Her face glowed, albeit sunken, as she talked about her younger children already calling out ‘sister, sister’ and following the elder sister.
“What’s the situation?”
“We’re still holding the western point. Trying to untangle the knotted mana through magic, but we’re short on mages…”
“It’s not an easy task.”
Hayden nodded. The way he had vented his rising anger just now through the Belfort was something not anyone could do.
“Move according to the original plan, even if it takes time. I’ve already rushed off from Belfort, so our schedule has become even tighter.”
Ethan was already somewhat puzzled by this. Why had Emperor Hayden resolved matters in Belfort much earlier than planned?
“…Did something disturb Your Majesty?”
Both Ethan and Milene had endured all kinds of discrimination from the natives and against those from Caletta, yet they had contributed to installing young Hayden as Emperor of Perseta.
They had recognized Hayden’s potential early on and had been with him for a significant period.
Their relationship was close enough that he had willingly become the godfather of Sia and Bella, so they sensed something about the change in the Belfort schedule.
Grey eyes looked pensively at Earl Plache, not responding immediately.
“The scale of Belfort’s wave was quite fitting for venting some of Your Majesty’s anger.”
Nobody in Perseta knew the Emperor as well as Earl Plache did. Hayden lowered his head for a moment.
“As you or Nana might have guessed. When the genius knight suddenly left Caletta, the reason was clear.”
Four years ago, when they had learned belatedly that Ru had ‘lost’ all her abilities and became addicted to gambling, leaving Caletta, Ethan and Milene had speculated one thing along with Hayden.
Only after coming to Perseta did the couple find out about Carlos’ dreadful curse, evidently directed at their daughter.
“I could only break three of the curses today.”
“Is it severe?”
“It’s life-threatening. On top of that, she can’t commit suicide easily. Quite thorough.”
Hayden chuckled as if amazed, while Ethan suppressed his rising emotions as much as possible in front of the Emperor.
“I knew it, but seeing it in reality…”
A terrible curse that completely binds a person’s potential and shining talent, making them unable to use it for a lifetime. It was a curse that didn’t just send one’s life into the abyss in an instant, but also made a mockery of it.
Though disgusted, Hayden said no more.
Listening was Ethan, Lou’s father. He knew how much effort he had made to find his daughter, and adding to the story of the curse that had befallen her would only break his heart.
“Emperor Kaleta must be executed eventually.”
“Yes, of course.”
Ethan strongly agreed.
“Don’t worry about it, Count. I will take care of it, it’s a shortcut to defeating Kaleta anyway, and most importantly, the will is strong.”
“Are you talking about Lou?”
Hayden leaned back in his chair, nodding with a smile.
“She will take Carlos’s life herself, she insisted that I save her. Although she is resolved to return, she is also sharp in negotiations. She hasn’t even thought about the goodwill she has earned in the past week.”
At the Emperor’s grumbling, as if throwing a tantrum, Ethan could only smile.
The Count knew very well that, despite appearances, the Emperor was a daunting and flawless entity. Those Eastern nobles still haven’t figured out the Emperor, but the young Emperor knows everything about the empire.
What father wouldn’t be pleased to hear such an evaluation of his daughter? The Emperor took a great liking to Lou. It was immediately obvious.
“She takes after her mother in that regard.”
“Do you think Kyeong is not like that? When it comes to thoroughly evaluating, the Gennes family is even worse than those nobles from the East who bounce around like balls on a board. I’m curious how Sia and Bella will grow up.”
“You flatter us.”
Ethan Aser Gennes knew very well how sensitive and arrogant the young Emperor he served was.
Hayden’s arrogance was different in nature from Carlos’s. Carlos looked down on everyone overtly and didn’t even treat them as humans.
But for Hayden, life was the most important. Even if of lowly status, every life was precious to him.
“Imperial Eagle had been sortieing five times in two days; they need to rest this afternoon.”
“Yes, Your Majesty. I will take special care of the rations for the divine beasts.”
“As I’ve said before, check the damage situation daily and report regularly. It’s not my concern if nobles get hurt, but if those with nothing are hurt or killed, I have to compensate.”
He is generous and just, but Hayden is sensitive. He was selective about people and didn’t let just anyone close.
For him to directly say that he would become the godfather of Count Plache’s two troublesome daughters was a tremendous event.
‘Do our children fit exactly to His Majesty’s liking? Well, our children are polite and good.’
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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