“You managed to secure a seat next to the Duke in such a short time. The prince couldn’t capture you. That low green eye, similar to your mother’s, seems to be useful.”
She knew that the prince had called Olivia and been rejected, but there was no need to bring up the matter.
At the end of the gentle words, there was a chill in the content. A half-breed born not from the Lady of the Duke but from a lowly entertainer. Just looking at her made her nauseous.
The Empress spoke with undisguised contempt.
“So vulgarly. You filled the Duke’s ankles with droplets? Well, you two are the same. The Duke’s ‘lineage’ is wherever it goes.”
Olivia blinked for a moment.
It was a strange remark. It wasn’t even a derogatory term like a siren, and to talk about ‘lineage.’
Edwin was the lord of Bikan Deer and the only Duke in the empire. He was also the only surviving royal family from the now disappeared Lowell Kingdom.
It was an inconvenience. But the Empress, frowning, spoke with the same expression as when she stared at her.
It was an inconvenience. However, the Empress made the same expression as when she frowned and stared at me.
It was a moment when Olivia’s touch became more sensitive.
“Give me that abandoned mine.”
For a moment, Olivia looked at the Empress, forgetting what she had been thinking.
An abandoned mine? Surely she wasn’t talking about the Baeksujeong Mine. No, she had to deny it. The Empress and the princess knew that it was a place they desired, but at least it shouldn’t be referred to in such a way.
“I don’t have an abandoned mine.”
“I know you took the abandoned mine attached to Bikan Deer.”
There was a sneer hidden in the slightly raised corners of her mouth. So Olivia clenched her fist even tighter. I had a reason for coming here. I couldn’t let emotions distort my work.
“That place is not an abandoned mine, Your Majesty.”
The Empress burst into a dry laugh. Then, as if to say Olivia had changed, she glanced at her.
“You’ve changed, Olivia. Dare to look straight at me.”
The subtly cunning words reminded Olivia of her old self. The appearance of smiling and checking her feelings every time she met eyes with her was nowhere to be found.
Having arrogantly taken the princess’s place and humiliated the prince. Now she dared to meet my eyes? It was a moment when the Empress’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“You have changed too, Your Majesty.”
“What?”
The venomous brown eyes looked down at Olivia as if to overwhelm her. Olivia took a deep breath for a moment.
“The reason I came to see you, Your Majesty.”
“…”
“As the future Duchess, I can no longer fear Your Majesty.”
I expected an answer like, “To protect my brother,” but the feeling of being hit hard in the back of my head was what the Empress received.
It was natural for Olivia Madeleine to fear me. Like the sun rising in the morning and the moon setting at night, it was an unchanging fact.
For Olivia to confront it again, bringing shame to the Duke and turning to the prince’s side, was a matter of course for the Empress.
But now, in this place, Olivia was overturning all that common sense.
Looking at the shaking Empress’s expression, Olivia smirked. Old stories always stirred the heart like this.
“As Your Majesty knows, I truly had a difficult time with Empress.”
Among the numerous despises, the Empress’s disdain was particularly painful.
Rather than scold me harshly, the Empress would have preferred it. She stared at Olivia for a long time, as if despising her in every way, and finally spoke harsh words.
Both the Empress and Olivia knew that each word was as malicious as digging into their hearts.
“But today, you seem different.”
The method of breaking someone’s spirit by making them comply. That was the princess’s tactic. Not the Empress who always looked at me as if I were nothing.
The Empress, looking at Olivia as if she was intimidatingly going to break her, uttered harsh words.
Both the Empress and Olivia knew that each word was as malicious as digging into their hearts.
“Your Majesty did not acknowledge me as the Crown Prince’s fiancee. So, even the rightful rights I should have received were granted belatedly.”
“…”
“Your Majesty once said that you couldn’t spare even a moment for me, who was not even worthy of your attention. Today, you’ve been observing my conduct for a very long time.”
“…”
“Why did you do that?”
Because. It was a question without an ounce of wisdom. The Empress chuckled. However, her elegant face, which had been smiling, stiffened at Olivia’s continued words.
“Why did you go out of your way to disgrace me in front of everyone? Someone who used to ignore me without even looking at me before. Why today did you deliberately try to break my spirit in front of everyone?”
“…”
A thin breath filled the reception room. While still staring at the Empress, as if examining her, Olivia raised her red lips diagonally.
“Or,”
A very small suspicion I had heard since I did not receive the etiquette. Now it was certain.
“Did you become afraid of me?”
“……How dare you!”
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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