Mother-in-Law Refuses to Regress! (7 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 10
“In the end, none among the dragonkin used the time regression magic. That means the culprit must be among humans… and there’s only one person with that kind of possibility.”
A heavy silence filled the dim council chamber. In that place where no one volunteered, Siod stepped forward resolutely and spoke.
“I’ll go.”
It was a decision made largely on impulse. He could feel the heavy-eyed stares of the lethargic dragons watching him. Though no one showed it openly, they all seemed relieved someone had finally stepped up.
But Lord looked at him skeptically.
“It’s strange that you’d volunteer for a matter like this.”
“What do you mean?”
“You surely know what outcome we desire.”
Siod gave a faint chuckle.
“To find and eliminate the one who cast the time regression.”
“You have a connection with that human woman.”
It had been Lord himself who originally sent Siod to investigate the Transcendent Guinevere Rodante. Lord sank deeper into his chair and let out a sigh.
“Even if she were the culprit, could you really bring yourself to eliminate her?”
“Yes.”
“You two parted on rather good terms, as I recall.”
“For a fleeting moment, yes. That’s precisely why I believe I must go.”
‘He’s not the type to speak falsely.’
Lord thought this to himself, yet his suspicion toward Siod remained.
“There are victims among the dragonkin this time as well. If someone were to turn back time again, I don’t know what might happen to that child.”
“I understand.”
Lord’s daughter was brooding over an egg. Normally, a hatchling would emerge after a century, but this egg hadn’t hatched even after a hundred years had passed.
No dragon in the Valley of Dragons had been affected by the time regression magic—their own magic had shielded them. Thus, while time kept looping, the dragons had calmly continued their slumber undisturbed.
But the egg was not so fortunate. Lord’s daughter, Cassandra, had grumbled about how she was expected to wait another fifty years.
“It would be best if everything resolves smoothly while Cassandra remains quietly tending to her egg.”
“It will.”
Siod sincerely believed this. It had been a shallow emotion—he’d left before it deepened. Though he hadn’t seen her in a while, it hadn’t mattered to him.
Moreover, although he hadn’t said anything, Siod knew Guinevere’s magical signature. He’d suspected her during the three instances of time regression, but having observed her closely, he knew.
Guinevere wasn’t the culprit. Though similar, the feel of the magic was different. Perhaps it wasn’t Guinevere herself but someone close to her—maybe even her child.
‘I did hear she had a child.’
Siod was nearly certain. That child must be the culprit. The offspring of a woman he’d briefly met once—someone who meant nothing to him. What difficulty could there possibly be?
After receiving Lord’s permission and stepping out of the dragon valley’s barrier, Siod took a deep breath.
“The very air feels different.”
The air of the human world. Whistling cheerfully, he strolled leisurely down the mountain. The weather was fine, and his steps felt light.
Most dragons found their human forms stifling and disliked leaving the barrier, but he was different.
‘Guinevere Rodante… how much could she have changed?’
The human world was always fascinating. While time flowed slowly and steadily for dragons, human time raced forward, changing drastically and swiftly.
Surely Guinevere had changed a great deal too.
‘Roughly… sixty years have passed, haven’t they? No—only about fifteen for Guinevere.’
If the time regression incidents hadn’t kept occurring consecutively, Siod would have remained asleep. He’d once assumed that when he woke centuries later, Guinevere would long have turned to dust.
Yet here he was, meeting her again so soon.
‘Is this fate?’
He chuckled at the absurd thought. Still, thanks to this shallow connection, Guinevere would keep her life—she ought to be grateful to him.
Other dragons wouldn’t have bothered verifying anything; they’d have killed Guinevere outright.
‘Even if I explained she owes her life to me, she probably wouldn’t thank me…’
It didn’t matter. He wouldn’t mention it anyway. After secretly dealing with Guinevere’s child…
‘Will she cry?’
He’d never seen her cry before. His steps halted. Siod hesitated briefly.
‘Do I really have to kill them?’
There might be a better way than killing. He’d impulsively volunteered to save Guinevere, but the more he thought about it, the less simple it seemed.
He resumed walking, this time with heavier steps. After much deliberation, a good idea struck him.
‘Ah, right. I’ll just have that kid swear a mage’s oath.’
As long as the culprit never uses time regression magic again, that’ll be enough. Then the egg will hatch, and the dragons can return to their usual ways—ignoring the human world and sleeping undisturbed.
Siod walked cheerfully toward the direction where magic was faintly sensed. In the mood to explore the human world after so long, his spirits lifted again.
*
There were still eleven years until Larisa reached adulthood, so the two decided to prepare for their immediate tasks.
Larisa would get ready to attend elementary school, and William would prepare for enrollment into the Knight Academy’s Department of Knighthood.
