“How much did you drink? It feels like there’s a hole in my stomach. Ugh.”
My stomach was churning, and my head was aching as if it would split open.
I tried to block the morning sunlight by turning the blanket over, but it was useless.
I recalled the words Nikolai said last night, along with nausea.
“If you don’t want to go to the ice tower prison for the crime of lesemajesty, accept the drink.”
“You threaten in a unique way.”
“I’m showing leniency.”
“Any other choices?”
“None. It’s just these two.”
“Why do you want to drink with me?”
“You don’t need to know the reason. Just choose between drink or prison.”
Since the escort knights had their hands on their sheaths, I had no choice but to accept the glass of champagne Nikolai handed me.
Was it because it was topquality champagne?
Or because I was possessed by liquorlover Elizabeth?
The champagne was surprisingly delicious.
“I remember spinning around and falling down. Then I think I vomited…”
I sniffed.
Fortunately, there was no smell of vomit on my body.
“Someone must have washed me. How can I thank you?”
“Start with a thank you.”
I suddenly turned my head at the deep voice, now familiar after a night’s time.
Nikolai was sitting up on the broad bed.
“Your Majesty?!”
The silk blanket slid down.
His upper body, wearing nothing, was exposed.
The firm chest like leather armor, the delicate abs as if carved with a knife, caught my eye.
It was a rare sight, but the hairs on my body stood up.
“Why are you here, Your Majesty?”
“Is it strange for the Emperor to be in the palace?”
I opened my eyes wide and looked around.
The bed was so huge it was majestic, a crystal chandelier, a ceiling filled with a famous painting.
I opened my mouth wide at the luxury, several dimensions higher than the famously extravagant Emster mansion.
I could not help but know that this was the imperial palace, and moreover, the Emperor’s bedroom.
‘Ah, a cliché again? The protagonist waking up in a strange bed with a handsome antagonist!’
I lifted the blanket with trembling hands.
Fortunately, I was not naked, but it was no relief.
I was wearing a negligee as thin as a moth’s wing.
I had seen a few similar ones in Elizabeth’s dressing room, but I didn’t even touch them because of the sexy design!
‘Did this man change my clothes? He couldn’t have done it himself? There are more than one or two maids…’
I racked my brain for memories I thought were completely erased, and a large, thick hand came to mind.
A man who gently, almost respectfully, caressed me.
I could see the flowing black hair and green eyes through the blurry vision.
The cheeks that seemed to be flushed, and the sensuous lips tightly closed from tension, too.
“Ah…!”
Contrary to my despair, Nikolai revealed his white, orderly teeth.
“There’s nothing to be ashamed of. We’ve seen each other’s pretty and ugly sides, haven’t we?”
“Since when have we been that close?”
“From last night to this morning.”
“!”
“Dressing a woman is a very difficult task. But thanks to me, you slept well, didn’t you?”
Nikolai looked delighted.
If it had been a sticky or greedy look, it would have been creepy, but Nikolai’s pupils were twinkling with pure pleasure.
It was just as burdensome, but it was quite different from the decadent first impression.
‘Why is this man doing this to me?’
I was confused.
Nikolai told me with his mouth that he was not tempted by me.
But why is he treating me so specially?
Because I’m a woman who can’t control a flirt?
That didn’t seem to be it.
Almost all memories had returned.
Nikolai took care of me, drunk with alcohol, and did nothing else.
“I accepted it all meekly, and it’s me who got drunk out of lack of manners. I wanted to live with dignity and prudence. On top of staying out all night, waking up in the same bed with a man I met for the first time!”
Elizabeth bowed her head in shame at her behavior, no different from the original promiscuous Elizabeth.
Nikolai carelessly tossed a comment.
“There’s no need to be upset. I was the one who offered the drinks. I didn’t know you’d get drunk on three glasses of champagne.”
“…”
“I’ve ordered the carriage. Return to the Emster mansion.”
“Thank you for your consideration, Your Majesty.”
“Be more careful next time.”
The word ‘next’ squeezed her heart tightly and then let it go.
She wanted to ask what she should be careful of, but her lips stuck together couldn’t part.
Suddenly, being alone with Nikolai on the bed became unbearably embarrassing.
She unconsciously touched her lips with her fingertips.
‘I kissed this man last night.’
Her cheeks flushed hotly.
The touch of the unfamiliar man remained on her lips like an indelible mark.
The warmth, the breath, was still the same.
Nikolai did not get excited even after the sudden kiss.
He didn’t take advantage of her in her drunken state.
Moreover, he said he would be more careful next time.
As she talked to Nikolai, a small crack appeared in the solid image of the Casanova tyrant.
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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