“To the eternal peace of the Marta Empire.”
Having left the stage, Viare approached a group of young ladies of her age, spotting familiar faces.
“You’ve arrived early, my lady.”
“Thank you for coming, everyone. Are you enjoying the party?”
Pleased with the atmosphere of the party, the ladies all nodded with bright faces.
Ashtera, standing beside them, exclaimed in admiration.
“Thanks to you. Such a splendid party is a first for me.”
“I’m glad to hear that.”
Viare’s birthday party continued splendidly, and as she entertained the guests, the day began to fade.
However, Dension was nowhere to be seen at the party.
‘Is it still too early? He wasn’t this late before.’
Viare, glancing occasionally towards the walls, felt her anxiety growing as he still hadn’t arrived.
Then, Ashtera, looking around, whispered just loud enough for them to hear.
“Looks like the Duke of Verdeum isn’t attending this time either?”
As the name of the man she had been constantly thinking about was mentioned, Viare stiffened slightly and said.
“He seems to be a bit late.”
One of the ladies with clear eyes naively joked.
“Shouldn’t he have arrived by now? He didn’t even show up at his debutante.”
The conversation turned to Dension Verdeum, and the surrounding chatter grew.
“It seems we won’t be seeing the Duke this year either.”
“Seems like it, doesn’t it?”
With their murmuring causing her a headache, Viare excused herself to catch some fresh air in the garden.
Looking up at the night sky, filled with the same distant, twinkling stars, she thought.
‘I just wanted to watch over you from afar.’
Even if it was just self-satisfaction.
“It’s pathetic of me, who doesn’t even have the right, to be doing this.”
Viare thought that coming outside would relieve her stifled breath, but the feeling of suffocation only intensified.
Despite knowing she shouldn’t, she was waiting for Dension.
He was different from the past, still not showing up.
“But still, you never know.”
Unable to ignore her growing longing for Dension, she decided to indulge herself just this once.
She wanted to see him, even if only for a brief moment.
Thus, she began walking towards a place filled with memories of him.
Ignoring the blisters caused by her shoes, she hastened her steps without hesitation.
Even without any plan for what to do if she met him, her emotions overpowered her reason, driving her to seek out Dension.
Arriving at a lush thicket of vines, Viare’s heart pounded like a drum, filled with anxiety.
“What should I do if you’re not here either?”
Fear grew in her at the thought that if she couldn’t find him here, even their last point of connection might completely vanish.
Viare, who passed the fence densely covered in climbing vines as before, stooped to carefully enter through a small passage.
Straightening up, she looked eagerly around the spot where he used to sit but found herself unable to speak.
“In the end, you didn’t come.”
He was nowhere to be found.
Why Dension hadn’t come, whether something had happened to him on his way, resentful questions twirled chaotically in her mind.
Despite her denial, Viare, who had been waiting for him, felt her eyelids grow hot and her throat begin to choke.
“Why aren’t you the same when I am…”
The disappearance of even one precious memory with Dension made her flounder in loss and yearning.
Viare, who had been crouched down with her head lowered for a long time, had to struggle to compose her emotions.
She had to return, whether she wanted to or not.
As she moved her heavy steps towards the banquet hall, her hair fluttered in the cool autumn evening breeze.
While weakly walking through the garden, a strong hand suddenly grasped her delicate arm.
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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