“Oh dear. Oh dear. What to do…… Oh dear.”
The Empress, even though she had been dethroned, was still a member of the royal family. It would have been right for the royal family to take care of the corpse, but by that time the royal family had already lost its hierarchical order. The royal family had left the deposed Empress’s body in the forest without taking care of it.
“What is the royal family doing? What will become of it?”
The Empress was not someone to be lost like this.
“I, this old man, will serve you, Your Highness. Please, rest in peace.”
The old man took care of the deposed Empress, avoiding the eyes of the royal family.
“I am a nobody, so this is all I can do for you.”
He held a simple funeral for the Empress, bought an urn, and collected her remains.
When the time came, he prayed and hid the remains from the eyes of the royal family.
All that this old man could do for the palace was this. Honoring this death even a little.
“Why. Why this trial to you…….”
The old man embraced the remains and hid them. Waiting for the day when the remains would return to the royal family. Hoping that someday the royal family would wash away their past mistakes…….
The remains should not be shown outside yet.
The young Emperor had ascended the throne. There were rumors that he had killed all his relatives and the former Emperor to take the throne. Since then, the old man hid away.
“The royal family is holding a memorial service to honor the dead.”
Ah……. Your Highness, now I can serve you completely. The old man came out only after the memorial service was over.
“How can I see the Emperor, Your Highness?”
“Has this old man gone mad? Do you think His Highness would meet just because you want to!”
The old man kept visiting the palace.
‘How can I see Your Highness? Pl, please tell me how.’
‘Please let me see the Emperor, Your Highness. I must return it to you. Please, Your Highness……! This old man begs you.’
‘Your Highness! Meet this old man! Your Highness! Before I die, I must return her to you, Your Highness.’
At first, the old man looked for a way to see the Emperor directly, but as it became difficult, he begged directly in front of the palace gate.
“Your Highness, Your Highness, please……. Pass on my words.”
Before he died, he had to bring the remains back to the palace.
(This is a time separator.)
Benjamin Visennov drew a slow breath.
“Your Highness. Are you alright?”
The chief attendant called Benjamin cautiously.
“People will be arriving soon. An urgent report has just arrived, so they will be here soon. A priest has been dispatched from the temple to look at the remains as well.”
The servants were busy with the news delivered late in the afternoon.
‘The remains of the deposed Empress.’
The young Emperor’s mother was dethroned and executed. They couldn’t even collect the corpse and had to send it off, but someone had been taking care of those remains from that time.
Even so, it was hard to simply believe the old man’s words. It was remains that had been presumed lost for twenty years.
Everyone watched the young Emperor’s reaction. Benjamin had been silent ever since he received the urgent report.
“Your Highness.”
Charlotte called Benjamin.
“Emperor, Your Highness.”
Benjamin turned his neck as if to respond to her voice.
“……. ”
Benjamin gestured for Charlotte to speak and waited. All the servants watched him.
Charlotte drew a breath. Benjamin also slowly realized that he had to say something. That way, the servants would receive his instructions and move.
Charlotte closed her eyes and opened her lips. A smooth voice flowed out like a melody.
“The servants are waiting. Give them your orders, Your Majesty.”
“Silence is golden. Have the servants stand properly and tidy the surroundings. Don’t let the needless chaos be seen, and muzzle their mouths.”
The head servant nodded his head.
“Yes, Your Majesty. I will keep that in mind.”
Everyone retreated. Charlotte patted his back. She embraced his shoulders with her stiff hands.
“It seems the Empress Dowager is coming back.”
It seems she’s returning to the palace after a long, roundabout journey. How long has this wait been?
The sevenyearold child had become an adult, and the once nearlydead disposed prince had ascended to the throne himself.
“I don’t know yet.”
The royal palace was not a place to believe readily just because one wanted to believe.
“Just.”
Benjamin Visennov muttered quietly.
“I just need to verify.”
Benjamin Visennov kept in mind that it might not be so.
Too much time has passed. It was hard to believe outright.
“Let’s go meet the Empress Dowager so she doesn’t lose her way.”
Charlotte gently pushed his back.
‘In a previous life, you retrieved the ashes.’
Since she couldn’t tell him the story of her previous life, she quietly protected his side.
Charlotte smiled faintly. For him, who could neither be happy nor sad.
“Do you remember raising the lantern during the ceremony for the dead, to guide their way? The Empress Dowager has been away for a long time. To make sure her path back is not long, to make sure she doesn’t lose her way, let’s take one step further and wait for her.”
A servant carefully approached.
“People have arrived outside, Your Majesty.”
Soon, Benjamin Visennov was called and went down. Charlotte followed him, and the servants followed them as well.
Their steps were quiet, and every gesture was refined. The servants all bowed.
They stopped at the entrance to the imperial palace. The intelligence officers were lined up below.
“Intelligence officers, all have completed their mission and returned.”
The one standing at the bottom of the stairs fell silent in the end.
“…….”
Benjamin Visennov slowly walked towards the urn.
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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