Lea stopped walking as she looked around the lavishly decorated mansion.
Nobles, adorned dazzlingly enough to be dizzying, each wore masks covering half of their faces.
Was it because Akkia, whom she had seen in the capital, felt like a different person? Unable to refuse the request of Wayne Viscount Youngsik, who asked her to attend together, Lea sighed unknowingly.
‘Why did I agree to come to this exhausting place…’
Lea sighed, unnoticed by Viscount Youngsik, as she looked at the viscount with pink hair that cascaded down to his waist.
As Lea sipped champagne, the viscount pulled her along.
“I’m called Laphne. Greetings, Youngs. Here are Derek and Tane.”
As Youngs Viscount introduced her to two noble gentlemen, who seemed more like nicknames than proper titles, Lea turned around.
Approaching her, the man closest to the inner circle of the gathering kissed the back of Lea’s hand.
“What is the beautiful Youngs’s name?”
“Lil… no, Lily. My name is Lily.”
Lea was about to say her original name unintentionally but quickly changed it. Since she had to introduce herself with a pseudonym chosen for today’s masked ball, Lily was the alias Lea had come up with.
“A fitting name for a beautiful and delicate Youngs like a lily. If you don’t have a partner today, how about being with us, Youngs?”
Lea felt uncomfortable with the man’s oily gaze. Moreover, since he had approached her so intimately after using his title, Lea was uncomfortable with his close proximity.
‘Ha.’
She was about to refuse, thinking it was a poor attempt at a pickup line. As Lea turned away, a Youngs who laughed heartily at her rejection appeared.
“Oh my. Derek, how did you… know my heart so well?”
“Well, it’s obvious. We get along well, Youngs.”
“Kkerr. Derek, really.”
Seeing the two already clinging to each other as if they were lovers, Lea couldn’t bring herself to say she wanted to leave.
Helplessly going along with them, she soon found herself looking out the window at the darkening night.
‘I should go back now.’
Just as she was about to say that she had to go, Dmitry seemed worried. It was in that moment that Viscount Youngs and Derek were already exchanging deep breaths.
Furthermore, not only the two of them but also couples entangled in various places around them came into view. In an instant, Lea’s face turned red.
‘Crazy.’
I heard that noble social parties could be scandalous, but I didn’t expect it to be to this extent. It was a party Akkia attended on impulse because he was annoyed.
Just as Lea was about to turn around, thinking that this was too much, Tane’s voice, who had gone to fetch champagne, caught Lea’s footsteps.
“Where are you going, Lily?”
“I’ll just go now.”
As Lea turned around as if to leave immediately, Tane grabbed her waist in a single motion.
“What are you doing? Let go!”
“Why are you leaving now? Look around.”
Lea hastily scanned her surroundings.
Despite the glass shattering and making quite a loud noise, no one turned their heads. Like a world where only pleasure mattered, people were faithful to their instincts.
“You came to enjoy it too, right? I’ll treat you well, so just stay still.”
At the moment when the man chuckled and disheveled Lea’s waist,
“Stop that.”
Along with the familiar scent of jasmine brushing against her nose, a large hand emerging from somewhere pulled Lea away.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“What the hell are you doing to my girl?”
At the man’s response, Tane narrowed his eyes for a moment. Then, in no time, he bit his lips at Akkia’s fierce gaze revealed through the mask.
“Damn it, if there was a man, say it in advance!”
And by the time Lea regained her senses, the man had already run away into the distance. It was unbelievable that there was a sober person in this animalistic den.
It was the moment when Lea was about to express her gratitude politely.
“At the Bellarus Duke’s place.”
Hearing the voice, Lea raised her surprised face.
‘How does he know about my family…’
It was a man with pitch-black hair, like swallowing the night sky. Among the people she knew, no one had such a black hair color.
“You should know that you shouldn’t come to such places recklessly, right?”
The man slowly raised his hand, starting to loosen the strings of the mask that covered his face. The black wig covering his hair fell off, revealing golden hair scattered in the air.
And as Lea met the man’s crimson eyes gradually revealed behind the mask, her whole body stiffened.
“Lea.”
The man was Akkia.
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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