“My Frau eats quite cheaply. I can win your heart with just a small pomelo. If life becomes frugal, it won’t be good for my reputation.”
‘What are you talking about?’
“Do you have any bad habits? Like luxury or vanity.”
“I don’t have anything like that.”
‘I didn’t do that even when I was a princess.’
Latifa answered with a blank expression.
“You should develop it. To keep up with Caleb’s level.”
His words still didn’t make sense to her.
Hades, who had been quietly watching Latifa eat the fruit, suddenly cleared his throat and hinted at her.
“Ahem, by the way, this is our house.”
“Why?”
“Do you believe now that I’m not a beggar?”
At the sudden question, Latifa burst into a laugh, not even realizing it.
She had never expected him to remember the remark she made before, saying he might not be destitute.
“Pfft. Ahaha! You’ve been thinking about that?!”
“I just remembered it now.”
“Ahaha! You must have kept it in mind!”
‘And you’re not even a kid!’
“Hey!”
“Yes. You’re really not a beggar. Hahaha!”
Hades raised his voice with a slightly awkward expression, but once Latifa’s laughter started, it couldn’t be stopped.
[Star Icon][Star Icon]At the outskirts of the Grand Bazaar Star Palace, where the victory feast was held for three consecutive days, Iota, heavily veiled in pink, was speaking angrily to two men.
“I told you to tear the water bag! What happened?!”
“Bu, but we did as we were told, Iota ma’am.”
“Yes. Although we were clearly short of water, miraculously, the rain came, and it ended up being more plentiful than usual!”
The two men were soldiers who had secretly torn the water bags at Hades’ barracks.
“You fools! Then you should have turned over the things afterward!”
“After that, the guards were so strict that we couldn’t even approach the supply wagon.”
“Yes, we really did our best.”
“Damn! It was our last chance to take down Hades!”
Iota gritted her teeth as she spoke.
“It just had to rain then! Hades Caleb, what good luck you have…! You will surely die on the battlefield!”
The two men cautiously spoke to the irritated Iota.
“It’s because a goddess is with General Hades.”
“There’s a rumor that the rain came because of that goddess.”
At their strange words, Iota cocked her head.
“A goddess?”
“Yes. General Hades has a woman with him now, and they say that she predicted the rain.”
“No, I heard she actually controlled the weather?”
“I heard she predicted it?”
“She has a mystical power that can change the weather.”
“Wasn’t it a foresight ability?”
Iota spat at the strange words of the men.
“What are you talking about? A goddess?”
“Well, Iota ma’am…”
The men lowered their voices and began to detail the events that had occurred while crossing the desert to Iota.
Having heard the whole story, Iota smiled and flicked an eyebrow.
“Ah ha. So the mad dog is plotting something else for Prince Luhan. Okay, I understand. You guys go on back now. This matter must remain a secret, understood?”
“Yes, Iota ma’am.”
As Iota held out a purse of gold coins to them, two of her maidservants approached and spoke.
“Iota ma’am. General Hades will arrive at the banquet soon.”
“The mad dog can’t even act like a gentleman. I understand.”
Iota again wrapped her veil tightly and headed towards the palace’s banquet hall, leading her maidservants.
[Star Icon][Star Icon]“Hades!”
Luhan found Hades standing on the secluded terrace of the palace annex where the banquet was held, and immediately ran to him, calling his name.
“It’s been a while since I saw you, Prince Luhan.”
Hades respectfully knelt and saluted Luhan.
“It’s fine. There’s no one here! My goodness, I thought you were badly hurt, but you’re fine?!”
Luhan, seeing Hades’ polite demeanor, waved him up with a slap of his hand.
“If the Prince says so, then I will speak freely.”
Hades ruffled Luhan’s brown hair with a playful voice.
“Hades, I sent a summons for you to attend the banquet, but I never expected you to come just as the banquet was being prepared.”
Luhan spoke joyfully to Hades.
His warm brown eyes were directed at Hades, who looked back with calm black eyes, quite different from his usual crazed demeanor.
“I didn’t expect to come to the palace banquet either. Luhan, if you tell me to come, I must.”
“What are you talking about! Hades, you have seized victory in the empire as a general, and you should have naturally attended the parade and banquet! The desert kingdom is really grateful for your service.”
At those words, Hades smiled cynically.
“That’s my job.”
“My father praised you a lot, too.”
The innocent Raul, not recognizing the sarcastic laugh, sat down beside Hades with a grin.
“It was really an amazing banquet. We saw all sorts of trophies, and ate delicious food until we were about to burst. Everyone was so pleased that even Eiota danced a sword dance in the middle of the banquet hall, you know?”
