“I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“The reason you were trapped here. The reason the staff was made into a tower. The reason your power was gradually extinguished.”
“…….”
“The reason you were prevented from using your power on humans.”
Lakrahan released Bercheria’s hand, and once again stroked his dry chin as if pondering his thoughts.
“Have you never thought about it?”
“I have thought about it……”
Bercheria’s lips closed frustratingly slowly.
It wasn’t there.
She took it for granted because that’s how life had been from the beginning.
When she came to her senses, she just wanted to escape.
So, she did not miss the opportunity that came to her, and the result was now.
“Lakrahan.”
Bercheria, who had been lost in thought, suddenly raised her head sharply.
Then, she looked around below and suddenly grabbed his lapel.
“I can hear a noise.”
“What noise are you talking about?”
“The sound of my mother coming here every day.”
Her face was now pale, turning a grayish hue.
Thump, thump.
A sound that was now so familiar to her that her body reacted to it first.
The pattern was always the same.
The noise of the ornate carriage’s wheels hitting the stones on the ground was the beginning.
When it hit the bulging part in the middle of the weedcovered road, the carriage soared upwards as if used to it, then fell a beat later.
[Dash]Crack!The coachman whipped the horse’s hindquarters again at that moment.
“Lakrahan!”
Bercheria cried out, almost as if she were neurotic.
“Mother is, Mother is coming here!”
“What are you saying? Are you okay? Your current state……”
Bercheria clung to him, begging.
“It’s not a delusion. I’ve heard this sound all my life. Mother.”
Bercheria spoke, gasping for breath.
“My mother is coming now. I’m right. She’s not dead. That’s not my mother. My real mother is coming.”
She mumbled like a madwoman.
What was the existence called mother that made a woman who was confident every moment in front of her collapse in an instant?
“Bercheria. Look at me properly. Pull yourself together.”
Lakrahan’s nerves tensed sharply.
He didn’t know what her life was like in this dirty, small tower without owning a thing.
It felt absurd to even guess what it was like, just by looking at it.
The speculation itself about what life was like here didn’t make sense in the first place.
“I got it all wrong. Now I have to live here, trapped, enduring Mother’s whipping, until I die.”
She whispered weakly, like a child who had her cherished candy taken away.
“I can’t die even if I want to die alone. Mother said she wouldn’t take that ability away until the end. So, I……”
What must have been her feelings, spending day after day without being able to die or leave?
How much did she whip herself to keep from going insane?
What was she thinking when she came out of the tower wearing those filthy clothes?
“It’s over now.”
Bercheria’s sparkling golden eyes were tinged with despair.
Lakrahan felt something hot welling up in his chest.
It was Bercheria who had tried not to speak a word to him with an emotionless face.
He couldn’t just watch her collapse like this.
He didn’t know what kind of person her mother was, but then he wasn’t there, and now he was by her side.
Bercheria had to realize that fact.
“How long will it take?”
Lakrahan grabbed her hand, which had been holding his lapel, and pressed it tightly against his heart.
Hoping that this method would refresh her surroundings since she was the woman who had said her heart beat when she looked at his face.
“I asked how long it would take for the carriage to arrive at the tower.”
Bercheria answered with a vacant face.
“Ten minutes. No, about fifteen minutes.”
Lakrahan let out a big breath.
“Then let’s try. Everything you and I can do in those fifteen minutes.”
“Yes?”
“We have no time to hesitate. Now, eleven minutes.”
“What are you talking about……”
Lakrahan suddenly embraced Bercheria.
Their chests were pressed together, and the sound of her heartbeat was transmitted through her skin.
He held her even tighter in his embrace.
“How is it? Don’t you feel anything?”
The end of his desperately uttered voice was faintly trembling.
[Star Icon]The northern region where the morning sun was rising dimly.
From early morning, a long line was forming outside the castle gate.
Today was the day when Princess Kelita was scheduled to come to the royal palace.
Wyatt and the knights were dressed in their formal attire for the first time in a while, heading to the portal to have their faces stamped.
It was an unavoidable circumstance, lest there be talk from the royal side about not having prepared for the princess’s visit.
Wyatt, who was riding his horse side by side with Alex and moving along, had a confidential whisper from Alex, who was covering his mouth.
“Where on earth has the Duke gone?”
“I don’t know.”
Wyatt, who had been looking for Lakrahan all night, was now in a very bad mood.
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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