“What? What did you just say…?”
Lina was standing still, without any response, as if she didn’t hear the Duke’s words, so the Duke asked again.
“Did we ever meet before?”
‘Is he talking about the time we met in the forest…?’
Lina carefully examined his face. And then she realized.
He was not asking about the time they had met in the forest.
Only then did Lina’s face turn pale, understanding the situation.
‘No way. He remembers that day… No, it can’t be.’
Lina’s hands, folded over her stomach, began to dampen.
‘Keep calm. Even if the magic didn’t work perfectly, the Duke won’t think that I’m the same person now as I was then.’
Lina reassured herself, responding with a steady voice,
“Are you referring to the time I saw you in the forest a few days ago?”
Calmly talking about their meeting in the forest, Lina was met with the Duke’s indifferent gaze as he let out a low sigh.
“No. I must have been speaking nonsense. Let’s leave it at that.”
“Yes, Your Grace.”
‘Thank goodness. He’s just letting it go…’
Feeling relieved, Lina inadvertently caught Culren’s eye.
Seeing his face, firmly ready to scold her, it seemed once again she involuntarily sighed.
‘…It doesn’t look like it’s going to just pass by here.’
Lina had to endure all kinds of admonishments from Culren after leaving the office, and even had to receive etiquette training as a maid all over again.
In the end, it wasn’t until the sun had completely set that Lina could escape from Culren and return to her quarters.
Exhausted both physically and mentally, she stumbled to the bed and collapsed, reflecting on her encounter with the Duke.
‘Didn’t the memory get erased…?’
At the Duke’s inquiry if he had seen her somewhere before, Lina’s heart seemed to plummet.
‘No, the magic couldn’t have gone wrong. It never did before, did it?’
Unable to accept what had happened earlier in the day, Lina slowly shook her head.
“It must have been a coincidence.”
Hearing her murmur, May, who was lying on the next bed, asked,
“What?”
“Huh? Nothing. How’s your leg?”
“It’s getting much better, though still not fit for work! It’s nice to get some rest, isn’t it? Oh! But Lina, did you see the Duke? How was he?”
Looking at May’s cheerful face as she inquired about the Duke, Lina spoke in a dry voice,
“It was awful.”
[This is the time separator]“I really don’t want to go in……”
Early in the morning, at the end of the staircase leading to the third floor, someone sighed heavily.
Lina was on her way to the Duke’s bedroom, reluctantly fulfilling her duty as his personal maid.
But her feet wouldn’t move, and she kept bumping her head against the wall in frustration.
She had hit her head so many times that her forehead was starting to turn red.
“Just around this corner is his bedroom……”
But Lina remained still, simply fiddling with the Duke’s clothes in her hands.
She stood like that for a while, then exhaled a short breath, her face determined and her fist clenched.
“Alright. One week. Just one week, let’s try!”
“Try what?”
Startled by the low voice coming from behind, Lina turned around.
The Duke, with his white shirt’s buttons loosely undone, was coming up from below, his attire as if he had been exercising, all disheveled.
“YoYour Grace……!”
“So. What are you trying?”
Did he hear what Lina said? The Duke quickly ascended to where she was, closing the distance in an instant.
Frozen by his sudden closeness, Lina stood rigid.
Watching her, the Duke suddenly reached out his hand.
‘…What? Why is he extending his hand…?’
Lina looked at Duke Valige’s outstretched hand with a bewildered expression, not understanding the reason, and the Duke pointed to the clothes she was holding and said,
“Holding that. It looks like my clothes?”
“Ah, if you go into the room, I will dress you……”
“No need.”
Flustered by the Duke’s firm words, Lina rolled her eyes and asked,
“So… shall I bring your meal right away?”
Without responding, the Duke merely nodded, and Lina, who acknowledged his response, hurried off to the dining room.
“Phew… That was startling, why does he always appear out of nowhere like that?”
She was slightly disheartened by the Duke’s instant rejection earlier, but she was relieved that the man dressed himself.
“I need to hurry and serve his meal.”
Lina, who had hurriedly prepared the meal on the first floor, knocked on the door.
“Duke, your meal is ready.”
“Come in.”
Following the Duke’s voice instructing her to enter, Lina led the trolley filled with breakfast into the room.
“Duke, will you have your meal at the table… Huh!”
But she inhaled sharply before she could finish what she was saying.
The Duke had just finished showering and was shaking his wet hair with a towel, dripping water onto the floor.
‘What the…! If he has showered, he should have said not to come in…!!’
“Bring the meal here.”
Whether he knew what was going on inside Lina or not, the Duke shook his head and said,
“……Yes.”
Lina guided the tray to the table the Duke had pointed to.
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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