She felt a strange pleasure and took a sip of the drink. It was a liquor with a fragrant fruit aroma, but it felt like her esophagus was burning as she swallowed.
“You drink such a strong thing……?”
It was then, when she frowned in displeasure, offering the bottle back.
“Jane. What’s going on here?”
Vivian’s voice came from not too far away. She seemed to be speaking in an awkwardly loud voice to announce that someone had come.
Walter and Edith hurried into the storeroom. Jane’s unique, clear voice was clearly heard from inside.
“The head butler said to report whether Edith, that woman, is fulfilling her contract with Lady Sophia properly.”
“She’s in that warehouse. There are many stones on the floor, so look carefully as you go.”
Vivian spat out to avoid being caught cooperating with Edith but was dying of anxiety that Jane might catch her deception.
Thud―
Jane was approaching the warehouse, stepping on a dry twig.
Edith desperately looked at Walter and spoke with her lips.
“Walter, you have more experience with this sort of thing, tell me how to deceive Jane.”
Walter, who was misunderstood as a messy man without knowing the full story, frowned immediately.
“I don’t think there’s a man in this warehouse with experience in this sort of thing.”
However, knowing the urgency of the situation, he did not argue any further and searched the warehouse.
Due to the lack of care, the floor was dirty with dust, and the only thing inside was a wagon roughly covered with old cloth.
Unlike before, there were no windows, so they would have to open the door to the warehouse to see what was happening inside, making deception difficult.
“Shall we sit on the floor for now?”
Edith asked urgently. Her face was hot and her head was spinning, as if she were tipsy from just one sip.
Walter looked at her flushed cheeks and sat down heavily on the bare floor.
“It feels a bit off for a stableman to make his mistress sit on the bare floor.”
He lay down on the dusty floor without a care and glanced at his lower abdomen.
Edith was not so naive as to not understand what he was saying.
She knelt on the floor and sat on his lower abdomen. Her pulse was already racing from the alcohol, and his hot body temperature drove her nearly mad.
Her dress that wrapped her body also covered his, hiding their secret.
Creak―
Jane, who opened the door suddenly, glanced around the warehouse without hesitation and frowned.
‘Goodness. In such a dirty place?’
She couldn’t see the man’s face due to the wagon, but it was clear that Edith was sitting on someone’s body.
Her face with dazed, opened eyes was flushed.
Edith, bending at the waist as if she had not yet found me, closed the distance with the man beneath her a little more.
‘A woman who knows no shame….’
Jane felt embarrassed and did not approach any further inside. It was precisely what Edith had intended.
Walter, who had to endure even her long blonde hair brushing against his body, was literally driven to madness. Even if he clenched his teeth and thought about something else, only the sensation she offered became more vivid.
Edith, seeing his expression slightly distorted, finally turned her head as if conscious of the gaze of a stranger.
“……Jane?”
“…….”
Even though she was clearly moving according to the head butler’s command, Jane somehow felt as if she had been caught doing something wrong.
Edith, reading her agitation, gently brushed Walter’s chest and then undid his shirt button as if driving in a wedge.
“If you’re just standing there and not going to interfere with me following Sophia’s command, leave.”
“…….”
Jane swallowed her contempt and left the room. The door she forcefully closed made a loud thump.
Edith pricked up her ears and only lowered her gaze after confirming that Jane had completely disappeared.
Walter was covering his face with his bulging arms.
Edith carefully buttoned his shirt back up and hurriedly got up.
She was already aware that she had gained a little weight from having mostly decent meals since being captured in the Fortrion mansion, so she felt even more embarrassed.
“Sorry, is it hard because I’m heavy?”
“…….”
Hard because she’s heavy? Even if she sat on me all day, it would not be enough, Walter thought.
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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