Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 232
Ariadne once again firmly locked the secret vault of the Lambouyé Orphanage. Her next step was to ensure the silence of Giuseppe, who knew everything, and Director Albani, who only knew of the vault’s existence.
She even counted the money by herself. After spending three days and nights inside, meticulously counting every gold coin with a clinking sound, she felt a strangely ambivalent mix of amusement and weariness.
‘…My hands still smell of metal.’
Having independently confirmed the full scale of the Lambouyé Orphanage’s hidden funds, she concluded it would be appropriate to send Alfonso roughly ten thousand ducats as his initial war contribution.
That amount would be sufficient to extinguish all urgent crises, fully equip a small unit of two to three hundred soldiers with top-tier gear, and depending on how frugally it was spent, either slightly increase troop numbers or allow the prince himself to live luxuriously if he chose to reduce personnel.
Either way, Alfonso could use it however he wished. After all, it was money his mother had left behind specifically for him.
She could have sent more, but there was the issue of the remittance route. Without a trustworthy agent, she first needed to establish a secure channel for transferring such funds.
‘I can’t send it via the Republic of Porto’s regular shipping line.’
Ariadne believed the reason she hadn’t received a reply from Alfonso to her letter was more likely due to a delivery mishap.
Though she couldn’t stop her vulnerable heart from mischievously warning her of possible betrayal by her beloved, rationally speaking, it was far more unusual to expect a letter could reliably cross the Baekjunhae Sea and reach Yessak without incident.
‘Such a large sum is just perfect for someone to embezzle along the way.’
Representative Caruso operated a smuggling vessel bound for the Moorish Empire. By rerouting that ship to make a stop in Yessak, she could secure a safe passage.
However, Representative Caruso wouldn’t personally be aboard that vessel, and even assuming the ship itself was secure, she would still need someone reliable to transport the funds from the port inland.
While Representative Caruso himself wouldn’t betray her over such an amount, whether a subordinate of the Bocanegro Trading Company valued their personal honor or social standing in the Kingdom of Etruria as highly as Caruso did was another matter entirely. If someone absconded with all ten thousand ducats and vanished somewhere in Yessak en route to the Moorish Empire, there’d be no way to find them.
Ariadne didn’t trust loyalty alone. To handle such a sum without wavering, a person needed to be of a certain caliber. What she truly needed was someone she could genuinely rely on—someone deeply rooted in the Kingdom of Etruria with much to lose.
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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I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
So Alphonso is misunderstanding now?