Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 60
Ariadne had already arranged matters in advance with Madam Marini of Lagione Dressmaker.
Initially, Madam Marini had refused Ariadne’s request—to establish a business relationship with Lucrezia, provide rebates as Lucrezia demanded, and then hand over the ledger detailing those transactions to Ariadne.
“Miss! That’s a bit…! If word ever got out that we’d done such a thing, it would ruin our dressmaker’s reputation.”
Ariadne, as if she had anticipated this, calmly and firmly persuaded Madam Marini without hesitation.
“This concerns the dirty secrets of the de Mare cardinal’s family. At the very least, there’s absolutely no chance it’ll ever leak from our side.”
“Even so, Miss—if your plan succeeds, wouldn’t Cardinal de Mare sever all business ties between our shop and the de Mare family?”
Ariadne’s scheme was to obtain proof from Lagione Dressmaker that Lucrezia had accepted rebates, then report this embezzlement directly to Cardinal de Mare.
Naturally, the Cardinal would assume Lagione Dressmaker had colluded with Lucrezia in corrupt dealings.
“We have an exclusive two-season clothing contract with you, don’t we? It would be disastrous if that were terminated. Thanks to you wearing our designs, young ladies in San Carlo high society have been placing quite a few orders with us.”
That was true. Although the incident at the debutante ball—where her dress had torn—had initially drawn negative attention, as the old saying goes, “notoriety is just another form of fame.” That very incident had sparked explosive interest in Lagione Dressmaker.
Young ladies who’d thought the dress beautiful flooded Lagione with orders.
Just as the surge in orders driven by the debutante ball trend seemed to wane, Ariadne’s green-striped hunting dress from the recent hunt became a massive hit.
That autumn in San Carlo, anything Ariadne wore sold out down to the very fabric. Lagione’s skilled seamstresses were now tirelessly producing identical hunting dresses from similar materials.
At Madam Marini’s words, Ariadne smiled faintly.
“What do you think will happen after those two seasons?”
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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I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
So Alphonso is misunderstanding now?