Marriage with the Younger Brother of the Man Who Betrayed Me (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 10
As I quietly watched him, carefully reading his expression, a long sigh slipped from the Captain’s lips.
“You carelessly got yourself hurt, yet your mouth is still lively. If you’ve got the energy to joke, why didn’t you focus properly on the monster?”
“The injury you’re talking about… is it the stab wound on my palm from the dagger? I only pierced it shallowly to snap myself out of the illusion, so it’s not a serious wound…”
“Still, an injury is an injury. Even a shallow cut shouldn’t be taken lightly. Without proper treatment, you could suffer later.”
As he said this, the Captain stepped half a pace closer toward me.
Being tall, his approach cast a shadow over my head.
When I opened my mouth, my voice came out slightly tense without my noticing.
“…What are you going to do?”
“I’m going to pour some potion on your wound. Do you have a problem with that?”
“Oh…”
“If you understand, then hand it over. Your hand.”
Though it felt a bit embarrassing—like a puppy trained to extend its paw—I held out my hand anyway.
Seeing the wound sunken into my palm, the Captain’s eyes narrowed in displeasure.
“You stabbed yourself pretty deep.”
“Was it deep?”
“Yes. What were you planning to do if this made it hard to grip your sword later? Tch.”
Despite his cold tone, his hands were remarkably gentle as he took out a potion and poured it over the wound.
Soon, the cool potion seeped into the cut, making my palm itch.
The wound was healing.
As I twitched my fingers from the ticklish sensation, a stern voice came from above.
“Don’t move.”
“But it’s ticklish.”
“…You really are a high-maintenance subordinate.”
Saying that, the Captain carefully straightened each of my curled fingers one by one.
Then, taking out his handkerchief, he began delicately wiping away the blood from my hand.
He rubbed gently between each finger and along every knuckle.
For some reason, it felt ticklish.
It wasn’t just about the fingers being half-forced into his grip.
A corner of my heart, lodged deep within my left chest, felt pleasantly ticklish for some inexplicable reason.
[This is the timeline separator]After pouring the potion and finishing the basic treatment, we immediately set off to find the mana stone.
Finding it wasn’t difficult.
Mana stones always stayed near the Queen, and I already knew exactly where it was.
Sure enough, we found the mana stone hidden in a concealed space behind the wall on the highest floor.
I stared blankly at the glowing ore, firmly fixed atop a stone pillar jutting from the ground.
Then, something suddenly occurred to me, and I spoke.
“Now that I think about it again, this always looks like an egg, doesn’t it? As if something’s about to hatch from it.”
Perhaps the Queen lingered around the mana stone to protect whatever would one day emerge from within?
Hearing my speculation, the Captain shuddered.
“You mean a monster might hatch from it here? That’s horrifying.”
“Yes, now that I think about it, that really is a horrifying idea. Let’s shatter it quickly.”
At my words, the Captain immediately raised his halberd.
He swung it toward the mana stone.
Crack—!
With a sound like thick glass breaking, the mana stone shattered.
As always, nothing was inside the fragments.
Just as it had always been.
After shattering the mana stone, the Captain sheathed his halberd and turned to me.
“We’ve done what we came for. Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
Since destroying the mana stone would cause the rift to close and vanish, we had to leave for the original world before that happened.
Though this might sound urgent, rifts typically took about three days to close, so there was no need to rush.
Having grown a bit weary from fighting the monster, we walked down the spiral staircase in silence.
Thud. Thud.
The sound of our footsteps echoed for a long while through the empty stairwell.
We moved without exchanging a single word.
Just as an awkward silence stretched on, a topic finally presented itself.
“Oh, now that I look, I’ve got a slight injury on my leg too.”
I’d felt a faint pain earlier, and upon closer inspection, I noticed a wound on my thigh.
It must’ve been a shallow scratch from the monster earlier.
During our descent, the minor cut had reopened and begun bleeding.
Seeing my blood seeping through the fabric, the Captain’s eyes hardened.
“You should’ve been more careful. You really are troublesome in every way.”
“Do you happen to have any potion left?”
“I’ll give you one bottle—don’t be stingy. Pour it properly over the wound.”
While listening to the Captain’s scolding, I treated the cut on my thigh.
Thanks to the potion, the wound healed quickly, and I was ready to walk again.
Just then, the Captain stepped in front of me.
“You’re planning to walk again in that condition?”
“…?”
If I didn’t walk, how else would we leave the rift?
