“Release all the knights and servants to find Edith! Block any carriages from leaving the mansion!”
Sophia commanded, nearly grinding her teeth.
Caught off guard by the sudden order, the knights and servants of Fortrion scrambled, arming themselves and unlocking the stable gates.
“What’s happening?”
Noticing the frenzied activity, Walter and Cassius asked. The knight answered, bewildered.
“Lady Edith has been kidnapped.”
“…”
“Lady Sophia has ordered the knights and servants to quickly find her. Hey!”
Before the knight could finish speaking, Walter snatched the horse the Fortrion knight was about to mount and sped off.
He then grabbed an axe hanging on the wall of the stable and began accelerating.
Though he had no idea who the perpetrator was, if the kidnapper had any sense, they would try to sneak Edith out of the mansion in some container—either a crate or a sack. Lugging something heavy would attract attention, so they would likely load her into a carriage or cart.
‘If someone tries to escape with Edith in a carriage under a binding spell…’
Having tried to escape in secrecy multiple times, Walter knew better than anyone how potent a binding spell could be.
The thought that Edith’s body might get crushed between the barrier and the carriage made him feel as if his own life was threatened. He entered a heightened state of alertness.
His muscles stiffened with tension, and his heart pumped blood through his nervous system at a mad pace.
Cassius managed to catch up to him and shouted, “Walter! There’s a suspicious guy!”
Walter didn’t slow down and listened to Cassius.
“His name is Jeffrey, a well-known gambler within the territory. He’s close to the lord, so he might know something and be involved in the kidnapping.”
“Where is he?”
“Keep going in this direction. Look for a dark purple carriage. One of the knights said he saw him lurking suspiciously near it.”
Walter whipped the reins with terrifying force.
People knew that Edith was carrying the heir to Fortrion. The kidnappers could be trying to extract a ransom from the lord’s house.
If Jeffrey, who has been close to the lord that imprisoned me for seven years, was involved, then he could creatively use kidnapping and imprisonment to his advantage.
They were just slowing down as they reached the open space where the carriage was parked.
“What kind of pursuit is this fast? Was there such a rogue in Fortrion?”
Geoffrey, who had quickly turned around after glancing at the entrance of the mansion to see if they could escape, discovered Walter holding a sharpened axe and scanning the surroundings with a menacing look.
But upon closer inspection, his features were familiar. Black hair and green eyes, a physique even more impressive than the knights, built with excellent bone structure and muscles.
“Is that guy the groom?”
Seeing him squinting to find his dark horse, it seemed the guess was correct.
“Then that guy can’t go outside the castle because of the binding magic anyway.”
Having made his judgment, Geoffrey quickly climbed onto the coachman’s seat of the carriage.
If the guy couldn’t leave the castle anyway, he could be shaken off.
“I’ll drive the carriage; you guys handle that blue-haired man.”
The thugs he had hired drew the swords they had hidden in the carriage and ran straight towards Cassius.
Whinny–
“What, what is this!”
Startled by the sudden attack, Cassius’s horse began to move unpredictably, lifting its front hooves.
At the same time, the carriage from which the thugs had sprung started off at high speed.
“Walter! Go after them first!”
Knowing that Cassius was good with horses, Walter immediately changed direction and started chasing the carriage.
“What, what is this!”
Geoffrey, discovering that Walter was catching up at a frightening speed, urged the horses even more.
Even if the groom was a born fighter, there was no way he could destroy a moving carriage, especially with an axe that was considerably shorter.
“Uh, uh!”
Realizing that nobody was in the carriage compartment, Edith let out a desperate cry.
Walter, who had captured Edith’s terrified moan, gripped his axe tightly.
The sturdy wooden pole connecting the carriage and the horses.
If he couldn’t break that part with one strike, Edith would collapse and die.
“Huh, hah!”
The moment he heard her desperate voice, Walter threw his body from the running horse and swung his axe down.
Crash–
The air vibrated with an inexplicable force along with the loud noise.
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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