“When you become proficient in handling magic, will I also be able to use power freely? Like earlier when Valentin heated the stew and pulled a dagger from a distance.”
As if reading Adele’s inner thoughts trying to gloss over the topic, he narrowed his eyes. However, he soon gave a straightforward answer.
“…There are even more advanced things. It will require practice, though.”
“Even more advanced things?”
“Summoning a flood, manipulating… and summoning lightning, for example.”
Adele had imagined herself handling such incredible power freely, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t vividly picture it.
An awkward feeling crept in as she forced herself to consider the impossible.
Pressing against the heart where the magic had lingered, she asked, “If the source of magic and vitality is the same, can’t you exert power like vitality?”
“Unpleasant, isn’t it?”
With round eyes, he looked at Adele and chuckled.
She realized that her question seemed to imply a denial from Valentin.
Adele tried to justify herself in a hurry, but Valentin shrugged his shoulders as if it was insignificant and answered nonchalantly.
“There is a way. Just break the vessel.”
Breaking the vessel. Despite being an unexpected method, Adele looked at Valentin with hesitation.
Regardless of her inner thoughts, he at least had a faint smile on his face. Like someone who hadn’t received any wounds.
She contemplated fiercely between curiosity and courtesy, then cautiously spoke.
“Um, if breaking the vessel means not containing ‘power’ at all, can the vessel be remade? Is it possible to recreate what is called a vessel?”
“Gathering souls to break, are you? You’re a frightening person, Adele…”
He pretended to be surprised as if he had heard a truly frightening story.
From his words, ‘vessel’ seemed to be a byproduct of or the soul itself. After hesitating for a long time, she cautiously asked,
“I didn’t know that the ‘vessel’ was a soul… Then, if a ‘vessel’-like soul is damaged by some power or contract, does it mean that magic cannot be used at all?”
“The soul is not fundamentally a subject of trade or contracts. Especially you, Adele.”
“Why ‘especially’ me?”
He looked at Adele with a calm gaze. Adele had a premonition that Valentin wouldn’t give a proper answer to her question.
After staring at Adele’s eyes for a while as if in a daze, he raised his finger and pointed to the center of his chest.
“The heart of a god is usually here. It’s in the middle of the chest.”
“…”
Adele breathed shallowly.
“Even if the appearance is different, the place where the heart resides is the same. It’s even more… like that in the current form. That black dagger I gave to Adele…”
“Why do you keep saying such things to me?”
Adele interrupted Valentin’s words with a slightly sharp tone.
Sometimes, he seemed to think that she might turn hostile and try to kill him at any moment.
And amusingly, it seemed like she would willingly die anytime she said so.
What sometimes frustrated Adele was that no matter what she said, Valentin felt like he didn’t believe her.
She spoke each syllable with determination.
“I don’t want to attack anyone. If you keep saying things like that, I won’t practice anything related to magic.”
“Ah.”
He widened his eyes as if he had heard a very perplexing sound. After a while, he shrugged with a light attitude.
“Of course, with Adele’s potential, you could kill me.”
“Such words…”
“To reach that level in your current state, it would take at least a thousand years of continuous practice.”
Adele’s ears turned red at his added words. Instead of mocking her pathetic skills, his words brought back cold reality, calming her heated mind.
“Having power is always a good thing, Adele. That power will always give you the upper hand.”
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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