Slipping stealthily underneath the thick leather curtains of the tent, Latifa Glaesia crouched as much as possible, careful not to reveal her white skin.
“With the water we have now, the whole army can’t last more than two weeks? They say it all poured into the sand!”
“Two weeks? From what I heard, it won’t even last a week.”
“Damn. The way back is too far! We’re all dead!”
The sighs of soldiers were incessant here and there. Latifa cautiously stepped through the shadows between the tents, looking around.
“It must be somewhere around here… Ah, there it is!”
In one corner of the barracks, there was a cart stacked with small bird cages. It was a place to keep the communication falcons.
Latifa quickly approached the place. Several falcons looked at Latifa, flashing their wary yellow eyes.
Seeing their creepy, sharp eyes and claws, Latifa awkwardly greeted them.
To verify the story she had heard from the rats yesterday, she needed to hear more from other animals.
“Ah, hello, little ones…?”
[Dash]Screech!The welltrained falcons didn’t take kindly to a stranger’s visit. As the birds in the cage flapped their wings and screeched, Latifa had no choice but to step back.
‘I can’t see anything. I can’t talk if I can’t see the spirit. What should I do?’
Latifa tried to coax them somehow with the bread and fruit she had brought, but the falcons just flapped their wings as if annoyed, chasing her away.
“What’s going on? Is someone there?”
As the birds became noisy, the messenger who was guarding the birdcage began to approach where Latifa was hiding.
‘I must not be found!’
It didn’t seem very good if she was caught sneaking around outside the barracks against Hades’s orders.
On top of that, all the desert people were now in a state of despair and anger. It did no good to fuel their anger further.
She quickly lay down and hid her body under a large rock nearby.
“There’s nothing. I’m going to die of anxiety, don’t you add to the noise.”
The soldier, failing to find Latifa under the pile of stones, struck the cage and moved on. Only after he had passed completely did Latifa manage to catch her breath.
“Hoo… I thought I was caught.”
Inhaling the gritty desert dust and sighing, just then, several long shadows were cast over her head.
‘What, what is it?’
With a feeling of unease, she slowly lifted her head toward where the shadows were cast.
“Eek…! What, what’s that?”
There were about six small creatures staring at her that she had never seen before in her life. No, they were so strange that it was questionable to even call them beasts.
Black eyes sunk deep beneath a long snout protruding like a shrew’s. The body was thin and long, but what was really strange was that it was standing upright on two legs, like a human.
“It’s… standing? Walking around…?”
Sturdily standing on their hind legs, the creatures held their front paws demurely before them, staring intently at Latifa. No, to be precise, they were staring quietly at the bread in her hand.
One of the largest of them flicked its pink tongue. Startled by its gesture, she recoiled, causing the creatures to tilt their heads in surprise as well.
‘Since they seem scared of me, they probably aren’t carnivorous animals.’
Latifa mustered her courage and split the bread in half, placing it on the rock in front of her. The beasts rushed on all fours to grab and eat the bread as soon as Latifa put it down.
The beasts, making a whining sound, devoured the bread in an instant and stood upright in their places, staring intently at Latifa.
[Give more.]With the clear sound of the beast’s voice, strong silver spirits began to bloom above their heads.
[Tasty. Give more.] [I wish for more.] [Those humans are bad. This human good.]‘Contrary to their appearance, they sure talk a lot!’
They were silently staring at Latifa, but the spirits were incessantly chatty. The voices coming thick and fast made Latifa dizzy, but she managed to grasp her senses and attempted to converse with them.
“I can give more. Shall we talk for a bit?”
[This human talks!] [Who are you?] [Friend, friend.]When Latifa spoke, the beasts began to stare at her with an even more burdensome gaze, surrounding her. Contrary to her first impression, she thought the beasts were quite cute as she began to ask them questions.
“Are you moving by any chance?”
[Yes! We have to move.]‘As I thought! I might be able to find water!’
As her prediction about moving was confirmed, the corners of Latifa’s mouth twitched upward. She shook a piece of bread and asked again.
“Can you tell me why you’re moving? Then I’ll give you more of this.”
Then they cocked their heads and answered.
[Because it’s raining.] [It’s going to rain a lot for several days.] [Our den is collapsing.] [We must move higher.]“Thank you for telling me! Eat a lot, guys!”
With their answer, Latifa cheerfully poured the remaining food in front of them.
[Star icon][Star icon]As Hades with his stern expression approached the guard post, a guard knelt and saluted.
“General Hades!”
“Inside?”
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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