The formerly pokerfaced Askan’s expression crumpled suddenly.
This time, the emotional change was large enough to be noticeable. Anyone could discern that he was not taking kindly to my goodwill.
He, who had been wetting his lips, let out a minuscule sigh.
“……Haa.”
It was a sigh so small that if one wasn’t paying attention, they would miss it.
However, he did not utter any words of refusal.
In a way, it was a given. No matter what his true feelings were, I was currently a noble lady, and he was a lowly slave.
“Hmm, hmm.”
I coughed awkwardly due to an unaccountably awkward feeling.
It felt a little guilty to swing him around as I pleased while his emotions were plainly visible, but this was the only way to keep him close to me.
‘I said I’ll treat him well, so why not?’
Although Askan looked at me as if wondering what trick I was up to this time, I straightened my shoulders and pointed to the room he had been living in.
“Anyway, gather your things and come out. I’ve decided to move your dwelling inside the mansion.”
“……Understood.”
In an instant, Askan returned to being expressionless. He entered the room where he had been living up to now without a word and started packing.
After a while, he emerged from the room with a very small bundle in his hands.
It was so light that it made one wonder if it could even hold a proper set of clothes.
“Is that all?”
“Yes.”
Somehow, seeing this made my mouth dry as if I had chewed on sand.
I knew how painfully Askan had survived in the novel .
He was nothing more than a lab rat to people. He didn’t receive a single painkiller, let alone any questions asking if he was okay as he writhed in pain that felt like death.
Everyone was only interested in the results of human weapon experiments. No one cared about Askan, who was subjected to live experiments.
He grew up like this from a young age. The only world he knew without anyone’s care was a cold laboratory.
So, when he later gained power and said he wished the world had perished, I thought I might have felt the same if I had grown up like Askan.
Seeing Askan’s childhood, which I had only read about in a novel, firsthand made my heart ache.
The small bundle in his hand seemed to represent his unattached heart.
“Are you joking? What will you do when winter comes and that’s all you have?”
Maybe that’s why. I couldn’t just leave him alone.
“……Yes?”
“We can’t let it be. Let’s buy some proper clothes right away.”
Of course, it wasn’t that I had no ulterior motives towards him.
“I’m fine.”
“I’ll decline any refusals. As I said before, I plan on treating you extremely well.”
Askan’s expression changed oddly. I didn’t know what he was thinking, but it was clear that he was still wary of me.
But I didn’t care. As far as I knew, no one hated a gift offensive.
“Follow me.”
I took the lead and started walking. Then a thought came to me and I turned around.
The butler I had summoned to discuss room assignments was following me from a distance with Askan.
“Askan’s luggage, have the butler carry it.”
“Eh? Me?”
“Do I need to say it twice?”
“No, no, Miss.”
The butler carried Askan’s light luggage with a flustered expression.
Askan looked at me with a strange gaze, but I quickly turned my head forward and quickened my pace.
I was planning to show rather than tell from now on.
[This is the time separator]Upon returning to my room with Askan, I announced to the maids.
“From today on, Askan is my personal attendant. We’ll be together in every aspect, so remember that.”
The maids’ expressions varied upon hearing my words, but there was one common emotion in them.
It was sympathy towards Askan.
Everyone was looking at Askan with pity in their eyes, wondering what I was going to do to torment him this time.
‘How on earth am I viewed by people.’
As far as I knew, Tanashia was shy when she was young. But looking at the reactions of the people around and hearing that she had been whipping Askan, it seemed that she already had a villainous tendency.
I shook my head in dismay and opened my mouth again towards the maids.
“Where is the tailor I called for?”
“Yes, Miss. He just arrived.”
“Have him come in.”
At my command, the tailor entered the room. As he tried to approach me immediately, I stopped him with a gesture and pointed at Askan.
“Take the measurements of my personal attendant, not me.”
“Oh, yes. Understood.”
The tailor showed a momentarily flustered look but soon approached Askan nonchalantly and started taking his measurements.
It seemed like this situation was also awkward for Askan, but his expression was so impassive that I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.
I was next to Askan, choosing materials for the clothes to be custommade for him, and I bought several sets of men’s outfits that were already made as samples.
Shopping is always fun, whether it’s for me or for others.
So time passed like flowing water, and at last, I had Askan try on the sample outfit that I bought temporarily.
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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