With the sound of a heavy door opening, as the three entered the inspection hall, several gazes were directed at Lina.
“I didn’t expect to see you here.”
Empress Eugene welcomed them as if she knew they were coming.
“Duke Fermannes. And the future Duchess, I suppose. Oh no, not anymore. Should I call you the Duchess of Fermannes now?”
Already informed of what they had done in the temple before they arrived, the Empress’s attitude congratulating their marriage was extremely relaxed.
“Let me introduce. This is Jenki, the newly appointed head mage of the palace. A very skilled mage who will verify the Duchess’s magic.”
[Note: The Korean text contains a placeholder (“”) indicating a temporal break. The English translation reflects the temporal break by using the label “”.] “Nice to meet you, Duke Fermannes. And the Duchess of Fermannes. I am Jenki Lost, in charge of the magical department.”Although she was prepared, perhaps due to nervousness, Lina’s hand gripping her skirt tightened. Seeing Lina like that, Jenki spoke in a calm voice.
“Don’t worry. It won’t hurt. Just step onto the magic circle and place your hand on the crystal. Then, the color of the crystal beads will change according to the amount of magic power you possess.”
Lina followed Jenki’s hand and looked at the magic circle drawn in front of her.
Not far from where the magic circle was drawn, there were crystal beads of a size that could be held with both hands by an adult emitting a transparent light.
“If you have low magic power, it will turn green; if it’s moderate, it will be blue, and if it’s very high, it will turn red. Generally, green and blue appear, and red is extremely rare.”
Listening quietly to Jenki’s words, Empress Eugene, who had been present, interrupted.
“Oh my, our young Duchess seems to be frightened. But don’t worry. There shouldn’t be any major problems.”
With a small exhale, Lina, who had been standing there, walked slowly into the magic circle, feeling warm glances behind her.
The magic verification was conducted with several people as witnesses. In Lina’s case, as she had already become the Duchess, high-ranking nobles were chosen as witnesses.
“Now, let’s start the magic verification.”
With these words, Jenki began muttering incomprehensible words.
Then, the magic circle under her feet emitted light, and a small wind started to swirl.
However.
“What is this…?”
Feeling an uneasy sensation, Lina unknowingly clenched her left chest. It was the sensation of her heart pounding fiercely with each word of the male voice echoing in her ears.
It was the first time she had felt this way in her life.
Just as she was about to loosen up and leave the magic circle with a light heart, the crystal bead on the altar suddenly began to vibrate finely.
“What’s happening?”
Soon after, within the transparently shining crystal bead, green light began to emerge.
“It’s green.”
Seeing the light, Jenki, as if she had expected it, spoke to everyone.
‘As expected.’
Exhaling a sigh of relief, Lina looked at the Duke with a slightly lighter expression.
Then, he, perhaps having been a little tense, relaxed his eyes, meeting her gaze.
However.
‘It’s over. Now, if I just return to the mansion…’
As Lina was about to leave the magic circle with a light heart, the crystal bead placed on the stand suddenly started to vibrate delicately.
‘What is it?’
And then, in an instant, the green light within the bead gradually changed to blue, then to red, and once again to green.
Jenki, taken aback by the reaction of the bead, shook his pupils as if greatly surprised.
“Is there a problem?”
Seeing this, the Empress, who had not witnessed it, asked Jenki, who struggled to control his expression.
“…Something seems to be wrong. Let me try it again.”
As Jenki recited the incantation once again, the blue-hued crystal bead, which had emitted a red aura this time, perplexed Jenki, and his face was gradually tinged with confusion.
“Is it normal for the bead to change colors so frequently?”
“No, it’s not…! This is my first time experiencing something like this too…”
Jenki’s voice trembled in embarrassment.
‘Why is this happening…?’
Beneath Lina’s feet, ominous thoughts were creeping in. However, whether the crystal bead knew or not, it continued to change colors ceaselessly.
From green to blue, from blue to red, and back to blue without a pause. By the time the constantly changing bead became tiresome, the trembling vibrations began to subside.
Finally, the bead, which had changed colors countless times, gradually settled on a single color. And as it did, inexplicably, Lina began to exhale a low sigh.
“What is this, exactly…?”
“That is…”
The color that swallowed the bead.
It was an incredibly deep shade of black, indistinguishable and impenetrable.
‘Black…?’
As Lina stared at the crystal emitting a strange darkness, her body stiffened again, sensing the abruptly changed aura around her.
“Jenki! What does that color mean?”
Jenki, who was only sweating coldly, seemed frustrated as the Empress urged for an answer.
“T-That color means…”
Jenki swallowed dry saliva and looked at the black crystal.
‘That color was really possible.’
Although he had undergone numerous magic verifications throughout his life, he had never seen it even once. Not to mention hearing an anecdote about it.
That’s why he thought it was a color one could only find in books.
As Jenki, the magical director, stared at the black crystal with trembling eyes, everyone in the hall held their breath.
‘It’s ominous.’
At the moment when Lina felt an unfamiliar sense of unease and took a step back, a familiar voice reached her ears.
“The amount of magic power cannot be measured.”
When everyone turned their eyes to the direction where they felt a presence, Blytheus, who knows when he arrived, was approaching the crystal bead.
“Blytheus? Why are you here?”
Even the Empress looked at him with surprised eyes, not knowing of her son’s presence.
“The meaning of the black color is just that. It means the magic power is so vast that it cannot be measured.”
“What?”
“It seems like the crystal can’t contain all the magic power of the Duchess of Vermannis.”
Blytheus smiled at her.
With a relaxed and leisurely expression.
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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