THE DEMON KING'S EMPRESS
The Loss of the Seal of the Curse of Love 1

The two men's eyes glared towards Lili. But Lili only responded with a smile. Seeing the smile floating on Lili's face, the man sighed heavily. He turned his back, turned his back on Lili.

"Tsk, suck!"

"Your Majesty..."

"You know why I became like this?!"

"No!" lili replied while shaking her head.

"I used to think my life would be happy if I married the woman I love. But, it's all for nothing. She chose to marry my best friend who was a bastard! And you know who that woman is?!" the man brightened while gritting his teeth.

"Who?!"

"He's your grandmother's house."

Deg (Lili's heart was pounding hearing that the woman the man was referring to was his late grandmother.)

"Why did he choose your best friend? Why not you?!"

"It's all my fault."

"What?!"

"It should have been from the beginning, I was honest with him. That all this time the mysterious man who had secretly admired her, was me."

"..."

Lili carefully watched and listened to the story about the man's past. Lili was very sure, there was a misunderstanding between the two of them. As if carried away by the atmosphere of the past story told by the man, Lili seemed to enter and see one by one the events that happened in the man's past.

Flashback Memory Grandpa Prince Sirzechs

"Arches!" yelled Alviercha while running towards Arches.

"So this man, the grandfather of Prince Sirzechs and Feng, was named Arches?!" inner Lili in heart.

Arches turned towards the source of the voice and saw him, Alviercha running towards him.

Arches was a very handsome man in his youth. He was the grandfather of the prince of Sirzechs and King Feng. Undoubtedly, his good looks at the time defeated his two grandchildren. Lili, who witnessed the good looks of the grandfather of the prince Sirzechs and his ex-husband (Feng), had to admit that she was fascinated by his good looks at the time. Especially for the first time, he was stunned when he saw the face of his late grandmother who was both young with the grandfather of two men who had been close to him. He saw the face of his late grandmother who was very similar to him at that time.

Hesitatingly, Lili asked the man standing next to her, who was none other than the grandfather of the prince Sirzechs and King Feng (her ex-husband).

"Your Majesty, are they both..."

"Yes. It was me and your grandmother's house. Back then, we were both fifteen years old." replied the man with a gentle smile.

Lili could see and feel, that the man standing next to her at this moment, actually looked happy considering the memory of the events in her past. Lili turned her eyes towards the two of them. The two best friends laughed together.

"Arches, can you see this?!" alviercha said, showing a love letter to her best friend.

"What's that?!"

"Love letter."

"From whom?!"

"Don't know. No name of sender."

"Maybe from your fans."

"really? I don't have a single fan. It's so much different from you!" alviercha.

"What's different?!"

"You are very handsome, intelligent, your magic power is above the average of the other students. Moreover, you are from the royal family, the heir to the king's throne."

"Then?!"

"Of course, you have a lot of fans. All the young girls in this country must be fascinated with you. Not only in this country, maybe your good looks and fame have been heard in all corners of the country. There will be many girls from the kingdom who are fascinated and fall in love with you" Alviercha explained

Looking at her grandmother who was very chatty when she was young, just like her, Lili just smiled and spoke inwardly.

"It turns out, grandma when young is much more chatty than me." Lili's inner

"Are you also fascinated and in love with me?!" ask Arches.

"No." replied Alviercha with a flushed face.

"REally?!"

"Of course."

"Then, why is your face flushed?!"

"I'm just hot."

"Oh."

Hearing Arches say that, Alviercha turned to look at him. Accidentally, the two met each other. Suddenly Arches brought his face closer to Alviercha's face, about to kiss her. However, Alviercha realized she was going to be kissed by her best friend, she immediately turned her face the other way. Feeling Alviercha avoiding him, Alrches just smiled.

"You like that love letter?!"

"Well?!"

"I mean, the mysterious person who secretly sent you that love letter?!

"No."

"Why?!"

"Because he's an obscure person. He only dared to send me a letter, but did not dare to meet me. Am I a ghost?!"

"Yes. You're a very pretty female ghost." - sneered Arches with a teasing smile on his face.

"You?!"

The two best friends were chasing each other and were occasionally seen hitting each other as jokes. Suddenly Alviercha's feet stumbled over a small stone that left her body unbalanced and almost falling on the ground, but swiftly, Arches pulled her into his arms. Alviercha hugged Arches body tightly. Soon, the two looked at each other.

"Yes." Yeah."

"This is for you" Arches said, taking a black cloth from under his cloak and handing it to Alviercha.

