LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 0 - Chapter 0 - Rapunzel (illustration)
In the stories that parents tell by a child’s bedside, the stories that everyone commonly calls fairy tales, a love story between a Princess and a Prince cannot be missing.
A Princess who disappeared leaving only a glass slipper behind, and a Prince searching for that Princess. A Princess who ate a poisoned apple due to a witch’s scheme and fell into a deep sleep, and a Prince who wakes her with a kiss.
Some people curse such stories as trite cliches, but to call something trite originally means that it is a popular and well-received story. What other story stimulates human emotions as much as love blossoming amid hardship?
However, the reason people like fairy tale-like stories is because such fairy tale stories cannot happen in reality. Imagination is merely imagination, inevitably different from reality.
In reality, everything that appears in fairy tales exists. Princesses locked in towers, witches, gallant Princes, and love.
But there is no guarantee that all those things will be connected. The handsome Prince who will save the Princess cursed and locked in a tower has not yet appeared.
“Will he appear? A Prince like that.”
“Ah, unlikely.”
The old tale of a handsome Prince appearing and saving a beautiful Princess has become stale.
It has been over 15 years since the Princess locked in the tower became mere gossip among the servants of the royal family. People pitied the Princess whose entire body was disfigured by the curse, but also mocked her.
“What Prince would love a woman whose body is deformed? He would first worry that the curse would be passed onto him.”
“Right. Such a pity. They say she was extremely beautiful when she was young.”
The Princess abandoned by her parents and siblings had no one who loved her.
“Ugh, if it were me, I would have bitten my tongue and died long ago… hick!!”
Except for one person.
“Shh.”
The Princess was not alone.
“The Princess can hear you.”
There was a loyal maid who willingly took the position of serving the Princess that everyone else avoided.
A maid who disregarded the views of others and only served the Princess.
People called that maid the Prince.