I could tell what he was up to without even looking. So I gazed at the tower lord and entered with Shasha. I had thought it would be a room about the size of a oneroom apartment, but the inside was different from what I expected.
Not quite as big as a room in the palace, but it seemed to be the size of my room in the earl’s house—a large office. Unlike the gloomy feeling of the tower, his room was filled with luxurious wooden furniture.
Thanks to that, as soon as I entered the room, I could smell the calming scent of wood. And there were magic circles with incomprehensible patterns written all over the floor.
“Please sit over here.”
As he said that, he led us to a sofa in the middle of the room. Shasha and I sat there, almost forcibly.
“Have some tea brought.”
Shasha, who looked familiar, as if she had been here often, surprisingly settled down on the sofa. Holding my hand tightly. Meanwhile, the tower lord clapped his hands. Then a person appeared from a magic circle in one corner.
“Have you called for me, Tower Lord?”
It was an adult, a young man who looked my age. He bowed his head respectfully.
“Have tea prepared. Special guests have arrived. Prepare special tea.”
“Yes.”
“…There’s a portal there.”
“Ah, are you talking about the moving portal? Of course, there is one. You can’t just climb up this tall tower, so there are portals here and there.”
When I showed interest in the portal, he raised his voice, boasting.
“But not just anyone can handle such a portal. It’s a spatial transfer magic, so it can be dangerous. A skilled wizard must handle it.”
“A skilled wizard?”
“Yes. Even for a short distance, it needs to be finetuned.”
“Are there portals all over the tower?”
Seeming to enjoy his bragging, he nodded his head vigorously.
“Of course.”
“I see. But it seems guests can’t use it?”
“Why not? We make sure that all guests can come up comfortably.”
“Aha.”
“The stairs are so enormous that I can’t move without a portal.”
He seemed to have forgotten that I came up the stairs, bragging.
“If I had known such a convenient thing was available, I would have used it. It was hard walking up.”
“Ah, if I hadn’t forgotten that you were visiting, I would have prepared it right away. This is indeed regrettable.”
“No, what more can be said if you forgot?”
It’s not right to nag at someone who is apologizing. Honestly, I wanted to nag more, but it was obvious that he would just brush it off.
“Heh heh. Thank you for understanding.”
“But can anyone use it? Are there any cases where it cannot be used?”
“Yes, anyone can use it. Those in the tower have a magical tool that allows them to use the portal. I made it myself. Ah, if you wear a magical tool that restricts magic, you can’t ride. I’m not so generous as to let even criminals ride. If you wear something that restricts magic or has a magical tool and then ride the portal, that part will be cut off. Sometimes even the neck is cut off, which is quite fun.”
While he was talking on and on, the man who had disappeared returned through the portal. In his hand was a regular tea set and some simple cookies.
The man quickly placed the tea set in front of us and disappeared again. But nothing was placed in front of Shasha. There was only a teacup in front of me and the tower lord.
“Is there nothing for Shasha?”
“Ah, it seems there has been a mistake. Shall I have it brought now?”
“Is this how it usually is? You don’t give anything to the child? So there’s nothing for Shasha.”
“Heh heh.”
The tower lord, who only laughed, didn’t seem to feel anything strange about my words. Even though I was asking if he was discriminating against Shasha, he just chewed his cookie, smiling.
“Do you want to eat something, Shasha?”
“No, Sister. It’s okay if I don’t eat.”
“Right. Eating too many snacks will spoil you since you were young. But Shasha is an exception. Here, have a Shasha cookie.”
He slid a cookie toward the child, and Shasha’s face stiffened slightly. A contemplative expression.
“No, I’m fine! I’m a child who knows how to endure!”
“That’s right. A child who knows how to endure must endure.”
“Yes!”
It must have always been this way. Seeing Shasha’s proud figure because she was able to endure, it was frustrating. Even though she really liked sweets.
‘There’s nothing I like.’
Sitting down, the crumbs of cookies that the tower owner spilled because of his protruding belly landed entirely on his stomach. How disgusting it looked.
He should let the child eat some, but the pitiful sight of him trying to eat everything as if it would be snatched away made her angry. It seemed that there was no longer any good in having Shasha sit, so she spoke to Shasha.
“Shasha, why don’t you go out and play first?”
“Um, yes! I’ll go play with my friends!”
As the child who was guarding the entrance to the tower opened the door and came in, Shasha followed, excited.
“What were you saying earlier? You said that watching a beheading was quite interesting. So I deliberately do not say it. You almost seem to have noticed now.”
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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