The Regressed Empress Tames the Hunting Dog (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 1
In a gorgeous and antique room.
Bellia stared blankly out the window, waiting for someone who would soon burst in.
As expected, not long after, the bedroom door swung open with a rough noise.
Along with the murmuring noise of the maids, a man with a cold expression entered the room without hesitation.
“Empress.”
Even at the voice calling her, Bellia did not turn around.
The man, who looked disapprovingly at her attitude, shrugged his shoulders. But soon, with a chilly smile, he sat in the empty seat across from her.
“No matter how bad your health is, isn’t this too much for the emperor of a nation?”
It was a friendly and affectionate tone, as if whining to a lover. But Bellia almost burst out laughing in disbelief at those words.
Too much. What exactly?
Did the man who took everything from her even have the right to say such things?
“Just say what you were going to say.”
“……”
“Anyway, in front of me, there’s no need for such pathetic acting, is there?”
“Ha, fine.”
The emperor let out a deflating sound and soon shook the bell on the table.
Then the maids came in and prepared tea time in perfect order. Even the pastries she had once told him she liked in the distant past, and strong-scented black tea.
“Let’s enjoy tea time together.”
As the emperor said that and poured the black tea, Bellia burst into loud laughter, as if she had heard a ridiculously funny joke.
“……Why are you laughing?”
“Because I doubt if what Your Majesty said to me is true.”
It had already been 8 years since she became empress and entered the imperial palace.
During that time, she had tea time with the emperor only twice.
Bellia understood and accepted his neglectful attitude. He must be very busy now that he’s on the emperor’s seat, so it can’t be helped.
He loves me. So she tried to believe that this was a situation he didn’t want either.
‘……I was really foolish.’
At that moment, the emperor offered her the tea poured into the cup.
“Drink it.”
“I don’t want to.”
“……You have to drink this.”
At the lowered voice of the emperor, Bellia, as if realizing something, forced her lips open and asked.
“Is it poison?”
The emperor did not answer.
Bellia was convinced that this cup of tea was prepared to kill her.
“Did you have to take everything from me like this? How can you be so vicious!”
“I will spare your only brother. I promise not to touch your kingdom anymore. So I hope you drink this yourself.”
Bellia bit her lip to swallow the surging emotions.
But unable to hold back her miserable feelings, she cried out desperately.
“Liar!”
Then she swept the teacup and saucer on the table to the floor.
Crash, the sound of breaking dishes echoed throughout the room.
“Did you think I wouldn’t know that you hid the fact that my brother died on the battlefield!”
Her fist, clenched tightly, trembled.
It was hard to control her anger.
Father, mother, brother, and even her younger sibling—all killed by the emperor. Her homeland also collapsed by this man’s hand.
Yet he repeated lies with such a brazen face.
“Haa. If you know everything, the story will be quick.”
The emperor said coldly, brushing his hair back as if annoyed.
When he gestured toward where the maids were standing, new black tea and pastries were prepared again.
“I hope you’ll die now, Bellia.”
He pointed to the teacup in front of Bellia.
It was an indifferent and bored expression, without even a trace of pity, like an object he owned was no longer needed.
This must have been his true self.
Why was she deceived by his outward actions and words and ruined everything?
Bellia regretted every moment she spent with the emperor.
In the end, nothing remained by her side now.
“……”
She had no lingering attachment to continue living this hellish life after losing everything.
But what about the Ronica Kingdom after she disappeared too?
As the only royalty of Ronica, she could not meet her end like this. Even if pitiful and miserable, she had to live.
Bellia stared straight at the teacup the emperor offered and held out to the end.
However, the emperor did not want to waste time.
He endured the annoyance, stood up, and approached Bellia.
With rough hands that had no affection left, he grabbed her chin and poured the contents of the teacup into her mouth.
“Mmph!!”
“Drink.”
It was an indifferent voice without highs or lows.
“Mmmph!!”
He gripped harder to prevent her delicate face from shaking her head.
Then he shoved every last drop into her mouth.
“Cough!”
In that short time as the emperor put the empty teacup back on the table.
The poison that went down her throat felt like it was burning hotly throughout her body.
Her insides twisted, and her stomach hurt as if it was tearing.
Bellia clenched her fists so hard that her nails dug in and blood came from her hands, enduring the pain.
But soon something welled up from inside.
“Cough!”
She hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, but dark red blood flowed between her white fingers.
“Bellia. Thank you. You made the empire stronger.”
The emperor said to the dying Bellia with cold eyes that contained no emotion.
“But you will remain as a vicious and cruel wicked woman who offered her country to seduce me and became empress, while Erzé will remain as the kind and wise empress who led the empire’s golden age.”
Erzé……. Erzé!
Bellia felt utterly miserable.
Her heart was plunged into the mud until the very last moment.
Erzé, whom the emperor loved, would smile like a flower, receive his and the people’s love, and live a happy life.
Bellia, who gave everything and endured, had to remain as the wicked woman of the ages, denying her lifelong achievements and losing her life like this.
Why? Wasn’t it the emperor who clung saying he loved her?
Yet why did she alone have to end her life so unjustly?
From Bellia’s eyes, red from burst blood vessels due to the extreme pain, a single transparent and poignant tear fell.
As the emperor indifferently watched that sight and slowly stood up to leave the room.
“……Emperor, I curse you.”
A pitiful woman who couldn’t even sit in a chair, collapsed on the floor unable to control her body, poured curses at the emperor.
