Even if Your Regret Holds Me Back (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 135
The seat they’d prepared—ostentatiously calling her today’s protagonist—was contemptible in itself.
Right at the center of the long table, directly opposite Christine. They’d left only that seat open, one where everyone could easily stare and fling words at her, waiting only for Helena to walk into their hellhole herself.
Yet today’s Helena was different from before.
Her back and waist, always slumped timidly, now stood perfectly straight; her eyes, revealed as she lifted her long lashes, were as sharp and clear as a winter sky; even the habitual wariness of others’ gazes was gone. It was as if she’d become someone else entirely.
Though irked and resentful, the young ladies spat out even more brazen remarks than usual.
“After all, even though it’s been quite a while since the arranged marriage was called off, keeping a harmonious household isn’t exactly easy.”
“Oh, now that you mention it, I just remembered something—do you recall my cousin?”
“Your Lady Jenia’s cousin… you mean that girl who struggled up from the countryside, married, and settled in the capital?”
“Yes, that unimpressive child. Well, she’d been having trouble for the past few months, and just recently, she finally went through with a divorce. How utterly distressing. I told that foolish girl time and again not to try to hold a man between her thighs, but she was just too naive to understand…”
At that moment, Helena let out a soft chuckle. Though quiet, it was an audacious interruption that abruptly severed the speaker’s words.
Every pair of eyes around the table instantly locked onto Helena.
Instead of flinching, Helena seemed to relish their stares, smiling even more brightly. The mess hall fell silent as if doused with icy water—only Helena’s laughter echoed, rolling across the tabletop.
Still wearing a faint smile, Helena set down her wineglass as smoothly as if following a rehearsed sequence and parted her lips.
“Lady Jenia.”
An oppressive weight descended, as if all the air in the space had vanished in an instant.
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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Helena is merciless, completely changed from before. Forward Helena.
Wah! The height of romance! But Helena is not divorced yet, it will become a scandal.
It hurts! Stop pulling her right and left. Aren’t you noble knights.(¤﹏¤)