earlier embrace. "I already... can't hold back any longer. Even in my dreams, I see you saying goodbye to me. I really can't bear it. So... can you come to my place...?"

"So disgusting, Qinghua." Thousand-Pinweed sitting next to her immediately shifted her body. "The person only said two short phrases."

"Compressed, just like Harry Potter's spells."

"Dare insult Harry Potter's magic, I'll kill you, you know."

While the two bickered, the couple-like Prince and Jiang Si in the image moved again.

When the Prince took Jiang Si around the Mirror Kingdom, saying something, Qinghua smiled mysteriously.

"Ah, definitely some romantic sweet talk, then telling some personal past to elicit sympathy. Maybe the little story is even made up."

This kind of scene is basically when a galgame reveals the heroine's hidden secrets!

"You see, the Prince just pointed north. What she's definitely saying is—"

"'That is my favorite 'time coordinate.' I sometimes stand there for hours, constantly looking around. The day before yesterday, I saw a little rabbit; yesterday, a little deer; today, it's you.'"

Susan looked curious. "Now she's pointing south."

"'In winter, my mother always locked me there alone. Every time, I thought, it would be better if there were more people. More people could make it warmer.'" Qinghua imitated the Prince's movements, her face full of affection.

"'Haa... I... don't want to be cold anymore. If only after spring comes, it could always be spring. If it were always spring, I could always be full of energy.'"

Thousand-Pinweed pursed her lips. "From a galgame, right."

"N-noisy, so noisy." Yumo added.

Soon, the Prince and Sect Master arrived at the top of the palace, sitting up there, facing the masses below. The Sect Master spoke first.

Yumo followed the lip movements, word by word. "Ants, so many, so many many ants, 123456..."

Thousand-Pinweed: "The lip shape completely doesn't match!"

Qinghua: "Watch me. Hmm, Sect Master is saying, 'This is the end of my Simo Tu dream, the end of my dream of fighting as the Calamity Dragon until now. My wings have forgotten how to fly, because I've only been pretending to be a Disaster Beast all along. Dragon wings that cannot fly, what else are they...'"

Thousand-Pinweed: "Qinghua, shut up, you're ruining Sect Master's character."

Qinghua smiled smugly. "That's what you don't know. Our Sect Master is a thousand-faced acting emperor! There's no such thing as ruining his character."

As she spoke, she saw the Prince take the Sect Master's hand. Qinghua's expression turned serious as she slapped the table.

"It's appeared! The decisive line! 'No matter what happens, please don't regret meeting me.' She's definitely saying that!"

Yumo delivered a two-part Sect Master quote: "En-enough is enough!"

As soon as the words fell, they saw the Prince standing at the palace peak, just waving her hand, saying something unknown.

The entire Mirror Kingdom erupted!

Even without sound, when Jiang Si's gaze fell on the crowd below.

The fanatical and excited expressions, the people so agitated their veins bulged, their faces somewhat distorted.

It proved what a massive frenzy the Prince's words had stirred!

Susan was instantly dumbfounded. "What did she suddenly say? Why is everyone going crazy?"

Qinghua muttered, "Definitely a stand-up comedy bit that fell flat..."

"Looks like a speech," Yumo said seriously. "M-my struggle."

"Why don't you say 'mega'? Still 'my struggle'."

When the Prince turned and extended her hand towards Jiang Si.

That peerlessly brilliant, dazzling smile—even Bingtang, who had been lowering her head knitting gloves, couldn't help but look over.

Like the glow of sunrise, momentarily so dazzling it was hard to look at directly!

A smile even a girl couldn't refuse!

Qinghua reacted first, immediately turning her head to look at Lady Bingtang.

She saw Lady Bingtang smile at her. "A wonderful smile. Sect Master might like it."

That's not the issue...

Qinghua glanced again. That smile made even battle-hardened her feel her heartbeat quicken.

Then she scratched her head in distress.

Did Sect Master even do anything on stage?

How did he automatically trigger a top-tier CG? Is this game even legal?

Over there, Yumo pulled at the corners of her mouth, then looked in the mirror, as if trying to compete with the Prince's smile.

But after struggling a bit, she dejectedly hugged the Shion doll and gave up.

Susan over there also seemed to want to show a brilliant smile, but her stiff face couldn't manage it at all, instead giving off a 'uncanny valley' feeling, like a double agent.

A completely unbeatable smile.

Seeing the Sect Master finally take the Prince's extended hand, Yumo lowered her head, gently biting the hair of the Shion doll.

Qinghua glanced at Lady Bingtang again.

Bingtang, who hadn't cared before, was now finally seriously observing the Prince. After pondering for a moment, she said, "It seems Sect Master's broken engagement plot will be difficult to advance."

