Quick Wear: Who said soft girls have to be obedient! biu!

Before Ella and Catherine could react, Gu Zhen's mind was already exploding.

Sophie screamed in her head like a screaming chicken, "Don't let that damned Ella go! She'll steal all the limelight from us! What if the prince likes her?"

Gu Zhen didn't even frown. During the funeral that day, Sophie had fought three hundred rounds with the system in her mind.

Eventually the system itself got tired of the noise and silently shut down.

Gu Zhen had been forced to get used to the distress caused by her dual personality. She asked in confusion in her mind, "Don't you always think you are prettier than Ella? What are you afraid of?"

"No! She can't go!" Sophie didn't believe that her good sister Anna would not know that she was just being stubborn. "Anyway, I won't let Ella go to the ball!"

"You have no say over this body. I am the one who decides."

Sophie tried to get out but failed. She seemed to have lost contact with this body. She screamed anxiously: "Damn it! Anna, you have changed! Let me out!"

"No, no, that's not right! You are not Anna!" Sophie and Anna share the same fate. Outsiders cannot see it, but she can sense it. "Who are you! Give Anna back to me!"

Gu Zhen ignored her and looked at Ella leisurely, wanting to know how she would refuse.

Ella really didn't expect that, based on her understanding of the mother and daughter, they would definitely do everything possible to prevent her from going to the dance.

"The Duke has just left. Ella must be very sad and won't have the heart to go to the ball, right?" Catherine said with a warning tone. She didn't want Miss Ella to steal her daughter's limelight.

Ella lowered her head, looking a little aggrieved.

Seeing that she was obedient and in a good mood, Catherine asked Ella to go to the kitchen to help cook.

The true face of the vicious stepmother was revealed. Gu Zhen waited until Ella left before looking at Catherine seriously: "Mom, although we have only been here for two years, the prince loses a wife every year. Don't you think it's strange?"

Catherine didn't take it seriously. "That's just their bad luck. They either died of illness or were bitten to death by wild animals. Some even choked to death. My daughter wouldn't be like that."

Gu Zhen changed her words: "The guards are not easy to fool. If Ella is dissatisfied and takes the initiative to report to the guards, saying that we don't allow her to participate in the prince's selection of concubines, mother, she will be hanged!"

"..." Catherine was persuaded and a little hesitant, but she had a vague feeling that if Ella went, her daughter would have no chance.

Ella must go to the dance, but Gu Zhen wants to take advantage of the situation.

.

The ball was about to be held, and people in the city were in a panic, and Gu Zhen was also panicking.

She wandered around the area for several days but didn't find any thorns growing in the cemetery.

In other words, there are no thorns like those described in the plot. Only the thornless bramble and the thorny jujube grow together to form thorns.

Gu Zhen found out that there was a cemetery deeper into the jungle, but it was sparsely populated and eerie. There might be ferocious beasts lurking around, so even the bravest hunters in the city didn't dare to set foot there.

She decided to take a chance and give it a try.

If we don't get rid of the witch during her weak period, more innocent lives will be sacrificed.

Maybe it was someone else, maybe it was Ella, maybe it was her.

Gu Zhen changed into a light dress, put on a cloak, and tucked a jewel-encrusted dagger into her waist. She quietly slipped into the stable in the dead of night.

The horse was familiar with her and rubbed her palm affectionately without making any noise.

Gu Zhen touched the white horse. The horses in fairy tales are all very spiritual, and so is this horse.

Hopefully the horse can bring her back.

Gu Zhen took the machete from the tool room, jumped on the horse, and quietly ordered the horse to run forward. There was no sound in the silent manor, and their departure did not alarm the servants.

However, it alarmed Ella in the attic.

Ella sat on the windowsill with her knees hugged. Every year at this time, she would think of her maid sister. All the unrest in the city seemed to have started from the day she died.

What secrets are hidden in the prince?

Ella was lost in thought and caught a glimpse of a figure flashing across the manor from the corner of her eye. She looked carefully and found someone riding a horse galloping into the distance.

Who is it? Why is he out so late?

Ella's heart moved and she went downstairs quietly. Catherine was sleeping soundly, but there was no familiar snoring sound in Anna's room.

She pushed open the door and quietly lifted the quilt, revealing the pillow inside.

It was Anna after all.

Ella smiled silently. She hadn't seen Sophie recently. This Anna was very interesting.

At this time, Gu Zhen was riding his horse farther and farther away. Fog gradually rose in the forest. From time to time, the cry of owls could be heard in the dark night, which was weird and eerie.

This is a real magical world. Gu Zhen swallowed his saliva and hoped that no devil would appear in the cemetery.

After running for about thirty minutes, the horse stopped, rubbing its hooves restlessly and refusing to move forward.

Gu Zhen had no choice but to dismount and lead the horse to a tree to let it eat grass.

"Don't be afraid. I've marked the way here. We will get home." Gu Zhen comforted the restless horse. "Wait for me to come back. If there is any danger, just run away. Don't worry about me."

The horse snuggled up to her and obediently bent its head to nibble on the dewy grass on the ground.

Gu Zhen held the dagger tightly and walked through the thick fog, holding a picked-up stick in his hand, moving forward carefully for fear of stepping on something like a swamp.

Fortunately, the terrain here is not that complicated, and it is basically just overgrown weeds and unknown plants.

Gu Zhen was glad that she brought a machete.

After walking for ten minutes, the thick fog ahead dissipated a little, and the outline of a tombstone could be vaguely seen. As he got closer and saw it more clearly, Gu Zhen shuddered.

An old cemetery abandoned in the Middle Ages, with tombstones broken into pieces and dead trees and the thorns she was looking for everywhere.

As Gu Zhen approached, a large group of crows and bats flew away.

There were also cries of unknown animals coming from the woods.

Gu Zhen tried his best to ignore the snakes, insects, rats and ants that kept running past him, and used a machete to cut through the thorns to find the most special one.

According to legend, only the hardest, brightest red thorns with the sharpest thorns can split the flesh of a witch and kill her.

This is a common problem in fairy tales. Where can she find the hardest, brightest, sharpest thorns!

Gu Zhen thought, that must be a flash of inspiration that only the bravest and smartest princess in the fairy tale could have!

Fortunately, the thick fog gradually dissipated, and the moon hung above the branches again. With the help of the moonlight, Gu Zhen could still barely see everything in the cemetery.

It's like a horror movie.

After "cutting through the thorns" for a while, Gu Zhen's hands holding the machete felt a little numb. No matter how she looked at them, she felt that the thorns were all the same, nothing special.

If she can't find it today, she will have to come back tomorrow. She can't stay too long for fear of attracting wild animals.

However, what you fear will come true. Just as Gu Zhen straightened up, he heard a horrible gurgling sound behind him.

In the silent and deserted cemetery, it was as if the devil was humming.