How To Escape From A Devilish Husband (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 10
Late at night.
Pride entered the mansion almost without making a sound.
His return home had been delayed.
“Is Madam…?”
“She has retired to her chambers.”
The guard who opened the door to greet him quickly answered the question asked in a lowered voice.
I see.
He had intended to have dinner together if possible, but today, clearing up the situation had taken an unusually long time.
‘Because of those worthless to those insignificant insect bastards.’
For a moment, the killing intent that flashed in his eyes made the guard beside him tense up sharply.
Pride roughly loosened the tie of his newly changed uniform as he climbed the stairs.
He didn’t know what methods they were using, but the number of anti-establishment forces in District 3 was steadily increasing.
Like those sewer rats that endlessly breed no matter how many you catch.
‘I should pick a day and wipe them all out at once.’
That was the most effective way for extermination.
However, as he reached the chambers, the fierce glint in Pride’s eyes gradually subsided.
Like a madman who had inhaled a sedative.
Or like a tamed beast approaching its trainer.
He very quietly, with an almost miraculous lack of sound, opened the door to the chambers and stepped inside.
A bed with its canopy half-drawn.
And beneath a thin sheet, a figure lying there, creating soft curves.
His wife and saintess was lying there.
Filling the room with her uniquely sweet bodily fragrance.
Just inhaling that scent seemed enough to reach ecstasy.
The moment he approached the bed with an entranced gaze, Pride paused briefly.
From his hand holding the tie, it seemed like the smell of blood that hadn’t been fully washed away lingered.
He had scrubbed with soap multiple times before coming to the mansion, but the amount of blood he had been covered in today was simply too much.
He could not commit the sacrilege of lying beside the saintess with the smell of blood on his entire body.
……He also needed a moment to calm down.
He closed his eyes tightly, as if to hide his ferocious gaze.
He needed to cool his head with cold water.
Having decided, he quietly headed to the bathroom adjacent to the chambers.
His movements as he stripped off his clothes were as unrestrained as always.
In an instant, he was naked and poured cold water over his head as if dousing himself with holy water.
The muscles densely packed into his massive body occasionally twitched as if convulsing on their own, and his head throbbed.
The aftermath of the excitement from the battles that had continued almost all day today had not yet fully subsided.
To cool his body that would not calm down easily, he filled another handful of cold water and scooped it up.
But at that moment.
As if sensing something, he turned around with an unbelievably swift motion.
Creak-.
It was right then that the closed bathroom door opened.
There stood his saintess, frozen in place while holding the bathroom doorknob.
Wavy red hair, and emerald eyes that he always thought were more beautiful than any jewel.
Pride looked down at her calmly, without shrinking or showing any surprise.
Her gaze, which had initially met his eyes in a daze, naturally dropped downward.
As if extremely flustered, her face turned as red as her hair, and the shawl wrapped around her body fell to the floor with a thud.
Pride couldn’t help but let a smile creep onto his lips.
[This is the timeline separator]Delphine was frozen in place, unable to even think of picking up the fallen shawl.
She hadn’t heard any sound.
Neither the sound of him entering, nor the sound of water dripping in the bathroom.
For some reason, she hadn’t been able to fall asleep easily tonight.
For the past two days, despite the unfamiliar man being by her side, she had welcomed the morning without any memory of falling asleep.
After tossing and turning for a long time and finally drifting off, it was only brief.
Near dawn, her eyes opened again.
Her face was covered in cold sweat.
In her dream, the Pembroke mansion had become a sea of blood.
‘I should at least wash my face……’
Overwhelmed by the fatigue from the nightmare, the moment she opened the bathroom door, what she discovered was a man’s naked body.
At first, she couldn’t grasp the situation.
It was the same as what she had seen on their first night. The massive body densely covered in muscles and scars.
But the moment her gaze involuntarily dropped lower.
Delphine hurriedly closed her eyes tightly and even dropped the shawl she had draped over her nightgown.
She had received bridal education as a noble and knew that there were differences between male and female bodies.
‘……But they didn’t tell me it would be this big, Anna!’
Knowing the general process of the first night, she suddenly felt like screaming.
The man looking down at her now-pale face let out a small, smirking laugh at the corner of his mouth.
However, unlike his upturned lips, his eyes were not laughing at all.
