When I opened the door and went out, Illina and the maid who had guided me to the reception room were gone, and another maid was standing outside the door.
“Hello. I’m Meru, a maid who came with Princess Charlotte from the Polroid Empire. Did you have a good conversation with Lady Illina, Lady Lorencia?”
The maid who introduced herself closed her mouth when she saw Lorencia’s red, swollen cheek and slightly torn dress. Her face clearly showed she didn’t know what to do. Meru first quickly tidied up Lorencia’s dress and then lowered her left hair to slightly cover her cheek.
“Meru. Could you guide me back to Princess Charlotte’s reception room?”
“Of course. I’ll guide you to Princess Charlotte’s reception room.”
As she walked behind Meru, Lorencia touched her left cheek. It stung and hurt.
Suddenly Teishar came to mind. She thought he probably wouldn’t stay still if he saw her swollen cheek. But she had no intention of freely accepting his kindness.
Lorencia doesn’t know what Ella’s child is. But she can guess it might be related to the power to see the future through the amethyst necklace or move objects at will.
‘I won’t ask Duke Teishar about Ella’s child first. No, let’s not ask at all.’
I can’t believe it outright. I’ve experienced firsthand that even someone with a kind smile can stab a knife into someone’s head. So I won’t rely on or ask anyone for help.
But there was something I wanted to ask for.
It was studying. In the previous future, letters were something I could never learn. They didn’t want me to become smart.
Through this opportunity, I plan to learn letters and find information on my own by reading books or documents related to Ella’s child.
I firmly believed it was love. But after being trampled on by such love once, I can’t trust anyone anymore. No, I’m scared to trust. I’m afraid that if I trust, everything will turn out to be a lie. Like Ruans.
It’s a painful emotion you don’t have to experience if you don’t trust people from the start. If someone asks me what I believe in, I can just say potato soup and Leo. Because that’s the truth.
I don’t care if they call me a witch or Ella’s child. No matter what anyone says, Lorencia is Lorencia herself. Moreover, she’s Lorencia Pol Heredian who decided to become a terrible monster. So I just need to trample on them like a monster.
“Ah…”
Meru, who had been walking ahead, stopped. Lorencia’s steps naturally stopped as well.
“What’s wrong, Meru?”
Lorencia looked in the direction Meru was looking. And she discovered Teishar with black hair. And she found Ruans with him.
The atmosphere was unusual.
“It’s Duke Spencer and Prince Ruans.”
“Yes. It seems they are conversing in the corridor, Lady Lorencia.”
“Wait a moment, Meru.”
Lorencia moved her steps.
“Duke Spencer. And Prince Ruans?”
“Lady Lorencia.”
“Lorencia!”
Ruans was dumbfounded to see Teishar’s face, which had been glaring at him as if to kill him, relaxing like a bright flower. It even looked like an invisible dog’s tail was wagging vigorously.
Teishar’s joy was short-lived. He became upset that Ruans saw Lorencia. He even felt anxious at the thought that the young tree might be swept away like this.
“Princess Charlotte is looking for… Did Lady Illina hit you like this?”
Teishar’s face twisted horribly when he saw her left cheek swollen bright red, though slightly covered by her hair. The sound of teeth grinding reached Lorencia’s ears.
Teishar slightly lifted Lorencia’s chin with his trembling hand. He examined left and right. No matter what, Teishar’s eyes turned red with anger at the thought of laying hands on the young tree in the imperial palace. And he regretted. He shouldn’t have sent her no matter how much Lorencia wanted.
“It’s okay. I hit back just as hard as I was hit.”
Lorencia told Teishar proudly. But Teishar instead trembled and began examining both of Lorencia’s wrists.
“Did you hit with these thin wrists? Which palm did you use to hit? I’m worried Lady Lorencia’s wrists might be hurt.”
“When I said I hit…”
Teishar sighed heavily.
“From now on, if you want to hit anyone, please tell me and I’ll hit them as much as you want on your behalf.”
Lorencia blinked. When she said she hit, she meant she mentally beat them with words, not physically. But Teishar seemed to have understood it completely differently.
“With your delicate body, where do you have the strength and fists to hit? From now on, you must unconditionally ask me to hit on your behalf.”
Without realizing it, Lorencia let out a chuckle.
“Can’t I hit myself? I can hit well…”
“If you get hurt while hitting, I’ll be upset, so you can’t.”
