It was as they had anticipated.
Duchess Lucella was fondly remembering the brighteyed gaze of Cien, who did not avoid her gaze.
Indeed, she was quite adorable.
Just as she shrugged her shoulders and sipped her rooibos tea, the young lady, who was notoriously tactless in bringing up a topic, interjected out of the blue.
“Our family’s children lack affection towards each other, aren’t they quite cool?”
The children of the Mirmode family had to develop their abilities from a young age.
Because they never knew who might try to kill them.
So naturally, they were devoid of childlike cuteness or charm.
“Hmm, that’s true.”
“But Lord Cien… No, Cien must be very affectionate towards Lord Matthias and the lady, right?”
Duchess Lucella coughed discreetly.
“Just breathing is charming, isn’t it?”
“Is, is that so?”
Just when the ladies were stiff with tension, that was when it happened.
The door opened smoothly, and Duchess Lucella’s head maid appeared.
“Um, my lady.”
“What is it?”
Duchess Lucella looked at the maid with an irritable face.
Something seemed to be stirring in the background, and the Duchess narrowed her eyes suspiciously.
“I told you not to disturb me.”
No one could interfere with the ladies’ tea time.
With the sole exception of ‘a small child’s visit’.
Naturally, so far no child had knocked on the private room door of the Duchess.
“Ah, that’s…”
Beyond the calm dress of the head maid, the small, round head of a child appeared.
“Cien asked for an audience.”
“…What?”
As soon as the Duchess questioned, into the teatime room, Cien’s smiling face appeared.
Holding her cheeks that seemed about to burst with both hands, Cien yelled out loud.
“Grandma! I’m here!”
“…Cien?”
“Yes!”
At the sight of Cien full of charm, the corners of Duchess Lucella’s mouth rose to the sky.
Cien quickly ran to the table and bowed deeply.
“Hello!”
As tiny as the tea cups they were holding.
The firm greeting of the small child melted the faces of the three ladies, excluding the Duchess.
[This is a time marker.]The ladies’ tea time was busily tidied up.
But the Duchess seemed cool and cold, as if she was displeased at her break being disturbed.
Then why did she accept my request for a private audience?
‘I finally get to have a private meeting with my grandmother!’
As of now, the best informant I know, Duchess Lucella.
‘I can’t meet a separate information guild yet… Right now, I need the information the Duchess can provide the most!’
With that resolution, I decided to dig for information, but something was strange.
“Sit on my lap immediately.”
“Yes?”
The Duchess nodded her head and ordered with a stern expression.
‘Why on the lap…?’
I dared not defy the Duchess’s opinion and sat on her lap right away, but it was strange.
It was hard to have a proper conversation.
‘Why does she ask me to sit on her lap?’
We were looking at the same place, so I couldn’t see her expression.
‘That’s a problem.’
But Duchess Lucella’s voice was dry from start to finish.
She asked a simple personal question and finally provided one piece of important information.
“There will be a big event in the family soon. In about three months.”
An event, huh? I need to dig deeper into that.
“Um… The maids say that during the event, lots of scary uncles come…”
“Oh, yes. Our family’s successor can be anyone, be they direct or indirect, or even adopted, so the newcomers who challenge for the position of successor will come. But most of them are just trash.”
“Trash?”
“Yes. Except for about three people in our family, they’re all trash.”
The Duchess was talking in a casual tone about the power structure of the family.
I carefully opened my mouth and asked.
“Then… are those three scary uncles?”
“Three of them, sure. Axel, Delfia, and Ma… no. Ahem, oh, one of them is quite dangerous, Axel, he said he would end the war and return. Annoying.”
Axel was not ‘quite’, but ‘the most’ dangerous.
I froze and moaned like a cat.
“Uh…”
“He’s going to end the demon war in a month, he’s not just arrogant, he’s gone mad.”
The people of the Mirmode family used to go hunting for demons to kill their warlike nature. They called it a ‘demon war’ in a polite expression.
“Demons like shiny things and collect all sorts of magical tools, so treasures often appear on the battlefield of the demon war.”
That’s why the Mirmodes, including Axel, also participated in the demon war to get the things the demons have. But once they ravaged the demons, they couldn’t easily retreat. That’s why it took at least a year.
But now, Axel Mirmode has declared that he would end the war in a month.
Could I keep this family in order for a month?
The news that made me sweat with my hand began to tremble.
“…so, so it is.”
“Axel is trash.”
I don’t know what she thought of me, stiff as a board, but my grandmother added briefly.
“Oh, sorry. You’re a child, my expression must be scary.”
“But Axel is really going to suppress the family after returning from the war. I still, still have a chance!”
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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