“What do you mean?”
“I’m asking you if a romance with me is possible.”
Do Jun’s returned question confused Hae Joo’s mind.
Honestly, she lacked confidence, so she clenched her eyes shut and then opened them.
“After all, I’m an actress. Can’t I do at least that much?”
“Weren’t the movies you filmed not romances?”
“What are you thinking now?”
“There’s no way acting in front of a camera for a moment and living as a real couple can be the same.”
Legally, the two were a real couple. Yet, it was a delicate situation where they couldn’t be called a couple.
In an instant, images of a real married couple’s life unfolded in Hae Joo’s mind.
Sharing the same bed in the same house, exchanging passionate love at night…
For the first time, Hae Joo was afraid of the night.
Just the thought of it made her ears burn in embarrassment.
“Listen here!”
“We’ve been married for a full 3 years. Wouldn’t a normal couple have seen everything by now?”
“What are you implying with that?”
“I’m looking forward to it.”
“Listen here, Mr. Park Do Jun!”
“In a house, a normal couple wouldn’t feel strange even if they walk around naked. So it’s not up to me, but you, whether that’s okay.”
Hae Joo hadn’t even considered this far.
The first step to convincingly act like a married couple would be to live together with Do Jun.
Suddenly, she felt sorry for Jin Han, the person who made her an actress. In trying to avoid a shortlived shower, she had encountered a typhoon instead.
“Do I look that easy to you?”
“We’re a couple, aren’t we? A real couple who’s seen it all.”
Through the collar of Do Jun’s shirt, fully buttoned up to the neck, a neatly tied tie peeped out.
Every time he spoke, the thick veins on his neck protruded and then disappeared.
Although he was fully covered in a suit, Do Jun was different.
Despite the outfit hiding his whole body, an eerie temptation exuded from the ends of his words.
Unwillingly, images started to form in Hae Joo’s mind.
As she visualized the sturdy body that might be hidden beneath the suit, she clenched her fist tightly.
“We don’t need to be a couple inside our home.”
“A household needs to be maintained, doesn’t it?”
“Don’t keep cornering me like that.”
“You need to face and accept reality.”
According to the information she’d received, journalists from the media who were trying to dig into Hae Joo’s past were already on her trail. If she handled this clumsily, it would be worse than not doing it at all.
So his words weren’t wrong. She just wanted to evade them.
“It’s precisely one year.”
“One year?”
Upon Hae Joo’s firm declaration, Do Jun’s lips formed a straight line.
He leaned back deeply on the sofa, and took a sip of the coffee Hae Joo had left behind.
Soon, the sound of ice being chewed filled the room.
After swallowing the remaining ice cubes, he nodded briefly.
“Let’s keep this relationship for just one year. Afterwards, let’s part ways for the sake of each other’s happiness.”
“So, am I just being used and then thrown away?”
“Used, you say?”
“I wouldn’t mind living like this forever. The one who will feel regret would be you, Hae Joo.”
“How is that even possible?”
“I was born as a piece of trash who can’t live an ordinary life.”
Do Jun’s eyes hardened, the cold gaze devoid of any regret for his life.
Neither had Mr. Park kidnapped Hae Joo and forced her into this agreement.
No matter the circumstances, it was pointless to argue about them now.
“Mr. Park Do Jun, you don’t date?”
“Considering you worry about others’ love lives, you’re quite meddlesome.”
“……!”
“So, a person like mom would have had a loveless marriage to pay off a debt.”
The gaze Hae Joo had been directing at Do Jun went cold.
She didn’t know about the rest, but this was a wound that should never have been touched.
With a pallor washing over her hands, she clenched them tightly, mustering her scorn.
“What do you know?”
“……”
“Do you know how much I’ve had to endure all this time?”
Do Jun rose from the sofa.
He took a long rod from the silver case he had placed on the desk and went to the window. As he was about to put the cigarette filter to his lips, he hesitated.
He soon shook his head and tossed the cigarette and the Zippo lighter into the trash bin.
He returned to the sofa and stared at Hae Joo squarely.
“Don’t force yourself to endure. I can handle it alone.”
It was a blunt consolation from Do Jun.
The willpower emanating from his gaze was so clear that Hae Joo could see it. There was no falsehood in his words.
The flustered girl brushed back her hair.
There was a sudden thought as she calmed her tumultuous emotions.
His actions and words, as if he had known Hae Joo from the start, somehow bothered her.
Even now, Do Jun acted as if he was already Hae Joo’s husband.
“I have a question.”
“Hmm.”
“Did you know me before?”
“You’re an actress.”
“Not that. I mean, did you know me before?”
“Is that important? Shouldn’t we be putting out the urgent fire first?”
A subtle tension continued.
Do Jun, skillfully avoiding suspicion, exuded confidence.
He was a truly unknowable person.
His large yet smooth hand was placed on his knee, urging Hae Joo’s answer.
The liveliness in Do Jun’s eyes, focused on the conversation, was palpable. Hae Joo, who felt far from the casualness she felt at their first meeting, took a breath and shook her head slightly.
“The urgent fire… needs to be put out.”
Moving home was a pressing issue.
Even with thorough attention, time was woefully inadequate.
Hae Joo’s furrowed brow revealed her worry.
As she constantly stumbled over her words, she felt drained.
“Let’s finish what we started.”
She couldn’t dig everything out at this point. As he had said, the urgent fire had to be put out first, and the evidence had to be presented.
Having no room for bickering, Hae Joo made her conditions clear.
“We need to get divorced after one year.”
“Fine. But you also have to meet the conditions I want.”
Hae Joo had a moment of regret. In her haste, she hadn’t considered that Do Jun might also be a victim.
With this, the compromise between the two became a tense tugofwar.
The question that had been tucked away a little while ago quietly raised its head.
It was yesterday when she had sought him out. Do Jun received her as if he had been waiting, and when Hae Joo suddenly made her request, he set a condition.
It was either his quick wit or he knew this would happen there was no other way to interpret it.
“What’s the condition?”
“We have to live together in the same house for a year of married life.”
“We can’t share the same room.”
“I’ll concede on that part.”
“And then?”
Up to this point, it was something Hae Joo had anticipated.
Next, she had no idea what Do Jun was going to say, and she was anxious.
Even though being led around by impatience wasn’t too pleasant, she was open to listening.
“I don’t want to tell halfhearted lies, not even for you. I’m sincere.”
“What does that mean?”
“You’ll find out as we go along. What do you think?”
The subtle breeze was enough to reignite a dying ember. At present, Hae Joo seemed to have halted rational thought due to the wind Do Jun was blowing.
Now, she was just blocking his flames with thorough defense and alertness.
“I cannot allow any physical contact inside the house.”
“Is it okay formally?”
The problem lay in the traps scattered here and there.
There was no doubt that Do Jun, opening his mouth wide to swallow Hae Joo, was a monster.
“Only when absolutely necessary.”
It was the moment when a compromise was reached.
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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