Even with Hansen’s puzzled expression, Carson couldn’t stop laughing. Looking at him, Hansen added a remark.
“Of course, the passage leading to the secret room in the building with the king’s bedroom might be blocked. However, the path into the palace itself couldn’t have been blocked like that.”
That path was not just a secret passage that had been around for a year or two. One side of the walls of the intricate, maze-like connected passages was intricately engraved with patterns, and torches were placed everywhere along the way.
There were doors at intervals that could be closed to block the path. Even if the doors were closed in case of an emergency, the path itself couldn’t have been eliminated.
“Once you get inside, it won’t be difficult to find the king.”
Carson fell silent for a moment. While he had thought of eliminating whoever became the leader, he hadn’t thought it would be the king.
After capturing key figures on the enemy side and bringing an end to the war, he had planned to obtain appropriate loot.
According to what I’ve found, Fudelfinn is currently in disarray. The king’s rejection of a diplomatic marriage and his attempt to provoke war were intended to create external enemies and divert the people’s attention outward. The chaos in Keynes worked in his favor.
“What do you mean by those conditions?”
“If I have the chance to capture the king, I definitely want to kill him with my own hands.”
Carson emptied the drink he was holding in one go. The fact that the king’s son wanted to kill him implied rebellion.
But no matter how you looked at it, the neat-looking priest in front of him didn’t seem to be drawing such a big picture.
“What does that mean?”
“Of course. But what I want is only that one thing. To avenge him, who brought death to me and my… family.”
“So, you want me to help with your revenge?”
“That’s right.”
Carson withdrew his gaze for a moment and fell into thought. But that time wasn’t long.
“But why? I hadn’t planned on killing the king of Fudelfinn…”
Hansen was greatly perplexed by Carson’s words that implied a refusal. In Carson’s view, he was an intelligent person, but he wasn’t skilled in politics.
“Aren’t you going to war?”
“Yes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean completely destroying a country.”
If successful, Carson would place Fudelfinn under his jurisdiction.
As a viceroy and a changer, if he invaded a foreign land and seized territory, that land would be annexed into his kingdom. It meant that suddenly a country would fall into his hands. In that case, he would have to give up Landhill.
Moreover, Fudelfinn, which had lost the king’s life to the changer of another country, would not remain quiet.
The empress also had no choice but to watch him. If attacks came from both sides, even Carson wouldn’t be able to block them.
As a man, he wasn’t without greed, but he had never planned or thought about such a thing.
So, his decision was quick.
“Then, let’s make a deal.”
Carson, who noisily placed the drink on the table, spoke.
‘In return for making your revenge come true, become the king of Fudelfinn.’ That’s what he meant.
“W-What… are you talking about?”
“Currently, the king of Fudelfinn has lost the trust of both nobles and commoners.”
The expression “lost trust” was a very euphemistic expression. He had a son, but he was still young. The king’s family on the outside had power, but the queen was seriously ill and couldn’t get up from her seat.
The king led the people into ruin, indulged in luxury, and neglected state affairs. In the dry seat where he didn’t take care of state affairs, weeds grew thickly.
While Hansen couldn’t escape from the shock, Carson’s words continued to rush forward like a storm.
“Of course, I don’t intend to hand everything over. The current conflict between Monstera and Fudelfinn is due to the unclear border.”
“…….”
“Besides, the river is too easy to cross.”
Having spoken magnanimously, he reached into his pocket as if to take out candies but stopped.
“If you can see it, it naturally feels like mine, and it can’t be helped. So, I plan to include the current territory of the Hyeon Fudelfin Duchy up to the Progon Mountain Range, which is right at the entrance, into my kingdom.”
The Progon Mountain Range was land that took over four days of riding from the border claimed by Keynes, the Rio Rande River.
“Now, I am going to make a very selfish proposal.”
Even though the one stating the conditions was making a proposal, Carson’s attitude didn’t give any hint of anything strange.
“Speak… please.”
He raised his glass and stood up. The natural pressure emanating from his simple movement was not only felt from his large physique.
“There was a son abandoned by the king who turned a blind eye to the people’s suffering. The story begins like this.”
The voice, as if reading an epic narrative, carried an undeniable certainty that dared not to be challenged.
“But then, one day, that son suddenly appears. Moreover, with the king’s regalia in hand.”
“…….”
“At the same time, news comes that enemies have crossed the border in the capital of Fudelfin. And the king’s son barely manages to block the changer of Monstera, who was eyeing the Hoshitam Kingdom, near the Progon Mountain Range. It’s like saving the country from a crisis, as if it were the work of a god.”
The Progon Mountain Range.
At just that point, it was a size that Keynes wouldn’t consider a significant problem.
No, it was an area that could be considered territory not worthy of blaming a war hero who had removed the festering parts of the empire for over a hundred years. Especially considering that he wasn’t challenging his homeland in particular.
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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