Meanwhile, Meiana lay on the bed with the sheet flipped over to the top of her head.
Although she vividly pictured Arianthe’s pitiful face as she knocked on the door with a distressed expression from outside, Meiana couldn’t bring herself to get up. It wasn’t just because her whole body felt sore, but more so because she couldn’t figure out how to face Arianthe.
As the knocking sound faded, Meiana finally flipped the sheet and opened her eyes. Then she closed them tightly again, opened them once more, repeating the motion. Even though she knew it wouldn’t change anything.
‘I must be insane.’
No. Meiana thought. What happened last night wasn’t something she went through alone. Both Cederoi and Meiana had lost their minds. So…
‘How could I have done such a thing? What was I saying, boasting about it!’
Like Arianthe throwing a tantrum, Meiana, who had been rolling her legs vigorously over the mattress, grabbed her waist tightly as it twitched in pain. A groan escaped her involuntarily.
Her lower body seemed to have lost all sensation, still immature, and her shoulders, arms, and legs. There was no part that could move smoothly.
[Stay still for a moment.]Just before collapsing, when the pre-dawn darkness deepened, Cederoi brought a cloth soaked in warm water and personally wiped Meiana’s body. Even when Meiana tried to push him away when she regained consciousness, he was obstinate.
With a few shoulder pushes – barely a show of strength due to her depleted energy – her whole body felt drained. After sighing at the sensation of the soft cloth brushing against her skin, she fell into a deep sleep as if she had fainted.
When she opened her eyes again, Vainti was calling her from outside.
Meiana, who had gotten up abruptly, looked down at her body in thin underwear and then recalled the events of last night…
She turned over and flipped the sheet. Not just Vainti, but she couldn’t bear to see anyone now. She didn’t want to.
[I’m sorry. I’m not feeling well. I think I caught a cold. I’ll leave when I get better since it shouldn’t spread to the Lady.]Lies flowed effortlessly. She felt shameless, but there was no choice.
“What should I do now…”
The moaning monologue escaped Meiana’s lips as she lay down. It wasn’t just about her, but also about Cederoi and Walterminster. A severe mistake, enough to not easily dismiss as a momentary lapse.
If it had only ended with a kiss or if, in their oblivious state, it had ended with just once, there might have been room for excuses.
Thinking about it, both Cederoi and she were not at that age, right? If sparks fly, and due to that heat and light, eyes and minds stop for a moment, maybe they wouldn’t have thought about the next step.
But last night wasn’t like that.
‘Really, it wasn’t.’
A deep sigh shook the narrow room.
Arianthe, with cute ribbons on both sides of her head, sat in front of the desk, her face swollen. Ashe and even Swan, who was solving the problems he gave her, kept glancing at Arianthe with a curious expression.
The child, who had shrugged her small shoulders, let out a sigh as if the ground was giving way. Already the eighth time. Ashe, who had been mentally counting the number of times Arianthe sighed, closed the book he was holding with a sound.
“Arianthe.”
Arianthe moved her blue eyes like spinning marbles, glanced at Ashe, and sighed again.
“Yes, Ashe.”
“It seems like you’re not in the mood for studying English today, right?”
Fearful of the words about to be spoken, Arianthe tilted her small head over the desk and ended up lying down, completely facing the surface. Swan, who was observing her with a sidelong glance, was inwardly shocked at Arianthe’s attitude, not to mention the appearance.
However, seemingly indifferent to Swan’s gaze, Arianthe continued to push the surface of the desk with her small index finger, sticking out her pouted lips.
“Meiana is not feeling well.”
“Meiana?”
Arianthe nodded her head sullenly. Ashe opened and closed the covered book, leaning against the window frame in front of Arianthe’s desk.
“What’s wrong with Meiana?”
“I don’t know. Vainti says she’s just not feeling well.”
“Then we should call a doctor.”
“Meiana told us not to. Strange, right? If she’s in pain, we should call a doctor. But Meiana, when I have a slight fever, she calls the doctor for me. But now she says not to call.”
Ashe looked down at Arianthe’s face, as if asking, ‘Isn’t that strange?’
Indeed, it was strange. Although Ashe didn’t know much about Meiana Doston, he knew that if it was about Arianthe, she was someone who would wake up and run out even in the middle of the night.
Still, not coming out of her room, what on earth could be happening? Ashe suspected that Meiana might not be really sick.
‘Come to think of it, Cederoi was acting a bit strange this morning too.’
He always had breakfast with Cederoi. It wasn’t intentional to synchronize their schedules; it just happened because they woke up at similar times. Using that time, Ashe thoroughly reported to Cederoi about Arianthe and Swan.
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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