“Smile for me. I want to see your smiling face,” Illeon said. Elisia widened her eyes in response.
“You’ve been making a difficult face all along.”
“Me?”
Elisia was surprised. She hadn’t been consciously aware of it. Her life itself was challenging and arduous, so what?
Does that show in her expression?
As a priestess, she had mostly spent her time with a calm, indifferent face. Elisia was aware that she didn’t have a wide range of expressions. Crying, laughing, getting angry, or feeling sad wouldn’t change anything.
Even when something happened to provoke emotions, she usually brushed it off, knowing it was just the way things were, that she already knew, that it was just a matter of time before it happened, and so she would react indifferently.
Except once.
When Savriel, intending to suppress her, massacred the priests going to Glerossa and tried to force her down, she couldn’t endure it, and in her rage, she even stabbed Savriel with a knife.
At that moment, Elisia really wanted to harm him.
Beneath the resignation was a dark sincerity.
“Did I? I don’t think so. What could be difficult?”
Elisia raised the corners of her mouth to make a smiling face.
“See? Smiling is nothing special.”
Illeon didn’t respond to her words while looking at her in such a way that it seemed like he could see through her thoughts.
That she couldn’t be such a lovely person.
A body infused with a lethargic, lifeless soul, mostly experiencing life for the first time.
It felt warm in his arms, but there was a cold feeling in one side of his chest.
“…Illeon?”
After embracing her tightly, he sighed next to her ear.
“No, it’s nothing. Let’s go quickly.”
Just as he separated from Illeon, Emily came in with an order.
“Thank you for your purchase today, Your Grace. This is a small gift we’ve prepared.”
A subordinate who followed Emily held out a large box on a velvet cushion. When Illeon opened the lid, inside was a radiant necklace adorned with a sizable blue sapphire.
“Thank you. That should be enough if you leave now.”
While Elisia was staring blankly at the scene, Illeon pushed her hair aside with the back of his hand, put the necklace around her neck, and closed it.
Click.
Upon feeling the couple necklace being fastened behind her neck, Elisia snapped out of her daze, snatched the order from her hand, and Illeon smiled victoriously.
“What is this, exactly?”
It was written that all sixteen dresses she had tried on today had been purchased.
Illeon took the order back from Elisia’s hand, smiling broadly.
“Let’s go on a date, Elisia.”
In Hardumsha, time didn’t seem to flow well. It was so silent that, except for when the sun set, casting shadows as it went to the west, it seemed as if the day had barely passed.
Iris, Ruben, and Escho were anxiously waiting for something, sitting together as usual today. Iris quickly closed the window when a note flew in.
Reading the brief note, Iris sighed with relief.
“What did it say, sister?” Escho asked anxiously, and Iris handed her the note.
“Ha, a major revision. Unbelievable.”
After reading the note received from Escho, Ruben immediately threw it into the fireplace and burned it.
“Hoping for a return to the original work. Can they fix the prophecy?”
Sonatek, without any sense of guilt, manipulated the original work here and there just to torment Mariela. This caused the lives of people in this world to go back and forth.
“I don’t know. But if the Duchess says she can, she probably can.”
Iris’s expression, responding like that, was not particularly bright.
“Sinking the ship Elisia was on. People who have done nothing wrong… That author is truly insane.”
As priests, they had already confirmed the forged copy that Sonatek had altered, taking advantage of the loophole during the day. Reading the absurdly altered ‘Tragedy of Duke Yuter,’ which was not crucial to the original plot, but somehow he’d managed to mess it up while Mariela sent a pigeon to notify her of the fact, and waited for a long time without any response.
“I never thought Sonatek still had the power to make such a modification.”
“It was unexpected. Even if he had such power, I thought he would leave it for a decisive moment.”
Escho chuckled.
“That idiot probably thought this was the decisive moment when Mariela and Elisia went outside the original work together.”
Ruben and Iris had nothing to say. They also thought the same as Escho.
“Mariela will not modify the original work; she will try to revert it.”
“Didn’t she express a desire to return to the original work?”
Iris sighed.
“She will fix the parts that Sonatek messed up.”
The term ‘original work’ was the guideline, the worldview itself that moved this world.
Even without intervention, the flow of the original work somewhat consistently moved everything.
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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