In response to Jegal Min’s words, I twinkled my eyes. There were several opportunities to ask this question, but I felt that now was the right time.
I cautiously asked Jegal Min, “Oh, brother, do you happen to like Ryeo?”
“What?”
At my words, Jegal Min widened his eyes like a rabbit. Then, he laughed while clapping his hands.
“Do you think I would like Ryeo? What nonsense…”
Stopping there, Jegal Min covered his mouth with his palm and lowered his head deeply. His face, blushing to the tips of his ears in an instant, looked cute.
I teased him while whistling, “You like her. You do.”
Even though he’s my elder brother, it’s unbelievable how honest he is. I was afraid he might get deceived by others.
When I teased him, Jegal Min shouted with a tomato-red face, “It’s just a reflex! It’s because you asked!”
“Yeah, right.”
“Jegal Yeon!”
Shouting with such a red face is not at all intimidating. I laughed like a fox and said, “Why are you so embarrassed? I also think Ryeo is a person worth loving. She’s a good friend.”
“Is that so?”
Although he denied it, his slightly honest expression after my words was amusing. I shrugged and added,
“Of course, I don’t really understand Ryeo’s feelings. Honestly, I don’t think she likes you yet.”
“Well, that’s true.”
Upon hearing that Nam Gung Ryeo doesn’t like him, Jegal Min sulkily lowered his head. I snapped my fingers and added,
“But the relationship between you two is a matter of the future! Don’t give up in advance. At least confess!”
“…Are you giving me strength, or are you giving me despair?”
Oops, did my inner thoughts show too much? To be honest, even if Jegal Min confessed, I was a hundred percent sure that Nam Gung Ryeo would reject him.
‘Ryeo is already infatuated with my brother.’
He probably had this in mind since he chased me around, apologizing for what happened back then. Satisfied that my guess was correct, I nodded my head again. Then, with sparkling eyes, I asked Jegal Min again,
“What do you like about Ryeo?”
Indeed, the most interesting thing in the world is someone’s love story. As I looked at him with a face full of curiosity, Jegal Min, looking somewhat embarrassed, wrinkled his face but then opened his mouth brightly.
“At first, I thought, ‘Are there people like this?’ Rude and speaking bluntly.”
Certainly, Nam Gung Ryeo and Jegal Min didn’t have a good first impression of each other. I nodded my head as I listened to Jegal Min’s story. Blushing slightly, Jegal Min added,
“But the more I got to know her, her honesty became charming. And knowing Nam Gung Se Ga’s situation, I wanted to be of help to her.”
“I see.”
To think that she wants to be a support for Ryeo. It was true love. I nodded my head vigorously. Then, clenching my fist, I spoke.
“Alright! I’ll cheer for you, brother! You’re someone I can trust!”
“Thank you.”
Jegal Min’s face, smiling faintly, looked mature. Seeing a face that seemed to have already conquered love, I became worried again. I added quietly,
“I’ll say it again, but there’s a higher possibility that Ryeo’s feelings are not like that. Don’t get your hopes up too much.”
“I got it! How many times do you have to say it?”
“Hehehe.”
Since he’s my older brother experiencing love for the first time, I didn’t want him to unintentionally cause trouble for Ryeo.
It was when the two of us were facing each other, laughing. As if sensing someone, the door creaked open, and Danmokbi stuck his face out.
“You’re here.”
“Oh… Ugh!”
In an instinctive reaction, I was about to call him ‘oppa,’ but I bit my tongue. I wrapped both hands around my cheeks and twisted my body like a snake.
‘Even calling him oppa is embarrassing!’
Both saying this and that are embarrassing, so what exactly should I call him? As I twisted my body, Danmokbi and Jegal Min both stared at me with puzzled eyes.
Danmokbi was the first to speak.
“It seems there’s a big commotion, so I should check it out.”
“Really?”
A big commotion?
I wondered what could be causing a commotion early in the morning, but then I remembered yesterday’s chaos.
‘It wouldn’t be strange if a murder happened.’
Even if there was a commotion or not, it didn’t concern me, but I was worried about Nam Gung Ryeo getting involved. I headed that way with Danmokbi.
As Danmokbi said, the commotion was so loud that you could hear it even from a distance. Contrary to my worry that Ryeo might get involved, she was in the midst of the commotion.
Nam Gung Ryeo, pointing at Nam Gung’s wife who had fallen like she was prostrating herself in the garden, said with her finger,
“She’s the one who poisoned Father! She asked me to send her a poisonous herb that she could get directly from the sacred mountain. If I knew Father would eat it, I would never have sent it.”
People who came out to watch the commotion, as well as Nam Gung Se Ga’s children, were all in an uproar. Nam Gung’s wife screamed while grinding her teeth.
“How could you say such things! You’re the one who urged me to feed him the poison!”
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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