The deep night came to the Duke Roger’s residence.
A quiet room where even the moonlight streaming through the window seemed to make a sound.
Gulp.
Lamein, who was leaning tightly against the window, swallowed her dry saliva.
“Lamein.”
The movements of the man coming closer, unbuttoning his shirt buttons one by one with his long fingers, were fatal enough to be precarious.
“I can’t understand it at all.”
Even in his calm voice, it seemed to growl like a starving beast.
“Ced…Cedric. What exactly do you not understand?”
There was nowhere else to retreat.
Her mind was full of the thought that she had to stop him.
“Don’t you wonder why I get strange when I see only you?”
Lamein’s violet eyes, which had been lingering on her husband’s face, slowly flowed down.
The curved chest muscles revealed through the undone shirt heaved heavily.
‘…No. Why is he like this all of a sudden?’
She was anxious as if her husband was about to do something, yet she couldn’t understand why he was behaving like this, and she only felt frustrated.
The gap between the two narrowed in an instant.
“Wait a minute! Cedric! You seem too excited!”
Lamein, flustered, reached out one hand to her chest as if to stop him.
At that moment, a big hand seemed to catch her wrist.
Cedric, holding her slender wrist tightly, had a vein bulging on the back of his hand.
“You order me to be excited, and then tell me not to be excited.”
At his low, grumbling voice, Lamein swallowed her dry saliva again.
The husband who ran in the rain with a sick body to save himself, and was now feverishly sick.
All she had done was worry about her sick husband and come to his room.
And she was just wiping her husband’s sweaty, asleep face and neck with a cloth.
“Did I say something wrong?”
Suddenly her husband stood up and said this.
A piercing, hot gaze was caught.
Lamein, who had hesitated, met Cedric’s eyes squarely.
“Hah…”
She didn’t know what to do, so she was constantly letting out faint breaths.
Cedric’s eyes creased.
A flash seemed to sweep over his blue pupils, the light flashing.
“Lamein. You seem to have no awareness.”
“……Yes?”
Why again this time?
“Every single one of your actions makes me this way.”
…I was just breathing, you know?
Is it because I breathed the same breath that everyone in the world breathes?
I tried to let out a sigh at the frustrating thought, but I held it in. Instead.
“Cedric. You’re hurting now. I think you’re mistaken.”
She decided to try to calm him down again.
“Because…because you… What is it? Both your body and your brain are hurting right now, and they’re malfunctioning!”
Malfunction?? Is that the right word for this situation?
As she tried to collect her fleeting thoughts, his deeply colored eyes fell deeply as if they were going to drill in.
“So you’re saying I hurt every time I see you.”
“……Yes? What on earth are you talking about?”
Her round eyes blinked rapidly.
The husband who subtly creased his eyes swallowed his hot breath slowly.
“Thinking about it, I think you’re right. I seem to have been mistaken.”
Has he understood a little now?
Just as she was about to let out the sigh she had been holding.
“You didn’t do anything. Instead……”
The trailing end of his murky words somehow gave her a sense of unease.
“……!”
With the force pulling her waist, her slender body bent back like a thin tree branch.
Like a wave over the sea. Her blonde hair flew in waves.
He would not let her go tonight.
With a determination that seemed to have been made, the man’s big hand delved into her soft hair, clutching her round back of the head.
In the blink of an eye, without a chance to blink, she was completely pulled into the strong man’s arms.
A dangerously close distance where their lips would overlap with just a slight movement.
Her husband’s hot breath, which was constantly flowing out, wet her moist lips.
Thump, thump. The indistinguishable sound of a heartbeat filled her ears.
It was then, as she was slowly swallowing the breath she couldn’t let out.
“I think I’m crazy about you, Lamein.”
…What? What did you say?
‘Wait a minute. Isn’t this a situation where he shouldn’t be saying he’s crazy about me?’
The moment she thought that.
“Uh……!”
The hot breath that had been lingering on the edge of her lips covered her lips.
A strange sensation engulfed her body in an instant.
Lamein’s slender shoulders instinctively trembled.
Like a sun that had collected all the heat of the world.
Lamein, who was eagerly accepting the fiery kiss all over her body, slightly narrowed her eyes that had been tightly closed.
“Excuse me. What am I supposed to do if you suddenly do this?”
The plan began to go astray.
[This is the time separator]Before she was incarnated in this world, she was a righteous and warmhearted doctor.
However, a doctor without money and poor.
She, with no connections or delays, opened a small private hospital in the countryside.
Most of her patients were poor and without money. In other words, they were people from the lower income bracket.
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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