Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 57
Zanobi, unsettled by his own actions that morning, drowned his flicker of anxiety in drink after drink. The official beverage of the party was champagne from the Kingdom of Galico.
As he gulped down one glass after another of the crisp, effervescent fruit wine, by evening Zanobi had drunk so much he could no longer clearly recall even his own mother’s face.
Suddenly, a crowd surged toward him, seized him, and dragged him forcibly to the central guest seat beneath the pavilion’s grand canopy. Though thoroughly startled, his drunken stupor rendered him powerless to offer even the feeblest resistance, and he was tightly bound, forced to kneel and press his forehead flat against the bare ground beneath the guest seat.
“Zanobi de Rossi of Taranto!”
The voice booming above him with thunderous authority belonged to none other than His Majesty Pope Leo III himself—the one and only sun of Etruria.
Seeing in person the face he’d only ever glimpsed on commemorative coins—speaking and moving right before his very eyes—made the whole scene feel unreal. Trance-like, Zanobi stammered a reply.
“Yes, yes!”
“Fool! You fail to show proper respect before His Majesty the King!”
Aware that the Galico delegation was watching, Leo III was harsher than usual, and his retainers were stricter than ever about decorum and etiquette. A well-aimed kick from somewhere struck Zanobi squarely in the back, slamming his head firmly into the ground.
The kicker had intended for Zanobi to properly greet “the Sun of Etruria,” but Zanobi, too drunk and too terrified, clearly had no capacity left to do so. Pope Leo III, abandoning any expectation of a proper greeting, swiftly began his interrogation.
“Is it true that you shot a crossbow bolt at Ariadne de Mare, the second daughter of House de Mare?”
Whether because of his drunken state—or precisely because he was drunk—Zanobi felt absolutely certain that affirming this accusation would be catastrophic.
“No, no! It wasn’t me! It absolutely wasn’t me!”
He rambled on incoherently, adding wildly,
“I was inside the pavilion the whole time—how could I possibly have shot an arrow at Ariadne’s horse’s rump?”
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?