I didn’t expect anything, but I didn’t know we’d really just be holding hands and sleeping.
“You’re not good at lying.”
“…….”
He chuckled as he lightly touched my cheek.
“Let’s lie down now.”
We slid down side by side.
He placed our clasped hands under the blanket and repeatedly squeezed and loosened his grip.
It felt as though he was applying pressure to my hand.
After a few minutes had passed, he called out to me.
“Empress, no, Zelda…….”
My name.
In a sweet voice.
It felt strange to hear my name from the lips of Emperor Rinel.
Since I didn’t respond immediately, he turned his body toward me.
“This is much better. From now on, we should call each other by our names when we’re alone.”
His face, full of smiles, was so close.
“When we’re alone, let’s call each other by our names. What do you think?”
“Do you mean… I should also call you by your name, Your Majesty?”
“Yes. Now, the only person in the world who can call me by my name is you, Zelda.”
Indeed, there was no one else who could call him by his name, since both the previous emperor and his mother passed away before Emperor Rinel even turned 20.
“I don’t remember the last time I heard someone call me by my name.”
“Rinel……”
I don’t know where I found the courage, but I called him without any hesitation.
As if I had always been calling him by his name, I naturally brought the name of the Emperor to my lips.
“What?”
“Rinel.”
“What did you say?”
It didn’t seem like he was asking because he couldn’t hear, but he kept asking again.
“Why do you keep pretending you didn’t hear, Rinel?”
“Ha, hahaha!”
This time, he burst into laughter.
I couldn’t understand where the humor was in what I had said.
Anyway, seeing him in a good mood made me happy too.
While blushing like a teenage boy receiving a confession, he kept asking me to call him by his name.
“Go ahead.”
“Rinel, aren’t you tired?”
“Does that mean you’re tired and you want me to stop?”
Indeed, he’s a man of quick wits.
“You’re brilliant.”
I responded with a pretense of admiration.
“Zelda.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
When I called him “Your Majesty” again, he gave me a side glance.
“Ah, Rinel.”
As soon as I called him by his name again, he smirked and looked at the ceiling.
He took a moment of silence, and then said in a serious tone.
“I like your name. I’m starting to like it.”
“The name? You mean you’re starting to like my name?”
My name, not me?
His phrasing was a bit strange, so I asked him again.
Rinel let out an inexplicable smile and repeatedly emphasized that he was starting to like it.
Could he be talking about me, not my name?
For a moment, a vain hope fluttered through my mind like a spring breeze.
But could that be possible? He must be just talking.
I nodded quietly and sorted out my thoughts.
The night was deepening, but our pointless conversation seemed never to tire.
When our conversation began to taper off, he mumbled in his sleep.
“Zelda, it’s not cold when I sleep with you. It’s really strange…….”
Rinel’s drowsy voice lingered in my heart.
After a while, his peaceful breathing tickled my ear.
I carefully turned my head to see him asleep with a smile on his face.
“I feel cool, too, as if I’ve been thrown into a fire when I’m with you. I want to continue to fall asleep like this in the future…….”
I also whispered to him secretly and fell asleep.
I felt our hands, which had been clasped together, being guided out of the blanket by him.
Is it a dream?
Can I feel Rinel’s heartbeat in my hand……?
It must be an illusion, right?
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]When I woke up in the morning, Rinel had already left the bedroom.
“Your Majesty the Empress, did you sleep well?”
With a brighter expression than yesterday, Sharon greeted me in the morning, scrutinizing my complexion.
Undoubtedly, she knew that Rinel had spent the night in my room.
Sharon subtly glanced at the spot where he had lain and cautiously opened her mouth.
“His Majesty told me not to wake you up, saying that Her Majesty the Empress was sound asleep.”
“I see. But from now on, just wake me up. I overslept on the first day and couldn’t see him off this time because I overslept again.”
The thought of Rinel looking down at me, sleeping without a care in the world, made my face hot for some reason.
“Yes, I will do so. Her Majesty.”
Sharon replied with a bright smile.
“By the way, Sharon. Do you like your new quarters?”
“Yes, but it’s too generous for me!”
I had Sharon move her residence to a room close to my bedroom, in the quarters where the maids stay, starting last night.
“I don’t know how to express my gratitude for Your Majesty’s grace.”
“You’re more than worthy. If you need anything in the future, let me know. I’ll solve it as best as I can.”
“I am already so content! Thank you very much.”
Sharon’s face, which had been smiling brightly, turned serious again.
“Her Majesty the Empress…”
“Hmm?”
“Duke Martins has requested an audience.”
“The Duke again?”
What on earth could he want today?
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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