As I looked at him in confusion, the Captain suddenly turned his halberd forward and slung it over his back.
Then, lowering his body, he presented his back to me.
Not understanding what this meant, I stood there blankly for a while.
Finally, the Captain snapped impatiently.
“Get on.”
“G-Get on? You mean… ride on your back, Captain?”
“Who else’s back would you ride on? Are you planning to catch a monster and ride that instead?”
His rebuke left me speechless.
Even so, I hesitated—feeling slightly embarrassed about riding on someone else’s back—until the Captain added,
“I can’t let you keep walking while injured. Even if the potion healed you, pushing yourself might tear the wound open again.”
“But won’t it be hard for you? We still have a long way to go before we exit the rift. And I’m quite heavy…”
“During training, I once carried something heavier than you on my back and ran a hundred laps around the Imperial Palace’s drill grounds. Stop worrying needlessly and just get on. At this rate, the whole day will be gone.”
Since he was already offering his back, it felt a bit rude to keep refusing, so after some hesitation, I finally climbed onto him.
His broad, sturdy back pressed firmly against my body.
Through my thin clothes, I could distinctly feel the thick muscles of his back.
Trying not to dwell on it, I wrapped my arms around his neck.
His shoulders were so wide that even with my arms around them, plenty of space remained on either side.
I didn’t want to attach too much meaning to such a trivial contact… but honestly, my heart couldn’t help but race a little.
After all, I’d never been carried on anyone’s back before—not even my father’s.
My father, the Late Marquis Schneestern, had been a stern and intimidating man.
From the moment he realized I possessed powerful talents, he decided to raise me as a knight and trained me accordingly.
For instance, even if his daughter fell while running and scraped her knees raw, he’d never offer his hand—instead, he’d yell at her to get up immediately.
Recalling my suffocatingly harsh childhood training, I whispered into the Captain’s ear,
“Did you know? When I first met you, I thought you’d be someone like my father.”
“The Late Marquis Schneestern? How so?”
“He was very strict and frightening.”
The Captain quietly listened to what I said next.
“Your eyes even look somewhat like his, so I assumed you’d be just as stern and scary as my father. But you weren’t.”
Though the Captain seemed similar to my father at first glance, deep down, he was entirely different.
When I got hurt, my father would scold me and wait for me to stand on my own, but the Captain scolded me yet still offered his support.
That was the crucial difference.
“You’re far kinder than you realize.”
“Nonsense… Do you really think I’m a kind person? How much do you actually know about me?”
“I know you far better than you think I do.”
At this point, the Captain and I had only known each other for a year.
But before my regression, I’d spent a full six years with him.
I knew him well.
“If you truly know me that well… then I’d like to understand you better too.”
“Me?”
“Yes. You don’t seem to realize it, but you’re a hard person to figure out.”
“…What exactly do you mean? Who’s as simple as I am?”
To my bewildered question, the Captain answered without hesitation.
“For one, you were growling at me just a week ago, then suddenly changed completely… I can’t tell what you’re thinking.”
“…”
“And I wish someone would tell me just how much I can trust you.”
My attitude toward the Captain had abruptly shifted days ago because I’d regressed to this point in time.
I’d returned from the future, already absolutely certain he was a good person.
“You can trust me now. From here on, I’ll fight only for our Empire, our squad members, and you, Captain.”
Our Empire, our squad members, and the Captain… I deliberately left Ernant’s name off the list of things I held dear.
Because I never wanted to say—even as a joke—that I’d fight for him.
I didn’t care if it made me seem petty.
I’d rather be called petty than say I’d fight for the man who schemed for my death and laughed as he watched me die.
While I was lost in these thoughts, we arrived at the rift’s exit.
“We’re here.”
“Put me down now. I don’t want the squad members to see me riding on your back like a child.”
“Worrying about such nonsense even while injured…”
“If you don’t let me down right here, I’ll tickle your ears.”
After saying that, I playfully blew air toward the Captain’s ear, causing him to flinch in surprise and immediately set me down.
It wasn’t an action I’d given much thought to.
Yet my little prank seemed to fluster the Captain slightly.
He turned to look at me, his face flushed bright red as he covered his ear with his hand.
“What—what are you doing?!”
“Oh, did I startle you? I do that often as a joke with the others, so I just… I’m sorry. I was being impudent.”
“You play pranks like that with the other squad members?! Are you out of your mind?!”
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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Took you so long!! I suspected him when he sneek up on you at the river and finally confirmed my suspicion of him since the Ball!!