The saplings, having absorbed the life force from Haji, now formed a lush thicket.
With the days lengthening, Gwangho’s troop trainees endured longer training sessions.
The trainees, for stamina building, ran around the scorching training ground with heavy sandbags tied to their legs.
Training concluded only after their bodies were soaked in sweat.
Daebok, his sweat-drenched top cast aside, approached Yeonwoo, who sat listlessly in the shade.
“I’m off to wash my back. Wanna join?”
Nearby, other trainees were washing away their fatigue in the ditch.
Yeonwoo, enviously watching them, then shook her head.
“I’ll rest here.”
Daebok, puzzled, eyed Yeonwoo from top to bottom.
While others couldn’t wait to shed even a single layer, Yeonwoo was bundled up, looking unbearably hot.
“You must be boiling, always wrapped up like that.”
“It’s okay. It’s not as hot as it looks.”
It had to be hot. There wasn’t a spot on her body not drenched in sweat and discomfort was beyond words.
Being a woman in disguise, she couldn’t undress and wash like the men.
Usually, she wiped down with a towel in the barracks.
Occasionally, she bathed in the river, avoiding others’ eyes, but had been avoiding it since encountering Gun.
“Aren’t you washing up?”
“Of course. I’m very particular about cleanliness.”
Yeonwoo assured Daebok as if it was the most natural thing.
“It’s just, I’ve never seen you wash. Don’t tell me…”
Daebok squinted suspiciously at Yeonwoo.
Feeling as if he could see right through her, Yeonwoo swallowed hard.
“Do you have athlete’s foot or something?”
“……No, I don’t.”
Though relieved he wasn’t on the right track, Daebok seemed to excel at making baseless remarks.
“Don’t worry. My cousin’s in-law’s cousin had athlete’s foot. Washed with boiled water and applied crushed rice cakes – cleared it right up.”
“I said I wash, didn’t I?”
“Ah! Useless for you if you don’t wash?”
Saddened by being the only one unable to bathe, and now Daebok’s teasing too.
Annoyed, Yeonwoo stood up and swung her fist at Daebok.
“Would you listen to me!”
Daebok skillfully dodged her punch, teasingly.
“Hahaha! Better get that treated~! It gets worse if neglected~!”
Even as he walked off to wash, Daebok kept babbling about athlete’s foot not being shameful and unwashed being sickly.
Left alone, Yeonwoo sat back down, still seething.
Especially on a day like today, sweating profusely, she longed to douse herself in cool water like the men.
“Ugh! What’s the use of moping here alone? Better tend to my armor.”
Unable to wash for now, she decided to prepare for the next training during the break.
While fixing a torn part and planning to varnish her armor, she felt something unpleasantly squishy inside.
“What’s this?”
Reaching in, she pulled out a palm-sized rat carcass.
“Eek!”
Shuddering, Yeonwoo flung the carcass to the ground and fell backward.
Then, snickers of mockery echoed from behind her.
Turning her head, Yeonwoo saw Gapdol looking at her with a mocking expression.
A sinking feeling crept in.
The rat carcass in Yeonwoo’s armor was no accident.
Gapdol was the only person in the unit who had a bad relationship with Yeonwoo.
So, if someone put the rat in her armor, Gapdol was the likely culprit.
However, without solid evidence, she couldn’t accuse him.
Besides, telling Byung about a rat in her armor seemed too trivial.
In such situations, it’s important not to react as they would expect.
Ignoring Gapdol, Yeonwoo cleaned up the rat carcass and finished fixing her armor.
From late afternoon, a drizzle began to fall.
The rain poured down as if a hole had been punched in the sky, showing no sign of stopping.
The weather, fiercely sunny in the morning, was unusually fickle today.
The relentless rain blurred everything even a foot away.
Then, two shadows were seen loitering in front of the food storage.
One figure quickly unlocked the door and slipped inside.
They seemed skilled, not doing this for the first or second time.
As the storage door closed, one of the shadows spoke.
“Hey, did you see Hong Yeonwoo’s face earlier?”
The voice, full of glee, belonged to Gapdol.
The slender shadow, Chuncheol, Gapdol’s colleague, echoed in a sly tone.
“I did. He looked as pale as a ghost, just like a woman.”
Remembering Yeonwoo’s terrified reaction made Gapdol unable to suppress his laughter.
“Hehehe. I knew it would be like that. That girly guy, must have been scared witless.”
Thinking of the next prank, Gapdol pulled out a sack.
Together with Chuncheol, they began to fill the sack with different grains from the storage.
“If we sell these, we make a decent profit.”
“Just take a little at a time, and no one notices. We’ve never been caught, right? Gapdol, you’re really smart.”
Gapdol’s long-time mischief was skimming grains from the army’s storage to make a small fortune.
After filling the sack with grain, Gapdol and Chuncheol turned to the liquor jars.
The liquor was used to make emergency rations for Gwangho’s troops.
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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