Chirp chirp.
“!”
Startled by the bird song and the sunlight in front of her eyes, Marina abruptly woke up.
Morning!
‘I overslept!’
Arien, who was drawing the curtains from the window, turned to look at her with a curious expression due to the sudden movement on the bed.
Their eyes met.
“…….”
The face illuminated by the morning sun was dazzling.
Arien smiled gently.
“Good morning.”
Marina responded, slightly flustered.
“Go, good… morning…. Duke Arien……”
The next moment it hit her.
That’s right. I’m not a maid now.
There was no need to be so alarmed and wake up.
Marina, with her startled expression, calmed herself down and touched her sweaty forehead.
I’m currently, Miss Christina.
And it was the third day since I met that man again.
Whoosh…
Arien drew the curtain and let the sunlight in through the window.
“You wake up very energetically. I wish my soldiers would learn from you.”
“……”
Her face belatedly flushed with embarrassment.
Marina touched her tousled hair awkwardly without saying a word.
Arien turned to her with a smile.
“Did you have a good dream?”
A good dream.
At that question, Marina’s face turned as red as a tomato.
“Ye, yes?!”
Marina asked in surprise.
Her voice was high as if she were screaming.
She fumbled as if she had committed a crime.
“?”
Arien, surprised by her unexpected reaction, stopped and stared at her.
“…I don’t think I said anything that should have surprised you that much.”
He was right.
On his neat face that spoke those words, the dream of the previous night overlapped.
Marina, flustered, quickly avoided his gaze and lowered her head.
Her face felt hot.
Her fingertips curled up as she started to sweat.
When she woke up from her dream last night, she wasn’t this embarrassed.
It was very different to look at his sleeping face alone and to meet his eyes.
The crazy dream from last night and the overwhelming sensations came back vividly.
She felt so embarrassed that she wanted to die.
She felt as if her thoughts in her head would be exposed at any moment.
“?”
Arien tilted his head as he looked at Marina.
Her face was almost completely hidden by her hair falling over due to her lowered head, but not only her ear visible between her golden hair, but also her neck, shoulders, and arms were all flushed.
Arien laughed as if he were teasing her.
“Why are you so red? Did you have a naughty dream?”
“……!”
Marina’s shoulders jerked noticeably.
Then she looked at Arien in despair as if she had heard something that she shouldn’t have from a ruffian.
“……”
Arien closed his mouth.
The reaction was not a joke even though it was a joke.
He frowned with a flustered face and laughed awkwardly.
“……What, really? While neglecting your husband who has returned after five years, what kind of naughty dream are you having alone.”
“!”
Marina avoided Arien’s gaze with her face turning extremely red.
She clutched the sheet as if she were desperate.
Tears formed at the corner of Marina’s tightly closed eyes due to the unbearable embarrassment.
Without saying a word, Marina trembled with watery eyes.
“……”
Arien hesitated, then sighed and sat down a little distance away from her.
And he looked at Marina with an inscrutable expression.
He opened his mouth as if to ask something…..
But he just closed it again.
And he turned his gaze sideways with a bitter smile as if he was somehow annoyed.
But Marina, with her head deeply bowed as if she wanted to die, didn’t see it.
[This is the time separator]“……Duke Arien and the young lady have woken up. I sent up washing water a while ago. Should I ask if you will eat together in the breakfast room?”
The Duke rubbed his brow and waved his hand.
“No. Send it to another breakfast room or send food separately to the room. I have an appointment here.”
They had a separate breakfast appointment with the representatives of a key trading partner. The meeting was also invited by Duke Rembrandt.
The ‘Arien Special’ had ushered in a huge boom for Julius, and each of these important appointments was something he couldn’t neglect.
Since the return of Arien, the merchants invited by Julius in a few days was a critical measure of their value.
The influential merchants and highranking nobles were competing for how soon Julius’s invitation would come after Arien’s return and were waiting for Julius’s valuation of them.
Especially, the representatives of heavyweight merchants were carrying out all sorts of covert operations and engaging in sharp psychological warfare to extract a quick invitation from Julius.
‘Julius’s first’ was fixed as the royal, that is, Duke Rembrandt. It was something that everyone agreed without objection.
So it would be best if they could be second or third. If that was difficult, they had to secure at least a position within the top ten.
They tried to predict how high up their group could possess Julius’s ‘number’ title,
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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