Please Break Up with Me, I Beg! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 11
For the first time in her life, Litania froze solid upon facing a beast.
She wanted to grab her past self—who thought only tigers or bears qualified as beasts—and shake her hard. Why hadn’t she realized that even a leopard would be overwhelmingly threatening to an ordinary person?
In the dark forest, the creature with black fur appeared far larger. Despite the chilling sensation like needles pricking her fingertips, she couldn’t move.
‘I need to run, I have to escape… But my feet won’t budge……’
The thumping of her heart pounded in her ears. She should have forced herself onto a horse even if she didn’t know how to ride. Then she could have somehow fled.
Regrets were useless now; Baekma had already left. Litania, panting with breaths that wouldn’t come easily, belatedly noticed that one of the black panther’s eyes was strangely narrowed.
‘There’s an arrow stuck above its eye.’
The red feather on the arrow’s end was a symbol of the imperial family. If so, it was likely a black panther that one of her siblings had been hunting, which had escaped and come all the way here.
Judging by how faint the horn’s sound was, no one had noticed the black panther was here yet.
Drip. A drop of the beast’s blood fell onto the fallen leaves. The growling sound finally snapped her back to her senses, allowing her to put strength into her fingertips.
Since it was injured, its movements might be a bit slower.
Maybe she could escape.
Litania clenched her trembling hand into a fist and swallowed hard.
She shifted her heel back ever so slightly.
Grrr.
The beast glared with fierce golden eyes and bared its sharp fangs.
Litania ran without looking back.
She didn’t even feel the twigs scratching her cheeks or tearing her sleeves. As if time had slowed, the heavy footsteps of the beast echoed deeply. Her breath came in gasps, as if her throat was being choked.
‘I have to run faster.’
The fact that the forest was dark and dense, making it hard to find a path, didn’t matter now. The only thought in her mind was escaping the danger charging fiercely from behind.
‘Trying to avoid a dragon only to meet a leopard—am I truly fated to die no matter what?’
Please, someone help me.
That was the moment she wished for it. Like a light piercing the darkness, the trees densely filling the black forest parted, and bright light poured in.
But what awaited Litania was not a light of salvation.
What appeared before her eyes was not a clearing where people gathered, but a valley below a cliff and the massive mountain beyond it.
‘Good heavens.’
A cliff ahead. The black panther behind. There was no time to think. Feeling the hot breath on her nape, Litania screamed and jumped straight down.
One cliché from genre novels: People who fall from cliffs don’t die.
She didn’t know why that phrase suddenly came to mind. She saw the panther’s glowing eyes and the wind-shaken branches spinning upside down.
She was clearly falling, yet her body felt strangely buoyant in the air.
It was as if her heart was pulling her. The scenery rushed by quickly, like wet paint smeared with a brush.
“Litania!”
Strong arms pulled her waist firmly, and her body, which had felt weightless, suddenly grew heavy with a dull impact. Her blurred vision flickered black, then light returned.
Golden.
But it wasn’t the ferocious golden eyes of the black panther; it was gently sparkling golden hair.
“……Orbis.”
“You remembered my name.”
The blue eyes revealed between the golden strands narrowed. Litania blinked, momentarily unable to grasp the situation. The man shining like sunlight asked her.
“Shall I escort you like this?”
“Huh? Ah, no!”
As Litania, finally coming to her senses, flailed to escape Orbis’s arms, he fortunately released her soon after.
Litania, standing unsteadily on legs that still lacked strength, realized her situation and despaired. She had escaped the panther only to meet the dragon again.
‘No matter what, I’m fated to die—please, anything but that!’
Without meeting Orbis’s eyes, she awkwardly greeted him.
“Um, thank you for saving me.”
“Not at all.”
Orbis replied softly.
Despite being almost twice her size, he didn’t seem threatening—probably due to his delicate features and neat attire.
If she hadn’t known his true identity, or rather, the original story’s contents, Litania wouldn’t have feared Orbis.
If she hadn’t witnessed him smiling brightly while tearing human bodies apart, singing passionately of love while burning castles and piling corpses into mountains.
“Do you need the black panther’s pelt?”
“Ah, no.”
“Or perhaps to stuff it as a decoration in your room?”
“No!”
“If you’re aiming for first place in the hunt……”
“It’s a misunderstanding! I didn’t come here to hunt!”
