“Any speculation? I don’t know much about the Duke’s circumstances. If what he said is related to a static, it would be your matter, right?”
“I apologize, Empress. If it’s about the time when the Duchess was alive, it’s before I took charge of the Silver Shield.”
It was before he even became a knight.
“If you wish, I can look into it. Please allow some time.”
“Sure… I want to know what happened.”
The Duke referred to someone as a threat to the Empress’s position. He called her ‘that girl,’ an expression unfitting for a young child.
It didn’t make sense logically. Perhaps the issue wasn’t the child herself, but her background.
‘Maybe it’s just a problem within the Duke’s family…’
However, for some reason, I couldn’t just let it pass. It felt like rocks appeared on the path my heart was walking, and my feet kept stumbling.
‘That’s what the sorcerer of Trinidad said. Rely on your heart rather than your ears. The solution can come in any form.’
So I had to examine why I kept stumbling.
As the Duke lost consciousness again, Lyselia found her feet bound by the Duke’s will.
As the sole successor of the Duke, Kartaheina Phellion had the obligation to hear the Duke’s will.
Not knowing how much longer the situation would be delayed, Serben urgently sent a messenger to the palace. Meanwhile, Dekan left to investigate the Duke’s secret.
The sunset happened in an instant.
Lyselia, due to the steward’s request, had to immediately look into the official affairs that required the Duke’s authorization.
It was quite unfamiliar to suddenly take on the role of Delarta’s prophet, but she couldn’t refuse the steward’s tearful plea.
‘Think of it as the price for borrowing this body.’
Smiling, Lyselia looked at the books, letters, and various documents piled on the desk.
‘If I have to live as the Empress, there’s nothing I can do.’
It was a quiet evening.
The Duke still hadn’t opened his eyes, and the Imperial Guard, just like at the palace, silently maintained their positions.
In the Duke’s study, the only sound was Lyselia’s occasional laughter as she moved the pen.
“…?”
The faint noise ended the quiet and dull time.
“It sounds like something’s happening outside.”
Lyselia got up and opened the study’s window.
“Intruders! Catch them!”
“It’s over there!”
As she opened the window, the shouts of the Imperial Guard resounded as they rushed in. The courtyard and the front yard, visible from the third-floor study window, were in chaos. The Imperial Guard was desperately running.
“Intruders…?”
While Lyselia frowned, Serben’s voice reached her ears.
“Don’t forget! Empress is here! The safety of the Empress is the top priority!”
Serben’s figure came into view. He was running towards them.
Then, noticing Lyselia standing by the window, he frantically waved his hands.
“Go in and lock the door, Empress! All of the windows too!”
“Ah…”
Upon hearing that, Lyselia quickly moved.
Though the Duke’s intruder’s intentions were unknown, there was no guarantee that it wasn’t aimed at her. The intruder could be a Malik knight covering their tracks.
Click!
Lyselia lowered the blinds of the open window. Then, she rushed to the study door and turned the key in the handle.
Click!
The thick key turned, making a sturdy and resounding sound.
“Ah, there must be windows in that room too.”
In Duke Phellion’s study, there was a small room connected to it. It served as a place to sort and store letters received over the past year, referred to among the servants as the “letter room.”
Lyselia was heading towards the letter room.
“…….”
Suddenly, Lyselia stopped in her tracks.
It was clearly audible. The faint metallic sound of the blinds being raised on the window she had just closed.
“Stay right there. Don’t move or make a sound.”
An intruder, who had somehow entered, spoke from behind Lyselia.
There was no sound, but he raised the hand holding a knife behind her. A cold aura was felt behind her.
“Don’t even try to see my face. I’m just someone who wants to talk to Duke Phellion. Once I’m done, I’ll disappear quietly.”
“How can I believe that?”
“Even when I have a witness right in front of me who could complicate things, I’m just holding the knife without doing anything. Please believe me for now. Where is Duke Phellion?”
“Do you have business with the Duke?”
“As you can see. And if it’s a ploy to buy time, I should say it’s not a good idea. Since you seem unwilling to follow my words, I’m sorry, but I’ll have to make you faint for a while.”
Swoosh!
From behind, the sound of someone raising their hand could be heard. Lyselia quickly spoke.
“The Duke has lost consciousness.”
“…?”
The intruder’s hand, about to strike Lyselia’s neck with the knife, stopped.
“So, it shouldn’t be on that side. It’s impossible to have a conversation with the Duke without gaining consciousness. Just let me go. It seems you won’t comply with my instructions. I’m sorry, but I’ll have to make you faint for a while.”
Wait!
“Wait, that saying…”
Lyselia was right about stalling. Serben would arrive soon, and the intruder currently had no intention of using the knife immediately.
But what was strange was the intruder’s reaction.
“That saying! Where did you hear that saying?”
“…? What saying?”
“The saying that disbelief is also human fate!”
The intruder swiftly turned and came back to Lyselia.
Lyselia saw his eyes widening in astonishment.
“No way… Lady Lyselia?”
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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