Inside was Pellio, the son of Count Batistian, waiting for Ermedillin.
This finicky young man, who looked just like his father, Count Batistian, with a sharp appearance, had dark blue hair and silver eyes.
Furthermore, his emotionless expression matched very well with the nickname of an ice prince that Ermedillin could not charm until the very end in the novel.
“Please sit.”
Without any ceremonial greeting, Pellio pointed to a chair already prepared with his chin.
“He seems to hate mingling.”
It’s not a pleasant thing to receive a feeling of “I hate you” from a stranger.
But since she had possessed the worst villain, she had to get used to it.
“Let’s try to look good since he’s my lawyer for now.”
Not wanting to be a disappointment, Ermedillin sat down with a calm demeanor and a gentle smile.
“Thank you for taking on my defense.”
She used the most polite tone she could, but the response was filled with cold, silver eyes, full of contempt as if looking at something filthy.
“You don’t have to thank me. I just want to bring down your father, Count François.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. After dealing with the Count, it will be easier to bring down the Empress without support.”
Ermedillin swallowed in tension at Pellio’s direct remarks, not even trying to hide his true intentions.
The situation of joining hands with someone full of hatred towards her, ultimately leading her to be sentenced to death, was not just uncomfortable for Ermedillin.
In her previous life as Hyeyoung, she had faced daily neglect and indifference, but she had never lived to incur this much hatred.
On the contrary, if she harbored hatred for someone, she did.
‘Ha… how did I come to be treated like this… Even though I lived by the principle of not bothering others, no matter how hard it was. What can I do? It’s just a bad fate to be possessed by this body. Let’s try to talk nicely since he’s my lawyer.’
“I understand that you have very negative feelings towards me. In fact, not only you but everyone in the empire feels that way. In your eyes, I may look like an immoral witch, but it’s quite hard to be treated like that even by my family.”
“…….”
“Even if you bring me to ruin someday, for now, I must escape from my father’s abuse.”
She tried to speak indifferently, but unknowingly became emotionally involved; Ermedillin’s voice trembled slightly in the last sentence.
‘Why couldn’t they send me to a warm family if I’m going to be possessed? Do I have to live lonely as an orphan all my life? Can’t I be happy even in a novel?’
She was about to cry out of resentment.
‘What’s this? Why are the tears coming? Don’t cry in front of a stranger you’ve just met!’
Ermedillin tried hard to hide her tears and turned her head, but for a moment, Pellio’s eyes softened.
‘Does he feel compassion for Ermedillin, who has been abused by her father, even though he’s known for his chivalry?’
“The enormous debt, taking maids at will, even murder. None of this is particularly unusual, but assault. Assaulting a member of the royal family. Is this true?”
Pellio’s questioning tone was sharp as a blade.
“Yes. Priest Louise will testify.”
Pellio examined the record of the wicked deeds of Duke François, as written by Ermedillin, with an emotionless face.
It is said that when you are possessed, memories etched on the body surface, but so far, she remembered nothing.
Luckily, the original Ermedillin had recorded not only the money she lent to her father but also the details of the abuse she suffered.
While reading, she felt nauseated by the severity of the beatings; it was surprising to see such things written down, but seeing the dates and names of the witnesses, it was clear that this body’s original owner had intended to bring down her father at some point.
Of course, in the original novel, she failed, taking all the blame and disappearing in the smoke at the stake.
Pellio’s expression, as he read the complaint casually, was cold, but his hand trembled slightly.
Certainly, the content was serious, not something to be looked at soberly.
Slashing the neck with a knife was among the lesser offenses.
There were times when she had been pinned to the wall by her hair until she fainted, and times when her legs had been broken with the hilt of a sword.
Once, her face had been scalded with boiling hot tea.
‘Even when I was writing it, my hand was trembling, so how could it be different for the reader?’
The orphanage where Hyeyoung lived was not a place filled with love, but at least it was a place where legal protection could be received.
Violence consisted only of fighting among the children.
But even so, she had always envied classmates accompanied by their parents on sports days or picnics.
She wondered what it would feel like if she had a mother and father.
Thus, while transcribing her father’s abusive acts, she felt both great anger as Ermedillin and great sorrow as Hyeyoung.
Anyone could see they were family, with their jetblack hair, purple eyes, and even similar facial features. And yet, this was family? Her ideal suddenly crumbled, and she felt a sense of loss.
Pellio, having read all the testimonies, carefully placed the paper on the table so as not to crumple it.
“If everything written here is true, then this is a serious matter indeed. No matter what, Ermedillin is not yet the empress, is she? How dare someone commit such an outrageous act against a member of the royal family. And for a trained knight to assault a woman, this is even lower than I thought. Your Majesty’s father, that is.”
‘Being still unmarried, Prince Pellio certainly felt a different point of anger from his father, Count Batistian.’
Both the father and son regarded the assault on the royalty as a serious crime, but the Count felt personal resentment for the assault on his child, while the Prince felt personal resentment for the assault on a woman.
‘Besides, as far as now, that is…….’
As he said the words ‘as far as now,’ Pellio stared intently at Ermedillin.
It was a sort of warning that she would soon no longer be the Empress once this matter was resolved.
‘Yeah. I don’t want to be an Empress either. I just don’t want to die! I just have to find my money, be dethroned, and leave this palace!’
Until then, she was prepared to endure any humiliation.
Having reincarnated, she could not die as the worst villain for something she didn’t do.
“Will you take up the defense?”
“Of course. It’s a sure win, and missing it would make me an incompetent lawyer.”
“Can you recover the borrowed money?”
To Ermedillin, more urgent than punishing her father who assaulted her, is money.
What would happen if she were driven out of the imperial palace as a pauper?
If the rumor spread that the Empress, who already faced the hatred of the entire nation, was abandoned by her family and driven out like a beggar, it would be the end.
But Pellio’s silver eyes, knowing nothing of this situation, turned cold enough to freeze everything around him.
A feeling that if he blinked, even his breath would come out cold.
“Money… yes. Her Majesty the Empress… really likes money, doesn’t she?”
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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