“Miss, please eat a little of this, okay?”
A dark room, curtained against the sunlight.
Veronica proffered the bowl of soup with a worried heart. The lukewarm beef and potato soup, deliberately not too hot, was also Miss Esella’s favorite dish.
But the young lady just shook her head and did not take the bowl. Her face, shadowed by her long hair, looked even more downcast today.
“Miss, why are you like this?”
Veronica was on the verge of tears. It was sad enough that the young lady, who always smiled like sunshine, had lost her smile, but she had also been skipping meals for several days now.
Ever since the Grand Duchess left, she had not eaten properly. Thinking about it, Veronica barely swallowed her tears.
“Veronica, I have to go to my sister.”
With a faint voice that seemed about to fade, Veronica finally burst into tears.
“You mustn’t say that. The Duke ordered confinement because of that, Miss.”
“My sister!”
A few days ago, Esella’s statement that she would go to her sister had greatly angered the Duke. Unable to contain his anger, he had yelled at Esella for the first time.
“What business do you have with her!”
“I have something to tell my sister. Father. I really have something to tell my sister.”
“You absolutely cannot. Before you change your mind, Esella, know that you won’t be taking a single step out of this room!”
Though reputed to be as cold as ice, the Duke had always been a tender father in front of Esella.
Despite experiencing her father’s fiery anger for the first time, Esella didn’t change her mind.
The punishment was confinement.
Veronica was instructed to stay by Esella’s side, who was under confinement, and watch her. In this situation, being upset was inevitable. Without realizing it, Veronica rambled on, her words mixed with tears.
“It’s all because of the Grand Duchess. If only she hadn’t…”
“No, it’s because of me, Veronica.”
“Yes?”
It was a firm voice she hadn’t heard in a while. Veronica unknowingly stopped crying and looked at Esella.
Esella pulled something out from under the pillow. It was the pink diamond necklace she had always clutched when falling into exhausted sleep.
“Even when I was little, I used to be confined with Jade Oraboni in the room? Playing with sister.”
Five years older than her, second Oraboni Jade always complained whenever confinement was lifted. Even then, the two secretly didn’t give up going to play with Olivia.
Some days it was bread, other days it was soup in a hollow bowl, or crayons and paper.
“But one day, Jade Oraboni said he wouldn’t see sister anymore.”
Jade, who loved playing with Olivia, suddenly changed his attitude one day. It was when Jade turned exactly ten.
Longing filled Esella’s gaze as she told her old story. Her oncedull purple amethyst eyes were becoming clearer.
So Veronica kept quiet about this unexpected story. She felt what result this story would bring, but she had no intention of stopping a bright young lady after so long.
“So I had to go alone, even if just by myself.”
Esella playfully crinkled her nose.
The fact that the sleepy Esella first defeated sleep to play secretly with her sister says it all.
“Sister’s room was in the mansion’s fourthfloor attic, right? Veronica would know too. On the fourth floor, there is…”
“A ghost story?”
“Yes, that.”
Esella giggled at Veronica’s response. Whoever started the rumor, it had been effective on young Esella.
It was fine when she went with Jade, but being alone on the fourth floor was different.
The spinechilling, eerie atmosphere of the fourth floor. The stairs that seemed to creak strangely. It seemed as if a pale ghost would really appear before her eyes.
Fiveyearold Esella approached the stairs several times to go play with her sister. Of course, the result was repeated failure.
“Then one day I was standing on the stairs when I heard a creaking sound from above. I thought the ghost was coming down to eat me, so I just closed my eyes and cried.”
The day when I couldn’t even make a sound and cried is so vividly remembered because of the scene that followed.
“Then my sister appeared.”
Esella mumbled dreamily.
“Esella?”
Olivia, appearing with only one flickering candle, looked like a hero. A hero who confidently emerged from a floor that seemed inhabited by ghosts.
Was it a sense of relief? Or was it because of seeing my sister’s face after a long time?
Then Esella burst into loud sobs. I could clearly see my young sister, not knowing what to do, beyond my blurred vision.
“But even though I was crying so much, my sister neither hugged me nor consoled me.”
“……”
“Do you know how sad I was? So I cried even louder on purpose?”
“Esella, don’t cry.”
In the end, I won. My sister, who had been hesitating for a while, hugged me again. She wiped my tears and even invited me to her room.
A place smaller than my room, but cozy. That was my sister’s room.
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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