"Should we attack the Mirror Kingdom in advance to help push the plot?"

Is it really just to push the plot?

Qinghua muttered to herself, just about to continue guessing the dialogue between Sect Master and Prince when...

The door of the Illusory Moon Cavern Dwelling was pushed open, and Six Leaf ran in panting.

"Lady Bingtang, it's bad! Keke has run out from the Disaster Control Bureau!"

...

After the passionate and stirring speech, the Prince finally brought Jiang Si back to the palace.

"I have prepared the most magnificent palace for you."

The Prince said proudly and confidently. "A wedding hall worthy of you and me."

However, when she pushed open the door, what greeted their eyes was a hall filled with mourning banners and funeral wreaths.

Amidst the white flowers flying everywhere, there was also a team of seven Alices in the center of the hall, dancing with a coffin to a very dynamic rhythm!

The other few Alices were crying and wailing around the 'Seven Warlords Under the King,' hugging Simo Tu's black-and-white memorial photo. Some were even crying their hearts out.

The Prince slammed the door shut.

Calmly and composedly, she turned around, looking at Jiang Si, whose expression seemed somewhat displeased. She said indifferently, "Sorry, there may have been a slight error. It's not that the Mirror Kingdom is cursing you to die..."

Jiang Si wasn't particularly interested in their intentions.

He was just annoyed by someone holding a funeral for him.

If you're dead, you're dead. Just toss the ashes by the roadside. Why put them in a jar and hold a funeral?

A waste of time...

As the Prince spoke, she immediately summoned the system.

"I said to decorate the wedding hall."

[Reporting to Your Majesty: We have already decorated a wonderful wedding hall.]

"Wonderful in what way?"

[A wonderful ghost marriage...]

The Prince crushed the little bird with her hand, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open again.

The Alices inside had already changed the ghost marriage hall.

It became an ordinary great hall.

Although it wasn't the pre-planned wedding hall—the Prince just remembered she hadn't pre-programmed a perfect wedding hall. In the Mirror Kingdom's data, regarding weddings, there was only the Late King's ghost marriage hall.

Previously, when she thought Simo Tu had already died, the Prince thought she could just save the trouble of programming a normal wedding hall—after all, the expense was quite significant.

Now she somewhat regretted not splurging a bit back then.

Leading Jiang Si into the great hall, "We'll talk about the wedding hall later. Let's eat something first..."

As the Alices wheeled in the dining table, the Prince planned to eat directly in the palace hall.

The old Mirror Kingdom naturally wouldn't allow such transgressive behavior, but now she was the king.

She was going to do these previously forbidden things, compensating for her childhood regrets.

But as the dining table was wheeled in, she saw an Alice.

Hugging Jiang Si's ashes urn, burying her head and eating voraciously.

Her eyelid twitched. The Prince subconsciously glanced back.

She found Jiang Si, instead of showing much annoyance or anger, was looking with great interest at the Alice eating his ashes.

He seemed completely indifferent to such a thing, even though he had just shown annoyance at the funeral...

"Which Alice are you? Who told you to eat ashes?"

That Alice immediately stood straight, mouth full of ashes, and saluted. "Alice 114514, commemorating Simo Tu-sama with a memorializing attitude!"

The previous command was forgotten to be revoked...

The corner of the Prince's mouth twitched. "You still can't eat ashes."

"It's milk powder. I added milk powder." Alice 114514 raised the ashes urn in her hand. "Simo Tu Ashes Edition Milk Powder, with a simulated ashes urn, to commemorate our departed queen..."

The Prince began to suspect if the learning system that accessed the external network had problems.

This might have been a wrong decision.

"Not bad."

As a result, Jiang Si's opening words made the Prince dismiss her doubts. "If it were real ashes, you could eat a little, sprinkle a little."

"I like the feeling of freedom."

She looked at Jiang Si, feeling his expression increasingly matched 'putting on a brave face.'

So she took Jiang Si's hand, gently stroking it, softly patting the back of his hand.

Jiang Si's hand was cold and hard like steel. The Prince's hand was soft and tender like water, yet couldn't envelop his hand, just feeling painfully grating. Her tone was gentle. "You've suffered."

For my sake, you can even endure such things in silence.

Although Jiang Si didn't know what this mistress thought he was suffering, he didn't delve into it. He just looked at that Alice and said, "Mix in some of my own ashes, let me taste it."

Ordinary people can't drink their own ashes mixed with milk, right?

Alice immediately pulled out his ashes jar, pouring it into her own lunchbox that was no different from an ashes urn.

