“I have to do well.”
She decided she would also research a cure for that ‘disease’, so fatal to a man. Determined, she gathered the necessary books for her research and left the library.
[Star icon] [Star icon] [Star icon]“It’s heavy…….”
Had she been too greedy? The towering stack of books obstructed her view.
Regretting late, she was walking when she felt her heavy arms lighten.
“You seemed burdened.”
A man with deep amethyst hair that reminded her of an amethyst approached and spoke to her amiably.
“You are…….”
“Do you remember my name? Rickel.”
“Ah.”
Only then did Lea nod, as if she remembered the man. He was the servant who had helped her when she had been wandering around the mansion a few days ago.
‘Did he say he worked in the kitchen?’
His handsome features had caused the maids to chatter about him, and she had heard them a few times.
“Do you need to go to the pharmacy?”
“Ah, yes. Thank you.”
He had been friendly since they first met, claiming to be her age, but Lea kept a formal tone with him, drawing a line.
For some reason, this man made her uncomfortable.
‘Those halfclosed eyes, there’s always something going on with those characters.’
It was a cliché in novels. Like a cliché character awakening when they open their real eyes.
That’s why, maybe, Lea found this Rickel character suspicious. As she eyed Rickel with suspicion, he asked innocently.
“Didn’t you say you got scammed?”
“Scammed?”
“Everyone in the mansion says so, you got scammed. They say you wouldn’t have volunteered to be the count’s pharmacist otherwise.”
‘Damn.’
Being scammed by a former scam artist. It was a blow to her pride. Embarrassed, she coughed awkwardly.
“It’s not really a scam. I just didn’t read the contract carefully.”
Though misreading a contract turned out to be a bigger mistake than she had thought.
“That’s a scam. If you quit being a pharmacist, you have to pay a huge penalty, right?”
“Yes, well…….”
Remembering her pitiful situation, Lea’s shoulders drooped. Rickel, who had been watching her, stopped a few steps ahead.
Rickel’s body blocked her way, and Lea, caught off guard, stopped and looked up.
“I might be able to help.”
“How can you help?”
He glanced around to see if anyone was around. Then, bending down to her height, he lowered his voice.
“I might be able to help you make more money than that penalty.”
“….money?”
More than the penalty, no less. Swallowing dryly at Rickel’s devilish suggestion, Lea looked at him.
“What do you say? Want to hear me out?”
He looked at Lea, his eyes wide open, and smiled.
What Rickel proposed to her that day was quite shocking.
[You want me to monitor the count?] [Yes, monitor him and sometimes add a little of what I ask to his medicine. Of course, it won’t be poison, so don’t be scared.]“It’s not a big deal, but it could lead me straight to the gallows.”
Rikel had promised her that if she acted as a spy for the Duke, she would receive a hefty sum of money and a stable job in the future.
How merciful the person she serves is.
“Not a bad offer…”
It was a generous offer that anyone, even a mere commoner apothecary, would be tempted by. Among them, what made her heart flutter the most was…
[You have to pay a penalty, right? The reward will be quite large.]If she looked good to the person she was serving, they would pay the penalty for her, Rikel said.
“Does that mean they’ll give me 200 silver coins if I successfully complete the job?”
For Lea at the moment, there was no other way than to accept Rikel’s proposal. But her sharp intuition was telling her something was off.
“It’s too dangerous after all.”
The Duke was not just a noble, but a royal, a prince who should have inherited the throne if it weren’t for his illegitimate birth.
Those who watched and guarded such a Duke were surely bigwigs.
In her experience, she had never seen a good end come from getting involved with such people. Lea, who had been flicking the desk with her finger and thinking, stood up from her seat.
“There’s only one way then.”
Lea, who seemed to have made up her mind, left the room. And the place she arrived with a serious expression was the Duke’s bedroom.
“Huh…”
Quietly exhaling, Lea checked if anyone was around and knocked on the door.
“Duke, it’s Lea, the apothecary. May I come in?”
“…….”
But all she was greeted with was a silent silence. Only then did Lea remember that the Duke was pretending to be unable to speak and she sighed.
‘Right, he can’t speak, can he?’
Just as she was wondering whether she should wait until the Duke, who might be asleep, opened the door…
Suddenly, a sound was heard from the room, like something falling to the floor.
‘Could it be…’
Thinking it might be a signal to enter, Lea carefully stepped into the room.
[DASH] Thud.The door closed and a familiar male voice was heard.
“Lucky you’re quick on the uptake.”
With words that could be either praise or scorn, the Duke welcomed her with a look that asked what the matter was.
“There’s no examination today, I believe. It can’t be that you’ve already developed a new medicine… What brings you here?”
He looked at her suspiciously. In response, Lea, who had let out a short breath, replied.
“I have something important to discuss with you, a very important matter.”
The Duke, who had been watching her pensively, nodded his head.
“Sit.”
With his permission, Lea took a seat on the sofa in the middle of the bedroom.
“Speak.”
Then, the Duke crossed his legs arrogantly, as if to say ‘let’s hear it’.
“Earlier today, someone proposed a deal to me.”
“A deal?”
“Yes, they offered quite a tempting deal in exchange for information about your personal safety.”
“Tempting offer, you say…”
He smirked as if amused.
“And why are you telling me this?”
“I want to make a deal with you.”
“A deal with me?”
He echoed with a tone of disbelief. This was a gamble. She could lose everything.
Lea’s hands were damp with sweat.
“I’ll be a double agent for you.”
“A double agent?”
“Yes, I’ll pretend to accept their offer and relay any information I get to you. In return…”
Lea, who was swallowing dry saliva as her mouth became parched, spread her fingers.
“Threefold.”
“…….”
“Please give me three times the money they offered.”
If she could take the money from both sides and run…
That was the conclusion the former swindler had come to.
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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