I felt deeply moved anew. The fact that my children are alive and breathing by my side right now.
‘The memory of losing the children and sitting like a doll after being given muscle relaxants is still vivid…’
Human memory was truly inefficient.
Although the time spent together is longer than the time without the children, I still feel immersed in the painful memories of that time.
As if that brief moment had been imprinted.
“Mother! The new chair is comfortable.”
“I want to have this chair.”
“Euphemina, didn’t you say that because of your stubbornness, your new mother said she would make the same chair? It seems like it would be good to cultivate a little patience.”
“What do you know, elder brother? I want the one that mother used.”
“Then let’s do this, Euphemina. When the new chair is made, we’ll exchange it with the one mother used. How’s that?”
“Yes, that’s good.”
My room was noisy until late at night due to the children gathering after a long time.
Especially since there were four people, even if each person said just one word, the space was already full.
Ah, by the way, I recently changed most of the furniture and bedding in my room.
It was because every time I entered my room, the terrible memories from that time would replay. I couldn’t properly rest in that state.
‘If I, with my ordinary memory, am like this, how much worse must it be for Chersion and Joseph.’
With that thought, I suddenly felt sorry for the two of them.
“But are you preparing some kind of performance?”
While the quick-witted Chersion was looking around, Kardiel, who quickly grasped the situation, asked me.
“Not just a performance, but a rather special one.”
I answered with a smile and properly seated the children.
My quite spacious salon was currently completely emptied in the center.
The chairs for the children and me are arranged from the walls of the room facing the center. A composition clearly for viewing a performance.
But even so, Kardiel was tilting his head as if something was strange. As expected, he’s sharp.
In the space without a special stage, not even a common chair was placed.
So even someone who deduced there would be a performance would inevitably be puzzled.
I smiled with satisfaction. Well…
‘Because the performance that’s about to unfold doesn’t need instruments, actors, or a stage.’
At last, I rang the bell on the small table.
Ding-a-ling, with the clear sound, all the candles burning in the room simultaneously extinguished their light.
“Hm?”
“Oh!”
“…?”
The children stirred slightly. It was understandable to be surprised after witnessing something that couldn’t physically happen.
But it’s troublesome if you’re surprised already.
“What I’m about to show you is…”
I smiled while firmly holding the hands of Chersion and Euphemina seated on either side of me.
“Something you won’t be able to see anywhere else in the world.”
Only then did Kardiel and Chersion seem to grasp it, nodding their heads slightly.
Only Euphemina, who knew nothing about magic, blinked her curious pumpkin-colored eyes.
“What it is, it’ll be more fun to see for yourself from now on.”
With those words, a small cluster of light appeared in the dark void where the lights had gone out.
Like fireflies, it flew here and there, leaving footprints of light in the void. It was in the form of characters that anyone could read.
“…The story of… the black-haired… princess… of the Mado Empire…?”
Chersion pronounced the letters aloud, seemingly finding the scene so fascinating.
Yes, that’s right.
The performance I prepared for the children is about the long history of the Chronos Dynasty and Landgritz, the bloodline of the Mado Emperor.
And the performance…
Including a brief intermission, it continued for about three hours.
Fortunately, the performance was very well-received. Well, of course, right?
It was a script written by Teacher Ernestine based on Sergei’s review.
With Joseph’s magical direction lavishly added to that, it would have been strange if it wasn’t interesting.
“So mother is the princess of the Chronos Dynasty!”
“Chelsea, are you stupid? The first in line for succession isn’t called a princess, but a crown princess.”
“Wow, that’s even higher!”
“…You guys. You should know that since the Mado Empire is gone now, there’s no point in arguing about princesses or crown princesses.”
“Be quiet. What do you know, elder brother!”
“Th-that’s right. What does elder brother know!”
“…”
…Hey, children.
I, who was about to quietly calm the children, ended up bursting into laughter.
It was a time when there wasn’t much left until it would be bright outside, long past dawn.
Nevertheless, far from falling asleep, the children were only raising their voices in excitement that wouldn’t easily subside.
It was understandable. In an age where magic has disappeared, where else could you see a fantasy play truly directed by a magician?
Thanks to that, we were all lying together on the large bed, looking at the canopy on the ceiling while talking about the performance.
It must be a truly strange sight, but… it wasn’t bad.
“But mom, about Lord Joseph… is he really the Mado Emperor?”
Euphemina asked, turning towards me as she lay down.
After the performance ended, Joseph made a surprise appearance to greet us. Euphemina’s eyes had widened then.
“That’s right. Mom was surprised too.”
“Then… can he really shoot fire, throw ice, create typhoons… and also face thousands of people like in the performance?”
“Yes, so… Mom is now going to wage war against bad people together with Lord Joseph.”
“Bad people? War?”
“Ye-yes, like the people who kidnapped the Crown Princess in the play earlier?”
To that question, I deliberately smiled, squinting my eyes.
“Actually, Mom was once kidnapped by Mistress Dorothea in the past.”
Kardiel already knew the story. But Euphemina and Chersion, who were hearing it for the first time, stiffened simultaneously in surprise.
“Those people are now trying to secretly hide and torment Mom and you, so this time Mom is going to punish them first.”
So just stay away for a while.
I’ll come to get you during this year’s social season.
That’s what I told the children.
Kardiel will probably go straight to the academy right away.
Euphemina and Chersion will stay at the imperial palace with the imperial descendant Raphael for the time being, and Sergei agreed to stay at the imperial capital mansion Joseph purchased to write his thesis and take care of the children.
Thus, everyone except me and Joseph will leave Daiern within three days.
As a result, Chersion’s Chronomancy succession ceremony, which was originally planned to be held a week later, had to be postponed to the next opportunity.
The next total lunar eclipse will occur, probably about 3 years later…
“…Mom.”
“Yes?”
Suddenly Euphemina sat up abruptly.
Reflexively raising my gaze, I saw her usually fierce eyes glowing ominously. For a moment, even I almost flinched in surprise.
“I know the location of Dorothea’s base.”
“Huh?”
“That woman deceived me. If I had known she was the one who tormented you, I would never have gone to find her.”
If I hadn’t known the situation, I would have asked what she meant several times. But I didn’t need to.
“It’s not my fault.”
The child’s attitude was quite brazen for someone who was supposed to be repenting. She made excuses, blamed others, and justified herself.
“So don’t hate me, Mom.”
But even so, I know how much this child suffered because of that incident.
In fact, the reason Joseph was able to find me outside the castle was because Euphemina had told him the location.
Euphemina said that she had previously folded blue paper at Dorothea’s request and delivered it to a certain place.
That place was where I was imprisoned and the Daiern branch of the underworld.
“I know, Euphi.”
I raised my upper body and hugged Euphemina.
“Mom knows that our daughter did it because she loves Mom.”
This child just doesn’t know well.
Just as she didn’t know that the education she had received since childhood was abuse, she lacks the ability to judge good and evil that ordinary people can easily distinguish.
But that’s okay. The child is still young, I am still young, and we mother and daughter have plenty of time.
“So our daughter should also know how much Mom loves Euphi.”
“…Is sending us to the imperial capital also because you love us?”
“Of course. It’s for your safety.”
“Then… is Mom marrying Lord Joseph also…?”
Oh, that’s…
‘It’s because I love that person.’
…I guess it will take a long time for the children to accept Joseph after all.
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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