“Ugh, it’s heavy.”
I sat down on the ground for a moment. After buying a lot of food at the market, my hands were full.
Should I eat to lighten the load?
I took out a round, plump Japanese apricot.
“Can you eat fresh Japanese apricots?”
I wiped the apricot on my clothes and put it straight into my mouth. At that moment, my vision flashed.
“Ah!”
I spat out what I had just eaten. The taste of the apricot was unbearably sour.
“Oh, I should make jam for the palace with this. You definitely can’t eat it raw.”
While pouting, I took out a strawberry and put it in my mouth. The sweet scent of the strawberry finally overcame the sour taste of the apricot.
I quickly devoured a few strawberries on the spot.
Watching a butterfly fluttering and flying, I suddenly wondered how the palace was doing.
“Are they all worried a lot? They wouldn’t all come out to look for me, would they? Even Edrísh… coming out to look for me… Nah, that couldn’t happen, right? He even left a note. If it’s Edrísh, he knows I’ll return safely.”
As I shook my legs, my stomach made a gurgling sound.
“Hungry again? Is it because I’ve been wandering around for a long time today that I’m constantly hungry?”
Come to think of it, I ate a tremendous amount today alone.
I kept eating at the market, and even at the orphanage I visited earlier, they kept giving me things to eat.
I patted my stomach.
“What did I eat that it keeps going in like this? Alright. Before dinner with Edrísh, let’s go have the last snack! It was said to be to the east, right? I’ll just eat that and go back.
Thinking about eating made me regain my strength.
People were bustling again. I pulled up my shawl and draped it over my head.
As dinner time approached, the scent of food filled the air.
Then, a street vendor caught my eye.
“Oh, I know that. It’s the food I ate when I ran away from the White Tiger Mansion before, right?”
Chicken rolled in white flour dough with chicken and cabbage inside.
It was the food I had eaten at that time, realizing that I had entered the novel and panicking, running away without eating it all. What a waste.
If I hadn’t eaten that, if I hadn’t been caught by Edrísh again, what would have happened? Would it have happened as in the novel?
Now, the contents of the novel were already blurry. At this rate, I might completely forget within a few years.
Alright, why think about that. It’s already a changed story.
Now is the time to focus on the food in front of me!
I walked briskly towards the street vendor.
“Welcome!”
“One chicken roll, please. With a lot of cabbage!”
“Will you eat inside?”
“Um… no, I’ll eat outside.”
The weather was nice, so just like that day in the past, I should eat outside at a table.
Soon, a hot roll was in my hands. I hummed happily as I carried the food and sat at an outdoor table. The gentle breeze felt pleasant. The next time I had free time, I wanted to come here with Edrísh.
Taking a big bite of the roll, the crunchy cabbage was chewed. I shook my body. It was around the second bite when a long and dark shadow was cast over my head.
“If it’s not too much trouble, may I join you?”
My body stiffened. That voice…
I slowly looked up.
Long, slender legs, a sturdy upper body with broad shoulders, and an incredibly, incredibly, incredibly handsome face.
“Clunk.”
The chicken roll dropped powerlessly from my hand.
It was Edrísh.
My mind blanked, thinking I should turn into a blank slate and run away. I stood up abruptly. No, I thought I did?
“Cecilia, where are you trying to run away to again?”
Edrísh lifted me up in a flash, and my legs were weakly kicking at thin air.
Edrísh turned me around. The glinting gold caught my eye.
“E-Edrísh.”
Edrísh’s hair was disheveled unlike usual.
Did he… search for me all this time?
Is he angry? Of course, he must be.
I bit my lips tightly.
“So, I was trying to go back…”
Before finishing my sentence, Edrísh hugged me tightly. The warm body temperature and the familiar scent of Edrísh that had excited me all day gently calmed my fluttering heart.
“Cecilia. Do you know how much I searched for you?”
There was no resentment or anger in Edrísh’s voice. Only now, I also tightly hugged Edrísh’s back.
“No, I just wanted to get some fresh air for a moment… Did you see the note, the note I left?”
“I saw.”
“I told you not to look for me because I was going back… Why did you…”
Edrísh gently put me down and made me sit back in the chair. Then he bent down in front of me, and our eyes met. I sneakily avoided eye contact. Although I wanted to see Edrísh’s face that I hadn’t seen in a long time, I felt more guilty now.
“No, I really planned to go back on my own. I’m not that irresponsible.”
I kicked the dirt floor with my foot for no reason.
“Were you very tired?”
“Huh?”
“If it was that hard, you should have said you wanted to rest. It’s okay to rest.”
He knows that I ran away because I was tired.
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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