In situations like this, what on earth should one say in response? Maiana, rolling the roughly trimmed lace into a coil and placing it in her palm as if hiding it, searched for words, moving her eyes for a while.
Her gaze goes, and she cares. Even when lying down, his face comes to mind… Just with that, it seemed like she had already fulfilled the criteria to say ‘I like him.’ However, the problem was that the person in question was Ash Lauren.
When Ibi asked her, ‘How does Ash appear as a man?’ It was probably not expecting a slightly positive… Let’s say, a hopeful answer. If Ibi had mentioned someone else, Maiana would have tried to tell a good story, even if it was just someone working in the same mansion. Even if she didn’t know who that person was… she could at least say something like, ‘It’s important to gradually get to know them.’
But Ash Lauren!
As Maiana remained silent for a long time, Ibi, who was somewhat out of breath, said this.
“Should I not look up to him after all?”
“What? No, no! Ibi, that’s not what I mean. It’s not that I couldn’t speak because of that, but well…”
However, Ibi didn’t listen to Maiana’s words.
“I know too. She asks us to call her ‘Miss Lauren,’ but she might be a great noble. If you go to the capital or somewhere, they might call her ‘Viscountess’ or even ‘Your Excellency.’ She seems like that kind of person. The atmosphere is like that. So, for someone like me, a mere servant… Besides, I’m just a country bumpkin, you know? I can barely write my name. So, I know that even thinking like this is impolite.”
Ibi’s words were so monotonous and matter-of-fact that Maiana felt a sudden tightness in her chest.
Now that her relationship with Cedrois had entered a new phase, Ibi was straightforwardly touching on the realistic aspects that Maiana least wanted to think about. The things she knew but didn’t want to know, the things she kept trying to push away…
Suddenly, Maiana wondered what Cedrois might be thinking. He had told Maiana many times about his sincere desire to make her the wife of a duke. He had conveyed it through words, gestures, and skin, and Maiana could undoubtedly see that his words were not lies.
But when she moved away from Cedrois and woke up in her small, cozy room, looking at the apron hanging on the wall, she felt like the desire to believe in him was seeping away somewhere.
“Well, Ibi… it’s a difficult topic for me to talk about. But in matters of liking… there’s no need to build such fences. It’s not necessary for people to like each other only if their statuses match.”
“But if the statuses are too different, they won’t even appear as the same people, especially in the eyes of nobles. Even if I like that person no matter what, it will be an impossible story unless that person sees me as an equal.”
The term ‘same person’ suddenly pricked Maiana’s heart. And it wasn’t a wrong statement. This place was a different world from the one she was familiar with and loved.
Although the love or union between people with class differences was not legally prohibited, it was not recommended either. Nobles who married commoners or peasants lost their honor.
In severe cases, they were even erased from the family’s genealogy. On the contrary, when a non-noble fell in love and wanted to marry a noble, they were often the first to be retaliated against.
Because nobles had countless lower-class people to dirty their hands for them.
If Cedrois really wanted to make her his duchess, what would happen? Since he was the sole heir of the duke’s family, there would probably be no one to remove him from the family register.
However, his honor would undoubtedly fall to the ground. Consequently, it was evident that Arianthe, also known as Cedrois’s daughter, would hear murmurs from various places.
Moreover, becoming the Duchess meant she couldn’t confine herself only to the mansion. There were too many responsibilities she had to take on as the mistress.
Imagining herself wearing a dress expensive enough to turn heads, opening the salon, or hosting tea parties made her breathless.
Seeing Maiana’s serious expression, Ibi, as if feeling sorry, spoke.
“I’m sorry; it seems I said something unnecessary. Making Maiana worry like this. It’s just that when I can’t sew as I want, various thoughts come to mind. If only I had such skills… well, I thought it might give me some confidence.”
Maiana quickly shook her head.
“No, Ibi. You don’t have to feel sorry for me. Sewing is something I can teach whenever I have time… with practice, you’ll definitely improve. And, um… I can’t give you an accurate answer about how Ash Lauren is as a person, but personally, I hope you don’t give up. At least, because of your status as a servant… don’t prematurely assume it won’t match with him. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
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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