Aciee_GelaTin

All she wanted was to love and be loved, but what she kept getting was either fake love or nothing at all.

Seraphine has the power to seduce people. She unwillingly makes men fall for her and breaks their hearts. To avoid that, she often disguises herself as plain and boring. The only ones who can resist her charms are those who are truly in love – 

As well as the cold-hearted Crown Prince who seems to be an exemption.

"You? A dangerous huntress? You’re mistaken, milady. Nothing's more dangerous than a man who's been seduced - not even a succubus."

Despite his handsome looks, impressive accomplishments, and overflowing charisma, Eric wasn't interested in anything other than the throne. Love didn't exist in his world. He's a tyrant in the making and an untamable beast.

But now, His Highness has a new target other than the throne.

"Wanna see who's more dangerous? An inexperienced succubus who really can't seduce a man if it's not for her power or a predator who's raring to devour his prey at this very second?"

Seraphine thinks that Eric can be quite a beast indeed, especially with that hungry gaze of his that keeps brimming with wants and needs.

--- Story Synopsis ---

Seraphine is secretly a succubus who already lived two lifetimes. 

During her first life, she lived in the modern world as this lonely orphan whose love was always unrequited. In her second one, she was a Count's adopted daughter who had an unrivaled beauty that made the Duke fall for her. 

While she died feeling unloved in her first life, she was killed by a deadly form of love in her second one. Because she used to thirst for affection before, she allowed the abusive and obsessive Duke to lock her up until the day she died -

Without her knowing that he was cheating on her, that all the people she trusted had betrayed her, and that the love she was receiving the whole time was not genuine after all.

When she and everyone else found out that she was actually a succubus, they burnt her to death while she was still locked up. They thought that she was a demoness who deceived them into thinking that she was a goddess.

Now that Seraphine woke up to her third life, she won't crave for love anymore. She won’t pursue anyone’s affection again. Instead, she wants to learn how to love herself more. 

That's until Seraphine met the unattractive and shabby-looking Eric one day who turned out to be the Crown Prince in disguise.

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Succubus - a demon or supernatural entity in female form that appears in dreams to seduce men.

[Warning: Mature Content]

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The Tyrant Prince and His Succubus

Only when Eric told Seraphine about it did she realize that she had actually done something that she kept avoiding all this time.


She swore that she would never get close to anyone again. Though there was the probability that he was not influenced by her power as a succubus, considering that he was blind and he had certain circumstances that made his kind treatment to her understandable, she did not want to take another shot at that cycle of abandonment and estrangement.


Aside from that, it would not be good for Eric to stay with Seraphine.


First of all, she can't provide for both of them. She is even barely surviving on her own. They'll only bring each other down - she'll only bring him down, rather. The palace is where he truly belongs and not in the streets. There, he can unleash his hidden potentials, get all the training and studying he needs to develop, earn power for himself, and most of all, have a better chance of surviving than her.


'Though I condemn that he's being mistreated and discriminated for his physical disability, I can't give him a better life. I don't even know what I'll do after I send him to Baron Carmina. The orphanage is no good anymore. Those scums from the underground might go after me again, especially after learning what we have done back in the auction,' Seraphine thought in silence, trying to figure out what to do at this point.


"I don't want to be separated from you, Seraphine..." Eric continued after earning nothing but her silence and sensing that she was going to turn him down.


"If I have to live out in the streets or something, then I will do it."


"Eric, you can't be saying that you want to be a street child now. Life is crueler there than what you think."


"Besides, you promised me something, right?"


That's when she cups both of his cheeks and starts stroking them, making him blush and feel giddy.


As he thought, her touches are so soothing and warm that he is afraid he might begin craving for more of them. It may be because he was never treated this way by anyone before, but even when it was someone else who first did it, he was sure that her existence was already engraved deep within him.


"Go and build you own world..." Seraphine trailed off, repeating what she said when they were still at the backstage.


"You promised me that you'd do it, right? I know it'll be tough, but I have faith that you can do it. You did manage to rescue me earlier, and you can so much more. Don't let anything stop you - not even your blindness nor that darkness you told me about."


"S-Still, I don't think I-I can," Eric stammered out, deeply touched by how much she believed in him.


"Yes, you can. I'll be working hard too. Let's struggle more - endure for a while longer. I'm sure it'll be worth it in the end - I assure you."


If Seraphine continues talking like that, Eric thinks that he will definitely end up yielding.


"Four days at most. We can reach the castle where Baron Carmina lives in four days."


Clement explained everything they had to do after Seraphine expressed her intention to see Helios.


Being able to earn back a portion of her trust is enough for him. That is the only reason why he chooses not to question this plan of hers. He doesn't even deserve being by her side like this again, and he understands why she remains wary and estranged to him despite everything he did to help.


All Clement can do is be of assistance to Seraphine and Eric in order to make up for the terrible things he has done - not like he expects he will really be forgiven in the end.


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