Was she talking about the protagonist? The single friend Lerdelo had met in the orphanage. Though they would meet eventually as time passed, they didn’t meet while growing up.
“I see.”
“I thought I didn’t need friends. Being happy in the moment was enough. But… it was different with Shasha. It seems I was not everything to Shasha.”
Lerdelo was a child who wouldn’t hesitate to become a pillow for Shasha. That must have been Lerdelo’s way of showing affection.
“I see.”
“Will Shasha… be really mad?”
Wondering if his mind had changed a bit by my words, Lerdelo was watching me.
“If you go apologize, I think Shasha will forgive you right away.”
“What if Shasha says she hates me…”
Though he would act on impulse, deep down, that wasn’t how Lerdelo felt. More than anyone, the sensitive Lerdelo liked Shasha. He didn’t want to be hated by her.
“Let’s go see for ourselves. How about it? Or since you told me honestly, I can go and find out how Shasha feels.”
“What if… what if she says she hates me?”
“She won’t. You’re disappointed and sad because you like her. If she didn’t like you, whatever you said wouldn’t have affected Shasha, would it?”
“Hm…”
I extended my hand to the child. After watching it silently, Lerdelo seemed to make a big resolution and firmly grabbed my hand.
As if expressing his own feelings.
“Let’s go!”
“Wait a sec!”
Lerdelo, who seemed ready to go find Shasha with me, hugged a doll that Shasha had left behind.
“This is Shasha’s… favorite doll. She carries it with her every day.”
It wasn’t a doll prepared by the palace. It was a raggedy, old doll. Lerdelo hugged it proudly.
It was the first doll that Shasha had received as a gift. The count and countess didn’t buy it, thinking it would spoil her.
A maid who had been very fond of Shasha gave her this doll, a toy she used to play with as a child. The maid had washed and mended it before giving it to her.
This was a gift from the maid who had to quit her job due to her failing health, a maid used by the count and countess to prove that everyone around Shasha becomes miserable.
“You know so much about it?”
“Just…”
Holding Lerdelo’s hand, which was filled with embarrassment, we headed towards Shasha. Not all kids get along from the start. Especially when their emotions are still immature, they tend to fight more often than not.
Just as they say you grow through fights, he wished this situation would pass as just another trivial, insignificant event.
And it was just then, as he was about to enter the star palace.
“Um…”
“Hm?”
Ludelo cautiously opened his mouth.
“What should I call you?”
“What do you mean?”
“You know, you…”
“Haven’t I called you ‘that’?”
I grinned and met eyes with Ludelo. Ludelo had never referred to me by name. There had been plenty of ways to address someone without specifically mentioning them, and we had managed like that until now.
“It’s just…! That time… so…”
“Because you didn’t expect our relationship to turn out this way?”
“Right. So… um…”
“Um?”
“No, what should I call you? Do you want to hear things like ‘Your Majesty, Mother’?”
Ludelo looked at me with a serious expression.
“Well, just… hmm…”
What would be appropriate? Ludelo could call me sister because I’m Shasha’s sister, but becoming the empress would mean I’d also be Ludelo’s mother, which felt strange.
It’s also odd to ask him to call me mom.
“Just call me whatever you feel like. You can call me Isabella, or Bella.”
I almost said he could call me sister or mom but held my tongue.
The word “mom” wouldn’t get easier to hear, no matter how much I thought about it.
“Ah…”
“Just call me whatever comes naturally when you speak to me. You don’t have to force it, okay?”
“Yeah.”
Ludelo bit his lip and nodded. In the meantime, we had arrived in front of the room where Shasha was. I quietly opened the door and stepped inside.
The child who couldn’t even cry comfortably was wailing alone, her face buried in the blanket. There wasn’t even a tantrum.
“It’s okay to cry, Shasha.”
Only after hearing my voice did Shasha stop crying and turn her head.
“Sis…”
“Are you really upset?”
“Mhm…”
The child who needed someone to listen, the child who was used to growing up alone, seemed comforted just by having someone hear her story.
With her eyes reddened, her trembling lips struggled to move as if she was okay. As if she still wanted to be loved.
I tightly hugged such a Shasha.
“Why are you upset?”
“Ludelo… Ludelo…”
“Hm. Is it because Ludelo said he didn’t like you? So, you hated him?”
“No… I don’t hate him. I… I like Ludelo… but I think I won’t see him anymore… and it scares me… even if he hates me… I don’t want to not see Ludelo…”
It’s over.
There was no need for Ludelo to worry. I turned my head slightly to look at Ludelo.
Ludelo, who had been standing by the door in fear that Shasha might hate him, was gaping at us.
‘As they say, cutting water with a knife in a couple’s fight, the children’s fights are the same.’
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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