Hades’ brow furrowed upon hearing the question.
“……”
“Say it out loud.”
“…What nonsense-”
“-Ah, just do it!”
Hades glared at Hermes with cold eyes, but uncharacteristically burst out in anger.
Come to think of it, he showed none of his usual playfulness.
Hades, who had hesitated for a moment, finally added cautiously.
“I refuse. Even if I think I’m lacking, when I reflect on my actions, I haven’t done anything shameful so far.”
“Really?”
“I swear by the River Styx.”
Hermes’ eyes flew open.
An oath on the River Styx is an inviolable promise that even gods must keep.
Breaking the oath results in falling into a coma for several years.
Hermes seemed to realize something was amiss when the oath on the River Styx was brought up.
For a moment, he moved his facial muscles freely, then put his ear close to Hades’ heart.
“Strange, liars’ hearts beat fast. Hades, did you already faint from breaking the oath? Why is your heart beating so slowly?”
“……”
“Or could it be that you don’t think what you did was wrong? Ah geez, that would be even worse……”
“…Any more and I’ll imprison you in Tartarus for contempt and defamation. Shut up and explain why you’re acting like this.”
Hades pushed Hermes away as he tried to check his pulse.
Hermes rubbed his forehead and shook his head.
“Fine. Since you swore on the Styx, I guess I have no choice but to believe you… But I want to ask one thing.”
“What is it?”
“Kore, did you hit her with your chariot on purpose?”
Hades’ entire body froze. Hermes confidently raised his index finger and adjusted his hat.
“If you really did that, I cannot comply with your request as the god of righteous thieves!”
Hades’ composure smacked his cheek and boldly ran away. He sharply retorted.
“Just what kind of person do you think I am?”
“Huh? Well, I was considering the possibility that you’re trash who hit a girl you liked with a chariot, and when you couldn’t catch her, you even resorted to threatening the messenger god.”
“……”
“I heard rumors that you even fantasized about marrying that girl.”
“…Who. Me?”
As Hades pointed to himself, Hermes jumped up.
“Hydra and Thanatos said so! According to them, Hades was renovating the palace for his ‘bride’, and the identity of that runaway ‘bride’ was Kore, whom Hades hit with his chariot!”
“When did I say I had someone I loved?”
“What?”
“Well.”
“Don’t tell me you’re trying to deny it?”
“Do you think I’m like you?”
“…Uh, huh?”
The focus slowly began to disappear from Hermes’ eyes.
Hades groaned and buried his face in one hand. He had a feeling that something had gotten very tangled up.
“Bring Thanatos and Hydra.”
“What?”
“Hurry!”
[This is the timeline separator]Hades took in Hermes leaning against the corridor wall.
“Hehe……”
Though he was grinning, he fidgeted with his fingers, seemingly embarrassed.
He had wondered why there was a misunderstanding that he tried to kidnap Kore, but it seemed that Thanatos and Hydra, who didn’t know he had hit her with his chariot, mistakenly thought she was his superior’s ‘runaway bride’.
The first one to explain to was Hermes.
“I have no relationship with Kore. We’ve never met before.”
Hades called Hermes separately and explained that he had absolutely no intention of getting married, and that Kore’s attempt to escape the underworld was likely just because she wanted to return to the world of the living.
“Ah, so you really weren’t trying to kidnap her?”
Hermes smiled brightly, as if all his questions had finally been answered.
Hades sighed and lightly tapped the corridor wall with his knuckles.
“Do you understand now?”
“Yes, of course! That girl should still be in the underworld, so I’ll quickly go look for her in the meantime.”
Hermes raised his hand to his forehead in a salute. A faint smile tugged at the corners of Hades’ mouth.
“It’s a miracle you didn’t go to Sister Demeter first.”
“That’s right. Consider yourself lucky that I came to declare war on you instead of going to my mother’s side.”
“You’re acting smug after making such a ridiculous misunderstanding. If you can’t trust me that much, after you find Kore, contact me and then take her to Demeter first. I’ll apologize to both my sister and that child at once.”
“Understood.”
Hades drew back the tapestry from the window for Hermes.
The messenger god took off from the windowsill and flew across the sky of the underworld at the speed of light.
Returning to his office, Hades now scanned Hydra and Thanatos sitting in a row against one wall.
‘They’re not children being punished or anything…’
Seeing them quietly handling paperwork gave him a strangely nostalgic feeling.
“Hydra, bring the list you wrote.”
When Hades gestured to Hydra, she silently handed over a piece of paper.
