He had always been a naive fool, pleading with her not to leave the Imperial Knights until the very end, but he was also a gentleman who had been born with much and could sing such a flowery tune.
“……What’s become of you?”
Aldwin snorted and sobbed.
“What about me. You’re the same.”
Still a proper Imperial Knight. Ru felt her mouth suddenly go dry.
The sharply tailored gray Knight’s uniform was a symbol of honor and ability that she could never wear again. Before it, Ru felt diminished and extremely insignificant in an instant.
“Have you eaten?”
Instead of replying, Ru shook the bottle she was holding.
“What kind of meal is that, hey, you really……!”
“If you’re going to whine, go. Go and cry alone.”
She was about to go back in, annoyed, but Aldwin quickly grabbed the blanket.
“No. It’s urgent. Good news. Ru, you have to come back. The Emperor has summoned you.”
This time, Ru turned to Aldwin, her face crumpling in disbelief.
“……What nonsense are you talking?”
The bearlike Aldwin sobbed as he reached into his pocket and carefully pulled out a white envelope.
Though he had done his best to keep it from getting crumpled, the long journey had inevitably left creases in the envelope.
The red wax seal, stamped with the Emperor’s mark, unmistakably identified the letter as a command from the Kaleta Empire’s Emperor.
“You know the barrier has opened?”
“We may be in the countryside here, but we hear all the news.”
Ru set down the unopened bottle of liquor on an outside table and tore open the command.
“So, we have ‘reluctantly’ started interacting with the country across the barrier. Honestly, it’s more like spying and checking each other out.”
“It got that far? It’s a land of demons, isn’t it?”
“The demons are flourishing, and the Demon King rules the country. The funny thing is, they’re also an empire.”
“Really?”
She read the command swiftly, showing no signs of being intoxicated.
Aldwin saw the spark of intelligence in Ru’s green eyes. Seeing her so wise and witty always made him feel a great sense of loss.
Rustica Gennes was a genius. Not only a genius in swordsmanship and magic but also in many other things.
How great it would be if, besides talents used physically like swordsmanship and magic, the remaining talents could be used for the Caleth Empire. Still in her fresh 20s, famous for her beauty and smart as well, it’s truly a pity.
“Miss Rustica Gennes, oh, I’m still a knight?”
Aldwin sighed at Rustica’s joking words, amused.
“Once a knight, always a knight. What are you talking about?”
“You were kicked out. Appointed as a diplomat to carry out some great mission on behalf of the Caleth Empire, to be dispatched to the Perseta Empire.”
Perseta. Hayden had asked if he’d ever heard the name Perseta before. He received a rebuke for saying it was his first time hearing it, asking just how long he’d been in the countryside.
Below the blah, blah, blah words, there was the name of the one sending the order.
Emperor Carlos Arthur Ingram. And the Emperor’s seal. The end.
Though the drunk imitation was ignored, halffooled Aldwin smiled broadly.
“Congratulations!”
Lue threw the order next to the liquor bottle. Then she grabbed the liquor bottle and gulped it down. Cr, the strong alcohol blazed up along her esophagus.
“Bullshit.”
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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