“What should I do when I want to hit?”
“I’ll teach Lady Lorencia how to hit people well. Then it’s okay to hit at that time. But not now.”
“I understand, Duke Spencer. Then is it okay to curse at the other person?”
“You can curse as much as you want. But if there’s someone who cursed at Lady Lorencia, you must remember and tell me without fail.”
“Why?”
“It’s to ensure they never curse at Lady Lorencia again.”
Lorencia nodded at Teishar, who answered her playful question so seriously. She felt that if she asked any more questions, she might hear strange things from Teishar.
“I’ll use a scroll containing healing spells for you later. It seems we should reject all visits from members of the Pol Heredian Count family.”
“Lorencia!”
Teishar glared fiercely at Ruans, who interrupted his important conversation with Lorencia.
“Prince Ruans.”
“I came to fetch you. Let’s go back.”
Ruans stood still, clenching his fists, looking at Lorencia and Teishar, then slowly walked over.
“Go back where?”
“Have you forgotten where you should be?”
It would be madness to go back to the Pol Heredian Count’s mansion when she was planning to escape safely and live in luxury at the imperial palace. And once she returned to the Count’s mansion, she could never escape again. Lorencia knew this better than anyone.
Knowing that she had awakened the power to see the future, Ruans would try to take her back somehow, but unless she was crazy, she had no intention of returning.
“I must stay at the imperial palace by order of Her Majesty the Empress and Princess Charlotte. I don’t want to bring shame to the family by disobeying orders.”
“Lorencia. Why do you keep picking at my words?”
Teishar frowned involuntarily at Ruans’ words. The irritation he had felt towards Ruans had melted away like sherbet while talking with Lorencia, but from the moment Ruans spoke, he felt like he was eating dry potatoes without water or salt.
“Prince Rua…”
Ruans cut off Lorencia’s words.
“Don’t tell me you’re being mindful of Duke Spencer’s presence? Listen well, Lorencia. Are you being mindful of someone who’s going back to the Polroid Empire soon, but not at all mindful of me, who will be by your side in the Isuter Empire?”
“Prince Ruans.”
“It’s because I really care for you. That’s why I came to fetch you like this. Let’s quickly return to the Count’s mansion.”
Lorencia had always been hurt by this kind of conversation.
“Why are you making me out to be someone who’s being mindful?”
“What?”
“I’m not being mindful of anyone here. Why are you speaking as if I should be being mindful?”
“What are you saying now, Lorencia.”
Ruans was flustered, moistening his dry lips. Until now, Lorencia had always followed his words unconditionally. But now she was picking at his words and persisting.
“Lorencia, what’s wrong with you. This isn’t like you.”
“I should be the one asking. Prince Ruans. Why are you telling me to be mindful? Don’t tell me.”
Ruans felt that Lorencia’s gaze had become instantly crooked, and the thought that something had gone wrong began to dominate his mind.
“Are you saying I should be mindful because I’m an illegitimate child?”
In Lorencia’s purple eyes, which looked up at Ruans with a calm gaze without blinking, no emotion was visible. Ruans sighed deeply in frustration.
“That’s not what I mean.”
Ruans had certainly thought that Lorencia loved him. No, he had thought so. But now he couldn’t feel any love from Lorencia.
Daniel’s words came to mind. Lorencia had been confined to the Count’s mansion all this time. She, who had no self-esteem and no willpower, should have had only him to lean on, and should have loved him.
“Lorencia! Didn’t I clearly tell you to come when I say come, and go when I say go?”
When Ruans spoke roughly, Teishar’s red eyes pulled his wrist as if unable to bear it, separating him from Lorencia.
“What are you doing! Duke Spencer.”
The closer Ruans got to Lorencia, the more the young tree’s branches were cut off. In just a few hours, the leaves he had nurtured with such care withered and fell. Teishar’s heart fell with them. The more he exchanged words with Ruans, the more the young tree changed into a bare tree dying in the cold winter. It was a terrible sight.
“I clearly warned you.”
Teishar knew it too. That Lorencia should be the one more angry than himself right now. But Lorencia couldn’t scare or hit Ruans. So he had to do it for her.
“That you shouldn’t anger a snake.”
Teishar put his hand on the scabbard at his waist. At Teishar’s red gaze glaring as if about to draw his sword, Ruans was so surprised that his body stiffened.
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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