“Absolutely not.”
The long and prolonged kiss came to an end.
Her head still felt dizzy. Trying to focus on Rescal’s face, which looked twice as dazzling as usual, perhaps due to the side effects of the kiss, Lasillia concentrated with a somewhat paused head.
“What… not three times?”
“Absolutely not.”
“Ah…?”
Lasillia counted in her head for a moment.
‘It should be three times.’
She remembered that she initiated the kiss. After that, the reasons why she ended up sitting on Rescal’s thigh, why there were a couple of buttons undone on her back, and how her headpiece fell off, leaving her hair disheveled, were somewhat ambiguous. However, it was clear that she initiated the kiss three times.
‘Maybe even more than three times.’
Anyway, that’s how it was. She kept her promise.
Lasillia leaned her tired forehead against Rescal and whispered softly. Unfortunately, she couldn’t muster the strength in her arms and legs.
“It’s three times. Will you let me down?”
“No.”
Instead of putting Lasillia down, Rescal embraced her waist.
The feeling of her waist being held in this posture, sitting on Rescal’s thigh, was very strange. It was uncomfortable, too close, and she kept becoming conscious of maintaining a certain distance.
“Once.”
The eyes questioning whether it was three times or once were too serious.
Moreover, counting the time like this when so much time had passed was meaningless.
As a sign that enough time had passed, Lasillia gestured towards the wall clock. It was already a time that could be called dawn.
“It’s been a while.”
“I know.”
Rescal placed his lips on hers and whispered sensually.
“You can get up after the second one. I won’t be greedy for that.”
As if he was already doing it.
“It’s three times.”
“No. Can’t you remember?”
Rescal placed his palm on Lasillia’s back and leaned his body, keeping his hand on her back.
With her back resting against his palm, she landed on the sofa. Instead of the ceiling, Rescal’s face came into view.
“When we were in this position,”
And their lips overlapped suddenly.
Rescal spread Lasillia’s lower lip as he did at the moment of the kiss. A wet sound echoed between their lips.
“When you tried to turn your head to breathe, and so I,”
Her body tingled again. Now, with Rescal’s back on the sofa and Lasillia on top of him.
“Turned your head like this.”
With their lips close, Rescal tilted his head to the side. Then, breathing became a little easier. It seemed more like a result of the posture change than a deliberate attempt to change the position.
“So, the kiss didn’t end. Our lips never separated.”
“What…,”
……is this.
“I can prove the next one too. Our lips have never separated.”
“…….,”
Lasillia was speechless. She changed her tone from trying to correct that it was three times.
“Your Majesty, did you meticulously count such things while kissing?”
“Hmm?”
As if caught off guard, Rescal momentarily missed a response.
“A bit disappointing.”
“No, that’s…”
“Whether it was once or three times, you kept thinking about it elsewhere.”
“…….”
“It wasn’t me.”
Lasillia pulled Rescal down slightly by grabbing a corner of his clothes.
“Since you put it that way, let’s just say it was once, as you wish. From now on, I’ll try to keep my mind straight and count.”
“…It feels a bit unfair if you put it like that.”
Rescal, after putting her down, abruptly pulled Lasillia towards him.
Now, his body was more flattened against Rescal than before. It didn’t hurt, but Rescal’s expression was too serious to consider it a joke.
“Do you know what happens when I lose my mind while kissing?”
“……. ”
Lasillia didn’t know the answer.
She had never experienced such a thing, nor had she heard of it anywhere.
However, she felt it wouldn’t be completely unknown.
Rescal’s fingers were probing at the undone buttons, and…
“My mind was a bit foggy. After undoing two of them, you bit my shoulder, and I came to my senses.”
A soft sound, unbelievably gentle, resonated where the neck met the shoulder.
“So, I did my best.”
What that best was for was evident without asking.
Lasillia, lifting Rescal’s head buried in the nape of her neck with one hand on her ear, revealed a dazzling blond hair sliding between her fingers.
After the kiss, there would be more.
To become entirely bound, more than that was necessary. Before their thirtieth birthday, they would truly consummate their relationship.
It was still unfamiliar, but she wasn’t worried.
Rescal’s eye corners were red. After the kiss, he always had such eyes. He wouldn’t blink, and his unwavering gaze seemed to be directed at her.
By looking at him, she could understand what his desire for the other person was.
“Choosing a date… seems okay.”
Rescal asked slowly.
“What date?”
“A date when I don’t have to come to my senses.”
“……. ……?”
Rescal seemed to not understand for a moment as he shook his pupils.
Lasillia playfully winked.
“Until then, I’ll do my best too.”
“I’m… not sure if I understood correctly… so, that means…?”
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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