The Prince's eyelid twitched beside him. She spoke up, "Let's eat first. Have dessert after the meal."

Jiang Si nodded, then looked at Alice 114514. "Taste it."

That Alice scooped up a spoonful, downing it in one gulp.

Then gave a thumbs up. "Has a milky fragrance, and a dragon brain aroma. Rich and delicate texture, makes you want to vomit uncontrollably."

The Prince directly had Alice 114514 dragged away.

When the table was moved to the central hall and all the dishes were served.

Jiang Si looked at the table full of big fish and meat, couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

He couldn't help but recall the sigh when reading web novels.

Can poor people please not write nouveau riche stories or fantasize about royal life?

Your royal family's main meal is just big fish and meat?

Couldn't you at least have a Buddha Jumps Over the Wall? If that's too much, a lobster or abalone would show you tried.

Chicken legs, chicken wings, chicken gizzards—three dishes from one chicken.

Such a luxurious royal life...

"The Mirror Kingdom royal family's life used to be very hard. Only after connecting to the new world did we finally get these big fish and meat. In the past, even being able to eat pickled vegetables with tofu was happiness for the Mirror Kingdom's own Shion."

Alright, fills the blank of no poor-dog royalty.

Jiang Si himself wasn't picky. He just remembered his PTSD from reading nouveau riche web novels—stuff like after getting rich, the first thing is to go to the service center and demand to fill up the phone bill, or buy out the entire Apple store, and such showing-off behavior.

It really makes one wonder what the authors' lives were like, not even daring to dream big.

After sitting down, the Prince actively served him rice. She didn't sit opposite but right next to him.

Jiang Si looked at the bowls and chopsticks on the table. "Why is there only one set of bowls and chopsticks?"

Is the Mirror Kingdom so destitute?

"We can share one set." The Prince said with a carefree smile. "I don't mind."

But what if I mind?

Watching the Prince use that one pair of chopsticks, taking a bite herself, then feeding a bite to his mouth.

He still reluctantly opened his mouth and ate it.

It wasn't that there was any problem. If anything, the Prince's saliva was sweet like honey. The used chopsticks didn't have much residue, instead carrying a faint fragrance—probably the Mirror Kingdom citizens had special physiques.

But Jiang Si had disliked sharing chopsticks with others since childhood.

The Prince also noticed his aversion, so she stopped touching the chopsticks herself, instead just picking up food and feeding Jiang Si.

She originally wanted to try mouth-to-mouth feeding, but it seemed Jiang Si would probably mind, so the Prince planned to save it for later, trying it when they were an old married couple and it didn't matter anymore...

[As the Mirror Queen, is it really proper to do such things? Your Majesty, this is an insult and defilement to the Mirror Kingdom royal family!]

"The Mirror Kingdom royal family? You mean me alone?"

The Prince sneered while reaching out to pick up a grain of rice from the corner of Jiang Si's mouth, putting it into her own mouth. "Isn't it strange to still put on the Mirror Queen's posture in front of one's lover? Wouldn't it be too tiring to live life putting on airs even in daily life?"

[Fun fact, you and Mr. Jiang Si are not yet married.]

"Don't worry, soon."

The Prince said coldly, "I have already sent invitations to everyone. I will definitely give Jiang Si a grand wedding."

[Are you sure it's not a funeral...]

Jiang Si wiped his mouth, looking at the table full of heavy dishes, all greasy, not a single vegetarian one.

He'd rather try his own ashes mixed with milk.

"Let's put the wedding aside for now."

The youth grabbed her hand holding the chopsticks, staring into her eyes. "I want to know how you plan to go beyond the world."

"If you want to go beyond the world, the wedding can't be put aside."

The Prince also enjoyed Jiang Si actively holding her hand. "The Heavenly Fire Attainment can only be completed at the wedding. To achieve the plan, a grand wedding must be used..."

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly felt the Jiang Si in front of her blur for a moment.

The Prince was slightly stunned, instinctively reaching out to grab Jiang Si, only to find Jiang Si suddenly flying out from in front of her, then abruptly being hoisted up!

His figure blurred, flashing with a snowy screen effect like a broken TV.

[Warning: Jiang Si's spatial dimension has changed!]

When the system's prompt sounded, the Prince sharply turned around, pulling out a pistol from her hand. A Glock 17, a self-defense weapon bought at a high price from Saint Hall Demon Squad's Magical Girl Ruo Yun.

Before obtaining the transformation ability, the Prince's self-preservation capability had always been a problem.

Especially after being blocked by Azure Cloud Sect's disciples, her sense of crisis in this aspect became increasingly severe. So the Prince purchased this pistol at a high price from Saint Hall's Ruo Yun.

