‘By now, Lin must have met Ioan?’
On behalf of herself who couldn’t move, Lin would surely bring him to her.
With a body that seemed like it would shatter at any moment, Delphine anxiously repeated to herself over and over.
That Ioan would definitely return.
To her side, and the side of their child who was waiting for him……
“But the baby is so pretty…… It really looks just like you when you were young, milady.”
That momentary worry for her was brief.
Anna muttered in rapture as she looked at the sleeping baby’s face.
At those words, even Delphine forgot her worries about Ioan for a moment and smiled.
The child was fast asleep by her side, unaware of the commotion of the outside world.
Seeing that innocent and flawless appearance, she felt a sense of wonder.
Are all humans born in this state?
Without being hurt, without even a small blemish on their hearts.
The baby girl resembled her own features a lot in her eyes.
But somehow, the more she stared intently, the more clearly she could see the parts that resembled Ioan.
‘Ioan.’
You must have been born like this too.
If I could turn back time, I want to go find you.
To a time when you weren’t so lonely or twisted.
If only I could go back to that time and hold you in my arms……
‘If only that were possible, all this tragedy wouldn’t have happened.’
Delphine smiled affectionately as she looked at their child sleeping with an innocent face.
It was at that very moment that an impossibly sweet voice was heard from somewhere.
– O soul with the strongest will.
A chill ran through her exhausted body as she gazed at the child.
As if facing something corrupt that shouldn’t be here.
A voice that seemed to come down from the heavens, and also seemed to reverberate from the earth.
Ah.
In an instant, Delphine sensed it.
That is the voice of the devil.
And that Ioan is in danger.
The fact that the devil has been released means something has happened to Ioan.
Before Delphine could answer, the devil whispered again in a sweet voice.
– Let’s go, to where your deepest desire lies.
The scenery before her eyes changed in an instant.
Her body, having just given birth, staggered, unable to withstand the shock of the instant movement.
Delphine looked around, trying hard to hold on to her dizzy mind.
“This place……”
It was a basement.
With a shabby coffin of unknown ownership in the center.
But it didn’t matter at all where this place was or whose coffin that was.
Not even the sight of the prince collapsed beside the coffin with a strangled neck registered in her eyes at this moment.
The smell of blood that filled this narrow room.
There, Ioan lay collapsed, bleeding.
“Ioan……!”
#Chapter 11. The Deepest Desire 2
Delphine ran straight towards him.
Although her body, which had recently gone through a difficult childbirth, felt like it would shatter, she felt no pain at all in this moment.
Her face turned deathly pale as she collapsed beside the fallen Ioan.
“Blood, there’s blood……”
Is all this blood from one person’s body?
Ioan’s face was as pale as a corpse.
Delphine hastily lowered her head to his chest.
The heartbeat that should have been heard was not there.
In that instant, her heart also sank.
It felt like the blood in her whole body had turned cold.
“No, no……”
Delphine began compressing his chest with trembling hands.
There’s no way Ioan could be dead.
Leaving only her and the child behind, there’s no way he would go first.
But even when she compressed with all her strength, there was no sign of color returning to his complexion.
“No, Ioan……”
Delphine wailed as she shook his still body violently.
“Come back. Please…… Please!”
A plea automatically spilled from her half-crazed mouth.
Someone, anyone, please help me.
Please, just save this person……
Then, if only that were possible, I would do anything……
– Shall I save him?
At that moment, as if waiting, the devil whispered sweetly and kindly.
“Save…… You can save him……?”
Delphine mumbled blankly.
With a face that seemed unaware of whether the one addressing her was god or the devil.
– I temporarily stopped that heart. For you.
Only then did a ray of light enter her blank mind.
Ioan, he’s not dead yet.
But it was no time to be relieved.
Delphine ground her teeth with bloodshot eyes and raged.
“You…… evil thing……!”
Even at that denunciation, the devil paid no heed and whispered again.
– Child of god. Don’t you want to save the man you love?
The devil’s voice didn’t sound evil at all, nor was it overbearing.
Rather, if heard in this desperate moment of crisis, it was kind and good enough to make anyone shed tears.
– If you hesitate a little longer, it will be too late to turn back. Even I cannot revive the dead.
Ioan.
With eyes streaming tears of pain and sorrow, Delphine buried her face in Ioan’s chest.
Ioan, I……
The tears kept pouring out.
As if trying to hide his impatience, the devil whispered in an even kinder tone.
– Quickly tell me your deepest desire. Whatever it is, I will grant it.
And in return, he would demand the sacrifice of another human and her soul.
Even knowing that, the devil’s whisper was an irresistibly sweet temptation.
When he realized he was in danger of dying at his father’s hands, was this how Ioan felt?
The deepest desire.
The foolish yearning of humans to achieve it at the cost of everything.
Only now could Delphine fully and completely understand Ioan.
That choice to sell even his soul to protect her.
If it could save Ioan, she too felt like she could really do anything.
Sell my soul or conscience, if only I could save you……
Just, just say it.
“I, what I want is……”
I want him to live.
For my beloved husband to rise again.
So he can look at me, smile, and embrace me once more.
Delphine wept and hesitated, unable to continue.
“I……”
But the moment she tried to spit out those words, terrible memories of the past came flooding in.
The countless people she had encountered in Sector 3.
The vagrants on the streets.
Children deformed from eating and growing up on wastewater.
The anguished cries of people being dragged to the human factory.
That wasn’t all.
The Holy Knights who had crossed the high, cold Antes Mountains to come here, holding on to the sole calling of slaying the devil.
The young-faced boy soldier she had seen by chance before their advance.
And Ioan, standing with an eroded humanity after killing a thousand humans as a condition for making a contract with the devil……
If she hadn’t experienced the series of events related to Ioan, she too would have willingly wished upon the devil.
She would have agreed to whatever the devil demanded in return.
Even if it meant sacrificing the lives of a thousand people, no, even thousands, she would have chosen that path.
To protect a single precious person.
But to repeat history, she had been through too much.
Ioan made a wish to protect her, but in the end, it was that very wish that tore them apart.
Wishing upon the devil can never bring happiness.
“I……”
With a feeling like her heart was being torn in two, Delphine spat out the words as if vomiting.
“I, my deepest desire is this…… I wish you would disappear!”
Delphine embraced Ioan’s cold body and burst into tears.
A pain that felt like her body was being split apart rose up. A sensation like her throat was burning as if she had swallowed fire.
But even so, her resolve did not waver.
Delphine clenched her teeth and cried out in a rough voice.
“You devil…… Disappear back to where you came from!”
Please.
So that all this tragedy can end, and we can all live proper lives again.
Surprisingly, the devil did not rage or curse at her.
He merely muttered softly in a tone that was difficult to read.
– Ah. The long amusement in the human world has ended……
When god first descended to earth, the first thing he did was love humans.
When that love ended, god returned to his original place.
On the other hand, the first thing the devil did was tempt humans.
When a human appeared who could endure that temptation, the devil returned to his original place.
“Aah……”
The sweet voice tempting her could no longer be heard.
In a world where neither god nor the devil remained, Delphine wept aloud.
…… But what will change by just despairing?
Delphine’s emerald eyes blazed again with clear will.
The devil had definitely said he temporarily stopped the heart to delay Ioan’s death.
She mustn’t waste even a moment.
Delphine fumbled frantically at the teleportation magic circle engraved on her forearm.
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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