The rough hand caressed her lower back, gradually clearing her mind.
So this is what it’s like to be lovers.
Diana blinked her eyes slowly and gently moved her hips.
Trapping Raoul between her legs, the two fit together perfectly like a puzzle. As if they were originally one.
Raoul tucked her hair behind her ear and whispered softly.
“Don’t worry even if you can’t get on the ship. There will be many opportunities to prove my worth in the future.”
Diana nodded her head in a dazed expression, then suddenly lifted her head in surprise.
“…What did you say?”
“Even if we don’t find the sacred object, there will be plenty of chances to make contact with the leadership.”
Diana mumbled with a dumbfounded expression. Raoul met her eyes as he pulled her warm body up once again.
His blue eyes, filled with a stubborn light, were unwavering.
‘If things don’t go well, he’s saying he’ll leave me behind…’
Diana quickly shook her head, wondering if that would really happen.
It absolutely can’t. It wasn’t enough to just stand by and watch the unreasonable society, she couldn’t let the slave liberation fall through too.
This wasn’t a matter of life and death for one person, but a level of issue that would turn the history of the entire continent upside down.
If the rebellion fails, victims like Raoul and Lou will sprout up like weeds, how could she sleep peacefully?
Diana, who had disrupted the original work, was keenly aware of her responsibility.
She tickled Raoul’s chest in front of her to persuade him.
She thought of trying to act coy, drawing circles with her fingers and making the most pitiful expression.
“No… Who knows when that will be.”
Although her own behavior gave her goosebumps, it surprisingly worked well on Raoul. He visibly shuddered and narrowed his brows.
“It won’t take as long as you think. Since I’ve gained enough trust to be given the mission of secretly inspecting the estates, I can quickly rise to the leadership if I just distinguish myself in the civil war.”
Diana paused for a moment, then bit her lip and watched Raoul’s reaction.
“…We don’t have as much time as you think.”
The safe time Diana had in mind was until the invasion of the capital began, and the safe time Raoul had in mind was until the wedding took place.
Diana cleverly used the mismatched thoughts to make Raoul worried.
Please think anxiously… Become so impatient that you can’t stand it and don’t think about anything else.
Diana grabbed the hem of Raoul’s clothes with both hands and looked up at him with mournful eyes, as if pleading.
“You know I’m unexpectedly strong in actual combat, right?”
Raoul held his head up straight and stared at Diana with his almond-shaped eyes.
He looked like he was forcibly suppressing his very unpleasant feelings.
“Knowing that makes me even more reluctant. You won’t just sit back and be protected.”
“Of course. I’m not a little kid you need to take care of. Rather, in my eyes, you’re more… I mean, you’re more…”
“…Like a brat?”
Diana opened her eyes wide like a rabbit and slapped Raoul’s chest with a thud.
“Who says that? Your mouth has gotten foul compared to a few years ago.”
“I can’t deny it.”
“Sometimes I’m confused if you’re really the you I knew.”
He let out a deep sigh with a bitter expression.
“…Being kind and gentle alone can’t protect anything. Sometimes you have to be selfish and cunning. If you have to fight to protect what’s precious, you shouldn’t refuse that either.”
Diana said, gently rubbing her blood-rushed brow with her finger.
“You’ve never been selfish or cunning. It’s your nature to be kind and compassionate.”
“I may have to be from now on.”
“You don’t have to. I want you to live happily as your original self.”
Diana brought it up intending to persuade Raoul, but before the sacred object story even came up, he frowned.
Siding with the rebels was the same as telling her to turn her back on this world and her family for Diana.
Raoul grabbed her palm with his reddened hand and became angry with a hurt expression.
“You don’t seem to have any lingering feelings about our relationship.”
“That’s not true. I just want you to act according to your conscience.”
“Are you telling me to abandon you, who has only looked at me all your life, and join the rebels? In your eyes, is that the conscientious choice?”
“Raoul…”
“…Or is there really someone else? So you want me to get away from you? Is that it?”
“…What are you suddenly talking about?”
“Forget it. I don’t want to talk about this.”
Raoul lowered his head deeply, rubbing his eyelids.
Diana was dumbfounded by the emotionally charged words that poured out as if in a whirlwind. Raoul finally raised the white flag in the lengthening silence.
“…I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it.”
