As she continued to look around for the rabbit’s body, she saw Dewey running hastily from beyond the bushes.
He came up close and asked with concern,
“Are you all right, miss?”
“I’m fine…”
“My ankle seems to be twisted.”
Before Irene could answer, Carlos spoke.
“Her knee and elbow are also injured.”
At that, Irene checked her arm and knee.
‘It’s true.’
There really were injuries. She was unaware of when she had been hurt.
But how did Carlos know?
Dewey also discovered her injuries and clicked his tongue.
“Oh, you’re quite injured. Are you okay?”
“I’m fine.”
It stung a little, but it wasn’t enough to whine about the pain.
‘The problem is my ankle…’
It was more seriously twisted than she had thought, and her ankle was swollen. It was clearly impossible for her to walk on her own.
“Could you please support me?”
“Of course.”
As Dewey reached out his hand, Carlos suddenly lifted her up.
“Ah…!”
Taken completely by surprise by his action, Irene screamed.
On the other hand, Dewey smiled contentedly.
“Certainly, this is better than supporting you.”
Better? What’s better!
Irene screamed silently within herself but politely asked Carlos,
“Please put me down.”
“……”
Carlos dismissed her request as if it wasn’t worth responding to and simply walked toward the carriage.
Dewey watched them, smiling, then suddenly sobered and walked in the opposite direction.
Though Irene had comfortably reached the carriage thanks to Carlos, her mind was very uneasy.
‘But I only have to endure a little longer.’
Since they had arrived at the carriage, this bewildering situation would soon end, she thought, consoling her uneasy heart.
Carlos gently set Irene in the chair and asked,
“Where’s the ointment for the wound?”
“It’s in the pocket…”
Irene pulled the wound ointment from her pocket and handed it to him.
Carlos grabbed her knee as he took the ointment, and only then did Irene realize what he was going to do. She hastily refused.
“I’m, I’m fine. I can do it myself.”
“I’ll do it.”
“No. I can do it. Please let me do it.”
Irene pleaded as if begging, but once again her opinion was lightly dismissed.
Carlos wet a handkerchief with water from a bottle, the origin of which was unknown.
Then, he gently wiped Irene’s wounds and applied the ointment.
It was a meticulous and cautious touch that didn’t match him. It was even tender.
Though it wasn’t as tantalizing as when he touched her back at the inn, it still felt strange.
If she stayed like this, she might unwittingly let out a strange noise, so Irene kept her mouth shut while Carlos treated her wounds.
“It’s done.”
Finally, his hand pulled away, but the sensation lingered. Her heart fluttered.
Irene took a deep breath, trying to calm her throbbing heart.
“Emergency treatment has been done, so you should go to a nearby village for a detailed treatment.”
“It’s, it’s fine. This much treatment is enough…….”
“I’m not okay.”
She really was fine….
Irene glanced at the wound that was thickly smeared with medicine.
Compared to what she had suffered from that man, this wound was nothing.
“You must be tired, get some sleep.”
Irene shook her head. Although she had previously fallen asleep unknowingly because she was too tired, this time was different.
She wasn’t that exhausted, and above all, she didn’t want to fall asleep defenselessly in front of the beast.
“Sleep.”
However, when Carlos insisted on his opinion this time, Irene had no choice but to lie down on the carriage seat.
As he covered her with his coat like a blanket, a distinct body odor wafted around. She couldn’t describe it, but somehow it opened up her stifling chest.
Carlos was afraid of it, but he liked his own smell. It was quite ironic.
……Well, it wasn’t as scary as when they first met.
When Irene stared wideeyed, Carlos furrowed his eyebrows.
“I told you to sleep, why aren’t you sleeping?”
At that, Irene quickly closed her eyes.
She thought she wouldn’t fall asleep, but drowsiness came to her so much that the thought seemed ridiculous. Her consciousness gradually drifted away.
“I’ll wake you when we arrive.”
A faint voice permeated her fading consciousness.
Halfasleep, Irene unintentionally blurted out the question she had been holding.
“Will you……kill me?”
There was no answer in return, but Irene didn’t care.
A more accurate expression would be that she couldn’t bother.
She had asked unconsciously.
So she wasn’t even aware that she had asked such a question and plunged into deep sleep.
“……Perhaps.”
So, unfortunately, or fortunately, she didn’t hear Carlos’s belated answer.
[Star Icon]Dewey, who had gone in a different direction from Carlos, returned about two hours later.
Carlos, sensing his arrival, looked at Irene’s face, who was fast asleep, and got off the carriage.
Dewey came up to him and bowed.
“I apologize.”
It was an apology with much meaning.
Carlos nodded as if he had already suspected.
“The nimble one might have already returned to the underworld after only releasing the minions.”
The world was divided into the celestial realm, human realm, and underworld, where the underworld was commonly feared by humans as a place teeming with monsters.
Carlos was the lord of the northern territory of the underworld, divided into four parts, and Dewey was his loyal servant and resident of the underworld.
“Shall we send a pursuit team?”
As he was about to nod, Carlos felt a murderous aura coming from the forest and looked that way. Deep darkness swirled in his purple eyes.
Dewey also felt the aura and looked in the same direction as Carlos.
“It seems that some remnants remain. I will go and deal with them.”
“No. I will go myself.”
“There’s no need for you to…….”
Swish [dash].
“……do that.”
Before Dewey’s words were even finished, Carlos disappeared into the forest.
“Good grief, he sure is impatient.”
Dewey scratched his head, looking at the shadow left behind by Carlos.
The masterless shadow extended its shape, and as if to protect the carriage that Irene was in, it enveloped it.
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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