“Is that so? You entered the forest without even meeting my eyes, so I thought you were very enthusiastic about the hunt.”
At Orbis’s indifferent words, Litania felt cold sweat running down her back.
He had indeed recognized her.
And in the midst of that, he didn’t think she was fleeing from him but assumed she was so focused on hunting, spinning a delusional circuit truly befitting a non-human being.
“Then, what shall I do with that black panther?”
A gloved white hand pointed upward. Looking up, she saw the black panther dangling from the cliff’s edge, its limbs flailing tiny in the distance.
She had jumped from that height—if Orbis hadn’t saved her, she would have gone straight to the afterlife. Litania, turning pale, shouted.
“You don’t need to do anything!”
“Is that so?”
As Orbis wiggled his finger, the black panther dangling from the cliff crashed into the bushes. The beast’s dying scream echoed, and Litania reflexively squeezed her eyes shut and shrank back.
Though it was a beast that had tried to harm her, feeling a life end was not pleasant at all.
Her coldly curled fingertips trembled, and Litania bowed her head deeply. A slightly lowered voice settled over her crown.
“Is there anything else you need?”
If she said no, something bad would definitely happen.
He might cause some incident until she needed something. That’s how unpredictable and incomprehensible beings were.
Feeling dizzy, Litania barely opened her mouth.
“Um, me. To the hunting grounds, no, um, to the square, please escort me.”
In her heart, she wanted to ask for instant teleportation to her room in the separate palace. But that would mean letting Orbis into her room, so she couldn’t say it.
“The square.”
“Yes, yes.”
“I’ll refuse.”
“……What?”
At the unexpected answer, Litania looked up and met Orbis’s eyes. His gentle smile made it hard to believe he had just refused her request.
“You, you said to say what I need.”
“I did. But upon thinking, it seems I have no reason to grant it.”
His expression looked kindly as if he’d grant any favor, but his words were completely opposite.
A bit confused, Litania asked.
“The divine dragon…… so you can do it.”
“It’s easy.”
“Then why……”
“Being able to do it doesn’t mean I must. Just as you could marry me but refused.”
“……Goodness.”
Litania was so dumbfounded she forgot to manage her expression and stared at Orbis in disbelief.
‘Is he really equating that to this? What kind of person is he?’
He wasn’t a person, after all.
‘Even so, isn’t this too much?’
Proposing on the first meeting— no matter how you look at it, the man who proposed is the problem. The woman who refused is blameless.
Any man who proposes right upon meeting would seem suspicious and be refused. After refusing, she realized he wasn’t just suspicious but a mad divine dragon, which horrified her more.
“Since you refused my request, I have the right to refuse yours. Right? Litania.”
If he was going to do this, why ask in the first place?
Litania couldn’t tell if the massive reptile before her was teasing her or seriously retaliating.
If it was the latter and he detached from her to find another partner, she’d welcome it with open arms.
“That’s not very gentlemanly.”
When people are too dumbfounded, they become honest instead. Litania ended up saying what she was thinking.
“Gentleman?”
As Orbis tilted his head slightly and repeated, Litania felt a pang in her chest.
‘Oh no, a slip of the tongue!’
But what’s said is said. Litania clenched both fists and took a deep breath. Fortunately, Orbis seemed merely puzzled by her words, not angry.
From the start, wasn’t he the man who claimed to love her while ruining her world and hurting her too? Trying to impress him would only lead to a dead end. Wouldn’t it be better to say what needed to be said?
“Helping a lady in crisis is a gentleman’s duty. Making things difficult for me just because I refused your proposal is not gentlemanly, and I don’t want to speak further with someone who isn’t a gentleman.”
“Oh dear.”
Orbis let out a small sigh.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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“The finest hunt is one where the prey never realizes it’s been caught.”
No, please, the man has crossed the line! Oh my God, I’ve fallen in love with his strange flirting style! 😔
Though Snow was much smaller than Litania, he carried her without any strain, la
With us and with you, the second hero, Snow, it is very clear that he will lose to the dragon. 🥲
“Was he so afraid of being scolded by Father? Why such an overreaction?”
What happened? Girl, if I were you, I would curse him and call him a fool!
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I hope she learns her lesson from that day and doesn’t think about entering the tower
Umm, things have gotten even more embarrassing. I don’t know what to say. (T∀T)
Their relationship has developed fairly well and smoothly, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they truly fell in love, but I’m afraid something bad might happen at the festival.