In a sunlit corner of the harem palace’s courtyard, Latifa and Asti were spending the afternoon together.
The courtyard center featured an array of brown tiles forming intricate patterns and a shallow rectangular pool; Latifa sat beside it, dipping her legs into the water to fend off the heat.
The sweltering sunlight was filtered by large palm leaves, and a sweet tropical beverage sat beside her, but her mind was far from at ease.
‘General Hades… I wonder how he’s doing.’
Latifa let out a soft sigh, her thoughts drifting to Hades.
‘He tells me to trust him, yet who does such a reckless thing?’
She had heard people call him mad before, but everything Hades had done until now seemed reasonably mad.
Still, she couldn’t deny that she was quite shocked by his recent erratic behavior.
‘If I keep trusting General Hades, I’m going to be in trouble… I can’t be stuck in this palace forever.’
Latifa became slightly anxious; she had overheard maids gossiping about how difficult it would be for Hades to win over a concubine named Karina.
Karina seemed to dislike Hades, probably due to his disdain for the concept of a harem.
‘My mother was also a concubine.’
She couldn’t guess how Hades would react upon learning she was royalty born from a concubine.
‘If winning over Karina is so difficult, why not just leave me here? Perhaps it would improve Prince Luhan’s popularity.’
The coronation ceremony for Prau had ended successfully, and while people didn’t consider her a real goddess, they did seem to regard her as a symbol of Caleb’s fortune.
So maybe staying in the palace would be strategically better.
‘If General Hades has devoted all his luck and happiness to Prince Luhan, that would make it even more believable.’
There seemed to be no need to go through the trouble of winning over Karina given such a good pretext.
She suspected that Hades would leave her in the palace.
‘Am I going to be here for longer than a month?’
As Latifa worried about her uncertain future, Asti cheerfully chattered beside her, scattering pieces of cloth she was cutting.
“Latifa! Just wait a little longer. I’m making a really pretty dress, so you can’t look yet!”
“You can’t look, Latifa!”
Tatkan, following Asti’s words, pecked at Latifa with its beak whenever she moved her head, as a warning.
‘Clearly, Tatkan understands human speech. It’s not simply mimicking.’
Latifa admired the intelligent bird in her thoughts.
Yet, she also felt somewhat awkward.
‘Am I really on the same level as this bird…’
Seeing Asti’s Prau, Tatkan, Latifa found herself reevaluating the rank of Prau.
Casually, Latifa stroked Tatkan’s beak.
“When did you become Princess Asti’s Prau, Tatkan?”
Tatkan stretched its neck, circled around, and responded.
“Since Asti said she would protect Tatkan.”
At Tatkan’s words, Asti proudly exclaimed.
“A master must protect their Prau. If it’s something you cherish, you must protect it dearly; that’s what my father said!”
“Something you cherish…”
For some reason, heat rose to Latifa’s cheeks at the innocuous words.
“In that regard, Hades is disqualified!”
Suddenly, Asti spat out angrily.
“Disqualified! Disqualified! Beat him with a stick!”
“Latifa, a master must never harm their Prau, no matter what. Because that would harm the master’s happiness.”
Asti had quietly approached Latifa and gently stroked the head of Tatkan, who was perched on her shoulder. Tatkan seemed pleased, bobbing its head.
“Hades doesn’t deserve to be a master since he hurt Latifa.”
“……Hades had no choice back then. It was partly my fault as well.”
Latifa subtly defended him. Still, she couldn’t help but smile at the absurdity of siding with her master, Hades.
“I won’t be like Hades. I’ll never hurt my Prow. If Tatkan gets hurt, it would hurt me too.”
“If Asti gets hurt, Tatkan will be hurt too.”
Murmuring so, Tatkan fluttered away and affectionately nuzzled its beak against Asti’s plump cheek.
Somehow touched by the deep friendship between Asti and Tatkan, Latifa lowered her head. Beneath her bowed head, her slender, pale wrist came into view.
And so did Hades’ gold bracelet.
She gently touched it with her index finger and asked,
“Princess, do you think General Hades was hurt because I got hurt?”
‘He wouldn’t be as sad as Princess Asti. After all, our relationship is contractual. To that man, I am…….’
“No matter what anyone says, he is General Hades. He wouldn’t be sad over me getting hurt.”
Somehow, Latifa chuckled at her own bittersweet selfanswer, but Asti raised her voice as if scolding her.
“What are you talking about! Of course, Hades must be crying his eyes out too!”
“What?”
“Latifa, you are Hades’ happiness. If he’s not happy, he would naturally be sad. Don’t you know such a thing even though you’re older than me?”
Stunned by Asti’s words, Latifa felt as if she had been hit on the head.
‘Right. It’s such an obvious thing.’
She was Hades’ happiness. It was only natural to be sad without it.
Latifa gripped Hades’ bracelet a little tighter and smiled.
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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