Mayana’s eyes popped open with a gasp. She had sat up too dramatically, causing the blanket covering her to fall to the carriage floor.
It had been an uncomfortable and unpleasant dream. No, unpleasant wasn’t strong enough. Angrily, she clenched the pointed collar of the innocent blanket, then suddenly realized where she was and calmed herself.
“You don’t look good.”
The Duke, who was sitting opposite, said. The rain had stopped, and his voice was much clearer and louder than last night. He too seemed to have just awakened, his voice a little hoarse and cracked, yet still deep and sensual.
Mayana stared at him blankly. He must have just woken up, but he looked impossibly neat. His hair was not disheveled, nor were his handsome forehead or nose shining greasily.
The Duke asked again.
“Was your sleep very uncomfortable?”
Mayana immediately shook her head and answered.
“No, Your Grace. Just… I had a bad dream.”
“Hmm, seems like you dreamt of a former lover.”
That may have been an offhand comment from the Duke, but coincidentally, it was true. Mayana momentarily pulled a face, then turned her head and retied her disheveled hair.
“I don’t even want to call him a lover now. The thought of once considering marriage with such a guy is horrifying.”
The Duke feigned surprise, raised an eyebrow, and then chuckled.
Mayana asked,
“How much longer will it take?”
“We’ve already entered the Duke’s property. We’ll arrive soon.”
At that, Mayana looked out of the window again with a bewildered expression. All she saw was an endless line of trees.
Walnut and jujube trees, deciduous pines, silver birches and liquidambars, all kinds of trees were lined up without any specific pattern.
“This is a forest.”
Mayana said, with suspicion in her voice. Surely Valterminster Duke’s house wasn’t in the middle of a forest. It wasn’t like a squirrel family to build and live in the middle of the woods.
But the Duke answered gruffly.”
“This forest itself belongs to the ducal house. This is the east side of the mansion. To the west and south are fields and a small river, and that place is also private property of the Valterminster family, so remember.”
It was a statement hard to believe even when heard. Mayana pressed her forehead tightly to the small window, alternating her gaze between the road they had already passed and the one that lay ahead. No other landscape could be seen besides the forest.
She hadn’t expected to encounter the greatness of the Valterminster Duke’s family in this way. Mayana thought.
For a while, many kinds of leaf shadows brushed past her knees. Wide ones, narrow ones, triangular ones, round ones…
Having grown up in the countryside, Mayana knew many species of trees. Gathering things like acorns or walnuts as a reserve for when food was scarce was also one of her tasks. She vividly remembered the hard times when she had unknowingly touched a walnut fruit with her hands and broke out in hives.
‘I’d never seen a walnut fruit before, so it’s understandable.’
Having lived only seeing the nut itself neatly packaged on the shelf, how would she know what a walnut fruit looked like or whether it could be touched with bare hands or not…
It’s a fleeting thought. Mayana sighed softly. At that moment, her vision suddenly widened and brightened, as if scolding her for sighing. Although she was still sitting in the carriage, it was as if a gigantic door had opened before her eyes.
And what Mayana saw through the window was a garden. Unlike the forest earlier, all kinds of flowers, smooth bushes, large and small fountains, ornamental trees, and fruit trees that had been pruned to look nice were beautifully harmonized.
It was hard to find even a speck of dust among the snowwhite statues, and there were also greenhouses and tables so beautiful that they could immediately invite the king for a tea party.
After passing all that, finally, a part of the huge mansion was visible through the small glass window. Mayana, who was staring at the numerous glass windows shining like jewels in reflection of the sunlight, spoke.
“How many rooms are there?”
The Duke looked at Mayana as if she was speaking nonsense. She continued.
“I’ve seen several noble mansions in the capital, but I’ve never seen a mansion this big. Isn’t it almost the size of a royal castle?”
A short laugh was heard.
“You must have never been to the royal castle. Where His Majesty resides cannot even be compared to a ducal house. This place is in the countryside, so the vast land makes it appear larger.”
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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