Even though I knew this was inevitable, I couldn’t help feeling downcast.
I walked slowly back to the mansion, leaving Cassien standing still. But then, Cassien strode up and suddenly embraced me from behind.
“Cassien…!”
“Roel, I was wrong.”
“…….”
“I was wrong about everything. Roel.”
Cassien’s scent enveloped me, and I instinctively froze. Cassien laid his hands over mine on my stomach. He usually avoided physical contact with me.
But why was he doing this now? It was confusing and surprising.
Honestly, my heart wavered a bit. His affectionate behavior was slightly reminiscent of what I had always imagined during our four-year engagement.
But behind the wavering heart, there was only misery and sorrow.
In the end, this was just a love story that could be told to anyone. I knew this better than anyone, but the fact that I had tried to ignore it made me feel even more pathetic.
Cassien spoke in a pitiful voice, as if I was completely rigid.
“Forgive me, Roel… I won’t do it again.”
“Don’t do this, Cassien.”
“I’ll do anything. Please, just forgive me….”
Suddenly, I recalled scenes from the novel where Cassien desperately begged Iris for forgiveness.
Scenes where he sincerely repented and confessed his love tirelessly. Did he have any affection for me, even if it wasn’t as deep? Or was it just out of habit?
Either way, it was a pointless question.
‘After all, you’re meant for Iris…’
“…I love you.”
“…….”
“So, don’t go like this.”
It was ironic.
Only now, while thinking of Iris, I was hearing words I had never heard before.
As if he was declaring that no matter what, he would end up loving Iris.
My heart chilled as if someone had poured cold water over it.
“Cassien.”
At my call, a flicker of light passed through Cassien’s red eyes.
I briefly gazed into his eyes, then spoke impassively.
“Never appear before me again.”
Today, a ball is being held at the imperial palace.
This ball is organized by the emperor to officially introduce his daughter, Iris, who was raised outside the palace, as a princess. It’s also the day when the male lead, Cassien, and the female lead, Iris, meet for the first time.
‘He’ll fall for Iris at first sight at this ball.’
As I was absentmindedly looking around the venue, my friend Emily tapped my shoulder.
“Roel. Where’s Cassien?”
“…Huh?”
“Hasn’t Cassien arrived yet?”
Then Loshan, who was beside us, added,
“Are you really going to marry that guy? He’s just troubling you, what’s so good about….”
“I broke up with him.”
“That’s right, you should break up with…. What?”
Loshan’s eyes, which were narrowed in disapproval, suddenly widened in surprise.
“I broke up with Cassien.”
“Who?”
Loshan asked again, as if truly astonished.
“…Cassien and I.”
“You… you! Were you dumped by him? Ha! What did he do to deserve to dump you? Even if you were going to break up, you should have been the one to do it! Ridiculous, isn’t he?”
Loshan obviously thought I was the one who got dumped.
Given the way I had been, everyone would think I wouldn’t be the one to initiate the breakup.
I said to Loshan, who was furiously cursing Cassien,
“I was the one who broke it off.”
“……You did?”
“……Yeah, I did.”
As we looked at each other incredulously, the soldiers guarding the entrance to the ballroom announced someone’s arrival loudly.
“Lord Rocheter, the Grand Duke, has arrived!”
The villain of the original story and the cause of my death, Reus Rocheter, made his entrance.
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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