“What is ‘like me’, father? Is it okay, is it not a problem, giving in to everything? Understanding that whatever happens, conceding is better?”
She fired at him like a machine gun.
“And what is the result of that! Because of that, didn’t Arabella die!”
“It was an unfortunate accident!”
Cardinal de Mare finally couldn’t hold back and raised his voice in response.
“There is no evidence!”
“Isn’t it that you are refusing to see the existing evidence!”
Cardinal de Mare finally showed his true feelings.
“The youngest is already dead, and your sister whom you are pushing right now is alive! How far are you going to go as a family!”
“Hah!”
Ariadne sneered at Cardinal de Mare.
“Are you considering the shock waves that will reach the prestigious ‘de Mare family’ in this situation, instead of discerning right from wrong? Since the youngest is already dead and can’t be revived, but if rumors spread that the eldest daughter killed the youngest, you would lose the eldest daughter too!”
Cardinal de Mare didn’t answer. No, he couldn’t. He was hit right in the bullseye. That’s when Lucrezia intervened.
“I guess that was your intention.”
A trace of anger floated on Ariadne’s lips. She had ‘seen’ it clearly. Arabella’s blurry view, the last words heard by Arabella.
“You deserve it for defying your sister.”
“You cause accidents all the time without doing anything good! Why did I even give birth to you? I’m so upset!”
“If only you didn’t exist, my life would have been better than this! At least better than this!”
Arabella hadn’t done anything wrong enough to hear any of those terrible insults.
Lucrezia failed to fulfill her role as a parent to protect and educate her children.
What Arabella last saw and heard should never have been those things.
Unable to hold it in any longer, Ariadne exploded.
“Ya!!!”
She lunged at Lucrezia. Like a flash of light, Ariadne, who grabbed Lucrezia’s collar with her thin, thorny arms, roared like a beast.
“Are you a mother! Are you a human! Is there destiny in this world! Is there such a doglike destiny in this world! Is life living as it is set? That doesn’t make sense! I will never accept it!”
Ariadne clung to Lucrezia, wailing as if she was crying out.
“Arabella’s fate was never like that! It wasn’t a fate to die at the age of ten! No, even if it was, just because you were born unlucky, do you have to ‘suit your part’ and die? Where is it that it doesn’t change no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you work! I can’t accept it!! I’m going to change everything!!”
Cardinal de Mare made a signal to housekeeper Nicolo. It was to bring the servants and take care of Ariadne.
Clang.
In the midst of the hall filled with Ariadne’s howls, a few servants approached. Recognizing their intentions, Ariadne, who had been clutching Lucrezia, threw her hand away and strode towards the Cardinal.
“Father. It’s all clear. The second daughter is out of control, you are pondering whether you can trust her.”
She looked her father straight in the eye.
“If you think the second daughter, who is angry at the first daughter who killed the youngest, is the one out of control, then you’re greatly misjudging the situation. Consider carefully who you will bet on.”
Ariadne, unsure of what to do, coldly commanded the steward Nicolo, who had been edging forward, and his underlings.
“Don’t come any closer. I will go on my own.”
Ariadne turned her head and declared to the remaining family members.
“Even if I get blood on my hands, even if I end up in hell, those who lay hands on Arabella will be damned to hell. I don’t care what happens in return!”
She glared at Isabella and Lucrezia in turn with fiery eyes.
“Prepare to pay the price!”
Ariadne stomped off, leaving the banquet hall.
Cardinal de Mare could only shake his head at the mess of a household.
[This is the time separator]Cardinal de Mare thought his second daughter’s declaration of ‘damning those who touched Arabella to hell’ meant she would clarify the cause of Arabella’s death and distinguish who was to blame.
But the Cardinal was only considering half of the logical world. Ariadne, who had traveled through time, didn’t need any proof. The golden rule showed her the truth.
Everything that needed to be paid was measured. Only the execution of the blood price remained.
Ariadne came into the room and muttered to Sancha, who had followed her in with a face burning with rage.
“Sancha, if you want to see Maleta, your flesh and blood, take a good look in advance.”
Sancha asked cautiously.
“Mistress, why Maleta all of a sudden?”
“I will exact the price of Arabella’s life. It starts from there. Maleta, or rather Ippolito, is a crack and a weak link, and if Lucrezia’s karma bursts, it will burst from the evil deeds committed because of Ippolito.”
Ariadne clenched the quilt in her hands until blood came out.
“Flesh and blood will burst. A feast of slaughter begins.”
“Do you know the story of the Porto merchant? One pound of lean meat. If you can just take the meat, it is a legitimate debt collection, but if you shed even a drop of blood, it is a new sin. I can’t collect everything I should. Even if it’s a loss, live a good life.”
Ariadne recalled the gypsy woman’s words and shook her head.
‘Even if I fall into hell, I will collect everything! A lost soul who succeeded in revenge with a handful of gold coins and obediently enters heaven is better than a foolish soul a hundred times!’
After vowing revenge, what flooded in was a sense of loss. Even if she tore Lucrezia and Isabella alive and drank their blood, Arabella wouldn’t come back.
Arabella’s laughter, Arabella’s small hands, Arabella’s stubbornness, Arabella’s body temperature.
And the most intense emotion left was guilt.
‘Because of me. She tried to bring me the iron shackles. What the hell am I…’
Thoughts led to more thoughts. If I had been a little more resolute, this wouldn’t have happened…! If I had poisoned Lucrezia, and forever trapped Isabella in the nunnery, Arabella would still be alive…!
February 1, 1023. The day Arabella died. She lived about 9 months less than her original lifespan.
‘If I hadn’t returned, would Arabella have lived happily for another 9 months…?’
Despite going back in time, I couldn’t improve the life of someone I loved. No, I even harmed her.
Ariadne cried until she was exhausted, trapped in her room overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness.
‘Can I really change something called destiny…?’
Whenever she wanted to give up, Ariadne thought of the futures she had changed. Sancha, who should have been dead, was by her side, and Grandma Galleach, who should have committed atrocities for another ten years, was nowhere to be found.
‘I can do it.’
She reaffirmed her resolution. She could do it. She had to do it. She would grieve only until today, and tomorrow she would act. Lucrezia and Isabella would pay for their sins.
Soon.
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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