“Oh dear, Miss Caitlin, please calm down. We’ve told Miss Annette several times to wear your clothes since you have many nice ones. But Miss Annette fancied your clothes and coveted them, didn’t she?”
The nanny’s words flowed smoothly with lies.
Now that the dinner with the Duke was over, the nanny had nothing to fear. She confidently lied to Caitlin, the real power in the house.
“Nanny, even if my sister is unreasonable, how could you? Haven’t you worked in this mansion for just a day or two?”
“That’s right, it’s all the nanny’s fault that Miss Annette acts so arrogantly.”
While the two colluded, I changed into my indoor clothes.
The thin muslin undergarment fluttered in my hands.
Do you want it back? If you want it, take it.
Rrrrip.
With a grating sound of tearing fabric, Caitlin’s muslin undergarment split into two pieces.
“Aaaah! What are you doing? My clothes!”
“You told me to take it off, right? I just did as you said. The way I take off the clothes is my choice.”
“How could you tear someone else’s clothes! Are you crazy?”
“Ah, I damaged the clothes I borrowed from you. I’ll pay for it. That should settle it, right?”
“You, you!”
“Weren’t you going to burn it anyway?”
“What?”
“You always throw away things I’ve touched because they disgust you. I thought I’d take care of it first. Was my action too much?”
Caitlin looked like she was about to collapse, her face turning pale as she gasped for air. It was the first time Annette had fought back and shown such a strong reaction to her.
“I’ve been reading my old diaries lately, and there are a lot of interesting entries. There were quite a few ‘borrowed items’ from me in your possession, weren’t there?”
“My, diary?”
“That muslin undergarment was nothing. If you were going to borrow something, at least get something nice. The maids, worried about your reaction, brought the oldest and most worn one.”
If I hadn’t been on the verge of missing the dinner with the Duke, I wouldn’t have worn that torn muslin undergarment.
So, tearing it up wasn’t a waste of resources. It was returning an old piece of clothing back to nature.
“The cost of one old muslin garment is something I can easily pay. But I’ll need to reclaim the valuables you’ve borrowed without returning.”
〈Sister, this crown is really pretty. Can I just wear it for a bit?〉
〈Sis, can I borrow some pocket money? You’ve been saving since you were little, you have a lot.〉
〈Sister, I want to wear your head dress to the tea party at the Marquis of Marin’s tomorrow. It was passed down from our grandmother, right? I don’t have such things, do I?〉
〈Sure, lend it to your sister. It’s not like it’s a stranger, why be so stingy?〉
Memories of Annette being bullied and my past life’s experiences of being tormented by my new family flashed before me. Though this was a possessed body, the situation was familiar to me.
People who only approached as family when they needed something, worse than strangers.
Stepsisters who belittled me as a motherless child, closer than anyone else.
Better a complete stranger.
It wasn’t just some child’s borrowed toy to be dismissed. The items originally belonging to Annette, the eldest daughter of the Forshee family, were all valuable and expensive. Caitlin and the servants had slowly pilfered them, one by one.
‘I’m not the original Annette who just stayed silent and endured.’
“Good timing. The pearl earrings you’re wearing right now were originally mine, weren’t they? You snatched them from me as a souvenir of our sisterhood on the first day you came to our house. I’ll start by taking those back.”
Caitlin reflexively grabbed her ears. The white pearl earrings dangled on her earlobes. They were treasured gifts from the former queen to the Forshee family.
“What are you talking about all of a sudden? Are you picking a fight with me over just a muslin garment? In a ducal family like ours?”
“It was you who started this over the muslin garment.”
At my cold words, Caitlin’s face flushed red.
Muslin undergarments and pearl earrings. Caitlin must have realized she had picked the wrong fight with me.
“I won’t nitpick over trivial things. But you know those pearl earrings are a rare treasure, right?”
Ignoring the restless Caitlin, I continued firmly.
“Besides the pearl earrings, you also borrowed my emerald bracelet, oh and my younger brother Simons took my black mare. And then…”
As I continued, Caitlin’s face turned pale, realizing I remembered all those items.
Her anxious face seemed to say, ‘Did the quiet girl who couldn’t say a word while being bullied have such calculations in her mind?’
Until now, Annette had been a pushover half-sister, easy to step on and roll over, but now I was standing up to her, causing her confusion.
Backed into a corner, Caitlin chose to lash out.
“Do you think you’ve become something special because you’re marrying into a duke’s family? You’re marrying into the impoverished North, which can’t even survive the winter without our family’s help!”
“What?”
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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