“Do you think you’re the only one who feels that way?”
He turned his back without waiting for Tobias’ response. Further probing would be pointless for now.
Torture was not to his taste, but there’s always room for evil that can be tolerated.
…Whether Tobias Zisen was such an evil was debatable.
A desperate cry pierced his ears as he turned away.
“Your Majesty, why are you avenging the late Duchess? If it were the Duke, maybe!”
The eyes that looked back at Tobias were flickering with intense emotions. Hades sensed that every word the man spoke now would be the truth.
“My beloved brother must have figured out by now! The former Duke never sought us. My poor mother did everything to raise me.”
He clenched his fists, as if wishing to crush his own hands.
“So I vowed. If the opportunity arises, I would kill the Duke. But the Duke died before that chance came.”
“…”
“Initially, I was happy. Because my enemy was dead. But as I grew older, I realized that I lost my reason to live, as did my mother.”
“That’s unfortunate.”
Hades spoke in a flat tone.
“Lost the will to live because my parents died. You loved them more than me, didn’t you?”
Tobias didn’t take the bait from Hades’ provocation.
“So I made another vow. If not the person responsible, then I will destroy what that person held most precious.”
Hades shook his head. He understood how his halfbrother fell into a vengeful spirit, but he was completely mistaken about the target.
Their father had never loved him.
The only heir to the previous Duke was nothing more than a candidate for succession, nothing more, nothing less.
Hades had realized this at a very young age. No matter how hard he tried to win his father’s love and approval, it was all in vain.
“……What a pointless act.”
Ironically, the words fit the current situation perfectly.
“Gwen? Your mother is.”
“Yes.”
Hades touched his forehead. Gwen was one of the women his father had been particularly fond of. Naturally, he would bear a grudge against her.
“Where is Gwen living now? I’ll make sure she can live comfortably in her old age.”
“Do you think I’d easily reveal my mother’s whereabouts?”
“Unfortunate.”
Hades stared at him directly.
“That you assume everyone is as lowly as you.”
“Not everyone can live as nobly as you do.”
Tobias avoided his gaze.
“But there are things I must protect.”
“The same goes for me.”
Hades turned his back. This time, he intended to not be swayed by any words.
“But I don’t live like you.”
Angelica didn’t say a word until she had completely escaped the underground dungeon.
Only after the dungeon was far behind did she open her mouth, the aftershock still evident.
“……So it was an heirloom, that necklace.”
Hades hesitated for a moment. The urge to explain the necklace’s significance arose, but he didn’t want to burden Angelica, who had already suffered enough shock today.
“I made it myself, so it’s mine, I suppose.”
So he told her a story unrelated to the real issue.
Angelica opened her eyes wide and looked up at Hades.
“You can’t be serious!”
“I am.”
Hades smirked.
“If you want, I can also give you one……”
But Angelica didn’t hear what he was going to say next. Just as they were passing a hall close to the main gate, they heard a sound like thundering hooves.
“Intruders!”
The few remaining guards began running around frantically.
Hades slowly walked toward the main gate. At this time, with hooves sounding at this scale, the target could only be so many.
When he ordered the gate opened, as expected, banners unfurled before his eyes.
The banners of the Imperial Army.
Word had apparently gotten around, and knights who were still capable of moving started gathering.
However, Hades stood in the doorway and issued no orders.
The imperial knight in the lead dismounted lightly. His helmet, adorned with feathers signifying command, partially obscured his face.
As he attempted to enter, all the knights drew their swords.
“……Stop.”
Hades briefly commanded, then spoke to the Imperial knight.
“Take off your helmet.”
The moment the knight obediently removed his helmet.
“Impossible!”
“That is……!”
Reactions filled with shock and horror erupted from all directions.
“How can that person be here!?”
In a room filled with astonished faces, only Hades stood calmly, staring at his opponent.
The face under the commander’s helmet was strikingly similar to Duke Schegen.
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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