Hayley sighed deeply at the sight of Julie’s stillwide eyes.
“That…”
“It jumped out from between the skins.”
Tock, tock.
Gillian began unbuttoning his torn shirt, apparently ready to change it.
“What would happen if there were no knights, and only maids at the scene?”
“How many died?”
The giant rabbit being ‘annoying’ is only from the knights’ perspective.
Could ordinary people, especially noblewomen’s maids, stand against a magic beast?
Expectedly, at Julie’s question anticipating death, Gillian pointed to his longripped shirt.
“One was ruined.”
“Don’t you have a meeting today?”
“Why wouldn’t I?”
Gillian’s response was gloomy, unlike Julie, who couldn’t hide her shocked expression.
The meeting was on the 2nd floor where his office was, and the maids had gathered on the 1st floor.
Although it was said to have bitten a knight, the walls of the 1st floor were packed with guarding knights.
And the Duke, who was on a different floor, ran down and stopped it?
“Whew…”
Julie couldn’t hide her astonishment bursting in succession, knowing his supernatural ability, but this was something else.
“I didn’t hear the maids scream.”
“It would have been too late when they screamed.”
If not the sound, then…
“The presence.”
“If it’s a presence…”
“Filthy energy. I usually would’ve noticed right away, but perhaps because there was quite a lot of skin, I didn’t realize until it moved.”
Gillian recalled the moment his shirt was torn by the giant rabbit’s teeth and snickered.
“It was close.”
Shrugging his shoulders, Gillian frowned at his shirt that was not even halfunbuttoned.
There were too many buttons, and it was truly annoying.
“You too.”
The words followed his complaint about the buttons, but Hayley quickly grabbed Julie and stood her behind herself, as if hiding her.
“You’re smart.”
Hayley knew what Gillian meant by ‘it was close,’ and was desperate to shield Julie.
The order to keep the Duchess inside was a command.
Now Julie had not only disobeyed the command but had nearly put the person she was to protect in danger.
A light punishment would be dismissal, and if it had been a wartime situation, immediate execution would not have been contestable.
“She’s still young,”
“Forgot? She’s already seventeen, which means she has passed the age of adulthood in the North for two years now. Where are there any young people here, Captain?”
“You are right. I’m a knight, so I’ll take responsibility for my duties.”
Before Hayley could say anything, Julie opened her mouth from behind her.
“Knight? A knight who can’t even follow orders?”
A chill in the words stiffened Julie’s cheeks.
No matter the reason, the failure to carry out the order is inexcusable.
Julie bowed deeply.
“I apologize.”
“I will educate you on that part, so you can understand a little more easily. If you give me a chance……”
Hailey stepped forward, but Gillian only narrowed his eyes and did not particularly respond.
“Is the problem not choosing the means and methods?”
“That is,”
At Gillian’s question, directed at no one in particular, just when Hailey was about to open his mouth,
Gillian, turning around, directed his thin voice at Julie, who was looking at him.
“The Duke said to keep it a secret.”
“My goodness.”
At those brief words, even Hailey sighed.
“What use is it if it’s not my sword, no matter how skilled?”
“I was wrong.”
For the first time, guilt appeared on Julie’s face.
“Don’t put your conscience above orders.”
“Yes, Duke. I will remember.”
“I will train you.”
Gillian dryly nodded his head at Julie and Hailey, who were responding in turn.
The warning was enough at this point.
Hailey is an exceptional knight, so she will know how to smooth out the childish mistake of this young knight.
“If the Duchess is frustrated, let’s open about three floors for her.”
“Yes, Duke.”
It was the moment Gillian was about to turn towards his office.
Suddenly, Bianca’s voice, spewing excuses as soon as she saw him, came to mind.
‘I came out because it’s hot. It’s too hot… Julie tried to stop me, but,’
The sound blaming herself seemed almost desperate.
Gillian’s gaze, slowly turning, was fixed on Julie.
‘Call me Julie.’
‘I’m not a child.’
Has that become a weakness?
Did she try to protect Bianca, whom he left to guard?
Gillian’s head tilted slightly.
“Julie.”
“Yes, Duke.”
“What if you were taken hostage?”
“Excuse me?”
“If you are taken as a hostage to threaten the Duchess, what should you do?”
“What? Me?”
Indeed, it was a relentless feeling.
“Understanding your place is good, but sometimes fools do such things.”
Julie blinked for a long time as if lost in thought, then slowly nodded.
“I’m not sure it would work on the Duchess.”
“Answer.”
Julie responded without hesitation to the urging words.
“If I become a hostage, I must die.”
“To die while guarding the one you must protect?”
“If I’m taken as a hostage, it means they want something from the Duchess.”
“But if you die, who will protect the Duchess?”
If something like you can be taken hostage, it means there’s no remaining forces left.
At Gillian’s soft words, Julie made a tight expression.
“I think by the time I buy that much time, you, the Duke, would have arrived?”
Upon hearing such sincerity, he thought he understood why Bianca fusses over this inadequate one.
He must reward the adorable child.
“Okay. If such a thing happens, swear that I’ll arrive before you die.”
At that moment, his voice echoed strangely, as if it were doubled.
Unlike usual, the sound resonating not in the ears but in the head, Hailey and Julie were momentarily distracted and did not see Gillian’s eyes, which were momentarily stretched thin.
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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