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* VicariousGoldDigger: Downplayed. The residents of Weissfelsen, an otherwise poor village, want their daughters to marry well [[spoiler:and concoct an elaborate, decades-spanning con to attract potential rich husbands for them]]. However, the ultimate decision is implied to be left to the girl herself, since Marie chooses to marry an ImpoverishedPatrician for love.
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* TheCon: [[spoiler:A local girl is groomed to pose as a princess]]. The townspeople spread a rumour about a princess who was put under a sleeping spell and found by the town’s innkeepers. A would-be rescuer arrives to try breaking the spell. [[spoiler:As he dines at the inn, the innkeepers ask him about his financial situation and the girl eavesdrops from the next room. After he finishes dinner, she lies down in a gilded coffin and pretends to be asleep. If she thinks him good enough, she "wakes up" after his kiss, and if not, she waits for a richer guy. When she "wakes up", marries and leaves, another girl steps in to take her place]]. Repeat on infinite.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: [[spoiler:A local girl is groomed to pose as a princess]]. The townspeople spread a rumour about a princess who was put under a sleeping spell and found by the town’s innkeepers. A would-be rescuer arrives to try breaking the spell. [[spoiler:As he dines at the inn, the innkeepers ask him about his financial situation and the girl eavesdrops from the next room. After he finishes dinner, she lies down in a gilded coffin and pretends to be asleep. If she thinks him good enough, she "wakes up" after his kiss, and if not, she waits for a richer guy. When she "wakes up", marries and leaves, another girl steps in to take her place]]. Repeat on infinite.
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* StepServant: The princess was forced to work like a slave by her stepmother. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted. This is just a cover story to explain why the "princesses" are so skilled in household chores]].
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* ObliviouslyEvil: Lady Rita Austreigh doesn't understand what in the world can be wrong with what she took part in. After all, everybody wins! [[spoiler:The rich people get beautiful wives, the wives make advantageous marriages they wouldn’t have dreamed of otherwise, and the allegedly wicked queen is so feared in other countries that nobody dares to oppose her. It only requires a little fraud to achieve it]].
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* ObliviouslyEvil: Lady Rita Austreigh doesn't understand what in the world can be wrong with what she took part in. After all, everybody wins! [[spoiler:The rich people get beautiful wives, the wives make advantageous marriages they wouldn’t have dreamed of otherwise, and the allegedly wicked queen is so feared in other countries that nobody dares to oppose her. It only requires a little fraud to achieve it]].
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* TheCon: [[spoiler:A local girl is groomed to pose as a princess]]. The townspeople spread a rumour about a princess who was put under a sleeping spell and found by the town’s innkeepers. A would-be rescuer arrives to try breaking the spell. [[spoiler:As he dines at the inn, the innkeepers ask him about his financial situation and the girl eavesdrops from the next room. After he finishes dinner, she lies down in a gilded coffin and pretends to be asleep. If she thinks him good enough, she "wakes up" after his kiss, and if not, she waits for a richer guy. When she "wakes up", marries and leaves, another girl steps in to take her place]]. Repeat on infinite.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: An entire town is involved in a con that had been going on for at least fifteen years. A local girl is groomed to pose as a princess. The townspeople spread a rumour about a princess who was put under a sleeping spell and found by the town’s innkeepers. A would-be rescuer arrives to try TrueLovesKiss. As he dines at the inn, the innkeepers ask him about his financial situation and the girl eavesdrops from the next room. After he finishes dinner, she lies down in a gilded coffin and pretends to be asleep. If she thinks him good enough, she "wakes up" after his kiss, and if not, she waits for a richer guy. When she "wakes up", marries, and leaves, another girl steps in to take her place. Repeat on infinite.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: An entire town is involved in a con that had been going on for at least fifteen years. A [[spoiler:A local girl is groomed to pose as a princess.princess]]. The townspeople spread a rumour about a princess who was put under a sleeping spell and found by the town’s innkeepers. A would-be rescuer arrives to try TrueLovesKiss. As breaking the spell. [[spoiler:As he dines at the inn, the innkeepers ask him about his financial situation and the girl eavesdrops from the next room. After he finishes dinner, she lies down in a gilded coffin and pretends to be asleep. If she thinks him good enough, she "wakes up" after his kiss, and if not, she waits for a richer guy. When she "wakes up", marries, marries and leaves, another girl steps in to take her place.place]]. Repeat on infinite.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: An entire town is involved in a con that had been going on for at least fifteen years. A local girl is groomed to pose as a princess. The townspeople spread a rumour about a princess who was put under a sleeping spell and found by the town’s innkeepers. A would-be rescuer arrives to try TrueLovesKiss. As he dines at the inn, the innkeepers ask him about his financial situation and the girl eavesdrops from the next room. After he finishes dinner, she lies down in a gilded coffin and pretends to be asleep. If she thinks him good enough, she "wakes up" after his kiss, and if not, she waits for a richer guy. When she "wakes up", marries, and leaves, another girl steps in to take her place. Repeat on infinite.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Before Rita’s marriage, Rita and Marie used to be good friends, though the latter was at least a decade the former’s junior. They are very happy to reconnect fifteen years later, and Marie recalls that Rita taught her to read.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: The princess was forced to work like a slave by her stepmother. [[spoiler:Subverted. This is just a cover story to explain why the "princesses" are so skilled in household chores]].
