“Are you still in a lot of pain?”
“To be honest, the pain has intensified a bit more than before.”
Emperor responded to Arabella’s question with an exaggerated grimace on his face.
As soon as Arabella entered the Emperor’s chamber, she began to move busily. She helped the Emperor to sit by the bed, fetched water in a basin from the bathroom, and gently cleaned the wound on his shoulder.
She diligently crushed the herbs and carefully applied them to the torn area, making sure to gently blow on it with her breath, ‘ho, ho.’
Every time her tickling breath touched him, the Emperor’s throat would shudder, but Arabella, thinking it was due to the pain of the wound, continued to blow more diligently.
However, Arabella, fully focused on the Emperor’s injury, failed to notice that his chest area, supposedly injured during the horse ride, was perfectly fine and that his broad pectoral muscles swelled and relaxed with every touch of her hand.
Indeed, Arabella would not have noticed even if she had come out of the bathroom and seen the Emperor, shirtless, waiting by the bedhead.
She tenderly treated the Emperor’s wounds as if caring for an injured animal. The Emperor’s lips curled softly as he gazed down at her busily moving small head.
However, he had to grit his teeth to ignore the discomfort that had started from his lower abdomen. To be honest, the discomfort began when he had Arabella on the horse with him.
Only after Arabella wrapped and tied the wound with clean cotton cloth did she exhale a sigh of relief.
As her caring hands left his body, the Emperor’s brows furrowed. Without realizing, he reached out and firmly grasped Arabella’s wrist.
“Do you feel discomfort anywhere?”
When Arabella’s eyes widened in question, the Emperor weakly nodded.
“I think I might have sustained a more severe injury. There might be internal damage.”
“It doesn’t seem like a serious injury…”
“That’s why I said there might be internal damage. Injuries that aren’t visible can sometimes be more deadly.”
“Then we should call a doctor. I’ll go right away.”
Not letting go of Arabella’s hand, the Emperor shook his head hastily.
“Didn’t I say? Calling a doctor might only make things worse. Even within the palace, there are instructions to keep quiet about the Emperor’s injuries.”
Arabella had no reason to doubt the Emperor’s words. She sat down beside him again and reached out to touch his forehead.
“You seem to have a fever. Your hands and face are warm.”
That warmth was for a different reason, but the Emperor didn’t voice his thoughts, looking worriedly at Arabella as she examined his face.
“Indeed. I feel a chill despite the fever.”
“Please lie down. I’ll cover you with a blanket.”
Like a good child, the Emperor obediently lay down, and Arabella covered him with a thick blanket.
It was a warm touch he had never experienced before. Since he had never felt it, he never longed for it. After covering him up to the neck and patting him gently, Arabella’s small hand caught the Emperor’s deep gaze.
“I’ll go down and bring some warm tea.”
“Prepare the tea later. More importantly…”
The Emperor again grabbed Arabella’s hand as she stood up, speaking in the weakest voice he could muster.
“I should receive treatment before the internal injury worsens.”
“I’m sorry, but there’s nothing more I can do for you…”
Arabella looked down, regretting that she couldn’t call a doctor. Then, the Emperor’s low voice reached her ear.
“Haven’t you healed me before?”
Arabella looked up at the Emperor, not understanding his words. His red eyes captured her gaze as if waiting for this moment.
“Have you already forgotten? How you perfectly healed the beast’s wounds in the cave.”
“That was… I don’t know how the black panther, I mean, your wounds healed. When I woke up in the morning, the wound area was completely gone. It wasn’t me who healed it.”
Arabella’s eyes drooped slightly as she replied, and the Emperor shook his head.
“No, it was definitely because of you that the black panther’s wounds healed. I can tell by the animal’s instinct. That’s why I’m taking you to the palace.”
“But I didn’t do anything special.”
“Think back to what you did that night. What was the first thing?”
The Emperor emphasized his role as a patient, pressing on the bandaged shoulder. Arabella began to think hard.
“I poured the medicine my father made…”
“That pathetic fake medicine made my wound worse.”
Arabella’s cheeks flushed with remorse at the Emperor’s words, her words coming out hesitantly.
“And… I didn’t do anything special… I’m sorry. It wasn’t me who healed you. Perhaps, when you were a black panther, you had self-healing abilities?”
“No. I’ve been injured frequently before, but never healed myself. I was definitely dying that night.”
The Emperor added, narrowing his eyebrows.
“Think back to what else you did in the cave.”
Arabella tilted her head, listing what she had done.
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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