“I curse the time I loved you. I curse you who destroyed my country and drove my family to death!”
As Bellia spat out a blood-curdling scream, the emperor walked toward her with heavy steps.
“……Bellia. The more you hold on, the more painful it will be.”
It sounded kind at first glance.
But this too was mockery.
Bellia somehow put strength in her arms to support her body. She couldn’t die like this.
However, her poisoned body couldn’t hold on at all and collapsed to the floor again.
The emperor looked down emotionlessly at Bellia writhing on the floor.
“You will never……. live a peaceful life……. Even if I die, my grudge will lead you to unhappiness…….!”
Even while vomiting blood, Bellia did not stop cursing.
“Your future……. will suffer……. forever…….!”
“Haa. This is tiresome.”
If only I could go back to the past, I would never.
“……You…….”
‘I would not love you.’
Bellia’s voice was no longer heard.
The emperor wiped the tea on his hand as if displeased and said.
“Oh dear. Tea spilled on the carpet. The floor is dirty, so clean it up.”
Then he lightly kicked the dead empress with his foot and turned around without regret, leaving the room.
[This is the timeline separator]“You’ll catch a cold if you sleep here.”
Bellia opened her eyes, frowning at the sunlight.
In her blurry vision, she saw the emperor with an extremely affectionate face, touching her forehead.
……What is this?
‘I should be dead…….?’
Moreover, why was the emperor who personally gave her poison acting like this?
Goosebumps rose on Bellia’s arms.
“The wind is still cold……. But it seems you don’t have a fever.”
Bellia coldly slapped away his hand stroking her forehead.
It was a forceful touch that made a slapping sound.
The emperor looked a bit surprised but soon smiled awkwardly and said.
“It seems my efforts are still very insufficient.”
“……”
What on earth is this situation? And what is the emperor’s intention?
With the information given to her right now, she couldn’t figure anything out.
Why she, who was dying, was suddenly sleeping in the middle of the garden.
Why the emperor was acting so kindly and affectionately.
“I will try harder.”
“……What on earth……”
“Haha. I, who have fallen for you, have no choice but to try. Please open your heart. Princess Bellia.”
At the word princess, Bellia hurriedly looked around. It was a familiar scenery.
A warm and cozy place.
……It was the Ronica Kingdom.
Moreover, the palace garden that Bellia liked very much.
“My feelings for you are sincere. So…….”
Bellia couldn’t give any answer and calmed her trembling heart.
Then she jumped up from her seat and ran to her room along the familiar path.
Not the desolate room where she lived as empress for 8 years, but into the warm embrace of her family.
‘……This makes no sense.’
With a pattering sound, as she hurriedly entered the castle, familiar faces greeted Bellia with bright smiles.
“Princess! Did you sleep in the garden again today?!”
“Princess Bellia!”
Even the maids who couldn’t escape the burning palace.
“Sister! Where did you go?! Abamama was looking for you earlier!”
“Clozé…….”
Even her younger sibling who ended her own life.
“Bellia. The first prince came again.”
Even her brother who lost his life on the battlefield.
“You’re spacing out today. Did the prince act rude to you?”
“No. No…….”
She felt like tears would burst out.
Everyone was alive.
‘How is this possible? Is it a dream…….?’
Bellia subtly raised her hand and pinched her cheek hard.
“Ah…….”
Her cheek stung painfully.
“Sister! Why are you suddenly pinching your cheek?!”
“It hurts…….”
With the stinging pain from her cheek, the moment she realized all this was reality, Bellia dropped tears she had been holding back and collapsed on the spot.
“Huh? Sister is crying?!”
“Sob…….”
At the sight of Bellia clutching her chest and sobbing, Clozé sat facing her with a worried expression and wiped her tears.
Herald, who was ahead, hurriedly ran over and checked her condition.
“Did the first prince act rude to you? Hmm?”
“Sisterrr. What happened? Why are you like this. Don’t cryyy.”
Bellia rubbed and wiped her blurry eyes.
The people in front of her were her longed-for younger sibling and older brother. She had to see them properly.
“I’m sorry……. Sob. I was wrong. It was all my fault…….”
Because she chose him, that’s why all this peaceful and lovely thing collapsed.
“What are you talking about, sister. Why? Did you steal my pudding?”
“Bellia. Did you have a nightmare?”
Nightmare. Yes, that was a terrible nightmare.
‘I came back to the past…….’
To the time when she was Princess Bellia of the Ronica Kingdom, not the empress of the empire.
” Your complexion is pale. I’ll tell Abamama, so you go to your room and rest.”
Bellia, who had been sobbing for a while at her brother’s patting hand on her back, gradually stopped crying.
‘……It’s not a dream. I really came back to the past.’
Moreover, to before she loved the emperor.
Funnily enough, she had returned to the moment when the emperor was clinging to her and courting her.
“Princess Bellia!”
The emperor who followed Bellia called her. No, right now he was the first prince.
Even as she looked at him giving her affectionate eyes, she only felt resentment and curse.
Her love for him had long since disappeared. So, as she desperately wished before dying, this time she would never choose him.
‘……This is a chance.’
She didn’t know why she came back to the past. But she wanted to return all that she had experienced to the emperor.
Bellia looked coldly at the first prince with a worried expression and thought.
‘So from now on, make him collapse miserably.’
The curse is just beginning.
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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Why the chapter stop here i want mooooore😭
Poor clozé her sister will go on another country to mary she will be allone
I wante to see the face of the first crown when he knows