I shouldn’t have worried, should have run in one step. By the time I reconsidered this and that, a good deal of time had already passed.
There was no other reason.
For the first six months, I was busy establishing a new foothold and adapting to it, and for the next six months, because of Callis, who considered my family an enemy.
If Chloe went to see her family, she wouldn’t have the face to see her husband.
That’s why, like being trapped in the Argen Ducal House, she put the family she wanted to see behind her.
Foolishly.
A faint aroma scent was suddenly felt on the wind. It was the fragrant oil Violet had put out for Chloe, who had suffered from insomnia since sometime.
A small teddy bear lying at the bedside was an animal friend introduced by a younger sibling.
The smell of family was thickly embedded everywhere.
Yes. This was family.
Also, this was the real home that Chloe wanted to create.
(This is a time delimiter.)
Intense sunlight piercing through the curtains.
Chloe, unconsciously scrunching her face, awoke.
When was the last time she rose with such a light heart? Starting the day felt hopeful, not despairing.
Chloe was beautifully dressed, receiving the affectionate touch of her maid.
During the dressing, the maid, throwing in current popular gossip or cute jokes, was quite adorable.
At the Ducal House, even the time of dressing had been tense and boring because of the stifling people.
Even breakfast, attended with a refreshing heart, was utterly perfect.
Thanks to the harmonious family, the festering wounds of the last few days felt as if they were healing.
After breakfast, the king invited her personally to tea time.
It was time for women. Bellion was aware of it and seemed to pay attention to tea time.
Bellion poured the tea first. Chloe followed him. The tea, said to have been brought from a foreign country, truly had a unique aroma.
“I bought it from a merchant the day before yesterday thinking you’d like it. If you like it, take some when you leave.”
“Thank you.”
What was a little touching was that her father, who extremely hated foreign things, personally bought it and even brewed the tea for Chloe.
And the jewel embedded in the teacup was Chloe’s birthstone.
“Yes. You said there’s something.”
When they had shared trivial greetings, Bellion was the first to change the subject. It was about the letter Chloe had sent earlier.
“……Yes. It’s a bit of a complicated matter.”
“What is it? Can you tell me?”
Despite the stiff face, his voice was gentle. Toward Bellion, who was supporting her, Chloe, as if enchanted, revealed the truth about the Argen Ducal House.
“The Duke has brought someone back after the hunting trip. That is……. a woman.”
Helena. The kingdom’s Cinderella and the woman Callis loved.
Her story, along with their shameless behavior in the Ducal House.
Bellion’s face, listening intently, gradually turned to anger.
“That damned child!”
The first words spit out by Bellion, who had been silently listening to the story. Betrayal was thick in his wideopen eyes.
“Such insolence to insult the royal family, my daughter. I cannot overlook this at all!”
Chloe’s heart lightened considerably thanks to her father’s anger, just like her mother’s.
It was indeed a relief. At least her family was supporting her.
“What should this father do for you, Chloe. I will help you with anything, just say it.”
Taking a deep sigh, Duke Bellion was busy comforting Chloe.
He asked while gently caressing her delicate cheek, in a tender tone that could melt even the winter snow in an instant.
‘……What I want to do.’
Divorce from him.
If Callis did not want to let me go, Chloe wanted to let go first.
I didn’t want to be used by him any longer. I didn’t want to be branded as a stupid and easy woman by people anymore.
Running away from them, and growing faster than anyone else. That was the best revenge Chloe could do.
Of course, the kingdom was hostile to divorce. In the first place, marriage was a vow to God. Breaking that promise was tantamount to treason.
‘But, with you supporting me like this…….’
However, if the king and queen permit, the divorce trial can proceed despite the opposition of the temple.
Chloe swallowed once. The fluid passing over her throat was bitter today.
“……I want a divorce.”
Many agonies.
Finally, Chloe opened her mouth.
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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