"January 8th. I will be seven years old after today! Dad said he hid my birthday present somewhere in the palace and I need to find it by myself. Hehe, this is not a problem for smart and cute me. Dad really likes Mom, so the present must be in Mom's room~!"
"Found it! Dad's gift~!"
"But in addition to the gifts, there is another thing that seems to be hidden by my mother. Hehehe, let me see what my mother hid~"
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"Offer flesh and blood to the Book of Jacob and the Pen of William, and the ceremony begins."
"With terror wrapped around the legs, the soul of man is sunk forever to the earth."
"Let nightmares hang over people's heads, so that their souls cannot return to heaven"
"Red apples bring death, white apples bring new life."
"Seven dwarves blew horns, surrounded the crystal coffin, and regained youth."
"Kill the original body, let everything return to dust, earth to earth, after the old is gone, the new will have no more troubles."
"This concludes the ceremony."
"What does this mean? Is it a riddle? Hehehe, it's no problem for a smart and cute me. Hmm... I'll tell mom when I solve it! But before that, I can't tell mom that I found the riddle. I'll just secretly return it later..."
"January 9th, catch butterflies."
"January 10th, catching butterflies."
"January 11th, catching butterflies."
"January 12th, Bai Xue, Bai Xue, how could you be so depraved? You have clearly made up your mind to solve your mother's puzzle and let your parents praise you for being smart, so why have you been playing around all these days? Starting tomorrow, you have to go to the palace library and look for a way to decipher the puzzle!"
"January 13th, catching butterflies."
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"January 8th. I haven't opened this diary in a long time. Um... about four years. I'm eleven years old now. It's a wonderful experience to read the diary that I wrote in a three-minute enthusiasm when I was a child. I also saw the puzzles that made me miss it. I almost forgot about it."
"When I was little, I swore I would solve it."
"Hahaha."
"Let's go to the library tomorrow."
"January 9th, strange... I can't find the solution to this riddle."
"January 10th, no... This doesn't seem to be a riddle, but more like some kind of... magic? Is mother secretly studying magic? I heard from father that mother was once poisoned by magic. I will ask father tomorrow. Maybe this is also a clue to solve the mystery..."
"On January 12, my father told me the story of my mother. The evil queen with a magic mirror decided to kill my poor mother in order to become the most beautiful woman in the world. In order to kill my mother, the queen made four plans in total, but all her plots failed.
"The first time, the hunters sent by the queen let my mother go and brought back a wild boar's heart and liver for her. The second time, the queen tried to make my mother unconscious with her shoelaces, but she was finally saved by the seven dwarfs. The third time, the queen tried to kill my mother with her hair comb, but she was still saved by the dwarfs... My father only talked about this and promised to tell me the rest tomorrow. I don't know why, but this makes me feel a little uneasy..."
"On January 13th, after the third time, the queen was determined to kill her mother, so she tempted her mother with apples. The apples were divided into white and red. The red ones were poisonous, while the white ones were harmless. After that, the mother died after eating the red apples, and was placed in a crystal coffin by the dwarves..."
"... until I met my father, who saved my mother, brought her back to the kingdom, and married her."
"Finally, the evil queen was punished by dancing to death in red-hot iron shoes at her father and mother's wedding."
"... ... My mother is Snow White."
"So what does this puzzle mean... is the mother hinting at her past?"
"wrong."
"This isn't like a mother's perspective... ..the magic that brings back youth, this is more like... .the queen's perspective."
"Why?"
"Is this puzzle... really a puzzle?"
"I'll have to check it out."
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"On July 9, I found a magic book in the palace library. It records many seemingly magical rituals. The sentence format is very similar to the format in the puzzle! Jacob's Book, William's Pen... Is it some god in the dark?"
"On July 11, I found that something was wrong with my mother. She has become a little anxious recently, and the way she looks at me is also strange. This reminds me of the contents of the puzzle, regaining youth, Snow White and the Queen, and my name is Bai Xue... Am I too sensitive?"
"On December 6th, I can't help it anymore. I have to ask my mother for the answer to the riddle myself! I'm going today!"
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"December 10th, the magic mirror... that magic mirror! The magic mirror in my father's story is in my mother's house! I was almost discovered! I don't know why, but I chose to run away like crazy! I remember my father clearly said that the magic mirror was smashed by him!"
"Why! Why does mother have that magic mirror!?"
"On December 11, they disappeared... All the servants who were responsible for serving my mother disappeared that day. My father said they were fired, but I don't believe it..."
"January 8th. It's that day again. I'm twelve years old."
“It’s been a nightmare year.”
"I thought about it for a long time. All the evidence pointed to one answer, but I couldn't believe it... My mother, the former Snow White... She might be the queen!"
"She's not Snow White!"
"That ritual! I think it's a soul exchange ritual! I consulted many books and finally found evidence! I suspect that the evil queen used this ritual to obtain Snow White's body and thus gained a new life! She is my mother...!"
