A man was sprawled on the floor, groaning. Thankfully it wasn’t his son, but it looked like he had seriously injured his leg from falling down the stairs.
“Hey! Hey! Someone’s fallen!”
Lord Chancellor bellowed. As he approached the man, he started writhing with a groaning sound.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Someone pulled… pulled my leg…”
The man twisted in pain.
Lord Chancellor was gathering people, shouting “Hey! Over here!” But upon hearing the man’s words, he flinched. He remembered Guesta, who had been looking up from the bottom of the stairs.
“What happened?”
The first knight to rush over asked, to which the chancellor regained his senses and explained the situation.
“It looks like he fell from the stairs.”
“Did you see it?”
“No. I wasn’t looking at the scene exactly. I turned around when I heard a heavy noise, and he was already down. But he couldn’t have fallen from the ceiling, so he must have fallen from the stairs.”
The chancellor couldn’t bear to say that he had seen his son, so he left out any mention of seeing Guesta.
‘My son wasn’t near the fallen man. He was just looking up. Besides, he was nowhere to be found when this guy fell. I don’t know where he went.’
As the chancellor was justifying the situation in his head, more people started pouring in, hearing the commotion. Among them was his son, Guesta, which made the chancellor feel a bit relieved.
“What’s going on?”
Among the crowd was also Emperor Latil. When Latil asked, the chancellor repeated what he had told the knight earlier.
While listening to his words, Latil gestured to the chancellor, who immediately stepped forward to treat the fallen man.
With just a light touch on the man’s knee, the pain seemed to vanish instantly, and his expression relaxed.
The man, staring at his knee with a bewildered expression, was immediately recognized by Latil.
“You’re Klein’s servant.”
“Yes. My name is Banil.”
Though the man looked still bewildered, as soon as Latil spoke, he quickly stood up, straightened himself, and introduced himself.
Latil was looking around to tell Klein ‘your servant is injured’, but Klein was not in the room. He was outside, probably trying to sober up from too much drinking.
“What happened?”
Latil stopped looking for Klein and asked the same question to Banil that he had asked Lord Chancellor.
Why was Klein’s servant crawling on the floor with a broken leg, and why was Lord Chancellor there, of all places? It was a strange question.
Banil tilted his head at Latil’s question and answered hesitantly.
“Well… I thought Klein was dressed too thinly, so I was going to get a cloak for him. But then I felt someone pulling me, and I ended up falling down the stairs.”
Lord Chancellor remembered Banil’s words just after the fall that ‘someone pulled my leg’, and looked at Latil with an uneasy expression.
He was sure that his son was not the perpetrator, but he was growing more and more anxious that he might be suspected simply for being there.
“Your… Your Majesty.”
But someone among the crowd stepped forward, and his fear subsided.
“Actually, I saw the servant falling.”
“Really?”
“Yes. From what I saw, it seemed like he slipped while walking.”
At the witness’s words, Banil looked aggrieved, but the people who had been silently observing the situation were already whispering quietly.
“He seems to be blaming someone else for his own mistake.”
“He’s probably doing that so he can blame anyone.”
Banil, looking flabbergasted, looked at Latil. Fortunately, Latil didn’t seem to blame him.
In fact, Latil thought, ‘It was either the black magician’s doing or Banil’s mistake. It’s one of the two.’
But since neither could be confirmed here, Latil gestured for Lord Chancellor, the servant, and everyone else to disperse.
“Banil, was it? You should go inside and rest. Even if you receive treatment, your shocked heart will not be easily soothed. I will deliver the cloak to Klein on your behalf.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
As Banil turned around with a sullen face, Latil watched his retreating figure, pretending to fold her cloak and hang it on her arm.
‘If this is an act after making a mistake, it’s an amazing performance. But what if it’s true? Just as Prince Heum sent a zombie to the banquet, did Tlal send a black magician to the banquet?’
While Latil pondered whether this was related to the undercurrents of the struggle to restrain Klein or simply a mistake by Klein’s servant,
When the situation began to calm down, Lord Chancellor quietly called Guesta to the empty terrace.
Guesta came in with a pallor no different than usual, his posture devoid of any sign of confidence. Still, the Lord Chancellor found relief in seeing this.
‘As expected, my son has nothing to do with it. This kid harming someone. That’s absurd.’
“Father? Did you call me?”
[This is the time separator]“Have you seen Klein? Where?”
Latil asked the people and went directly to where Klein was said to be. Klein was standing on a balcony in the opposite direction from where the incident happened, leaning his hands on the railing and staring somewhere.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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