“Aaargh!”
Litania’s expression contorted. More than when she had torn apart the furball she had been holding dear.
“You’re insane.”
“Litania. You must stay with me. It’s dangerous outside because of the demons.”
“Go away, go away! No, no…!”
Litania rejected Orbis and ran away. She called for help from her knight escort.
“You should know that mere humans cannot defy me.”
“No, Bain!”
The knight escort’s heart was ripped out. The heart of the steward she was clinging to was also ripped out.
The old maid, the lady-in-waiting companion, bureaucrat ministers, priests and priestesses…
Corpses piled up inside the imperial palace as much as the corpses of demons and knights fallen on the battlefield.
“Litania. My beloved bride.”
“Huh, huh…”
“If I eliminate everyone around you, will you rely only on me?”
“Murderer…!”
Litania’s eyes filled with disgust. And slowly, a light of despair began to swirl.
The premonition was not good. If Litania wished to escape from Orbis, she would die again.
“Should I tamper with her memories.”
If I erase the memories of her brothers and the people around her dying, wouldn’t we return to our happy newlywed days?
“You can forget all the terrible memories.”
Orbis pulled out memories from Litania’s mind. He threw that oozing thing on the floor.
Litania rolled her eyes back and fainted.
‘She’ll forget everything when she wakes up.’
Thinking that, he was about to take her back to the room.
“No, I’m different!”
Someone ran over and picked up Litania’s memories that Orbis had thrown away.
“I will follow you to the end, Lord Orbis. I will rely only on you. So please, make me your bride instead.”
Who was it? One of Litania’s siblings. I remember they weren’t on good terms. The name was like an obstacle. Was it Rock?
“Herna.”
“That’s right! You remembered!”
Herna swallowed Litania’s memories with trembling hands.
“I will take all these memories. I will become Lord Orbis’s bride. So please protect me.”
“…”
“Please… ack.”
It was a foolish thing. Implanting someone else’s memories was more complicated and dangerous than extracting them.
Blood vessels burst in Herna’s eyes as her brain overloaded. Leaving Herna convulsing on the floor foaming at the mouth, Orbis returned to the room carrying Litania.
It’s safe by the dragon’s side.
He could protect her.
“Mmm…”
“Litania, are you awake?”
Litania woke up with a dazed face. Perhaps because her memories had flown away, she did not recognize Orbis well.
“My name is Orbis. You and I are husband and wife.”
“…”
“We are a very close couple. You always relied on me.”
Litania nodded blankly.
“Smile, my bride. Now we can share our love without anyone’s interference.”
As Orbis smiled and kissed her cheek, Litania smiled softly.
That night, the two made love and fell asleep in the quiet annex.
And before the morning sun rose, Litania died.
‘Did I tamper with her memories wrong?’
I should have torn everything out, but did I make a mistake trying to adjust and leave happy memories? Orbis was bewildered.
‘Let’s try again. I can’t make a mistake next time.’
Perhaps because it had been repeated so many times, now his heart felt just like someone else’s.
In the thick smell of blood, Orbis’s time went backwards again.
Crack.
The rift grew even larger.
[This is the timeline separator]Seven times, eight times.
“You are… terrible…”
Ten times, twelve times.
“Don’t touch me!”
Seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six…
“Stop it. Please, let me go!”
It will be different this time.
It will be okay this time since I blocked it thoroughly.
‘This time.’
It was an illusion. The situation changed every time.
Litania went through a different growth process each time, met different people, grew up with a different personality, married Orbis on a different day, and the two nurtured their love in different ways.
And she always died silently.
Crack.
A strange rift appeared in the dragon castle.
The dragon’s nest was located there because it was a place where the dragon’s energy gathered easily. That’s why the dragon’s treasure, the Wishing Stone, was created there.
The most powerful dragon power that rules all things in this world.
The Wishing Stone, imbued with the essence of that power, rejected the dragon.
