“Madam.”
Nolan Haley abruptly dropped what she had in her hand.
“What’s all this?”
Bianca’s face, pointing to the scattered things in the room, was extremely cold.
“T-that.”
Juli, with her already pale face turning even paler, stammered as she spoke.
Though Nolan’s surprise was evident, Bianca couldn’t stop her anger.
“Now, what is this? I asked.”
In Juli’s room were bandages and knight armor.
And various weapons, including a dagger and arrows.
On the bed was chainmail armor hastily thrown off.
The chaotic state of Juli’s appearance when she opened the door was probably because of undressing.
“Didn’t I tell you to rest?”
“Madam, I can explain this.”
“Lady, please be quiet. Who allowed you to speak now?”
“I apologize.”
“Likewise, I won’t just let it go, so wait your turn.”
In a resolute manner not seen before, Haley interrupted and cut off Juliette’s words. In response, Juliette slowly kneeled.
“Madam, I was wrong.”
Bianca’s face, as she looked at Bianca, didn’t express pity or compassion. It was just a composed expression understanding her own wrongdoing.
Seeing this, Bianca rubbed her temples.
“Do you even understand the meaning of what I said?”
“I apologize. I disobeyed Madam’s orders and acted on my own.”
Orders.
At the words that felt so distant, Bianca felt a sharp pain in her chest, as if it had been stabbed by something sharp.
“Do you hear it as an order?”
“Aren’t all of the Mistress’s words orders?”
Juli said, looking directly at Bianca.
“Then, why did you disobey that order?”
“…….”
“Honestly.”
In a moment, hesitation flickered on Juli’s face. Bianca noticed it.
Whatever.
Bianca Termina had lived for so many years, would there be anything she didn’t know about?
“Honestly…….”
“Alright.”
“My body isn’t well. To move, I needed proper support for my torso.”
“How much did you roll? Did you break your ribs? Is that it?”
Reacting to the unexpected words, Bianca forgot her anger and immediately bent down to support Juli.
“It’s not like that.”
“If it’s not that!”
In a tone that seemed to withdraw quietly, as if taking out a foot, Juli looked at Haley as if seeking permission.
“Haley, explain what’s going on.”
“Madam, the command tower for this wave is the Essence.”
Though it was a sudden remark, Bianca didn’t interrupt.
“In the previous wave, it’s reported that the 5th castle collapsed. The opinion that the 4th castle should be considered as the first defense line rather than a castle role is dominant.”
“Then…….”
Bianca’s gaze turned to Juli and then back to Haley.
“During this time, Juli’s injury is regrettable, no, pitiful. However, she originally……”
“I’ll tell you.”
After remaining quiet for a while, Juli intervened and promptly shouted to Bianca.
“I apologize, Bianca-nim, for not explaining it earlier. I’m originally a knight of the 4th castle.”
She had hoped Juli would say it someday, but she never wanted to know like this.
“Due to circumstances, I was in the midst of preparing Juli’s armor today. It’s proper to check weapons for emergencies during exhibitions. Juli is in a growth phase, and the armor given just before Madam arrived was small……”
“Wait.”
Bianca raised her hand and stopped Haley’s continued and detailed explanation.
“I understand that she is in an exhibition and that Juli is a knight. However, even if she belongs to the 4th castle, there are other knights. Why did you need to…….?”
My heart was pounding.
“The collapse of the castle is the first time this year.”
It’s a story I know too well.
So I had to go through the ‘taming’ called the inquest.
“The amount of demons was said to be more than usual. Hearing the 5th castle collapsed in the previous wave, we all became aware during the second wave.”
Haley spoke without stopping Bianca’s words.
Bianca, who had remained silent, looked down at Juli and reached out to hold her hand.
Although she knew that Juli was reaching out to shake hands, Bianca didn’t push her away.
No, she was even willing, and Bianca’s hand firmly held Juli’s hand.
She didn’t know, but Bianca was trembling so much that she couldn’t control it.
“It wasn’t a quantity problem. The demons were evolving.”
“……!”
Even the sigh that opened didn’t flow through the gap.
Bianca remained with her mouth slightly open, frozen.
“During the second wave, the demons inflated several times their size and rushed in. It took less than half a day to break the 7th castle, and the 6th and 5th castles were shorter than that.”
“Th-that……. Why!”
It wasn’t for any particular reason.
Why!
Why now!
Is the princess who ate her mother coming and even swallowing up Balcmar?
“Am I truly cursed, as the maidservants have said? Is it my unfortunate fate to spread misery even to those around me? Unbeknownst to her, Bianca was being engulfed by dirty words akin to ‘brainwashing’ that had been etched into her over a lifetime of unexpected misfortune.
“Why, why……”
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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