Patrick’s fierce demeanor made Lady Countess Andni quickly look around. The corridor was dark, and there were no passersby.
“…If I have offended you, I apologize.”
She was not so bad at feeling, having worked as a close maid to the Empress for a long time. Seeing her apologize so quickly.
In this secluded place, there wasn’t a single person to testify even if Patrick did something terrible.
“Is Her Majesty the Empress looking for me?”
“You can communicate with me.”
Saying so, Lady Countess Andni glanced at Patrick. She immediately averted her gaze from Patrick’s still unrefined demeanor.
“I was on my way back to the Great Hall anyway, Lady Countess Andni.”
“That’s good. Let’s go.”
As Lady Countess Andni led the way, Patrick looked at Reneb with a questioning glance.
Reneb merely pursed her lips without a word.
‘Don’t worry.’
Did she feel something was off?
Patrick, who had been staring intently at Reneb, tilted his head and then turned it back forward.
(This is a time separator.)
Following Lady Countess Andni, they arrived at the Imperial Palace’s Great Hall. Patrick’s guard seemed to loosen, judging that the Empress had not secretly summoned him.
It made Reneb feel a bit uneasy. They were siblings who had little contact in her previous life. She had possessed a body, so they were not even real siblings.
But the fact that someone was concerned about her safety, that alone made her heart swell with emotion.
“Here she comes.”
At that moment, the Empress, surrounded by a group of noblewomen, raised her voice.
Reneb clenched her teeth at the bright smile of her stepmother, who had persecuted her in her previous life.
‘You don’t need to look so frightened. You may not understand, but the succession is necessary for the stability of the throne. Surely, as a member of the royal family, you’re not incapable of understanding that?’
The voice of the Empress, who had harangued about the need to bring in a legitimate heir in front of the miscarried Reneb, echoed in her head.
“Reneb, are you really alright? You seem a bit off today.”
Patrick woke up Reneb. Only then did Reneb lower her gaze and contain her anger towards the Empress.
“Then I’m fine. What wouldn’t be fine?”
At that moment, a knight from the House of Duke Seiren approached Patrick and whispered something in his ear.
“Really? I’m a bit busy right now……”
Reneb asked Patrick, who seemed troubled.
“What’s the matter?”
“My father is looking for me.”
Patrick licked his lower lip as he looked back and forth between the Duke of Seiren and the Empress, who were conversing with the nobles.
“Ah, I’m fine, go see your father. Are you worried that some strange intruder who suddenly appeared in the palace might harm me?”
“That’s not it, but……. Zen, you have to watch over Reneb.”
Patrick tapped the knight’s shoulder, who had come to convey his father’s words, with a concern about leaving Reneb alone by the Empress.
“Yes.”
With a final warning that if anything happened to Reneb, the knight’s head would roll, Patrick headed towards Duke Seiren.
Zen stood behind Reneb, guarding the surroundings. Reneb, who let out a soft sigh, took a step towards where the Empress and her group were.
(This is a time separator.)
At a table set by the wide windows of the Great Hall, the Empress and her followers were gathered, chitchatting.
And Reneb had been standing right next to the Empress, suffering in silence for 30 minutes.
She was certainly there, within arm’s reach.
Yet, as if she were isolated on a remote island or being treated like an invisible, transparent person, neither the Empress nor the noblewomen spoke to or even looked at Reneb.
‘The tactics are the same.’
In her previous life, too, the Empress often tormented Reneb in this way.
She had found out too late that it was the Empress’s scheme to suppress her daughterinlaw’s spirit from the very beginning.
But now, she thought she knew.
A sort of trophy effect.
The greatest victory for the Empress was having overcome the two princes of the Empress’s revival and safely placing Lucius on the throne.
Whenever she saw Reneb, who had achieved that great merit, it seemed like a thrilling victory sensation was recalled.
And when the hunt is over, the hunting dog is abandoned.
“This time, it’s brought from the Venistan Kingdom.”
“Oh my, the color is really iridescent and fine. Did you buy it from that jeweler last time?”
It was when Reneb was hearing the conversation of the ladies with one ear and letting it pass through the other.
Ding, ding.
The large pendulum clock announced 12 o’clock.
“Excuse me for a moment.”
Reneb whispered softly to the Empress that she would leave her seat. The Empress’s brow furrowed slightly, but it was none of her concern.
Reneb approached a nearby chamberlain and spoke.
“Would you please tell Her Majesty the Empress that Reneb of Seiren wishes to see her?”
“Please wait a moment.”
Reneb, who slightly nodded her head, took her eyes off the departing chamberlain and looked around the hall.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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