“I guess it’s to comfort you. But it’s quite nice to ride on your head. It’s very soft.”
Strangely, his nonchalant attitude helped calm me down, who had been entangled in anxiety all the while. My mind, which had been swaying since yesterday, was easily calmed.
“In the end, your power is not eternal, and someday, it will be a power to be returned. So, enjoy having power.”
“Can you enjoy it…”
“Then enjoy it. You can’t be upset every day. The person who gave you that power probably doesn’t want that either.”
“Ah…”
He must have protected the feelings I had of wanting to protect my own people. My heart that always asked him for help and felt sorry for him.
So, he must have given me this power to try it myself. Thinking that way, I felt a bit more at ease.
At that moment.
Suddenly, in the library where there was no one but us, I felt a sudden presence.
“Nyaong.”
It was a cat.
A cat that suddenly appeared. Smooth body covered entirely in black fur. Slightly unusual blue eyes for a cat. In an instant, I realized who this cat was.
“Sehelus…?”
He didn’t answer, but the cat approached me and rubbed against me.
I looked down at the cat silently. Although I had been in the palace for a long time, it was the first time I had seen a cat. Moreover, a cat in a library where people rarely visited. Unless it was Sehelus, who promised to come back as a cat someday, the identity of the cat was incomprehensible.
As I lowered my head, Hwang Do-ju, who had been leaning forward with me, made a fascinating voice.
“Is this Matapju?”
“I don’t know. He said he would come back as a cat… It seems right, but also not. Since this cat can’t speak… If it were Sehelus, wouldn’t he be able to speak?”
“No. Originally, in the early stages, that’s how it is.”
“What?”
“When I put my soul into the doll, at first, I couldn’t even speak. I could only watch. In fact, I don’t remember much from that time. Then, when the power stabilized to some extent, I could speak and move freely. Still, this cat… Matapju probably has quite deep feelings for you.”
I cocked my head at the incomprehensible words.
“Is that… true?”
“Whether it is or not. Seeing that he came to you. It seems he had quite a strong mental power.”
Is it really Sehelus? No matter how you look at it, it seems to be Sehelus. It just felt that way. Perhaps because I could still faintly smell him. A deep sigh came out involuntarily.
“Ha… Then I’m really… Sehelus has really… become a cat, and I inherited his power?”
“Yes. That alone is impressive. It seems he passed on his power to you quite stably.”
“Stably?”
“As a precaution for any possible danger, he set up several layers of safety devices. Quite… capable.”
“Sehelus is… capable. I don’t really know. Just that he’s a very old magician… Come to think of it, I didn’t know what kind of power he had or how he did it. I always received help from him…”
I hugged the cat tightly. It didn’t seem to dislike it, so the cat stretched out its body.
For a cat, it looked surprisingly like him, with no belly at all. Despite the sharp first impression, he was warm-hearted… I hugged the cat tightly.
“Now, without anxiety, I’ll make an effort to use this power only in good places to protect my people.”
“Nyaah.”
The pleasant sound of the cat’s meow echoed loudly.
“So, watch over me. Sehelus. Just as you always helped me, now… I’ll help you. As I said, I should become a good owner. A lifelong owner who only gives love without abandoning. And someday, when you come back, I’ll tell you what happened during that time. What I accomplished with the power you gave me. After that, I’ll listen to your story. The story you wanted to tell. Because we’re friends.”
“Now, what should I do? I relied on Sehelus so much…”
“Oh, right. About those twins.”
“Yes. What should we do about that?”
“I thought about what to do, but there doesn’t seem to be much. It seems like we should just have a very powerful magician take control.”
“Control?”
“Yeah. It won’t be enough to just control them. Otherwise, there won’t be much change in the current state of the twins. If the time comes when we need to save both, we can evenly distribute the power of the surviving twin, who originally had the power to live, to the twin who is supposed to die, using the power of a powerful magician. I mean, when one of the twins who is supposed to die is still alive thanks to someone else’s power. That way, they’ll both survive.”
I still didn’t understand, so my head tilted involuntarily.
“Remember the story I told you last time? Raising the twins evenly and if only one survives until adulthood, there’s a high chance that each one will be accepted as an individual.”
“Yes.”
“But to do that, the balance of power must not be broken. So, this is the convenient way.”
Ron explained that the reason he wanted to live so badly, as strange as it may sound, was because he was an existence that had to die.
“Ah… but now that Sehelus is gone, what should I do?”
“You’ll do it. You’re the strongest in the world now. What are you worrying about?”
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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