I Live on the Land in Global Games

This Princess was none other than the sole heir to the Golden Ball Kingdom: The Golden Ball Princess.

And the Golden Ball Princess was the heroine of the story “Prince Toad”.

Mu Ying discovered this while eavesdropping at a corner on the shore.

Before agreeing to Prince Ronald’s engagement proposal, the Golden Ball Princess had discussed it with the current King and Queen of the Golden Ball Kingdom and mentioned that Toad Prince.

“Even if the toad turns into a Prince, he’s nothing special, and he’s from a country I’ve never heard of—who knows if he’s lying?

Moreover, he knew he wasn’t truly a toad but a man, yet he demanded to live and eat with me as a reward for retrieving my golden ball, even intending to share a bed with me.

He didn’t tell me the truth from the beginning.

Compared to him, choosing the Second Prince of the Green Wall Kingdom sounds much better!

With such severe infighting in the Green Wall Kingdom, this could be a good opportunity to annex them!”

Those were the Golden Ball Princess’s exact words.

Hearing this, Mu Ying no longer worried that the Golden Ball Princess would be exploited by Prince Ronald—this Princess wasn’t an easy target either.

However, Mu Ying was more interested in that Toad Prince’s story—yet another fragment!

The Prince had already reverted to his original form and had not yet left the Golden Ball Kingdom.

Previously, he was one of the Golden Ball Princess’s suitors.

Their connection also coincidentally started with a life-saving favor.

The Prince had been cursed by a witch to become a toad, sealed inside a well, and only the Golden Ball Princess could rescue him.

It sounded typical enough; a witch who didn’t want to suffer a backlash when cursing someone would indeed leave an escape clause, a chance for life.

But Mu Ying checked the well and the Prince and found no curse—the witch was wrongfully accused again.

Now Mu Ying followed the supposed Toad Prince closely, eager to understand what exactly was going on, to clear up the doubts surrounding him, which should piece together the whole story and yield a new fragment.

There was no curse, and no trace of magic, so how was he a toad before?

A good while after the engagement, the Toad Prince still couldn’t find an opportunity to meet the Golden Ball Princess and then embarked on a journey away from the Golden Ball Kingdom.

But he didn’t leave on foot, rather it was on a dark and stormy night, an action that seemed quite abnormal.

Normal humans don’t travel at night, do they?

Most would seek shelter or camp during the night on a journey!

Moreover, the name Zedi Kingdom was unheard of even to Mu Ying and even absent on the continent’s map; it certainly wasn’t one of the coastal Kingdoms—those lands had already been divided among the well-known Kingdoms.

If it wasn’t on the coast, then the journey must be far; to travel at night on foot—he wasn’t penniless.

Although the Golden Ball Princess did not reciprocate his feelings or stay with him as he had hoped, and even broke off their engagement after he regained his human form, she rewarded him with a small box of gold and silver treasures and banished him from the Royal Palace.

Wasn’t there enough money there to buy a carriage?

No carriage, no baggage, just a small box of treasures for the road, and nothing suspicious about that at all!