Even amidst her surprise, Latrasil didn’t believe the claims that the chancellor had killed a person.
True, the chancellor showed violent tendencies such as suddenly snapping an enemy’s neck or causing them to lose consciousness during their first meeting, but in the end, no one died.
Though it seemed as though he struck incredibly hard, it was all controlled.
Moreover, would a person who simply laughed it off when others insulted him, kill a servant in his own residence?
“Are you sure? Did anyone see it?”
“No one saw it.”
“Then why is the chancellor under suspicion?”
“Five servants were found frozen to death in a storage room, and a few days ago, they were caught badmouthing the chancellor.”
“So, just because of that, the chancellor is under suspicion?”
“Yes.”
Latrasil clicked her tongue and waved her hand dismissively.
“The chancellor isn’t such a person. So, don’t just assume he’s guilty and force the investigation to fit that. Investigate thoroughly and fairly.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
[This is the time separator]Around 3 p.m. the next day. As Latrasil was writing a letter to her brother, tearing it up, writing again, and tearing it up again, an investigator came to find her.
“Come in.”
As Latrasil tore up another letter she’d been adding expletives to, she looked at the investigator who held a report with a stiff cover.
“What is it?”
“I’ve come to give an interim report on the investigation as ordered yesterday through the deputy knight captain, Your Majesty.”
Let’s see. As Latrasil snapped her fingers, the investigator flipped the front page of the report he’d brought and swallowed once.
“Rumors circulated that the chancellor was involved, but it’s been confirmed that the chancellor was with the holy knights at the estimated time of death. In fact, he was with them the entire time, all night, to be exact.”
“See, I told you it wasn’t him.”
“Yes. It seems that the chancellor had been having various discussions with the holy knights due to the recent zombie incident. He wasn’t just with one or two people, and the servants on duty continually delivered food, so it’s certain.”
“Who’s the culprit then?”
“Well…”
The investigator glanced at Latrasil as he flipped another page of the report. Recognizing his nervousness, Latrasil guessed his response.
“You haven’t caught them, I see.”
“That’s… Yes. There are witnesses who saw the servants go to the warehouse, but no one saw anyone else enter. No one saw anyone come out either. Moreover, footprints reveal that besides the five people, no one else entered.”
“What’s the probability that the culprit erased their footprints?”
“It happened at night… It would have been difficult to selectively erase only their footprints without being noticed by others.”
“Curious, indeed.”
Could it be Heum or Tilla? Do zombies leave footprints? Latrasil recalled the zombies she’d seen in Carisen.
That noble zombie… Was inside the banquet hall, so there was no way to verify whether it left footprints or not. Prince Heum was in the garden outside the banquet hall, but due to the intense swordfight, there wasn’t a chance to check for footprints.
“The only sure thing is that the harem atmosphere isn’t good. Is it because of this false incident?”
“It seems that everyone is anxious.”
“I see.”
[This is the time separator]“Until recently, there was a lot of bad talk about Guesta, but suddenly there were negative comments about the chancellor.”
At dinner time. When Latrasil asked Tasir about the atmosphere in the harem, Tasir obediently told her the situation.
“Everyone’s on edge these days. Now that five servants have died at once, it will likely get worse.”
“They froze to death, right? Did you see the bodies?”
“Yes.”
“How did it look?”
“Haven’t you already heard and seen everything?”
“I want to hear your opinion as well.”
After the servants laid the dinner on the table and left, Tasir rested his arm on the table and smiled satisfiedly.
“It’s not easy for five people to freeze to death in the middle of early summer, indoors.”
“Do you think black magic was involved?”
“As I know little about black magic, I find it difficult to comment, Your Majesty.”
“I see. That’s true.”
‘I should send a gift to the chancellor regardless.’
When he sees it, the culprit will understand. Trying to frame the chancellor haphazardly will only backfire.
Even if someone hadn’t purposely cornered the consort, it didn’t matter. They would interpret it as a comforting gift to the consort who heard bad news.
Latil thought of Zaisin laughing off such matters as she unraveled the roundly rolled egg with her fork.
“Ah, Tasir.”
“You were thinking of another man just now.”
“True, but there’s something I want to ask.”
“You admit it too easily. I would have swallowed it even if you said it wasn’t so.”
“……”
What to do? As Latil opened her mouth and stared, Tasir muttered something about a joke, then smiling broadly, he lightly closed Latil’s mouth.
“What are you trying to ask? You didn’t just call me because I’m handsome, did you?”
“Is Anakcha being pursued well?”
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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