“Ludwick.”
“Ah… Yes! Your Majesty. What can I do for you?”
Ludwick, who was almost petrified from shock, snapped back to reality and hurried over.
Parnes, still holding the menacing-looking sword, casually tossed it aside and commanded,
“End the training early today. Tell the chefs to prepare a hearty breakfast.”
“That’s unusual. Don’t you usually just have coffee for breakfast, torturing your poor stomach?”
Ludwick, ever proper yet pointed in his remarks, asked in surprise.
Parnes glanced at his weary aide with clenched teeth.
“When did I say I’d eat?”
“Then for whom are you…”
Ludwick turned his head following Parnes’ gaze.
Parnes, unable to take his eyes off Kasalyn’s pale face, and Kasalyn looking up at him, puzzled.
Ludwick, after slowly observing both, bowed his head with an enigmatic smile.
“I understand, Your Majesty. I’ll make sure to prepare a cozy breakfast setting.”
“……I should have cut that man’s throat long ago.”
Watching Ludwick’s unusually cheerful departure, Parnes clicked his tongue.
“What were you discussing just now?”
“What else?”
Parnes replied indifferently, almost coldly, while gently grasping Kasalyn’s slender wrist.
“I’m doing this to feed you. I’m irritated seeing you running around pale-faced.”
“Why for someone like me…”
Exactly.
It’s none of my business whether you starve on the streets or collapse from nervousness.
But just to see those white cheeks plump up, flushed and smiling healthily.
And to watch that up close.
That must be proof my mind’s gone awry.
Kasalyn silently followed Parnes.
Entering a walkway lined with pale olive trees, the surroundings quieted.
Only their footsteps and the rustling leaves broke the silence.
“By the way, didn’t you have something to say to me?”
Parnes, who’d been silent, suddenly spoke.
His face still forward, unreadable.
“No. I just stopped by hearing the excited voices of the ladies. It was unintentional.”
Kasalyn decided not to mention the strange feeling of being watched these past few days.
It could be a mere illusion, and besides, he was an emperor with much to do and worry about.
“I shouldn’t burden his already heavy shoulders with ‘I feel uneasy because someone seems to be sneaking into my room, but I have no proof.’ ”
“Nothing happened?”
“Yes.”
Parnes, who’d been walking unusually slowly, suddenly stopped.
Kasalyn, following his large steps, bumped her forehead against his back.
Straightening up, she met Parnes’ displeased gaze.
“You’re lying again.”
“What?”
“You look down when you lie. It doesn’t suit you.”
“Did I do that?”
How did he know a habit she wasn’t even aware of?
Feeling awkward, she fiddled with her hair.
Parnes slowly reached out into the air, hesitating as if in serious conflict, then gently touched her cheek, as if her face was some sacred treasure that should not be touched.
His fingers slowly moved along her jawline, which had noticeably thinned compared to when she first came to the Lernel Empire.
During this, Parnes was almost breathless, except for his eyes, violently turbulent with indecipherable emotions.
“Is Challen Riche troubling you?”
Kasalyn’s eyes widened gradually.
His fingertips reached the edge of Kasalyn’s lips but ultimately did not cross the line and slowly withdrew.
Her mouth felt burning, as if she had swallowed a flame.
She had to say something.
As Kasalyn struggled to find words, just moving her lips slightly, Parnes whispered in an astonishingly gentle voice,
“If you don’t want to talk, silence is fine.”
“Didn’t you dislike silence as an answer to your questions more than anything, Your Majesty?”
“I do. But it’s okay for you.”
She wanted to ask why.
He dislikes it for everyone else, but it’s okay for her, what does that mean to him?
Though she didn’t voice it, Kasalyn’s lips moved slightly as if to ask, and Parnes nodded slightly.
“You’re asking the obvious. You silently bandaged my wounds without a word.”
Reflecting back, he was always nearby.
Whenever she was upset by Challen, who nonchalantly ripped open her emotional wounds, Parnes was always right there.
He noticed before anyone else, quietly keeping his place without prying.
Like that huge tree in the secret garden where they first met.
Silently offering a cool shade despite pretending to be indifferent.
How could she not think fondly of him?
His calm gaze that seemed to penetrate her thoughts, and his words that pretended not to care but did, had a strange power to shake one’s heart.
For some reason, only he made her feel this way.
Being captivated by such unfamiliar emotions in front of the Emperor, whom she wouldn’t dare to look in the eye, was strangely surprising and new to Kasalyn.
“Miss Kasalyn! Yo, you were here!”
Just as she struggled to continue, Logia, flushed from running, approached and stopped in front of Kasalyn.
Logia, who would have frozen at the sight of Parnes, seemed to bring urgent news.
“Miss Logia. What’s wrong?”
“We, well. His Majesty the King has been looking for you for the past hour. He didn’t seem happy; you should hurry.”
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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