“Your Highness, let’s consider the engagement null and void.”
Cracks appeared on Chase’s face. His shining eyes grew dull, and his lower eyelids twitched.
He looked pitiable at a glance, but to Elise, he just looked hideous.
She didn’t want to face him anymore and turned away.
“Wait! Elise, I must have heard wrong.”
Chase grabbed her forearm.
Elise swung her hand fiercely. Her flung hand struck Chase’s shoulder and fell.
Both Elise and Chase were startled.
But Elise quickly composed herself.
“That was an accident, Your Highness. But I mean it when I say I won’t engage.”
“Elise, why suddenly? What did I do wrong?”
Suddenly… It might have been sudden for Chase.
But for Elise, who was used only to be discarded by him until she was twenty-nine, it wasn’t sudden at all.
“Wrong…”
Elise murmured as if talking to herself.
“Yes, Elise. If I did something wrong, tell me. I’ll apologize and fix it, okay?”
“Do we need someone to be at fault to break up?”
Elise asked coldly.
You didn’t do that to me.
You pushed me away, falsely accusing me of things I didn’t do.
“Well…”
“Let’s say it’s my fault, Your Highness.”
Everything would be blamed on her anyway, like in the past.
Elise didn’t want to explain further.
The past life, like a nightmare, was too vivid, and even standing was overwhelming.
She needed to rest and collect her thoughts.
“Don’t look for me again, Your Highness.”
Elise turned away from Chase.
Like he had left her alone in the underground dungeon, she never looked back.
“Sigh.”
As soon as Elise entered her room, she locked the door and collapsed to the floor.
She struggled to control her expression while facing Chase, as her emotions churned.
Chase had looked at her painfully, as if he had easily abandoned her.
‘As if he truly loved me.’
But now she knew.
His affection was no more than a fleeting fever, an elusive mirage.
It still felt unbelievable that she was alive. Elise felt her body. Only when she felt the flesh and warmth in her hands did it become real.
‘It feels like I’ve just had a long, terrible nightmare.’
But the memory was too vivid to be dismissed as a dream. She couldn’t forget the sensation of dying, and Karan’s desperate voice kept echoing in her ears.
“Lord Karan…”
Thinking of him brought a flood of complicated thoughts.
Elise was curious about many things regarding him.
The most pressing was why he had saved her.
Karan and Elise had little in common. They had conversed a few times for the subjugation of the evil dragon Ragnaros, but it was a stretch to say they had a personal bond.
‘Didn’t Karan dislike me?’
He had declined all her invitations to dance or dine together. He even often avoided her gaze.
Then why had he activated the Regression Circle?
‘No, I might be wrong. He isn’t even a magician. Maybe it was just a coincidence…’
Elise chuckled. It was unlikely that such fortune would happen in her life by chance.
It must have been Karan who activated the Regression Circle.
There must be a special reason why he hid his identity as a magician.
Once she concluded this, gratitude for him overwhelmed her curiosity.
“I should repay his kindness.”
What could the daughter of a baronet do for a prince of Titris?
But there were other matters to attend to first.
‘Chase and Iris… What to do about those two.’
Chase, who had exploited her thoroughly and then discarded her, and Iris, who had always mistreated her and ultimately led her to death.
Elise looked out the window with a stern face.
She realized she had returned to the detestable Warton baronetcy. Barely having become Baron Warton in the past.
To Elise, her parents, the Baron and Baroness Warton, were enemies no less than Iris.
Neglect, discrimination, abuse…
Memories of her childhood sent shivers down her spine.
‘I have to start over. Think of it as an opportunity. Now I can do what I want.’
She had lived for others until now. This life, she would live for herself.
To do that, she had to remove those who hindered her life.
‘The first thing I need to do…’
Her eyes sparkled in the reflection of the window.
“Is to make sure the engagement is broken off.”
Originally, Elise was to receive an engagement ring today and get engaged to Chase in a month.
But since she had spoken of breaking up, that future would change.
Chase wouldn’t hold onto her.
“Miss, a gift has arrived.”
But then Elise’s conviction shattered. Chase had sent her a gift.
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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