Received the Obsession of a Chaste Dark Lord (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 10
“……Lloyd?”
I thought, could it be?
Slowly, he pulled back the hood of his robe, revealing Lloyd Alois.
Seeing him, I finally remembered something I had forgotten.
Nine o’clock in the evening, he had said the stable.
It was fine—I had even decided to forget about that note after reading it.
That’s why I could stroll with Leopric so casually.
The walk would surely have continued unchanged, had nothing serious happened.
But I ran away from him.
I had completely forgotten about the note, instead dwelling endlessly on my strained relationship with Leopric and what lay ahead.
I was certain it wouldn’t matter if I didn’t show up at the rendezvous.
It wasn’t like Lloyd Alois to cling to the past.
In his past life, he hadn’t even appeared at my wedding.
Moreover, barely a week into our honeymoon, he returned to me as if nothing had changed.
So it was even more impossible for Lloyd Alois to be standing before me now.
I simply stared at him in silence, and he awkwardly smiled, brushing his disheveled hair back a few times.
“I said I’d wait for you at the stable, but you never came.”
Lloyd approached me slowly—not with his usual casual certainty, but with a cautiousness so palpable it was clear even in the darkness.
He looked ready to stop dead in his tracks if I told him not to come any closer.
I remained silent, watching him draw nearer.
“I’m sorry, Mel. I thought you’d be tired, so I came earlier—but took a longer route because the paths were deserted.”
“……You took a longer route?”
“Yes. Sorry. Are you tired? Was the carriage ride okay today?”
You always get claustrophobic after long carriage rides.
He added softly, smiling.
That light, affectionate concern made me freeze.
Everyone dislikes long carriage rides.
But most nobles pretend they’re fine—even when sharing the carriage with someone else—and assume their companion must be fine too.
In his past life, Lloyd had been one of them.
No matter how long I rode, no matter how pale I grew—he never cared.
He was the kind of man who always had others around him bearing discomfort for him, and I was just one among many.
He had never once, not even in words, asked if I was all right.
And now, after living through death and rebirth, he was asking me.
Ha. What nonsense.
In his past life, and even Leopric, had never given me even a shred of proper attention.
Leopric, I admit, I ignored him too, so I have no right to complain.
But Lloyd always threw me the attention he wanted, not the attention I desired.
He enjoyed watching me fume because it wasn’t enough.
Now, after dying and waking again, this man—who had always been so willful—is suddenly doing this.
Why? Why are things happening that never happened before?
“I came because I thought I wouldn’t catch up with you otherwise… Maybe I pushed too hard.”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t think that far.”
He looked at my face and spoke with a regretful expression.
“I wanted to tell you something. I knew it would be too late once you returned, so I wanted to say it before you got here…”
It doesn’t suit him.
Truly, it doesn’t suit him at all.
“But I was only thinking of myself again.”
That was the first thought that came to mind as I watched him lower his eyes in remorse.
Lloyd was never the type to hold onto negative emotions for so long.
The only deep, persistent negative feeling he ever carried was his inferiority and jealousy toward Leopric.
Guilt? Regret? You’d have to wash your eyes clean to find even a trace of those in him.
And now, seeing him repeatedly apologize, I was the one who couldn’t bear it anymore.
More than wondering why he came here, I only wanted to know why he had come.
I sighed and spoke.
“What’s so urgent that you came rushing here—even bribing Sir Deon?”
“I didn’t bribe him. You don’t become bribed just because you bribe someone—Sir Deon isn’t that kind of man.”
“Then…”
“I just knew his weakness, so I helped him out of necessity.”
He smiled gently, soothingly.
“But I’m not saying I did the right thing. I’m sorry for making you doubt the people around you.”
He laughed awkwardly, still murmuring “sorry.”
It felt alien to hear Lloyd say it so often.
Too alien, too awkward—I finally looked away from him.
“If you have something to say, say it quickly. The longer we stay, the more likely His Highness will come looking for us.”
“Right. I don’t want that either.”
He lightly answered and reached out his hand.
His gesture—casual, as always—was familiar, yet strangely unsettling.
Because he suddenly withdrew his hand.
“…Sorry. I swore I wouldn’t do this, but I just can’t seem to follow through.”
“What is it you want to say?”
