Please Break Up with Me, I Beg! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 5
“What, what are you doing?”
Litania, who had been dazed by the handsome man’s beauty, was startled when something touched her sensitive lips and quickly distanced herself from him.
“I’m sorry. You weren’t speaking, so I wondered if perhaps this time your voice wouldn’t come out.”
“What? What do you mean by that…….”
No matter how you look at it, grabbing the chin of a woman he’s meeting for the first time and touching her lips is too forward. Litania warily created some distance from the man.
‘He was so beautiful that I was entranced, but he’s a bit strange. I should keep my distance.’
Don’t they say beautiful flowers have thorns?
The man was excessively enchanting for Litania, who sought a safe life.
‘Getting close would bring great misfortune.’
She didn’t know much about physiognomy, but that’s how it felt.
“Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. I was so entranced by your beauty.”
That’s what I should say, Litania thought to herself.
They say a beautiful face holds a beautiful heart, but isn’t this excessive praise for a woman he’s just met?
It was more problematic because it didn’t sound like mere formality.
Isn’t this handsome man’s standard of beauty a bit off?
“I am Orbis.”
“Orbis…….”
“It means world, or universe.”
“Yes, I see.”
Your beauty is this world and the universe. The most handsome man in the world…….
Whoever named him, it suits perfectly.
“And here, um…… yes, I hold the title of marquess.”
“Ah, so you’re a marquess…….”
Speaking with such a radiant smile made everything spin, to the point where she couldn’t tell if he was introducing himself or explaining insurance terms.
Fortunately, Litania’s ears, unlike her eyes, clumsily caught the necessary information and sent it to her brain.
‘A marquess……. Yes, a status that makes sense with that beauty.’
With this level of handsomeness, he must be the male lead.
Though rarer than archduke or duke male leads, marquess male leads exist sometimes. A marquess would have a territory far away, perfect for cutting ties with the imperial palace and living apart.
‘But did a male lead like this appear in the books I’ve read?’
The beauty of romance fantasy male leads goes without saying, and after black-haired ones, blond ones are common, but Orbis’s characteristic was his long hair.
Long-haired male leads are rare, and the name Orbis is unique, so she should remember, yet Litania was certain he was the male lead but couldn’t figure out which novel this was.
“Um, my name is Litania…… Beriverbium. I’m a princess, and this is my first time attending a ball.”
“This is my first time as well.”
“What? Really?”
“Is this what they call fate?”
Orbis smiled brightly and extended his hand to Litania.
“May I request a dance? Princess Litania.”
“Ah…….”
As if enchanted, Litania was about to place her hand when she remembered the state of her skirt and quickly withdrew it.
“I’m sorry. I can’t accept the dance request.”
“Have I perhaps been rude?”
“No. It’s not Orbis’s fault, it’s mine.”
Litania tightly gripped the red cloak covering her skirt.
“It’s embarrassing, but earlier while absentmindedly walking the corridor, a cart splashed mud on my skirt.”
“Oh, the rain has troubled you.”
“It’s not exactly because of the rain…… um, yes. It would have been better if it didn’t rain.”
“Yes, indeed.”
Orbis lightly nodded and pointed to the red cloak she was holding.
“Then what about this?”
“Ah, a knight who saw my wet skirt draped this over me. To cover it.”
“You don’t need to cover it, Litania.”
“No, it’s embarrassing…….”
“You say that with a shy face, making me want to back off, but covering with a cloak won’t make the stains from the harsh rain disappear.”
“…….”
It seemed the man wanted to see the state of Litania’s skirt. Or rather, he wanted to remove the red cloak she was covering with.
‘He seems a bit strange.’
With such blindingly handsome looks and a subtle coaxing voice, her mind grew hazy, and her hand moved on its own.
Plop. The large cloak fell to the floor.
Orbis was already kneeling on one knee in front of her, examining the stains on her skirt.
“Mud is splattered here.”
“Um, please don’t look like that. It’s embarrassing…….”
“No need to worry, little lady. I will make it unembarrassing for you.”
A hand in white gloves slowly moved over Litania’s mud-splattered skirt. An elegant motion like gliding over water. From the tip of the pristine white glove, something sparkling like stars flowed down and melted the stains away.
