“Do you doubt my ability? Let me show you my skills.”
He made a cracking sound with his knuckles.
He cleared his throat several times.
Next? It was time to expose the true identity of the old physician.
“Doctor, does His Highness really have no special problems?”
“That’s right. I, as the attending physician, know best. Heh heh.”
Do you think I’ll be fooled by that?
I glared at the attending physician with a cold smile.
“You’re not even an attending physician, but a quack who doesn’t even have the qualifications of a healer.”
“What did you say?”
“Or maybe a notorious liar.”
“This is an unfounded insult!”
The attending physician’s face turned beet red.
Whether it was true or not, Nikolai’s gaze was fixed on the monocle I was wearing.
“Elizabeth, when did you steal that disgusting thing?”
“I only borrowed it for a moment.”
“Are you bragging about your thieving skills?”
“You’ll call me a benefactor soon enough, just wait and see.”
I scanned Franz through Morashincia’s eyes.
White light swirled around, beginning to show the body transparently.
‘There’s a problem indeed. Red spots are scattered inside the body like paint? Very faint though…!’
If it weren’t for Morashincia’s eyes, I wouldn’t have known what it was.
I would also not have known that leaving it alone would cause a serious problem.
“The Crown Prince has been poisoned.”
“Poisoned?!”
A creepy killing intent shot from Nikolai’s eyes.
I took a deep breath and spoke as calmly as possible.
“Small amounts of poison are accumulating in the body. It’s not a critical condition right now, but we need to use an antidote right away.”
“Does that mean someone is trying to assassinate the Crown Prince?”
“Unfortunately, yes.”
“Elizabeth, can you take responsibility for those words? This is a major incident that will shake the Empire.”
Nikolai pressed on with a threatening air.
Meanwhile, Franz bowed his head deeply.
“Ask His Highness the Crown Prince. He seemed to have noticed it.”
“Poison, that’s absurd!”
The attending physician, who had turned blue like a corpse, raised his voice.
“I am a descendant of a distinguished family that has served the royal family for generations! If His Highness was poisoned, how would I not know!”
“Who didn’t know? You knew and hid it. Maybe you mixed the poison with the decoction.”
“It’s a conspiracy, Your Majesty! This woman is framing me!”
“Your Majesty, call in a poison expert. We’ll soon find out who’s telling the truth.”
“Do not heed the whispers of this wicked woman!”
“It would be best to call someone from outside the palace. You know that too, Your Majesty.”
Out of nowhere, Nikolai’s gaze tangled heatedly with mine.
Seemingly calm, he maintained his silence.
It looked like he was composed, but he wasn’t.
I did not miss the slight tremor in Nikolai’s fingers.
His desperate attempt to hide his agitation was pitiable.
On one hand, it was a relief.
‘Maybe he’s a better person than I thought. The misunderstanding that he is indifferent to his son was wrong. Maybe he’s a better person than I thought.’
Why do I keep thinking this way after constant disappointments?
Could it be that I want to believe Nikolai is a good person?
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The capital’s poison experts were all mobilized.
With detoxification specialists, pharmacists, and herbalists, there was no room to move in the Crown Prince’s palace.
Their words were unanimous.
“There’s no doubt that he has been poisoned, albeit slightly. There were no obvious symptoms; how did you discover this?”
“I don’t care. Spend any amount of money to detoxify the Crown Prince. As quickly as possible. Completely.”
“We accept His Majesty the Emperor’s command!”
As the experts left, Nikolai summoned his guards.
“Arrest the attending physician’s apprentices, family, and servants. Investigate everyone who has entered and exited the Crown Prince’s palace without exception!”
“Yes!”
“However, confessions through torture are not to be forgiven. Special care must be taken so that children and women are not frightened. Do you understand?”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
Nikolai had such a delicate side?
He who considered children and women seemed suddenly different.
‘It wouldn’t be strange if a tyrant had them all caught and killed, but he’s calm and systematic? He knows what to do first. Thanks to that, there won’t be a big uproar.’
Instead of getting excited, Nikolai quickly resolved the situation.
He didn’t blame Franz or push him around.
Unlike the original, he was like a competent emperor, both emotionally and technically.
“I am innocent!”
“Please spare me, Your Majesty!”
Some resisted roughly, but most followed the knights obediently.
I watched the arrest process with interest.
It would have been more enjoyable if there had been popcorn and cola.
‘I hope the mastermind is caught soon. The one who used poison on a child deserves to die!’
I was as enthusiastic about justice as monogamy.
It was a given that good people succeeded, and bad guys failed, but reality was different.
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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