Isn’t the person standing here Lloyd Alois?
Just as Leopric Reinhardt no longer seemed like Leopric Reinhardt—
Was Lloyd Alois, who had always demanded everything and made me anxious, also no longer himself?
I had resolved to change everything.
Yet these people, acting as if they had changed before I did, kept irritating me.
Irritating. Unpleasant. And the more they did, the more anxious I became.
Finally, I snapped, stepping back from Lloyd.
“If you have something to say, say it and leave.”
“…All right. I will.”
Lloyd lowered his head, utterly defeated.
After waiting a moment longer, he raised his head again and spoke slowly.
“I know… I’ve made your life very hard.”
His voice began heavily, as if confessing a sin.
“You must have been tired. You must have been hurt. You were always so patient with me, while I was far too arrogant.”
It was a voice trying to sound brave, trying to sound resigned.
Lloyd continued, his eyes lowered deeply.
“And I was stupid enough to realize it only now.”
“….”
“When you told me you didn’t want this marriage, that’s what I should’ve said then. But if you still have even a sliver of forgiveness left for me…”
He bit his lip.
Looking me straight in the eye, he gave me the same smile he always used when asking for something from me.
It was ridiculous—my body still tensed out of habit.
Even though I had already resolved not to be pulled around by him anymore.
“…Just give me one more chance, Mel.”
I tried hard not to listen.
“I’ll do better than you ever gave me. I’ll do more. Whatever you want—I’ll do it.”
“….”
“I’ll try never to hurt you again. So, Mel.”
Just one more time. Love me again.
The solemn expression shattered.
His voice, once so firm, now trembled with desperation.
He was begging me for a chance.
Was it because he thought my heart had left him the moment we married?
Or because he feared losing the countless advantages I could offer now that I was marrying Leopric?
I don’t know.
But hearing him say it, I made a decision inside my heart.
“I’m already married.”
“I know, Mel. I’m not asking you to do it right now…”
“And I’ve already received the marriage certificate.”
“….”
Why did that feel so electrifying?
Why did it feel so sharp?
I stepped back another step from Lloyd and declared clearly:
“I’m already married.”
Leopric held me, and I let myself be held—because that completed our marriage.
Of course, it wasn’t true.
But seeing Lloyd’s face freeze like stone, I smirked.
He asked for a chance, but he’s not the kind of man who’d embrace another woman after she’s already touched.
If it served a purpose, he’d form any alliance.
But an alliance without reason or meaning?
“It doesn’t matter.”
Just as I was about to turn away, an unbelievable word reached my ears.
“It doesn’t matter, Amelia. As long as you still want me. Then it doesn’t matter.”
“…What are you saying now?”
“I’m asking for a chance—from Amelia Vermilian, the woman who has always stood by me. So what matters is your heart, not your body.”
“…I’m no longer Vermilian.”
“Does that mean you won’t forgive me?”
Lloyd pulled his eyebrows down, looking heartbreakingly pitiful.
A faint tremor in his voice carried a deep sorrow.
And the more I saw it, the angrier I grew.
Always. Always this way.
He always made my heart weak to get what he wanted.
He never thought that seeing him weak would make me strong.
No matter how frayed my heart had become.
“Do I have to forgive you? Is there a reason I must?”
That infuriated me.
That I had always been manipulated by him, helplessly dragged along—
That he always got what he wanted, and I always suffered watching him.
“If you wanted forgiveness, you should’ve held onto me before I married. When you came to me, begging me to propose.”
“Amelia, that was…”
“I’m the Crown Princess now. I have nothing left to give you. Nothing I want to give you.”
“….”
“We are not supposed to meet outside official duties. And if you truly feel sorry for me, you shouldn’t have come here. You should’ve pretended you didn’t know me.”
Did you really not realize how difficult this would make things for me?
I hoped every sharp word I flung at him cut him to the bone.
I hoped he couldn’t see the part of me that had dared to dream of a future for myself—not for Leopric.
I hoped he regretted coming. I hoped the pain overwhelmed him.
Then I could turn away again, perfectly ready for my revenge.
And if this were the Lloyd I had always known—the Lloyd I had endured through his past life…
He would have gotten angry and left.
Not stood there with a face like he was about to cry, enduring pain to apologize.
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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