Taking a breath, his senses heightened.
The tips of his nails reddened slightly. Rascal knew that one more step would trigger his transformation.
“For now.”
He could hold it in for now.
No harm had come to the Empress yet.
“Your Majesty!”
Lian, who had left to fetch Ivette, appeared with her.
Ivette was holding a tiny phoenix with both hands. Judging by its halfwet feathers, it seemed like it had been taking a bath.
“You know what you need to do.”
As soon as their eyes met, Rascal blurted out.
“Cheep!”
Peep shook off the remaining water on its body.
It understood.
Peep had to fly off quickly to inform Rasilia so that she wouldn’t be lured away by other demons.
“Don’t hesitate, fly off now.”
“Cheep! Cheep!”
Peep, who had been squawking, suddenly took off.
“Cheep!”
As Peep flew out the window, a flock of birds filled the sky. Peep landed on the strongestlooking hawk among them.
“Cheep!”
The hawk carrying Peep soared into the sky.
Immediately after, the other birds also disappeared.
Lian raised his thumb silently.
Even if small, a phoenix was a phoenix. It was incredibly reliable when on their side.
“The guards are ready, Your Majesty. The sword and armor are by the horses.”
“I’m going now.”
“Yes.”
Soon after, the entire guard unit mounted their horses and left the palace gates.
The sight of blue armor and golden tassels cutting through the wind with matching banners was extremely impressive.
Above all, the most striking figure was the Emperor leading them.
(This is a time marker.)
“Your prolonged absence might have been the issue.”
Serben was serious.
“You’ve been away from the palace for over five hours, Your Majesty. You might have lost your patience at some point.”
He was not joking.
Ever since the trial was canceled, Rascal hadn’t slept a wink in three days.
He knew that a body mixed with demon blood was different from that of ordinary humans. Even taking that into consideration, this was too much. Rascal had all his senses focused on the palace.
Even with seven tracking spells in place, he couldn’t feel at ease. The reason for having seven was that more than that would tangle the mana.
In other words, if there was no such risk, no one knew whether it would have been seventy or seven hundred spells.
Despite this, Rascal had accepted the Empress’s request to go alone to Piellion House.
It was clear he was desperately enduring to not fall out of the Empress’s favor.
In the office, Leskal sat quietly, visibly growing more tense by the moment, and it seemed as if Rian, watching such Leskal, was swallowing dry saliva.
No, at this rate, Leskal would have undergone a transformation and stormed out.
“So, you just need to return as soon as possible.”
His expression, once serious, grew anxious.
He knew that telling himself to return as soon as possible was actually advice for himself.
“What is the law regarding Your Majesty getting caught in a transformed state? What happens in that case?”
Rasilia asked.
“That is…,”
Serben looked troubled and glanced at Dekan.
Dekan slightly nodded his head.
“I can attempt to erase memories with magic. However, the number of people might be too much for me to handle alone. In that case, we’ll need another method.”
Rasilia’s expression darkened.
The other method meant eliminating witnesses by killing them.
“There would be public opinion. Wouldn’t there be backlash against the royal family?”
“That is the biggest issue. Especially since these days it’s uncertain how the temple will react. They were the ones who filed the accusation that the empress’s seal had disappeared, so they might blame even your transformation on the empress.”
“A big problem in multiple ways.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
She felt anew the weight of responsibility that came with companionship.
‘If I were real… I could never leave.’
She couldn’t turn her back on an emperor who was undergoing transformation after just a few hours apart.
Rasilia clenched both her fists and nodded her head.
“We should go as soon as possible to minimize the number of witnesses. Tell the driver to speed up the carriage.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Doodoodoodoo!
The driver sped up. The jostling increased accordingly.
She almost missed a faint noise tapping on the window.
“Peep! Peeep!”
“Ah… Peepi?”
“Peep!”
Peepi was struggling with small wings as the carriage sped up.
The carriage was visible, so it had landed from the horse, but then suddenly the carriage sped up.
“I’ll open it.”
Dekan hurriedly opened the window. It was a window designed to open from the inside out, and Peepi almost bumped its head on the window frame.
“Peep!”
Peepi landed on Rasilia’s knee, clearly irritated.
“What’s the matter, Peepi?”
“Peep? Peep… Peep! Peeep!”
“Hmm?”
Rasilia was perplexed by the unexpected words.
“Is that true?”
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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