As soon as Valliere was imprisoned, Lady Elion began to frequent Ermedillin’s residence.
“You’ve even started a canal construction for the people of the capital after the orphanage! Truly, Your Majesty, your generosity knows no bounds!”
Ermedillin was tired and frankly annoyed by Lady Elion, who went around busily spreading the news.
“I think I need to hire new maids.”
“Maids?”
In the afternoon, after Lady Elion had left making a fuss, Ermedillin muttered this as if sighing, pressing her temples.
“Yes. No one’s really helping anyway. I can’t always rely on Pellio, can I?”
“That’s true. Having maids would definitely help during big events like National Foundation Day or National Spirit Day, even if we don’t know much about orphanages or canal projects.”
Loony nodded, agreeing with Ermedillin’s words.
“Exactly. We managed to get by a few times due to the epidemic, but at some point, we’ll have to hold a big event.”
“Do you have anyone in mind, Your Majesty?”
“Yeah, there is someone I’m considering…”
“What right do you have to block my daughters’ marriages?”
The next day, as soon as the government affairs began, Count Illenian stormed in to find Anli.
“Right? What right? Count, are you in your right mind?”
Even in front of the ranting Count Illenian, Anli remained calm.
“The marriage of Biella is imminent! And you say you won’t permit it! What right do you have, Your Majesty…”
“Count. Close your mouth. Mention the word ‘right’ one more time, and you will be considered in contempt of my authority.”
Anli’s voice was low and resolute but carried an unmistakable threat.
No matter how nominal his marriage was with Ermedillin, Anli was a ruler who would never tolerate challenges to the royal authority.
So the other lords ignored the trouble Count Illenian was causing.
But the Count, red to the tips of his ears, had no intention of backing down.
“Why won’t you approve Biella’s marriage? When has Your Majesty ever cared about the maids?”
“Is it wrong to care now? And as far as I know, designating maids and approving their marriages is within the Queen’s right, isn’t it? Gentlemen, am I wrong?”
The lords lowered their heads in silence in response to Anli’s question.
His argument was technically unassailable.
“What is your reason for suddenly designating Belest as a maid? Do you plan not to approve her marriage as well?”
“Hasn’t Belest just become alone? It’s a bit early for remarriage, don’t you think? She should at least have time for the wounds to heal.”
“Wounds? In that hesitation, she might miss out on a suitable match!”
“A suitable match… She was arranged in a strategic marriage once; perhaps this time you should consider her feelings?”
At Anli’s words, a cold sneer crossed Count Illenian’s face.
“Feelings… Is that why you married Her Majesty?”
The atmosphere in the office turned icy at Count Illenian’s insolence.
Anli said nothing, merely locking eyes with Count Illenian in silence.
As time passed, Count Illenian realized he’d crossed a line, and his voice softened somewhat.
“You know the meaning of marriage, don’t you, Your Majesty? My daughters can’t marry without conditions like ordinary citizens. Or are you trying to restrain the nobles by blocking my daughters’ marriages?”
Clearly, what had started as a personal matter of Count Elenian now involved all the nobles of the faction.
Choosing servants or maids was a prerogative of the Emperor and Empress, as was sanctioning the marriages of those servants and maids, a unique authority they held.
Factions were mostly formed through marital connections.
If the Emperor decided to restrain the noble faction in this manner, it could become a serious issue.
The gaze of the faction’s nobles, who had been observing the situation at a distance following Count Elenian’s statement, sharply changed.
“Petty tactics… Did you just call the Emperor’s rights, which are clearly stated in the national law, petty?”
A calm voice, so calm that an outsider would have no clue about Anri’s mood.
Yet, fierce waves seemed to ripple in his blue pupils, as if he could swallow Count Elenian whole at any moment.
“I spoke out of turn. How dare a mere servant like me question the national law and the royal rights?”
Whenever Anri showed this kind of look, it was usually a precursor to a dangerous decision.
The same look he had when he imprisoned the former Empress in an underground dungeon, when he exiled his own mother, and when halfbrothers with potentially rebellious leanings met untimely deaths, a look only visible at their funerals.
Anri faithfully attended all the funerals of his brothers, enduring their families’ curses and resentments with that very expression.
Count Elenian, who was dangerously close to crossing the line, wisely backed down just before Anri’s explosion.
Countess Elion was dismissed from her maid position.
Princess Biella and Duchess Grania kept their positions as maids.
And Belelest and Lienna were appointed as Ermedillin’s new maids.
The face of Countess Elion was a sight to see.
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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