“We’ll practice one thing today. Now, if I attack like this, what should you do?”
Kai’s dagger swiftly approached Stella’s chest, stopping just before touching her clothes. It was an incident that happened in the blink of an eye.
Despite clearly seeing the attack coming, Stella couldn’t muster the courage to draw her sword. She approached the lesson much more seriously than before.
“Dodge?”
As Stella spoke, she quickly leaned her body to the left. However, Kai was faster. His sword was once again aimed at Stella’s heart. Dodging was not the answer.
“Block?”
Stella spoke while spreading her mouth wide, as if Kai was about to swing his forearm towards her mouth. The moment Kai seemed to swing his arm forcefully towards Stella’s mouth, surprised Stella quickly closed her mouth. This wasn’t it either.
With her hand covering her mouth, Stella, who almost had all her teeth broken, asked, “Then what should I do?”
Kai extended the sword he was holding to Stella. “Like I did,” he said.
Does it mean to do the same? Thinking Stella would demonstrate her real skill, she tightly gripped the sword and then forcefully stabbed it towards Kai’s chest.
Of course, she only pretended to stab. Planning to be surprised and fall back, to tease for a long time. However,
“Agh!”
Stella’s hand holding the sword was twisted by Kai’s hand like a twist, and he forcefully turned it in the opposite direction.
As Stella, with her twisted wrist and disrupted balance, groaned as if in pain, Kai finally let go of her hand.
As Stella’s face turned red and she groaned in pain, Kai was perplexed and didn’t know what to do. But when Stella and his eyes met, he quickly wiped the expression off his face. Kai’s gaze became as indifferent as before.
“Do you know how to do it?”
As he asked the question, his gaze kept going to the thin wrist he had gripped. Concerns rushed in belatedly about how much it must have hurt.
Stella, glaring at Kai resentfully for a moment, straightened her posture.
“Got it. Hold the hand holding the sword and turn it with force.”
“Counterclockwise.”
“Why does the direction matter?”
“If you turn it clockwise, where will the sword come?”
As he thought quietly, the image of the sword accurately stabbing his heart came to mind.
“It’s important. I’ll give it a try.”
Stella nodded, then assumed a defensive posture again. While it was rare for the person being attacked to know and prepare in advance, Kai decided to overlook it since it was his first time.
His large, round eyes twinkled keenly, and the sight of him concentrating seemed humble yet quite cute. As he concentrated, he habitually rounded his plump lips and took a deep breath.
A strange impulse to touch those round lips arose. To dispel such thoughts, Kai deliberately put on a more stern expression and tried to focus on the training.
The first few times, Stella couldn’t even grab Kai’s wrist.
“Princess, your heart must already be shredded like a worn-out brush.”
“Once more. I can do it well this time.”
Stella tenaciously repeated the same movement and eventually succeeded in grabbing Kai’s wrist. However, the problem was,
“Why isn’t it turning?”
No matter how much Kai twisted his wrist, it wouldn’t turn.
“I’m turning it counterclockwise. If it doesn’t budge at all, how can I practice?”
It was a wrist that she barely managed to grab. However, no matter how hard Stella squeezed and twisted, Kai stood firm like a statue, looking down with a pitiful expression.
It was oddly satisfying to have my wrist touched and fiddled with by her small hands.
Stella, whose frustration had reached its peak, made a few more attempts before pretending to give up, bowing her head deeply.
“Are you already giving up?”
Kai’s voice, which had leisurely asked the question while reveling in the victory, suddenly changed like a crow. At the same time, the shadows scattered throughout the area moved agilely, but Kai raised his hand, signaling that everything was fine. However, he also raised one leg in a ridiculous manner, tapping it on the ground.
“What’s going on here?”
It was too surprising and unbelievable to come up with any respectful words. However, Stella, smiling like a winner this time, replied.
“Turning my arm counterclockwise was too difficult, so I stepped on your toes. A bit harder. Still, knight boots are sturdy, so it doesn’t hurt much. Right?”
Indeed, as Stella said, his shoes were very thick and made of high-quality leather.
However, it didn’t mean that she prevented him from being trampled with full force. Was she daring to do such a thing to the Emperor’s body and hope to survive?
As Kai looked at her with bewilderment, Stella, as if teasing him, smiled and said, “Still, I blocked the dagger.”
“Huh!”
Despite the toes hurting enough to bring tears, a refreshing and cool emotion pierced through Kai’s chest, separate from the painful sensation.
Kai’s futile cough, exhaled like a sigh of relief, had turned into a bright smile like that of a boy. How could one understand a situation where laughter comes out despite the pain and annoyance?
Despite employing unfair tactics, the success achieved made Stella proud of herself. Just with that, Kai had no choice but to lower his head, as if admitting defeat.
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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