“Me? Surely not!”
“Then why have you come? You don’t seem to have the nerve to spectate.”
Nikolai’s mouth corners lifted slightly.
Her cheeks blazed hotly.
‘Pull yourself together, Elizabeth. You’re a bewitching femme fatale!’
She swallowed her dry saliva.
It was time to throw out the lines she had practiced all night.
“I have something to say to Your Majesty.”
Her voice was as sweet as if it had been coated with honey.
She didn’t forget to halfclose her eyes and put on an innocent expression.
“You are welcome to join, if you wish.”
“Do you prefer monopoly over mingling?”
To think that these words came from her mouth!
Her heart thumped, and her limbs were all tangled up.
Still, she managed to make Nikolai smile.
It was nothing more than a faint smile with the corner of his mouth curled upward, but she couldn’t help but pause.
‘Wow. He looks even more handsome when he smiles. His handsomeness pierces through the mask…!’
If Douglas was a peach competing with sweet juice and tenderness, Nikolai was a beast tightly wrapped in overwhelming decadence.
He was the world’s most handsome man, receiving the author’s abundant love.
‘Beauty, wealth, power a man who has everything. Why did Nikolai surrender to Claudia? He could have fled with his elite guard.’
Unlike the original Elizabeth, Nikolai was extremely pitiful in front of the execution block.
He didn’t beg for his life, nor did he curse Claudia, who had stolen the throne.
He looked not like a tyrant who ruined the country but like a martyr who had ended all sufferings.
‘It’s getting stranger the more I think about it. Is it a character collapse? Could there be a secret setting that even avid readers don’t know?’
I looked at Nikolai again.
With a completely unbiased view.
But the emperor in front of me was nothing more than a playboy exuding sensuality.
“I like honest women. I didn’t know you were one of them.”
“Do you know me?”
“Is there a man in the Hart Empire who doesn’t know Elizabeth?”
The Emperor, not just a man.
My stomach twitched, feeling like he was seeing me as a woman.
“I am meeting Your Majesty for the first time.”
“You dare to deceive a meeting with the Emperor? Did I not say to not trick me?”
“You heard everything?”
“I knew Kenshing was dealing with invitations. I simply tolerated it since it takes care of the annoying parties. How did you know?”
Nikolai seemed to understand the party’s situation even while dealing with two women.
He indeed was a tricky fellow.
“A merchant is quick with information.”
“Is that all?”
“Would there be any other reason?”
“I don’t like it.”
“What?”
“Be more honest. It will become sweeter.”
It was hard to understand what he was saying.
I didn’t know why he shook off the hands of other women and approached me so closely.
A strange dizziness overcame me due to an unfamiliar scent.
A handsome man was such a dangerous and frightening being.
‘The one seducing is not you, but me.’
She bit her lip firmly.
Provocatively, she lifted her chin and winked with one eye.
A wink filled with bewitching charm.
“What are you doing?”
Nikolai narrowed his brows, seeming puzzled.
What? Why is the reaction like this?
Panic set in, and she hurriedly winked several more times.
It felt like her eyelid was about to spasm.
“What’s wrong? Did something get in your eye?”
Nikolai tilted his head.
A drop of cold sweat rolled down her back.
‘Could Nikolai, like Claudia, have lifethreatening beliefs? It’s impossible for a villain who knows nothing but women!’
Perhaps her sincerity was lacking.
She tried to erase the feeling of failure and kissed her fingertips.
Smack.
A trivial and flirtatious sound resonated.
“…….”
An awkward and miserable silence pressed down on the terrace.
The failure of a decisive strike felt like the sky was collapsing.
Now there was only one thing left.
‘Die or go all out!’
I wrapped my arms around Nikolai’s neck, who was standing tall.
Pulling him towards me, I raised myself on tiptoe.
His lips were so lofty that I could barely reach them.
“I apologize, but I will kiss you first.”
The emperor did not grant permission.
Of course, I had no intention of waiting for permission. There was no way I would back down anyway.
I closed my eyes and took his lips.
Once lips met, saliva exchanged, even the mighty Nikolai had no choice but to fall.
‘To have my first kiss like this.’
Regret was shortlived.
His lips were moist and soft.
Nikolai’s breath was faint and warm.
The heartbeat sound thumped from my chest to my Adam’s apple.
It seemed as if all the blood and nerves in my body had rushed to my lips.
The tingling sensation that started from the lips traveled through the blood vessels.
The sound of completely closefitting flesh rubbing against each other filled my ears.
Nikolai did not push me away. Nor did he violently explore my lips.
He simply accepted the kiss I offered, without so much as a twitch.
“……Thank you for your understanding.”
I slowly unwrapped the arms that had been around Nikolai’s neck.
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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