Hi, do you know any fairy tales when the MMC is mistreated by his family but ends up marrying a princess, like a male "Cinderella"?
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To answer you it will be very easy, since we just talked about it in a previous ask. The "Princess on the Glass Hill" fairytale, a famous Norwegian fairytale from Asbjornsen and Moe's collection (that later became the core of an entire fairytale type of the same name, ATU 530). It is also known as the "Maiden on the Glass Mountain": Gail Carson Levis (of the "Ella Enchanted" fame) quite notably rewrote it as "Cinderellis and the Glass Hill", which was purposefully advertised as "a real male Cinderella story".
It is quite a literal male Cinderella story, since the hero of the story is the Norwegian stock character/archetype of "Askeladden" (Ashlad, Cinderlad). Ash-covered boy with two nasty older brothers who ends up winning the hand of the princess, with magical help, after making three appearances under a disguise, and there's even glass at the center of the tale!
