Chapter 247

Chapter 247

Yellow Hair did not realize whom Your Highness meant.

He struggled to work it out, but even after Your Highness finished and stepped down from the platform, Yellow Hair had not found the answer.

He prepared to ask his companions.

“Did any of you figure out who it is?” Yellow Hair asked.

No one answered. Their actions said everything.

Jian Fan, Qin Weiyi, Lin Junruo, Mu Xin, Yang Zhen, and Zhou Jingying all looked at Qin Nan. Lu Jing alone remained outside the situation, but he followed Qin Weiyi in all things, so he looked at Qin Nan too.

Wasn’t the answer obvious when Qin Nan was dressed entirely in black?

Lu Jing felt that, for once, he had kept pace with everyone else’s reasoning.

Seeing everyone stare at Qin Nan, Yellow Hair turned blankly as well. Then…

Oh?

Your Highness had said the woman liked black, and Qin Nan wore a black dress. He said she was cruel but beautiful. Wasn’t that Snow White’s stepmother, who constantly consulted the Magic Mirror and had personally been named the fairest woman other than Snow White? As for nearly becoming Your Highness’s mother-in-law… Yellow Hair’s gaze fell upon Jian Fan.

Well, well.

Then this was–the Prince who had kissed Snow White?

The Prince who awakened Snow White never married him. Now he had expended enormous effort to arrange a magnificent ball, and the person he sought was not Snow White but–the stepmother Queen?

The story behind that was genuinely captivating.

“Stop looking at me.” Qin Nan waved them off, deeply irritated.

“Why is Your Highness searching for Qin Nan?” Lin Junruo asked first.

Although Qin Nan already had an answer in mind, he still struggled. “It isn’t necessarily me. I’m wearing black, but no one said I like black.”

No one entertained Qin Nan’s dying protest.

The answer had already settled in everyone’s mind.

“If he’s searching for Qin Nan, why isn’t he looking for Snow White?” Mu Xin asked.

Yellow Hair added, “Everyone at the ball already knows Qin Nan poisoned Jian Fan. Jian Fan is awake, so Your Highness must already have kissed Snow White. That means Snow White and Your Highness should be engaged. Since Your Highness says Qin Nan nearly became his mother-in-law, and he’s now searching for Qin Nan, he probably doesn’t know where Snow White is either. Instead of looking for his fiancée, he’s searching for the stepmother who harmed her. That…”

Qin Nan rolled his eyes.

When speaking of Jian Fan, Yellow Hair called him Snow White, yet Qin Nan remained Qin Nan. What was that supposed to mean?

Before Qin Nan could complain, Yellow Hair finished his thought.

“Does Your Highness actually love Qin Nan?” asked Yellow Hair, who had been thoroughly led astray by Lin Junruo.

Qin Nan: “????”

“Yellow Hair, I’m warning you. Think carefully before you speak,” Qin Nan said ominously.

Yellow Hair cleared his throat. “It’s a reasonable deduction. If Your Highness isn’t searching for his beloved, why is he looking for you?”

“Revenge isn’t possible?” Qin Nan said. “If he loves me–bah, if Your Highness loves the Evil Queen, why would he kiss Snow White? That kind of love? Impossible. I think the Evil Queen and Your Highness became enemies. As for why he isn’t searching for Snow White, perhaps Snow White never disappeared in this version.”

Everyone: “…”

Whatever made him happy.

Qin Nan fumed.

But Yellow Hair’s suggestion was only one possibility. It could be right or wrong; they could not draw a firm conclusion yet.
They also did not know whether Your Highness was friend or foe, so they certainly could not hand Qin Nan over while knowing nothing. What else could they do now?

“Leaving Qin Nan aside, what can we do next?” Yellow Hair asked Jian Fan.

It was obvious they needed to trigger and complete quests. Yet both the method of triggering them and the method of completion remained problems.

Jian Fan was the cleverest among them, so Yellow Hair instinctively sought his lead.

“Trigger the quests first,” Jian Fan said.

The quests they had triggered were difficult, and their deadlines appeared to fall before midnight. Triggering the rest as early as possible would benefit them.

As for how…

Jian Fan rubbed his brow. “If necessary, I can try the Poisoned Apple.”

“No!” Qin Nan rejected the idea at once.

Jian Fan turned toward him.

“Even setting aside whether the Poisoned Apple kills you, if it merely makes you unconscious, Qin Weiyi already can’t speak. If you pass out too, that’s a catastrophic loss. We can think of the same obvious things you can, but the deductions only you can make–do you honestly think the rest of us can manage them?”

Jian Fan paused.

He truly had overlooked that.

Lin Junruo, Yellow Hair, and the others immediately agreed.

Nothing could happen to Jian Fan too.

But if Qin Nan left his quest undone, Jian Fan’s and Yellow Hair’s quests would remain difficult to trigger.

Then–

“Let’s help Little Red Riding Hood find Grandmother,” Jian Fan said.

That was at least a relatively reliable opportunity.

Yang Zhen nodded. “Sounds good to me.”

She had been worrying that she could not manage alone.

At that moment, Zhou Jingying suddenly spoke.

“I can try.”

Everyone looked at her in surprise.

Zhou Jingying looked at Yang Zhen. “I can do it, but I have one condition.”

Yang Zhen: “?”

Why was Zhou Jingying looking at her?

“What condition?” Yang Zhen finally asked.

Zhou Jingying tightened her grip. “If I die after striking the match, I want you to kill Fang Kang for me. Here in the Realm of Death.”

Everyone: “???”

“You have a grudge against Fang Kang?” Yang Zhen asked.

Before Zhou Jingying could answer, Qin Nan frowned as he remembered something.

“If I remember correctly, Zhou Jingying’s child also died ten years ago,” Qin Nan said.

Zhou Jingying smiled bitterly. “Yes. He died at Fang Kang’s hands too.”

What?

Everyone was shocked.

The Realm of Death truly knew how to match people. It had put two enemies in the same world. No wonder Zhou Jingying had kept her distance from Fang Kang when only the two of them remained.

How could she possibly cooperate with the murderer who killed her child?

She wanted nothing more than to drag Fang Kang into death with her!

“All right. I promise,” Yang Zhen answered immediately.

Someone like Fang Kang deserved death. Besides, killing him in exchange for useful information was an overwhelmingly profitable bargain for Yang Zhen.

Zhou Jingying’s expression softened.

She took out a match, demonstrating her sincerity through action.

With a scratch, it ignited.

The tiny flame reflected in everyone’s eyes.

They all waited for Zhou Jingying’s reaction.