Pellio had left a while ago, but Ermedillin was still suffering from the lingering warmth he had left behind.
No matter what she did, her fever wouldn’t subside as if she were infected with something.
Several times, she was startled by the hallucination of the Count of Fronjuar’s dirty blood splattering on Pellio’s crisply ironed white uniform.
Just as she was taking deep breaths to calm herself, she noticed Loony sneaking up.
“What is it, Empress?”
“What’s the matter?”
“A soldier working at the castle gates said he had received this.”
In Loony’s hesitant hand was a small scrap of paper.
“And?”
“The Empress must absolutely have this note, he insisted.”
“There must be plenty of these notes…”
“Yes. But the person who handed me this note seems to have promised a huge reward for this errand. I didn’t take it because I was lured by the money! It just felt wrong to discard it without a second thought considering the amount.”
In fact, the amount Loony mentioned was quite excessive for such an errand. Enough to buy a welltrained war horse.
“Let me see.”
A playful look crossed Ermedillin’s face as she took the note.
“So if I read this, you get a share too?”
Though she spoke in jest, Loony jumped up and waved his hands.
“Absolutely not! I would never…”
“Calm down. It’s a joke. A joke.”
“Huh?”
“And even if you had no ulterior motive, make sure you get your share. It’s foolish not to take what’s yours. Or, if it makes you feel uncomfortable, how about buying me a nice cup of coffee?”
At Ermedillin’s words, Loony relaxed and puckered his lips in a mischievous smile.
“A cup of coffee will do? I’ll pay for the dessert too!”
“Wooohoooo! That’s Loony for you!”
After receiving a round of applause from Ermedillin, Loony left the reception room with a joyful smile. Ermedillin then cautiously opened the note.
Though small, it was sealed with a complicated stamp on a goldcolored wax. It seemed to contain something important.
As she read the note, Ermedillin’s face gradually turned pale.
‘What on Earth is this…’
The content of the letter read as follows:
[My love, my destiny!I’ve heard you are carrying my child!
You thought you couldn’t get rid of the fruit of our love!
Soon, I will come to meet you and our child!
We are destined to be together!
My love, until we meet again, be well.
We will soon become one again!]
While exclamation marks at the end of each sentence conveyed passion, the content was just a standard love letter.
However, the words ‘my child’ were sticking in her mind.
‘Could he be referring to Ferdant? But Ferdant’s father is long dead. Is this a letter from Hell?’
While she could dismiss it as a cruel joke, something about the letter’s content disturbed her.
‘Who would spend so much money to send a prank letter like this? Who could possibly…’
Suddenly, a face came to mind.
No, a gaze.
Those perfect golden eyes she had locked onto during the founding parade. Eyes that seemed like they could lose sanity any moment, like a dangerous beast, had stuck with her.
‘Why am I thinking of that now? There were so many people yesterday. I met eyes with more than one person.’
However, she couldn’t dismiss it as mere coincidence. Her heart was beating too abnormally.
‘Ah, please, let it just be one. One hidden child is enough. Not the father too. That would be too complicated!’
Ermedillin burned the letter in the candlelight, trying hard to shake off the ominous feeling.
“Did you deliver it? Huh? Did you?”
“Yes, it’s been delivered.”
“Did she read it? Huh? Did Ermedillin read it?”
An annoyed man openly grimaced and turned his head away from his demanding master.
The man had dark hair and deep bronze eyes, exuding a sharp aura overall.
“Yes, it most certainly went into the hands of that witch… No, into the hands of Her Majesty the Empress. She must have read it.”
“Of course! There’s no way Ermedillin wouldn’t recognize my seal!”
The man casting a euphoric look into the void had fiery red hair and striking golden eyes; he was flamboyantly handsome.
He was the very man Ermedillin had locked eyes with at the founding ceremony.
“Yes, even if she’s an exlover you’ve heartlessly abandoned, she would surely recognize the seal… Ah! Why are you hitting me?”
“Heartlessly abandoned! Ermedillin must have had an unavoidable reason for doing so!”
“Didn’t you say before that Her Majesty the Empress toyed with your innocent passion? That meeting her was the greatest curse of your life?”
“Yes! She pushed me away, threatening to even get rid of the child in her womb. I believed that then, but isn’t that child, my son, alive?”
Overwhelmed by emotion, even to the point of tearfulness, his master Leopold’s mind became complex as Langen watched him.
His homeland was the Eastern empire of Balius, famous for its mountains of gold.
It was an enormous empire that had become one far earlier than the Tribian Empire and had dominated the region for centuries.
Leopold’s mother was the sole daughter of the Emperor of Balius.
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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