When Aria was leaving the imperial palace, the people she encountered did nothing to her.
They neither blocked her way asking where she was going, nor did they approach her warmly to greet her.
They were busy whispering behind her back while glancing at the path she was taking.
The looks familiar people gave her were as if they were looking at a criminal.
Seeing this, Aria was exasperated, but she showed no reaction.
It wasn’t worth reacting to, and since she didn’t want to stay in the palace any longer, she left as if fleeing.
“Let’s depart now.”
“But the Duke and Duchess…”
“They must have returned to the mansion with someone else.”
Fortunately, since the Duke and Duchess had not taken the family carriage, she boarded it.
The coachman’s face was full of uneasiness.
Unless there was a problem, there was no reason for the Duke and Duchess to leave the family carriage and take someone else’s.
Yet, he was puzzled that they had left first without any explanation, but he set aside his doubts and started the carriage.
It was hard to believe that the Duke and Duchess would secretly run away, abandoning their daughter.
After the carriage departed.
Aria furrowed her brow at the sight of the splendid palace visible through the window.
‘I didn’t want to admit it.’
Aria didn’t want to admit it until the end.
That Admund loved Clea, not her.
She wished Admund had been like other men.
Like other men who easily whisper love serenades, promising to give everything they have, pretending they would do anything, but completely changing when a crisis actually comes.
But Admund was different.
“I never thought he would go so far as to risk his own life.”
Aria clenched her fist.
She had waited for a time when Admund was alone to call him out.
Considering the possibility that he might ignore her call, she threatened him with Clea’s life.
Thanks to that, she was able to meet him easily.
Aria explained the situation Clea was in.
That the new curse she had placed would kill Clea today.
However, if someone else took it on instead, it would end with suffering but not death.
And she presented Admund with a choice.
Whether to drink the potion she gave in exchange for getting the medicine to transfer the curse, or to ignore it and watch Clea die.
In the end, he drank the potion she gave to save Clea, and at the same time took the medicine.
Admund clearly heard everything, yet he followed Aria’s will without hesitation.
“Now it’s over.”
Aria thought that she was the true winner.
It was a night when she had obtained everything she could get.
The reason she thought so was in the ancient book occupying the seat right next to her.
Her eyes fell on the ancient book and she smiled.
“Neither you nor I could obtain true love in the end.”
The things written down by the ancestors were countless.
Especially the ancestor who had cursed the child named Aria had recorded her story.
The reason why she could gain the emperor’s love even after killing his beloved.
In it lay a love potion.
Although she couldn’t obtain true love, on the other hand, she thought it didn’t matter because fake love was also love.
After all, only the one who had given the potion could undo its effects.
Of course, Aria had no intention of undoing it from the moment she confirmed Admund had drunk the love potion.
“Admund.”
Aria recalled his appearance as he drank the potion without hesitation in front of her.
She smiled as she called his name.
If he had done as told, he would be writhing in pain by now.
She could have let Clea die by not teaching properly and giving wrong information, but Aria wanted Clea to feel it.
The pain of losing the person you love.
As her thoughts ended, the carriage had already arrived at the mansion.
The mansion was completely enveloped in darkness.
People waiting for her were at the entrance of the mansion.
Aria frowned upon seeing them.
On the other hand, the coachman’s expression brightened.
“You.”
Barwin had taken the Duke and Duchess to the Hersher mansion in a prepared carriage.
Then he warned in a low voice, saying they would meet again soon and to look forward to that day.
If she tried to run away again next time, unlike this time, he would break her legs.
Since then, the Duke had been waiting for Aria to return home.
The kind appearance he had in the past was no longer present in him.
He glared at Aria, who had just gotten out of the carriage, with his face full of anger.
“What kind of humiliation is this because of you!”
The Duke shouted at Aria.
Aria looked at the Duchess standing behind the Duke.
It was a kind of signal asking for help, but the Duchess was deliberately avoiding Aria’s gaze.
The Duke’s anger grew even more as he noticed Aria’s gaze.
“Are my words so ridiculous to you! Didn’t I beg you? To please just stay quiet and not cause trouble when you go there!”
For the Duke, this was truly the last chance.
The last chance to recover the relationship with the imperial family that had turned cold.
But that chance had completely vanished because of Aria and Lloyd.
The Duke, who had completely lost his reason, even thought about running away, abandoning the family.
