Catching Cedric’s eye, Rebecca smiled slightly.
“Oh, sorry. Bathing made me sleepy. Umm… Cedric.”
Of course, Rebecca wouldn’t just let the conversation end there.
‘I should have left immediately.’
Cedric regretted lingering.
“Aren’t you leaving?”
Rebecca blinked her red eyes.
“You’ve stated your condition, and we’ve reached a conclusion. We’ve even set a date for signing the divorce. Seems like we’ve discussed everything necessary.”
“…….”
“Besides… it’s past my usual bedtime.”
She sounded annoyed, as if her schedule was disrupted.
Receiving a dismissal from Rebecca for the first time.
Moreover, her gaze and tone treated him like an unwelcome guest.
Struggling with these unfamiliar feelings, Cedric stood up.
“My apologies for the intrusion. Then, I’ll take my leave.”
“Alright. Goodbye, Cedric.”
Rebecca also stood up, bidding farewell without any lingering attachment.
‘…Goodbye?’
She used to beg him not to leave and would create a scene after he left.
But now, Rebecca calmly followed him to the bedroom door.
‘Why is she suddenly doing things she never did before?’
Everything about her was too breezy, too unlike Rebecca.
As Cedric turned his head, feeling awkward, Rebecca suddenly lost her balance.
“See you on the promised day… Whoa! Whoops!”
Unaware of the long sash of her gown, she accidentally stepped on it.
“Ah?!”
On the verge of falling, Rebecca teetered dangerously.
“Rebecca!”
Without thinking, Cedric rushed to her.
Fortunately, her body safely landed in his arms.
“….Haah.”
Just as he let out a sigh of relief.
Squish. An unfamiliar sensation pressed against Cedric’s firm abdomen.
Realizing what it was, his body started to stiffen.
“…….”
Cedric didn’t ignore or push me away as I fell.
We stood there, our bodies pressed together for a few seconds.
Thud… The sash fell to the floor, and the gown, barely held together, began to loosen.
In this situation, any movement risked exposing my bare skin through the openings of the gown.
‘Ah, this is embarrassingly awkward.’
Cedric’s cool and sophisticated scent gradually seeped into my nostrils.
I widened my eyes, trying to focus my increasingly hazy mind.
However, what I saw were the bulging veins on his neck.
‘…This is absolutely crazy.’
I had tried to act aloof to escape the ‘5-minute standby’ status with Cedric…
But he was irresistibly attractive, a man whose mere presence quickened my heartbeat.
Besides, wasn’t he the one I’d always dreamed about in the novel?
In this close contact, maintaining my composure was incredibly difficult.
Cedric’s abs, felt through the thin gown, were as solid as rock, and I could feel a heartbeat similar to mine against my ear pressed to his chest.
The breath touching my nose was growing hotter.
“Rebecca.”
His low, alluring voice resounded.
Lifting my head slowly, my eyes met Cedric’s deep blue gaze.
His black hair shimmered like the night sky, his thick eyebrows and enigmatic eyes, his high nose bridge, and his sharp jawline with lips tinged with a faint red.
That devastatingly sexy man was looking right at me.
My heart felt like it was about to burst, and I couldn’t stop staring at his lips.
It was then when…
“You’re trying to seduce me again after letting down my guard, aren’t you?”
Cedric murmured, looking down at me intently.
‘Is it even fair for someone to be this handsome, have such a perfect physique, and such a mesmerizing voice too?’
‘Even if it’s a novel, this feels like cheating.’
I began to understand, albeit unwittingly, why Rebecca was so obsessed with spending the night with Cedric.
“Trying to seduce as a way to prevent the divorce. You haven’t changed at all, which is quite disappointing.”
I snapped back to reality at the sound of his voice, as cold as a winter wind.
Cedric, who had grown icier with each of Rebecca’s attempts, couldn’t be left with a misunderstanding.
“Don’t get me wrong. I still intend to divorce you as planned.”
His eyebrows shot up in surprise.
He seemed lost in thought for a while.
As he held me, I began to feel the strength in his grip increasing.
“Ah, now I see your plan. You’re smarter than I thought.”
Cedric continued, twisting one corner of his mouth with a baffling expression.
“Even if we divorce, ‘that’ won’t be erased.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You know better than anyone else what I mean.”
“……?”
“If we end up spending the night together now, even after the divorce, I would be unable to bear a single day without you.”
Cedric spoke slowly, lifting my chin gently.
As I looked into his cold blue eyes, I felt frozen.
“You won’t be able to endure even a day without me.”
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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