The Duke Only Needs My Child (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 26
“Blair.”
Herdin, who had been watching her anxiously, grabbed her slender arm and scolded her. Then, startled by the intensity of his own voice, he bit his lip.
Her arm, held in his grasp, seemed so fragile it might break with the slightest misapplied pressure, filling him with unease.
Herdin gathered his turbulent emotions, loosened his grip on her arm, and spoke.
“…You’re delirious right now. Calm down and just—”
“No, I don’t want to.”
Blair pulled her arm away before he could finish, resisting him. Her defiance made Herdin’s eyes waver.
She looked straight into his eyes and continued.
“I’ll clear your name if your innocence is proven by recovering my memories, but if it’s the truth… I’ll resent you for the rest of my life.”
She didn’t want to become a criminal trapped by a forgotten past whose truth she couldn’t discern, nor did she wish to suffer unjustly.
“I was… sad too.”
“……”
“I struggled as well.”
“……”
“It was frightening… having to doubt the one who loved me so dearly and my mother, having to verify the truth…”
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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Ohhhh, this is so interesting. If only I have more coins 🥺
Oh I hate the mother I only wish late empress to be alive and well also I want Blair’s brother is have awful ending
The ml is something else. Like why don’t he has a simple proper conversation or be honest
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“What in this world could possibly be more precious than ‘you’? If you swear on
This is so philosophical, here it reminds me of the: theory of everything by Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Where we considered the truth is the whole, we cannot understand any single concept, event, or object in isolation. Everything derives its meaning from its place within the entire interconnected totality of existence…
Maybe I’m thinking too much… and probably should sleep“So you see me as nothing but a lust-driven brute preying on a patient, is that
Lay it out straight and stop being cryptic if you don’t want to be misunderstood! There’s already a huge rift between them so he shouldn’t expect her to not think badly of him.
“Are you frightened?”
Don’t be fooled again girl! You have to get a grip of your feelings and have him experience the pain that you gone through in your past life.
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Vasundra Devi SK
Well this was adorable but I can’t seem to forgive the duke given situation Blair is also victim 😢
Vasundra Devi SK
Matter of fact I think priestess has to done something evil I don’t know my gut intuition says this
M Deepali
If he had been honest in the 1st tl but couldn’t help it
cillaa cillaa
“The part where he said, ‘I’m sad too, I’m having a hard time too’ was really heartbreaking. 🥺 All this time, he’s been blamed, suspected, and had to bear the burden of a past he doesn’t even remember. Even though…
Samkelisiwe Ziqubu
I feel sorry for both of them, they were only children when their whole world crumbled before them, they could have been friends if the circumstances were different.