Creak! Creak! Creak!
Then the tree was completely stripped as if it were cut with scissors.
Looking at the completely fallen tree, Atia shouted, “Hey! Don’t just stand there, move this down!”
Clap!
With a loud applause, Atia flicked her fingers.
Owen’s knights were not used to a duchess giving such vigorous commands.
However, Kasus, Zen, and Wellington’s knights assisted her as if they were familiar with her.
“I’m going to throw it down, so everyone step back!”
As soon as Atia gave a warning, a large shadow was cast over the pit.
Owen and the knights below the pit scattered like mice to avoid the falling tree.
“Whoa!”
Thud!
With a cloud of dust, a large tree was moved down into the pit.
“Can you climb up on that?”
Atia grabbed the long, thick tree she had thrown, and Owen slowly climbed up.
Although the length of the tree was a bit short, the knights outside the pit stretched their bodies to pull Owen up.
Covered in mud, Owen breathed heavily, stealing a moment to recover.
“Phew…”
“Your Highness! Are you okay?”
Owen’s knights examined his condition and asked.
“Ha, my goodness… Of all places, there had to be a pit here…”
“We’ll quickly pull up the rest.”
Climbing up on the tree Atia set up, the knights crawled out one by one from beneath the pit.
Watching Atia working nearby, Owen mumbled, “You were right. There really is someone on this island.”
Not missing Owen’s muttering, Atia replied, “Do you believe me now?”
“Well, fine. Where are our sailors?”
“They must be somewhere on this island.”
It was when everyone was busy moving. Black figures moved quickly from tall trees.
Swish!
With the sound of the wind splitting, something stuck into the neck of a knight near the pit.
“Ugh…!”
The knight, frowning, touched around his neck, finding a sharp thorn embedded there.
The substance inside the thorn quickly spread through the bloodstream.
Without a chance to say anything, the knight with the thorn in his neck lost consciousness and collapsed.
Thump!
“?”
Atia, who was helping the fallen knight in the pit, turned her head to look at him.
And shortly after, another knight near Atia also collapsed powerless.
Thump!
Looking at the fallen knights, Atia widened her eyes.
“What…? What’s going on?”
Swish!
“Ugh! Something in my neck…”
Another knight grabbed his throat and then slumped to the side.
‘What’s this?’
Atia raised her head and surveyed the surroundings.
Indigenous people atop the trees were attempting to shoot tranquilizer darts made of wooden sticks.
‘Whoa, indigenous people…?!’
Swish!
The sound of wind splitting echoed.
“Duck!”
Kasus grabbed Atia and rolled her to the side.
“It’s an ambush!”
“Watch out for the treetops!”
The knights around shouted.
Just when they were rescuing people who had fallen into the pit, an ambush occurred.
It was unfortunate.
Owen tried to shoot his bow, but realized he had nothing on him.
‘Darn!’
It was heavy, so without realizing, he had left it beneath the pit.
When Owen picked up a rock from the ground to throw it at the indigenous people above.
Swish!
A tranquilizer dart shot towards Owen deeply pierced him, causing him to close his eyes and collapse.
Thump!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
The sound of tranquilizer darts echoed from all directions.
Zen rushed towards Kasus and shielded his master with his entire body. Multiple tranquilizer darts were already embedded in his body.
“Your Highness! Please avoid it! It’s dangerous here…”
Thump.
Zen, grabbing his throat, collapsed.
“Zen!”
Kasus deflected the tranquilizer dart with his sword.
However, he couldn’t avoid dozens of darts flying from all directions. This was an island inhabited by indigenous people.
A tranquilizer dart flew towards Kasus. He embraced Atia tightly, protecting her.
Dozens of darts pierced Kasus’s body.
But he did not lose consciousness. Trained for a long time, the darts didn’t penetrate well, and his strong mental fortitude helped him overcome.
The times of exercise with Atia shone brightly here.
The indigenous people above the trees looked at each other with confusion.
Gradually losing consciousness, Kasus whispered to Atia in his arms.
“It’s a tranquilizer dart. If you get hit, you’ll fall asleep. You have to run. Escape that way.”
“Are you crazy? How can I run away leaving you behind?”
“Hurry…”
Kasus gritted his teeth and spread his cloak over him as much as possible to hide his angle from the trees. Numerous tranquilizer darts stuck into his body.
“Go quickly… Argh.”
Atia turned her eyes to the indigenous people above the trees. Covered in red dye all over their bodies, they seemed excited, like hunting prey.
Seeing them, a faint memory came back to Atia.
‘Oh, I remember. The Red Warrior tribe…’
It was just as it appeared in the novel.
This place wasn’t an uninhabited island; it was an island where the Red Warrior tribe lived.
A tribe extremely wary of outsiders, not allowing them to approach.
While uncertain how to handle outsiders leaving tranquilizer darts, what was clear was that things wouldn’t end well if they stayed here.
“I’ll stand up, so… Use my cloak as a shield and jump over there.”
Kasus pointed to a direction with his chin.
As Atia nodded, Kasus, still struggling to maintain his fading consciousness, stood up. Due to this, the attention of the indigenous people above the trees entirely focused on him.
“Now! Go!”
In the midst of dozens of tranquilizer darts aiming for prey from above the trees, Atia covered herself with Kasus’s cloak and swiftly escaped from his embrace.
And following the direction he indicated, she ran at full speed.
‘I’ll be back soon. Don’t die; wait for me.’
Kasus, determined to protect Atia to the end, closed his eyes.
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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