Although I tried to speak as gently as possible in case the child would be scared, it seemed unnecessary. Whatever I said, Heaven seemed emotionless.
And moreover, he seemed incapable of lying.
“I have to urgently go to the palace today, and since there is no child to go with, he dragged me along while I was reading a book at the temple.”
“Heaven!”
“You didn’t know much about me either, and you asked me on the way here.”
Heaven was brutally honest to an excessive extent.
Caritos contemplated Heaven’s words, intending to silence the child. However, I stopped his gesture.
“I see. But what does it mean that there is no child to go with?”
“Empress Mama, it’s nothing special.”
“Why? I’m curious.”
“Ah, that’s…”
Heaven looked at Caritos before opening his mouth again.
“I don’t have any friends.”
“Ah.”
“It’s not that I’m lonely. I just find it more comfortable reading books alone. So, I was alone, and that’s why the High Priest brought me here.”
As Heaven, who, as Caritos mentioned, was from a good family and didn’t seem to care about appearances, spoke without emotion. It seemed like he couldn’t lie.
“I see.”
Heaven glanced silently at Shasha, Redello, and Merkin in front of me.
“If you want, you can be friends with these kids. But if you don’t like it, you don’t have to.”
“Friends…”
That was the moment. Shasha, who had kept a small piece of cake, stuck a fork into it and offered it to Heaven.
“Let’s be friends! It’s good to have many friends!”
“Ah…”
“Friends!”
As Shasha was doing her best to befriend Heaven, the other kids nodded with expressions that seemed inevitable.
“Is it okay to… be friends? I was curious because I’ve never made friends before.”
“Then, you can be friends. Come anytime you want, and leave when you want. Everyone is Shasha’s friend.”
Ah, maybe I don’t need to talk to the emperor. Perhaps without the emperor’s permission, Caritos was allowing the children in a rather unorganized manner.
‘But these kids are Shasha’s friends… It should be okay.’
“…Well, fortunately. Still, thanks for listening to me, Empress Mama.”
“Okay then! The discussion about Heaven is over, and now let’s talk about the priest Caritos, who casually said something unlucky.”
“What? W-what are you talking about?”
“About your background.”
At my words, Caritos widened his eyes in surprise.
“That… that’s…”
“Heaven’s family is recognized as good. But I don’t think Rodello is that great compared to Heaven.”
“Rodello? Is there such a child? I’m hearing it for the first time.”
As if he knew about almost all noble families, or as if he had investigated all children of the same age, Caritos was confident.
“Which family is the child from?”
“The child is not from any particular family.”
“Then what is it?”
“He is of imperial blood and the imperial prince. Since the child has not been publicly announced, you probably haven’t heard about it.”
At that moment, Caritos’ complexion turned pale.
“What are you talking about? The imperial prince…?”
It seemed to mean that you, a guy talking about status, have become nothing.
“I mean it. Next to Shasha, the child is Rodello, the imperial prince.”
His jaw seemed to drop at that moment.
“What are you talking about? Imperial Prince…?”
He seemed to be saying, ‘What nonsense is this?’
He couldn’t speak and just shook his head in distress. Since I had no intention of stopping here, I continued to provoke him.
“It won’t do. Even though the Temple and the Mahtap operate separately from the palace, the Empire is a country ruled by the Emperor. Do you think it makes sense to differentiate the status of the imperial prince based on his birth?”
He continued to shake his head in distress.
“Well… I didn’t know the fact that there’s an imperial prince… I didn’t even dream that he was an imperial prince…”
“If you knew, were you only planning to differentiate the status for the other children, excluding Rodello? You said it looks different just by looking. So, does that mean Rodello appeared shabby and insignificant as an imperial prince? Was his status lower? Is that the only way to perceive him?”
Only then did he lower his tail. The tense voice subsided, and only sighs continued to escape from his mouth.
“…No. I… made a mistake.”
“What did you say? I can’t hear well.”
Lowering his head deeply, the priest sighed deeply and spoke.
“I’m sorry. I was wrong. Empress Mama, Imperial Prince.”
I didn’t like how he only apologized to me and Rodello. I wanted him to apologize for ignoring Sehelus and Merkin as well, but there was no justification for that. I had to settle for this.
Still, it seemed possible to scold him harshly afterward to prevent such incidents in the future.
“What did you do wrong?”
“About ignoring…”
“No. It’s not about ignoring; it’s about differentiating the status itself. Aren’t you a priest? The one who should treat all people equally before the name of God. Yet, you, who should see everyone equally, judged people by their status, and not only that but also said such things to children. Really… it’s disappointing.”
I ended up scolding him as if scolding my younger brother unintentionally.
The priest couldn’t offer any rebuttal to my words.
However, there was a somewhat strange aspect. It was fine when he blamed himself as a priest for what he had done, but when he heard the word “disappointment,” his complexion changed a bit.
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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