Having sent the maid sisters and the cat far off, I took a seat in front of the bench set up in the garden.
There, I had a few conversations with Acid.
“Your name is Cien, huh…”
“Yeah! You can call me that.”
“…I’m a street kid, I don’t have a name.”
I paused as I was about to ask if he didn’t have the name Acid. His apparent resentment towards his brother seemed deeper than I had expected.
“Ah….”
“Pplease, don’t leave.”
From the words that came out during our conversation, I realized.
Acid’s anger towards his brother, who abandoned him, was deeper than expected and he seemed to show slight separation anxiety symptoms.
“Living alone for a long time, Acid seems to be having a hard time.”
“Hmm… do you dislike your brother that much?”
“…Yes, because he abandoned me.”
I was taken aback.
Ted didn’t abandon Acid, but Acid firmly believed that Ted had abandoned him.
Perhaps this is Acid’s defense mechanism.
Should I even dare to touch on this issue?
While gently tapping the ground with my foot, I cautiously replied.
“Well…”
However, Acid, like a child who grew up in the slums, was quickwitted.
The boy fumbled with my hand and opened his mouth.
“…You seem to want to give him a chance to explain.”
“No, you don’t have to do what you don’t want. Think about the hard things later.”
“…I thought you brought me here to give Ted a chance to explain.”
I shook my head vigorously.
“That’s not it! I just!”
Acid’s docile eyes stared straight at me. I bit my lip and muttered quietly.
“I just wish for your happiness. Like me. If it’s hard to accept Ted as family… I think you don’t have to force yourself to accept Ted.”
The boy’s blue eyes gazed intently at me.
Eyes that resembled shiny sapphire gems trembled.
“Happiness…”
Hearing his softly murmuring voice, I carefully observed his face. Acid, now wellgroomed and fed, looked quite handsome.
“Yes!”
“…To have someone in the world who wishes for my happiness…”
Looking intently at him as his eyes gradually turned red, I emphasized once more.
“Tears are forbidden! Let’s first eat something warm and think about good things!”
He looked at me with a small smile.
“You speak like an adult.”
Seeing him steer the conversation, it seemed he needed a little more time to think.
Pretending not to notice, I nodded. Then my hair, tied in two strands, swayed.
“Okay. Let’s stop thinking about bad things and play a game to get stronger!”
‘Nothing beats a ‘getting stronger’ game when you’re feeling sensitive!’
At the sudden change of topic, Acid bit his lip and asked.
“Huh?”
I pulled out a big water balloon from my pocket.
“Tada! The slow one gets hit by the water balloon!”
Although there were no goblins, it was better than nothing!
With this level of difficulty, wouldn’t it help him get stronger?
I bared my sharp fangs, villainlike.
“Yes. I’ll play that game and think more.”
Acid gave a gentle smile.
“It’s a scary game that helps you gain courage. Are you okay?”
“Yes. If it’s with Cien… I like anything.”
Looking at Acid, who seemed to have made up his mind, I took out another water balloon from my pocket.
[This is a time marker.]Matthias watched the scene of Acid and Cien running around from beneath his window. Thankfully, they seemed to have lost interest in the goblin.
Of course, innocent and naive Cien wouldn’t like a goblin.
It’s likely just curiosity to see it again.
“Woahhhh!”
At the voice of the boy high on excitement, Matthias’s face momentarily twisted and then regained its composure.
…It doesn’t matter.
Such noise was to be expected. After all, his daughter has a cute ability to disarm anyone, no matter who they are.
Matthias looked down at his kneeling vassal in front of him and whispered wearily.
“Tell me what you’ve investigated.”
…The ‘real’ knight that Sien mentioned must be the same.
Before the dinner with Sien, he had sent an assassin to report on Sien’s whereabouts.
Sien had met an ordinary holy knight of the temple, Ted.
He was worried that he might have bewitched Sien, so he had sent a normal agent to keep an eye on him.
“The holy knight overpowered the agent I sent in one breath.”
“Seems he is at least more skilled than you.”
“Yes, I’m ashamed…”
Surprisingly, the ‘real knight’ chosen by Sien turned out to be quite skilled.
As Matthias’s mood darkened and he twitched his eyebrows, the one who had sent the agent quietly kneeled down.
“He has asked me to deliver this letter.”
Matthias gave his close aide a cold glance before grabbing the letter.
[If you sent a stealthy assassin, then it must be you, Matthias, the father of Sien Mirmode. I hope you’re not offended.]I’m very offended.
Matthias lowered his gaze.
[I am a humble holy knight, but I have no intention of harming Sien Mirmode. On the contrary, I want to help. I can swear this in truth to God.]Far from helping, he’s doing a great deal of harm. At least to Matthias’s mood.
But…
‘He mentioned swearing in truth.’
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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