When it had been flowing in one direction, it was the most powerful force in the world, but now it collided from the opposite direction. Unable to overcome the two enormous forces, cracks began to form in the world. The repeated cracks from repeated regressions to the past began to grow larger.
It was a sign of collapse.
A passage connecting to another world where the power of this world does not work.
That’s how the ‘Door of Farewell’ was created.
[This is the timeline separator]Orbis could not get rid of the Door of Farewell. He could do everything in this world at will, but he could not affect anything beyond this world even a little bit.
In the end, Orbis built a tower to cover the door. He made spiral stairs around it, and created a door with magic on the last floor so that no one could go up.
“Please, I beg you. Anyone, please free me from Orbis.”
The door to the stairwell opened at Litania’s desperate prayer. She approached the Door of Farewell.
“Litania, don’t go.”
“If I leave this world, you can no longer do anything to me.”
A means to escape from Orbis had been created. The Wishing Stone led Litania to the Door of Farewell.
She was swallowed by an enormous light and disappeared.
Until now, even when he lost her, at least her body remained here, but now she disappeared without a trace.
‘No, if the Wishing Stone goes to another world.’
He needed the power of the Wishing Stone to meet Litania again. She and he had to be connected as husband and wife.
“Litania, please come back…”
Orbis collapsed in front of the Door of Farewell as if falling asleep.
Time went back.
[This is the timeline separator]“Litania.”
“…”
It was strange. He clearly turned back time and met her again, but strangely, she had no reaction.
She was just like an empty doll.
As if her soul had crossed over to another world and couldn’t return even when time was turned back.
“Litania, please…”
What went wrong? With an anxious mind, he couldn’t think of anything.
Orbis fell asleep with Litania. Their hearts beat together and stopped together.
He repeated going back like that several times.
Hoping that this time, this time she would come back.
‘Please. Let me meet her again.’
The desperate wish came true.
But it was not in the form he had experienced so far.
“Actually, I’m not Litania. I’m a possessor, I came from another world…”
He understood why she had been like an empty doll all this time.
‘So that’s why you were in another world.’
A smile formed involuntarily from relief. Orbis gently embraced her as she apologized and fumbled.
“I have been waiting for you.”
“Orbis…”
“What will it take for you to never leave me?”
She blinked in confusion, then smiled wryly as if she had no choice.
“Love me.”
“Gladly.”
Through repeated regressions, Orbis practiced a lot on how to love. He pondered and researched how to keep Litania from leaving him, how to make their love complete.
He tried imitating someone exactly, and mixing love stories from various people.
Litania was sometimes flustered and sometimes delighted by his love. It was difficult to match because her reactions were different each time.
‘Was love always this difficult?’
There was a time when I thought it was a simple and trivial emotion.
No matter how hard Orbis tried, his love was always off the mark somewhere. As knowledge accumulated without understanding, it became more and more difficult to know what was needed and what was not.
What started as small holes grew haphazardly until they became unmanageable, and then the same farewells he remembered kept repeating.
“If you cross that door, you will no longer be a person of this world.”
“I know. That’s why I’m going.”
She said.
That she had been under a huge misunderstanding.
That the cruel and ferocious dragon became a tender lover because she had possessed the female lead. That she had changed the devastating original work.
“I was a fool. I should have been suspicious.”
That there was no way the devastating original work ending with the death of the female lead who couldn’t endure the love of the insane dragon could so easily turn into a happy story.
“Orbis, I find your love so tiresome and terrible.”
He could commit cruel deception to the woman he loved without batting an eye.
He put her in a beautiful model garden and thought he was making her happy while watching her move around like a toy.
He was a man who could love like that.
“If you can really do anything for me, grant my request.”
All those happy memories of walking by the lake together, riding horses, dancing joyfully and making love were a dream, while all this sadness and despair was reality.
She could no longer bear it.
“Please, let us part ways.”
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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