Her face that changed colors every moment. Transparent skin, plump lips that would part eagerly. Round eyes behind the glasses, looking as if they could spill tears at any moment…
Seeing her face in person somehow made him feel even hungrier.
[Star icon]Han So-eun.
The little girl who disappeared one night without a word, leaving Tae-joon feeling empty for a few days before he quickly forgot her, living as if she never existed.
He brightened up compared to just after his parents passed away. Somehow, the weight of his sorrow seemed lighter.
Time passed without further incident, and he went to study abroad in the United States, where he eventually settled into life there.
His grandfather, Chairman Kim Jae-pil, allowed Tae-joon considerable freedom. He told him to study whatever he wanted until he was thirty, and then return to Korea at thirty-one.
Tae-joon had a few relationships within his limited freedom. Every time, he felt the same emptiness at the end of each relationship. The women always wanted more than he could give, leading him to break up with them. They would get angry, but he remained indifferent, wondering why they were mad after having gotten everything they wanted from him.
His last partner accused him oddly, “You called me Han So-eun when you were drunk! Several times!”
Tae-joon couldn’t empathize with her anger and merely muttered to himself, “An Seo-yeon or Han So-eun…”
That day, he was more immersed in the fact that his last relationship had ended than in the possibility that he really might have said that. He kept murmuring ‘Han So-eun’.
Han So-eun, Han So-eun, Han So-eun…
“Ah, Han So-eun.”
Prompted like that, the girl from over a decade ago came to mind. Once he remembered her name, it was like a dam had broken in his mind, releasing long-buried memories.
Tae-joon turned on an old laptop PC and searched through photos. His aunt had given it to him, filled with photos for when he missed Korea.
After persistent clicking, he found a photo. A seven-year-old girl and ten-year-old Tae-joon were sitting side by side in the garden.
The girl’s forehead was swollen red between sweat-soaked bangs. Despite the redness, she smiled brightly.
A foolish child who didn’t know she was being bullied.
An abandoned child in the middle of the garden who would cry, “Oppa, Oppa.” As if he was her whole world.
What would that child be doing now? Suddenly, he became curious.
No, like back then, he wanted to pinch her cheeks and pull her hair. He desired to snatch away her precious toy and throw it far away, to trip her over. He longed to see her react as he tormented her, to see if she was still as foolish as before, to see if she would follow him again, calling “Oppa, Oppa,” as if he was her whole world. He wanted to play with her.
However, these were desires he couldn’t reveal to the world.
Tae-joon secretly hired someone to find Han So-eun.
It was just a secretive game. A venture he embarked upon out of sheer boredom and with an abundance of inheritance to spare. It was a pursuit born from a life of leisure, from a mind plagued by ennui.
The search was long and fraught with limitations and mistakes due to the need for secrecy, but eventually, he found the girl.
When Tae-joon saw the photo sent by the counselor, a heavy emotion stirred within him, sending a rush of heat through his body. His heart pounded, spreading warmth to every corner.
The woman in the photo had long hair and wore glasses, but Tae-joon was certain. It was the same girl, Han So-eun, beyond a doubt.
The small, round-faced child had grown into a slender woman with fragile-looking build, pale skin, and small smiling eyes that turned up at the corners. It was unmistakably her.
[She’s working as an engineer at K Electronics Service Center Central Headquarters.]As he frantically reviewed the photos, Tae-joon’s attention was arrested by the counselor’s report.
“Are you sure about K Electronics Service Center?”
[Yes, definitely.]“What about her biological father?”
If it’s been over 10 years…
“Then it’s possible he doesn’t know about Han So-eun joining K Group?”
[Would you like me to check?]“Yes, please. Find out if there’s been any contact between Han So-eun and Han Hong-gyu, and how she has been living all this time.”
[Understood.]Ha.
Tae-joon chuckled as he ended the call with the counselor.
The child who used to wail in front of him whenever he broke her toys had grown up to fix machines. It was almost amusing.
The girl who was forced to leave K Group due to her father’s wrongdoings had returned to the same group as an adult.
Did she know about her father’s past? Did she return despite knowing it?
Why? With what face?
The question piqued his interest.
Tae-joon decided to continue his pursuit. He felt the need to see Han So-eun in person.
Thus, Tae-joon boarded an early flight to Korea.
[Star icon]In the evening, the HR manager brought Han So-eun’s personnel file.
She graduated from a women’s middle school, high school, and university. K Electronics Service was her first job.
She was diligent, had a good work attitude, and got along well with her colleagues. However,
“A one-month unpaid leave…”
Tae-joon read a recent addition to her record. The HR manager replied,
“She went on an overseas trip.”
“Where?”
“Sir?”
As he muttered again, the HR manager blinked, not quite catching his quiet voice.
“Never mind. That’s all for now, you can go.”
Tae-joon dismissed the HR manager and pondered.
A month-long trip overseas…
Had she gone to the Philippines to meet her father?
Tae-joon typed a few keys on the keyboard to access Han So-eun’s personal SNS account. It wasn’t difficult. He used her company email ID to search her name online, and an account with a few digits added to the end stood out. Clicking on it, he saw a photo of the company building. Tae-joon smirked.
Her SNS was sparse, mostly private photos or those not taken frequently. Mostly food pictures, and some tourist spot photos where she was barely visible in the distance. There had been no uploads for the past three months.
“Back from an overseas trip, huh?”
But not a single photo? Does that make sense?
Tae-joon scrutinized Han So-eun’s SNS page, quickly flipping through it. Then he paused at a plain photo.
From four months ago. A photo of a woman and man’s hands overlapping. Rings were prominently visible on their ring fingers. They were couple rings.
Tae-joon slowly flipped to the next photo. It captured the slanted back view of a man with the beach in front of him.
Tae-joon’s previously intrigued gaze turned cold.
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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