Life for Love

I feel so dizzy. What's going on?

I opened my eyes in a daze. Before I could focus my vision, I heard a strange woman's voice exclaiming with joy, "Your Majesty, the girl is awake!"

Your Majesty?! Have I been captured back to the royal palace again?

I shivered and tried to get up, but only found my whole body weak and feeble, like recovering from a serious illness.

"You all can leave for now."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

This male voice was like a thunderbolt, instantly exploding in my mind.

It's him! When did he become the king?!

The excessive shock left my brain blank.

"Rie, how do you feel?" the man asked.

His tone was concerned, but he didn't come closer.

"Not good." I snapped out of my shock and deliberately turned my head away, not looking at him.

I used to yearn for this face. But now, I just wanted him to be erased from my memory!

The man sighed almost inaudibly, but in the end, he walked to the side of my bed, and I immediately felt a familiar breath surrounding me.

Yes, after all, we have lived together for nearly ten years. How could we not be familiar...

"Rie, stay by my side, and I will take good care of you..." the man hesitated to say.

In this world, only one person called me like this, and that was my senior brother – Liam Ford.

Now, this man had become the king of the Northern Borderland Kingdom!

"Take care of me?" I coldly snorted and laughed, glanced at him, deliberately provoking him. "Have you asked for the opinion of King of Southern Radiant Kingdom? I am his consort."

His face changed again and again, showing pain and helplessness.

"But he has demoted you." He stood by, clenching his fists.

I retorted, "It's all thanks to you!"

If it weren't for him, my father and brother would not have died on the battlefield three years ago, my mother would not have died of excessive grief, and I would not have become an orphan of a hero and been summoned into the royal palace by King of Southern Radiant Kingdom to be his concubine. I would also not have been heartbroken because I thought that I would never see him again...

In the end, this love is just a joke!

The man did not argue and sighed slightly, saying, "Rie, let me check your situation first."

Saying that, he wanted to approach me and personally check my situation.

He not only had strong martial arts skills, but also had excellent medical skills. He had learned all the skills of our mentor and even surpassed him.

He was so powerful.

"Get away, don't touch me!" I struggled to move my weak body and hid inside.

I hated him now as much as I loved him in those years.

He extended his hand halfway and froze it in the air.

"Don't you even want to look at me?"

I could detect a hint of humility in his tone.

But after three years in the royal palace, I am no longer the naive Riley Hunter I used to be.

I sneered and replied indifferently, "Well, you'd better disappear in front of me forever."

"Impossible," he immediately refused me resolutely.

"Then we have nothing to talk about. My martial arts have all been scattered by you, and now I am very weak and need to rest. Please leave." I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep.

"Sorry, Rie, I can't rest assured without personally examining you." After saying that, he ignored my words and gently stroked my hair, just like countless times when we were young. I was about to protest, but he controlled me and I couldn't move.

Then he bent down and turned my body over. With such proximity, I was enveloped by his breath and felt his breathing and heartbeat.

"You!" I stared at him angrily. Although I had admired him before, we had never crossed any boundaries between men and women.

He checked my body without paying attention to my anger. During the diagnosis, his brows never relaxed.

After a long time, he withdrew his hand and released me.

"I'll go and prepare medicine for you. Rest well."

I snorted and turned my head away from him.

Before leaving, he gently reminded me, "Rie, my name is Liam Payne. Remember my name."

I was stunned. It turned out that Liam Ford was his alias.

But this was normal. If he used his real name, his identity would easily be exposed. In the Southern Radiant Kingdom, almost everyone knew the surname of their mortal enemy, the Northern Borderland Kingdom.

I lay on the bed, staring at the canopy above, lost in thought.