“It’s true. I didn’t steal it. I was holding onto it to return it to you.”
“Yeah.”
“I mean it. I took it before the other kids could steal it.”
“I know. Thanks, Jeje.”
What does she really know? William was inwardly frustrated by Larisa’s naïvely trusting response.
“Well, then I’ll be going.”
“Bye!”
Larisa cheerfully waved at Jeje, who fled without looking back.
William felt a heavy sense of responsibility.
“You don’t really believe what he said, do you?”
Larisa remained silent with a melancholic expression. William sighed.
“Phew. That’s a relief. I thought you believed everything he said…”
“I do.”
“What?”
Then Larisa smiled and said,
“I just want to believe.”
Jeje had been a neighbor for a long time. They had shared hunger and bread together. She wanted to remember him that way.
William sighed inwardly as he gazed at Larisa’s thoughtful little head.
Sometimes, a few words from this kid seemed more complex than a conversation with a renowned philosopher.
“But William! Are you okay, does it hurt a lot?”
Larisa looked worried, holding William’s bloodied hand.
“It’ll heal quickly.”
It was true. Born with the blood of the Great Witch, William’s minor wounds healed rapidly, leaving no scars.
“But it must have hurt.”
Yet, Larisa’s eyes welled up with tears. William felt a strange sensation.
He was used to people finding his actions bizarre, but this was the first time someone seemed so sympathetic.
“It’s fine. Let’s go home.”
He took Larisa’s hand and walked on. As she fidgeted with her mother’s necklace, Larisa began to slow down.
Realizing something, William looked at her face and thought,
‘Ah, she’s only seven…’
Even a resilient child would be weary after walking all day.
“Should I carry you?”
“Huh?”
“If you can’t walk, just tell me. I’ll carry you.”
“No, I can walk.”
“Don’t be stubborn. You’re sleepy, aren’t you?”
Larisa tried hard to keep her eyes open.
“I’m not sleepy at all.”
William picked her up anyway. Holding her was more effort than carrying her on his back, but it was necessary due to her stubbornness.
“William, I’m really okay…”
“Just take a nap.”
Soon, Larisa fell asleep. Hearing her steady breathing, William stopped and said,
“I know you’re there. Come out.”
William’s perception was far superior to ordinary humans. He knew Hedel had been following them.
“Come out, will you?”
“Damn, how did you know?”
“I felt it when you used the invisibility spell.”
Hedel couldn’t hide his mixed feelings. Despite his keen sense of magic and being born with great power, William couldn’t manipulate magic. William bluntly asked,
“Why did you follow me?”
“I thought you were running away.”
“What’s it to you whether I run away or not?”
“Being the only disciple of Lady Rodante, I can’t just watch her son stray, can I?”
‘Nonsense.’
William scoffed internally. Probably, Hedel was most worried about the day William became a sorcerer.
Hedel also thought little of William.
‘If I were Rodante’s son, by now…’
Shaking off his habitual thoughts, Hedel approached William.
“Give her to me. I’ll hold her.”
“No.”
Ignoring Hedel, William continued walking.
William started to walk, ignoring Hedel.
“It must be hard for you, especially since you don’t exercise much… Does she seem heavy?”
“It’s fine,” William replied curtly.
“Do you want me to teleport you?”
William stopped, turned to Hedel, who was slinking behind him, and spoke bluntly.
“Go by yourself. You seem to be barely hanging on with your magic.”
Embarrassed by his exposed limits, Hedel disappeared with an unpleasant expression. William, ensuring Hedel was completely gone, carefully adjusted Larisa in his arms.
“Geez, I need to exercise.”
He had a feeling that taking care of Larisa would mostly fall to him, as his mother wasn’t likely to do it.
In fact, William had felt a strange sense of déjà vu since he first saw Larisa. An unrecognized desire to protect her.
“Run away?”
“Yes, that’s right,” Hedel shrugged.
“If I hadn’t followed, what would have happened? You should appreciate your disciple.”
Hedel recounted the day’s events to Guinevere. Hearing this, Guinevere, pale-faced, asked,
“Why… why would he run away when Larisa is here?”
“What does that little girl matter? He seemed to have been preparing for more than a year or two.”
“That can’t be.”
Seeing Guinevere’s almost panicked face, Hedel took a step back.
“I should go check on them. They’re in the dining hall.”
Relieved after detecting both of them having dinner through a tracking spell, Guinevere sighed.
“Why didn’t you treat him better earlier?”
Hedel muttered, more to himself than a complaint. He was tired of Guinevere’s indifference toward her son and her disciple.
But this time was different.
“I see. Thank you, Hedel.”
Silence followed.
“I’ll go see the kids.”
Stunned, Hedel stood motionless as Guinevere teleported away. Thanked? Now?
Hedel wasn’t a fool. Something had changed, and it all started with Larisa, the little girl.
Suddenly, he thought about having dinner and slowly walked to the dining hall.
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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