What if it was not Rean… but Tla? Her heart dropped with a thud.
It seemed if she called for the Chief Physician to come for treatment, the answer would become clear regardless of what it was. However, she didn’t have the courage to order an examination.
[This is the time separator]When he turned on the light upon entering his room, a silhouette hidden in the dark revealed itself. Sitting in a singleseater lounge chair with long legs crossed was Carlein.
“When did you return?”
But even at seeing him, Sonnaught did not express surprise and simply asked.
“I thought you would be back soon.”
Carlein calmly answered, not behaving like someone who entered another’s room without permission in the middle of the night. He then mumbled while watching Sonnaught undress and hang his clothes on a hanger.
“You smell of blood.”
Sonnaught didn’t deny this time, but honestly replied.
“Yes.”
“You’re clearly still weak. You haven’t recovered yet.”
“……Her Majesty also smelled the blood.”
Sonnaught fiddled with the edge of his clothes hanging on the hanger for a while before finally letting go and walking to the bed. He looked extremely uncomfortable.
“You must be slowly waking up.”
“Yes. But…… I’m not sure. It seems like I’m fine as is.”
“You’ll get stronger. That’s all.”
“You’ll get stronger, but you’ll also gain more enemies.”
“Let’s hope the decoy helps in scattering the enemies.”
Sonnaught quietly undid the buttons on his shirt one by one. Watching him, Carlein rose from his chair and approached Sonnaught.
“Bandage.”
Unlike in front of Latil, Sonnaught obediently untied the bandages inside his shirt. Once he laid the bandages, a mix of white and red, before the bed, the torn wound was revealed.
The wound located right in front of his heart seemed partly healed and partly not, making it look extremely grotesque with its irregular patches.
“I refused when Her Majesty tried to summon the Chief Physician to treat me. ……It seemed like she was suspecting me.”
“You should’ve hidden a bit more.”
“Then you would worry.”
“She’s still going to worry. Just in a different sense.”
As Sonnaught weakly laughed, Carlein bit hard into the center of his thumb with his fang. Blood of a deep red color immediately began to flow from the thumb.
As Sonnaught laid down on the bed with only the upper part of his body, keeping his feet on the floor, Carlein began to drop his blood onto Sonnaught’s torn heart.
With a few drops of blood, Sonnaught’s wound began to heal slowly but surely.
“I’ll stop here.”
But not long after, Sonnaught reached out to stop Carlein’s blood from seeping more into the wound and sat up.
“You’re not fully healed yet.”
“If the wound suddenly heals completely, Her Majesty will suspect me.”
“I see.”
As if indifferent, Carlein opened the wardrobe, retrieved bandages and medicine from the firstaid box, and began to apply the medicine and wrap the wound again.
“Have you found out who the Adversary is?”
“I’m focusing on Girgol, but no one is training him yet.”
“Girgol is the one, right? The traitor vampire.”
“Have you ever met him?”
“No.”
“He was the knight who betrayed the Lord for the first and last time. Not only did he kill the lord of that time, he began training adversaries himself to kill any lords who would appear later. He was an extreme traitor even among traitors.”
“Has he yet to find an adversary?”
“That seems to be the case.”
When Carlein finished wrapping the bandages and pulled his hand away, Sonnaught expressionlessly mumbled as he put his arm back into the shirt he had taken off.
“When found, he must be killed. Both the adversary and the one who raises the adversary.”
“That’s right. This time, absolutely….”
[This is the time separator]“Your Majesty, do you have any worries?”
Startled by the nanny’s voice, Latil, who had been absentmindedly stroking her chin, quickly put her hand down.
“Eh? No, why?”
The nanny approached with large strides, wearing an expression that seemed to say, ‘I knew it’ and asked jokingly.
“Then why has half of the sugar here disappeared? I had filled this jar to the top with sugar.”
“Eh? That’s strange. Where did all of it go? Why? Did I eat it?”
As Latil felt around her mouth with her hand and asked, the nanny burst out laughing and held up a coffee cup that Latil hadn’t even touched to Latil.
“Why is this?”
After she took a sip, Latil wrinkled her brows and quickly put the cup down.
“Ugh, it’s too sweet.”
“Of course. You were absentmindedly sitting there and kept adding sugar to it.”
At the nanny’s point, Latil finally sighed in agreement.
“I do have something on my mind, actually.”
The nanny, as if she had known, smiled and came to Latil’s back, patting it gently and asked kindly.
“What could our little princess be worried about?”
It was the same voice as when she used to console a young Latil halfjokingly, halfseriously, whenever she fell into strange worries.
Without realizing it, Latil smiled back, but soon her smile fell and she muttered sulkily.
“I like Sonnaught, nanny.”
At those words, the nanny’s laughter faded and her eyes widened as she stared at Latil.
“Your Majesty, don’t tell me…!”
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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