His intensely burning auburn eyes obsessively scanned every inch of her appearance.
Under that gaze, Delphine’s face gradually turned red.
He was the one standing naked, and she was the one wearing clothes, albeit thin, yet it felt as if their positions were reversed.
“I, I made a mistake.”
Unable to bear the tense atmosphere, Delphine hurriedly opened her mouth.
“I was just coming to wash my face……. Ah!”
He took a step.
It wasn’t a fast or urgent movement.
Yet Delphine felt an immense pressure.
Why was that?
Was it because of those eyes that were heated to the brink, unlike his leisurely gestures?
For every step he took forward, she took a step back.
However, due to the difference in stride length, in just a few steps, the man closed in until their bodies were almost touching.
“I, I should go now……”
She ended up stuttering without realizing it.
Her hand, urgently reaching back to grab the bathroom doorknob, was futilely caught.
At the hot heat from the man’s bare skin transmitted to her, Delphine sharply inhaled.
He fixed his gaze on her eyes and slowly lowered his head.
Those boiling eyes drew closer and closer.
Under that intense gaze that seemed to pierce through her body, she strangely felt her stomach tighten.
What is this feeling? Why am I like this?
Is this the emotion prey feels in front of a predator?
Trembling with fear and tension from this unfamiliar sensation she was experiencing for the first time, Delphine finally spoke in a tearful voice, unable to even think of running away or daring to push away the naked man.
“It, it hurts.”
In truth, he wasn’t gripping her hand that tightly.
But was it because of the hot heat transmitted beyond that, or because of this tingling sensation tormenting her body?
The touch of his skin against hers felt violently strong.
Surprisingly, his hand was immediately withdrawn.
Even more surprising was that the man’s eyes were tinged with bewilderment.
“……Lord Pride?”
Awkwardly calling his name, the man swept his large hand over his face.
From beneath it, a low voice muttered something like a curse, laced with embarrassment.
At that sight, Delphine’s eyes widened in absurdity.
In this situation, the one who should feel embarrassed was obviously her, no matter who looked.
Yet for some reason, he was acting as if he were the one who had been molested.
Delphine recalled the thought she had in the garden full of blooming irises this afternoon.
He truly is a man whose inner thoughts are impossible to fathom.
“……Please do not misunderstand.”
Soon, the man who raised his head again spoke with a face that had regained some composure.
What misunderstanding?
When Delphine raised one eyebrow, he added with a troubled expression.
“This is not why I married you.”
“……I was thinking that perhaps this was the reason you rushed the marriage so urgently.”
“Were you not looking for a…… courtesan to relieve your desires every night, rather than a wife?”
Was he concerned about those words?
But the question that had tormented her for the past three days still remained.
If so, then why had he married her?
If not to possess her?
However, she lacked the courage to ask such a question in front of a naked man.
Delphine nodded slightly.
The man released her hand but did not turn around.
His posture and attitude were so confident that it was hard to tell who was actually naked.
“Are you going to continue standing like that?”
As if having regained his senses, he lightly asked the question with his usual elegant demeanor restored.
Startled by those words, Delphine fled the bathroom as if running away.
[This is the timeline separator]Why had he married her?
Not to possess her, and…… what if he wasn’t Ioan?
However, the opportunity to ask that question never came again.
A week passed since then.
Throughout that time, the man did not enter the mansion.
For someone who had prattled on about ‘being faithful to the family after marriage,’ it was quite an insincere attitude.
Because of a husband who didn’t come home after just three days of marriage, the employees were busy watching her mood every day.
“How remarkably promising he is.”
“Indeed. This means he has earned His Majesty the Emperor’s trust.”
“It’s not good if a husband is home too much, Madam. Believe me!”
Now a routine, during her garden walk.
The maids fussed beside her as she leisurely walked, defending their new master.
“Enough. I’m fine, so there’s no need to make forced excuses for him.”
Delphine suddenly stopped and gazed at the desolate winter garden landscape.
The irises that had been in full bloom couldn’t last even a few days and withered all at once one day.
And the changes over the past week were not just the state of those flowers.
Now ten days since her father’s treason incident.
Spending time apart from the man who had only confused her, Delphine gradually began to accept this situation.
And finally, she made a resolution.
A resolution to uncover that man’s true identity.
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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