The old man’s shoulders stiffened and then relaxed as he prepared warm tea. He spoke as he brought the tea.
“Yes, I was looking into that just now. Moreover, the one who was almost victimized this time was none other than Princess Windsor.”
“Yes.”
“I have been advocating for its abolition since I became Pope, but the failure almost caused a great disaster.”
Pope Horei handed over the scroll he had been reading a little while ago. The guildmaster took it and read it with a frown.
“This is absurd. Princess Windsor issued it because she desperately wanted it? Is this really an official document from the temple administration now?”
“I’m sorry.”
“If I hadn’t intercepted it, it would have been stamped by the hidden minions. The seal that was stolen before? Have you found it?”
“That is… We haven’t found it yet.”
Pope Horei bowed his head as if embarrassed.
No one knew, and no one should know, but the fact was that the Copedor Guild and the temple were closely related.
So even if the betrothal papers with Yuri Hsien’s name arrived at the temple, it was unlikely that they would reach the Pope’s hands and become effective.
But there was a recent attack on Horei. At that time, Horei barely saved his life, but he lost the seal, almost equivalent to the Pope’s authority. There were no signs of external intrusion, so naturally, the suspect was narrowed down to an insider.
‘And then the betrothal papers were issued immediately.’
It was now clear. There was a spy in this temple.
‘A spy from the royal palace… the empress’s spy.’
This was the real reason why the guildmaster had been climbing the wall like a night guest for the past few days.
The guildmaster spoke as he rolled the scroll back up.
“I took care of the betrothal papers.”
“I’m sorry. Should I contact Princess Windsor?”
Horei let out a sigh of relief, as if a burden had been lifted. If the betrothal papers had taken effect… Even the thought was horrifying. For example, the destruction of the empire.
The guildmaster shook his head after thinking about Horei’s words for a moment.
“No. Don’t do that yet.”
“Yes?”
“I think it’s better for me to say it. And… hmm.”
The guildmaster, who had laid the scroll on the chair and stood up, folded his arms. The green eyes, like the melting of summer, deepened for a moment to the color of a dark swamp. After thinking for a while, he soon smiled slyly.
“There’s still something I want to do.”
When he heard the report that the betrothal papers with Yuri Hsien’s name were there, his eyes rolled back, but the danger was eliminated. However, this was still information known only to a few, including him, and had not reached Yuri Hsien’s ears.
‘I must take advantage of what is useful.’
With a distressed mind, thinking of Yuri Hsien who was forcibly holding back her anxiety made me feel both pitiful and annoyed. Though I had no intention to flirt, I was a bit upset with that woman, who believed a stern man to be her savior and had a blind love for him, leaving herself behind.
‘I hope this much torment is forgivable.’
The words that Yuri Hsien asked me as she looked back from the carriage came to mind.
[But how do you know about amnesia? Because you are also the guild master?] [No. I wished for it desperately.] [Huh?] [That someone forgetting me, not remembering me, wasn’t because they forgot, but because they had some disease that made them forget.]Yes, the guild master truly wished like mad that mistaking me for another man was absolutely not Yuri Hsien’s intention. But the girl he reunited with was, of all things, in love with Heathcliff.
Very miserably, and painfully so.
Horae, checking the time, spoke to the guild master, who was deep in thought.
“It seems to be time to leave. Now, please take off your mask.”
The man, awoken from his reverie, looked at Horae, and bowing his body, he said,
“Crown Prince Benjamin.”
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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