But she didn’t dislike this place. Rather than the cramped one-room living from her previous life, this place was better.
Rose closed her eyes and slowly swept away the creaking bed.
“… If the business succeeds, I should first gift a mansion to my parents.”
Rather than an old and decrepit mansion, Rose wanted to buy a comfortable mansion for her parents. After spending a few days together, they already felt like her own parents.
At that moment, the sound of horse hooves could be heard outside the window.
“Oh, have you come already?”
Thinking that the Count and Countess Serviat had arrived, Rose got up from her seat.
She rushed to the door and swung it wide open.
“You’ve come…”
With a bright expression, Rose was about to greet Count and Countess Serviat when she saw someone standing outside the door. Her expression froze upon seeing Eric.
“…Why have you come here?”
Rose frowned and looked at Eric. Why would he come when he had already finished his wedding with another woman? Could it be that he came to personally deliver his remaining belongings at the Wentz Marquisate?
Rose glanced past Eric’s shoulder. Although she could see some knights in front of the carriage, not a single one seemed to be holding her luggage.
“Why are you here?”
With her fists clenched, Rose glared at Eric.
Arrogantly, Eric looked back at Rose and casually knocked on the door. Then, he wandered around the shabby mansion, frowned, and grumbled unpleasantly.
“No matter how many times I come, I can’t get used to this shabby place.”
“Enough with the useless talk. Just tell me why you’re here.”
It couldn’t be that he came to look down on her for living in such a place…
With a vigilant look, Rose stared at him, but Eric, without waiting for permission, entered the house on his own.
Still standing at the door, Rose shouted at Eric with a bewildered expression.
“Wait, why are you going in?!”
“Well, you weren’t going to treat the guest and were just going to leave me standing there, right?”
Guest-like words. Were they just planning to leave him standing there? Rose was thinking of sending Eric away immediately.
“What are you doing?”
“Coffee. Don’t put in sugar. I don’t like cheap sugar.”
Sitting on the table chair, Eric arrogantly spoke with his legs crossed over the dining table.
Without closing the door, Rose approached Eric and rebuked him.
“What should I do with this? We don’t have coffee in our house.”
Rose didn’t want to give Eric anything, not even a glass of cold water.
Knowing that Rose was deliberately belittling him, Eric was aware. However, whether she did that or not, he said what he had to say.
“Stop with the protest and come over here, holding my hand as if you’re losing.”
He continued, pressing his tired-looking eyes as if he was really tired.
“Don’t you see how I came all the way here despite the exhaustion right after the honeymoon?”
If you’re tired, rest. Why come all the way here and act like this?
Communication with Eric was not happening at all. He didn’t listen to anything Rose said and only said what he wanted.
“Who asked you to come? And why on earth are you bothering me when you’ve already remarried? Go live happily ever after with Dohanna, whom you love so much, by your new wife. Don’t bother me with this.”
“You… Aren’t you really bothered at all?”
“Of course not. I hoped you would feel heartbroken seeing me marry another woman, right?”
“It’s not about hoping. You’re the kind of person who only knows me, who lives for me.”
Eric lowered his legs from the table and stood up slowly. Then, as if he were about to embrace her at any moment, he reached out his hand.
“Why are you like this? Are you crazy? I don’t want to see you. Stop deluding yourself!”
Rose pushed Eric’s hand away and glared at him fiercely.
Unexpectedly, Eric’s chest stung at her unexpectedly cold attitude.
“Ha.”
He let out a low sigh and spoke to Rose in a coercive tone.
“In three years, I’ll reinstate you as the marchioness. So bear with it until then. I’ll admit Dohanna’s child under your care.”
Why is he suddenly talking about Dohanna’s child? Rose furrowed her brows and looked at Eric, and he opened his mouth as if frustrated.
“You, wanted to have a child, right? I’ll let you raise it.”
This man is clearly insane.
“Who wants to raise Dohanna’s child? I don’t want to. And I have no intention of entering your mansion.”
Raise the child of my ex-fiancée? It was undoubtedly a ridiculous proposal.
Trying to persuade Rose somehow, Eric was inadvertently irritated by Rose’s cold attitude.
“That’s why… If you hadn’t inherited the estate, none of this would have happened!”
Eric’s voice echoed sharply.
“What are you saying?”
Whose fault is it that I inherited the estate?
She didn’t want to deal with Eric anymore. Rose pushed Eric with all her might.
“Get out, get out of our house right now!”
Despite Rose’s fierce actions, Eric didn’t even blink.
Instead, he grabbed Rose’s wrist, who was hitting him.
At that moment,
Splash!
A downpour fell on Eric’s head unexpectedly.
In shock, Eric, who got hit by the downpour, looked at Rose’s father with a cold gaze and turned around.
The person who poured water on Eric was none other than Rose’s father.
He swung the bucket he was holding down to the ground. The bucket rolled on the wooden floor with a clattering sound.
“You! How dare you mutter something to my daughter!”
Perhaps fueled by rage, the demon grabbed Eric’s collar, and his flushed face glared at him, gripping his neck.
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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