조금 잘생긴 사람일 뿐.
아니지. 잘생겼다고 생각하니 심장이 더 뛰잖아. 취소 취소.
저 남자는 그냥 노란 병아리다. 병아리. 절대 겁먹을 필요 없다. 나는 속으로 자기 최면을 걸어 가며 그를 바라봤다.
다행히 최면이 잘 들어간 건지, 스스로 최면에 거는 것에 꽤 탁월한 능력이 있는 건지 어느 순간 황제가 병아리로 보였다.
뺙. 뺙. 하는 귀여운 노란 병아리.
물론 그의 입에서 목소리가 새어 나오는 순간 그 최면이 확 깨 버린 듯했지만, 두근거림은 훨씬 나아졌다.
“Exciting. You certainly caught my eye.”
“……Thank you for the compliment.”
Hearing his sharp voice, the tension starts to creep back in. I feel like the champagne I ate earlier is going to reflux. A palpitation like my heart is going to jump out of my mouth. I feel like I’m going to die.
“A compliment, you say. More like you were staggering towards me like a newborn foal, I thought you were challenging me to a duel. I even wondered if you were an assassin.”
“……An assassin, I am not.”
I can barely manage to retort, and no other words come out. At my reaction, the emperor’s displeased face makes the surrounding people back off.
“Ha ha……”
“Do you have something to say? Or did you approach me because you are an assassin?”
“No. I am not an assassin and I have…… No, I have nothing to say.”
At my words, the emperor slightly relaxed his expression.
“It seems like you have something to say. Go ahead. I am in a very good mood today. So I will listen to what you, who approached me as if to fight, have to say.”
“I didn’t approach as if to fight……”
I glanced around and met his eyes. Though he said he was in a good mood, the emperor’s face was stern.
I should deny it and run away, but I can’t even muster the courage to turn back here. Whether it’s the champagne I drank too much of, or because I’m the center of attention, my legs are trembling. But there was no way to avoid it now.
‘Surely he won’t kill me just because I proposed.’
In an extreme situation, I lost my mind and blurted out the words I had thought hundreds of times deep in my heart.
“I must marry you. You are. No, Your Majesty.”
I don’t know where this courage came from. Having said that, I quickly bit my tongue. Not even please marry me, but must marry. I’m definitely crazy. But the emperor calmly tilted his head.
How dare you propose to me! Thankfully, such a situation where he would kill me did not arise.
Was that why? My tongue moved on its own, having gained selfawareness. The selfhypnosis seemed to have worked well, and the fear suddenly disappeared.
“Why?”
“I must become the mother of your son.”
The emperor, who was leisurely sipping his wine as if enjoying an interesting spectacle, spewed it out with a spluttering sound. Something wet splashed on his face in an instant.
“Ah.”
“I’m sorry. I was just too surprised.”
He handed me a handkerchief, and I wiped my face with it without even thinking. He was drinking red wine. My face must look pathetic.
In the meantime, the emperor spoke again.
“Not the empress, but my son’s mother?”
“I know…… that you already have a son.”
The emperor already had a child. One that nobody knew about. An 8yearold child who became the crown prince with a sudden appearance. So at my words, the emperor’s face stiffened in surprise.
“There’s no such thing.”
“I know. There is.”
“I said there isn’t.”
“You don’t have to hide it. I’ll keep this a secret.”
At my words, the emperor snickered. Wiping his lips with a freshly pulled out pure white handkerchief, he looked quite like a dangerous devil.
What was on his lips was not red wine, but seemed cruelly bloodstained.
But the emperor was still looking at me with doubtful eyes. Well, I had anticipated this reaction.
The royal family’s secret, no, the emperor’s hidden secret. Any emperor would have one or two of those.
‘For him, the existence of his son must be quite a big secret.’
“Right now.”
“Thank you for this time.”
“She said it’s not there.”
“It’s okay. I won’t say it anywhere.”
The Emperor’s eyes, looking at me askance. Slightly angry, he changed his expression just now. There was no talk for a long time.
An Emperor with no charm other than good looks. A person who fits those words all too well.
“I am a person who hates people who talk nonsense. And even being in the same space with someone talking nonsense is horrible.”
The suspicion and caution were not loosened at all. Still, I had rushed in to make an impactful impression at our first meeting; maybe it was too extreme.
“And you are the exact type of person I dislike.”
“But it’s true.”
“Will you insist that this nonsense is true even if a knife comes to your throat?”
“Yes.”
Ah, maybe the knife was a bit too much. Instinctively, my hand stroked my throat. As if my body was afraid that something unimaginable might happen.
“You’re quite confident. What are you believing in?”
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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