Leah was in low spirits. She thought her life had hit rock bottom, but everyone around her seemed to be struggling with their own burdens, big and small.
Just then, Pauline hurried into the room, bursting through the door.
Thud!
She grumbled as she placed the latest newspaper on the table.
“Miss, you’re surely not fully recovered yet. Suddenly getting engrossed in newspapers…”
“Did you bring the glue?”
“Yes, I brought it. Are you going to continue cutting out newspaper articles?”
Pauline was finding Grace quite amusing these days. After her bout with the flu, she had become a completely different person. The old Grace’s first words upon waking were always “Mirror.” or “Where’s Terren?”. But now, she didn’t even ask about the Duke.
Last time, she had requested a week’s worth of newspapers, and since then, she would cut out articles as Terren read them, pasting them into a blank notebook.
“A new hobby?”
Leah was selectively cutting out articles about Allen and the Hamilton Trading Company, sticking them in the notebook. She was already on her second one.
“What a dull hobby.”
Pauline muttered, though she meticulously applied glue to the cut-out articles.
“But this man in the newspaper, he’s incredibly handsome, isn’t he?”
“You saw this man, Pauline?”
“Yes, I saw him entering the church on the day of the funeral.”
Pauline glanced at Allen in the newspaper and chuckled.
“I see.”
‘Handsome, indeed. And I was the foolish one who fell for that face.’
She had been completely ensnared by his picturesque mask, oblivious to the vile greed it hid.
As she collected newspaper articles, Leah began to notice connections between Allen and other individuals.
‘I won’t rush.’
Revenge required meticulous preparation and information. Just like Allen had plotted against the Hamilton Trading Company, she would wait patiently and act cautiously.
‘But I need to get closer to the Duke…’
Her most pressing task was to retrieve the necklace from Terren. For that, maintaining a good relationship with him was advantageous.
‘Why hasn’t he hurried the marriage with Grace, even though they’re engaged? Could it be because of the reason I overheard?’
Terren had harshly told Grace to stop throwing tantrums. It seemed like he wasn’t interested in marriage, or maybe he wasn’t ready for it.
She definitely couldn’t press him about marriage like Grace did. In fact, she had no intention of marrying him.
‘Faith, hope, love, marriage… I could do without them all.’
Just then, the door was knocked on, and Luke peeked in.
“The Duke has arrived.”
Why had he come suddenly without any particular reason? Leah’s mind became a whirlwind of thoughts.
“What a surprise. The Duke visiting Miss’s room!”
Pauline was visibly shocked and flustered.
Leah and Pauline hurriedly cleaned the room, cluttered with scraps of newspaper. Leah covered the notebook and pushed it to one side of the dressing table.
They couldn’t tidy up perfectly and just kicked things around before welcoming Terren.
“How are you feeling, Grace?”
Despite her efforts, Terren immediately noticed the situation as soon as he entered her room.
The remnants of cut-out newspapers, the smell of glue, and the thick notebook on the dressing table…
“I’ve fully recovered.”
Yet, Terren bent down to pick up a piece of newspaper on the floor. It was an article about a specific person.
‘Allen McDowell? Is she collecting articles about him?’
Of course, this was just a speculation. He couldn’t make a hasty judgment until he saw the notebook on the dressing table with his own eyes.
“A new hobby?”
“Yes…? I’m just trying to learn a bit about how the world works.”
“Really? A very constructive hobby.”
He, as usual, displayed a restrained smile and didn’t extend his conversation.
His shining black eyes focused on Grace.
Her face, devoid of makeup, neatly dressed. More notably, her hands stained with ink marks, likely from cutting newspapers.
Above all, she maintained an appropriate distance and was careful with her words, not making impulsive demands as before.
[Terran, let’s go on a date with Grace. Let’s go to an amusement park, enjoy boat rides, and admire beautiful flowers, okay?]“Do you know what tomorrow is?” Terran asked Grace.
‘What day? Is it Grace’s birthday? What is it?’
As Leah’s eyes darted around in confusion, Terran’s brows furrowed slightly, his gaze narrowing as if thinking, ‘Is there something else to forget, not remembering that important promise?’
“Tomorrow is the day you’re supposed to meet your brother in Bern, right?” Pauline quickly intervened.
“Oh! Yes, right, Pauline. My mind is elsewhere.”
At Leah’s response, Terran slightly tilted his head, appearing puzzled. Usually, Grace never forgot about meeting Aidan.
“As always, only Grace and I will go. Make sure everything’s prepared,” Terran instructed Pauline before turning to leave.
‘Why isn’t he being held back?’
Typically, Grace would have rushed to embrace his waist as he tried to leave.
Terran stopped as he passed the door, turning his head to look at Grace.
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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