Asha playfully said,
“It’s not real flowers, so it should be fine, right?”
“What?”
“You have pollen allergies.”
Jackal’s eyes widened a bit.
“……You knew?”
“Yes. I noticed when I saw Shefi sneezing and having a runny nose.”
Jackal’s face turned red.
He had thought it was fortunate that he looked like a horse then, but now he wished he could hide in a mouse hole.
But Asha laughed innocently.
“It’s okay. Shefi’s runny nose looked cute.”
“…….”
Jackal, embarrassed, said nothing more and picked up a camelliashaped confectionery.
Then, it was Asha’s turn to stammer in embarrassment.
“You, you’re going to eat that? There are other pretty ones too…….”
In fact, that camellia was a confectionery she had made.
Although she had tasted confectionery before, it was her first time making one, and the ones Asha made were quite clumsy in shape.
Especially compared to the other women who had good hand skills, she was even more plain, and Asha had sneakily hidden her confectionery among the beautiful ones.
But Jackal said nonchalantly,
“To my eyes, this is the prettiest.”
“…….”
Asha turned her head without a word, but a small smile bloomed on her lips.
The people around discovered this and shook their heads back and forth.
Actually, Jackal knew at a glance that the confectionery was made by Asha.
He secretly swallowed a laugh and bit into the confectionery, then selectively ate only those likely made by her.
Seeing Jackal emptying the confectioneries she had made, Asha finally relaxed and headed toward Nazhi.
Nazhi was mesmerized by the new dessert.
He shoved a confectionery into his mouth and chewed with puffed cheeks, then gulped it down audibly.
It was uncertain whether he was tasting it.
Nazhi spoke with a dreamy face,
“Sister…… I think I’m really happy right now…….”
The organization members laughed.
“When were you not happy eating?”
Asha smiled brightly and pushed her ugly confectioneries to Nazhi as well, proudly saying,
“Nazhi, there’s plenty left, so don’t worry and eat a lot, got it?”
She was the youngest among the Ricayon, always taking care of her, so she wanted to give something back.
Nazhi’s eyes sparkled as he said sincerely,
“Yes! Thank you, sister!”
Nazhi inhaled several pieces in one bite again.
Although many of Asha’s creations were of unknown shapes, fortunately, Nazhi was simpleminded, so shapes didn’t matter if it was something to eat.
Observing his eating with contentment, Asha suddenly thought of the children she had left behind in the ethnic minority village and smiled slightly wistfully.
Jackal, who was watching the scene from the side, asked.
“Do you like children originally?”
Asha answered with a smile.
“Yes. When I lived in the minority village, I used to take care of the orphans in the village like my younger siblings. When I look at Najil, I think of those children I left behind in the village. I wonder if they are doing well…….”
Asha trailed off with a bitter face.
Perhaps when the village was attacked and she was taken to the palace, those children might have been killed.
At the time, she was so hurriedly taken to the palace that she couldn’t properly ascertain who had died and who had survived.
Back then, it was fortunate enough just to be alive, but she was worried whether the children who had followed her around sniffling and hungry were wellfed and living well.
But then it happened.
“……Captain! We have a request in Ricarion!”
The organization’s members, who were laughing and chatting, all stopped speaking and looked at the door at the patrolman’s words.
Everyone looked a little surprised.
Since they had not received any more requests since leaving their base, it was because the emperor had briefly issued an order to subdue Ricarion, and their image was not in a good state as the whole empire had heard about it.
Jackal spoke nonchalantly.
“The situation is not good right now. Tell them we are not accepting requests.”
“But this is not a hunting request, but a request to find someone. It came from the minority village.”
At those words, everyone’s expressions changed.
Jackal also hesitated for a moment, then turned his head and asked.
“A request from the minority village…?”
Ricarion and the minority village were never friendly, so they neither helped nor asked each other for assistance.
Seeing that they made a request to Ricarion, it seemed that something big had happened in the village.
Jackal took the request paper and read it seriously.
But his expression hardened as soon as he saw the content of the request.
“Why is that, Captain?”
Sosa and Geb were approaching as if curious, but Jackal just stared at the request in silence.
They glanced at the content of the request from behind and showed a similar reaction.
When all three of them closed their mouths, Asha felt uneasy.
“What’s going on? Is there some bad news written there?”
Jackal put down the request on the table and stared intently at Asha.
After a moment of silence, he quietly opened his mouth.
“……They say that there have been many disappearances in the village recently. Your name is among them too.”
Asha felt bad, thinking that the minority people must have worried about her disappearance.
It seemed they still didn’t know she was a butterfly.
But her eyes widened at Jackal’s following words.
“And the orphans you talked about in the village have also disappeared all at once.”
Asha was frozen in shock.
“The children… they’ve gone missing?”
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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