In the swaying carriage, Jocelyn was immersed in a heavy and weary sleep.
In the confusing dream, she saw the appearance of the late duke several times. His back, his face. She shouted his name. It was a name she had never called when he was alive.
However, when he turned around, the face of the late duke changed into Cediloy. And he became Verbo, and then the rapidly grown Arianthe followed.
The child was walking slowly and confidently towards a high position, as if this was rightfully her place. The turned back resembled the late duke. The elegance befitting a member of the Valtminster Ducal family radiated from Arianthe’s entire body.
“No! It can’t be! I can’t accept it, absolutely not!”
Jocelyn tried to grab Arianthe desperately, but she couldn’t. When she turned her head, hands, as if emerging from a muddy swamp, clung to her slender legs.
“Aaah…!”
Jocelyn’s body, screaming, toppled backward.
And a single point of unrelenting darkness covered her sight.
“Ugh…!”
Groaning as if being crushed by rocks, Jocelyn woke up and looked around with bloodshot eyes. Forgetting that she was on a carriage, she was bewildered by the rapidly passing scenery outside the window. She regained her breath, clutching her chest tightly. It was a gruesome dream.
Something caught on her trembling legs. As she lowered her gaze, she saw a basket. When she opened the lid, she saw food that had almost gone bad as she hadn’t touched it for several days. Some items were already spoiled, emitting a sour smell.
Jocelyn closed the lid with an annoyed expression and pushed the basket away.
During the journey to the capital and back to the ducal residence, she had not ingested anything beyond a few sips of water. It was not only due to lack of appetite but rather a deliberate self-deprivation to appear weakened and appeal to Cediloy.
During that time, she had many nightmares. It wasn’t just dreams she had during the journey to and from the capital. Sometime, her entire life itself had become a blurry nightmare. Since when was that? Since the night with the late duke, when she found out she was pregnant with the child of unclean lineage, unable to suppress boiling desires?
Since the time she had to witness the tainted child proudly growing up as a member of the ducal family? Or was it from the moment that lowly common woman entered the ducal residence? When she saw that woman giving birth to a daughter as wretched as herself?
No… Jocelyn thought. No. None of it. It was all a nightmare, but it was a long time ago. She had successfully driven away woodpeckers that nibbled at the tree. There were some difficulties, but she hadn’t let any pests escape her.
‘Except for that woman…’
Jocelyn, thinking of Maiana’s face, sharpened her knife with a creepy sound. Yes, since then. Her life had gradually started to darken like a nightmare, all from the time Maiana arrived.
Performing tricks like a witch, captivating the duke, treating the half-blood as if she were a princess—those things made it impossible to grasp the main topic.
Once she returns, she will handle that first. Jocelyn lifted her head stiffly with glaring eyes. All the problems in the ducal household were because of Maiana Dossun, that woman. What she and everyone in the Stafford household had built up until now had been ruined in an instant!
“Wait a moment.”
Jocelyn knocked on the glass window with a stone. Even after hearing the sound, the driver pulled the reins slowly, stopping the carriage. His insolent attitude irritated her, but that wasn’t the immediate issue.
Jocelyn looked out the window in disbelief.
Not far away, the majestic Valtminster Duke’s residence stood. Beautiful roofs and columns that had never been tainted or collapsed over the years. Everything was just as familiar to Jocelyn’s eyes, but the soldiers stationed in the garden…
The sight of them standing with vigorous flags waving was something Jocelyn had never imagined, not even in her dreams.
“What’s going on here?”
When Jocelyn spoke, the driver glanced at her with a mocking face. Without answering, Jocelyn looked outside with an expression of disbelief.
At a short distance, the dignified Valtminster Duke was visible. Soldiers in the garden were standing with fluttering flags. All of this, Jocelyn never, not even in her dreams, imagined.
“What on earth is happening?”
Jocelyn shouted in frustration.
“Do you understand, sir? Shall I start the carriage, or shall I keep it stopped like this?”
“Start it! Right now! Immediately!”
The driver cursed, pulling on the reins. Although his voice was drowned out by the sounds of the horses trotting, the vulgar sound of spitting rang in Jocelyn’s ears.
The main gate opened. As the carriage Jocelyn was in passed through the gate and headed towards the mansion through the stone path, the soldiers stood still without any movement. Jocelyn’s face turned pale as she looked at the fluttering flags.
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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