“Lily.”
Herald smiled as radiantly as the flowers in full bloom and placed a pink rose bouquet in Lily’s arms. Her slightly widened green eyes swept over the bouquet and moved to his face.
“……”
At that moment, Lily’s expression clouded. It was an expression that was neither happy nor angry. An expression so sad it seemed she would burst into tears at any moment. Bothered by the sight, Herald slightly frowned. It couldn’t be because of the bouquet. It must be because of what happened during the day.
Where did he see that she was okay? Herald swallowed his irritation towards Dillon inwardly, but outwardly asked with concern as if he knew nothing.
“Did something happen?”
Lily smiled faintly on her face that seemed to be tinged with the dawn’s twilight and shook her head.
“No. Nothing happened.”
“Who would believe that nothing happened with that expression.”
At Herald’s point, Lily made an embarrassed expression and looked down for a long time.
“It’s just… I’m a bit perplexed after finding out something I didn’t know.”
“Something you didn’t know?”
Even if she clearly told him which part was bothering her, it seemed she had no intention of doing so at all. Lily only smiled silently.
“Did Kennedy Stacy say something strange?”
Unable to pretend not to know any longer, Herald asked point-blank. It must have hit the mark, as her drooping shoulders flinched. As Lily completely turned her head as if to run away, Herald grabbed her shoulders.
“What did that woman say to you?”
“…I’m sorry.”
When an answer completely unrelated to the question came back, Herald raised an eyebrow. The green eyes looking at him again were wet as if they had been rained on. As if trying to hold back bursting tears, Lily bit her lower lip hard and continued.
“Because of me… You were publicly humiliated.”
At those words, Herald, who immediately realized what she was upset about, had his eyes sink coldly.
“I had no idea the scandal would spread throughout the empire… I’m sorry for living comfortably by myself without knowing that.”
At the self-reproach filled with tears, Herald could no longer hide his emotions and let out a deep sigh. He was very annoyed that the fact he had tried to hide by even falsely declaring he would marry Princess Herta had been exposed.
It was natural for his anger towards Dillon to surge. If he hadn’t done unnecessary things, this wouldn’t have happened.
“It’s alright. As I said before, such scandals can’t deal any blow to me, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
If that’s the case, it would be fortunate, but why did his heart ache so much. Struggling with an incomprehensible pain, Lily, who was looking down at the pink roses flaunting their beautiful appearance even at this moment, slowly parted her lips.
“It… won’t be a problem for your marriage to the princess, right?”
“……”
He thought it wouldn’t happen, but as expected, she found out about that rumor too. Herald clicked his tongue shortly. Unless he completely cut her off from the world, it was a fact she would find out someday. It was a bit disconcerting that the timing was earlier than expected, but it wasn’t very surprising.
“Would you like me to marry the princess?”
When he asked out of curiosity at the same time, Lily hugged the rose bouquet tightly. Because of that, the flowers were slightly crumpled and petals fell. The moment the petals fluttering like they were dancing touched her instep, a faint and small voice flowed out.
“…Yes.”
The voice was so small it couldn’t be heard unless one pricked up their ears, but the gaze looking at him was resolute. The gaze full of sincerity clawed at his heart fiercely.
“I hope you can definitely marry the princess.”
Unable to wipe the blood flowing out one after another from the successive attacks, Herald laughed emptily. The hand holding her shoulders loosened and drooped down.
“To fulfill your wish, I’ll have to beat the second prince and be chosen by Princess Herta.”
At that moment, Lily’s eyes shook greatly, but fortunately or unfortunately, Herald didn’t see it.
“The princess… will surely choose you, Count.”
Lily calmly said after immediately regaining her composure. Count, not you. At the title trying to keep distance, Herald clenched his fists. After taking a deep breath to swallow the surging irritation for a moment, he asked.
“How can you be so sure of that?”
“Well… because you are an excellent person, Count.”
“Just for that reason?”
When Herald asked back as if he couldn’t be convinced with such an excuse, Lily added a little more stutteringly.
“C-Count, you are taller and more handsome than His Highness the second prince, and also… you have a good personality.”
My personality is good. Herald laughed silently at the words that would make Dillon faint if he heard them. He himself had never once thought his personality was good either.
“You are also very considerate and warm-hearted, so any woman would like you, Count.”
“What about you?”
At the returned question, Lily looked at him in a daze. Herald, whose mood had been lifted by the favorable compliments unlike the title that drew the line, asked again with a smile.
“Do you like me too?”
“……”
Lily, who belatedly grasped the intention of the question, closed her eyes tightly while hesitating.
