Despite wearing a large fur coat, his thick sides and sturdy lower body were visible.
Atia thought her heart would burst from the mere thought of how impressive his body would look without the coat.
She wasn’t interested in Heidegger’s face at all.
Only his welltrained body was of interest.
‘Good heavens, is that even possible?’
Atia sincerely admired their physiques.
She was convinced that if Casus and Heidegger had entered a bodybuilding competition, they would have won the ‘most beautiful body’ award.
If the body was purely built through exercise, there must be a secret.
‘Casus never let anyone touch his body. Maybe… Heidegger might teach me if I ask him.’
Atia desperately wanted to know the secret.
Then.
“Enough of this nonsense.”
Heidegger loosely held the horse’s reins, brushing his hand off.
His deep voice was also admirable.
Remembering Heidegger’s fate of soon going to the battlefield and dying, Atia bit her lips.
‘Heidegger, you’re too good a man to die.’
Heidegger, who was looking around, stopped his deep blue eyes at one spot.
Towards Atia.
His abysslike deep blue eyes stared straight at her before soon taking his gaze away.
Heidegger dismounted the horse without a word and entered the mansion.
‘Maybe, I’m not very welcome. Being the daughter of the Harad family.’
Harad and Wellington were not on good terms.
Not just bad terms, they were virtually enemy families.
This marriage was also for satisfying conditions needed by both sides.
A marriage based on the condition of overturning decisions already made by the royal family.
So, there was no love to be found in this marriage, even if one looked for it after washing their eyes.
A marriage to put out an urgent fire.
To silence the royal family’s suggestion to enslave all war prisoners.
As both sides sharply clashed, it was settled by marrying people from each side to show the intention of reconciliation.
From the duke’s side, sending Atia was virtually for monitoring them.
Still, they did treat her like a duchess, but that was it.
Casus didn’t show interest in her until she died.
His father, Heidegger, would likely be the same.
But Atia decided to look for opportunities.
‘I will find out the secret of that body, surely!’
After Heidegger entered the mansion, his knights said while showing a dense net.
“This is a gift collected on the way.”
“This is golden mugwort and doran.”
Admiration from the duke’s people burst out everywhere.
Listening to people’s conversations, it seemed to be very rare ingredients used for making special food.
“His Highness didn’t want to come emptyhanded……”
“Oh my, Leo Doran will love this.”
The employee who mentioned Leo’s story pursed her lips as if she made a mistake.
Casus frowned and looked around.
“Where is Leo?”
“Well, that’s……”
“Hmm?”
“He is still sleeping.”
At the word ‘still’, Casus’ eyebrows twitched.
The employees hurriedly connected the conversation as they noticed the unusual atmosphere.
“He seems to be sleeping a lot because he is growing……”
At his response, Casus casually looked away.
Then the knights started explaining again, looking anxious.
“As you can see, this is gold ore. And this is……”
Then, a puppy with sharp ears caught Atia’s eyes.
The puppy was baring its teeth and threatening the people surrounding it.
It looked more like a baby wolf than a cute puppy, growling fiercely but adorably.
Casus looked at the net with a blank expression and said.
“It’s a Cerberus pup.”
Jen, an escort knight, also looked at the creature caught in the net and spoke.
“It’s fortunate that it’s made of special materials, otherwise it would have broken free by now.”
“Understood, it’s a highranking magical beast.”
‘A magical beast? A Cerberus pup? That cute thing?’
In Atia’s eyes, he looked like a black puppy caught without understanding why. But a beast?
In the original work, the beast was described as a threat to humans. Therefore, there are those who risk their lives and hunt beasts, despite the danger.
“I cast the net, and he happened to be caught. There was nothing I could do. It was impossible to single him out.”
Said the knight of Heidegger.
“It’s better to cut off the beast that remembers the human face from the root.”
Casus suggested with a cold face.
“Kill it.”
As soon as his words ended, the knights with swords approached the creature in the net.
Sensing the atmosphere, the puppy Cerberus let out a more threatening sound. It was a warning not to come closer.
The moment the knights tried to strike down the puppy beast with their sharp swords.
“Wait, stop!”
Atia blocked them.
The knight holding the sword raised his eyebrows in confusion.
“What…?”
“Even though it’s still a baby, can’t we just release it somewhere else?”
Atia tried to break the harsh atmosphere with a smile on her face.
To kill such a cutelooking creature alive.
That’s too much.
Atia looked at Cerberus while puffing her cheeks.
“Look at its eyes. It seems like it wants to run away.”
Casus cut off her words in one stroke.
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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