Alviercha accepted it and spread out the long black cloth. He looked towards Arches.

"What is this?!"

"This is for you. As I was traveling with my father, I saw a very beautiful cloth. Unfortunately, it is black. So, I sewed it myself for you. This is how to wear it." Arches said, wearing a long black cloth, covering Alviercha's head, as if she were wearing a veil.

And miraculously, the cloth suddenly turned into a veil covering Alviercha's head and face, so that it did not look beautiful. Not only that, the long black cloth changed Alviercha's appearance to be very graceful and sexy with a black dress with a veil on her head. Seeing her appearance change, Alviercha looked puzzled. For the first time, he gets a very special gift from his best friend.

"How do you like it?!"

"Yes. I really like it. Thank you Arches. But why is the dress model like this?!"

"Because I don't want to, someone else saw your pretty face. Happy birthday to Alviercha, my future consort."

"What's? What did you just say? My empress-to-be? Who?!"

"You!"

"Did I hear wrong?!"

"No. You didn't hear me wrong. When I have my twentieth birthday, I want you to give me the gift of the robe you sewed yourself."

"Why do you want the gift of a robe that I sewed myself? You know, I'm not good at sewing?!"

"Because of that robe later, which I'll wear when I propose to the girl I love. It was you!"

"Are you sure you want to marry me?!"

"Yes. Wh why? Are you in love with that mysterious man who sent you that love letter?!"

"There's no way I'm in love with that kind of mysterious man! He alone did not dare to meet me, only dared to go through the mail alone!"

"What if that mysterious man was me?!"

"Emmm. I'd think about it if it was you. As long as you don't lie to me and betray me."

"You can hold my word."

"alright. Let's prove it."

Arches opened the veil covering Alviercha's head, and began to kiss her tiny lips. The two kissed each other while hugging tightly, accompanied by cherry blossoms that were blooming and falling in the wind.

...****************...

Every day at any time, Alviercha not only gets a love letter, even a gift box containing various favorite items. And it happened until he was seventeen. Until one day, he met Arches, his friend to tell him something very important.

"What did you call me?!"

"Arches, do you know who sent me love letters and gifts until now?!"

Hearing that, Arches heart was racing. His face began to meet red. He did not expect the day to come when Alviercha, the girl he loved who was also his best friend, would reveal this to him.

"Don't know." Arches replied in a slightly nervous tone.

"He's Rickie, your best friend."

Like being struck by lightning in broad daylight. Hearing Alviercha say that the person who had been secretly admiring him was Rickie (his best friend), made Arches grow furious. He clenched both his hands. His heart was full of anger, but he tried to hold back his anger.

"You're sure he's the one?!"

"What do you mean?!"

"I asked, are you sure he's the one?! I mean, he's the one who gives you love letters and gifts every day?!" asked Arches in a slightly raised tone.

"He said it himself."

"And you believe it?! You're not trying to figure out, is it true what he said?! Could it be that he lied to you, and confessed to you, so that you wouldn't put hope in a man you didn't know?!"

"What are you talking about Arches? I don't get it. Rickie clearly said it was him. Then why should I doubt his words?! Then, why do I have to do what you say?!"

"You were deceived by him!!! It wasn't him who sent you that love letter and gift!!!"

"Then who?! You you?! Haha... Arches, stop that shit. Rickie is your best friend. Why are you saying he tricked me?! Aren't the three of us best friends?!"

"Alviercha, you know me first and longer than him, don't you?!"

"Then?!"

"Do I look like a big liar in your eyes?!"

"Yes." Yeah."

"What?!"

"You lied to me. You said when you were twenty, you'd marry me. But as it turns out, you've secretly been engaged to a princess from another country. You have broken your own promise."

"What?! Where did you hear that news?!"

"You don't need to know where I heard this. But you don't have to worry. I will keep my promise, to make a robe for you with my own hands on your twentieth birthday."

Hearing this, Arches immediately got up from his seat and walked away from Alviercha who was still sitting under a red maple tree whose leaves were falling in the wind.

"Arches, where are you going?!"

Hearing Alviercha calling his name, Arches stopped his footsteps.

"I remember there was something very important that I had to finish. Excuse me!" arches replied without looking back.

"Arches, are you mad at me?! Hey!!" shout Alviercha.

Hearing Alviercha yell out to him, Arches did not care about him. He keeps on looking for Rickie, his best friend. He asked Rickie for an explanation, what was true Alviercha told him. Arches wants to prove the truth with his own eyes.