“No. To the wall of truth.”
Striding towards the wall, Lucas hesitated before taking a deep breath and leaning his back against the wall, crouching down.
“Now, measure it.”
Cedric marked the height of the Crown Prince on the wall as if performing a significant task. Of course, more serious than anyone was Lucas himself, who had turned around to see the result.
“…Am I not growing anymore?”
The new mark on the wall made by Cedric was in the same position as before. There were already ten marks in the same place, meaning his height had not grown in almost a year.
“Your Highness is already robust. If you grow more, we may need to change all the doors in the imperial palace.”
There was no lie in those words. Indeed, Lucas had grown to the point of becoming a completely different person with a frightening growth rate up until a year ago.
“You know who my competitor is.”
Lucas had not forgotten the humiliation of that day.
The moment when those brilliantly shining blue eyes approached him and said, ‘You are too small.’
“Now you have surpassed that person. Haven’t you become taller and more robust even than the tallest knight in the order?”
The Crown Prince, who had been taken to the battlefield immediately after the engagement ceremony and boycotted meals in anger, had suddenly decided to train himself rigorously.
At the same time, he ate everything known to be good for physique, meticulously managed his sleep, and was expected to become the strongest emperor in the imperial family’s history.
“And, Your Highness. If I may dare to speak…”
Cedric looked up at him and spoke.
“I have told you many times that it is not right to make the fiancée a competitor for training.”
Hmph, Lucas snorted and walked a few steps away. At times like this, it seemed as though only his body had grown, while his youthful temperament remained.
“You wouldn’t know what her expression was like, so it’s understandable.”
In the past, Cedric thought the young Crown Prince’s pride was hurt over a trivial fight. Of course, the duke’s daughter who had provoked the Crown Prince at the engagement ceremony was no pushover, but they were equally childish.
“Your Highness, you are already an adult and twenty years old.”
Despite Cedric’s desperate plea for him to grow up, Lucas scoffed with a haughty laugh.
“Didn’t the Emperor repeatedly wish for Your Highness to return and assist in the state affairs?”
“That’s why I said I would return to the capital.”
Despite Lucas’s answer, Cedric’s expression was gloomy. The stubbornness that he had had since childhood had not subsided at twenty but had reached its peak, and he was still stubbornly heading toward the Astel domain.
That is, in the exact opposite direction of the capital.
“Your Highness could return to the capital and call the duke’s daughter to settle this matter…”
“No, I need to finish our last contest.”
For the past six years, Cedric had been weary. The hardships of being swayed by Lucas’s stubbornness during that time were indescribable.
“Your Highness, how many times do I have to tell you? You are engaged, not competing… ”
But there was no chance that those words would reach the ears of Lucas, who had finally grown strong enough to reach the castle.
“If the duke’s daughter was so pleasing to you, you should have hurried the marriage.”
“Who said I liked such a woman?”
The sulky face and sharp eyes were the same, whether then or now.
“I just need to show that arrogant woman that I’m different now. I’ll make her apologize, no matter what.”
Serena, in reality, was too busy tending to her domain to remember Lucas’s existence, something he did not want to acknowledge.
“Yes……. Since we’ve come this far, do as you wish.”
Cedric seemed to give in, muttering in resignation. Either way, Lucas had always been imagining Serena, who had always been the standard in his heart.
“Has she grown taller, too? Like me?”
“As long as she is a young lady, it’s unlikely.”
“Soon, we will meet.”
Her dazzling platinumblonde hair and eyes bluer than jewels were still vivid in his mind. No, he had never forgotten her even for a day.
Lucas had been disciplining himself with strict and regular living only to look down on her.
At first, it was out of anger, but gradually, the building emotion was something else……. He was faintly beginning to realize the answer.
“I feel like I understand everything now. Yes…… I want to see my fiancée as soon as possible.”
Seeing Lucas smile with one corner of his mouth lifted, just as he did the day he saw her, Cedric grumbled to himself. Did it really need to take six years to realize that?
“I will send a servant to the Duke of Astel’s residence.”
“No.”
What Lucas wanted was not an ordinary reunion. If he was going to make a formal visit as the Crown Prince, it wouldn’t matter to call her to the capital.
“I want to see how she’s really doing.”
“Yes. Then, as usual in other domains, I’ll plan for you to suddenly drop in.”
“……No. That’s not enough.”
Lucas’s face was serious, making Cedric’s sarcastic words pale in comparison.
“How about we become wandering knights and request lodging at the duke’s residence?”
Lucas’s dark eyes already sparkled as if it was a fun idea. The closer they got to the Astel domain, where Serena was, the more annoying it was to Cedric that Lucas kept coming up with outlandish ideas.
“Let’s put it into action tonight.”
“Yes, Your Highness…….”
“Not ‘Your Highness,’ but ‘Sir.’ That way, we won’t be discovered, right?”
With a grin, Lucas’s heart was already pounding violently. The memory of Serena was very clear, but the thought of facing her again made his heart ripple with various shades of emotion.
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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