“Huh?”
“There, it’s clean now.”
The skirt, which had been speckled with mud, was now pristine as new. Litania stared at Orbis in bewilderment.
Their eyes met, and he smiled brightly.
“Now you don’t have to be embarrassed.”
“O-Orbis…… are you a magician?”
“Something like that.”
So he was a magician. Yes. Magician male leads were once popular. Not my taste, but…… Litania nodded absentmindedly and sighed.
“Thank you, Orbis. I didn’t expect it to become this clean.”
“I was troubled because I quite liked the look of your troubled face.”
“……What?”
“Helping a lady in distress is a gentleman’s duty.”
That didn’t seem to be what he meant earlier. Did I mishear?
Anyway, thanks to Orbis fixing it with magic, she escaped the fate of just sitting on the second-floor sofa watching. Litania decided to be honestly grateful.
“Thank you, Orbis. You are a gentleman.”
“Then, would requesting a dance now not be rude?”
“I never thought it was rude from the beginning.”
Litania smiled and placed her hand on Orbis’s. The large hand in white gloves grasped her small one and straightened up.
The lightened skirt fluttered gently.
Following the melody from downstairs, the two danced along the second-floor railing.
‘Wow. What a nice scent.’
A refreshing fragrance, neither too strong nor too faint, lingered at the tip of her nose.
Feeling the firm arm around her waist and the soft flowing blond hair, Litania felt her initial wariness gradually fading.
‘We haven’t even known each other for an hour, yet the development of sweetly flirting and requesting a dance at first meeting……. It’s nice, but is it okay for things to flow this easily?’
Something’s off. It is off.
But dancing in his arms made her feel dreamily hazy, unable to discern what was wrong.
“Orbis. The second floor isn’t in use for this ball, so it shouldn’t stand out…… how did you see me and approach?”
“My eyes only see what is necessary. I can find your figure quickly.”
His way of speaking was a bit unique. It wasn’t really an answer to the question.
Suspicious. It should be suspicious.
‘Yes. No one can have everything. He could be a handsome eccentric. The classic healing type is a kind man missing a screw…….’
Her mind, entranced by his beauty, was forcibly rationalizing the situation. Is beauty plausibility?
Litania’s reason was half-melted by Orbis’s melting smile and voice, and she was stepping on his feet mercilessly, but since Orbis showed no sign, she didn’t even realize.
“I’m truly glad to have met you, Litania.”
A handsome man smiles at me. Says he’s glad to meet me. Then, I’m glad too. Isn’t beauty happiness itself?
A smile naturally formed. Litania gave up controlling her rising lips. She answered with a beaming smile.
“Me too, Orbis.”
“Then shall we get married?”
“Yes, that sounds goo…….”
Answering as if enchanted, Litania suddenly snapped back to her senses.
“What?”
Marriage?
“Are you crazy?”
Litania shook off Orbis’s hand and tried to step back three paces but staggered. Her mind cleared as if doused with cold water, and chills ran down her spine.
‘Isn’t he a lunatic?’
No wonder things were going too smoothly.
There are men who approach showing favor from the first meeting, but this crosses the line. No matter how entranced by beauty, there’s a limit.
Litania was confident in handling a handsome man missing a screw, but she didn’t want to be near a complete nutcase.
‘Could he not be the male lead but the mastermind?’
Dangerous. If entranced by beauty and led along, she might vanish without a trace.
Why, there are such tales in ghost stories.
‘Surely the genre of the novel I possessed isn’t horror instead of romance fantasy?’
Litania shook her head to dispel the prickling at her throat and grabbed the railing.
“We just met. And marriage?”
“Ah, I see.”
Orbis slowly blinked.
“Yes. This time it was the first.”
This time?
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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Only an obsession—nothing else—could explain his mad belief that if everyone els
I understood why, when he met her, he asked if she was able to speak in the early chapters.
I wish to help this gentle, foolish princess remain unaware of the world’s filth
The worst misunderstanding. When he learns her true feelings and personality, he will definitely run away from her😂
“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! 😔
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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.