While Kesha taught Hari, and they provided free group lessons to the members, it was their time.
“Have you exercised a lot while I was coaching?”
“I did a lot of eye exercises.”
“Yes? Eye exercises?”
Kasus chuckled at Artia.
“In fact, I couldn’t exercise properly because I was too busy looking at you.”
“Oh, then you should.”
“…”
“We can’t miss today’s exercise.”
Looking out the window, it was late afternoon. The crimson sunset beautifully tinted the gym.
Artia’s tightly tied silver hair sparkled beautifully under the sunset.
Kasus spoke to Artia in a low voice.
“What exercise should we do since we’re the only ones here?”
“There are many exercises we can do. What should we start with? Do you have something you particularly crave today? Like your lower body itching, your chest screaming, or you can’t bend without adjusting your shoulders?”
“Yeah, it’s there. Whether you like it or not.”
“What’s that? Just say it.”
“Is exercising with the body okay?”
“Ah, that’s an obvious thing. If you don’t exercise with the body, what else would you use? Your mind? Your soul?”
“Anything is fine?”
“Yes.”
Kasus grinned and suddenly hugged Artia.
“Uh…?!”
Artia blinked quickly, looking at Kasus.
The scent emanating from his body lightly brushed Artia’s nose, feeling pleasant. It was like the refreshing scent of a cool forest lying on a windy blue grass field.
Even though the gym was filled with the scent of sweat in the absence of air conditioning during the summer, being next to Kasus would surely allow the nose to find comfort.
Artia, suddenly being held in his arms, placed her arms around his neck.
“Well, what’s this now? What situation is this?”
Kasus blinked his thick eyebrows and detached his cheek from Artia’s grip.
“I said exercising with the body is good.”
“Yes?”
“So, let’s do it, exercise with the body.”
Holding Artia, Kasus walked to a long bench.
Although she had grown considerable muscles throughout her body and became quite sturdy, it was effortless for Kasus.
For now.
Thump!
“…Oh my?!”
Putting Artia down on the bench, Kasus lay down carefully.
‘I have legs too. There’s no need to carry me by hugging. How annoying…’
Artia found Kasus’s sudden action to be whimsical and cute.
“Oh, wait. Pulling the abdomen, right? Shall we do abdominal exercises?”
Artia lay down on the bench, lifting both legs up toward the sky.
As her extended legs pointed towards the ceiling, Kasus blinked.
“…”
“Are you going to assist?”
Artia, with her legs raised towards him, asked him.
Kasus didn’t intend to, but due to Artia suddenly raising her legs and taking a posture, he had to assist.
Without saying a word, he chuckled and reached up with his arms next to her.
Actually, Kasus had planned to lay Artia down on the bench and do something else.
But Artia seemed to think differently.
“Okay then! I’m going to start.”
Artia gestured to Kasus, initiating the leg exercise.
When she slightly lowered the legs that were stretched upwards, if Kasus applied force to hinder them from rising, it naturally made her abdominal muscles engage.
As Artia tried to lift her lowered legs, Kasus applied force in the opposite direction.
Being by her side, Kasus had accumulated a lot of assisting experience.
One by one.
“Two, three.”
“…”
“Four.”
Counting the numbers, Kasus actively assisted Artia’s exercise.
Her abdominal muscles were put under considerable strain.
Her abdomen was accumulating muscular strength day by day, different from the day before.
Living almost like a resident in the gym, it was only a matter of time before Artia achieved the body shape she desired.
“It feels good!”
“Five, six.”
“It feels good!”
Artia shouted while exercising.
Doing it this way made exercising enjoyable and allowed them to spend time amusingly.
As they were almost finishing the set, Kasus tickled Artia’s leg and gently stroked her skin.
At his delicate touch, Artia flinched for a moment.
“No… You should assist, why are you doing something else…”
Kasus’s face, teasingly smiling, showed a slight dimple.
With the hand that had been caressing Artia’s leg, he firmly held her small foot.
“Oh, it’s a sacred gym…”
But Artia didn’t want to reject Kasus’s touch.
His hands were strong and firm, yet possessed a meticulousness. It was an optimal hand for stimulating people.
“Is this allowed in the gym…? If you keep stimulating me… Well, I don’t know.”
Lying on the bench, Artia felt her whole body melting under Kasus’s massage.
Perhaps it was because of the exercise, her heart was pounding, and her body felt languid.
Doing this in a different place than the bedroom was also a first.
The touch on her legs felt strange.
‘How can a person’s touch be so sensual?’
Until recently, it was a hand that helped with exercise in a wholesome way. But how did it feel so different now?
“…”
Externally, it seemed like Kasus was assisting. However, anyone could tell that this posture didn’t look like one for assistance.
“You didn’t lay me on the bench to assist, right? You planned to do this from the beginning. Right?”
“Now that you know, how disappointing.”
Kasus raised the corners of his mouth.
His expression felt unusually malicious today. It seemed like he was playing a prank or being mischievous.
Feeling uneasy, Artia reached out to push him away slightly.
But, unfortunately, her hand landed on his firm chest.
After the workout, Kasus’s narrow chest felt even firmer.
“Quite proactive, aren’t you?”
A low, intense voice settled in her ears.
“Uh! No…!”
Startled, Artia hastily tried to remove her hand from his chest, but Kasus grabbed her wrist and smiled.
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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