“…Of course.”
After a very brief silence, Lily opened her eyes again and a faint smile spread on her lips.
“Because you are a good person, Count.”
At the answer that cleanly drew the line that she liked him not as the opposite sex but as a person, the smile completely disappeared from Herald’s face.
“So the princess will surely choose you, Count.”
“That’s your answer.”
The voice was also devoid of laughter, bland to the point of being cold. Herald nodded briefly as if he understood her feelings, then left the bedroom without even a simple greeting like he would be going now or sleep well.
Herald, who went straight to Dillon’s bedroom, stood at the doorstep without crossing the threshold and glared at Dillon, who was standing still, stopping in the middle of changing clothes. Sensing something was wrong as soon as he saw Herald’s coldly hardened expression, Dillon asked carefully.
“Did… something happen to your wife?”
“No. Something happened to me.”
“To you, Commander?”
When Dillon asked with even more surprise, the corners of Herald’s mouth slanted. He thought it might be the case, but as expected, Dillon knew nothing. Well, if he had known, he wouldn’t have been able to tell Herald about it so confidently.
Herald also understood why Dillon had made such a request to Lily. It must be because he wanted to resolve the issue and return to Cardin as soon as possible. Herald couldn’t say anything about that part because it was he himself who had urged that feeling.
“Dillon.”
“Yes, Commander.”
“I don’t like that you are too loyal.”
Feeling a bit spiteful, he attacked Dillon even though he couldn’t just let it slide.
“Pardon? All of a sudden?”
Dillon, who was attacked without knowing the reason, looked puzzled and sent a gaze as if demanding an explanation, but Herald played a trick on him by not saying anything until the end.
[This is the timeline separator]“……”
Even after Herald left, Lily stood there like a statue, staring blankly into the air with a completely blank expression.
Was it the right thing to do?
At the sudden question, Lily immediately came up with an answer.
It was the right thing to do. If I didn’t do this, that man would have foolishly clung to me despite the good opportunity in front of him.
Lily closed her eyes tightly and recalled her state of mind when she heard the whole story from Kennedy Stacy.
Don’t hold him back by giving him false hope. Let’s wholeheartedly support him so that he can work out well with the princess of the Herta Kingdom, she had resolved, and thanks to that, she was able to talk to Dillon as if nothing had happened.
Although the moment she saw Herald smiling more radiantly than flowers and handing her a bouquet, her resolution faltered.
She was flustered for a moment when he asked as if he already knew everything that had happened, but she quickly pulled herself together and responded calmly.
That’s right. You did really well, Lily. You did your best.
As you can see, the results are splendid too.
Knock knock-
“Excuse me, Madam.”
“Come in.”
Lily greeted Emily as vigorously as if she had never been discouraged. She nonchalantly showed off the bouquet Herald had given her and sat down in front of the dressing table with a smile.
“Oh, what is this paper?”
However, when Emily discovered the crumpled paper Lily had folded and put away while opening the drawer of the dressing table to take out the perfume oil to apply to her hair, Lily ended up bursting into tears.
“M-Madam?”
Emily offered a handkerchief in bewilderment, but Lily didn’t accept it and covered her face with both hands.
Now it’s really over. My relationship with that man… has ended.
It was what she wished for, and it was naturally what should happen. The reason she didn’t accept Herald’s confessions even though he confessed several times was also because of that.
Things have gone the way she wanted, so she should be happy, but the reason her heart felt like it was being torn apart was probably because she liked him.
As the moments she had with Herald, the moments he treated her so well that it made her heart ache, came to her mind like a panorama, the teardrops grew even thicker.
As Lily sobbed, her shoulders shaking, Emily panicked, not knowing what to do, and soon went out.
After a while, Emily returned with the doctor. The butler was with them as well.
“Are you alright, Madam?”
Lily wiped the tears welling up in her eyes and nodded at the butler’s question.
“But just in case, you should get examined by the doctor…”
“I’m really fine. I’m not hurting anywhere, so I don’t need an examination.”
The butler tried to persuade her a few more times, but Lily refused to the end, saying she would not be examined.
After the doctor and the butler withdrew, and even Emily left, Lily, who was alone again, looked down at the small paper that had stimulated her tear glands. Written there were her true feelings that she couldn’t tell anyone.
She wrote it in Garta because someone might see it if she wrote it in Imperial, and it was an excellent choice. In fact, Herald had actually seen this paper.
“Thank goodness…”
Lily muttered as if chanting a spell, then crumpled the paper again and shoved it deep into the bag she had brought.
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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