The duke led me to my room.
Upon returning to my room, my thoughts were preoccupied with the conversation I had earlier with Phyllen and the duke.
‘Ah, what if the divine beast is really captured?’
I wasn’t nagging the divine beast, calling it Silver Serpent for no reason.
Because on the surface, it looked more like a white snake than a divine beast.
‘No way, it’s a divine beast after all.’
If it’s a divine beast, it wouldn’t easily get caught by humans.
‘Besides, Silver Serpent left the duke’s house first. It’s not like I sent it away.’
…Of course, I had been praying inwardly for it to leave.
The image of the Silver Serpent laying its small head on the back of my hand came to mind.
The sorrowful cries of the Silver Serpent came to mind.
I also remembered how it would sneak into my bag whenever I went out, skillfully hiding its form.
I repeatedly recited a spell inwardly, but it had no effect.
Because my mind conjured up ominous imaginations.
Specifically, the harrowing thought of the weeping Silver Serpent being sold to an unknown person while trapped behind bars.
I paced around nervously.
‘But it’s a divine beast! Even if it’s a stubborn, insignificant snake, it’s a divine beast!’
There’s no way. Those scammers claiming it’s the elixir of immortality wouldn’t be talking about a divine beast, would they?
I continued to reassure myself, but the ominous thoughts kept coming.
Eventually, I collapsed on the bed, burying my face under the pillow.
‘I don’t even know where this auction house that Phyllen mentioned is, I can’t go there.’
I forced myself to think it was none of my business.
…And a few minutes later, I was back in the hallway.
‘They said they were going to the library earlier.’
I was just about to dash to the library when—
Around the corner of the hallway, I saw the duke and Phyllen standing together outside the library.
I halted my steps and held my breath quietly. The faint conversation between the two reached my ears.
“…Our informant will likely find out their headquarters by tomorrow. What do you think about raiding them then?”
“If we can’t obtain evidence, it will only end up as an attempted crime. We should wait until we’re certain we can gather evidence.”
“But isn’t the auction three days from now? We don’t have much time.”
After listening for a moment, I understood. It was about the auction house where the white snake was mentioned earlier.
“They will vanish all evidence as soon as the auction ends. If we rashly attempt this time and get caught, it will be quite a headache.”
“Didn’t you say there was an invitation from their side?”
“Yes, there is.”
“Reply affirmatively and let’s go to the auction house ourselves.”
“Ah, will you?”
“Yes, it would be good for Clements to go as well. It will be a good experience.”
“Understood, I’ll make preparations.”
As I heard that the duke and Clements would be going to the auction, a solution seemed to appear in my mind.
Then a dark shadow loomed before my eyes.
“Ah, young master?!”
The owner of the shadow was Phyllen. I was so startled that my legs gave way.
I fell flat on my rear, but Phyllen carefully helped me up.
“Young master, what brings you here? Weren’t you in your room earlier?”
I shook my head earnestly.
“I want to go too!”
“Excuse me? Where do you want to go?”
“I want to go to the auction house!”
I ended up blurting it out. It was all because of the pricking of my conscience.
‘It’s so pitiful that Silver Serpent won’t get to meet the protagonist, and the protagonist will lose it in an auction.’
The harsh fate wasn’t limited to divine beasts. It applied to the protagonist too.
‘In the future, how many lives could the protagonist save with the divine energy of the divine beast?’
Elijah moved for the sake of justice and goodness in the world, true to being the protagonist.
The contract with the divine beast was also intended to use the infinite divine energy where needed.
“We have to make sure they meet.”
A static silence followed my words. The first to speak was Philein.
“That’s not possible. It’s too dangerous for you.”
“But it’s just as dangerous for Clements.”
“……What are you saying? Did you overhear our conversation earlier?”
“Yes, I heard that the Duke himself is going, and that he’s taking Clements as well.”
Philein let out a deep sigh, clearly troubled by my persistence.
I pressed him further.
“Why can’t I go?”
“You’re still young, and most importantly, you’re different from the Duke.”
“There will be guards for Clements! Just assign some to me. Then I won’t be in any danger.”
“That place isn’t simply secure just because you have guards. It’s a place where people commit illegal acts unabashedly. No matter how many guards you have, there is no absolute safety.”
If that were the case, the Duke’s mansion was no different from that dangerous place for me. This was, after all, the house of a villainous Duke.
‘Philein may not notice it since he’s a villain himself.’
“I’ll be really, really careful.”
“Still, you cannot go. That place is not for you.”
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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