A bad minister wants to hurt a good minister. The king let the lottery draw until he was alive and until he died. Why did the good minister survive when both of them died?

When the king ordered the good minister to draw lots, the good minister drew a lot without hesitation and swallowed the paper immediately. The king didn't know what he had swallowed, so he had to take out the rest of the paper from the box, which read "Death". The king thought: Since one is "life", one is "death" and the rest is "death", the one swallowed must be "life", so the king had to let the good minister live.