William finally woke up from the long nightmare. Reflexively raising both hands to check, he saw the hands of a 14-year-old boy, recently developed blisters from training with the sword.
His heart was pounding like crazy. William took a deep breath and threw off the blanket.
Once the curfew time passed, the academy dormitory doors were locked, and he couldn’t go outside. So he quietly went into the bathroom.
Closing the bathroom door and sitting down, William raised his trembling hands. Just before pressing the chrono button on his wristwatch, William took another deep breath.
Click.
As he pressed the button, the wristwatch began to glow faintly. While watches used by Genevra or Hedel could infuse magic to summon any stored contacts, William’s watch was set up to only connect with Genevra.
No matter how much of his mother she might be, contacting her at this early hour would be impolite. Thinking so and about to give up, a voice reached him.
[William?]“…”
[Did you have another dream?]William let out a sigh. Whether she sensed his embarrassed feelings or not, Genevra also remained silent. After a while, she asked.
[Shall I go as Mom?]Oh, Mother.
William covered his mouth with one hand. Inevitably, tears burst out. At that moment, with a shimmer of light, Genevra appeared.
“Why are you like this?”
“…I’m sorry.”
“For what?”
“I…”
William couldn’t bring himself to speak.
“You haven’t done anything wrong.”
Genevra sat beside her crying son, pulling him close with one arm. She awkwardly rested William’s head on her shoulder and spoke with a choked voice.
“You, you haven’t done anything wrong.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t apologize.”
“I’m sorry, I just…”
“I said stop.”
Genevra bit her lip in anxiety. She wanted to ask what kind of dream he had, but at the same time, she didn’t want to know.
She cradled William’s head like a baby, repeating words like an incantation.
“It’s all my fault. William, you haven’t done anything wrong. It’s all my fault.”
“I turned back time…”
“It’s okay. It’s okay, William. Everything will be okay.”
“Not in front of Mother.”
“It’s okay!”
As she shouted, they heard a noise outside the door. William’s roommate seemed to have awakened. Genevra, with no other choice, took William and teleported away.
When they arrived at the laboratory, William’s complexion was pale. There, Larrisa’s body was present. Genevra, realizing that William recalled that memory, grabbed his wrist and led him out of the room.
I don’t know what to do in a situation like this. However, as they walked without much thought, both of them began to calm their minds.
“Mother, I’m okay now.”
In one of the corridors, William stopped walking. Genevra turned slowly to face him and said, “What should we do now?”
“Larissa will be fine too, right?”
“Yeah. I’ll do whatever it takes to protect you.”
“Wouldn’t it be better to adopt Larissa?”
“What are you talking about?”
Genevra furrowed her brow.
“Since we started dating, you said Larissa became endangered. Now that I think about it, I understand. Even after it was announced that Larissa had died, there was no woman approaching me. That’s not because I became a cripple but because… from the beginning, Duke Rodante didn’t want the Duke’s family to prosper.”
“Who?”
“Who else would it be?”
“Are you suggesting suspicion of the royal family?”
“Well, I don’t know. The royal family continuously wanted to solidify ties with Rodante, so it might not be them. But nobles are different, aren’t they?”
“The reason for Larissa’s murder is political?”
“It could be, or it could not be. As your mother said, the royal family could be the culprit. But whatever the reason…”
William splashed his face with water.
“If I don’t love Larissa, the problem would be solved.”
To protect Larissa, that was why William couldn’t love Larissa.
Genevra left William in the dormitory and returned to the laboratory with teleportation. She almost lost her temper at how he blabbered with such a complicated story on his face.
“Crazy guy, already having the face of a man in love…”
Genevra infused magic into her wristwatch and summoned Siod through it. Siod remained silent for a while. In the meantime, there was no doubt that he was calmly dozing off.
“Answer immediately. If not…”
As Genevra was about to swallow her curse, a locked voice echoed.
[What’s going on?]“Stop teaching profanity.”
[Why all of a sudden?]“For now, just stop. It seems like the kid recalled the past where he rewound time.”
[What?]“Just stop it for now!”
Siod appeared through teleportation.
“You had another dream?”
“Yeah.”
Seeing Siod in person, emotions overwhelmed her. Amidst a torrent of indescribable emotions, whether anger, rage, or sorrow, Genevra slapped Siod’s chest.
“There’s not a single useful thing you can do!”
“Wait a moment, Vera. Calm down…”
“How can I calm down!”
Siod hugged Genevra. She readily nestled in and burst into tears.
“It’s okay. William can handle it. He’s our son.”
“I can’t. I can’t… I don’t want to see that child in despair again.”
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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