Six hours had passed since taking the new medicine. There was clearly nothing wrong when she had gone to bed to sleep.
“Hot.”
In the brief moment she had fallen asleep, her body began to heat up as if she had swallowed a ball of fire.
A feeling of suffocation constricting her body. Lea started to strip off her clothes one by one to escape the discomfort.
[Dash] Thud. [Dash] Thud.Her clothes fell to the floor one by one. Soon enough, Lea was left wearing only a thin chemise that barely covered her curves.
“Sigh….”
Lea managed to gather her wits and began to assess her condition.
“Is this a side effect…. ah.”
The heat radiating from her body and her quick breaths. She diligently noted these symptoms on a record sheet.
However, that lasted only a moment. A strange heaviness settled in her lower abdomen, and a moan involuntarily burst from her mouth.
‘My body feels strange….’
It felt different than being ill.
‘This feeling is like….’
She bit her lips, dismissing the impossible thought.
She tried to deny the chills coming from below, but that too was momentary. Lea’s body began to twist and contort.
‘Damn it.’
Something was definitely wrong.
What was happening to her body was undoubtedly a side effect. But this side effect was going in a direction she hadn’t anticipated.
“Hm….”
Eventually, Lea couldn’t hold back a moan. At that moment, the sound of knocking echoed.
[Dash] Creak, creak.The sound of the doorknob turning was heard.
‘No.’
Her instinct said so. No one should enter her room at this time. If someone entered, Lea was not confident she could handle the situation afterward.
But as always, desperate wishes are not granted. In response to the unanswered knock, whoever had come opened the door.
Lea barely turned her eyes toward the door. A thin stream of light seeped in, and soon someone revealed themselves.
“…Count….”
Lea tried to call out his name, but only a ragged breath came out. She barely extended her hand toward him.
“Lea?”
The Count, scanning the area as if searching for her, found her. He rushed over and kneeled beside her collapsed form.
“You, what is this….”
At that moment, his cold skin touched her forehead.
Did winter come for the Count alone?
She unwittingly nestled into the coolness against her fiery skin.
The Count flinched momentarily, but Lea had no time to care.
“You need to take antipyretics right now. Get up….”
As he tried to lift Lea, thinking he couldn’t leave her like this, her body ignited once more.
‘Thirsty.’
Her mouth dried up instantly as if it were a parched land. Searching for an oasis to live, Lea’s hand grabbed the man’s wrist.
Then she hesitated not and pulled his arm toward her. The cool and refreshing sensation from his wrist.
But that coldness did not last long. Unaware that she was on top of him, she lowered her head toward him.
‘I need more, more….’
“Count…ah, ah….”
Then she called out to him in a voice tinged with gasps.
“I’m, I’m so hot….”
Upon hearing her words, the Count, who was about to lift her, couldn’t move any further. Desperation was visible in Lea’s eyes.
“You, what is….”
Did he realize what he was saying?
His gaze moved upwards. The thin chemise revealing the curves of her body, the neckline that went down to her collarbone, and the hem barely covering her thighs.
The Count’s eyes narrowed as he looked at Lea.
Seeing her in such disarray, looking like that, how much.
“….”
He bit his lip quietly, as if holding something back. The moment he was about to open his mouth, blocked as if his throat was clogged.
Lea’s red hair, like her blood, poured over his face. It was just when he was about to brush away Lea’s hair that was tickling his cheek as if bewitched.
Lea’s face tilted towards him. An alluring voice flowed between Lea’s lips that seemed about to touch any moment now.
“Can’t hold back… ah… anymore…”
And then, even before the Count could respond, Lea deeply swallowed his lips.
Lea’s naughty hand, from where she learned he didn’t know, slipped between the Count’s shirt. A touch that started from the belly button and moved upwards, exploring an unknown world.
‘I should refuse.’
He should push away this touch and the woman clinging to him right now.
‘Why am I…’
Every time Lea’s touch reached him, the lower part of his body heavily asserted its presence. He swore, it was the first time. A woman who could blow away his rationality like this.
“…I’m going insane.”
He let go of his rationality, intoxicated by the heat she emitted. And as if to respond to her, he wrapped his hand around the back of Lea’s head.
As if to release the pentup energy, their lips interlocked flawlessly, neither being the first.
As the moonlight tilted, the intensity of their kissing only deepened.
(This is a time separator.)
The next day, Lea tossed in her bed, dazzled by the sunlight shining through the curtains.
“Uhm…”
Rubbing her eyes, Lea looked around. A familiar view she saw every morning, but something felt different.
“Why does it feel like I forgot something…?”
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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