No Evil Lady in the World (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 176
Kosha sure is talkative, Swan thought. He simply hadn’t had the chance to properly talk with her before now.
“Hey, is there any place where Ariante often hides?”
He asked with hope, but Kosha clicked her tongue again and shook her head.
“Young Lady always hides in a different spot each time, Young Master. Going to where she hid last time won’t be of much use. I’d love to tell you, but the mansion is so vast, and Her Ladyship knows every nook and cranny. But she must be somewhere in the eastern wing. The western wing is where His Grace the Duke resides, so Her Ladyship rarely plays pranks there. Perhaps she went to an empty servant’s room. Or maybe check each display cabinet along the corridor one by one. Her Ladyship is as small as a squirrel, so she fits easily into such places.”
Swan gave a quick nod, passed Kosha, and started running down the corridor again. Following her advice, he opened every display cabinet he passed that seemed large enough for Ariante—but all were empty.
“Ariante, where are you? Come out, okay? Please.”
His heart began to race with growing unease. Should he inform His Grace? Swan paused briefly and looked toward the opposite side of the mansion, but soon shook his head and resumed walking in his original direction.
“Ariante!”
While thoroughly searching the corridors and nearly every display cabinet in the eastern wing, Swan ran into Beinti and Meiana. He even crossed paths with Beinti twice in similar spots—she clearly wasn’t very skilled at hide-and-seek, Swan thought.
“Young Master! Please return to your room now. Meiana and I will find Her Ladyship.”
“No… I’ll keep looking too.”
Beinti shrugged her shoulders with a worried expression and walked off in the opposite direction. Swan briefly considered telling her that he’d just finished combing through that exact area, but decided against it. Right now, he wanted to focus all his attention solely on figuring out where to go next to find Ariante.
Where could she have gone? He understood why Ariante had turned her room upside down and vanished. Truthfully, Swan was the only person in the entire mansion who clearly knew the reason.
What Cici had said… Swan muttered inwardly. Perhaps this wasn’t the first time Ariante had heard such words from someone. Maybe Joslin had told her the same thing many times before. Or perhaps others had too…
Ariante probably hadn’t believed it. But even if she tried not to believe it, if someone kept repeating those words—if they kept implanting the same phrase into her mind like a dark spell?
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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