As Carson kindly called her name, Ines looked at him. At that moment, his warm hand lightly gripped Ines’s chin. It was a quick and deft hand movement, so swift that she didn’t even notice when he approached.
“What if it exists?”
“What?”
As if he didn’t expect an answer, his warm hand forcefully pressed and swept across Ines’s lips. Her pupils lost their place and trembled at his actions. She closed her eyes tightly and took a deep breath. Had he touched Ines like this before?
Though he was smiling, his golden gaze glinted coldly like gold.
“If such a tree exists, what would you do…?”
Ines’s face, now reddened with embarrassment, showed that she hadn’t anticipated the conversation to take this turn. Observing her foolish expression, Carson sighed deeply in frustration. The sharp movements of his collarbone, revealed by the rising and falling of his chest, sharply caught Ines’s gaze.
“If I find it, promise me you’ll do whatever I want.”
“Whatever I want?”
“Yes, anything.”
Ines nodded her head as if her previous determination was now pale.
Then he smiled brightly. For a moment, Ines was dazzled as if suddenly exposed to the morning sunlight. When her eyes stung, his lips came closer and engulfed hers.
Like being pierced by a sharp knife, her whole body stiffened, and her mind became distant. As the hot lips moved, everything blurred without realizing what was happening.
She couldn’t even breathe.
Carson’s low chuckle seeped through the pressed lips. The leisurely but urgent, shallow but deep breaths soon turned into a hot kiss.
Her head involuntarily tilted, and breaths flowed back and forth. The swirling thoughts in her head became shapeless. Breathing like this, even passing out wouldn’t be strange at all.
The fiery kiss, as if done for the first time, seemed to incinerate Ines’s soul entirely.
Her firm resolve, built to avoid putting him in difficulty any further, crumbled so easily. When his large hand enveloped Ines’s back, the sensation of warmth and firmness came through the thin fabric vividly. Unconsciously, she hung her arms around his neck. Ines, who had stood opposite him just a moment ago, had no room to avoid the approaching man.
“Shaking? Dare to?”
Without detaching his lips, Carson whispered to Ines.
If her response to his seemingly teasing words felt like a child being scolded, was it just her misconception? Without a moment’s thought, he leaned in even closer, deepening the kiss.
From light to intense, the gentle touch turned coarse in an instant.
“Am I really your god?”
Her body involuntarily moved backward. Without allowing her to escape, Carson pulled Ines closer, not letting her go.
Deepening their kiss, Ines raised both arms in the air as if the arms, which had been bound all day, were finally released. The approaching man showed no hesitation.
“If I am truly your god, you should listen to me.”
“…….”
“No other man.”
As Ines, wanting to see Carson’s expression, tried to step back, her shaking head was promptly stopped by his touch. His words, like commands, flowed sternly through the parted lips.
“I told you not to test my patience.”
Finally meeting his gaze, Ines took a gasp of breath.
There were too many emotions entwined in his face, making it impossible to read anything properly. Unable to escape the sensation reminiscent of fear, as she tried to move away, he pulled her even closer. The heat emanating from his body painfully pressed against Ines’s skin.
Unable to speak and only gasping short, heavy breaths, Ines’s breath was once again taken away by him.
“Sip.”
The sounds of breath vanished into his mouth without a chance. As the kiss deepened, Ines’s upper body leaned back.
It was a series of unknown moments, where everything felt stolen, yet nothing was left unfilled.
After a while, a tense and silent ceasefire flowed between the two. Staring at the beautiful man’s face, Ines felt endlessly wronged.
Did he not know that she was the one enduring this test of patience?
If he knew that every day, she longed to touch him, he wouldn’t be able to look at Ines with such an indifferent expression.
Ines reached out and swept Carson’s tousled hair with her hand.
He flinched, his forehead contorted as if in pain. Although her trembling hand hesitated for a moment, she couldn’t stop touching his forehead, which felt so soft.
It seemed like tears were about to fall.
As Ines puckered her lips, Carson kissed her neck. Slowly tracing her earlobe with his lips, he embraced her neck.
“Don’t say anything right now.”
“…….”
“No matter how eagerly you ask a thousand times, my answer will be the same.”
As he kissed her neck, Ines’s body involuntarily leaned back. Carson pressed his lips against her exposed white shoulder, breathing in deeply.
Suddenly pulling away from Ines, he turned and muttered a curse under his breath.
“There’s no tree that won’t fall after being hit ten times? Did I wait for you all this time just to hear such nonsense?”
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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