“Why did you show up in the drawing room today?”
“Well… I was curious, couldn’t help it.”
She stopped glaring at her husband and sighed deeply.
“What did you think?”
“Interesting… it was.”
This time Pola shook her head. Who would know?
There’s a saying that when Gerald Gardarelli Rochester gets angry, even the sun in the sky hides. That this mischievous and cute side of him is something only she knows in this world.
Her husband had not received the power of the Rochester family. Yet, he had steadfastly protected the Rochester family like no other.
Pola knew better than anyone the blood, sweat, and tears he had put in, being a man without the family’s power.
When she debuted in society for marriage, all the nobles were abuzz. Everyone praised Pola as the most noble woman in the empire, asserting she would undoubtedly become the empress.
She, who had been a friend of the crown prince since childhood, also believed without a doubt that she would become the prince’s wife.
But that thought completely changed the moment she saw the man in front of her.
She fell for Gerald at first sight.
His hair was blacker than the night sky, with warm black eyes. He was taller and broader-shouldered than most men, and when he smiled, a slight dimple appeared on his right cheek.
Haunted by his lingering image that appeared out of nowhere and disturbed her mind, Pola went to the Rochester family herself. And she proposed to Gerald directly.
If he had rejected her, she would never have been able to set foot in society again. It was unimaginable in the society of that time, which was even more conservative towards women.
Pola never regretted that decision, not even once, even when the oracle turned her life upside down.
“Do you think Lienne went to see Ricardo?”
“You call her by her name quite easily.”
“She asked me to. She calls me ‘mother.'”
He shrugged his shoulders.
“That girl would have gone to see Ricardo, and more. She might be meeting him right now. Why did you meet her?”
“I want Ricardo to have a human heart.”
“…….”
“Have you ever seen it? Ricardo laughing or crying, getting angry, or genuinely happy.”
The Duke remained silent. There was no way he could answer.
“Even if that child had resented us, could we have ever received forgiveness from him?”
“We didn’t have much time.”
Pola laughed inappropriately. It had been 7 years since Ricardo returned to the ducal family. During that time, the son absorbed everything about Rochester at an unbelievable pace. And since turning 18, he had been wandering battlefields.
If the Duke and Duchess were to make excuses about their relationship with their son, that would be it.
The Emperor might have hoped that Ricardo would not return alive from the battlefield, but he always emerged victorious.
Until there were no more countries left to wage war against.
So, it wasn’t that the Duke and Duchess had absolutely no time to face their son. They just lacked the courage.
“He will never forgive us.”
“My dear.”
“Because he resents us for bringing him into this world.”
“Pola, such words hurt both you and me.”
“Even so, we must not forget. He resents us for erasing his tremendous fate.”
Ricardo, who lost his memory and returned home, was like an ice castle surrounded by solid walls.
An ice castle that seemed as if it would melt and vanish without a trace if it warmed up even slightly. With not the slightest crack, no one could penetrate it. Touching it felt like it would crumble at the slightest touch. It was difficult to even keep him close, let alone soothe his wounds.
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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