However, as soon as she raised it, the muzzle also produced the same snowy screen effect as on Jiang Si's body.

"Our Witch Association is also very interested in your technology for going to the world beyond."

Numerous bat shrieks came. Soon, the Prince found her system had actually lost responsiveness.

She immediately switched to manual control, mobilizing the surrounding Alices.

Dense bats fluttered, rushing towards her face, then gradually transformed into a girl opposite her dining table.

A black velvet hairband, with small, slightly trembling bat wings above each ear. In the center was a huge wine-red velvet bow, with a dark red teardrop-shaped gem inlaid at the center of the bow, like a drop of congealed blood.

A black, luxurious long dress, with dark-pattern embroidery of rose vines and hanging bats on the skirt. The hand holding the cup wore lace long gloves. When the teacup reached her lips, the red, almost blood-dripping lip color was especially vivid.

Wearing a half-mask, although the whole face couldn't be seen clearly, the slightly upturned corner of the half-visible mouth and the narrowed dark pupils appeared extremely mysterious and dangerous.

A vampire...

The thought flashed through the Prince's mind as she heard the girl continue, "Regarding the plan to go beyond the world, our Witch Association also wants to get involved. How about it?"

"What if I say I'm unwilling?"

The small bat wings trembling above the girl's ears suddenly came alive, transforming into bats, flying to the hoisted-up Jiang Si above.

Circling, one bit down!

Blood was left on Jiang Si's body, whose spatial dimension had clearly changed. The girl raised her cup, catching Jiang Si's blood. "Then I might have to apologize to Mr. Jiang Si."

Taking a small sip, the vampire girl was stunned.

This is too delicious... The soul-stirring, restless energy momentarily made her intoxicated and distracted.

So she sincerely sighed.

"Your lover's blood is good, very smooth."

The Prince gazed at her with cold eyes.

She saw the vampire-like girl shrug. "Don't look at me like that, it's so scary. I don't mean to kill anyone, just make Jiang Si suffer a bit. Miss Mirror Queen, you wouldn't want your lover..."

The system was frantically analyzing the opponent's ability. The different spatial dimension made her dare not act rashly. Who knew where the opponent had teleported Jiang Si?

Another problem was that the other party could get here, meaning there was a traitor in the old world.

Who was it, who defected to the Witch Association, even letting someone enter the palace...

A dark fingertip tapped the table. The bat girl tilted her head. "Sit down and let's talk slowly?"

The Prince took a deep breath, looking up at the trapped Jiang Si.

She still walked over, slowly sitting down.

"No need to put on an unwilling expression. After all, I'm also the strongest Magical Girl under the President. Especially since I have a thorough understanding of your Alices and some tech systems, you can't do anything to me. So this result is normal."

The bat Magical Girl comforted the Prince, then pointed above, at Jiang Si's location. "Of course, the most important thing is Mr. Simo Tu. Having lost the ability to transform into the Golden Calamity Dragon King, he leaves me with no worries. As a legend of the Witch Association, becoming such a cripple is truly heartbreaking, don't you think?"

"What do you want to say?"

"Even for the sake of your lover's dignity, to prevent him from becoming a pitiful person who gets his head stepped on in front of his lover, losing all face, you'd better choose to cooperate with the Witch Association. Only you have the qualification to cooperate with the Witch Association."

A somewhat sinister smile appeared on the bat girl's cute face. "Otherwise, I'll have to torment your beloved Mr. Simo Tu, making him feel his own powerlessness and pain."

Stirring the blood in the cup, the girl continued, "Our Witch Association has always been..."

A drop of blood dripped onto the table.

The words were interrupted. Both girls simultaneously looked up at the hoisted youth.

The snowy screen effect was still on his body, yet one of the youth's hands had extended out from within the snowy screen!

The snowy screen was like a blade, leaving wounds on the youth's hand. Blood continuously dripped from his palm.

On the table, it almost gathered into a pool of blood.

Immediately after, that hand suddenly exerted force. His own palm and the snowy screen effect were almost simultaneously torn apart. More blood splattered down, like a light rain!

The Prince let the blood spray on her face, motionlessly watching.

Over there, the bat girl finally couldn't help but stand up.

Reaching out, seemingly wanting the snowy screen to close again, but the youth had already torn open the snowy screen, crawling out from another spatial dimension, looking at her expressionlessly.

"Do you like blood?"

In that moment of hesitation, the youth plummeted down!

The head wearing the black velvet hairband was instantly grabbed. The small bat wings on the ears flew off. The next second, the youth pressed her head, smashing it hard into the pool of blood on the table!

"Then drink more."