“Anette. Just contact his family. You said you both graduated from the same academy.”
“I don’t know where his family is.”
Casian was the person who appeared like a comet and comforted me during the most difficult times, right before my older brother Lian passed away. An unidentified letter left in the academy’s shoe rack. I ignored it a few times, but one day I happened to see the contents of the letter I was about to tear apart, and I cried.
It wasn’t a cliché consolation, it felt like a letter that truly looked into my heart. Since then, I unknowingly waited for that letter. Even after Lian left this world, he remained a good friend to me.
So, we continued to exchange letters without knowing each other’s faces or families. Before I knew it, five years had passed.
I hadn’t asked about his identity because he avoided talking about his family, so I still didn’t know it.
“Weren’t you not going to find him? Now you’re curious?”
“I think it’s time to meet him now.”
“Hmm.”
Mother rolled her eyes, folding her arms.
“Casian. The name sounds familiar.”
“The second son of the Serentina family was named Casian, I think.”
“That’s right. The Serentina family. But I heard he passed away in an accident a few years ago. Didn’t they also say that the person who inherited the Viscount of Bilbert was also named Casian?”
“That’s right.”
Casian was that common of a name.
My parents pondered over the name Casian while intertwining their thoughts. I shared the information I knew with the two of them, who were fretting.
“He is two years older than me. The problem is that there were four Casians in that grade at the Marca Bar Academy.”
I didn’t ask in the letters, but of course, I was curious about him whom I hadn’t seen facetoface in three years. I wanted to know at least his family, so I inquired at the academy, but I only heard there were four people with the same name. Excluding Serentina as per my mother’s words, there are three left.
“The Viscount of Bilbert’s house. The Count of Melisene’s house. The Viscount of Gohort’s house.”
“Contacting all three families would be impolite. What about asking Casian directly?”
At my mother’s words, I lowered my head with a disconcerted expression.
In fact, it had been over a month since the last letter arrived. He left a message that he would be busy with his territory for a while, but this was the first time the letters had been cut off for so long.
“I can’t get in touch.”
Anxiously, my finger automatically went to my mouth. Seeing my habit of biting my hand when I’m anxious, my mother gently held my hand.
“You’re still young. You were worried because you couldn’t get in touch with your friend.”
With pure affection in his eyes, my father also came by my side and stroked my head.
“Just wait patiently. We’ll look into it, Anette.”
“I can’t wait patiently.”
“Is there another reason?”
At the friendly smile of my mother, I also smiled and spoke brightly.
“I’m going to marry Casian.”
And at that word, the eyes of the couple who were listening to their youngest daughter’s story changed to confusion.
“Marry, just like that? What are you talking about.”
“Father, mother also wished for me to get married. I must establish a family before it gets too late.”
My father quickly realized something was amiss and asked with a perplexed tone.
“You’re willing to do it with a guy from a family you don’t even know? With a man whose face you’ve never seen?”
I rushed to spit out the words I had prepared before my father’s disapproval fell.
“Yes. I don’t mind if I don’t know his face. After all, aren’t there strategic marriages with unseen partners? And Cassian is a friend with whom I’ve been in contact for a long time.”
“The Prince’s messenger?”
At the word ‘prince,’ Serdis’ face flashed through my mind. The thought of his perfect appearance, now seemingly ready to provoke a rejection response, made my mouth tighten.
“The prince’s messenger is not my mate.”
“Until yesterday, you were excited about dating the Prince. You went out in a new thin dress and that was a fuss.”
True. Until yesterday, I was a girl excited about the prospect of a successful relationship with the handsome Serdis.
I was ignorant of my future then. I didn’t know that a single wrong man was set to ruin the family.
Marriage with the Duke of Change.
Sure. I didn’t care about men, so it didn’t matter who the partner was.
But after marrying the Duke of Change, Anette was murdered by his son and the family fell for some reason. They even hung my parents’ bodies in the monastery square.
After all, Anette wasn’t the villain, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What happened to my body now didn’t matter.
However, I didn’t want to see my family get hurt because of me. For my parents, who had lost a son and were left with one daughter, who had given me a warm embrace after a long time of being alone. I absolutely had to let go of the male lead.
“I was just excited about going out after a long time. It’s not because of the Prince.”
I immediately denied my father’s words. My father sent a silent gaze at the unfamiliar sight of his usually outgoing daughter.
“Anette. I noticed yesterday that the Prince seemed to hold you in his heart.”
Predictably, my father’s words, trying to pair me with Serdis, left a bitter taste in my mouth. I forced my gaze away and dismissed it.
“Is that so? I don’t know. I’m not interested.”
“You’ll change your mind once you see him more often.”
“That’s not going to happen.”
My father wet his dry lips with a worried look.
Naturally, he would.
The person I brought for marriage,
Viscount Vilbert.
Viscount Gohort.
Baron Melisen.
None of these were substantial families.
And the partner is the Prince. The crown prince who is first in line for the throne.
What family could refuse when their daughter could become the empress?
“If it were Prince Serdis, I would feel relieved. He’s sure to cherish and love you. His character is impeccable.”
My mother soothingly stroked my hair and spoke in a calm tone.
“I don’t like the prince. Even if by some slim chance he chooses me as his queen, living confined in the palace would be horrifying.”
“Anette. Did something happen with the Prince?”
“Nothing happened. I just met him and felt that he wasn’t the one for me.”
With a grimacing face, I shook my head, as if I hated Serdis to death. But my father, unaware of my feelings, continued his speech.
“Don’t think too negatively. Try going out casually. You’ll start to like him once you spend time together. Your mother and the count did.”
“In the palace, there are highranking royal councilors, so you can rest assured. As a member of the royal family, you can get treatment without having to struggle to go to the temple as you do now, Anette.”
Again, the talk of treatment.
“Don’t forget that health is the most important thing, as your father has often said. After marriage, you have to meet someone who can take responsibility for you.”
The always warmfaced father spoke in a low voice. It was a sign not to ignore his words.
‘Once, you told me to marry someone I love and be happy.’
The parents’ desire for their daughter was endless. They didn’t even understand what marrying Serdis meant.
“I don’t want to. Even if I die soon, I will marry Casian.”
I buried my face in both hands as is.
“Anette.”
“Honey, let’s talk about this later when you calm down.”
However.
Who in the world said there’s a parent who can defeat their child?
Instead of tears in my covered eyes, a strong fervor blazed up.
Mom. Dad. I’m sorry.
I won’t ever meet Serdis,
“I won’t marry Casian either.”
Because Casian was merely the groundwork for the thing I will commit to in the future.
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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