Just because he shared a bit of his pain with Claude, enough to make him scream for a moment, bringing the pain core?
That was unimaginable.
But if he was keeping himself confined because of the pain that stretched out to his face like that devil…
‘I can help.’
If he considered this place a true home, treated him as a real family, then he could endure the pain stretching to his face to some extent.
If he only shared the pain that spread slowly like poison every night, not reaching Claude’s face too much…
Claude could be more peaceful during the day than now, and he might be able to engage in normal activities outside the bedroom.
“Lady.”
“Ah, Sir Ranslet.”
“If you could call me Ranslet, I would appreciate it.”
Ranslet, who had visited Claude early in the morning, approached Yuan after finishing his business.
Yuan remembered the day when Ranslet had been scolded by him the last time Claude returned after being shot and smiled a little arrogantly.
“I should express my gratitude first, madam.”
Fortunately, Ranslet broke the ice first.
“Claude seems to be much brighter.”
…Really?
Yuan suppressed the words that were about to come out for a moment and pricked up his ears.
Ranslet, who had swept back his neatly arranged caramel-colored hair, glanced at Yuan as if to show him a glimpse, then lowered his voice.
“It’s all thanks to the lady.”
“What did I…”
“Since the lady came to this mansion, Claude’s complexion has improved a lot. He talks more. He used to be a guy who didn’t even bother to speak. He used to just nod or shake his head. As you may know.”
Ranslet smoothly continued speaking like a fish in water, and eventually, he sighed with relief.
“He’s a guy who talks nonsense, but what can I do? I, as his only friend, have to endure. Of course, a sick person is sensitive, and I understand that. Thanks to the lady who came in and brightened the atmosphere of the house, I could breathe a sigh of relief. Even though the young ladies are lining up to find me in the capital, I was wasting my youth by coming here every time and being a companion to this guy.
“Ah.”
The reason she understood Claude’s pain was that she could feel that pain.
At first, he willingly did that work to somehow get into his heart and stay in this house, and also because he wanted to confirm Louis’s death.
In the end, if there was guilt in him, he also wanted to ask about the responsibility for Louis’s death.
Now she was in the position of a sinner, though.
Pierced by conscience, Yuan just nodded his head.
“He says not to wait because Claude won’t come out.”
Well, that’s right.
That must be a refined expression. Yuan chuckled at the thought of him saying, “Don’t do useless things and tell that foolish woman not to wait for me.”
Ranslet stared at Yuan, who was not affected by such words, and then grinned, rubbing his neck, he changed the subject.
“You must be bored without a companion.”
“The servants are busy, but they’re all nice. Since the mansion is so big, if you look around one by one, you won’t realize how time flies.”
He genuinely felt that way.
Servants who were like newbies, seeking the owner for the first time. Ralph, the head chef, who started cooking experiments with a face that seemed to have been recalled just because it was delicious. The butler, Gustav, who seemed to like going in and out of the village often, pretending to be indifferent but had a bright face. Young maids who chased after her whenever there was a chance. Even the old caretaker Gustaf, who had become quite polite. Recently, the faces of the servants, whose work clothes had all been changed, came to mind, pretending not to care but shining brightly.
A faint smile appeared on Yuan’s lips.
“The mansion is large, but there are few servants, so everyone is suffering too much. I want to help with something. The butler jumps up at anything I try to do, and even the maids, if I lift a finger, open their eyes wide and rush at me with axes, so I don’t know who is the servant and who is the employer.”
“Haha.”
Yuan replied with a slightly excited voice.
“The reason I’m out here is partly to wait for the lady and go for a walk, but also because I consider maintaining the garden as a hobby, and he doesn’t say anything about it, so I come out like this every day.”
Ranslet nodded as if he understood, smiled, and then glanced playfully at Yuan’s upper side, or the second-floor window.
The corners of his lips, which had been twitching to suppress the laughter that was about to burst, provocatively extended.
So the guy who used to make a fuss every time I opened the curtain, telling me to get some sunlight, was always standing by the window, just looking outside.
“But it might be better if the lady comes out. If you don’t walk steadily because your thigh is completely pierced, you’ll limp for quite a while.”
An mischievous thought crossed Ranslet’s face as he looked up at the second floor with his fist clenched.
“Have you been to the western annex?”
“The western annex?”
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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