Today had been a long day.
Reneb blinked as she lay flat on the bed.
Her body was truly exhausted, but sleep didn’t seem to come easily. Her mind was cluttered.
Eventually, she sat on the sofa by the window and looked up at the night sky.
The first thing that came to mind among many events of the day was her kiss with Ikar.
A sigh escaped her lips naturally.
“Huuu…”
It was a big deal. Because she didn’t dislike the kiss with Ikar.
Going through various events, she seemed to have developed feelings for him without realizing it.
It’s just that she didn’t want to like him.
Ikar was an emperor.
An emperor could have multiple concubines, as Lucius had.
Though the empress of Paradium could also have concubines, Reneb did not.
No, she couldn’t.
Turning a blind eye to the one she’d given her heart to was impossible for Reneb.
Around the time when Lucius’s affection began to go towards Eshika, the maids often advised Reneb.
“Your Highness, the Empress. You should also have a young and beautiful concubine. Wouldn’t that be fair?”
In the past, other empires had frequent bloodbaths within the palace due to the empress’s jealousy toward the emperor’s concubines.
Fearing the ensuing chaos, Paradium’s royal and noble families changed the law to allow the empress to have concubines as well.
Of course, it was close to a trick to elevate the status of the sons of noble families who couldn’t inherit their houses by making them the empress’s concubines.
“Leaving the one you love to chase the wind.”
Some people criticized Reneb as naive, but she didn’t want to have a concubine while she had her beloved Lucius.
And the things she experienced before the regression could happen again after becoming the empress of Bashuker.
Once the peace treaty ended, it was highly likely that Ikar would go back to a conquest war.
It had been the same before the regression.
Adjacent countries would certainly send brides to Ikar, hoping for an alliance.
Whether Ikar wanted it or not. Because a marriage-based alliance would be the strongest bond.
And there was no guarantee that another suitable partner wouldn’t appear in Ikar’s strategies later.
Then what would become of Reneb?
Perhaps a beautiful and charming lady could appear and capture Ikar at first sight.
Reneb didn’t want to repeat the past.
“Perhaps for a stable married life, an alliance might be better than love.”
Reneb smirked briefly.
Contracts leave documents, but love has neither proof nor remains. It simply evaporates.
So she was scared.
Scared that she might truly come to like Ikar a lot. Because then there would be no turning back.
Reneb was close to the straightforward-in-love type. She would be devoted to the one she had given her heart to until she was abandoned.
And as a result, she would be the one getting hurt.
Reneb let out a brief sigh.
“What was Ikar like before the regression?”
In the original work, he died early, so there was not much information, and before the regression, he hadn’t particularly married.
“Why did he focus only on wars without marrying?”
Reneb, who was blinking her eyes while propping her chin on the window sill, suddenly widened her eyes at a thought that popped into her head.
“Could it be?”
Reneb had once questioned the strategies Bashuker employed in the conquest war.
Geographically, for quick territorial expansion, Bashuker should start attacking from the west of Paradium.
It would be easy to extend the power to the eastern continent after capturing the capital, Belgina.
But Ikar didn’t do that.
“He deliberately went the long way around instead of taking the nearby path.”
She had always been curious why he made such a choice, and now recalling what he said about proposing asylum to the House of Siren, the puzzle seemed to be solved.
“Was our father really that great a man?”
She saw the Duke of Siren in a new light. Reneb, feeling slightly proud, inhaled sharply at a thought that suddenly struck her.
“Could it be that Ikar, who removed my father before the regression, is… No, it can’t be.”
He briefly doubted, but Luneb soon shook his head.
If the pre-reversion Ikar had secretly dealt with Duke Seiren, would Patrick really not have known?
‘He probably wouldn’t have joined hands with Ikar even if he knew.’
Gradually, he began to think that there might have been some connection between the pre-reversion Patrick and Ikar.
‘Let’s stop thinking.’
However, the thoughts continued unabated.
In the end, Luneb couldn’t sleep until the sun began to rise.
At the same time, inside the royal palace, there was another person who couldn’t sleep late into the night like Luneb.
It was Ikar.
Tossing on the large bed, Ikar left his bedroom.
He needed something to focus on.
That way, he could escape from his repetitive thoughts.
Ikar headed straight for his office.
The knights standing guard bowed their heads toward Ikar.
“Do you have urgent matters to attend to?”
At the knight’s question, Ikar nodded lightly and entered his office.
The office was dim.
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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