“How hard it is for people who live in pain without having anything, how much they want to die sometimes!”
Even though she told herself not to get this worked up, her excitement didn’t subside.
“Of course, saving someone doesn’t change my life.”
Poor people without money, people who desperately needed someone’s help.
The gaze of those who looked at her as if she was the last light of the world came to mind.
“But do you know how it feels to watch those people?”
“….Lamein. What on earth are you saying?”
“You wouldn’t know how painful it is for someone like me, who needs to save someone else to survive, to only watch those people!”
She had turned her back on them for the sake of surviving, eating, and living.
As she remembered that time when the brutal reality trampled ruthlessly on her sense of mission as a doctor, her heart stung.
She hated repeating the same thing to the point of death.
Rough breath flowed out of her mouth.
For a moment, she remembered the faces of those who treated others’ lives like pieces of tissue in front of money.
The blue pupils in Cedric’s crumpled eyes deepened like a night sea.
‘Haa. I got too excited.’
For a man who probably doesn’t know anything.
The thought that the man in front of her must have been stunned by her excessive empathy came belatedly.
Lamein, who had been opening her eyes wide, gradually relaxed her eyelids and caught her breath.
‘Yeah. He even proposed a divorce. What can’t I say.’
She stared straight at the man whose thoughts were not known.
Silence wrapped between the two people who faced each other.
Tap, tap, tap.
Long fingers once again hit the table at a regular pace.
Just then, when she was glancing at his fingertips because they were somehow annoying.
“Let’s do that.”
She raised her eyes at his neat voice.
“I’ll give Rodel a new job as you wish.”
The man’s lips curled up slightly as he spat out a faint voice.
“Thank you.”
As Lamein spewed out her calmed voice, Cedric leaned back comfortably in his chair.
“Then I’ll go back now.”
Having achieved her purpose of visiting this place, there was no reason for her to face this man anymore.
And honestly, she didn’t want to sit face to face any longer.
“Let’s do that.”
At the same time Cedric’s words fell, Lamein got up.
The comfortable man picked up the teacup in front of him leisurely and brought it to his lips.
She captured his figure in her eyes for a moment and quickly turned around to leave the room.
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Roberto, standing straight at the door, looked slowly at Cedric sitting at the table by the window.
After Lamein left, he sat down for a while with a serious look.
‘What happened?’
He could hear Lamein’s excited voice over the door, but he couldn’t hear exactly what it was about.
“Roberto. If I need something, I’ll call you. Go rest now.”
“Yes.”
His serious gaze stuck to the window turned without hesitation towards Roberto standing at the door.
“Do you have something to say?”
“No.”
He says no, but his expression says otherwise.
Cedric’s eyebrows sprung up as if to hurry him up.
“You don’t seem to be feeling well.”
He couldn’t ask directly what happened between the two of them, so this was the best he could do.
“No, I don’t feel bad. Just…..”
Cedric, who had momentarily found his own shape, slowly crumpled his long eyes.
And then his pupils deepened as if lost in thought again.
“Hmm.”
Cedric, who seemed somehow unusual, spewed out a sound and straightened his body leaning on the chair.
And he stared straight at Roberto, who was still standing there.
“Who knows the fact that Lamein collapsed from eating a poison?”
“….Pardon?”
“Who knows?”
The sharp gaze seemed to urge a quick answer.
“Only the maid Jane who serves me and the madam, and a few servants and doctors who visited today know about this.”
Duke Roger and his wife, Killian and Selena had left the mansion on the invitation of the neighboring lord.
Given that it was quite an important and long journey, many people had left the mansion with them.
Cedric, his deep eyes lost in thought, slowly opened his tightly closed lips.
“I’ll cover it up.”
“……Yes?”
“I will cover up yesterday’s incident.”
Robert was startled.
“The moment yesterday’s incident leaks through someone’s mouth, I’ll hold you, Robert, accountable.”
And he swallowed his dry saliva.
Robert, who had served Cedric since he was young, knew exactly that he and Lamein were not in a normal marital relationship.
The only people in this mansion who knew this fact precisely were the two parties involved and himself.
Others could only vaguely guess.
‘What has been discussed between the two?’
He was bewildered by his strange command, which showed not a speck of affection towards her.
‘And why does he want to cover it up? Didn’t he want to drive the madam away?’
At that moment when a large question mark began to hover in his mind,
“I repeat, the moment rumors start, no one will be safe.”
A flash of lightning crossed above his blue eyes.
With his eyes, sharp as a blade, as if he would cut his throat, Robert was startled.
“Yes. I’ll keep that in mind.”
Robert, bending his waist towards his master who was acting strangely, quickly exited the room.
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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