“Yeah. Bonita, you saw it too. Mom said if we play board games, we’ll ruin the board, so she just gave us balls or toy cars.”
At Alan’s words, Bonita chuckled briefly. Indeed, if it were Alan or Derek, destroying a board game wouldn’t be strange.
Quietly approaching, Cassis, like a cat, said,
“So, what are we going to play?”
“This one.”
“Chess?”
Cassis, who loved games that required thinking, nodded.
“Do you play chess well?”
“I learned it for the first time yesterday and beat Dad twice!”
Hearing Bonita’s exclamation, Alan clicked his tongue.
“Bonita, you don’t know. Adults always let the kids win to make them feel good. It’s like a foolish thing for adults to think that kids wouldn’t notice that.”
“…Huh?”
Tuk.
Hearing the truth, Bonita dropped the chessboard with a shocked expression.
“Euk.”
Cassis leaped and caught the chessboard. Maya, who saw Cassis standing still after catching the board, marveled.
“Amazing.”
“It’s basic.”
With a frank compliment, Cassis cleared his throat. Bonita thought Cassis seemed to enjoy being praised.
“But there’s only one chessboard, and there are five of us. Who will play first?”
“No, there are two more.”
Putting the chessboard on the table, Bonita went to the drawer and took out two boxes.
Unlike the well-used first box, the other two were new and unopened.
Derek, seeing that, suggested with a cheerful tone,
“Then let’s have a chess tournament among us. Those who win will keep playing, determining the best player.”
Then Maya expressed concern.
“But the number of games won’t match, right? One of us will have to play chess alone.”
“Well, that’s true. Then, we’ll draw lots for one person to have a bye…”
The playroom’s door opened at that moment.
“What’s going on?”
“Huh?”
At first, the children, thinking it was a maid bringing snacks, paid little attention. However, when they saw a boy with a similar build to theirs, they stared.
In contrast, Bonita’s complexion turned pale.
“Hello.”
A handsome boy with black hair extended his hand after taking it out of his pocket.
“I’m Bonita’s cousin, Bentley Delphinium. I came because my grandfather invited me to the party.”
“Bonita has an older brother?!”
When Alan exclaimed with a shocked face, Cassis corrected,
“Not a blood-related brother, but a cousin.”
“Haha… Anyway, it won’t be that different. We’re still family.”
As Bentley laughed, Cassis raised his tail like a cat.
“No, it’s different. Two are completely different concepts.”
“Oh, really?”
With a premonition that it would become troublesome if he kept arguing, Bentley just nodded.
His gaze turned to Bonita behind him.
‘Uh… she’s being wary.’
Bonita looked at Bentley with triangular eyes.
But retreating without a tail due to the pressure from such a small girl was an unreasonable thing.
In the first place, there was no place to retreat to.
“What were you all doing?”
Bentley decided to go out brazenly.
Children quickly become close just by playing the same game. It would be enough to gradually get to know each other, such as names.
As Bentley expected, a brown-haired boy who seemed thoughtless shouted,
“Oh, it’s perfect timing! We’re about to have a chess tournament now, and we were in trouble because there are only five of us.”
“A chess tournament?”
Doing all sorts of strange things.
Although Bentley thought so, he naturally didn’t say it out loud. Moreover, from his indoor-oriented perspective, playing chess by sitting quietly and moving only fingers was much better than kicking a ball or playing tag.
‘I have some confidence.’
As smart as he was, Bentley was also good at chess. Bentley positively agreed.
“All right. Who am I against?”
“We’ll decide that through drawing lots from now on. Oh, by the way, my name is Derek Hyacinth. Nice to meet you.”
Bentley, who appeared to be of a similar age, and the biggest boy in size, Derek, said so, writing names on pieces of paper.
“You said your name is Bentley, right?”
“That’s right.”
Derek, who made six notes, shuffled them vigorously.
“Bonita will do the drawing!”
Bonita, who was given the special privilege of drawing lots because of her birthday, picked a note.
Casiss, standing next to Bonita, organized the tournament bracket for her, considering that Bonita couldn’t read yet.
The results were as follows.
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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