I Became The Sword Of The Sword-Obsessed Male Lead - Chapter 62
The stormy day finally passed.
The next morning.
Sunlight poured through the window cracks. After tossing and turning all night in the heat without proper sleep, I finally stretched out and sat up.
“Marie. Are you awake?”
As I barely opened my eyes that refused to fully open, I saw Marie wearing casual clothes instead of her maid uniform.
“Marie?”
At my call, Marie, who was crouched down packing her belongings, suddenly raised her head.
“Heidi! Did you sleep well?”
“Where are you going?”
Marie’s lips were adorned with a wide smile.
“I’m going home!”
“Oh my, finally?”
So that’s why she’d been humming for the past few days!
“Yes, finally. Did I tell you that my siblings have been looking forward to the summer festival?”
“Of course. You mentioned it before. Are you going to the summer festival together?”
“That’s right. This vacation is a bit longer. I’m taking four days off.”
Marie, who had been stuffing items into a large brown bag, lifted it with both hands and her eyes sparkled.
“I’m going to have a proper rest!”
“I’m so envious, Marie.”
I meant it sincerely. A vacation.
I want to go too!
I was also curious about the summer festival where Marie’s siblings would be singing.
However, it wasn’t easy for a kitchen maid to take a vacation. Being responsible for everyone’s meals in the mansion, it would be troublesome if there was a shortage of staff.
Maybe I could go out for a bit if work finished early in the evening.
‘I should ask Robert later.’
It’s not bad to go alone, but wouldn’t it be better to enjoy large-scale events like festivals together?
Anyway, seeing Marie happy made me feel good too. I bid farewell to Marie as she left for her vacation.
Then I hurriedly got ready and headed to the kitchen.
As soon as I entered the kitchen, Robert rushed to me and exclaimed.
“Heidi! Did you hear that news?”
“Huh? What news?”
“Haha, so you haven’t heard yet!”
Robert shrugged his shoulders, bragging about whatever news it was.
That made me not want to hear it anymore. I casually waved my hand and passed by him.
Probably not getting the reaction he wanted, Robert followed closely behind me.
“Why are you reacting like that? Aren’t you curious?”
“Well, not really.”
“This is huge news. The main house staff is already in an uproar! No, soon the entire Delgado mansion will be turned upside down!”
Again, he’s exaggerating.
As always, Robert never knew how to talk about anything moderately.
That’s part of his charm as a friend though.
His overreaction made me slightly less reluctant to listen.
I cracked eggs into a large silver bowl and asked.
“So what is it?”
“Well, you see. Oh my, don’t be surprised.”
“Just tell me already!”
Robert, now excited, looked like he was about to start dancing on the spot.
I could feel the chief chef glaring at us.
It was understandable, since we were just chatting instead of doing our work on this busy morning.
Oblivious Robert, seemingly unaware of such glances, banged on the table and shouted.
“Young Master Dietrich received a marriage proposal!”
Wow, this is quite funny…
“What?!”
Finally getting the reaction he wanted, Robert pushed my shoulder.
“See! I told you you’d be surprised!”
Dietrich received a marriage proposal.
After being lost in thought for a moment, I could easily guess who it was from.
It wasn’t difficult to deduce.
It had to be Princess Ariana, who had stayed at the Delgado mansion all afternoon yesterday.
“The person who proposed is…”
“Princess Ariana, right?”
“Oh? How did you know?”
In response to Robert’s surprised question, I just shrugged lightly and continued cracking the remaining eggs.
Robert, who had been chattering beside me, was finally dragged away by the chief chef grabbing him by the nape of his neck.
In the kitchen that had finally quieted down, I sighed and beat the eggs.
‘Princess Ariana was more aggressive than she appeared.’
Unlike her pure appearance, she had a side that pushed forward intensely.
‘Well, just coming to the Delgado mansion shows that.’
Even though someone else clearly won the hunting competition, the princess came to the Delgado mansion herself, determined to marry Dietrich.
If rumors spread about the princess visiting the Delgado mansion.
Everyone would know that Princess Ariana was courting Young Master Dietrich Delgado.
As if not caring about such things, she boldly proposed.
Normally, I would have cheered, shouting, ‘How amazing! To think such a wonderful woman exists in this world!’
Bang!
I roughly put down the silver bowl on the table.
Something didn’t sit right with me.
Anyway, I headed to Dietrich’s office with the finished food.
Knock knock.
