Your lips keep drawing mine in. The breath that reaches my ears.
I want to confirm more of you. To feel you more deeply.
But I stopped.
I wanted to say I love you. I had to say it.
I wanted to convey that my actions, my movements were because of my love for you.
I stopped the kiss and looked at her.
“Even though I tried to avoid it… in the end.”
It was an irresistible attraction.
I embraced her with my lips again.
And then.
What did I say?
I don’t remember.
But she froze. Sadness soaked into those sky-blue eyes. My heart sank.
I called you a butterfly.
Butterfly. Did I call the you from a past life, or the you before my eyes now?
I don’t know, but one thing is certain: I love the you before my eyes. But weren’t you it?
“Yes. I told you it was a mistake. I am just the prince’s knight and aide.”
The last words I saw her say at the execution ground in my past life came to mind.
You had asked me.
“Is it pity?”
I had answered.
“It’s concern.”
“I respected you.”
Is it still the same now?
Is it just respect? Is there no love in that respect?
Was it like that? Was it only my feelings?
I couldn’t hold you as you went into the rain.
In the dark stable, only the sleeping horses were present.
I approached them, crouching beside them, hugging my knees and burying my face in them.
Tears wouldn’t stop.
I hurt you.
Because I was in so much pain, I cut your heart with a knife. I could feel your heart, slashed behind me.
“Sob… sob.”
I covered my leaking tears with my hands.
The awakened Grani leaned her head against me, as if asking why I was crying.
Your touch, your breath against my heart is still so vivid.
Your traces, swallowing my cheek, neck, ears, lips, are still so warm.
Why am I falling into despair now?
Far away, the prince’s black horse stood up and looked at me. I murmured to the horse, like a fool.
“Your Highness. I love you… I love you.”
The stable door opened and bright sunlight poured in. Waking up to the light, I lifted my body sprawled on the hay.
“Esdel, did you sleep here?”
“Yes.”
“Ah… sorry.”
Yora, insisting I should rest more comfortably, dragged me outside.
The rain had stopped, and with most guests gone, many rooms were vacant.
“…The prince?”
“He was sitting under the shed roof. General Mobi reported it and took him to a room. Ah… what should I do about this disloyalty.”
“The shed… under the roof?”
“Yes. On the hay pile. He couldn’t sleep at all. He must be sleeping now.”
“…”
“I’m so sorry.”
‘Yora, the one who should be sorry is me. I made the prince like this.’
The disloyalty was my doing.
“You didn’t sleep at all? Your eyes are swollen.”
I couldn’t respond. I was too weak.
Led to a small room, I collapsed onto the bed.
When I opened my eyes, the sun was setting outside the window.
“Ah…”
I hurried outside.
But I stopped at the corner of the stairs leading down to the first floor. I heard General Mobi’s voice.
‘Is the prince there too?’
I couldn’t move at the thought.
“Oh, I’m so sorry, this Mobi wants to bury my nose in death.”
‘He’s there.’
“Please eat a little. The innkeeper does make good food.”
Ergo’s voice was heard too.
I couldn’t move.
Can I go down? Dare I appear so shamelessly? What face should I use to see you?
That’s when it happened.
“Ah, Esdel is here too!”
Yora ran towards me.
I resented myself for not being completely hidden.
‘I can’t help it. It’s a fate that we must go together anyway.’
I may not know why you called me a white butterfly, but now, I can no longer harbor disloyal thoughts.
‘Forget it, just last night. That’s all I need to do.’
With my head down, I went downstairs.
“Miss Esdel! Didn’t you sleep at all?”
“No.”
“Your eyes are quite swollen?!”
“Mobi, because you slept, I ended up sleeping too.”
“Ergo, are you talking about others?!”
The two seemed about to fight, so I spoke up.
“No, I slept. Maybe because it’s cold.”
“This is the inn’s special porridge, sit here and try some. It warms you up and relaxes your body.”
Mobi seated me right in front of the prince.
Ah, inevitably.
I really couldn’t raise my head. But.
‘Esdel, look at the prince. Take responsibility for what you did.’
Slowly, I lifted my face and looked ahead.
The prince was there.
My heart dropped to my stomach.
His face rougher than yesterday, the usual clean face now had traces of dark stubble.
Ah…
But he wasn’t looking at me.
Silently, slowly, he put the porridge in his mouth.
I kept watching him unknowingly.
He spoke.
“Mobi, your porridge tastes better. This place… is not so good.”
The prince put down his spoon and stood up.
“Now that everyone’s awake, let’s depart. It should take half a day to meet Arcadia at Haras.”
“He might have left later than us, so even if we leave tomorrow, we won’t be late. You should rest a bit more.”
“The enemies don’t rest while we do. General Mobi, have you forgotten the oath in the north?”
“How could that be, Your Highness. But if you’re injured…”
“What reason would there be? It’s just, one night.”
‘Just one night.’
Just.
It hurt as if my heart was splitting.
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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