A potion had appeared, and it was time to use it.
However, Juliette couldn’t seem to swallow the potion at all.
Unconscious and sprawled out, Juliette’s precious potion kept leaking through the corner of her mouth.
“No, no. Juliette, Juliette? Are you okay?”
Bianca spoke when Juliette was in dire straits.
A large hand took the potion that had been held out to Bianca.
“I’ll do it.”
“Raffin, sir?”
He drank a large gulp from the potion he had taken and handed it straight to Juliette.
Gulp.
The sound of the potion being passed by the involuntary movement of someone else’s throat was surprisingly noisy.
Raffin didn’t say a word until the potion bottle was completely empty.
As he wiped his wet lips with the back of his hand and rose, Juliette’s complexion, visible below Raffin, had improved considerably.
They had overcome the crisis!
Someone might not have informed her, but it was instinctively felt.
She survived.
“Ha…”
Bianca let out a sharp breath, relaxing her shoulders that had been tense.
“I can’t save her.”
Shane had said that from the beginning when they were negotiating over the potion.
“Then, I have no reason to forgive you.”
At the sound of his grinding teeth, Shane shook the potion he held in his hand, saying that if he let this chance pass, the maid would die.
“Chance.”
Bianca couldn’t reject the devilish guy’s words.
Juliette in front of her seemed like she was going to die soon anyway.
Even a brief reprieve was fine.
“Chance.”
Like something broken, making a miserable sound, it was Raffin who clung to the collapsing Bianca.
“You’ve done your best. Now it’s up to Juliette.”
Juliette still had her eyes closed without a single movement.
“I promised.”
Bianca held Raffin’s cold hand.
“You promised not to die. Juliette. So endure it, okay?”
Although it sounded like a faint whisper that could go out at any moment, due to the terrifying silence that surrounded them, Bianca’s voice resonated clearly with everyone.
The wet voice, soaked with affection, made hearts ache just by listening to it.
When the feeling on the tip of the nose became tingling and even spicy, it was time.
“Don’t… die.”
The hoarse voice echoed harshly.
“…Who, wh-who’s dying? Not yet…”
“Don’t say it. You need to rest.”
Surprised, Bianca tried to stop her words, but Juliette, with a voice that seemed to sag at any moment, stubbornly continued speaking.
“Ah… I haven’t even seen the lady’s wedding yet…”
“Of course. Who would help me if you weren’t here.”
Hah.
Bianca gently responded, swallowing her tears that were about to burst.
The man, who had always been earnest, seemed all the more desperate at this moment.
“Haley also said he’d be here soon. He said he couldn’t keep protecting from a distance for long.”
“…”
“Soon, it’s soon.”
“…”
“Haley has a naive side, so probably, seeing you lying like this, he won’t be able to bear it, right? He’ll probably rush to bring the potion before I even finish talking.”
Because she had to nag.
Bianca, who laughed softly as if hearing a funny story, glared at Juliette, looking at herself.
“So, endure.”
“Madam.”
“Endure. Keep the promise. Juliette.”
The end of the words began to tremble.
“If my first knight breaks the oath so easily, who can I trust next time?”
“Well, okay then.”
Juliette smiled.
“After getting married in the spring, I will host a banquet in the name of the Duchess at Baroque Castle. I don’t want to travel alone without a personal maid and a bodyguard anymore.”
“…Yes.”
“So, endure.”
“Yes.”
She answered repeatedly, but her voice kept fading.
“Endure, Juliette. Until Jilian comes.”
As Juliette’s voice waned, Bianca’s voice grew louder.
The Balorok knights who had just arrived on the fourth floor, having passed through their nature after lifting their eyes, were also able to hear.
In the loud voice, there was a lot of weeping.
“Sir Raffin.”
A knight who had been holding his breath at the heart-touching voice called Raffin.
“An immediate retreat order has been issued outside the territory.”
“And the commander?”
“Staying behind to protect… as the Duke instructed.”
“…Immediately.”
“Yes. This order includes the territory residents this time.”
Raffin, irritated, ruffled his hair and gave an order to the knight.
“For now, I’ll organize this place and join you. You, for now, are the deputy commander of the 2nd Castle Unit. Are there commanders for each castle unit?”
“Present.”
“Okay, commanders will go to the outer castle unit as it is. Go and quickly divide the area, take care of the residents, and evacuate. Meet at the territory boundary a day later, at the warp gate.”
Unlike his usual gentle appearance, Raffin, giving orders to the knights, was strict and had no hesitation.
“Wouldn’t you go first?”
“The Duchess is the owner of another Balorok. Is it the lord of Balorok who sends the territory residents away and flees first? Send Yungi Min first.”
A kind liar.
Bianca realized that this was the reprieve Raffin had worked hard to give.
Juliette couldn’t move in the current situation.
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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