It’s a bustling time at Disney.

On the weekend, many big princesses and little princesses return to the castle. Mothers bring their daughters to experience the princess treatment, even those who are usually shy about dressing so grandly gather with friends to enjoy the wonderful feeling of being gently treated by characters from another world.

Mu Qiu and Zhao Yu changed into their dresses in the car and rushed in joyfully arm in arm.

As soon as they got inside, a "Little Elsa Princess" dressed just as grandly greeted them with a little lace umbrella.

Zhao Yu, grinning dazedly, greeted her saying, "Hello Elsa! I’m Snow White’s stepsister."

Mu Qiu found her embarrassing and pulled her to walk to the other side.

The music was deafening, and there were many people dressed up as little animated animals in the crowded surroundings.

It was a float parade. Many kids were interacting with Mickey Mouse, and on the float behind, Princess Jasmine and Aladdin were singing passionately. From there, more and more princesses in gowns appeared, but most were still staff, and others were pretending to be staff playing princesses to confidently show off their gowns.

But there were too many wardrobe clashes, at a casual glance, there were three Elsa princesses and several Snow White princesses within five hundred meters.

The two of them were like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden, looking around with exclamations of "Wow!"

Looking towards the most central point, there was the iconic structure here, a real castle. At night, Disney would have a light show, and fireworks would be set off at the castle.

So the evening is the main event.

Mu Qiu looked around and didn’t find any attraction with a short line that seemed fun, so she turned and asked Zhao Yu, "What do you want to play?"

It was too noisy around, and Zhao Yu wasn’t focusing on her, she couldn’t hear clearly and loudly asked, "Huh?! What did you say?!"

"...I said what do you want to play!!!"

"Whatever! Right now, I just want to take beautiful photos in the princess dress!"

Mu Qiu was speechless, "Then let’s go to Alice’s Wonderland Maze, I’ll take photos for you there. We can catch the fireworks after."

Zhao Yu still couldn’t hear and wanted to ask again, but Mu Qiu just covered her mouth and pulled her away.

"Don’t ask, just follow me!"

Zhao Yu: "The phrase I’ve always dreamed of hearing from the man I like, and it came from you. You’re so manly, I love it."

"I’m slow? Then I’ll make you fly!"

Zhao Yu: "......"

They grabbed their skirts and started running wildly. At first, Zhao Yu was running and cursing, but eventually, they both found their stride and laughed heartily all the way.

Running in the Freedom Castle, their laughter seemed minty fresh.

They ran to the maze entrance and lined up at the small door to get in.

There were quite a few people in line, and seeing them dressed so "elaborately", quite a few people subtly glanced at them. Mu Qiu was wearing heavy makeup and would cover her mouth when talking, making it hard for anyone to recognize her, so she wasn’t too worried and turned to giggle with Zhao Yu about where to take photos later.

Walking along the wooden corridor into the maze, the sun was already setting, so the light wasn’t as intense.

Around the wooden corridor, the plants planted to match the original "Alice in Wonderland" scene and the oddly shaped street lamps seemed forced back to their original colors, lost their reflective ability.

Many people were heading towards the cat’s paw cave, apparently, if you follow the cat’s paws inside, you could get out of the maze. They followed along.

The cave wasn’t long, and it didn’t take much time to pass through, but the outside changed rapidly. Before they entered, the sky was still bright, only lacking the harsh sunlight, but now, outside was already dimmed down.

The street lamps lit up, the outside light show started as well, you could faintly hear the mermaid princess’s singing.

In such a dim scene, the two wearing vintage deep red Kilinor dresses appeared to fit more with the gloomy and eerie maze.

Walking through the wooden corridor, the fluffy skirt brushed past the railing of the corridor. It was like, in a real Alice in Wonderland, there really were two elegantly dressed girls passing by here, heading to a different story from Alice’s.

The maze wasn’t crowded anymore, during the day the visitors were mostly families with kids, now they’ve all gone to watch the light show and fireworks, making this place naturally less crowded.

Fewer people were good news.

Zhao Yu finally could make requests, wanted to take some posed photos.

She handed the phone to Mu Qiu, posed against the wooden rail, looking dreamily at the lawn outside.

"Come on, find the right angle, make it artistic, shoot me in a beautiful pose contemplating life under the starry sky. It must be a candid shot!"

Mu Qiu held the phone, at a loss.

With makeup this thick, with phone light, it’s either going to look oily faced or like an evil stepmother, how could it be artistic?

But she had no choice, it’s her birthday today, and a birthday person is the boss, even if the photo doesn’t turn out, she’d stay there half an hour editing to make it work.

Mu Qiu felt a heavy responsibility, held up the phone and seriously instructed her to adjust her pose.

"Can you not stick your butt out so much? Just lean against it if you must, posing like that looks like you’re waiting to be launched."

"Hey hey, just like that, slightly lower your head to look at your toes, pretend you’re just tucking wind-blown hair behind your ear."

"Perfect, that’s the first one. Now another one with crossed arms, disdainful look. Yeah, cross your arms, look down, I said look down, not at your own chest."

"Inhale, hold it, your collarbones are most noticeable now."

Zhao Yu inhaled until she almost ran out of oxygen, holding that pose and contemptuous expression, she mumbled, "Is it done yet? I’m going to inhale too much."

Mu Qiu glanced at the photo results, nodded in satisfaction.

Zhao Yu let out a breath, reached out to grab the phone, "Let me see..."

Mu Qiu nodded at the second photo too, leisurely commented, "I told you this pose looks good in selfies, especially with the castle in the background."

Zhao Yu: "......"

She hadn’t fully exhaled that breath, she almost couldn’t take the breath back because of the word "selfie".

"You directed me for so long, I’ve been posing for half an hour, and now you’re telling me you were taking selfies?!!"

She charged up trying to snatch the phone, Mu Qiu mischievously said "hey" as she put away the phone, lifted her skirt, and ran forward.

"Don’t get excited! Isn’t leaving my perfect image in your album romantic?"

"Romantic your big turnip head! It’s my birthday, why would I keep your photo?! Print it and stick it on the door to ward off evil spirits, huh!? Run slower!"

"Has office sitting already eroded your running nature? So slow!"

The two cautiously avoided others as they jogged along the corridor in the dark night, the skirt hems lifting with the wind as they ran, the curves rippling enough to ripple into the heart of onlookers.

"Mu Xiaohua?"

Someone called this name from behind, Mu Qiu instinctively stopped and looked back.