“You’re truly cruel. Still, I can’t… give up on the ball. It’s my only use.”
The princess lowered her head, tightly gripped her skirt, and turned around.
She glanced at Chad one more time, moved her lips as if to speak, but then returned to the headmaster’s office.
Matian’s gaze, unwavering even at the princess’s outcry, turned to Chad.
“How long are you going to stand there?”
“Heartless, aren’t you, president? It’s been a while, shouldn’t you ask how I’m doing first? I’m getting jealous of the woman in your arms.”
“I’m not soft enough to ask after the well-being of a man who tried to kill me, Chad.”
“Of course not.”
Chad straightened his crooked posture and turned around. He took exactly one step forward, then turned his head towards Matian, saying, “By the way…”
“How about correcting what you said earlier?”
“What?”
“I don’t think Rukna likes men who can’t perform.”
Chad slightly tilted his upper body to the side, glancing at the figure Matian was hiding, then stepped back.
[This is the timeline separator]Rukna, who had left the classroom, bid farewell to the princess’s party that had set out for home earlier than planned.
Princess Tolia boarded the carriage with a gloomy face, escorted by Matian.
“Are we really leaving without touring the school? I wanted to see the griffin Rukna tamed too,” Giselle said, openly expressing her disappointment. Young Lady Mella jabbed her side, telling her to read the room.
Giselle, her mouth shut, tightly held Rukna’s hand, her eyes dripping with regret.
“I heard you can’t even visit the mansion during your last break before graduation. I’m so disappointed.”
“I have a scheduled trip to the Golden Plains. Graduation is not far off, so bear with me a little longer.”
“Hmph, I’ll write to you, Rukna. You’ll write back, right?”
Giselle rubbed her cheek against the back of Rukna’s hand with a poignant face. Groans of envy could be heard from the cadets watching from a distance.
“Yeah. I won’t forget, Giselle.”
“I’ll write to you too, Rukna Golden Viscount.”
Young Lady Mella, her back straight, suddenly extended her right hand to Rukna. Was she asking for a kiss on the back of her hand?
Rukna let go of Giselle’s hand and timidly kissed the back of Young Lady Mella’s hand.
‘I feel like my temple is being pierced.’
It was obvious who was glaring at her like this. As Rukna turned her head, sure enough, she saw Giselle with her lips sulking.
Beyond her, Matian’s gaze looking down at her coldly felt even more stinging. It must be her imagination.
After seeing off the carriage like that, Rukna returned to the dormitory. Matian followed behind her.
With his long legs, she thought he would go ahead first, but she couldn’t understand why he was following her like a baby duck.
On the way, a viscount suddenly hugged Rukna’s neck and asked a crude question, “Be honest. What’s your relationship with Young Lady Giselle?” But he ran away, frightened by Matian’s gaze following behind.
Rukna climbed the stairs to the 4th floor and walked along the corridor.
But Matian’s footsteps, which should have headed to the 5th floor, still followed behind her.
And so they arrived at room 414.
Rukna took a deep breath and turned around. Matian was standing three steps behind her.
He stood there expressionless, and when their eyes met, he briefly showed his usual smile before returning to his stony face.
Maybe he felt he no longer needed to manage his image in front of her.
“What is it that you followed me all the way here for?”
“There’s something I couldn’t ask earlier.”
“What is it?”
“Have you used the closed lecture hall near the headmaster’s office before?”
“No. Today was the first time I entered it with you.”
“So you mean you immediately found and took an item presumed to be Chad’s in a lecture hall you visited for the first time?”
Oops, Rukna bit her tongue slightly. She had forgotten that Matian was watching her when the holy sword spoke to her.
‘Is that why he covered my face with the cloth? Because he thought I secretly took something from Chad?’
She had been curious as to why he deliberately hid her when Chad barged into the lecture hall, but she didn’t know it meant this. Matian had a more delicate side than he let on.
“You’re not trafficking prohibited drugs or items, are you?”
“Wh-what nonsense are you saying! I just thought of something for a moment.”
“What did you think of?”
“…A prophecy or something?”
Since it was the holy sword’s voice, it would be similar to a prophecy. Rukna glossed over it.
Matian stared down at Rukna for a while, then burst out laughing.
“Why are you laughing?”
