She was dying. Rustica Gennes, a oncecompetent knight who had received the full support and favor of Emperor Carlos Arthur Ingram of the Kaleta Empire, realized the shadow of death.
If she was pierced, she would die right away. No, just one hit, and she, the emperor, and the tea table and chairs, beautiful but utterly useless for defense, would all be blown away. Her whole body would be torn by the shock and she would die.
But Ru did her utmost not to move. She wanted to jump up and run back, but she held back.
‘It’s too late. Even if I run now, I can’t escape.’
She could neither use magic for defense nor attack.
In the end, she could only run on her two legs, but no matter how hard she ran, she could not escape from the range of that giant monster. Therefore, Ru convinced herself that she must just sit there.
‘The emperor is sitting there. I can’t falter here.’
If he looked at her, pretending that nothing was happening, she must not run away screaming.
She could never do that. Ru could not manage her expression, but she desperately held her ground, sitting there.
‘Does he intend to endure this?’
The emperor did not budge. He looked like someone who had decided to see what she would do.
But he would surely do something since he would also be attacked. He must move at least. She wished to herself for him to move, but he just calmly faced her. In the end, he did not move at all until the very last moment.
The giant front paw with sharp nails swung straight at them. Ru tried to keep her eyes open until the end.
Bang!
Thanks to that, when the sudden loud noise came again, Ru was able to see immediately what had happened.
At the moment when the nail, like a long sword, came down, a bright beam of light strongly hit the monster’s chest. Ru squinted her eyes against that dazzling light.
It was just light, but the impact was certain. The monster staggered, and the beam of light split into several branches, fending off the descending front paw and hitting the monster.
The monster was buried in light, to the point where it could not be seen. That huge and hideous creature was wrapped up in the light and then.
Screak!
Its screaming mouth was bound, and it disappeared along with the light. In the wasteland, only the tea table of a leisurely afternoon remained.
“Your Majesty, where are we?”
“The northwestern part of Fersecta. The outskirts of the Placech domain, as I mentioned before.”
The place ruled by a nobleman who had the same last name as Ru.
“As you can see, it’s an area where monsters often appear. When a monster wave erupts from where mana clusters endlessly creating monsters, it turns into a wasteland.”
The emperor answered in detail and drank his tea again. Ru was looking around, forgetting even to drink her tea.
“We have to be around here to attract the attention of the construction workers.”
The emperor muttered, staring at Ru without even looking at the monster. And in that foolish or whatever full words, Ru had no choice but to turn her eyes to the emperor.
“It’s hard. Normally, I alone would have been enough, but that’s not it.”
What is he talking about? He brought her here to scare her, and he talks like that, thinking she will believe? Ru stared at him, blushing.
“If the goal was to scare me, you succeeded.”
“My goal was to find out what interests the minister, not that. I apologize for the part where I scared you. But….”
He seemed to measure her as he looked at her.
“Wasn’t it thrilling rather than scary, Minister?”
A question that seemed to pierce through the battle instinct that had once boiled inside her but had now cooled and fallen asleep.
It’s definite. The emperor continued to look straight at her, reading all that she had hidden.
“My combat senses have long since died.”
Ru muttered, even more denying the fact she knew.
“Did the Kaleta Emperor do that?”
The Fersecta Emperor smiled coldly. Ru suddenly realized that for the first time, there was a mocking smile in that laughter.
Until now, this man had sincerely laughed. He had never mocked Riga. All his hostility was directed at Emperor Caleta.
“Our Emperor has never said such a thing……”
“No, your Emperor has been ‘made to think that way’ by the Duke.”
The Emperor who cut off Riga’s words looked straight at her.
“How can the senses honed in real combat become dull? Even retired old knights retain that sharp sense; it’s normal and common sense. Losing that sense at the Duke’s age is nonsense.”
The questioning voice was intense. The one whose senses had deteriorated was Riga, but it sounded as though the Emperor was more wronged and angry.
It sounded as if he were someone who cherished her very much, as if he were so angry. It was either a mistake, or the Emperor had crossed the line.
“The fact that my sense in battle is not even half that of an ordinary knight is true.”
Though she had clearly drunk tea, putting the painful wound directly into her mouth felt like her throat was tearing.
Suddenly, Riga recalled what that man had said.
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 🙂
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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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