Just every aspect was overwhelming. It wasn’t just about the Hwadongs’ positions and roles ending with their entrance; we had to synchronize our steps to the songs and endure a variety of music.
Thinking back, it was an experience I never wanted to go through again.
However, marrying the person I love wasn’t all difficult and tiring. At the end of the wedding, just before the bride and groom’s procession, Rian announced Rodelo’s official entry as a Hwadong.
“And this child is my son. He’ll be on the Crown Prince’s seat on his birthday.”
In the novel, Rodelo proves his existence on his birthday, becoming the Crown Prince that day. However, things were different now.
Maybe because Rodelo was always uneasy about not being properly announced in front of others, Rian, worried about him, revealed Rodelo’s existence in a public announcement towards the end of the wedding.
Although most people in the imperial palace already knew about Rodelo’s existence, it was mostly kept quiet. Making it public in such a situation surprised everyone.
It was a significant event for the empire, the Emperor’s wedding.
Perhaps because of that, there was a brief commotion, but the wedding ended like that.
The problem was the banquet.
Extreme fatigue overwhelmed me after the wedding. Standing idly without anyone approaching, I smiled faintly, heaved a deep sigh, and spoke my mind.
“Envious.”
“Huh? What are you envious of?”
Rian, who went to rest first, before succumbing to fatigue, wondered if it was the sapphire necklace of the lady in front or the author’s new dress.
“No. I’m envious of the kids who went to rest first.”
Rian, who had been looking for elements I envied from the people at the party, awkwardly laughed with an “Ah.”
“Is that so?”
“The party… feels like a different world. It’s frustrating.”
“Indeed, maybe we’re destined. Jim feels the same. It feels stuffy.”
“That’s misogyny…”
“It’s probably human hatred. Something about them having a good time together seems too fake.”
It was true. Everyone seemed to be wearing masks. Some might be genuine, but most faces, even from my perspective as a modern person, seemed disgustingly insincere.
“I didn’t feel this way before, but the more time passes, the more it becomes like that. Being here feels nauseating, and cold sweat breaks out.”
“So that’s why your expression is stiff?”
“An expressionless face is the best expression that doesn’t reveal emotions. If it’s hard for you to be with others, you can wear this expression. I actually wish you would have this expression.”
“Why?”
“Because I want to be the only one to see your smiling face, your happy face. On the contrary, if you smile and look happy in front of others… It feels like it would be stimulating.”
His expression stiffened in a different sense.
“Talking like that sounds like an obsession.”
“Obsession…”
At that moment, a man approached Rian, who was wearing a rather serious expression. I already knew him. He wasn’t someone I had a personal friendship with, but I had seen him at the last party… he was Evan, the only friend of Rian.
“I was surprised when I heard you were having a wedding all of a sudden, and you actually went through with it.”
“Oh, Evan.”
I was worried about how he would look at me because of his younger brother, but surprisingly, his gaze seemed emotionless.
Or more precisely, he didn’t even look at me properly. It was as if he didn’t care about my existence.
“Maybe it’s because you’re welcoming the Empress… a wedding. It doesn’t seem like you, Rian.”
“What does it mean to be ‘me’?”
“Just like you never blocked a woman from coming or going, you didn’t even have any interest, right?”
“Maybe. I haven’t been interested until now. I haven’t felt the need for genuine love, so it didn’t matter. But now it’s different.”
“Different how?”
The Duke’s head tilted.
“I sincerely fell in love with her. So, I wanted to announce it like this, even if it’s in this way.”
“Are you really in love with another woman? Just a while ago, you were asking about my sister’s well-being.”
As if intentionally suppressing my temper, the Duke glanced at me briefly before shifting his gaze back to Rian.
“So, do you still love my sister Beatrice? Until recently, I thought you did.”
“Do you have to say that here?”
“Is there anything you can’t say because it’s in front of the Empress? It might be better to know in advance. Don’t you think so, Your Highness?”
“I don’t need to know anything. You can go and rest, Bella.”
Although Rian seemed to be trying to send me away, I shook my head. The Duke seemed to have something to say, and I had to listen.
“That Rian had a woman he loved. And he couldn’t forget her until recently, so he asked me about her whereabouts. So don’t expect anything, Your Highness. Rian’s love is…”
“Stop. Keep some decency, Evan.”
“Isn’t it better to know before being deceived than to know nothing? If you continue to know nothing like this, and Beatrice appears, you’ll be clearly rejected. It’s better to prepare your heart in advance.”
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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