Jen didn’t choke because he hadn’t yet taken a sip of water.
“…….”
After quietly and quickly setting down his glass, Deborah said to him,
“In fact, it would be more appropriate for me to address you that way, but I think I’ve been mistaken until now.”
“That’s enough. The current form of address is sufficient.”
“But, Mr. Baker…”
“Do you really think the title ‘Mr. Baker’ caused those misunderstandings?”
Of course, it wasn’t necessarily the sole reason.
‘Why did everyone misunderstand, then?’
Not wanting to be misunderstood again, Deborah fell into deep thought.
Jen, not disliking Deborah’s thoughtful expression but primarily wanting to fatten her up, said,
“Will thinking solve it? Just eat.”
“Yes, okay.”
Watching Deborah carefully cut her meat and gently place small pieces into her mouth, Jen thought that the reason people inferred their relationship the way they did was quite simple.
They must have felt how he looked at Deborah. His gruff tone was laced with affection for her.
That was the reason, but the one concerned, Deborah, was unaware. Probably unimaginable to her.
‘A sincerely righteous person who shuns anything improper.’
It was half a joke but also half true.
Deborah, tasked with grooming and caring for a lady, would neither understand nor accept a man who had hired her for another woman suddenly showing affection for her.
So the moment she realized Jen’s feelings, she might swiftly distance herself from him. Leaving once is easy, but what about twice? Though the situations were a bit different now.
‘Anyway, not now.’
Jen knew he couldn’t reveal his feelings now. He had to keep them hidden until everything was sorted out and there was no reason for caution in front of her.
Until then, he had to keep a close watch. He needed to tie her down with whatever means necessary.
‘Only then can I breathe.’
Exiting the restaurant, the colors of the streets had changed. Bathed in the setting sun, everything was tinged with shades of crimson. But soon, the world would be engulfed in deep darkness.
‘It’s a pity the days are getting shorter.’
Due to the restaurant’s front being packed with carriages of reserved guests, Jen’s car was parked several blocks away. Jen told Deborah to wait at the restaurant while he and the driver returned, but she insisted on following him.
“Why are you following when you could have waited?”
“I ate too much, so I think I need to walk.”
“What did you eat so much of…”
Jen grumbled discontentedly.
Deborah almost laughed without realizing it.
She wasn’t one to eat sparingly. How many ladies barely touch a course, let alone finish it?
Yet, Deborah had neatly finished each course and even enjoyed the wine.
‘I didn’t think it was enough to burst.’
But this man had ordered extra dishes, eating them half-heartedly while continuously adding more to Deborah’s plate.
‘Why is he so intent on feeding me?’
There seemed to be a fairy tale about fattening someone up to eat them. Was Jen planning something similar with Deborah?
‘I wouldn’t taste good.’
Just then, a chill early winter wind blew.
‘Ugh.’
Deborah involuntarily shivered. Seeing her, Jen clicked his tongue and said,
“That’s why I told you to wait at the restaurant.”
Jen opened the box he was carrying and took out the neatly packed coat, draping it over Deborah’s shoulders. The action was so swift that Deborah couldn’t even protest.
“Does it feel better now?”
The coat Jen wrapped around her was a bit heavy, but it was warm nonetheless.
“Yes, it’s warm.”
Jen looked at Deborah, enveloped in a coat that matched the color of his hair, with a relaxed response.
“See, isn’t it necessary?”
Another gust of wind blew. But Deborah didn’t feel it this time.
Jen, a large figure, was blocking the wind in front of her. If Jen’s scarf and hair hadn’t fluttered, Deborah might not have even realized the wind had blown.
Deborah looked at Jen’s back and thought.
‘This man, though his ears turn red with cold, never loses his inherent dignity.’
Though he speaks recklessly, he knows to wrap a coat around someone shivering from the cold.
But why does such a person become so cruel? Could he be so brutal for revenge against the duke who abandoned him?
In the novel, his life was only summarized as ‘the abandoned illegitimate child of the duke’s family,’ but what was his life really like?
Deborah became curious about the life of Jen Baker.
‘Will I ever find out? Or is knowing his past too much for a mere maid like me?’
As Deborah expected, the world began to sink into darkness.
As the year-end approaches, the already cold capital plunges deeper into coldness, and nights like this one arrive quickly and leave late.
Therefore, people in the capital decorate their surroundings with warm colors during this cold season.
They adorn evergreen trees, which don’t turn yellow even in winter, with flashy bead decorations, tie gold or red ribbons, and stores decorate their show windows with bulbs and ceramic decorations containing cozy stories.
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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