Chapter 5

Chapter 5

The Queen stared at me in silence for a moment.

Then she once again used her signature move: acting like I didn’t exist.

As she affectionately pulled the princess over, she said, “Hurry up and come eat.”

At the same time, she casually brushed over the princess’s head. “Xuexue, your hair needs washing.”

As expected, the very next second, I was flicked away by a tremendous force.

Unlike the first time, I was now like a battle-hardened warrior. The instant she pulled the princess over, I immediately tensed all over and made myself as hard as possible.

With a light sweep of the Queen’s sleeve, I flew into the air in a perfect parabola.

The arc was beautiful, the posture impeccable.

And then, with a heavy “clang,” I slammed into the ground.

And smashed the floor apart…

The thick marble flooring shattered into powder under my impact.

The Queen stared at her outrageously expensive floor in shock and heartbreak.

Snow White, meanwhile, was shocked and… overjoyed.

Her eyes lit up, her face flushed red, and she pointed at me excitedly as she said to the Queen, “Can I have her as my shot put?”

“…”

When Snow White left contentedly with me tucked away on her person, the Queen’s expression was complicated.

She cast a worried glance toward the palace, then hurried after the Little Princess.

“Xuexue, it’s best to play shot put on sand, okay?”

“And also, you know, the castle floors are very expensive, and they all came from the same batch. If one gets smashed and patched afterward, it won’t look nice anymore…”

I truly hadn’t expected this.

As an apple, I could actually live to see the day I’d be treated as sports equipment.

It felt like I’d been forcibly transferred to a new job.

This was really too much.

The princess was very studious and excelled at combining theory with practice.

She was obsessed with the problem of apples falling to the ground, and if she couldn’t figure something out, she’d keep trying it over and over herself.

So I was forced to cooperate with her through countless experiments.

From panicking at first to becoming completely used to it now, I could even spare the attention to admire the distant scenery whenever I was thrown to the highest point.

Back when I used to go to amusement parks, the only ride I could handle was the carousel.

But after this round of tempering, I felt like I was terrifyingly strong now.

I even felt that drop towers and roller coasters were no big deal.

When the experiment reached the one-thousand-and-first repetition, I suddenly felt that the little stone I’d been gripping the whole time didn’t seem nearly as scorching anymore.

At the same time, my falling speed became much faster.

It was as if I’d lost the stone’s cushioning force.

The princess noticed too, so she sped things up.

After losing that cushioning force, my descent trajectory started becoming chaotic. Of course, that mainly depended on how much sideways force the princess was giving me.

I started rampaging wildly through the castle.

When the first vase shattered, the princess seemed to discover a whole new world.

Then came the second, the third…

By the time the Queen rushed over, the Little Princess had already smashed everything smashable.

Still looking unsatisfied, she tugged on the Queen’s sleeve with eyes full of anticipation.

“I think my strength barely meets the standard, but my accuracy is still pretty lacking. I probably need more training…”

So you still want to go to the Queen’s palace and wreck the place one more time?

The Queen looked at the wrecked hall in devastation. She stood there in a daze for a long time before finally trembling as she yanked her sleeve free from the princess’s grip. “No! You do not! You absolutely do not need any more!”

The Little Princess pouted in disappointment. “Fine.”