As both locked eyes, a strong night breeze blew from beyond the large window, ruthlessly extinguishing the candlelight.
Instead, a bluish light replaced it.
Drawn to the beautiful blue light, both were unconsciously approaching the window.
“Well…”
“Chloe.”
When the shadow of her companion became relatively clear, both voices simultaneously broke the silence. Oddly, they were well-matched.
“You go ahead.”
The considerate words left her companion inexplicably tight-lipped.
Step. His stride preceded his words, the shortened distance encouraged the confirmation of his lips.
‘You…?’
Kun silently mouthed the two words.
Confused, Chloe examined him.
Soon after, Kun took another step closer. It was an impatient move.
“You. You. You.”
“…”
“What’s with that indifferent form of address? Did you forget my name, Chloe?”
Challenged by a pointed remark, Chloe sighed deeply.
Despite knowing the implicit relationship, strangely, she couldn’t boldly utter the name of the Emperor.
“Since you’ve been to the Imperial Palace, has it become difficult to call my name? Because it’s the same as the Emperor’s?”
“Well…”
Recognizing Chloe’s awkwardness, what on earth made him so assertive?
Suddenly confessing the truth, with no follow-up story. Are we back to playing friends because of Chloe’s single letter?
“Tell me, Chloe.”
“…”
“What is my name?”
His voice, once affectionate, now sank low. It seemed even the nature of Kun couldn’t conceal the core issue.
Chloe slightly pushed away her close-up companion and answered.
“It’s Kun. I know.”
Relieved, the man returned to his gentle demeanor. Immediately after, he cautiously asked,
“Is everything alright today, Chloe?”
Kun the friend, not the Emperor, likely didn’t know the finer details about Chloe.
Was his first inquiry into Chloe’s well-being meant to avoid repeating the tale between the Duke and Chloe?
Tired of retelling that tedious story, she replied with a grateful heart.
“Are you worried? I’m fine. Just to give you a hint, the Duke has been waiting to introduce her.”
Grinning lightly as if to validate her state, Chloe concluded her words.
“It’s fortunate the Duke is foolish. I was concerned he might be cautious, but to flaunt her in front of everyone like a trophy.”
The matter had waned among the nobility, but it was clearly not forgotten. They, who loved to gossip, would naturally associate the Duke’s involvement with the government to that affair.
In such a case, public opinion among the nobles would naturally sympathize with Chloe.
Even if she were to proceed with divorce with the Emperor’s approval, it wouldn’t be possible to stop the chatter. The divorce of Chloe, who is both a noble and royal, would inevitably create a major stir.
If blame couldn’t be avoided, she had to receive as little as possible.
Stealing bread and stealing out of desperate circumstances are different, after all.
“Fortunately. Then, what will you do going forward?”
“I’m considering divorce. Luckily, I’ve found a cooperative ally.”
Kun, who always acted calmly, couldn’t help but laugh at the jest.
“You seem to have met a good person. Then, what will you do after the divorce?”
“That is…”
She couldn’t answer right away.
In fact, Chloe had agonized over it several times alone, but no alternatives came to mind, so she had put it off.
That recklessness now became clearly apparent.
“I didn’t want to remind you, but as you know, divorce is not socially acceptable. I was concerned for your well-being.”
If she were to divorce with the help of the Emperor, she could escape from her stifling life, but conversely, she would suffer considerable damage.
The royal family would not take back their disgraced daughter. There would be no family willing to take in someone who had been branded, making it realistically difficult to find a suitable job.
The only feasible option might be to use the money she had saved and go down to a rural estate.
“If the situation is not favorable, how about utilizing that cooperative ally again?”
At his peculiar question, Chloe cautiously inquired back.
“Utilizing how?”
“Say, to fill the empty space.”
Kun promptly answered, as if he had been waiting for her counter-question.
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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