After Jaina left, they hardly had any conversations. More precisely, there was no contact.
Except for mealtime or tea-drinking hours, Maximilian always seemed busy.
His room lights always went out at midnight, and the office lights turned on like dawn.
‘Is he sleeping well?’
She knew Maximilian had always been busy, but lately, it felt like he was pushing himself even more.
He was so sensitive that anyone entering could see him sleeping soundly, which was fascinating.
“Ugh…”
Maximilian’s face, usually composed, contorted as if having a nightmare. Teresa was taken aback by his sweating and groaning.
“Max, Max!”
Even shaking him awake didn’t make him easily open his eyes. After a while, he groaned in agony and shouted.
“Teresa, no, no!”
Maximilian, who blinked his eyes, found Teresa looking down at him with a worried expression.
Is he still dreaming?
He reached out and pulled Teresa tightly into his arms.
“Thank goodness, nothing happened.”
Her refreshing scent calmed his mind.
Her soft hair and warm body temperature overflowed with reality.
‘Huh?’
No, it was excessively realistic.
Maximilian discovered Teresa’s reddened ears and quickly withdrew his arms.
“S-Sorry.”
It wasn’t a dream.
His face turned bright red at the fact that he had behaved indecently in front of her.
The two remained silent without even meeting eyes for a while.
Teresa was the one to break the awkward silence.
“Well, um… when are you going back?”
“If I want to organize things at the castle, it will take some time. Maybe next week?”
“I see.”
Seeing Maximilian’s expression of disappointment, he asked cautiously.
“Do you have something urgent to go back for?”
“N-No, it’s not that. I just… I want to see the greenhouse quickly.”
“Ah.”
Maximilian remembered how important that greenhouse was to Teresa.
Seeing Teresa looking so earnest, he wanted to do something for her.
He checked the time and asked Teresa.
“I heard there’s also a flower garden here. If it’s convenient, shall we go tomorrow?”
“A flower garden?”
“Yeah. It’s a place where they grow plants and flowers from the hot spring area. Maybe you’ll find something you like.”
Looking at Teresa’s bright expression, Maximilian felt relieved.
Thinking about it, he already knew what Teresa genuinely liked.
He had known her since childhood.
“If you’re busy, you don’t have to force yourself.”
However, with Teresa’s suddenly darkened expression, Maximilian cautiously continued.
“If it’s burdensome for you to go with me, I can arrange for someone else to accompany you.”
“N-No! It’s not like that.”
Only now did Teresa notice that Maximilian looked paler than before.
His once sturdy body seemed a bit leaner, and his cheeks lacked color.
Perhaps due to lack of sleep, the area under his eyes looked dark.
“I’m worried that you’re overworking.”
Maximilian’s eyes shook greatly.
But soon, his eyes softened with joy.
“You worry about me?”
“Well, we’re engaged.”
In fact, Teresa hadn’t closely examined Maximilian until recently.
It was difficult to gauge her own feelings, and facing his face felt suffocating.
But now, it felt a bit different.
“Thank you.”
Maximilian’s laughter seemed sincere.
Teresa stared blankly at that laughter.
She believed that she had been unilaterally influenced by Maximilian. But upon reflection, it was unreasonable. Just as she influenced him, Maximilian must have been influenced by Teresa as well. [Dash] Both are awkward in expressing their true feelings. She recalled the words Jaina once said as she passed by. She felt that Maximilian in front of her looked different. Despite thinking that they knew each other well, she became skeptical.
“Rest well today and let’s go out tomorrow.”
“Uh, okay.”
“If you don’t go to bed early, I’ll go out alone tomorrow.”
Maximilian reluctantly nodded at Teresa’s stern tone. After finishing her words, she left the room. Even if they were to break up, both of them would be fine. It felt like coming out of a long tunnel.
The next day.
Maximilian, with a much neater face than yesterday, greeted Teresa.
“Do you have time today?”
“Yeah.”
Relieved by her permission, Maximilian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. They got on a carriage. Spring was slowly coming to Hiera in the north, more than in the capital. Teresa seemed to be in a good mood, which was fortunate. Maximilian also felt better with her.
“We’ve arrived, Viscount.”
At the coachman’s words, the two got off the carriage. A huge greenhouse lay before them, a place recommended by Jaina, thinking Teresa would like it.
“Shall we go in?”
“Yeah.”
Even just looking at her, Teresa seemed extremely excited. So far, she had never seen such an expression. Now, Maximilian realized how pitifully he had lived.
“Max!”
Teresa, turning around with a bright smile, sparkled more than ever before.
If you’re with what you like, it shines like that. Mumbling to himself, Maximilian followed her into the greenhouse. Inside were plants he had never seen before. They admired the blooming flowers and fragrant fruit trees. Teresa asked the greenhouse owner about various things and inquired about the points to be careful about when growing them.
“If you give too much water to this plant, it easily rots from the roots…”
Maximilian patiently listened to the uninteresting story from someone with no hobbies or interesting tales. No, exactly, it was more about watching the enthusiastic Teresa. To shake off the nightmare from last night, he tried hard.
“Oh, sorry. Was it boring?”
“No, you can tell me more. I’ll explore the surroundings.”
Teresa, realizing the situation, tried to leave quickly. However, Maximilian stopped her and began to explore the area around the greenhouse on his own. Someone grabbed him who had distanced himself from Teresa and had ventured far away.
“Max.”
His heart jumped. An unforgettable voice.
Teresa asked the owner of the greenhouse various questions while inquiring about points to be careful about when growing plants.
“If you give too much water to this plant, it easily rots from the roots…”
Maximilian, who had no hobbies and patiently listened to uninteresting stories, or more precisely, was watching the enthusiastic Teresa, responded. He had worked hard to shake off the nightmare from the previous night, engraving the lively image of her in his mind.
“Oh, sorry. Was it boring?”
“No, you can tell me more. I’ll explore the surroundings.”
Teresa, realizing the situation, tried to leave quickly. However, Maximilian stopped her and began to explore the area around the greenhouse on his own. Someone grabbed him who had distanced himself from Teresa and had ventured far away.
“Max.”
His heart jumped. An unforgettable voice. Among the bushes, a woman with a familiar face appeared.
Maximilian stared at the other person for a while.
“Mother.”
The words spoken after several years sounded very awkward.
The nightmare he had been trying to forget slowly began to erode the ground he stood on.
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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