Duke, This Will Sting for a Moment (30 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 85
Clang. Clack. Screech. Screeech.
The noisy sound of a spoon clashing against the soup bowl.
The scraping sound of a knife—whether it was cutting steak or the plate itself was impossible to tell.
It seemed that what Her Highness truly wished to chew to pieces like an enemy was not the meat in her mouth, but His Highness the Grand Duke seated at the far end of the long dining table.
From the moment she entered the dining hall, Her Highness’s crimson eyes had been glaring solely at His Highness the Grand Duke, burning like blazing flames.
The anxious gazes of the servants and maids, who had been watching Her Highness’s mood, turned toward His Highness the Grand Duke.
His Highness ate his luncheon with relish, his complexion bright as though the tale of wandering between life and death all night were a lie, offering only a painted-on smile to Her Highness, who was openly displaying her displeasure.
“Alexis. We should raise the head chef’s salary. This is the kind of taste that makes life feel worth living.”
After finally saving His Highness the Grand Duke from the brink of death and fainting herself, one would think he should be carrying Her Highness on his back with utmost care—yet why was he only praising the innocent chef to the skies?
“Oh, right. Alexis. Didn’t Count Bercheri say last time that it was strange how much thicker his hair had grown? It’s a wig. According to Count Chernie, Bercheri bought a house for a dancer young enough to be his daughter, got caught by his wife, and had half his hair ripped out.”
Wearing a dazzling smile one might see once a year at most, the only thing he spoke of was some other family’s worthless adultery scandal.
Had the fever last night addled his brain?
The worried glances of the servants clearing empty plates and bringing new ones turned toward their master.
Clang!
As if she could no longer bear it, Her Highness slammed her cutlery onto the table and stormed out of the hall, her heels clacking loudly.
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!”
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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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I like what she told him. It’s her decision. And she lived once and knows what she wants.
The one who languished with lovesickness was him. How could he not notice?
How disgusting!!! He really has no concience. Poor Solace (Yuriella).