It wasn’t the innocent smile that Evenel had before collapsing, but a strong determination to protect was visible. Facing those eyes, the trembling that had eaten her whole body since she faced the monster calmed down.
She suddenly thought she could survive, even in this hopeless situation.
“Stand away from me.”
“Yes.”
Lia nodded as if enchanted and retreated as she was told.
Soon, Evenel rose from her spot with a stern expression. The tenderness she had shown to Lia had already disappeared.
The monster, surprised by the sudden attack, kept its distance and surveyed the two. Though it had been hit in the leg, it only bled, its sinister eyes still gleaming.
Pulling her gaze from the monster, Evenel slowly looked around the audience. And her gaze ended on Shuher.
The sight of his face made uncontrollable anger rise. She could never forgive him for pushing Lia into death.
“What are you laughing at?”
Evenel shouted, gripping the gun tightly, so everyone could hear.
“What’s so funny that you’re laughing at?”
The reason for this event could be guessed from the information so far. To widely publicize that she had been toyed with and then killed miserably.
To show that it was not the Caries who used to kneel and bow. They never intended to help Aodin in the first place.
‘No, whatever the reason, it doesn’t matter to me.’
Then she only had to reach out to herself as she had planned from the beginning.
Evenel’s direction of anger was directed at Emperor Shuher, who had planned it all.
To her now, it no longer mattered that she was destined to die, or that this person in front of her was the protagonist of this world.
“Do you find our desperate escape from the monster or our miserable deaths at its hands amusing?”
In that moment of stunned silence that enveloped the arena, Evenel opened her mouth to Shuher, who had mocked her.
“What’s the difference between you and Aodin, whom you so despise?”
At those words, Shuher’s hand on his armrest flinched, a crack in his leisurely smile as if he had touched a sore point.
The first to react were the people in the audience.
In quite a bad mood, they passionately vented their anger, some even blushing as if they had heard something shameful.
“How could she speak so rudely?”
“Just kill her, Your Majesty!”
“It’s not something a person from Aodin should utter!”
Evenel, despite the pouring criticism toward her, only stared at Shuher. It was far too early to get angry.
“You said, Your Majesty, that Aodin is cowardly and despicable. But it seems those words are not suitable for Your Majesty, who prepared this game to kill just me. Everyone here is equally cowardly and despicable.”
She deliberately continued to mention the comparison with Aodin, knowing that it would infuriate them the most.
“You said it would be boring and uninteresting?”
Evenel asked leisurely, checking the remaining bullets in the gun. Shuher watched her skilled handling of the gun without missing a beat.
It was the skill of a veteran who had held a gun for a long time.
“Now look forward to it. It’s going to get interesting from now on.”
For the sake of defending, and even to get back at that damned emperor, she who was destined to die here had willingly chosen to survive.
(This is a time separator.)
Evenel Istella once again aimed her gun at the monster guarding her. Since it was different from the competition gun she usually used, it took time to get the feel of it.
But she was certain of this one thing. She would surely win this match.
Just as she had done so far.
The monster seemed to have shifted its target to her, and it was charging at her with a more intense animosity than before, emitting a threatening sound.
Evenel tried to aim at the head this time, but it missed. She quickly rolled her body to avoid the monster’s attack, then immediately took aim at the torso.
Despite hitting it precisely, the monster only hesitated for a moment, then got back up. It should have fallen with such a fatal injury.
‘Why isn’t it dying?’
Demil, who was standing next to Shuher, muttered in a defeated tone, looking at her expression.
“It seems she doesn’t know how to take down the monster.”
“It seems right that she’s a naive young lady as the rumors say. But could she have used a gun?”
“No. There was no such information anywhere.”
Even Demil, who had investigated Evenel at Shuher’s command, didn’t know about this. He hadn’t discovered anything unusual related to her.
Furthermore, Shuher saw it clearly. She was quite skilled, as she had confidently claimed.
He had prepared this game simply for fun. Her value was that of a toy, and nothing more.
But then.
‘Interesting.’
Honestly, Shuher could have killed Evenel right where he was sitting if he had wanted to. But now he was curious to see how she would escape from this situation.
Would she sacrifice the maid to survive, or would they both choose death, or would she show a result that defied everyone’s expectations?
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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