"... No, no, no, I'm overthinking it. I must be overthinking it."
"How is this possible?"
"Soul exchange... How could such an outrageous thing happen?"
"Forget it, Bai Xue, you are a little confused. Have you forgotten how good your mother is to you? She, she..."
"... ..thinking of me as the next Snow White?"
"No! No no!"
“This is impossible!!!”
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"On March 14, my father's health became worse and worse. Everything seemed to be repeating itself. My mother became the queen, and I became the princess. Over the years, I have woken up from nightmares more than once. I admit that I have never let go of that doubt. Instead, I have become more and more convinced of it..."
"March 20th, what should I do..."
(Tears on paper)
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"On June 11, my father died! She finally stopped hiding herself!"
"Sure enough! She wants to do the same thing again! She wants my body, she wants to start a new life!"
"She let me go... She manipulated all the soldiers. I didn't know what was going on, so I had to run away. The soldiers chased me into the forest. I didn't want to go anywhere, but I had no choice. Finally, in the villa in the deepest part of the forest, I met the seven dwarfs..."
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"... I was in a coma before, but thanks to the fact that I kept the diary close to me, they didn't seem to notice it."
"When I woke up, I saw dwarves. God knows how I resisted the urge to run away and scream. In addition to those dwarves, there were also some men and women who claimed to be mercenaries, but they were obviously members of the Knights! Did they take me for a fool?"
"Seven dwarfs, hair ropes, chains... As expected, as expected! It's that ritual! I'm going to die!"
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"Mom, she killed Dad, and for the so-called eternal life, she also wants to kill me."
"what do I do?"
"What can I do?"
(Traces of tears left)
“I survived this time.”
“But that may not be the case next time.”
"I'm going to die."
"How can I survive?"
"I....may not survive this."
(Lots of wrinkles)
"... I've made up my mind."
"My mother is Snow White, not the evil queen! The seven dwarves are all priests of the queen! They are not trustworthy! The locks and hair combs are gone, and the next thing is the apple. I tried to find it, and sure enough, that fellow Docot placed a red and white apple in the room..."
"He didn't even seal it up on purpose. He must have concluded that I was doomed. He was too careless. It seems that his IQ is directly proportional to his height."
"hehe."
"I roughly guessed the queen's plan. She asked the dwarves to wait for me here, pretending to be kind. Obviously, she had a purpose. I suspect that the queen wanted to deal with those knights... Because if the knights were also loyal to the queen, there would be no need for them to pretend in front of me."
"So the knights might be good guys!"
"I placed my bet on those knights because I had no other choice but them. I just talked to them on purpose and showed that I didn't know them. I believe that with the knights' vigilance, they will definitely doubt my intentions. That's where I placed my bet!"
"I bet they'll come looking for me tonight out of suspicion!"
"The dwarves are right beside me. I can't tell them the truth about the queen in front of them, or even hint at it. So I can only hope that they can hide it from the dwarves and come to me."
"I left my journal here."
"If they come looking for me, they will be the first to find the diary."
"On the contrary, the first person to discover it was Docot, who noticed that the apple was missing..."
"Docte didn't let me eat the apple and complete the ritual right away. I guess there's some restriction. I heard that rituals all require a suitable time and place."
"I won't let you succeed!"
"I left the diary behind, and now I have one last thing to do!"
"Destroy the Queen's plan!"
"You don't want me to eat the apple now, but I must eat it now! I've got it, tonight! I don't know if the knights will come to find me, and I don't dare to think about it. I'm afraid that what I'm waiting for are the seven dwarves... I'm so scared, I want to eat the apple... My father is dead, my mother... My mother is also dead, I want to avenge them, I want to be brave, I am a brave girl! I want to ruin her plan!"
(Tears on paper)
(The traces of paper folds)
(Large traces of tears)
"No matter what! I leave you with these last words!"
"I made a bet, believing that the knights were really good people, and that they had foiled that woman's plot! If that is true, brave knights, please place my diary in front of that woman!"
"I'm going to tell her myself!"
(Traces of smear)
“Go to hell!!!”
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Faintly, the queen, staring at the last line of the diary in amazement, seemed to see the scene late last night when the still young girl had a crazy and fearful smile on her face, wrote words of revenge with all her strength, struggled countless times in front of the poisonous apple, and finally took a bite.
"Did you see it clearly?"
"Do you understand?"
Gu Moli and Zhiji Nanxun interrupted the queen's stagnant thoughts one after another.
"To be honest, this princess is not smart or decisive enough. After all, even after knowing the truth, she failed to take any effective action. If it were me, I would have discovered the truth long ago and figured out a way to deal with it, but this princess did nothing."
“But I’m going to say it anyway.”
"Your Highness, this princess is the bravest girl I have ever met."