He will stay here for three days. During that time, I must protect Arkadia and establish a new relationship with Sion Belpast.
Slowly, I removed the half mask covering my face and looked at the freckled caterpillar. He seemed shocked, unable to take his eyes off me, or more precisely, off the unscarred half of my face.
“Freckled caterpillar, whatever your orders are, think carefully. If you don’t want to end up like me.”
He looked panicked. Apparently, revealing my face, partly as a threat, partly to instill fear, worked.
“What, what orders?”
“Whatever they are.”
I turned away from him. Then, he called out to me.
“Are you going to the Duke of the North’s victory ceremony tomorrow?”
“We’re not allowed outside the castle. Don’t you know?”
“I know. But…”
He trailed off, then mustered some courage to speak.
“I heard it’s going to be a pathetic victory ceremony. A maid who serves food was talking about it. I don’t want that.”
The freckled caterpillar left before I could reply.
He dislikes a pathetic ceremony? Now that I think about it, he did take the North’s side when fighting the eternal second.
I already know what will happen at tomorrow’s procession.
In my previous life, Rahel planned a ‘Silent Victory Ceremony,’ where the people who came to see the Duke of the North were intimidated into not uttering any welcome or cheers. And then…
Rahel hung massive bags of silver bellflowers in the celebratory fireworks. The flowers symbolizing the North were crushed to dust and fell to the ground, forcing the Northern Knights to trample on their own symbol.
A humiliating event that lingered in the gossips’ mouths for a long time, the so-called ‘Return of Humiliation.’
I didn’t want to welcome the Duke of the North, whom I met again in this life, in such a manner.
Where did they get all those silver bellflowers?
I recall hearing they were hidden within the Rahel Forest.
I wasn’t sure, but I had heard rumors of a hidden cluster of silver bellflowers within the forest.
I wandered aimlessly through the forest.
What was I trying to confirm?
Eventually, I reached the farthest part I had never seen before and found a vast field of silver bellflowers, hidden behind a massive barrier. However, most of the flowers were gone.
‘Again this time?’
That night.
I climbed the highest tower in the castle where the fireworks were prepared. Following the long fuse, I found massive amounts of gunpowder and bags of silver bellflowers connected to it.
As I suspected.
Rahel’s pettiness made me laugh. Unlike my previous life, the Duke of the North had formally requested this victory ceremony.
Even with the Emperor backing him, the most powerful man couldn’t do this. Especially when the Northern Duke’s family has an incomparable lineage and history.
“Bella. I hope your soul can come out of the darkness.”
Your words, echoing in my heart, made me close my eyes.
What did my soul look like to you, Duke Belpast?
Can you help me find my true self?
I climbed up and down the tower several times, removing all the bags of silver bellflowers. I then connected the bags of jasmine I had picked all day to the gunpowder.
The red jasmine loved by Medea.
A flower symbolizing Rahel, blooming everywhere in the Rahel Forest. There was enough to turn several Lenas in front of the castle into a flower path.
Sion Belpast, this is my first gift of atonement to you.
I hope that in this life, I can reach you as my true self.
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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