Platinum blonde hair and skyblue eyes, as if light green jewels were embedded in them. Masculine, sculpted, and sharp features, even the mouth tightly closed.
A handsome man, dressed in a pure knight’s armor, with gold embossing on a white background, as if he had just completed a mission.
I opened my mouth when I saw him.
Because he was Michael, one of the best knights and a submale lead in the work.
You bastard, you shouldn’t be here now!
“This damn thing.”
I’m doomed. I never thought Michael would be staying at the capital’s main temple at this time.
“I thought he had made a lonely exit somewhere since the original work ended……!”
The original work has already ended. The female lead and male lead are married.
So what happens to the submale leads?
As a longtime reader of romantic fiction, I’ve seen the following endings for submale leads:
They die.
They quietly bless the marriage of the female and male leads and then disappear without a trace, effectively being banished.
If tied to a subfemale lead, they might get a sequel, but the novel I’m involved in had no mercy for the submale leads.
I can only guess that the author who chose option 2 has stashed them all somewhere.
“So I thought he would surely be somewhere in the hinterlands, defeating evil or something.”
When did you come to the capital!
“Didn’t the temple ask why a person known for shunning them has come here?”
When I couldn’t answer, Michael furrowed his brow and urged me. His handsome face looked a bit ferocious, maybe because he had been jilted.
“But I’m still a noble lady.”
No matter how great a knight he was, it was utterly rude to a duchess.
I’ve decided to say everything I want to say now, having put away my villainous act.
I don’t usually hold back when someone picks a fight.
“Why are you here at this time? I heard you went on a pilgrimage for purification.”
At my words, Michael flinched. It seemed like he probably came to the capital because of the female protagonist.
“……I came to bestow blessings, as Her Highness the Crown Princess is getting married.”
Blessings, my foot.
‘How could the best knight bear to bestow blessings at the wedding of the woman he loved to another man?’
“I never saw you at the wedding, Sir Michael.”
“That’s……!”
‘He couldn’t enter.’
Even if he said he wished for her happiness, how could he watch the woman he loved marry another man with a good heart?
‘Besides, the Crown Prince, the original male lead, didn’t want the submale leads, including Michael, at the wedding.’
It was clear from the fact that he had come to the capital without even a wedding invitation.
The Crown Prince, that sly one, didn’t even send wedding invitations to the submale leads.
Without an invitation and yet not wanting to avoid the wedding altogether, he must be awkwardly lingering at the temple.
When I narrowed my eyes and scrutinized Michael, he sighed and avoided my gaze.
“……It doesn’t matter. I don’t know why I should be discussing this with you in the first place.”
“I feel the same. Do you think I feel good when I’m picked on for no reason, just because I don’t step foot in the temple?”
‘In such an urgent situation already!’
Hey, Side Male Lead 1 of the original work. Zombies are popping out at the palace right now. We’re not supposed to be arguing, we need to prepare to take down those zombies. Who knows how many more zombies will attack at this time!
Although Mihail made a displeased expression, he acknowledged that I was right and apologized.
“……I apologize, Princess. My personal emotions caused you inconvenience.”
“I understand.”
Knowing how cold the submale leads in this novel are towards the villainess, it was fortunate that I didn’t have any expectations.
I turned my back on Mihail and explained the reason for our visit to the priest who had greeted us first.
“It’s an emergency situation corresponding to war, Priest.”
“Yes?”
“A plague has started at the palace. Those who get infected turn into monsters with red eyes and bulging veins, biting people. I’m conveniently calling those monsters zombies.”
Calling infected humans monsters was too lengthy to pronounce. Since the Duke of Keaton had also been bitten by the crown prince, I was the one responsible for this group. It would be fine to name them zombies.
“Whaaat?”
At my words, the priest turned pale as if he heard the world was ending. Well, I also thought it would have a happy ending just a day ago, but it wasn’t.
I acted with all my might, pretending to be a noble young lady shedding tears over the tragic situation.
“Unfortunately, the Emperor and Empress are in an unknown state. The initial infector was the Crown Princess, and the Crown Prince became a zombie after biting the Princess. We have just confirmed this on our way here.”
“The Crown Princess was infected with the plague? Is that, is that true!”
Mihail, who had looked like he was listening to a scammer, reacted violently to the protagonist’s story. He grabbed my shoulders, demanding to know if it was true.
“Ugh. Please let go of this. I have evidence.”
‘It’s damn painful!’
I knew this would happen, so when the magicians arrived at the Duke’s estate, I had received a video recording artifact and had been secretly filming.
I handed the artifact hanging from my shoulder to one of the remaining magicians and gestured with my eyes. As he fumbled with the artifact, a scene was projected showing zombies swarming out of the palace in a horde.
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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