Under the thin eyelashes, the violet eyes revealed clear disdain. Although referred to as the guardian deity of the East, the Eastern Sage, who had worked hard to maintain the Perseita Empire, seemed to harbor great disgust for the Eastern nobles. It was to the extent that one might wonder how one could hate them so much.
“Yes, Yeongae. What do you want to know? If you’re curious, ask.”
The kind teacher Dragonlord immediately noticed Lú’s curiosity. In fact, there were not just one or two things she was curious about, but the current topic interested her the most. However, was it okay to ask?
“It might be an intrusive question.”
“Yeongae, whether to me, to His Majesty, or to Ophelia, should ask many such questions in the future. Go ahead.”
“Do you despise arrogant nobles, Lord Melpheos?”
“More precisely, it’s hypocrisy.”
Melpheos, tapping the eggshell with a fork, spoke candidly.
“For 430 years, I continuously sent armies beyond the barrier. I couldn’t go there because it was Carlos’s territory, and even my soldiers were not there. I had to coax, appease, and occasionally scold the nobles, but it didn’t work. I became an old man who couldn’t forget the old movie of a dead emperor and complained about them. The nobles are proud that Perseita is an empire, but they hate the emperor. Without the emperor, the nobles are almost the same as the emperor.”
Melpheos experienced that contradiction, that hypocrisy, as much as he had lived for 430 years. It had been a long time since he had grown tired of it.
“The current nobles calculate like merchants, pretending to pursue etiquette and nobility. I also had to pay them what they wanted in exchange for soldiers. They are not nobles. They are money-blinded merchants.”
It was unbearable for those guys to pretend to be dignified, pursuing the noblest virtues while calculating like lowly merchants.
“Well, is the answer satisfactory now?”
Lú nodded slowly.
“Yes. Thank you.”
Although there seemed to be more she wanted to ask, Lú ate quietly again without saying more. Melpheos, watching her, spoke to the emperor.
“Your Majesty, they are causing problems by coveting imperial power too much.”
Hayden said leisurely, “So, you should teach them that it’s not acceptable.”
“At my age, do I have to teach them one by one? Your Majesty is also busy.”
Melpheos recalled the humans he had tried to teach but failed.
“It’s quite enjoyable for me as it’s a task I’ve never done before.”
Hayden continued to watch Lú attentively, tapping the table with his fingers.
In this space, the most politically adept man had already calculated how to use the twenty-six dignities, four surnames, five vineyards, twenty-two warships, and a thousand knights belonging to the Moiqufel, but he was still figuring out how to use the four thousand soldiers.
“However, it’s too big a task to do alone, so I’m calling these people to help.”
“Who’s going to help you? Lú emptied her small soup bowl, attacked the omelet, and perked up her ears. As if there wasn’t enough to do, she wished she were included as well.
“But Yeongae is exempt.”
“…Excuse me?”
Then what should I do here? Lú dropped the omelet lifted with a fork and stared at Hayden.
“Yeongae shouldn’t do anything. Physical activities, including magic, exercise, swordsmanship, horseback riding, are all prohibited. Light walks only once a day. Eat three meals, and excessive reading is also not allowed.”
“Then, what can I do to live…?”
She asked with a bewildered face, but even Melpheos nodded seriously.
“Just eat, sleep, and rest. Simple, right?”
“No, um, Your Majesty, for the past four years, eating, sleeping, and resting have been too monotonous for me…”
“Then you can do better.”
Hayden cut in decisively.
“If you move more, you’ll end up just sitting idly all the time. If you don’t want to lie in bed all day, listen to me.”
This is it. Lú looked at Hayden, who had once lain in bed in her cramped cabin, receiving the same nagging. How frustrating it was to hear such a stern talk from the person who knew it best! She couldn’t say anything because she had done something wrong, and even vomited blood. Lú’s eyebrows, who remained silent, were inadvertently furrowed. Her lips were also pursed.
“I may be weak in your eyes, but no.”
To Hayden’s stern words, Lú was surprisingly surprised.
“No, I didn’t deliberately look at you, and it’s not like that.”
Of course, that tough knight wouldn’t deliberately look sulky. Melphios, who had fun watching the alternately sincere and blatant Hayden, was alone.
Seeing nobles fighting and pretending among themselves, rather than just seeing the unpleasant sight of fighting and hypocrisy, it was fresh and enjoyable to see a man and a woman arguing with each other.
“I understand. But anyway, it’s not allowed. I don’t want to see a scene of shedding blood again.”
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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