Though he’d only recently chosen knighthood as his major, William wasn’t worried at all.
He’d been born with naturally exceptional physical abilities. Especially his reflexes—he’d never trained before, yet during his first sparring session, while launching attacks proved difficult, dodging came easily.
“At this rate, you’ll pass the entrance exam without trouble.”
The retired knight, whom Hedel had hired as William’s swordsmanship instructor, chuckled good-naturedly. Larisa asked,
“Grandpa, is William doing well?”
“Of course! He’s truly excellent.”
“Are you praising William just because he’s Master Rodante?”
“Hahahaha! Well, I won’t deny that thought crosses my mind, but even without it, you’re clearly past the passing standard. You dodge like a nimble little mouse!”
“A mouse?”
William, caught mid-hop, was promptly smacked behind the knees by the instructor’s wooden sword. He nearly toppled forward and snapped,
“Hey! Why’d you hit me!”
“It’s a test! A test! You must also dodge surprise attacks like this! Hahaha!”
William’s sparring session with the swordmaster lasted the entire day. William barely attacked, spending almost all his time dodging—but he never landed a single successful strike.
Still, from the old knight’s perspective, William was infuriatingly annoying. He’d been a knight his whole life, training relentlessly with his sword. At first, he’d scoffed at the notion of someone who’d never held a sword suddenly aiming for knighthood—but later…
‘Even this? He dodges even this?’
He was astounded. Moreover, whenever William committed to attacking, his strikes were impressively powerful despite his inexperience. The most aggravating part? As time passed, the boy remained energetic while the old knight himself grew exhausted.
‘The world will be turned upside down.’
He couldn’t fathom how the bloodline of a great sorceress showed no talent for magic yet possessed such outstanding physical prowess… But indeed, the world never ceased to surprise those who lived long enough.
In the end, the old knight declared there was nothing left to teach and departed after just one day.
“William, what will you do for the rest of your time?”
Originally, it was time for alchemy studies. But judging by her expression, Larisa clearly wanted something else.
“I have no plans. Why?”
“Then… could you help me learn letters?”
“What? You don’t know how to read?”
“…”
William regretted his careless remark instantly. Of course a street kid wouldn’t know how to read.
“Then how did you read picture books until now?”
“There were pictures.”
“Hmm… alright, I’ll teach you to read. Ugh, why did Mother bring you here if she won’t even take care of you?”
“Mother said I need to get nice and plump first before learning anything.”
“Well… that’s fair enough.”
Larisa, skinny as she was, looked rather cute with her big, round eyes—but she’d probably be even cuter once she gained some weight.
“For now… let’s study using picture books. Starting tomorrow, you pick a book for this time.”
Lately, the two naturally coordinated all their daily schedules together.
They had breakfast together, took a morning walk, had lunch, Larisa watched William study, they had tea time, took an afternoon walk, ate dinner, and then parted ways.
Now, William’s study time had become Larisa’s literacy hour.
“But William, why don’t you come to my room anymore?”
“You know the way around now.”
“Yeah, but you won’t even visit for fun? I always go to your room…”
William frowned slightly.
“Lara. A gentleman shouldn’t casually wander in and out of a lady’s room.”
“But I’m not a lady—I’m just a kid!”
“Hmm. Anyway, that’s how it is. And besides, this isn’t even my room—it’s the sitting room.”
“What?”
Only then did Larisa look around and realize there was no bed.
“So I’m the only one who doesn’t know where your room is?”
Larisa looked genuinely shocked. William scratched his cheek, flustered.
“Well… is that so?”
“What should I do if I have a scary dream while sleeping?”
William covered his face with both hands. Just imagining Larisa shivering from a nightmare and running to his room made his heart melt.
But he fiercely suppressed the urge. He couldn’t become a pervert. Calmly, he explained,
“In that case, just pull the bell-rope in your room, and a maid will come.”
“But… the maids have to work in the morning. I’d feel bad waking them.”
“That’s true. Then I guess there’s no helping it.”
William replied absentmindedly, then inwardly screamed.
‘No helping it? You idiot!’
William thought to himself: All this madness was his mother’s doing. She’d declared she’d marry him off to this girl… told him to have children. So it was his mother’s responsibility to fix this.
“In that case, go find Mother in her laboratory.”
“Mother?”
“She never sleeps in her bedroom—she always stays in her lab, so you’ll always find her there.”
“But it’s kind of scary…”
“Think about it, Lara. There’s nothing in this world scarier than Mother. So nowhere is safer than right beside her.”
It was an unassailable logic.
“Oh… you’re right!”
Larisa was convinced.
Thus, that very night, Larisa went to find Guinevere in her laboratory.
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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