The clouds were really far away in the sky. It was a clear day, rare to see in rainy Landhill. It was an excellent day for Ines to perform her final ritual.
As the panting sound of the man behind her reached her ears, Ines slowly turned her body and moved toward the dense trees.
Seeing her right in front of him, Joseph grinned maliciously.
His grin was exactly the same as that day.
That smile that appeared like a scar in the narrowing field of vision of Ines, who was lying on the ground after being hit by a carriage.
“Is this the only place you’ve run to?”
He looked around and sneered.
“You’re going to be my woman today; we’re getting married anyway, so what’s the big deal?”
Ines didn’t respond to his words; she immediately turned around and ran with all her might. He also sprinted toward her at the same speed. The moment they reached the brown reed field and turned their bodies, a sharp scream filled the air.
“Aaaaah!”
Ines looked at Joseph, who was hanging upside down from a tree, trapped in a snare, with indifferent eyes.
“What the hell is this? Ahhh!”
“Don’t move; it will hurt more.”
His eyes filled with horror and astonishment as he looked at her composed demeanor. The tightly twisted snare would strangle him more with each movement.
The whole weight was now on his legs; he must be feeling both extreme pain and fear. His ragged breathing echoed in the silent mountain.
“Why are you doing this to me?”
Without answering, Ines approached him. He swung his arms in an attempt to grab her, but it was impossible in his suspended state. She walked to the other side of the tree where the snare was tied and rummaged through some bushes, pulling out an object.
The strange object, which even Joseph had never seen before, was quite unusual. It had a handle attached to a large wooden barrel. Each time she pulled the barrel, a clinking sound of metal was heard.
“Do you think you’ll be fine after this?”
His voice trembled pathetically as he clenched his teeth. Blood rushed to his head, bursting the veins in his eyes. However, what scared him the most was her undisturbed behavior.
“The blood is rushing to your head? I really hated that feeling.”
Ines grimaced as she pulled out a rope that one would typically see on a lectern. The woman walking toward her displayed nothing but discomfort.
Was this truly the Ines she knew?
“What, what are you doing?”
He flailed his arm rebelliously, but Ines easily brushed his hand aside and tightly gripped the rope.
“Stay still.”
“You’re really trying to kill me?”
“Yes.”
“Why are you doing this? What have I done so wrong to deserve this?”
“I’ve done nothing wrong to you.”
“What does that even mean?”
“….”
“Ines! Stop it. What are you doing? Is it a crime that I loved you?”
Annoyed by his yelling, Ines slightly shrugged one shoulder.
“You’re noisy, Joseph. You’re just going back to the state where you should have originally died. You know? If you die here, you might be reborn as the son of a playwright next time.”
“…What?”
“Your red-haired lover said it, didn’t she? Even if one wakes from death, a commoner can’t become a playwright.”
He clearly remembered the day he heard those words from Lady Graham. His mind went blank as he realized this. Could it be that Ines was in that rest room at that time?
“Ines, that’s a misunderstanding.”
“Misunderstanding?”
“Yes, call it a misunderstanding… Where’s the handkerchief I gave you?”
“That’s naturally in my pocket…”
He hurriedly reached for his chest, and his mouth clamped shut. At that sight, Ines let out a soft laugh.
“You returned that to me while brandishing a knife at my father.”
“That wasn’t me. I didn’t try to kill your father in the carriage!”
“How do you know it happened in the carriage?”
She approached him with the object she pulled out of the bush.
As she began to turn the handle, a dreadful noise scraped at his nerves.
“Aahh, what are you doing. Ugh.”
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.
_____
Please help me, I want to bring you the best possible things.
If you find any chapter or novel with poor translation and editing quality, let me know by commenting directly under that novel or chapter. I will retranslate it as soon as possible.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