After knocking several times with no response, I was standing helplessly in front of the door when a maid coming up to the third floor approached me with a sympathetic look.
“Heidi? Are you waiting for Young Master Dietrich?”
“Yes. Have you seen Young Master Dietrich by any chance?”
The maid nodded and replied to my question.
“Yes, it seemed like he went out somewhere early this morning. I’m not sure of the details.”
Shocked by the maid’s words, I froze on the spot.
“He’s gone again!”
Dietrich had disappeared since early morning.
[This is the timeline separator]“Yawn, Dietrich. Don’t you have any concept of morning?”
Nocturne stretched out with a yawn and sat on the sofa, rubbing his eyes.
He was in a very bad mood, having lost all his sleepiness due to this unexpected visitor.
However, this visitor, who seemed to have no sense of manners, sat on the opposite sofa and shrugged lightly.
“I have something to ask you.”
Nocturne was dumbfounded by how comfortable he looked sitting there, as if it were his own office.
Did he not realize where he was coming to like this?
“Dietrich. Do you know this is the magic tower?”
“So what?”
“Never mind, forget it.”
Nocturne blamed himself for sometimes forgetting that his friend was a person with such extraordinary abilities that logic often didn’t apply to him.
His master, who had been excited about magic items selling well with the upcoming summer festival, would be furious if he knew.
“What did you want to ask? You should hurry. It’ll be a mess if my master comes.”
“Your master? You mean Archmage Hudson?”
“Yeah, that old man. He’s been pestering me so much lately. From making the most effective magic items to submitting five research reports a week, he must be going senile.”
“…I see.”
“A few days ago, he suddenly disappeared with the items I made, saying he wanted to check how popular they were.”
It was somewhat disrespectful, but Dietrich didn’t bother to point it out.
Nocturne was originally a free-spirited type. Just look at how the only son of the Frey Viscount family left home to stay at the magic tower.
He was second to none in terms of uniqueness, so there was no point in saying anything.
“Well, good luck with that. What I want to talk about is something else.”
“…How cold, so cold.”
Nocturne leaned back comfortably on the sofa and crossed his legs.
“So, what did you want to say?”
‘It better not be something trivial. I’ll set fire to your bottom as payment for waking me up,’ he was thinking.
“I received a marriage proposal. From Princess Ariana.”
“…”
“…”
Silence fell.
Nocturne couldn’t tell if what he just heard was real, if Dietrich was trying to fool him, or if this was still a dream.
“W-wait a minute. Is this true? Not a lie?”
“Do I look like someone who would break the instant teleportation orb you gave me just to tell such a lie?”
Of course not.
Nocturne fell into deep thought.
In fact, it was already known from the previous hunting competition that the imperial family wanted a political alliance with the Delgado family.
But he didn’t know Princess Ariana had feelings for Dietrich?
This is turning out to be quite interesting.
A mischievous smile floated onto Nocturne’s handsome face.
“So? What did she say? How did the princess confess?”
Nocturne, who had been leaning back on the sofa the whole time, detached his back from it with a sly smile.
Then he leaned forward, urging Dietrich to tell him quickly.
“She asked for help. To become the Emperor.”
“…That’s quite surprising?”
“She also said she would help me become the head of the Delgado Duchy if I did so.”
It was an increasingly surprising story. But did Princess Ariana have such capabilities?
Even though she was a top student at the academy, in reality, she was a princess pushed out of the imperial succession.
“So? Did you accept?”
“Are you crazy? I can do it sufficiently with my own power.”
‘That’s what I thought,’ Nocturne nodded.
Dietrich wasn’t someone who would easily trust others and accept help.
That’s how Dietrich had been, as far as Nocturne had seen.
A person more comfortable being alone.
Thinking about his childhood when he tried so hard to become Dietrich’s friend still made his face flush with embarrassment.
How much he had pestered Dietrich, who wasn’t very sociable from a young age.
‘That’s my dark history.’
Anyway, it wasn’t very surprising that Dietrich rejected the proposal.
Moreover, if it was someone from the imperial family, he would have rejected it even more firmly.
“But did you come all the way here to tell me this?”
Nocturne asked, scratching the back of his head.
It was interesting, but the answer to the proposal was so obvious that it didn’t seem necessary to come all the way here to talk about it.
Nocturne decided to wait, thinking Dietrich might have more to say given his personality. Sure enough, he slowly opened his mouth.
“Do you know anything about the imperial family’s hidden treasure?”
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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