I was making excuses somehow, trying to delay.
“Where’s that commoner smell coming from?”
‘Huh?’
For a moment, I thought I misheard something, so I opened my eyes wide and looked at them again.
“Oh my, really. Are you saying the terrible stench of this decaying nose is the smell of commoners?”
“I’d rather stick my nose in sewer water, hoho.”
The young ladies surrounding Maria burst into laughter.
I hadn’t misheard.
Now that I looked, Maria wasn’t playing with her friends; she was being bullied!
“Those, those naughty ones!”
In the original work, there was no story about Maria being bullied by noble young ladies. Perhaps, since the majority of the story progressed from Hagen’s perspective, this setting was omitted.
Even though I had been avoiding Maria for some reason, she was the coolest female character in my favorite work.
I couldn’t just pass by, so I confidently stepped into the terrace.
“What did you just say? Did you mention a smell?”
An eye for an eye! Tooth for a tooth!
Harsh words for harsh words!
“Yeah, it seems there’s a smell. It’s the dirty mouth smell coming from somewhere.”
I looked at the red-haired young lady who seemed to be the instigator, applying the nasty words I learned from Anselot.
In response, the flustered red-haired girl raised her voice towards me.
“The words you just said to me…!”
“Gasp! Wait, Lady Azelline. She is…”
At that moment, another young lady standing nearby interrupted the red-haired girl.
“It’s her, it’s her! The one from the Azeister Empire…”
“What? That Salto’s…?”
The red-haired girl, belatedly recognizing me, became astonished and contemplative.
“What’s with you? Why are you staring at people like that?”
I glared at them with determination in my eyes.
Of course, I knew why they were looking at me with such fearful eyes.
Salto’s lover, “Luvell Azeister,” had already become a figure not to be underestimated, just like Salto.
Having keenly felt this fact during the morning walk, I glared at them fiercely, squinting my eyes.
“I thought only your mouth smelled, but did your eyeballs rot too?”
“Gasp! S-sorry!”
The young ladies who were bothering Maria, frightened by a single gesture, apologized and withdrew.
[SYSTEM] Saved from danger. [Quest in progress]Watching their pitiful figures fleeing outside the terrace, I chuckled.
[Main Quest: Love and Duel! (1/3)] Completed!Anyway, thanks to them, the quest unexpectedly succeeded.
[SYSTEM] Quest success! [SYSTEM] Obtained 25,000 experience points. [SYSTEM] Level up! (Lv. 39) [SYSTEM] Obtained 10 skill points. [SYSTEM] ‘s favorability has reached the maximum. [SYSTEM] feels passionate love for you.Passionate… what?
Thinking for a moment that there might be an error in the system message, I blinked my eyes.
Maria, blushing shyly, spoke to me.
“Thank you, Luvell. Oh, is it okay to call you Luvell?”
Seems like she learned my name somewhere along the way.
“I didn’t know the hero who saved me was Princess Luvell. You’ve already saved me three times from danger.”
“Usually, people rescue others from danger by picking up dropped items or checking the clock on the clock tower. They don’t usually say they rescued someone from danger, right?”
Awkwardly laughing, I asked, and Maria’s eyes twinkled brightly.
“Princess Luvell’s extended helping hand was a great grace for me.”
Unexpectedly, multiple choices appeared.
[1. (Winking after putting an arm around her waist) Miss, your charming beauty is the true salvation.(Approaching as if to kiss) If so, may I repay that favor in a way I desire?
(Holding hands and with a serene voice) If coincidences repeat, could it be fate?]
‘Wow… Piya, seriously, what a taste.’
Seeing the cringeworthy and terrible choices that were no less than the previous ones, I swallowed my bad words.
No, but isn’t option 2 sexual harassment? Why should we sync mouths or something?
Beep!
Despite Piya tilting her head as if she didn’t know what the problem was, Maria looked at me fervently.
Among the options, I chose the relatively moderate option 3.
“If coincidences repeat, could it be fate?”
Wanting to bite my tongue for betraying my will with the overly immersed voice of fate that escaped my mouth.
And at that very moment.
“Your Highness, here……”
Opening the terrace curtain, Anselot entered, and we locked eyes.
Anselot paused for a moment and then echoed exactly what I had just said.
“If coincidences… repeat, it’s fate…”
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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