As she did not answer, Jane said, “I’ll come in,” and opened the door. Edith had no choice but to attend, because there was Sophia’s command, even though she did not want it.
‘To think that I’ve been doing such things, no one in the noble house would know about it…… She said her status was commoner.’
Sophia, whom she originally served, had both parents as nobles. Jane, although a maid, had considerable pride and did not like to serve a woman of commoner origin like herself.
Especially if it was a woman who had failed to mend her fate with her glamorous appearance.
“Would you like to eat, Lady Edith? If you have any favorite food, please tell me. Our chef can make street food as well.”
A neat smile hung on Jane’s lips, mentioning her humble origin. But her eyes were full of contempt and disregard for Edith.
Edith, who had been listening quietly, looked straight into Jane’s eyes. She might become a lowly woman, but she had no intention of becoming an easy mistress.
“Jane. Then how about you ask the kitchen for street food, and we share a meal at a table? Since we just met, let’s exchange greetings.”
‘Saying such a thing to a maid. Is she out of her mind?’
Even if she wasn’t born or educated in a prestigious house, it was common knowledge that a maid and her master did not eat together.
Jane felt embarrassed to be playing the role with a woman who did not even have that basic knowledge.
“I’m sorry, but as a maid, I cannot share a table with you, milady. After all, our status is different, so you should also speak with humility.”
“Ah, is that so?”
But at the faint smile that seemed to have been waiting for this response, Jane belatedly realized her intention.
She had been waiting for this to come from her mouth from the beginning. To make the maid who pointed out her lowly origin recognize her own position.
“I see. I’ll be careful from now on.”
When Edith smiled innocently, Jane felt twisted inside. She had looked down on her as an ignorant woman, but this woman was above her.
And to make the maid say it instead of pointing it out herself, she seemed not to be someone to look down on easily.
‘It makes me sick. Trying to climb up by pleasing the nobles.’
But Jane, who was a maid attached to the Portrion noble house, could not point that out.
She had just said that the gap in status between a lady and a maid was so great that they could not even be on speaking terms, let alone more.
“……I forgot something for the meal preparation. Excuse me for a moment.”
Jane bowed her head, grinding her teeth inside. She couldn’t bear to attend to Edith during the meal; her pride wouldn’t allow it.
After Jane closed the door and left.
‘What does she think of me to be such a pitiful person?’
Edith leaned casually against the back of the chair. Dealing with all sorts of annoying people at the clinic seemed to have cultivated her calmness, and she chuckled a little.
It was the first laugh she had since being dragged into the noble house. A genuine laugh that came not from disbelief or from evading a crisis, but from genuine humor.
When she became aware of that fact, she desperately wished to return to her everyday life, where she smiled several times a day.
‘I wish I could return to the clinic soon.’
As she was pondering a way to escape the mansion, someone politely knocked on the door.
“Madam. I’m Vivian, who will be attending to you in place of Jane. May I come in?”
“Vivian?”
Perhaps because it was a common name, it rang a faint bell. The polite knocking, and the absence of laughter in the question, sounded oddly pleasant.
“Come in.”
Edith, speaking awkwardly, opened the door and stared intently at the face of the maid who entered.
The deep brown hair, with green and orange lights playing in her eyes, was not unfamiliar. The mournful shape of her eyes, and her neat mouth.
Clearly, it was a face that existed, albeit faintly, in her memory.
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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