His hands, hot and hard like heated iron, lost control and strongly pushed her body. His dark green eyes, glistening with unfulfilled desire, were so close they seemed about to dive into hers.
Patricia held her breath. Before she could steady her breathing, his hot breath rushed in.
Soon, his violently beating pulse was fully transmitted to her. The intensity of her pulse reaching him would be no different.
She moistened her lips against the thick vein throbbing in his neck, against the white scar healed across his neck.
It was a wound she had made, wearing silver armor. Then, she had to cut him to survive. She never imagined she would be in his arms, clinging to his neck like this.
Harchen pushed his index finger between her moist lips.
“Bite it.”
She widened her bright blue eyes in surprise.
“Why?”
“I want to confirm this isn’t a dream.”
Patricia thought the dark green eyes visible between his sharply protruding nose bridge were what seemed unreal.
“I thought you had developed a strange taste.”
At the word ‘taste’, Harchen’s lips twisted strangely in a sneer.
“Want me to get leather or chains?”
“I don’t like that stuff.”
“Of course. My brave empress only uses leather straps when climbing walls.”
Harchen’s index finger quickly descended down the center of her body as if climbing down a wall.
“Are you mocking me?”
“I’m admiring you. When I found the leather strap between the bricks of the west tower railing, I got so excited I unknowingly put it to my lips.”
Patricia bit down hard on his wet index finger in her mouth.
“Does it hurt?”
“It’s ecstasy.”
“Pervert.”
“That’s right.”
Harchen bit down on her neck. Her deep scent filled his mouth.
How much he had longed to hold her. Passing through Pana Castle, he recalled her sitting at the fountain in Luken Central Station and kissed the back of his hand instead of her.
Even when the kings and nobles of the Tane Principality he met in Retman County spoke about Patricia with curious voices, he was burning with desire to see and hold her.
It was somewhat bearable when riding a horse all night. After exhausting his body, he suppressed his desire by catching brief moments of sleep.
When he entered Tane Palace, it felt like Patricia’s scent permeated the entire air.
At Calip’s suggestion, he went to his chambers to rest, but lewd imaginations swelled up. He bit the back of his hand, then sucked on it with his lips. Eventually, he pleasured himself.
His desire, which had temporarily subsided like a stalemate, flared up with jealousy when he met Eden Patterson in the west tower.
All of that had been imagining her by his side without substance. But now she was pressed against him so he could fully feel her with his own hands.
Her clear voice tickling his ears and her soft skin. Everything stimulated him comprehensively.
“So bite more, to confirm this isn’t a dream or my imagination.”
Patricia gently licked the index finger she had bitten sharply earlier, as if soothing it. He left his index finger there and snatched her lips.
Like water meeting water to become a stream, they intertwined like a single flow of water.
Harchen’s hot lips flowed along her body like water. Red marks were engraved wherever they passed. Sensitive sensations seeped deep into her skin.
He safely supported her back with his right hand and carefully slid his left hand.
Unable to bear the sensation rising from his careful and heavy touch, Patricia stirred. She shuddered with the same intensity as the pain sharply splitting her spine.
Like creating a strong current to overcome a mound of earth, they touched each other and gradually delved into each other in multiple, intimate ways.
At last, like flowing into the sea that meets the river and navigates the rapids, their bodies were swept up in passion.
*
Bwoooo, bwooooooo.
The trumpet sound announcing the emperor’s entry echoed through the imperial palace.
Empress Dowager Diana put down the rosewood comb she had been using to brush her hair on the console and straightened her back to look at herself in the mirror.
It was perfect.
Her black hair, twisted up while maintaining an elegant curve, didn’t have a single strand out of place.
The blue satin dress and sapphire necklace chosen after discussion by three maids harmonized with her perfectly symmetrical face, creating a strict atmosphere.
Only minimal lace was allowed on the bust line, revealing her thick collarbone neatly.
The corset was tightened to the maximum, and dignity flowed from the blue satin skirt spread wide by wearing a double pannier.
After putting on white satin gloves covering her elbows, she unfolded a blue folding fan and placed it on her knees.
The maids dropped perfume extracted from roses, peonies, and cypress on her wrists, then dabbed it on her collarbone, behind her ears, and on the back of her neck. They adjusted the angle of the perfume bottle to apply it to the bottom hem of the pannier inside her dress.
“Put on the tiara.”
When the maid placed the tiara with shining sapphires on pearl drops on her head, her dignity was complete.
Diana slowly smiled, lifting the corners of her lips. Dignity couldn’t be completed with appearance and attitude alone.
Noble bloodline.
It is determined by the blood flowing through one’s body, not just by coming from a noble family, like fate.
Diana was the eldest daughter of the Orteo Marquis family, founding contributors of the Carsic Empire. Her mother was also a lady from the esteemed Sperandeo Marquis family.