“It’s ridiculous.”
Is it that funny that she heard a prophecy? Rukna pursed her lips. But an unexpected answer followed.
“It’s really ridiculous that I feel like believing what you say.”
Matian ran his fingers through his hair and let out a deep sigh. Then he tapped Rukna’s jacket.
“And don’t go around wearing other people’s clothes. A jacket is like an ID card for cadets.”
“How did you know? The size is almost the same.”
“…There’s no way you have that many merits.”
Matian pointed his chin at the array of medals on Rukna’s chest.
He gave a different reason on purpose, afraid of being treated like a beast if he said it smelled completely different.
For some reason, the smell of another man coming from Rukna was unpleasant.
“I’ll be careful. Is that all you wanted to say?”
“I’m saying this just in case, but…”
Matian’s tone was urgent as he brought it up. Judging by his lack of composure unlike usual, this must be his real concern.
“It’s not true that I can’t perform as a man.”
“…What?”
Why are you telling me that? Rukna’s gaze briefly went down from Matian’s face to his pants, then quickly returned to his face.
Matian frowned slightly as he watched her gaze move noticeably.
“Ah, don’t worry! I won’t spread rumors about you being a eunuch.”
Rukna whispered in a small voice. Matian probably wouldn’t want the Wiegratz family’s honor to be tarnished either.
“I said I’m not.”
Bang. Matian hit the corridor wall hard, emphasizing his innocence.
The nameplate with her name hanging next to it shook from the impact, and Rukna gulped, feeling like it was her lifeline.
‘He’s reacting sensitively. Did I say it too bluntly that he’s a eunuch?’
The reason she wasn’t very surprised when the princess mentioned that he couldn’t perform as a man was because it seemed fair that Matian had some flaw somewhere, as the cadets had rumored.
“I’m serious. I’m not the type to run my mouth to just anyone.”
“If I say I’m not, believe me, Rukna Golden.”
Matian rubbed his throbbing temples and appealed for the truth.
Then, noticing his expression dimly reflected in the opposite picture frame glass, he quickly smiled, then said, “Damn it,” and returned to an angry expression.
Was he so angry that he couldn’t manage his expression well?
“Okay, I’ll believe you, so calm down. But don’t just discipline me, why don’t you go see Chad too? Wouldn’t he spread rumors all over town?”
“I don’t care about other guys.”
“What?”
The guy who was so committed to image management had this nonchalant attitude about the most sensitive topic? He was hard to figure out.
“Hah, I can’t even directly prove this.”
Matian muttered softly and hit the wall again with a bang. At this rate, my nameplate will fall off. Rukna alternately looked at the nameplate and Matian.
“Don’t be angry and cheer up, Matian.”
“…What?”
When Matian asked back, Rukna finally came to her senses. Oh no. I comforted him without realizing it.
“Uh, cheering you up meant I believe you. There. I believe you. You’re the best man in the empire.”
“…”
“Even Bolton said today. Your heart is as vast as the Tooland Strait.”
“…Get some rest now.”
“Yeah. You worked hard following me to my room to talk about this. Next time, you can just say it outright. Haha. Hahaha.”
“I didn’t come to your room to talk about this… Forget it. Go inside.”
With those words, Matian turned around.
If he honestly confessed that his purpose was to escort Rukna here, it was clear that she would hurt his pride, so he had to swallow his true intentions.
Rukna, unaware of Matian’s heart, slowly opened the door and glanced sideways at his receding back.
‘Look at that. He could walk that fast.’
He must have sweated quite a bit trying to keep up with her slow pace to get here. How anxious must he have been to talk about this to go this far?
‘But I didn’t mind that Matian saw me off.’
Rukna entered the room with a chuckle.
[This is the timeline separator]Around the same time.
In a place closed off due to the Pond of Truth incident, a red eagle, Bishop, was sitting in front of the altar with her luscious hair hanging down.
She was praying when she looked down at the round silver basin filled with blood.
It vibrated and conveyed a sound, like water dripping.
“What do you mean, the seed of life wasn’t there?”
– You think I would lie with my own mouth?
“Impossible. I heard it was definitely delivered.”
– The deliverer didn’t fail to show up at the promised location, did they?
“They entered the military academy that day attending the princess. They must have gotten it done by any means necessary.”
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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