As Roo regained consciousness, she hastily sat up.
She anxiously surveyed her surroundings. Here… yes. It was the bedchamber of the Bellua Grand Castle, the Emperor’s bedroom, where Roo had occasionally fallen asleep.
The sunlight faintly seeped through the tightly closed curtains. Whether it was dawn with the sun rising or evening with the sun setting, she couldn’t distinguish. Roo hesitated to open the curtains and stepped back. She distinctly remembered swinging a sword at the Emperor.
‘Where’s Hayden?’
Injured. The moment Roo swung the sword, a clear wound appeared, and blood gushed out like a fountain. As she thought about the crimson blood, Roo gasped for breath and covered her mouth with her hand. While covering her mouth, she looked down at her hand. Her delicate hand was trembling.
With this hand, she injured Hayden. What happened next? Did she collapse? Roo choked back a sob and clenched her hair. Her fingers painfully dug into her scalp. She wanted to tear the curse apart. However, what came off was not a curse but strands of hair.
How could she have inflicted harm on him? How could she do it so casually and with such indifference?
‘How could I?’
“Roo.”
Suddenly, the door opened, and Hayden hurriedly entered, quickly closing the door. Roo quickly blinked her blurry eyes and turned to look at him. He was moving perfectly fine.
“Roo, Roo. It’s okay, Roo, look at me.”
Hayden, surprised, tried to remove Roo’s hand from her hair, but she withdrew first. He looked at her with astonishment as she blinked her teary eyes.
“I’m coming out, Roo.”
His green eyes looked confused. Wasn’t he hurt? What happened to the wound?
“I still don’t know, okay?”
His desperate voice softened a bit. Hayden smiled affectionately, subtly meeting her eyes.
But Roo continued to inspect the area where he was injured. She couldn’t bring herself to approach closely, standing from a distance and desperately watching.
How badly was he hurt? How much pain was he in? She felt so sorry that she couldn’t even look him in the face.
Amidst all the self-loathing, she simply hoped that he was okay. Tears gathered uselessly in her reddened eyes. How could she cry with such a face? Roo held back her emotions. A sinner didn’t deserve the right to cry.
“Well, I’m okay.”
Hayden, who had been watching Roo’s subtly moving green eyes, took off the coat that he was wearing. The clothes flowed down, and as the buttons of the vest that encased his firm abdomen were quickly undone, the tie was loosened and draped carelessly over the nearby sofa arm.
“I’ll show you.”
“No…”
Roo answered almost inaudibly, shaking her head. However, Hayden had already unbuttoned the last shirt button.
“It’s really okay. There’s not a single injury.”
With a swift motion, he threw off the shirt, revealing his unblemished waist and hips.
“See? There’s nothing.”
The tears that had been hanging by a thread finally fell from the corner of Roo’s eyes and rolled down her cheeks. Hayden, disheveled in appearance, looked at her affectionately before laughing.
“I don’t like it, but would you make anything for me?”
“Don’t say such…”.
Now, Roo, feeling dreadfully that she had somehow laid hands on him, closed her eyes tightly and shook her head. She had never seen him like this before, and getting closer only made it scarier. Since she didn’t know what might happen, maintaining a certain distance was a priority.
However, Hayden unabashedly narrowed the gap and grabbed her as she tried to step back.
Like a hunter catching a precious bird, he decisively caught her, who was struggling to escape with flustered movements. Roo, without realizing it, shivered at his knowledge of the necessary parts to avoid injuring her, quick hand movements, and the unexpectedly strong force that she would never rebel against.
“Hayden, no…!”
Roo exerted all her strength to push him away, but she couldn’t overcome his strength. Completely restrained, she was completely buried in Hayden’s arms, who breathed heavily.
What would happen if she continued like this? Even though she didn’t have a sword in her hand, she could still harm him with magic. Roo shook her head while struggling.
“Roo, you’re hurt.”
Hayden firmly held onto her, not letting go. Strength wouldn’t work. She knew that, but right now, what frightened Roo wasn’t him but herself.
“…You know.”
A boiling voice emerged from deep within, suppressed but bubbling up.
“It’s nothing to me. You can’t hurt me at all, Roo, please…!”
Even though she tried to endure, the voice she had been tightly suppressing became intense. No, it was because she had suppressed and pushed away that the voice became so intense.
“I know, so why? It’s nothing to me. Please, even if you’re okay, don’t push me away! Please!”
Roo’s head, or rather, if she still had control over her body, her head would have turned very knightly.
Roo was a threat. She had tried to harm the Emperor. Since she had tried to harm Hayden, whom she always wanted to protect, it was right to immediately separate her, restrain her, and tie her up.
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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