The sharp sensation digging into the skin became more and more vivid, and the senses that had drifted away began to return.
“Madam?”
Her blurred vision cleared, and her hearing returned.
“Madam?”
“Ah, yes?”
Although Gillian was right in front of her, making her jump, Bianca tried to respond as calmly as possible.
“Suddenly,”
“I felt a little dizzy.”
This was familiar to her.
It was a hallucination that had started in childhood.
In her ignorant days, she had told a servant about what she saw and heard, and rumors spread that she was crazy.
‘Little children tell lies to get attention.’
Around the age of 7, Bianca was assigned an arrogant manners teacher, and the matter ended not with her being mad but being a liar.
“Dizziness?”
“Yes.”
Bianca obediently answered Gillian’s question and covered her face.
Once the sound started to be heard, it usually rang two or three times.
‘Talk’ was independent of Bianca’s efforts.
It rang whenever it wanted, without regard to time or place.
Even sometimes, her body lost control and stretched out, causing injury more than once or twice.
The ringing always troubled Bianca, but today was different.
Why, of all times!
While anger welled up inside her, Bianca instinctively clutched her head and crouched down.
If Gillian had not pulled her in.
Bianca, surprised by the hand on her shoulder, reflexively raised her head.
“Madam, lean on me.”
Gillian was pulling her.
The touching golden eyes felt warm like sunlight.
Bianca blinked slowly.
Whether this was due to her senses coming back or if it was real, she could not distinguish well.
The voice still wasn’t heard.
But Bianca knew that she was premature to let her guard down.
She didn’t just hear ringing.
Sometimes she spoke with someone, looked at something, and felt emotions in a form other than herself.
It seemed like a fantasy, but it was a perfect reality at that moment.
The touch at her fingertips, the scent brushing her nose, the sound ringing in her ears.
The incredibly vivid senses drove Bianca mad.
So, when she heard the voice, she doubted everything around her and remained silent.
“Shh, it’s okay.”
‘Shh, it’s okay.’
A voice overlapped Gillian’s voice.
Like one, the two voices, overlapping, hummed softly.
Bianca tightly closed her eyes.
Had she been clutching her head earlier?
She couldn’t tell what was real and what wasn’t.
“It was a forced march. It’s natural to be tired.”
“……”
“It’s okay. Just sleep like this.”
When you open your eyes, it will be home.
Gillian’s voice faded away until it could no longer be heard.
“What on earth has happened? Isn’t this against our agreement?”
“That’s how things have turned out.”
The Crown Prince, Jeremy, wore a slightly apologetic expression, unable to hide his discomfort from Izar.
“Things have turned out that way? You have a habit of speaking lightly.”
“Your Highness Izar, it really was a situation that couldn’t be explained otherwise.”
How unlucky!
Bowing his head deeply in apology, Jeremy’s inner thoughts were in turmoil.
It had not even been half a day since the beast of Termina had run rampant and Izar had arrived.
The ruler of Kartan, located beyond the rugged mountain range to the east, Izar rarely visited Termina.
But what wind had blown!
Of all times.
Grinding his teeth in irritation, but dealing with the enraged Izar was solely his responsibility.
The Emperor, upon hearing that Izar had come, immediately summoned Jeremy.
‘You must meet His Highness Izar. Sending Bianca to Barlock was your idea, wasn’t it?’
‘But, Your Majesty. This is…!’
‘You started this, shouldn’t you be responsible?’
Indeed, it was so.
But had the Emperor forgotten?
That he too had agreed to send Bianca to Barlock?
Had he remembered the promise with Izar…
He would have known it would be a problem and should have objected!
Sending Bianca away hastily to save his own skin and now pretending ignorance!
Thinking about it made his blood boil.
But the master of Termina was none other than the Emperor, Ecliff Termina.
The owner of everything in the Termina Empire.
Jeremy was no exception.
He was the Crown Prince, not the Emperor, and the Emperor was not particularly attached to blood relations.
Indeed, as long as he could manipulate someone to his taste, the Emperor did not care who would become the next Emperor.
Until now, he had strategically used Bianca, who was hated by the Emperor, but now he could no longer do so.
Now was the time for him to focus solely on survival.
“So, will you explain what made it so that it had to happen this way?”
Slowly lifting his head at the threatening tone of Izar’s voice, Jeremy met his gaze.
He understood his feelings.
Last summer, didn’t he come to Termina himself and ask the Emperor to send Bianca as Queen to Kartan when she came of age?
Then, the gold he received was ten chesthigh boxes.
A single box of gold could easily buy a castle, possessing an enormous value.
And there were ten boxes.
Izar had said it was a small gift for an old friend, but it was undoubtedly Bianca’s dowry.
A marriage proposal personally delivered by the Emperor of a country, with a dowry not just ample but overflowing.
But after taking the money, hadn’t he essentially stolen Bianca away?
Izar’s anger was not unreasonable.
But to simply admit it would mean returning the ten boxes of gold, and it wouldn’t end there.
Swallowing his dry saliva, Jeremy slowly opened his mouth.
“Your Majesty. I’m simply sorry that I couldn’t kill Bianca sooner.”
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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