In the original work or in reality, Claudia was a just character.
There was no way she would be swayed by fleeting success and desires.
Her spirit was strong enough not to yield even in front of the emperor.
She had a dictatorial and stubborn side too.
A character capable of making any choice for justice.
“A villainess becoming the empress? I can’t tolerate it until my eyes get dirtied!”
There was not no possibility of it happening.
Once Claudia, who barely stood on Nicolaus and Franz’s side, couldn’t lose her again.
I didn’t want to put everyone in danger.
‘I might have to give up on Nicolaus. For me, Nicolaus, and Franz.’
That’s why I asked with such thoughts.
Claudia’s cat-like nimble eyes squinted.
Soon, her lips twitched.
A burst of laughter erupted from Claudia, who leaned her head back.
If she didn’t squeeze her hand with sweat, she would have jumped for joy.
She proudly laughed at herself for making her favorite character laugh.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Haha! Sorry. Excuse me.”
Wiping away the tears in her eyes, Claudia apologized.
With a straightened posture, she adjusted her expression.
“Do you think of yourself as a villainess?”
“…No?”
“I was a villainess. The past Elizabeth was an unqualified villainess. But something feels different. At least now.”
As if trying to confirm, Claudia reached out towards me.
When her fingers gently held the end of my hair, I held my breath, and my eyelids trembled.
“Your crimson hair and lovely appearance are the same as before. But the essence is entirely different. Someone I don’t know.”
As if resentful, Claudia lightly asked, “Do you think so?”
“Isn’t it unfortunate that you’re not a villainess?”
“A little. Honestly speaking.”
“Are you sorry that you couldn’t beat me?”
Claudia, who hesitated for a moment, turned her head sideways.
“I’m just a little troubled. I can’t hate you.”
A brisk wind passed through, and behind Claudia, Douglas’s gentle smile overlapped.
I recalled the conversation we shared as we headed towards the sixteenth shrine.
“Because of this journey, you might suffer. You should at least know the reason.”
“I don’t mind. It’s because Elizabeth wants it.”
Douglas endured all the disadvantages and sacrificed himself for me.
Even though he knew I loved Nicolaus, he silently stood by my side.
I never comforted his feelings.
I couldn’t respond to his affection.
Regrettably, that was all I could do.
‘Claudia is still secretly in love with Douglas. He’s still chasing after me unchanged…….’
Me, Douglas, Claudia.
The three of us could only gaze at each other from a corner where we could never get closer.
At least, until now.
‘Franz entered the triangle. I, Douglas, and Claudia will do our best to protect that child. What kind of change will that bring?’
I was calculating what would happen after becoming the empress.
I still wanted to hold Nicolaus’s hand despite the anxiety and fear.
I wanted to stand next to him.
The reason I came to see Claudia even to the point of delaying the answer to the proposal was because of that.
I wanted recognition from my favorite who executed Nicolaus and me, not as the enchanting femme fatale, but as an individual.
“No matter who becomes the empress, I won’t care. I will focus on my duties.”
Claudia said indifferently.
A goddess of strong convictions doesn’t care about the qualities of an empress?
Even though she was telling an obvious lie, she didn’t move an eyebrow.
“If you’re going to become an empress, it’s better to be smart. It would be better if you knew how to take care of a young crown prince.”
“Claudia…!”
“Perhaps a commoner empress may cherish the people more than nobility. Of course, let’s see it positively.”
Claudia, turning her gaze aside, shrugged.
I, who couldn’t contain my excitement, clasped my hands over my chest.
“I won’t forget today’s words. It really gave me great strength!”
She frowned for a moment as if she didn’t understand what I was saying.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“It’s okay if you don’t know. I understood everything!”
“Even if you’re determined, inform Douglas. If I hear news through someone else, I’ll be greatly disappointed.”
“You’ve finally returned, Elizabeth!”
Nysa hugged my waist tightly.
My ribs throbbed with the pleasant feeling of strength.
Even that pain was welcome.
“Escaping criminals have good luck, huh? What did you eat? Your skin is as smooth as boiled eggs?”
I even missed Franz’s sarcasm a little.
I extended the boy’s cheek with love, filled with affection.
“I naturally had good skin, Franz.”
“Ouch!”
“Is it okay even if it hurts?”
“Don’t say weird things, pervert!”
Franz pushed my hand away as if he was fed up.
In any case, it was good.
“Rather than welcoming the suffering teacher, you call me a pervert?”
Raising my sleeves and about to seriously tease him, Susan stopped me.
“Hold on, Unni. I can see you’re happy to see her too.”
Susan already knew, of course.
That I couldn’t turn away from my deer-like appearance, with teary hazel eyes.
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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