A deep silence settled in the office. The constant presence of Siegfried, who had been wandering in the corridor, seemed to have vanished, and I had been hearing hallucinations since a while ago. Ian lowered his gaze to the documents, ignoring the murmuring voices.
“I heard you didn’t go to the Knights today…”
It was then that I heard someone’s inner thoughts. Ian quickly identified the owner of the voice.
“Your Majesty.”
The one entering the wide-open office was Calisto.
“Nathan seems to have left his post.”
“What brings you here at this hour?”
Calisto usually visited Ian in the late afternoon or evening. Looking around awkwardly at Ian’s office, now brightly lit by the sunlight, Calisto answered.
“Now, there’s no need to be cautious anymore.”
“What do you mean?”
Calisto approached Ian with a chuckle. His gaze at Ian momentarily softened.
“I had to hold back from visiting you frequently since the Empress would restrain you. I planned to grant you a suitable position and send you out of the palace after getting through this birthday, but…”
“…”
“Ian, I wanted you to live freely outside of this place. In fact, that was the life Violet and I had dreamed of. Violet hoped you wouldn’t ascend to the Emperor’s position, but we had no choice.”
As Ian listened to Calisto’s face filled with remorse, he let out a heated breath. Suppressing the rising anger, he bit his lips.
“I have to endure for now. If Your Majesty takes action, the Empress will undoubtedly notice.”
It wouldn’t be long before he would confess everything about the Empress and Violet’s death. Unfortunately, today was not that day.
“Ian.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Are you okay?”
That short question held much meaning.
“I… I’m fine.”
“Good, you seem comfortable in my eyes too.”
According to the records, those afflicted by the curse became increasingly sleepless due to constant inner thoughts and hallucinations, turning more and more nervous each day.
“Some records even mentioned an endless sense of oppression, and some wrote about drawing a sword whenever someone bothered their nerves, even if just slightly.”
Meeting countless people who appeared one way on the surface but were entirely different on the inside led to a general distrust of people. Gradually growing numb to emotions, some eventually felt disillusioned with the existence of humans.
“I thought I would become like that too…”
Ian, sensing a slight tremor in his arm, looked down. Observing his well-exercised fingertips, he slowly clenched his fist.
“No need to hesitate.”
There was a difference between them and me. Keeping that fact in mind, Ian met Calisto’s eyes.
“I have a place to rest.”
“A place to rest?”
‘Even if the curse manifests, you’re still the same Ian I knew.’
‘If it’s tough, you can come anytime.’
Recalling that unwavering and sturdy voice, my chest tightened to the point of discomfort. Ian, without realizing, exhaled the breath he had been holding and then opened his mouth with some difficulty.
“After returning from the expedition, I asked Your Majesty. I inquired if there were cases in the records where one couldn’t hear the inner thoughts of a specific person.”
“That happened.”
“Her inner thoughts cannot be heard. Not only that, but when I’m close to her, my world becomes silent. I don’t hear hallucinations either.”
Calisto, surprised, frowned slightly and asked in an unusually tense tone, “Is that really true? Can such a thing really happen?”
“…To me, she is a person like a miracle. So, in front of her, I can forget that I am a cursed being. I can stand in front of her without losing myself.”
“So, the person you’re talking about is Rosebelia Kyeon?”
“Yes.”
Calisto wiped his face with trembling hands. When he learned that Ian’s curse had manifested, Calisto’s world collapsed along with it. A distant sense of despair occasionally overwhelmed him, but he endured it for Ian’s sake.
‘But to think such a miraculous thing would happen.’
Now it all made sense. Ian, who returned from the expedition, suddenly assured him that he wouldn’t die. He said he would somehow overcome it, survive, and show them…
‘It was all thanks to that child.’
A faint smile had spread across Ian’s face. With just that small smile, Calisto’s eyes quickly reddened.
“It seems impossible.”
“What are you talking about?”
A ripple spread in Ian’s eyes, which had remained silent like a lake. It was because of the sudden surge of longing. Like an intense thirst, this emotion covered him; he could only dispel it by capturing her face with his eyes.
“I think I need to go on the expedition with the Knights.”
“What?”
“I’ll go first, Your Majesty.”
Without giving Calisto a chance to stop him, Ian swiftly left the office. A comforting smile appeared on Calisto’s lips as he chuckled as if finding it amusing.
“…He might be my son after all.”
If Violet were alive, she would have laughed, saying that whether it’s father or son, when they fall in love, they rush in without hesitation.
Calisto carefully erased any signs of sadness and quietly left the office.
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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