“Did the sudden increase in the amount surprise you, Your Excellency?”
The host widened his eyes towards the center of the hall and asked.
‘No way…’
Camilla’s face twisted for a moment when she turned her head.
‘It can’t be… From what I know, Grand Duchess doesn’t have funds to bid any higher.’
Anxiously biting her lips, Camilla tried to regain composure and calmly nodded.
‘No, even if Grand Duchess had more flexible funds, she can’t bid higher than me.’
In fact, before coming here, Camilla secretly prepared additional personal funds, even going so far as to use her jewelry as collateral. If she won proper items in the auction, she could easily repay the borrowed amount.
‘I can comfortably bid up to 180,000 Lut per special carriage. But Grand Duchess won’t bid any higher…’
Around 160,000 Lut, maybe?
Tsk. At that moment, when a new sneer escaped Camilla’s lips.
“Lady, what price are you offering per carriage?”
The host asked Grand Duchess Rebecca, and everyone’s gaze focused on her lips.
In the moment of silence that swept through the hall with an unknown tension…
Rebecca’s voice echoed quietly.
“Two million Lut.”
The eyes of everyone in the hall widened simultaneously.
Surprised, Camilla and Henry unintentionally muttered to themselves.
“Two… two million Lut?!”
“Are you saying you’ll invest two hundred million Lut to purchase five hundred carriages? Special carriages, no less?”
The amount far exceeded expectations, leaving not only them but everyone astonished.
“Madam, t-two million Lut? After confirmation, the deal cannot be withdrawn, and you’re aware, even if your investment falls short.”
The host’s lips trembled as he asked, but Rebecca, who had astounded everyone, remained composed.
“Of course. There’s absolutely no intention of withdrawing the deal. And there’s no shortage of investment funds.”
Rebecca’s red lips drew a line as they went up.
“Hurry and ask the intentions of others. Maybe someone will offer a higher amount than mine?”
Camilla bit her lower lip as she watched Rebecca wink casually towards herself.
The host urgently questioned Camilla, who seemed disconcerted.
“Lady, do you have any intention of offering a higher amount?”
…
“Yes?”
Despite the host’s urging, Camilla could only maintain silence.
At that moment, a complaint from Henry next to her stabbed Camilla’s heart sharply.
“Sigh… You were so confident, but it ended up like this.”
Camilla, glaring at Henry while biting her lower lip, slowly lowered her head.
“I… will surrender…”
As Camilla admitted defeat, the host nodded satisfactorily.
Then, facing the audience, he proclaimed with a thunderous voice.
“Sold at two million Lut per carriage! The special carriage gift deal has successfully concluded!”
At a similar time, inside the Grand Duke’s office.
Servants stole glances at Cedric and bowed their heads repeatedly.
It was because of his behavior, somehow different from usual.
Cedric, who always maintained a composed attitude anytime, anywhere, occasionally showed signs of distraction today.
At this very moment, Cedric, who already had an empty teacup, seemed to be repeatedly trying to lift and drink from it.
Unable to just watch, Lady Hanna, who couldn’t stand it, approached him cautiously with a teapot.
“Um, Your Grace…”
“What is it?”
“I’ll prepare more tea for you.”
“…Tea?”
Cedric stared blankly at the teacup.
Realizing his absent-minded behavior, he sighed softly and rose from his seat.
Cedric, who had been lingering by the window, massaged his eyebrows and looked back again.
Unexpectedly, a new name slipped from his lips.
“Rebecca hasn’t returned yet?”
To the surprise of the assistant, who responded to Cedric’s question with a subtle expression, it was fascinating to hear a question seeking the Grand Duchess from his lips. Moreover, it was astonishing that the same question had been repeated several times already.
Approaching Cedric cautiously, the assistant answered, “Yes. It hasn’t been even ten minutes since you asked, Your Grace.”
“…Ah.”
Cedric slowly nodded his head, muttering, ‘Was that so?’ with a sluggish motion.
Then, as if to return to his desk, Cedric took a step forward.
However, he soon stopped in his tracks and looked at the assistant again.
“She left with Adrian?”
Similarly, this was the nth question.
However, watching Cedric, who kept asking as if it were the first time, the assistant couldn’t hide his bewildered expression.
“Yes, as I mentioned earlier…”
Only then did Cedric remember the answer he had heard from the assistant earlier, nodding slowly.
Finally returning to his desk and sitting down, he glanced through a few documents.
Even to Lady Hanna, who knew nothing about the Grand Duke’s affairs, it was evident that Cedric was barely pretending to look at the documents.
After a while, Cedric pushed all the documents aside.
“…I can’t focus on work at all.”
Uttering those words as if lamenting, Cedric finally stood up.
“It would be better to take a stroll.”
As soon as Cedric spoke, the maids hurriedly brought his coat.
Just as he was about to leave the office with the coat in hand.
“Ah, Riman.”
“Yes, Your Grace.”
When the assistant approached as Cedric gestured for him to come closer, at that moment.
In a whisper-like tone unique to Cedric, he asked while leaning in.
“If one were to go towards the path where the Grand Duchess is returning… Which way would be faster to walk?”
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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