At the unexpected words, Chloe had to doubt her own ears.
She looked down at Helena without responding to the malicious words.
The woman who had been attacking with the intention to tear her apart, shrank at just a single cold gaze.
“……Yo, you act as if it’s such a profound emotion!”
And then she displayed more malice to hide her own weakness.
“Profound emotion?”
“Ye, yes!”
“What exactly do you want to say?”
Finally, Chloe retorted in a cold voice.
“Oh, after all the noble acts, in the end, you are a hypocrite too. Seeing you move from a kingdom’s hero to an emperor, aren’t you swayed by power?”
Helena seemed to misunderstand that Chloe and the Emperor were having a rational conversation. How easily she mistook shallow courtesy for love.
No matter how much she explained, it would be dismissed as an excuse. Moreover, there was no reason to explain earnestly to the other party.
“People are generally afraid of having their flaws exposed. Therefore, they mock others to hide their own deficiencies.”
“……What?”
“You disguise your own flaws as the faults of others. Are you like that too?”
She was targeting Helena, who had failed in trying to win over the Emperor.
“Yo, you……! Is that all you have to say?”
“Lower your voice and choose your words carefully. Many eyes are watching.”
At the solemn words, Helena unwittingly looked around.
As she had said, the palace servants occasionally moving around were watching the two of them.
Suddenly, a maid who happened to lock eyes with Helena looked at her with disdain.
The contempt in the brief glance tormented Helena. Encountering the cold treatment she hadn’t received in the ducal house in reality, shame overwhelmed her.
“Shut up! Don’t advise me!”
“If you take this maliciously, I have nothing more to say.”
“What makes you so confident? Why are you still acting as if you’re something special! Now you have no one by your side. Even that sniveling maid can’t return to you!”
Sniveling maid?
Chloe lost her composure at the derogatory term that seemed to refer to Jane.
Helena’s words were strangely odd.
It was not just because Jane had left the ducal house; her words seemed resolute.
As if she believed Jane was in a place she could never return.
“Why do you think Jane can’t return to me?”
“What?”
“You’re talking as if something has happened to Jane. Helena.”
When Chloe, suspecting Helena, pointed her out, the other’s expression noticeably darkened.
As if she was caught in something that shouldn’t have been revealed.
“……Helena. Do you really know something?”
“……Wh, what!”
“If there’s a problem with Jane’s safety……. ”
“What’s that wench to me! I don’t know. I don’t know, so don’t come near me. You……!”
As Chloe narrowed the distance, Helena shrank back in terror.
When Helena, consumed by fear, forcefully pushed Chloe, who was approaching her, a gatecrasher intervened between the two.
“What are you doing!”
Chloe looked down at her chest that was aching from being pushed away. Red handprints were imprinted on her delicate skin. In contrast, Helena was unscathed.
Yet, here, the aggressor was herself. Chloe muttered, vaguely remembering a day when she had laughed.
“Don’t misunderstand. I was just asking a question.”
“Do princesses usually question by shouting?”
“I thought it would be better to talk privately. It seems dukes are naturally prone to exaggeration.”
Callis’s previous condemnation now belonged to Chloe.
As she recited the words he had thoughtlessly thrown, Callis’s face turned red with shame.
Since words didn’t work, he seemed to push with force; an aggressive hand grabbed Chloe’s wrist. With her arm twisted and wrist caught, the pain was not trivial.
As Chloe grimaced as if in pain, Callis quickly regained his confidence.
“Apologize to Helena right now.”
His haughty chin motion continued.
“I’m not such a fool as to not know when to apologize and when not to. Do not dare to command me.”
“He still doesn’t know what he did wrong.”
“Why. Are you going to break my wrist this time? There will be nothing good about causing trouble here.”
“The one who shouldn’t cause trouble isn’t me, but you. You are the only one who will be put in the stocks anyway.”
Callis, unlike his lover, was not afraid of others’ criticism. He firmly believed that he would be protected from reproach even if he behaved the same way.
“A princess of a mere kingdom and a hero of the century are different. If what I receive is respect, then you’ll only be despised.”
Not all people judge right and wrong solely by status.
But what made Chloe laugh was something else.
“A hero?”
A word to describe himself.
Hero of the century.
Chloe asked with a scoffing laugh.
“I never knew. That a hero of the century could be sold to a mere kingdom’s princess.”
“…….”
“What a great hero you are.”
The sharp words that had tormented Chloe countless times. This time she took the sword hilt herself and handed it to her opponent.
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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