“It seems that His Highness Challen is going to make Sister Casalyn his concubine.”
Rose, needing to vent her frustrations to someone, began to confide in Aster.
Aster listened attentively with a seemingly serious expression.
“I can’t believe it. How could His Highness make such a decision? Am I now irrelevant to him? I’ll be pushed out of his interest, relegated to some cold, secluded back room to handle paperwork!”
“Surely His Highness Challen isn’t making Lady Casalyn his concubine because he likes her. There must be some other significant reason.”
“I don’t know. I didn’t hear everything they said. But what does the reason matter? My sister might soon take my place!”
“The position of a queen is not so easily taken or lost. You’ll be fine.”
Rose, unable to hold back her tears any longer, shook her head as she wept.
“Lady Casalyn could do it. Since childhood, she’s greedily taken everything from me. My father’s love, the neighbors’ attention – it was all for her. I was left isolated and lonely. In society, no one even remembered my name. I was just ‘Lady Casalyn’s sister.’ Do you understand how much heartache I’ve endured?”
Rose used every expression to portray her situation as even more pitiable and desperate.
Listening quietly, Aster went beyond mere consolation to share her anger.
“I was right about Lady Casalyn. Despite enduring such unfairness, you’ve grown up so upright. I wouldn’t have been able to endure it.”
As Aster earnestly responded, Rose let out a relieved sigh, feeling the pent-up bitterness in her heart ease a bit.
“Actually, I have a painful past similar to yours.”
“You do?”
“Yes. I was deeply betrayed by someone I trusted and was left with nothing. Since then, I’ve struggled to stand on my own feet, but hearing your story, I cannot stay silent.”
Aster knelt at Rose’s feet.
“I want to help you.”
“Me?”
“Yes. Please let me stay by your side and help. I don’t expect you to trust me right away. Just give me a chance to prove that I truly want to protect you.”
Rose, overwhelmed by the emotions welling up inside her, couldn’t hide her feelings.
The thought that he was doing all this upon first meeting her was suspicious.
But having seen Challen propose to Casalyn and feeling emotionally unstable, Rose desperately needed support. She wanted someone on her side, more than ever.
So, she took his hand.
“Alright. Show me what you can do for me.”
“Really? Is that really okay?”
“For now, I’ll make you my servant, temporarily. I won’t trust you right away. I’ll see if your words about wanting to protect me are sincere.”
“It’s an honor. I’ll serve with all my heart.”
Aster bowed, kissing Rose’s hand, his smile meaningful.
“Become my concubine.”
The hot breath of Challen’s words still echoed in her ears, leaving her body covered in chills that refused to fade.
Casalyn wasn’t naive enough not to understand what it meant to become a concubine.
She knew that the wealth offered as compensation for being a concubine was essentially a dowry.
‘If he were a man with a conscience, he couldn’t do this to me.’
Wandering the garden, lost in thought as darkness fell, Casalyn found herself in an unfamiliar place and looked around anew.
“The corridor pillars elegantly entwined with peach-colored rose vines, and in the vast lake, small fish energetically leaping through the waterweeds. This place, where Casalyn felt more at peace than in her homeland, despite the Rennel Imperial Palace being a foreign land to her, as if the olive trees surrounding the garden whispered that this was truly her home.
Casalyn looked down at the lapis lazuli hair ornament sparkling in her palm.
[Come to the ball wearing this. I have urgent words for you.]Recalling his brief note which she had forgotten until now, Casalyn impulsively rose and rushed towards the ballroom, breathless.
The clock tower’s hands had just passed ten.
Parnes would be waiting.
With words she desperately wanted to convey.
‘What does he want to say to me? Is it related to this lapis lazuli?’
She felt as if she wouldn’t see him again if not now.
Trying to suppress her swelling emotions, she was only a few steps away from reaching Parnes, who was waiting in front of the banquet hall, when suddenly…
“……!”
A dark shadow engulfed her from behind.
Before she could identify who it was, a black cloth covered her eyes, and her mouth was swiftly gagged as she tried to scream.
The mysterious assailant dragged the struggling Casalyn to a corner.
When her resistance didn’t cease, he struck her hard on the back of the neck, and she lost consciousness as if a candle had been snuffed out.
The sound of horse hooves kicking the dry ground jolted Casalyn’s foggy consciousness awake.
When she opened her eyes, she was crumpled inside a rocking carriage.
The sky outside was pitch black with no stars, indicating the depth of the night.
Still unable to grasp the situation, Casalyn, jolted by the carriage’s bumps, looked up at the ceiling, then sat up in a panic.
‘I’ve been kidnapped!’
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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