Let's Kidnap The Male Lead! (19 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 10
“Good work, Lady Vivian.”
On my way back after successfully locking the silver-haired, blue-eyed beauty in a room.
Len greeted me cheerfully and seated me on a plush, cushion-filled chair.
Due to the detectives’ interference, I’d used my supernatural ability slightly longer than usual today.
I pulled a small, circular metal watch from my pocket.
‘About three minutes.’
This watch served as a timer to track how long I’d used my ability.
The longer I used it, the more it drained my stamina.
Thus, to prevent complete exhaustion, I always had to carry this watch with me.
‘Honestly, even three minutes leaves me utterly exhausted…’
I sank into the chair, letting all the tension drain from my body.
Len, as if prepared in advance, handed me a glass of orange juice with ice cubes clinking inside.
The tangy juice slid smoothly down my throat.
“Ah… I finally feel alive again.”
It had been a while since I’d enjoyed such a moment of leisure—recently, Dietrich’s interruptions had kept me from resting properly.
“You’ve looked tired lately, so I specifically prepared something refreshing. I’m glad you like it.”
With the burst of vitamins, I felt a bit of strength return to my limbs.
“Finish your drink and rest well. I’ll handle the rest, Lady Vivian.”
“Nah, never mind. That drink gave me energy. Besides, I should get things done while that guy’s behaving. I’ll at least check on the captured targets myself.”
I turned my eyes toward the wall filled with video monitors.
The screens on the left displayed a panoramic view of Hildes Street, while those on the right showed the rooms where the targets were confined.
‘Let me see what those kidnapped pretty boys are up to.’
My gaze first landed on Dietrich’s room. True to his word, he was quietly reading a book.
‘He actually kept his promise… Honestly, that’s surprising.’
Next, I shifted my attention to the room of the man I’d kidnapped today.
He was strikingly handsome, with sharp features, silver hair, and piercing blue eyes.
His appearance fit perfectly into a tragic novel, and secretly, I’d hoped he might be Calis.
But soon, I witnessed an entirely unexpected scene.
‘Why do my bad premonitions never fail to come true?’
I pinched the bridge of my nose, exasperated by the man’s actions.
Somehow, he’d figured it out—the silver-haired man was staring directly at the hidden surveillance device.
With a sly grin, he unfolded a sheet of white paper with both hands.
I read the large words written on it:
Vivian, I came to see you ♥
Only the heart symbol at the end was colored a vivid pink.
I let out an involuntary sigh at this headache-inducing situation.
Apparently, the man I’d just kidnapped was someone quite familiar to both Len and me.
“Melphis… that guy again….”
Knowing the person I’d gone through so much trouble to bring here was him made me want to cry.
Melphis, after all, was the fifth person I’d ever kidnapped—a man with an incredibly unique appearance.
His pink hair was streaked with sky-blue highlights throughout.
With transparent sky-blue eyes and snow-white skin, he gave off an overall cotton-candy-like impression.
Clearly, he looked more like the heroine of a romantic comedy than the male lead of a tragic drama.
At first, I’d hesitated whether or not to kidnap him, but decided to bring him just in case.
Truly… I hadn’t known back then just how annoying he’d turn out to be.
After the first kidnapping, Melphis wandered around Hildes Street in disguise,
solely to get kidnapped by me again.
Each time, I fell for it and brought him back, and around day twenty of his confinement, he’d reveal his true identity through the surveillance camera by dropping the disguise.
In that moment, I remembered the first time I’d kidnapped him.
It had been about two weeks after I locked him in the room.
Len had stepped out briefly, leaving me alone to nap in the hideout, when suddenly Melphis woke me up.
I’d set up an alarm system that would notify me if any of the kidnapped men tried to escape—but to this day, I still wonder how he managed to get out so quietly.
Anyway, he’d pleaded with me to chat.
I didn’t want to entertain such an absurd request, but his promise not to report me made me cave instantly.
After chatting for about two hours,
he gave a refreshing, bright smile and said his goodbyes.
“That was fun. See you again soon, Vivian.”
It was just a casual farewell, yet it startled me—because I’d never told him my name.
“How do you even know my name…?”
“Huh? It’s written right there.”
Melphis pointed to my hand. I was holding a document with my name on it.
‘Huh? I’m sure I put that document in the drawer…’
Before I could even process the strangeness of it, Melphis gave me a cheerful wink and left.
I thought that would be the end of our connection…
‘But he went so far as to disguise himself just to see me again.’
If only it had happened once or twice—but counting today, it was already the tenth time.
The fourth time I kidnapped him, I’d been so furious I finally asked him why he kept doing this.
His answer back then was truly…
“I’m interested in you, Vivian.”