“If that fox dances a sword dance in front of many watching eyes, the Sultan must have been quite pleased. Somehow, the soldiers guarding the royal palace were so drunk that they staggered and couldn’t even recognize my face. Raul, look at that.”
Hades, with a mischievous expression, pointed to the terrace floor. There were a few swords lying there.
“I sneaked away the guards’ equipment while they were drunk, so now they can’t escape responsibility.”
It was a punishment from Hades, who had seen the soldiers guarding the star palace entrance staggering from fruit wine and barely managing to salute.
Now, at roll call time, they would be demoted for losing their equipment.
Raul, unchanging in the face of his friend’s strange behavior, burst into laughter and draped an arm over his shoulder.
“It’s fine to drink at a victory banquet when you’re in high spirits, but if you’re unrecognizable, you deserve punishment.”
“Yes. I was going to punish it myself because it’s quite disgusting, but I gave up since something good happened today. I didn’t want to ruin my mood.”
As Hades, who was eating a pomelo, recalled Latifa and spoke with a rare, faint smile, Raul looked at him with a slightly surprised expression.
He had seen Hades’ face for several years, but the current smile had a different atmosphere.
“Has the mad dog of the Grand Bazaar finally come to his senses? It must be related to the request for a congressman skilled with women?! A woman?”
“Hmm. I wonder.”
At Hades’ strangely cold attitude that seemed to draw a line, Raul felt a bit awkward and looked to him for cues.
“Hades. Won’t you tell me what’s going on?”
When male lead is the homewrecker
“I know she doesn’t love him.”
I’ve read the novel below twice already. Girls, I’m highly recommending it to you!
The female lead? Not a good person.
The second male lead? Not a good person.
The male lead? Willingly plays the third party, breaking up the female and second male lead’s relationship despite all the warnings from his friends—so yeah, he’s definitely not a good person either.
Basically, nobody in this novel is simple-minded or without scheming.
The female lead starts off as the male lead’s secretary, but don’t worry—later on, she takes over the company while the male lead steps back to support her. He won’t steal her spotlight, overshadow her, or dull her shine.
I love novels where men are out here snatching wigs, tearing each other down, and going to war just to win the female lead’s affection. And this is exactly that kind of novel. Most of Hai Dai Ran’s works have this dynamic. You’ll see the male characters’ emotions being pushed to the absolute extreme.
There’s even a scene where the second male lead exposes the male lead online for being a homewrecker. The brotherhood immediately gangs up on him, dragging him through the mud. I find it compelling —it completely flips reality on its head, where usually, women are the ones fighting over a man and getting torn apart by the sisterhood.
For me, female leads in the novels I read should only struggle in their careers, not in love. But if the brainless romantics in the story are all men? I have zero complaints.
I’ve pretty much read all of Hai Dai Ran’s novels and even translated all of them—her works are just my thing. I’ll slowly upload everything here. One day, when my website is official, I hope I can invite her to join as one of the star authors.
Here’s the story synopsis:
One-line summary: She is his lifelong obsession, to the point where he was willing to be a third wheel, scorned by society, just to wedge his way into her relationship with her fiancé.
Cold-hearted and indifferent female lead + Scheming and subservient CEO male lead
Intro 1:
“I know she doesn’t love him.”
With blood trickling from his clenched fist, Rong Xiu gazed at the woman before him, his eyes clouded with anguish. Hidden in the wardrobe, he had witnessed Fan Xia – the woman he desperately loved – in an intimate embrace with her fiancé. Yet his heart still yearned for her, defying all reason.
Fan Xia, the elegant and composed assistant, carried something mysterious in her eyes whenever she looked at her fiancé, Wen Lan Sheng. Strange occurrences began to surface – secret meetings with the young Gu Jin Yi, an unexplained withdrawal of 5,000 yuan… Then suddenly, her fiancé’s sister, Wen Jing, violently attacked her.
In this matriarchal society, Rong Xiu had risen to become the chairman of a powerful healthcare conglomerate, breaking through gender prejudices. But for the first time, he willingly stepped into the shadows as the other man, disregarding his friends’ warnings to become her secret lover.
Because he had discovered the truth – Fan Xia wasn’t the pure angel everyone believed her to be. And perhaps, he was the only one capable of helping her execute her mysterious plan…
Intro 2:
Rong Xiu’s biggest regret in life was missing out on Fan Xia.
He secretly loved Fan Xia for 7 years.
Watched her go public with her boyfriend.
Watched her kiss her boyfriend at their wedding.
Until that man blissfully nestled in Fan Xia’s arms, obtaining everything he could only dream of.
The crazy jealousy stripped away his hidden secret love, layer by layer, burning like wildfire.
Fan Xia, how can I have you!
【Reading and Trigger Warning Guide】
1. Female dominant, male submissive, male pregnancy
2. Male lead schemes his way to the top, male competition
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