“It’s all over, Si, Sister! Blood, blood!”
“Rose wasn’t a traitor.”
“……. ”
Cheshire’s eyes trembled, and tears welled up. It wasn’t only me who had doubted her trust.
“Of course, I believed that. There’s no way she would do that. But…”
Cheshire, who had smiled, hardened his expression again. He was looking at the bloodstains on me.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine. No problem.”
I clenched my fist. As long as I covered the wounds on my palms, the dried blood stuck to the skin wouldn’t reveal whose it was. It was easy to conceal.
“More importantly, something we need to find has appeared.”
“Something we need to find?”
“Meriel had something that Bake wanted to hide. That’s why Meriel was sacrificed.”
As of now, we couldn’t know exactly what the item Bake wanted was. It might have disappeared along with the fire that day.
But if he tried so hard to find it, it must be an important item. It needed to be investigated.
“Since it’s not certain yet, keep it a secret about the item. What are you doing?”
“Are you hurt?”
“I’m okay. No problem.”
I raised an eyebrow for a moment and almost bit my tongue in surprise. It was the first time Cheshire had grabbed my hand first.
“Treatment is a priority.”
“I told you. I’m fine.”
Trying to pull my hand back without showing surprise was useless. I couldn’t win against his strength.
“It’s not okay.”
“I’m[Dash].”
“I’m not okay.”
Cheshire didn’t grip my hand tightly. If he did, the palm wound would have hurt.
He supported my backhand, so the palm was facing upward. He knew from the beginning where I got hurt.
“It doesn’t hurt.”
“……. ”
“Really.”
It might sound like an unreasonable excuse, but it was sincere. Considering Meriel, this level of pain didn’t even compare.
“I decided to follow anything you say, Sister. But this is not it.”
Between the distorted eyes, the pupils looked darker than usual. I inadvertently avoided his gaze, but I ended up meeting it, revealing the wound on my forehead.
After coming into the bright light, the wound looked deeper than I thought.
“I have no intention of drying up revenge. I also feel sorry for Meriel’s death, and I want to exterminate those who killed the child. But still, this is not it.”
“……. ”
“It’s not someone else, and I can’t bear to see you, Sister, falling apart any longer.”
Falling apart? No way.
I burst out a bitter laugh.
“I’ve been broken since before. Since the day Meriel died.”
“Sister.”
“She was tortured. That little girl.”
“……. ”
“How terrifying it must have been. How much she searched for me. My daughter, Meriel…”
Cheshire bit his lips to suppress the tears. Whether he bit too hard or not, the taste of bitter blood seeped through, but he couldn’t hold back the tears that flowed.
In the end, I closed my eyes tightly and opened them again. The sensation of tears flowing down my cheeks after enduring the burn of the dried tears made my spine shiver.
It wasn’t just tears that I couldn’t hold back.
Bake. There was also anger towards the man who was once my husband and the father of my child.
He covered up the death of my daughter not out of love for Margaret or for the sake of his own child. It was only for his own sake.
He was not a bystander. He was a murderer.
My daughter was killed by her father.
“…I’m going to kill that bastard.”
I viciously exerted force to break free from Cheshire’s grip. This time, he couldn’t hold me back.
His hand was left with only the bloodstains that had transferred from me.
“That’s the most important thing to me.”
“……. ”
“So, [Dash].”
“…I’m not.”
Once again, my hand was caught.
I looked up at Cheshire with narrowed eyes. The boy who used to look down on me had grown taller than me in no time, becoming a man with a head taller.
“If you don’t take care of your own body, I will take care of it for you.”
“……. ”
I tried to pull my hand away again, but the difference in strength was evident, making it practically impossible. The fact that I was able to escape just now was because he was caught off guard.
“I know best that I’m not enough. But that doesn’t mean I have no thoughts. I can still judge what’s right and wrong to some extent.”
“……. ”
“This is right for me.”
The eyes staring straight at me showed no signs of wavering. Although his body had grown, Cheshire’s eyes remained unchanged from before, now or then.
I hesitated on what to say but ultimately kept my mouth shut.
I knew the meaning behind the man’s eyes looking at me.
But because of that, I couldn’t pretend to know.
It was an emotion I couldn’t accept.
Cheshire wasn’t looking at me.
It was the time when he was called Lord Creighton Yeonga, my past self. He was reminiscing about the time when I was naive and pure, expecting that version of me to linger.
Now I could never go back to those days.
If even a little of that time remained in me, I wouldn’t have taken advantage of someone’s emotions.
In the end, what Cheshire held was just an illusion, and I merely used it.
“To me, Meriel is the most precious, just as you are to me.”
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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