Anyone else might not have known, but he was known as the Ice Demon King, Vice Count. A man who wouldn’t give a second glance to extremely beautiful women with good conditions who tempted him. He appeared to be crazy about battle alone, like a war fanatic.
It was surprising that he even asked the Duchess to dance. And if he were to find out about her and even visit her…
Anyone would see this as a heart signal!
‘But why does it have to be a widow with a questionable reputation.’
Zimmer personally didn’t like it. But he decided to support the feelings of his respected lord.
Because it was a good sign that he had found a place to put his heart.
“For the first visit… shouldn’t you prepare a gift?”
Christine, who was about to open the door and leave, paused for a moment.
But soon he replied bluntly.
“Whatever is good.”
“Yes, just trust me!”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]It seemed that the gift Zimmer prepared was to clean out an entire flower shop.
“There are so many flowers!”
Adel took out all the vases in the house, divided the enormous bunches of flowers, and exclaimed as she put them in.
The house she lived in was an old and small twostory mansion.
It seemed that she didn’t use the second floor at all, considering she covered the entrance to the stairs with a curtain. On the first floor, there was a comfortable chair and a pink sofa around the fireplace. Next to the fireplace was a narrow corridor leading to the room, and there was a kitchencumdining room at the entrance to the corridor.
It was old and shabby, but the interior was so small and pitiful that you could see the layout at a glance.
“Yeah, this is good.”
Adel placed the vases of flowers here and there.
Christine, who had been standing with his arms folded watching, finally said a word.
“It’s crazy. It’s better to throw it all away.”
The inside of the narrow house was decorated with colorful, fancy flowers, and it looked exactly like a den of gypsies.
“That’s right. It’s a bit crazy, isn’t it?”
As Christine frowned, Adel stuck out her tongue.
“Sorry. I’m not good at saying things I don’t mean. It’s winter, so it’s probably expensive, and I just wasted money.”
“Don’t worry. Next time, buy what you need. It seems like there’s more than one or two things you need.”
Christine looked around the shabby interior of her house and clicked his tongue as if it was pathetic.
It was called a mansion, but it was no better than the houses of ordinary people.
But Adel didn’t care about his contemptuous attitude.
“Next time?”
She seemed even more surprised at that.
“Why, don’t ever come again?”
“That’s not it, but there are people watching, and this neighborhood is so narrow…”
Christine frowned as if he was annoyed.
“What’s the problem?”
“Huh?”
“You don’t have a husband right now. Is it a crime for a widow to meet a man?”
Adel shot back.
“What are you talking about? You’re not a man to me. Just like a younger brother….”
“Then there’s no problem.”
Then Christine suddenly brought his face close.
“…!”
Startled, Adel backed away and stumbled over the sofa. He quickly grabbed her shoulder.
“Why are you so surprised?”
“That, that’s because you came at me all of a sudden.”
“So did you think something strange?”
“Something strange?”
Adel looked at him in astonishment.
But in fact, her heartbeat was getting faster and faster.
‘Too close!’
His scent seeped through the overpowering fragrance of the flowers filling the small room.
Cool and mysterious like the scent of a cold forest….
A fragrance that seemed to enchant someone.
The scent that had been continuously emanating from her body since returning from the ball. The unfamiliar scent of a man that had infiltrated her bedroom that night, preventing her from sleeping.
Just being near him made Adel increasingly breathless. Not wanting to be discovered, she quickly turned her head away.
But Christine grabbed her chin and made her look at him.
“Don’t avoid my gaze. It’s been a long time since we met, and it’s disappointing.”
He stared at her as if he was going to swallow her up any moment. Her face was reflected in his mysterious azure eyes.
Adel felt as if she were trapped in there.
Eventually, she put her hand on his face,
And pushed!
She fiercely grabbed both of his cheeks. Not stopping there, she also shook the cheeks she held.
“Stop fooling around, Chris.”
As he glared fiercely, she quickly let go, but made her point clear.
“You’re really no different from my younger brother. You’ve gotten more handsome and manly than before, but to my eyes, you’re still the young boy who used to follow me around like a puppy.”
In such an unexpected situation, it seemed that people tend to freeze.
For a while, Christine just glared at her with his mouth open.
A puppy? A young boy? Followed around?
Could all those words possibly be referring to me?
However, Adel seemed not to notice Christine’s fury.
“I still remember vividly. How beautiful your smiling face was, how much you loved sweet cookies and bread, and how crazy you were about apple pie, that little…”
“Stop.”
Suddenly, he moved his face closer. His lips, which drove the women of the empire crazy, seemed to touch Adel’s lips at any moment.
“CChris…!”
Adel’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Then remember this too. Who was your first kiss with.”
His breath seemed to tickle her lips, and then made contact…
“Huh!”
At the same time, Adel pushed him away with all her might.
“What are you doing!”
“Forgot? It was you who first kissed me, who was like a brother to you.”
Adel exclaimed in surprise.
“What are you talking about? I didn’t initiate it!”
“So, you admit to the kiss?”
“No, that was not a kiss! How could that be a kiss!”
She continued to explain afterwards.
“You were drowning and not breathing, so out of fear, I performed CPR.”
“That wasn’t all there was to it?”
“And when you finally started breathing, I was so happy… yes, I was so happy that I kissed you! It was never a kiss! We were both out of our minds then, and that’s why it happened…”
“But why is your face turning red?”
Adel, who was making excuses, glanced at him fiercely.
“My face is not turning red!”
“You don’t need a ripe tomato. Want to see a mirror?”
“I’m good! Your eyes are playing tricks on you.”
“My eyes are perfectly fine. My vision is excellent.”
“It’s not if I say it’s not!”
“Damn, you’re stubborn!”
And then there was a moment of silence.
Shortly after, laughter seeped out between Adel’s lips.
Seeing Christine glaring as if asking what was so funny, she wore a distant expression.
“I haven’t heard that in a long time.”
“What?”
Asking so, Christine looked like a boy with a nasty trick. The face that she had always seen since childhood, a very familiar face to Adel.
Only then did Adel feel relieved.
This handsome man really seemed to be the boy she knew.
“You always used to say that to me. That I’m stubborn. Your expression when you said that hasn’t changed at all.”
She remembered a lot about him.
Thought she had forgotten it all.
After leaving all alone to live well…
“You too. Your stubbornness hasn’t changed, whether it was back then or now.”
Even as he said this, he sat down on the sofa with a softened expression.
Adel added wood to the fireplace where the flames were dying out.
“I’m really happy to see you again, Chris. But don’t come here anymore. There’s nothing good for you getting involved with me.”
Crackle. Crackle.
The flames, having swallowed the new logs, rose up making noises.
Yes, this was the end.
Adel said her farewell inside, even though it was bitter.
“Why, because you’re a woman who poisoned her husband?”
At that, Adel was startled and turned around.
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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