The next morning, I greeted Sophia and Delma with swollen eyes.
“Miss, you might not see well.”
“Mm, no, I can see everything.”
“What will you do with your eyes so swollen?”
Sophia carefully placed a cold ice pack over my eye sockets.
Contrary to Sophia, giggles leaked out from the side.
“Delma.”
“Heh, ah, I’m sorry. But Miss, your eyes are totally puffed up.”
The culprit was undoubtedly Delma. As our eyes met, she bit her lip to hold back laughter, but it didn’t seem effective.
“I definitely won’t laugh, hmph!”
Still, when Sophia applied the ice pack, my eyes opened more easily.
I thought it had improved a bit since the beginning, so I left the room, but it seemed I was mistaken.
“My goodness, Miss, your eyes!”
“Oh dear, how did your eyes get so swollen?”
“Your eyes have become round!”
Every passing servant instantly noticed my swollen eyes.
‘Ugh, I don’t even know.’
At first, I hung my head a little, but now I walked around with my head held stiff, like, ‘Look if you want to.’
Before entering the dining room, I took a brief deep breath. The reason I left my room in the morning was to have breakfast in the dining room.
As I slightly nodded, a servant opened the door to the dining room for me.
The Duke and Clemens were already there.
I clenched both fists and spoke firmly.
“Dad, good morning! Brother, good morning!”
No reply came back. Clemens, who met my eyes, started to cough lightly.
When I turned my head, the Duke averted his gaze with his lips tightly sealed.
I looked at them blankly and then spoke.
“You can just laugh.”
At my words, a ‘poof’ of laughter filled the room.
‘I didn’t expect to be so swollen either.’
This was all because I had cried my eyes out yesterday.
“What a wellrested face.”
The Duke took out a luxurious handkerchief and gently wiped around my eyes. Hesitant only for a moment, I let him touch my face without resistance.
“Are we done?”
“Yes.”
Meanwhile, Clemens was placing a slice of fish on my plate.
“Diane, try this. It will suit your taste.”
I picked it up with a fork and ate it in one bite.
It suited my taste perfectly, just like Clemens had said.
“Delicious!”
“I’ll give you more.”
Clemens gave me a slight smile. I looked at him and laughed happily.
It was my second family meal since coming to the Duke’s residence.
Sure, we had all eaten together when Clemens had come, but since then, there had been no opportunity for all of us to gather for a meal.
The Duke was busy, and even when our schedules matched, I had avoided it under the pretext of taking a nap.
But now there was no reason to avoid them.
Neither the Duke nor Clemens scared me anymore.
Having filled my belly with the fish that Clemens lent and the meat that the Duke cut for me, I brought up the unfinished story from yesterday.
“But what about the kids who were trapped in the auction house yesterday? Where are they?”
“In the annex. Most have been returned to their parents. Filren worked hard.”
No wonder Filren was nowhere to be seen after I came to the mansion yesterday. He must have been busy finding all their parents.
‘It must have been at least a dozen.’
Finding the parents of that many children overnight. No wonder Filren was a talent coveted by Matop.
But that couldn’t mean they found everyone. There was probably at least one child Filren couldn’t find.
“They didn’t find all the parents, did they?”
“They found most.”
“So, there are still some they haven’t found.”
As if to confirm a kill, Clemens raised one eyebrow. At that moment, he really did resemble the duke.
‘So this is why Clemens is the successor to the duke’s family!’
“Where is the child whose parents can’t be found?”
“In the guest room on the first floor of the annex.”
The first guest room of the annex was the room at the far end of the corridor. I hastily stood up, but the duke blocked my path with his long arm.
“You can’t go alone.”
“It’s even more unacceptable to go there secretly later on.”
It seemed my solo trip from the auction house to the warehouse had shocked them quite a bit.
‘But they aren’t stopping me.’
I gave a small smile to the two who had given permission.
But it didn’t seem to be an easy consent.
Unable to follow me all the way due to some business, Clemens chased me into my room, poking and prodding with questions.
“Why are you going to the annex?”
“What are you going to do seeing that kid again?”
“Should I come with you?”
Finally, I resolutely shook my head at his last question.
“No.”
Clemens narrowed his eyes discontentedly, but I ignored it and took out some candy to give to the child.
‘He’ll probably return.’
Shanquez had nowhere else to go. His parents didn’t raise him properly, just abandoning him to the guild.
Probably, the only place Shanquez can choose is the thieves’ guild again.
‘If he rejoins, it won’t be easy to leave.’
Inside the guild, he was young and lacked backing, destined to be knocked around.
Nevertheless, through innate talent and effort, he would become a skilled thief, surpassing my parents.
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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