Patricia Calian Evas.
As she pronounced the name, a beautiful appearance came to mind. How should she rein in her son, the golden sun, who rushed in like a moth to a flame, mesmerized by that appearance? Diana pondered.
She didn’t like her from the start. The instigator of the war, no less. Moreover, a twin to the crown prince. How could a boy and a girl be born simultaneously from the same womb?
It made her think that Aldisha Valenti’s impure bloodline had manifested problems in such a way.
Aldisha Valenti, princess of the coastal Torun Kingdom adjacent to the Carsic Empire.
Being of similar age, Diana had heard many rumors about the neighboring princess while growing up.
The possessor of a beauty so unforgettable that once seen, it would come to mind even in sleep. The reincarnation of the goddess of beauty.
A princess of a different mother from the princes, or an illegitimate child born from the queen’s infidelity.
Rumors that Kazan, the crown prince of Tane who invaded the Torun Kingdom, was captivated by her beauty and withdrew from the battlefield to propose a royal marriage, or that she offered herself to Kazan to save the kingdom.
Rumors of discord with Kazan after he became emperor, going mad after giving birth to a sickly prince, being driven out to a separate palace after losing the royal palace to a young and wicked empress.
Even rumors that she ended her life miserably as a recluse, refusing all food and drink.
However, when Emperor Harchen strongly pushed for the royal marriage and Diana actually saw her, even she was momentarily attracted by a beauty enough to overshadow Aldisha’s impure bloodline.
As soon as the impure bloodline touched fate, disturbances that had never occurred in the Carsic Empire, full of golden sunlight, arose.
Fraud and conspiracy, attacks and assassinations. How could an assassination attempt on the Tane empress occur in this clean land of the empire?
Until yesterday, before Julia’s audience, Diana had been pondering countermeasures to resolve the incident of the Tane empress killed by Bark, the captain of the hyun-jok hunters, based on his testimony.
She needed to find clues to resolve the incident as implicitly as possible until the emperor returned.
But upon hearing Julia’s words, Diana felt thick blood surging inside her and was appalled.
Julia greeted with a seductive attitude during the audience and maintained a dignified posture while drinking tea.
Naturally dismissing both her own maid and the empress dowager’s maid, she spoke in a calm tone.
Julia had followed Harchen since she was five and slept straight even when sleeping to qualify as an empress.
Even during their time at Tane Academy, she only followed Harchen like a shadow but maintained a reserved attitude and did not improperly express affection towards him.
Although shocked by the decision for a royal marriage, she resolved to assist the emperor and empress by becoming an imperial consort.
She directly expressed her intentions to the empress after the Diarum banquet, and the empress, though ambiguous, agreed to accept her.
Worried after hearing that the empress had lost her memory in an accident during the honeymoon, she had an audience with the empress upon her return and learned that the empress had lost the necklace given as a royal wedding gift.
At a tea gathering, she saw a bluish-green diamond necklace around a noblewoman’s neck and recognized it as the blue dawn-colored diamond mined from the Kaosan ice wall closed by the emperor.
With pure intentions, she arranged a meeting between the empress and the noblewoman, then suffered a carriage accident on her way back. Even while saying this part, Julia maintained her noble posture and spoke with courtesy.
“Your Majesty the Empress Dowager, I will set aside dignity for a moment.”
Then she sobbed and wiped her flowing tears with a handkerchief.
And she conveyed the fact that her maid Lena had accidentally learned.
“Her Majesty the Empress is currently in the hyun-jok hunters’ village.”
“I know.”
“Among the hyun-jok, they say the empress stabbed and killed the Tane empress with a sword.”
“Goodness!”
The empress dowager’s jowls trembled even as she clenched her teeth.
“What I dare suggest to Your Majesty the Empress Dowager is not the deposition of the empress. At least for an heir to succeed the emperor, please take me in as an imperial consort to maintain a pure bloodline. That is my humble will, Your Majesty.”
To think that her son and emperor was a man so bewitched by a woman’s appearance that he couldn’t tell right from wrong, when there was such a beautiful and dignified Julia.
“Yes, my thoughts are not one line different from yours. Let us devise that method together.”
Diana showed her affection by personally fastening her cherished emerald necklace on Julia.
*
“Hasn’t it been quite a while since the emperor entered the palace?”
Diana asked her maid.
“Yes, he is expected to have entered the inner palace by now.”
Ha, he doesn’t even greet his mother first after entering the palace?
“Tell the chief attendant to arrange for the emperor to come here.”
“Yes, I will convey that.”
The maid withdrew. Diana leaned her rigidly straightened back against the sofa.
“Mother, is the baby in your belly here my younger sibling? It’s amazing. I want to make them my subordinate.”
“Mother, you smell so nice. It’s the most luxurious scent in the world.”
He was such a lovable son, precious beyond measure, shining like the golden sun.
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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