But changing the aggressive attitude she had taken for over 60 years into a more friendly one overnight was not easy.
Moreover, if she were to justify herself… there was also guilt and embarrassment.
When she first met Bonita, she didn’t blabber nonsense about being a fraud or fake.
Moreover, even after confirming her true identity, instead of apologizing immediately, she was immersed in her own emotions and fled.
As a result, her only granddaughter and her had become entangled in this awkward relationship.
Self-disgust overwhelmed her.
“Still, last time, we even held hands and walked together.” Unintentionally, I instilled fear once again. Now, I had reached a point where I was resentful of myself. However, even in this situation, an honest admission that it wasn’t my intention just didn’t come out of my mouth.
Fortunately for Catherine, Bonita was an incredibly kind child. “But it’s not because I dislike you, ma’am. Last time, you listened to my story, and this time, you even made a real telephone so I could talk to Um, Aria, ma’am.”
Tapping her foot, Bonita spoke as if embarrassed. “So, I like calling you ma’am. Um, ma’am might find a little kid like me annoying, but…”
“Absolutely not!”
Catherine exclaimed in surprise. Bonita’s eyes widened. Seeing that face, Catherine blushed and took a step back.
“Ahem. Since you are my gra-granddaughter, this is natural. Originally, grandmothers are like this. You don’t need to pay any attention to words like finding kids like you annoying or anything.”
“Because I’m a grandmother?”
Catherine, for a moment, had to exert all her strength to control the corners of her mouth from shooting up. Yet, she couldn’t completely stop her lips from twisting oddly. She coughed as if to cover up the laughter.
“Uh, hmm. That’s it. I am your grandmother.”
Crimson eyes turned towards Catherine. Bonita noticed that Catherine seemed very pleased.
‘I wonder if she likes it when I call her grandmother?’
Bonita opened her mouth again to be sure.
“Ma’am.”
As the title returned, Catherine’s body stiffened. Bonita was now almost halfway sure and asked:
“Should I call you grandmother?”
Catherine’s body shook for a moment.
“That…!”
She couldn’t bring herself to answer properly and fell silent.
Seeing Bonita’s inquisitive look, Catherine felt like a complete fool, even though her intention was not to be so.
She mumbled, avoiding eye contact.
“If you want to do that… I won’t stop you…”
“Yes, grandmother.”
Then, Catherine’s lips went up again.
Seeing that, Bonita thought:
‘Grandmother seems like an honest person.’
It’s not easy for emotions to be so easily revealed outwardly.
Bonita’s efforts to speak to her all day outside the door seemed to be worthwhile. Aria had fully recovered her condition in just one day.
“All better!”
Greeting a morning without a headache, Aria cheered. She jumped off the soft bed, opened the door, and ran outside. Her demeanor was just like that of an energetic boy.
“Oh my!”
A young maid who encountered Aria like that in the hallway smiled brightly.
She had recently entered the Duke’s mansion and was quite friendly towards Aria.
“Miss Hilton, it looks like the cold is completely gone now, doesn’t it?”
Having recently entered the Duke’s mansion, she was quite friendly towards Aria.
“Miss Hilton, looks like your cold is completely gone now?”
“Yeah, this body is sturdy, so I’m fine!”
“…Huh?”
The maid absentmindedly muttered an unexpected statement, but Aria was already gone.
Aria, who was happily running down the corridor, gradually slowed down in front of Bonita’s door. She giggled with excitement and cautiously turned the doorknob.
If by any chance, Bonita was sleeping, Aria intended to enter quietly without waking her.
Slowly.
Afraid that any noise might be heard, she opened the door with extreme caution. The speed was so slow that it felt stifling.
When the door opened enough for just one hand to enter, Aria lowered her body and secretly peered into the room.
“Bingo.”
Perhaps it was because it was still early, but Bonita was sound asleep, breathing in various colors.
Occasionally, her small mouth made cute sounds as if she were someone’s daughter, making Aria want to bite and playfully tease her.
Aria covered her mouth and began to gently widen the gap in the door. The plan was to surprise Bonita when she woke up after secretly entering the bed.
The moment Aria completely opened the door, she widened her mouth as if she had been hit on the back of the head.
“…Luke?”
It was because Luke was sleeping a little away from Bonita.
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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