The way he shyly blushed while spouting such nonsense gave me a serious headache.
The real problem was that there was no way to tell whether a target was Melphis or not.
His disguises were suspiciously, unnervingly precise.
“Shall I go kick him out?”
Len smiled sweetly, but I could detect the irritation hidden beneath his words.
‘He especially hates Melphis.’
Well, I understood. After all, the property damage and manpower losses from kidnapping him ten times were considerable.
“Forget it. I’ll go myself. He came here to see me anyway.”
I headed straight for the room where Melphis was waiting.
[This is the timeline separator]After flinging open the door secured with six locks, I scanned the silver-haired man from head to toe with half-lidded eyes.
Deep ocean-blue irises, sharply angled eyes shadowed by fine contours, and a nose so sharp it could cut glass—
altogether, he exuded a cold, distant aura, completely unlike the Melphis I knew.
But the moment he flashed that annoyingly cheerful grin, I was certain again—it was him.
“Melphis… it’s you again?”
I asked, my tone laced with disbelief, and his blue eyes crinkled mischievously.
“I’ve been waiting.”
He looked so genuinely happy—like someone who’d just received wonderful news—
despite being kidnapped and locked up.
“I was starting to worry you’d finally see through my disguise and stop capturing me. Good to know it still works. I’m glad, Vivian.”
“Are you trying to provoke me?”
I shot him a sideways glare, and he laughed gleefully.
“Of course not. Why would I tease you? I’m too busy trying to win your affection.”
His shameless attitude made me snort.
“Again, again—you always say that. If you want to charm me, just meet me normally. Why resort to such extreme measures?”
“Does that mean you’ll accept my date invitation if I ask? Can I get my hopes up?”
“Like that’ll happen? You sure talk well, I’ll give you that.”
“See? Another rejection. Please understand my position—I can only see your face if I go to these lengths.”
Watching his audacious expression, I just shrugged.
‘I can’t read him at all.’
He claimed to have genuine romantic interest in me—but how could that possibly make sense?
I was the criminal who kidnapped him, after all.
At first, I even tailed him, suspecting ulterior motives, but found nothing.
‘It only made him seem more suspicious.’
Despite being kidnapped multiple times, Melphis had never once reported me to the Security Bureau.
‘Sure, we made an agreement—but who actually keeps promises like that?’
But it didn’t matter anymore. If I just stopped kidnapping him, that’d be the end of it.
‘Today, I’ll finally uncover the secret behind his disguise.’
I stepped two paces closer to Melphis and reached my hand upward.
“Lean in a bit. I need to figure out how you transform like this.”
Surprisingly, he obediently offered his face.
I brushed his hair aside.
It was far too soft and silky to be a wig—indistinguishable from real human hair.
I searched for the boundary between wig and scalp, but found none.
Next, I touched his eyebrows.
There was no way to replace eyebrows with something like a wig—yet his looked flawlessly natural.
I even pressed firmly on his nose, but felt only cartilage beneath.
With both hands, I cupped his cheeks and pulled his face closer.
His original sky-blue eyes were nowhere to be seen—no contact lenses visible over those ocean-hued irises.
I even ran my fingers over his skin, yet not a trace of makeup came off.
‘How is this even possible?’
His disguise was so unnervingly perfect that I kept poking and prodding his face in disbelief, mouth agape.
Then—
“Were you just using the disguise as an excuse? Honestly, you just wanted to touch my face, didn’t you? Admit it, Vivian. If you say yes, I’ll be over the moon.”
Where did he get the nerve to say something so outrageous?
My hands, still gripping his cheeks, instinctively tightened.
“Oww! That hurts!”
I shot him a sharp glare and loosened my grip.
His cheeks were now bright red, shaped exactly like my fingers.
“I knew you were strong, but seeing it firsthand really confirms it, Vivian.”
“Then stop provoking me if you know that!”
“I’m just the type who’s drawn to strong women. It only makes you more attractive.”
His inability to learn, even after being manhandled by me, left me utterly defeated.
Just then—
the door opened, and Len walked in.
“Len? What’s wrong?”
“There’s an issue with the monitoring system. I think you should check it yourself, Vivian.”
Taken aback, I widened my eyes.
“The system? Is it serious?”
“It seems so. I checked it myself, but couldn’t figure out the cause.”
If even Len—the all-around problem-solver—was stumped,
it might be something serious. My heart quickened with urgency.
“I’ll go right away. I’ll leave Melphis to you—send him off quickly.”
“Of course! Leave it to me.”
As I hurried out the door, I paused briefly—I’d forgotten to say goodbye to Melphis.
“Melphis, see you next time! …Actually, never mind—don’t come back!”
With that shout, I dashed straight for the monitoring room.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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