“I imagined that you would be fighting there.”
Ines mumbled about something she hadn’t done wrong. It was clear that the situation was quite unusual even in her own thoughts.
“Exactly, how much more of a pathetic guy are you trying to make me?”
“What are you talking about again?”
“That you’re going to blind me to you again.”
Before Carson finished speaking, he turned Ines’s head, gently pulled her lips with his, and moistened her neck with a familiar fragrance. From her emanated the familiar scent she had when she was a talented young girl in Swenden, a temple maiden, and even when she was his maid. That consistency had always moved Carson’s heart without fail. Once again, Carson’s chest tightened.
She pushed Carson away a bit, turning her head forward again.
“I’m going to get scolded by Emma.”
“What?”
Returning from the battlefield, she took a long time to bathe. While listening to Emma’s sighs, who complained about her messy hair and skin due to being trapped in a dirty place, Ines said something unnecessary.
“Poking me like that will get you scolded by Emma.”
Ines lightly scolded Carson, who messed up her hair.
“Emma suffered a lot untangling this messy hair.”
Even hearing those words, Carson, while gently, one by one, with his lips and hands, combed through Ines’s soft golden hair. Every time, her ear, which turned red, was bitten and teased.
“I’m truly sorry.”
Apologizing with a tone that didn’t sound sorry at all, he jokingly made Ines laugh a little. It was a night when everything felt unreal.
“I can’t believe all this happened in one day.”
Escaping from the former empress, jumping into the middle of the battlefield as Carson said, the start of the war, and bathing after avoiding the injured leg, all happened today.
The wound on Ines’s leg was not large, but she thought it would be fine if a scar remained. Every time she saw the scar, she would realize that everything she was experiencing now was undeniably real.
“If it hadn’t ended in a day, I might have… died.”
Carson’s touch hesitated, unable to reach Ines’s injured leg.
“It felt like my heart was really going to burst.”
The words that felt like a joke met Ines’s back with a low voice, and as Carson recalled the fear of feeling that Ines had disappeared, he shivered, and his heart tightened.
The wedding was postponed for three days. The time Carson gained by persuading the Emperor to hold the ceremony as planned was merely three days. Carson decided to provide a place for the local nobles who gathered for the wedding to stay for three days.
As a result, the palace couldn’t sleep all night until dawn. The chaotic atmosphere that continued from late evening had not yet subsided.
“But the wedding must proceed as planned.”
The moment Carson saw Ines, who was personally driving the carriage from a distance, he felt as if he was witnessing a scene from a myth he had read and admired in his childhood.
The goddess of war seemed to descend from the sky, pulling a chariot of the sun.
“It’s a crowd. You know. Even if the wedding is delayed now… nothing will change.”
Yes, your words are correct. He said it gently but lowered his head. Your words are right, but even so, he didn’t want to wait even for a single day now.
“Now I understand you.”
Ines’s head turned suddenly at the unexpected words spoken as if confessing. When their eyes met, her pupils seemed to try to focus, then became shallow, and narrowed again.
“What?”
“I wanted to say this since earlier, but I thought you would think I’m crazy when you hear it…”
While looking at him, who blurred the end of his words unusually, Ines raised her eyebrows slightly.
“What are you trying to say?”
“Now I seem to… respect you.”
“What?”
Ines burst into laughter as if she heard something really amusing.
“What on earth are you saying?”
“Yeah, even if you laugh like that, there’s nothing I can say.”
Carson turned Ines’s body slightly and pulled her towards him. The woman who came lightly into his arms sat heavily in his life.
“I need to get a portrait of you.”
“My portrait?”
“Who else is here?”
“Do you want to put it next to the statue of the goddess Hecate?”
Instead of answering, Carson hugged Ines more tightly. In the hands that embraced her lightly, there was a lot of strength.
“Yeah, anywhere. I need it when I can’t see you.”
When he realized that she had disappeared, everything in front of him became dark.
Even with his eyes closed, it seemed as if Ines’s facial features, which he thought he could draw even if he closed his eyes, were sinking into the distant memories. Even if there had been only one portrait of her at that time, the feeling of frustration wouldn’t have been so overwhelming.
Ines must have felt the same way. In the dark and distant situation where she had to live apart from him, that portrait must have been a strong support.
“You really resemble your parents a lot.”
While holding Ines in his arms, Carson gazed at her with a smile. Her father had a firm heart but was tender, and her mother seemed indifferent but was mischievous and cute.
In appearance, too, except for the color of the hair, he hadn’t heard much about the resemblance.
“Really?”
“Yeah, very much.”
“I haven’t heard such words much. What part resembles them?”
Ines asked with genuine curiosity. At the end of her words, there was a faint laughter.
“You shake my heart and handle it like that.”
At the unexpected answer, Ines’s eyes widened a little. Seeing that, Carson brought his lips to her eyes, which had naturally closed.
His lips touched the closed eyes. The lips that fluttered like a butterfly onto the eyelids tickled, and a smile naturally spread across Ines’s face.
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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