“You’re afraid I’ll leave…?”
“…Even though you wouldn’t, even the slightest possibility makes me so anxious I feel like I’m going to die.”
Diana reached out her hand under the deeply bowed head and thought.
You’re also anxious because of me. The person who seemed to have no fear in the world… because of me.
When she carefully stroked his cheek as if tickling it with a puppy’s tail, the gaze that had been staring at the floor slowly moved.
The facial features that filled both hands looked especially cute and pitiful today.
Diana approached Raoul as if mesmerized as he just blinked his eyes obediently.
He’s like a puppy…
When Diana cupped his cheeks and kissed his strawberry-like lips with a smacking sound, it seemed like his invisible ears and tail were rising again.
The sparkle in his moist eyes and the way his lips, not the ones touched, cutely puckered as if nothing happened was extremely adorable.
Raoul chanted in a much softened but resolute voice.
“…We can’t negotiate like this. This is against the rules.”
“Really no?”
“…”
“Really…?”
“…We can talk about it again once the personnel for the ship are selected.”
“Okay. Then let’s talk about it then.”
Raoul growled with burning red ears. Why is that sight so lovely?
Diana savored the sweet moment, not even noticing the candle wax dripping onto the counter.
Getting on the ship was important, but for now, sufficiently reassuring her pitiful lover took priority.
[This is the timeline separator]“Young lady, your lips are swollen. You must be having a hard time with child care these days.”
Angela, who was sewing with Lou on her lap, said with a distressed expression.
Diana touched her cod roe-like swollen lips and blushed hotly.
“What hardship…! When Angela is here.”
Like a girl whose boyfriend was caught by her parents, Diana’s heart pounded.
Looking up at the night sky, Raoul’s face was drawn along the densely packed white stars.
Raoul, red like a fig and sweet like sugar. Her lover became more and more lovely every time they met.
He would whine like a sharp cat, then seek affection like a puppy as if nothing happened, and in the end, he tried to conquer her heart like a beast.
‘I feel strange… I haven’t even touched alcohol but I’m dizzy…’
“What are you thinking about?”
“Huh, what…?”
“You’ve been spacing out… Are you sick somewhere?”
Angela said, putting a cloth to Lou’s neck.
“No, no? That’s not it, I think I’m a bit tired from visiting the monastery for the first time in a while.”
“Sleep in late tomorrow. I’ll come and take care of breakfast.”
Lou obediently offered his neck and munched on a well-shaped strawberry.
His mouth was so small that he couldn’t put a single strawberry in at once and had to eat it in three bites, which was extremely adorable.
“No, there’s no need to go that far.”
Diana said, wiping Lou’s moist lips with her hand.
Lou tightly grasped Diana’s two fingers with his cute little fingers and showed a smile so pretty his eyes disappeared.
That sight made her heart ache so much.
Diana playfully pinched his chubby cheek with her index finger and bombarded the other cheek with consecutive kisses.
Poof poof poof. When a funny farting-like sound burst out, Lou leaned back as if he was going to fall over and laughed delightedly.
Angela, who was sewing, made groaning sounds and looked down at the two round heads clinging below her chest with a warm gaze.
Diana happily let out the laughter that had ticklishly welled up from her heart, declaring that no matter what arduous journey lay ahead, she would definitely protect the happiness that remained by her side.
[This is the timeline separator]Diana awkwardly waved her hand as she watched the large ship enter the port.
The heavy anchor dropped with a thud, and the sailors cheered in relief, sharing a deep embrace with Arthur.
The man gave final words of encouragement to the well-built captain and immediately waved at Diana.
When he added a seductive smile to his neat and well-educated gestures, the women standing at the port pretended to be shot by Cupid’s arrow and collapse on the ground.
That is, until Angela bared her teeth menacingly while watching.
Angela rolled up her sleeves threateningly and huffed.
“Engaged to such a brazen bastard… Please don’t blame me if I can’t respect the lord from now on.”
“Of course… Absolutely not.”
I can abandon my father but I can’t abandon Angela.
Angela was still confused, unable to accept the fact of the engagement.
Not long ago, as the marriage talks officially began, news of the two filled the front page of the newspaper daily.
It was news that would make Raoul anxious. However, the mastermind behind this incredible scandal was surprisingly Diana herself.
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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