The phrase was challenging even for a five-year-old. Despite Blanche’s efforts to practice pronunciation to avoid clumsy speech in public, she wouldn’t have been able to articulate it properly.
“But ‘wise man’ is okay?”
Blanche clammed up at the follow-up.
She was caught.
Earlier, when the first provocation occurred, Blanche intentionally muddled her pronunciation, making it difficult for the children to understand.
While they hesitated, not grasping her words, Blanche deftly changed the subject, leaving them no choice but to accept defeat.
“You can speak well enough, right?”
As Melchisedek pointed out, Blanche was capable of clear pronunciation, at least for age-appropriate words.
All her practice was because she disliked showing her awkward pronunciation publicly. Therefore, she should have been demonstrating perfect clarity by now.
But the benefits of clumsy speech were too great. The biggest advantage was emphasizing childlike innocence.
‘Ibaekryeon,’ Blanche’s original identity, never received genuine childlike affection. Thus, Blanche didn’t understand why she was adored and couldn’t control that variable.
Unable to identify the reason, Blanche analyzed why ‘Ibaekryeon’ never received the affection that ‘Blanche’ did.
There were various factors: Blanche’s lower status compared to Ibaekryeon’s noble background, the difference in abilities shown, and the different expectations from others.
After much consideration, Blanche concluded that her surroundings cherished her because she was harmless and easy to adore.
In this context, her stammering speech emphasized a harmless and easygoing image. It was only her personal pride that made her hesitant; after all, a little difficulty speaking at the age of three isn’t a major flaw.
Additionally, this manner of speech could be used to interrupt the conversation when among peers. It was an effective tactic in many ways.
In fact, when speaking quickly with difficult words, the pronunciation naturally becomes muddled, so it wasn’t even acting.
“If I speak slowly and carefully.”
Was it the effect of special training, or had she grown a bit in the meantime? Indeed, she could speak relatively accurately for words like “Your Highness, you have done an excellent job today,” as long as they weren’t too complex, and she was mindful of her pronunciation.
As Melchisedek pointed out, even the earlier statement about the wise and foolish could be understood if spoken slowly and deliberately.
That was indeed intentional. When a response comes but its meaning is unclear, it prevents further attacks.
“Then, it seems I should get into the habit of always speaking slowly and carefully in front of you.”
Well, Blanche herself didn’t particularly enjoy speaking in a stammering manner; it was just a means to an end. Since the request wasn’t too difficult to comply with, she readily nodded in agreement.
“Children don’t like it when others pretend to be young, and they dislike it even more when someone fakes being a child.”
Such a statement wasn’t typical for a five-year-old, but children, especially precocious ones like Melchisedek, often don’t admit that they’re young.
“Is that what you stayed to tell me?”
It sounded like a cue for Melchisedek to leave, but he obviously had more to say.
“Ah, no, that was just an extra. My real purpose is about a reward.”
“A reward?”
Blanche tilted her head in curiosity. Dressed in a delicate lace-adorned dress, she looked just like a doll when she did so.
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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