If it were Melpheorus, he would have gone to the corner and unraveled them one by one. Whether Hayden would scold or say something later, he would have done it first.
“Have you tried?”
Green eyes playfully flickered back and forth before nodding his head. Melpheorus smiled. Although Hayden pretended not to be angry, he had tried it.
“Is it untied?”
He nodded his head again. He must have thought it was ruined just because he tried it.
“Is there any pain?”
“No.”
Lu shook her head and lowered her voice.
“It would be difficult if Your Majesty found out, right?”
“Well, Yeongae doesn’t see it as a big problem.”
Melpheorus looked at Lu, who was sitting down and apologized to her, dropping the letter on the table.
“Do you think Your Majesty can beat Yeongae?”
At the unexpected words, she slightly widened her eyes and thought for a moment. The answer came after a long time.
“I don’t think so.”
“It’s been a while since I denied it.”
Melpheorus, who was already seated, had been pouring and drinking tea in an empty teacup for a long time. Lu, who was embarrassed and uncomfortable, sat across from him.
“Um, well, there’s something I’m curious about, Melpheorus.”
“Yes.”
It was obvious what it was, but Melpheorus just nodded. An old sage should listen carefully to the playful questions of a young sage.
Already, having experienced the painful failure of Carlos Arthur Ingram, he had sworn to cherish this sage more and devote more attention to him.
“Carlos was a Southern Sage, but he wanted to become the emperor, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then, since I am a Southern Sage, I should remain as a Southern Sage, right?”
“Yes.”
“I shouldn’t do anything else, right?”
“What do you want to do?”
“No, it’s not about what I want to become or anything…”
Lu shook her head, and after a moment of bitter laughter, Melpheorus spoke.
“Marriage is not a problem.”
“Yes?”
“After all, the Empress is not a sage. Although Your Majesty is temporarily taking on the role of the Western Matop Province, it’s not like the Western Matop Province is soon becoming a Southern Sage.”
In the inner room where the Duke of Moiquifel’s throat dropped terrifyingly earlier this morning, talk about the empress came up. It couldn’t be helped. They had to defend against the flow of Eastern nobles in this direction. The emperor had been fighting an invisible war since before his ascension.
“Yeongae didn’t join hands with Your Majesty because she wanted to become the empress, but because she wanted to hold Your Majesty’s hand, considering becoming the empress, isn’t that right?”
Lu laughed at that remark.
“I also have a lot of ambition, Melpheorus. You could be surprised by me.”
“Well, then, what would you like to do?”
Melpheorus murmured politely.
“Originally, sages are people with a lot of ambition. Just looking at the current empress, who is the strongest among them, is enough to know. Ambition tends to gather more in a large vessel. It’s not about ambition like Carlos; it’s about not containing excessive greed.”
He blabbered, and it turned out empty. Lu, who was used to receiving too much blunt criticism and lowering herself, looked at Melpheorus with a somewhat surprised expression. But he just elegantly sipped his tea. Is that so? Or is it just nothing?
“Yeongae, it would be better for her to put more in that big vessel. It’s much better than just containing revenge.”
And, the man who has been infinitely patient from the beginning is still waiting. Thinking that Carlos would never break that man in terms of patience, Melpheorus enjoyed his tea.
“By the way, Yeongae. It’s good to worry, but it seems that Yeongae’s path has already been determined before worrying.”
“Yes?”
“Soon, Yeongae will accompany Your Majesty to the naval event. It will be a pleasant event to conclude the visit to the Turington territory.”
Lu blinked her eyes for a moment.
“Accompany?”
“Yes. By the way, Your Majesty plans to keep Yeongae by her side all the time. People will see them a lot, won’t they?”
Melpheorus laughed as if it were amusing. Ultimately, this was the purpose of him coming here.
“Because Yeongae is too popular, and Your Majesty is concerned because of the marriage consultations, you know.”
He chuckled and sipped his tea with a hint of malice.
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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