After all, among the families that had fallen out of favor with Emperor Odin, very few had survived.
It didn’t take much time to reach the conclusion that the same could happen to them.
“Father didn’t listen to me either.”
“What?”
“I told you many times that I didn’t want to marry Lloyd, but you pretended not to hear.”
“The marriage with Lloyd was a matter between families!”
“A marriage with him after he was stripped of his heir position?”
“How could I have known that! I didn’t know about it either!”
The excited Duke raised his voice loudly.
What annoyed him most in his eyes now was Aria’s attitude of not showing any remorse and just arguing point by point.
Of course, as Aria said, Lloyd, who had been stripped of his position as heir to the Grand Duke’s family, was literally useless.
This could be seen just by how people treated him now.
Even though he was not the heir, the fact that he was of the Percy family bloodline remained unchanged, but in the end, he could only enjoy those rights with the protection of the head of the family.
However, in a situation where he had fallen out of favor with both the current Grand Duke and the next heir, he was ultimately just a nobleman in name only.
“In the first place, because father was incompetent, things have become like this… Ugh!”
“Darling!”
Finally unable to contain himself, the Duke struck Aria again.
Even though Aria had repeatedly done things she shouldn’t have done and driven the family into crisis, the Duke had continued to endure because of the blood relation.
But at the words that all this happened because he was incompetent, he could no longer maintain his reason.
The surprised Duchess approached and tried to stop the Duke, but he roughly pushed her away too.
“You ungrateful wretch. Is that all you have to say to the parents who have clothed you, fed you, and given you a place to sleep all this time!”
He turned his back on Aria, not wanting to deal with her any longer, grinding his teeth.
As the Duke entered the mansion, the servants followed him, watching the situation carefully.
“Ah, my poor daughter.”
The Duchess, who had fallen to the floor, approached Aria with tears in her eyes and examined where the Duke had hit her.
Aria ignored the Duchess and glared at the back of the Duke walking away in the distance.
‘Just wait and see. Who will regret it later.’
* * *
“I recommend you don’t look.”
“No, I need to see it.”
Clea, who had entrusted Admund to Oberon, immediately moved.
She too wanted to stay by Admund’s side all night, but now it was more important to grasp the truth of the incident.
Only then could she find a way to cure Admund.
‘If the person Admund met was really Aria.’
Then she wouldn’t have created a situation where Admund would die.
Clea left to examine what Aria had done, praying that was the case.
“Even seeing it again, it’s truly a dreadful sight.”
Hayden frowned even though it was the second time he was seeing this scene.
When he first encountered the pitiful figure collapsed in a pure white dress, he thought it was horrible.
But with another woman in the same space wearing the same dress added, he suddenly had this thought.
Perhaps it really could have been a situation where Clea might have died.
In contrast, Clea’s reaction was calm.
Since she had already heard everything from Hayden, she felt anger rather than horror.
She never imagined it would turn out like this when she had given the dress design just as a last act of defiance.
Clea clenched her fist and asked Hayden.
“Can you find out what poison was used on this woman?”
“If the empire cooperates, I can find out anything.”
“Then find it. By any means necessary.”
First, she wanted to know what kind of drug Aria had used.
After that, she planned to find out how she had obtained it.
Clea approached the corpse, vowing to make Aria regret this for a long time to come.
The corpse that no longer breathed had a peaceful expression with closed eyes.
Despite the fact that she could never have made such an expression considering the pain she had felt.
‘If she had stayed quiet, I was planning to end it with just ruining her family.’
If Aria had intentionally chosen the wedding day, she had made a fatal mistake.
If she had intended to kill, she should have killed her for certain.
But she didn’t die, and at the same time, everyone found out what Aria had tried to do.
Clea reflected on her situation.
Aria had too few cards in her hand to pick a fight with Clea.
All Aria could do now against her, who had become the Crown Princess, was cast wicked curses like today’s.
Even that, she had no intention of falling for the same trick again now that she had experienced it once.
‘You will regret today’s choice for a long time to come.’
Clea vowed to make Aria beg to be sent to hell instead.
Looking at the corpse left as if to show off to her, Clea said.
“You’re pitiful too. Meeting the wrong master and meeting such a ridiculous end.”
Clea took out a pure white handkerchief, covered the corpse’s face with it, and stood up.
Now that she had confirmed the situation herself, she had no more business in this room.
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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