It was the first time Ines had climbed the family mountain. This place was on the border with Lesonia, and the knights of the Graham Earl’s house took turns guarding it, but that was the mountain entrance on the other side of her mansion.
This was private land, and there was no way other family’s knights could be on the road leading from the mansion’s backyard to the mountain.
The mountain path was rugged and steep, but there was no hesitation in Ines’s steps. When she was in Romfield, her main job was to mine iron ore in the mountains. So climbing the mountain without heavy equipment was very easy for her.
After walking up for a while, a plain in the form of a watershed appeared. On the left, large trees were lined up. When she looked out widely, she could see a reed field spread out where the land ended.
Ines took a deep breath. The green reeds swaying in the same direction reminded her of the sea she had never seen before.
“This place is good.”
A cool breeze blew in just in time to cool the sweat on her forehead. Taking one step closer to her plan, she felt a little relief from the stifling feelings.
But she did not stop here. She had not met a single person on the way here, but she could not be complacent.
So she decided to explore further. It didn’t matter if someone found her after the job was done, but she couldn’t do that before the plan succeeded.
Since it was a mountain range with continuous peaks, as soon as she climbed the small peak next to her, the place where Ines was going to carry out her plan was in plain view.
She wandered around for about an hour, but she couldn’t meet anyone, and there were no traces of people. Ines hurried her steps, completely reassured, down the opposite path from where she came.
The place was decided, but it was to check where the Graham Earl’s knights were on guard. If she went down the other side of the mountain and took a rented carriage back, she would be home in time for dinner.
However, she did not realize that there had been a deep gaze following her since morning.
(This is a time separator.)
At the same time, Prince Carson was also on the mountain of the Swellenden family. Verifying the substance of the pungent smell of money he had taken charge of was always a pleasant thing.
“It’s fortunate to move faster than the Empress.”
The Empress, not long after the attack on the Swellenden viscount, immediately made it clear to Carson that it was impossible to subordinate the Swellenden family to Landhill.
But Carson was faster. As soon as he got the Empress’s favor, he sent someone quickly to list Swellenden’s name in Landhill’s noble roster. The committee agreed, and the royal favor came down without any other procedures.
The fact that the report on minor issues such as the territory belonging to the Graham family doesn’t go to the Emperor and Empress was taken advantage of.
If they tried to change this, a long legal battle would have ensued. Moreover, the odds of Graham winning in a country that adopts a fiefdom were slim.
“Graham must have completely lost the Empress’s trust.”
The fact that the Empress accepted Swelden’s betrayal so easily meant that Graham hadn’t told the Empress about the secret of this mountain.
“Are we getting rid of one now?”
“Yes, with this much preparation, it seems there will be no problem in taking down one Earl’s family.”
“No, it won’t be.”
The alliance between the Empress and the Graham family had been longstanding. There were many things that the Empress regretted about dismissing Graham over such a small matter. Moreover, since Graham had volunteered to clean up the trash that the Empress had abandoned, it was risky to discard him rashly.
Prince Carson von Raymond had sent all the knights of the Graham family out of the Swelden family’s mountain today. He then released people to accurately determine the location and scale of the mine.
“But how did you know there was a gold mine in this mountain, my Lord?”
“How did I know? It’s either iron or gold in the mountain. The geology of the mountain here doesn’t match that of diamonds.”
“Ah….”
Noah looked as if he had been hit in the back of the head at this new realization.
“So, you just guessed?”
“Iron is precious, but there is plenty of iron ore in Landhill. There’s no way they wanted just iron ore so badly that they used such strange tricks. But I didn’t expect it to be this much.”
There were two types of currency used in the system. One was the paper money made by the Royal Family called Sanbatel, and the other was gold.
The gold mined from this mine was said to be a tremendous amount by experts. It was still unclear how much “tremendous” was, but it was clear from his excited expression that a tremendous amount of gold was buried.
“Congratulations anyway.”
“Why have you been saying weird things since earlier? Is this mine?”
“Isn’t it the property of the family that will become your inlaws?”
Noah expected a sharp retort from his Lord at once, but Prince Carson von Raymond said nothing. He just muttered to himself as he walked down the mountain.
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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