Here’s the English translation of the provided Korean paragraph:

In a moment of anticipation, Blair stood in front of the door.

Today was her wedding day, and this room would be where she would spend her first night with her husband.

After standing still for a while, she knocked after covering her thin nightgown that revealed the curves of her body.

“…….?”

It seemed her husband had not yet come to the bedroom.

Blair let out a small relieved sigh and entered the room, sitting on the couch as she waited for her husband.

Ten minutes passed.

Thirty minutes, and then another thirty minutes.

Her husband had not arrived even after an hour. It was different from the past.

‘Is he not coming?’

While staring at the tightly closed door, Blair suddenly remembered what kind of marriage this was.

‘Right, this isn’t a real marriage; it’s a one-year contract marriage.’

A marriage arranged thoroughly for their respective purposes.

There was no need for them to fulfill the duties of a real married couple on their first night.

‘It’s probably better this way.’

Blair thought she might fall into the delusion that he loved her if they faced each other again, just as she did in the past.

‘Spending the night with him for just one day, on the day Asiel appeared, is enough.’

Today was not that day, so it didn’t matter.

Blair concluded that her husband wouldn’t come to her room tonight and took out paper and a pen from a drawer.

Then, she began calmly writing the contract that would prove this contract marriage.

When she completed the last sentence of the contract, warmth suddenly approached from behind, and a large hand of a man who had silently come closer touched the desk.

Startled, Blair turned around, and a man who had approached her back appeared.

Taller than ordinary men, a man with a perfectly built body that could be seen even through his overcoat.

Under his softly fluttering black hair, cool eyes resembling the summer night sky.

A man with an exceptionally beautiful face that could make anyone, whether male or female, momentarily hold their breath when they made eye contact.

Duke Herdin Delmarc.

Officially, he had become her husband today.

He looked into Blair’s eyes, who was surprised by his gaze, as if he could read her heart, and asked,

“Why do you look so surprised? Today is our first night; it’s natural for a husband and wife to spend the night together.”

“……I didn’t know you were coming.”

“Even though you’ve been waiting without sleeping until now?”

At his words that hit the mark, Blair tightly closed her lips.

“I was just waiting just in case. Be…cause it’s not polite to be asleep when you… I mean, when you come.”

Herdin’s eyes deepened at Blair’s use of ‘you’ as her address.

“It sounds like you were prepared to spend the first night together.”

Blair shivered at his touch on her cheek and his soft voice in her ear.

But what surprised her more than that was his story.

‘Why?’

In her past life, Herdin had accepted the unwanted marriage proposal from his brother to uncover the truth.

Their first night, their affection, and everything else were just a play to extract the truth.

So, in this life, before their marriage, Blair had proposed to him first.

‘If you accept my proposal, I’ll do my best to help you uncover the ‘truth of that day.”

Even without deceiving me, I’ll give you what you want.

So, I thought he wouldn’t act in a seductive play anymore, but why…

‘I had nothing to do with you once I found out the truth, right?’

Just like the past you.

However, he showed the opposite reaction from what Blair expected. In this somewhat bewildering situation for Blair, who thought he wouldn’t even come to her room, Herdin responded in a somewhat confusing manner.

“You don’t need to prepare to spend the first night together, but…”

“I want to.”
Here’s the English translation of the provided Korean paragraph:

His gaze, whispered softly, was fixed on her red lips. His hand, wrapped around her cheek, traced her lips with his thumb.

The heat radiating from his fingertips made her heart race faster and faster.

In that moment, Herdin, who had been looking at Blair’s lips, raised his gaze, and their eyes met.

“Right now.”

His blue eyes were filled with unfiltered, intense desire.

Blair, surprised by the raw desire, had no time to react before his lips came crashing down on hers.

Blair suddenly remembered that he was a man.

‘Men can intertwine with someone they don’t care about.’

Yeah, this wasn’t love. It wasn’t pretending to love for some other purpose either.

It was just a momentary desire.

Thinking this way made her feel more at ease. Blair closed her eyes as if she had come to terms with her confusion.

In the past, her unfamiliar and secretive acts with him had been scary and frightening.

His large build had felt like a beast ready to devour her or a prison that caged her.

Yet, she had fallen in love with the way his eyes, focused only on her, and the warmth of his embrace made her feel.

‘But now, I won’t be deceived by that warmth.’

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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