Sparks silently flew from the fireplace.
Reyna smiled and replied.
“Maybe.”
Fine raindrops shook the window.
Arthur asked.
“Is your ear okay?”
Reyna answered softly, as if it shouldn’t sound locked.
“Yes.”
His touch reached her ear.
“Are you going to wear earrings? Or leave them to heal?”
“I’ll wear them.”
I want to leave some traces. To try dressing up in front of you.
Reyna looked at the fireplace with a smiling face and quietly opened her mouth.
Sir Arthur.
Yes.
This may be an unnecessary explanation.
Yes.
There is no other meaning, just…
I wanted to clarify because Sir Kay might have misunderstood, so…
Taylor is not my lover.
Arthur swept her hair back and said,
“…Yes. I heard.”
Arthur spoke up.
“…I was mistaken.”
“…”
Reyna took a moment and responded.
“Yes… I wondered if you might think that way. Sir Kay also had a misunderstanding.”
A moment of silence passed.
Arthur spoke.
“I didn’t know it meant you wanted to know about the safety of your family.”
And he smiles slightly apologetically.
“I don’t have a family. I didn’t think about it.”
Although he was apologizing calmly.
With a slightly stiff expression, he drew a faint smile.
“I’ll arrange for you to meet my grandmother anytime. No… Kay has already told you about it, I guess.”
Kay. Well done.
Arthur just murmured like that.
“…”
“…”
After a short silence, Arthur opened his mouth again.
“I might have… seemed to be threatening your family. I might have conveyed that I want to prevent you from meeting, and said something like that.”
“…”
Reyna seemed to be contemplating whether she felt that way.
“…I don’t know. At that time, I wasn’t myself either.”
“Is that so?”
He laughed.
“…I’m really sorry for not telling you sooner. Such an explanation might also feel… too excessive.”
“…”
After a while, silence flowed.
Arthur quietly spoke again.
“Have you seen the marriage contract I gave you?”
“…”
As if reminiscing about a distant past, Arthur looked at the fireplace.
“…My fate was tied to that war.”
He began to tell the story.
“In that contract, it says that if I achieve great feats in the war, the royal family will recognize me as a member of the royal family and grant me a ducal position. If I achieve a remarkable feat to elevate the name ‘Julius,’ they will acknowledge me as a co-ruler within the noble family, and the royal family guarantees it. If I honorably die in battle, I will be buried in the royal tomb as the son of the royal family.”
“…”
“On the other hand, if I fail to achieve feats or die in an inglorious manner, there was no marriage. The royal family would remain silent about me, and the dowry of Julius was stipulated to be fully returned discreetly.”
“…”
“Many things depended on my sword.”
His voice was firm,
like the sound of the wind,
like the crackling of dry firewood.
“…”
Arthur smiled with a slight bow, looking down at his fingertips.
“The idea of living a life like Ryan Dulton comforted me for quite a long time.”
“…”
“I didn’t initially have any thoughts… gradually it came to mind.”
Once in a while.
More frequently.
And from some point, quite frequently.
As often as saying it might be a good idea during difficult battles.
“…”
He didn’t want to become Ryan Dulton,
but just the thought had come to him.
Someone had told him that.
“…”
Arthur chuckled calmly.
“I wasn’t aiming to live a life like the Loas family. They raised me, and without them, I wouldn’t be who I am now. But they couldn’t make me feel the warmth of a family.”
“…”
“Loas always said that I had to regain my honor, rights, and status. Of course, it was a grateful thing. It was a word for me.”
“…”
“Loas was always telling me that I had to become someone who could take responsibility for my family’s honor and future.”
“…”
“Of course, it was a grateful thing. It was a word for me.”
Arthur smiled calmly.
“But no one told me I could abandon everything and run away just to survive.”
“…”
So,
Arthur looked at Reyna.
“It seems like your words made me contemplate.”
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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