At the bottom was written the last item for the guest room that Hydra had noted.
[Friend(?)]“……”
The moment he saw that problematic word, Hades had a realization.
Ah, she must have misheard the word again…
Hades handed the paper back to the dejected Hydra, then touched the end of the paper.
“Not friend, but bedding. Things like pillows to use on the bed.”
“Ah… So it wasn’t a companion for conversation that was needed.”
“…That’s right.”
Hydra picked up a reed pen with an embarrassed look. She erased ‘friend’ with the sharp tip and wrote ‘bedding’ instead.
Hades, who had been watching that action, suddenly threw out a question.
“But how did the word ‘friend’ become ‘bride’?”
Then Thanatos, sitting next to Hydra, calmly admitted.
[Ah, that was me. I apologize.]“How on earth?”
Thanatos shook his head and continued his explanation.
[I thought there was a possibility that Hydra had heard bride as friend.]“……”
[And the colors you wrote down were exactly the colors used in weddings. Especially the yellow and red were very noticeable.]
“…I see, I understand now.”
Hades looked at Thanatos with eyes that said ‘I didn’t expect you to do this too’.
Thanatos’ wings drooped dejectedly as if soaked in water.
Hades, seated in his chair, glanced at his assistant who was silently handling paperwork.
“Hydra.”
“Yes?”
“I’ll commission the palace renovation myself, so don’t take on this task.”
Hydra, shocked, swayed her head in place. Barely regaining her balance, she turned to look at her superior, trembling.
“T-Then does this mean I don’t need to go outside anymore?”
“That’s right. There’s no need for you to go out. I’ll do it instead. That should be enough.”
“……”
“Any complaints?”
“…No, sir.”
Hydra responded quietly, lifting the corners of her mouth – though her eyes weren’t smiling.
Right after, as Hydra muttered about failing to escape the underworld, Thanatos quibbled behind her, saying, ‘That should be called an outing, not an escape.’
Hades sighed as he watched Hydra’s hand finally rise to Thanatos’ face, and him turning his cheek to dodge her fist.
‘When you look at them one by one, they’re quite capable talents, but why do they become 0.5 persons when they gather?’
Their work efficiency drops to a quarter, no less.
While Hydra could be excused since she hadn’t been able to communicate verbally for long, Thanatos, being the son of Nyx, was even higher in rank than Hades himself…
‘I wonder how such fellows ended up gathering.’
Hades, who was actually the very person who had gathered these ‘fellows’, let out a deep sigh.
To stop them from fighting like siblings or enemies, he spoke to Thanatos.
“Thanatos, aren’t you older than me? You had already held a position in the underworld before I came here.”
[Years lived and mental age are different things. I tend to adjust my mental age according to the level of my counterpart.]At the word ‘mental age’, Hydra hissed like a cat.
She began processing paperwork with one hand and two eyes, while fiercely attacking Thanatos with her other hand.
“If only you couldn’t speak……”
Hades clicked his tongue and shook his head.
Just then, a messenger bird flew to Thanatos’ side.
It was a messenger bird wearing bronze armor on its chest.
As Hades raised an eyebrow, Thanatos spoke.
[I had sent messenger birds to the underworld wall guards to search for Demeter’s daughter. It seems the reply is arriving now.]“Give it to me first.”
Hades stretched out his hand.
After receiving the messenger bird from Thanatos, Hades drew up dark energy centered around his blood vessels.
As he manifested his divine power, letters scrawled in black writing soon appeared in the air.
[‘Kore’ is trying to cross over the wall.]“This is maddening……”
Hades’ expression changed drastically.
Sure enough, it seemed she was struggling to even cross over the wall this time.
Hades’ gaze quickly swept over the sentences as his mind raced.
[Impersonating Demeter’s assistant, Hecate.]Hades’ eyes widened.
Wasn’t Hecate the goddess who hovered around Demeter?
Using her name, it seemed this Kore child was quite bold, taking after her mother.
A helpless smile spread across his lips.
‘Well, she should be stopped at the level of the soldiers anyway.’
Even if she didn’t want to stop, she would have to. They are strong, after all.
However, his eyes like the night sea truly began to waver when Hades read the next sentence.
[Adamantly refusing the soldiers’ pleas to stay.]
“What…!”
[Without support, the soldiers are in danger!]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.
_____
Please help me, I want to bring you the best possible things.
If you find any chapter or novel with poor translation and editing quality, let me know by commenting directly under that novel or chapter. I will retranslate it as soon as possible.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
