With the attendant backing up my words, Kaern no longer insisted.
“Where will you be?”
“What? Oh, I’ll stay here.”
I casually answered, indicating that I would stay in the banquet hall.
“……Alright. I’ll be back then.”
“Yes. Please go.”
As Kaern slowly shifted his gaze away from me and stepped away towards where the emperor was, a satisfied smile formed on my face.
‘Good.’
Once Kaern left, the nobles who had been gathering around dispersed quickly.
Having overcome the first hurdle, I went to get a cool drink that was nearby and quenched my thirst.
The drink going down my parched throat gave me a moment to catch my breath.
Thanks to that, I realized how tense I had been while standing beside Kaern.
Fortunately, my heart, which had been racing until now, was slowly returning to normal.
Not knowing when Kaern would return, I hurriedly scanned the banquet hall to find people I knew.
But then, a familiar yet strangely unfamiliar face of a man approached me.
“Helena!”
The man called out to me with a happy voice.
“……Lucas?”
“Yes, it’s me.”
Lucas, whom I hadn’t seen since graduating from the academy, had changed a bit.
It had been so long since I’d seen him that I couldn’t say for sure, but he seemed to have grown taller and more muscular.
“Is it really you, Lucas?”
“Yes, it’s me. Why? Do I look that different?”
“Not just a little, a lot different.”
“Haha. Really?”
Lucas replied with an embarrassed and shy smile.
“I went away from the capital for a while for knight training.”
“Training?”
“Yes. I’m thinking of applying for the imperial guard.”
“Oh, right. Lucas, you had a talent for swordsmanship, didn’t you?”
“You remember that?”
“Of course, I remember.”
“Helena…….”
Lucas looked at me with a face full of emotion.
Was it that touching that I remembered?
Everyone at the academy knew Lucas was good with a sword.
Although he had a humiliating past of being rejected by Adelia, Lucas Acker was one of the well-known figures at the academy.
Moreover, like many families of the empire’s ducal houses, the Acker family had a history of producing many war heroes and was a founding contributor to the empire.
Of course, they were not as powerful as the Laverion house where Kaern was a duke.
“Are you okay?”
“Huh? With what?”
Lucas’ unexpected question made me respond with a puzzled look.
“Me… Do I look okay?”
“Ah… um, you look good.”
“Really? For real?”
“Yes.”
“That’s a relief.”
I wasn’t sure what he found relieving, but Lucas brightened up with a wide smile at my response.
“But you didn’t come to this banquet with Adelia, did you?”
“Huh? Uh, no. Adelia didn’t come today.”
Even after all this time, Lucas seemed unable to let go of his feelings for Adelia.
Could it be that he doesn’t know about her marriage?
That seemed unlikely.
Adelia’s marriage to Calix was a major event that had the whole capital abuzz, as it united two ducal families.
Oh, he said he went away for knight training.
He must have been too far away for training and missed the news.
Realizing through our conversation that Lucas was still unaware of this fact, I cautiously began to tell him about Adelia’s marriage.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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