“Due to my health condition, I can’t go out much, so I was delighted when you came to visit.”
“Is your health not good?”
“I had an accident in the past.”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have asked.”
“Oh dear, it’s alright. It’s a thing of the past.”
Alicia, surprised at the mention of the accident, stared at her mother.
For some reason, her mother had been friendly with Eric from the start.
She was a kind person in general, but it was more so than usual.
“Ah, right. If you don’t mind, I’d like to introduce my son.”
“Do you have a son?”
“Didn’t I mention it while introducing him?”
When the Countess of Lancaster asked Alicia, she realized that there hadn’t been time for such a conversation.
Embarrassed, the two awkwardly laughed.
Just then, there was a knock on the door and a boy entered.
“Hello.”
A boy walked in, his body rigid with tension.
A boy in his early teens, much younger than I expected, entered, surprising me.
“Uh, hello. I’m Eric Russel Gloster.”
Feeling awkward about conversing with a boy this age, I extended my hand for a handshake.
“I’m Edward Lancaster.”
Still rigid and awkward due to the tension, he politely took Eric’s hand and shook it.
But his gaze was uncomfortably bright.
“Our Edward wants to become a knight. That’s why he wanted to meet Earl Russel.”
“Ohh.”
Only then did Eric nod and take a closer look at Edward.
Although he was a young boy with thick lines, he looked much like Alicia might have in her childhood.
“Wow, I really wanted to meet you.”
His eyes sparkled with innocent admiration and passionate respect.
“Thank you.”
Nobody had ever dared to approach me due to malicious rumors, so this was the first time anyone had expressed such feelings directly to me.
Although it was embarrassing and a little awkward, it wasn’t a bad feeling.
“So, you want to become a knight?”
“Yes!”
“So, you’ll be going to the Military Academy, right?”
“Yes!”
There were two typical ways to become a formal knight of the Empire.
One was like Eric, graduating from the Military Academy and directly being appointed as an officer, and the other was to pass the Knights’ examination and join the knight order. Among the nobility, it was common to graduate from the Military Academy.
“Do your best. If there’s anything I can help you with, let me know.”
“Really? Can we have a match?”
“A match?”
He had only intended to offer something like a letter of recommendation for admission.
But a match? That might be a problem, considering they probably won’t meet again.
But Edward’s gaze was shining so brightly that it felt cruel to reject him outright.
“Edward. That’s inappropriate.”
“Ah”
Perceiving Eric’s embarrassment, Alicia quietly admonished Edward. He then apologized, visibly disappointed.
“I’m sorry. I was too excited and behaved rudely.”
His apology was quite dignified, so Eric glanced at Alicia, gently tapped Edward’s shoulder and looked him in the eyes.
“?”
“It’s okay for once. But let’s keep it a secret from your sister.”
“Really?”
As they whispered in small voices, the two glanced at Alicia at the same time.
“?”
Wondering what the two were whispering about, Eric and Edward immediately turned their heads when they looked. Then Edward whispered something with a bright smile.
The Countess, who had been watching, called Edward with a laugh.
“Well, shall we leave so you can chat with your sister?”
“Yes.”
Edward glanced at Eric again and followed the Countess out.
Even as he followed his mother, he turned his head and smiled brightly at Eric, then finally skipped out of the room.
“What were you talking about?”
“Nothing much.”
“Huh?”
“Just something Edward wanted to hear.”
Though he spoke indifferently, I knew he had considered Edward.
“You’re so kind.”
“……”
He was flustered by a phrase he’d never heard before.
He uttered the words he had to say to get out of this strange feeling quickly.
“Hmm. Sorry for the trouble.”
“?”
“I am certain about this issue and intended to tell my parents properly, but it was not easy to seize the opportunity as my parents had such high expectations.”
He was the kind of person who would come this far to secure a place after briefly seeing her in the dressing room.
Alicia, able to anticipate the difficult situation Eric must have faced, nodded as if she understood.
“You seem to think a lot about your parents.”
“……”
What a bizarre thing to hear in one’s life. Recently, the word he heard most from his parents was ‘unfilial.’
Once again, to get rid of this strange feeling, he opened his mouth to emphasize what he had to say.
“The situation will be sorted out soon, so I would appreciate your understanding until then. I won’t create any more issues to worry about.”
“Thank you for telling me that. I was honestly perplexed.”
“I would have been.”
“Then I’ll keep that in mind.”
Alicia nodded in agreement with Eric’s polite attitude.
“You’ve been through a lot because of this.”
“Not at all. The Count had a hard time.”
“I didn’t know the matter would escalate to this extent.”
Of course, the bluster of his past self played a significant role.
“Your parents seem to want your marriage very much.”
“Sigh.”
At that remark, Eric inadvertently sighed.
“It was bewildering more than once, as they pushed ahead regardless of my opinion. This incident is no different. I even had nothing to do with the Lancaster Count’s house, but to arrange such a place. Truly, such drive is admirable…”
He shut his mouth in surprise. His face flushed with embarrassment, and he covered it with one hand.
Since getting involved with Alicia, he couldn’t understand why he was getting flustered so often.
‘She too must have suffered a lot because of her parents.’
Alicia felt a sense of solidarity with Eric’s situation, and without realizing it, she nodded in agreement.
But Alicia also had something she had to tell Eric.
Perhaps today would be the last time they would see each other, so she hesitated before opening her mouth.
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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