Eric silently looked down at Doana without a word in response to her statement. His expression was quite serious.
Doana anxiously waited for what would come out of Eric’s mouth, not knowing.
“I’ll take care of the butler. You just take care of yourself.”
At Eric’s words, Doana’s face brightened. She hugged Eric in his arms, shouting with joy in her heart.
Then, the sound of someone knocking on the door was heard.
“Who is it?”
“It’s Gwen, my lord.”
At the word Gwen, Eric’s eyebrows wrinkled.
“Come in.”
He spoke in a low voice, speaking to Gwen.
Gwen took a deep breath before opening the door to Eric’s room.
The first thing Gwen saw when she entered the room was Eric and his concubine, Doana.
“Aren’t you really happy? How wonderful it would be if he resembled our lord.”
Doana was sitting on Eric’s lap, cooing. Just a moment ago, she was saying that she was in pain.
‘Was it all fake?’
Her face was full of life. As soon as Gwen entered Eric’s room, Doana rolled her eyes.
‘An unlucky old woman.’
She hated Gwen. Because she insulted me who would become the duchess.
Doana glared at Gwen, stroking her lower abdomen.
‘Now I am the one who carries Eric’s child. If I grill Eric well, I can easily kick out that old woman.’
No one in the mansion believed Doana’s words, but Eric was quite swayed by Doana’s words.
“Doana, go out for a while.”
Eric commanded Doana, who was sitting on his lap.
Doana wanted to stay with him in this room, but she followed his command. Slowly rising from her seat, Doana defiantly held her belly.
She glanced at Gwen with a defiant look and brushed past her.
“Goodbye, old woman.”
Doana muttered an insinuating remark by the butler and slowly walked out of the room.
It didn’t feel good.
This morning, she had a sick face and was dragged to the hospital, but now she looked very confident at me.
“Gwen, there’s something I want to ask you.”
The cold voice of the Duke pricked Gwen’s ears.
“You must know. The cause of Doana’s face like that.”
“I’m not sure what you mean, my lord.”
Gwen consistently pretended not to know anything in response to Eric’s words.
She knew it was because of what Cedric had done, but she didn’t need to admit it.
At Gwen’s reply, Eric chuckled and curled his lips.
“That’s right. I like you because you’re tightlipped.”
He leaned back in his chair with an arrogant air.
“Pretending not to know even if you know, pretending to know even if you don’t know. Isn’t that the way to survive in this industry? In that sense, this job is a vocation for you, Gwen.”
What on earth did Eric want to say?
Gwen only stared quietly at Eric, who was beating around the bush instead of getting to the point.
“I’m curious. Who cleaned up the red cosmetics that Father personally sent?”
“……”
Is he trying to pin the delivery of the red cosmetics on me?
Gwen stared at Eric with a worried look.
“Did you lay a hand on Doana?”
“……What are you talking about? Absolutely not!”
“I’m telling you, I can blame all the things that happened yesterday and today on you.”
At Eric’s words, Gwen’s head went cold.
“Helping Father hurt my woman…… and even trying to covet my woman?”
“That’s a misunderstanding! I really have nothing to do with it.”
Gwen’s words were true.
Gwen couldn’t even imagine that Sedrick had committed such a terrible act.
The fact that he cleaned up the red bottle was nothing more than loyalty to his master, nothing more or less.
“Gwen, the truth doesn’t matter. I find all your actions displeasing.”
“……”
“It’s been over three years since I became a count. Now, I’m the master of this house. However, you’re still serving my father, not me, as your master.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t need someone like you who is loyal to my father, not me.”
“……!”
“So, please leave.”
Gwen was so breathless that she could hardly breathe.
She was heartbroken and dizzy at the thought of being expelled from the family she had served all her life.
“You’re fired.”
Eric ruthlessly kicked out the butler who had been serving loyally for over 30 years.
The butler, who had the ability to even revive a fallen family, was chased away without receiving any severance pay after a lifetime of devoted service to his master, treated worse than a dog.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“It’s raining a lot.”
A downpour poured outside the window.
Rosé muttered, looking at the rain falling so heavily that it blurred her vision.
The sky had been clear until the morning.
‘Is it a cloudburst?’
Rosé gazed out the window at the dark sky.
‘I should stay indoors on a day like this.’
Rosé didn’t like getting wet.
She enjoyed water games like swimming, but she felt very uncomfortable getting wet in her clothes.
Behind Rosé, who was leisurely watching outside the window, there was a sound of a door being opened with a bang!
Rosé was startled and looked back.
“Ma’am!”
The person who came into the room was Jane.
Jane was panting as if she had run a long way. Her eyes were full of clear tears.
Jane inhaled deeply and spoke in a trembling voice.
“The butler…… the butler has left the mansion!”
“What? Why all of a sudden?”
Rosé asked Jane back with wide eyes.
Jane burst into tears, apparently overwhelmed by emotion.
“The count…… the count kicked the butler out. Boo hoo!”
Jane cried like a little child. Her tears flowed down her cheeks without being wiped away, and her feet thumped the floor.
Could it be because of Doana?
The assault incident that nobody believed. The incident crossed Rosé’s mind.
“……When is he leaving?”
Rosé asked Jane with a troubled look.
Although she hadn’t spent a long time with Gwen, the favor she received from him was quite warm.
When she, who knew nothing, asked him to tutor her as a shot in the dark, he willingly supported her.
He always supported Rosé from behind, with a warmer smile than anyone else.
Thanks to him, she was able to quickly adapt to the world in the novel……
Now, he, who felt like a family member, was leaving, and Rosé’s mind was extremely unsettled.
“Hic…… He just left.”
“What?!”
She couldn’t even say a final goodbye……
Rosé looked at Jane with wide eyes and kicked the door open.
“Ma’am!”
She heard Jane’s voice calling her from behind, but Rosé ignored it and ran out.
Rosé, who had run out, stopped at the threshold leading to the garden.
Swoosh.
It was pouring as if there was a hole in the sky. The thick rain made her vision very blurry.
Rosé widened her eyes and quickly started looking for the butler.
‘He’s not in sight…… Did he already leave by carriage?’
As she anxiously chewed her lower lip and looked around, the slumped figure of the butler came into her view.
‘Found him!’
The butler, who was plodding along with his head down, without even holding an umbrella.
The sight of him alone in the heavy rain somehow looked pitiful.
She picked up an umbrella lying on the side. Then, she ran as fast as she could towards the butler.
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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