After thinking for a while, she sighed deeply.
“Do I have to wait a little longer until more memories return…….”
A place that’s unfamiliar, too unfamiliar.
Maybe it’s better than going blindly without knowing anything.
Lamein, who had folded the map, slowly scanned the library shelves.
Many books, tightly filling the shelves.
“It’s like a university library.”
She had almost read all the books in Lamein’s library once.
“I need to take some books.”
She began to scan the books on the shelves, moving her steps slowly.
Lamein, who had been moving, suddenly stopped.
This situation somehow felt familiar.
‘Lamein must have come here often because she liked books.’
A faint smile spread on her lips.
It was amazing.
Living someone’s life, and recalling the path someone had passed through.
“It would have been nice if she was a little happier.”
And it was sad.
“Yes. I just have to live happily from now on.”
Shaking off her sadness, she stopped as she walked in front of the shelf.
She looked at the books placed at her eye level.
Her lips spread into a clear smile again.
“That’s right.”
With a slightly deeper smile, Lamein approached the shelf.
“I wanted to stop here for some reason.”
On the shelf were books about plants lined up in a row.
She pulled out a book and began to flip through it, page by page.
A book about plants that grow in the Martin Kingdom.
It was not as detailed as Lamein’s book, but it seemed like it would be helpful.
“You’re the one I choose for now.”
She hugged the book to her chest and exited the library.
As she walked down the hallway, she opened the book she had been holding.
‘It looks like the medicinal herbs I saw in Lamein’s book.’
She continued walking slowly, concentrating on the contents of the book.
As she turned the corner at the end of the long hallway, stretching her foot.
“……Ah!”
With a strong shock to the top of her foot and shin, her body swayed.
……Ah. The flowerpots.
She belatedly thought of the kneehigh flowerpots lined up at the corner of the corridor, but it was already too late.
Her offbalanced body began to slump forward.
“Kyaaak!”
Thump!
The book she was holding to her chest fell to the floor.
And just as she was imagining herself smashing the flowerpot with her body and becoming covered in dirt, and tightly closing her eyes.
“……!”
She opened her eyes wide at the strong force around her waist.
Her feet that were attached to the floor floated up.
Her body, defying gravity, seemed to be sucked and drawn into one place.
The moment she felt a solid touch on her back.
As soon as her momentarily levitating feet touched the floor, she whirled around.
“Ce… Cedric!”
When she, incredibly surprised, quickly raised her head.
A man, in a distance so close it would tangle her breath in a second.
He was looking at her with surprised eyes.
A moment of silence passed.
Lamein swallowed hard, imagining how she almost hugged a flowerpot and fell to the ground.
At that moment, Cedric, who slightly narrowed his eyes, soon chuckled.
“……How can I not worry when you’re like this?”
And he let out a barely audible voice.
When Lamein blinked her wideopen eyes, not hearing his words clearly.
“Do you know?”
A bit clearer than before, but still whispering.
“Lately, I’ve been worried about you…….”
Like the eyes that are quietly touching.
“I feel like I’m going crazy.”
His serene voice moistened her ear.
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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