“Sure.”
“But, Your Majesty, have you ever been to Siren Manor before?”
Icar couldn’t answer Reneve’s question immediately.
“……Your Majesty?”
Reneve turned her head towards Icar with a puzzled expression.
“Come to think of it, I haven’t told Young Ae much about my stories.”
“…….?”
“Before I became the emperor, I wandered around the continent as a mercenary.”
“Oh, so you visited Siren Manor back then.”
“That’s right.”
“Why did you come all the way here back then?”
Reneve’s beautiful eyes were filled with curiosity. Icar slightly pulled the corner of his mouth and turned his gaze far beyond the carriage window.
The smile that had adorned Icar’s lips disappeared.
The memories of that day came to mind.
The day he first felt the terror of death.
“Haah, haah….”
Icar breathed heavily, running relentlessly without a moment’s rest.
He didn’t forget to occasionally look back to see if the pursuers were following.
Fortunately, realizing that there were no more pursuers, Icar, who hid behind a large tree, took a breath.
‘Can I get through today?’
Naturally, such thoughts came to him.
Certainly, when he started this day, he thought he was in good luck…
In his third year as a mercenary.
Icar went on a mission to hunt monsters. It was a mission with a fairly high level of danger, but the reward was equally good.
So, he prepared thoroughly and set out. Surprisingly, he easily dealt with the monsters. The mission was completed quickly, and the client even gave him a bonus for his efficient work.
‘Today is especially lucky.’
Icar bought three snacks with the gold coins he received as a bonus, intending to give them to Dehan and Bain.
On the way back to the inn where he was staying, he encountered pursuers.
Boldly, they held weapons with the emblem of the imperial knights.
Although Icar had never seen their faces, he had heard the news that his brother had been chased and killed by the imperial knights not long ago.
‘Crazy bastards.’
It was his father, but the emperor was indeed insane.
Not only did he drive out his own children from the palace with just their bodies, but he also sent pursuers.
‘Yeah. I strangely said I was lucky today.’
Icar went straight into an alley to avoid the pursuers. Having stayed here for a few months, Icar knew every nook and cranny of the hidden narrow paths.
‘Unexpectedly, I managed to shake them off easily.’
In that moment of relief, he unexpectedly encountered the imperial knights waiting for him at his destination.
Even if it was Icar, it was insufficient to face several skilled opponents alone.
He was only 13 years old now, and his opponent was an adult in the most robust age of life.
And this was how it turned out.
Although he managed to escape into the mountains, the injury was serious.
“Ah, it hurts….”
Icar looked down at his abdomen, where he could feel the pain. Despite applying a makeshift bandage with torn sleeves, the bleeding was too severe.
Leaning his head against a tree, Icar groaned.
After being driven out of the palace, Icar survived like a madman.
He didn’t even question why he had to live. He was just afraid of death and had resentment and a desire for revenge against the emperor who made him like this.
He survived so well, spitting on that good-looking face whenever he wanted.
Having endured for seven years as if in a half-anger, but it seemed that today was the last day.
If there was no lingering attachment to life, that would be a lie, but he couldn’t find a reason to live either.
His vision began to blur.
‘Is this how I die?’
Even the thought that it wouldn’t be so bad came to him, and the faces of Dehan and Bain flickered.
Born as the imperial prince and having ended up like this in his life, their lives were truly tragic.
Both Dehan and Bain, as the sons of a duke, could have inherited the family’s title, even if it wasn’t the marquisate.
‘Those guys were supposed to live their whole lives babbling as high-ranking nobles.’
The first, by the emperor’s command, and the second, by the orders of fathers who couldn’t refuse the emperor’s command.
Bain and Dehan were thrown into the mountains with Icar at a young age, without a single weapon.
“Poor guys….”
Icar muttered lowly.
Of course, there was no way to determine who was more pitiful.
His own situation was no different.
Gradually, he closed his heavy eyelids.
“……!”
Icar gasped, opening his eyes.
Apparently, he had unconsciously let his guard down.
From his fingertips to his toes, everything was ice-cold. Due to losing too much blood, his body temperature began to drop.
His reflection in the lake was truly pathetic.
“Huh….”
A dry, ironic laughter escaped through his parched lips.
Even though he was sunburned, his face was pale without a trace of vitality. Like a corpse.
Soon, he knew he was going to die. Not only he himself, but a few crows were watching Icar from nearby, as if realizing that he was about to die.
But he didn’t have the energy to drive them away. Icar just laughed with a sense of emptiness.
“Ha….”
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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