Garden of Eden || Apocalypse Paradise #2 [Complete]

134: Neapolitan Cake (2)

"Oh, I haven't mentioned this to you." Red Riding Hood suddenly lifted her chin, her eyes sparkling, and she said proudly, "My granny is an erotic dancer."

"Erotic... what?"

Red Riding Hood seemed blissfully unaware of the impact of her words on her listener. "That's right! Even though my mom doesn't like granny's job, and I'm not supposed to tell others about it, I feel my granny is so cool!"

If the girl's grandmother was in her teens when she had a child, she might be in her late thirties. If she maintained her figure, it wouldn't be that unreasonable that she was a dancer.

Lin Sanjiu's initial thought was that she could get some clues to leave the pocket dimension if she followed the main characters of the stories, but now she genuinely wanted to meet Red Riding Hood's grandmother.

Grey clouds loomed over their heads as if it was about to rain. The two people walked for some time, and finally, the green scenery around them abated, revealing a plot of open land. A small wooden cottage sat in the middle of a clearing in the forest. It looked old, and the paint on its wooden walls was peeling. The only sign that someone was living in that house was a single fresh red flower in a vase by the side of the door. Not far from them were a few other cottages hidden within the forest.

"Is this your granny's house?" Lin Sanjiu pointed at the dilapidated cottage.

"Yes! The other cottages are resting huts used by the hunters around here." Red Riding Hood noticed Lin Sanjiu seemed curious about the other cottages nearby, so she explained, "But they are weird people."

"Why?"

"They always badmouth my granny. But when she walked past them, they would just stare." Red Riding Hood suddenly used a serious tone, "My granny is awesome! She danced for the king in the past. You have never seen the king before, right?"

Lin Sanjiu stealthily pulled her mouthpart weapon from behind her. In the fairytale, the wolf was posing as the grandmother by this point, and though they did not meet any sort of wolf-like person on their journey here, Lin Sanjiu reasoned that it was because this was a pocket dimension.

A woman coughed. "Red Riding Hood, is that you? Why did you travel such a long way here?" a woman asked from behind the door, her voice sounding nasally.

The person opened the door while she said this, and a normal female face appeared from behind the door. As Lin Sanjiu had guessed, the woman was perhaps only in her late thirties, and her hair was a healthy brown. Though the woman looked pale, she had a pair of alluring, uptilted eyes and an aura of mature beauty.

'It is not a wolf.' Lin Sanjiu breathed a sigh of relief and turned her weapon back into a card.

Red Riding Hood's grandmother looked at Lin Sanjiu, puzzled, "And this is..."

—

"I told you about her. She is a traveler from a faraway place." In her gentle voice, Cinderella spoke cordially to a middle-aged woman; there was a hint of caution.

When she pulled her foot back, Lin Sanjiu was about to step into the wooden house. She lost her balance and nearly fell to the ground. This instantly drew the attention of the middle-aged woman and the two younger women behind her.

Lin Sanjiu saw a well-decorated living room with a thick wool rug on the floor. The wood in the fireplace in the living room was cackling noisily. Lin Sanjiu watched the middle-aged woman's judging eyes and regained her balance while Cinderella's stepsisters chuckled. She rolled her eyes and deeply breathed, "Um, hello, madame." Lin Sanjiu felt as if she could still see the afterimages of the wooden cottage in the forest even though the situation was changing.

The middle-aged woman was probably worried about the weird, clumsy woman. She sat straight on her comfortable couch and glared at Lin Sanjiu, "You wish to stay in our house for a night?"

"Yes," Lin Sanjiu remembered what she said to Cinderella, "if you let me stay here for a night, I will let you and your daughters choose something from my many treasures."

The middle-aged woman immediately leaned back in her chair and pursed her lips. "I don't care for your treasure. As you can see, we are rich." While she said that, she flicked her hand at Cinderella as if chasing a dog away. "But I am interested in exotic things."

From her tone, Lin Sanjiu could tell that the woman wanted to look at what she could offer. Cinderella's two stepsisters were not as restrained as their mother. They beckoned for Lin Sanjiu to show them what she brought.

"Okay. Okay. My bag is outside, so I must go get it."

Lin Sanjiu would not take her things out of nowhere in front of the women, so she made an excuse and headed for the door while considering the items she had.

Meanwhile, Xueqin and Katy whispered to each other behind her back, though Lin Sanjiu could easily hear their conversation.

"I wonder if she has anything good."

"I wish she had some nice hair accessories."

"Oh, or maybe some wonderful fabrics. Just like the dress that the princess wore last week."

Lin Sanjiu paused and quickly turned behind in shock. "Which princess? Where is she from? Is she so unbelievably beautiful that the prince spent the entire night dancing with her and no one else?"

—

'So, Cinderella had already danced with the prince? How many times did she dance with the prince? Did she already lose her glass slipper?' As she thought about this, she walked into Lila's bedroom.

She was going insane.