Caliph’s pupils turned towards the source of the sound. The moment his eyes met the opponent’s, his eyebrows involuntarily wrinkled.
“Lately, we seem to be colliding quite frequently.”
The atmosphere around Caliph, returning answers that didn’t match the questions, was overwhelmingly oppressive. It felt like he could snap at the opponent in an instant. However, Dwayne didn’t bat an eye.
“For Your Highness, isn’t the Imperial Palace a place for assisting Her Majesty in state affairs?”
“So, are you helping Father with state affairs today as well?”
“If you are inquiring about my destination, I was on my way to the Empress’s Palace.”
Dwayne boldly declared that the reason for entering the palace was to see the Empress.
Caliph couldn’t help but feel a sense of bitterness. After being silent for a while, it seemed that now he was seriously considering a conspiracy against the Empress.
To reveal it so boldly without any intention of hiding, in the eyes of the Duke, he still seemed no more than a young boy. This, above all, stirred Caliph’s emotions.
“I see. It seems you’ve been having many conversations with my mother lately.”
“Isn’t it stranger for there not to be any conversation between the ladies?”
“That’s not entirely wrong. Well then, I hope you have a good time with my mother.”
Caliph, with a completely unshaken face, gracefully raised a smile. Facing Dwayne before the heartwarming meeting was somewhat unpleasant, but the discomfort seemed to disappear as if washed away when he faced Elbelia.
Thinking about Elbelia, whom he would soon meet, Caliph hastened his steps. However, he couldn’t take more than a few steps before stopping again in his tracks. This time, it was because of Dwayne once again.
“Your Highness, why are you rushing so hastily?”
“Do I need to report such matters to the Duke? I’ve already made my intentions clear on that matter.”
Caliph’s response was still in a calm voice, but there was a subtly sharpened warning in his tone. Dwayne couldn’t pretend not to notice it. Nevertheless, he approached Caliph with composure.
“Reporting Your Highness’s destination to me is an unwarranted statement. I merely asked if you would like to accompany me to the Empress’s Palace if you have some free time.”
Dwayne politely clasped his hands and maintained a courteous attitude. It was a noticeably different demeanor from what he had shown before.
Caliph tilted his head slightly, gazing intently at Dwayne. Seeing him go this far gave Caliph an intuition that there was something Dwayne wanted.
“Is it an appropriate occasion for me to accompany you? I thought you were on your way to the Empress’s Palace for a conversation between ladies, which I assumed to be closely related to state affairs.”
“A conversation between ladies is always the same. Would it be that intimate?”
Even when intentionally spitting out words to provoke Dwayne, he remained unshaken. It felt a bit uncomfortable, but Caliph stepped back a pace.
It was the tea preceding Elbelia’s promise. He couldn’t delay the promise with her any longer just to probe into Dwayne’s insignificant thoughts.
“Sorry, but it might be better to postpone accompanying the Duke for another time. I am in a hurry due to a prior engagement.”
“Oh, that’s unfortunate. I heard Lady Relia is in the Empress’s Palace, so I thought it would be nice if Your Highness accompanied her.”
Dwayne expressed his regret with a meaning-laden tone. It managed to stimulate Caliph’s patience.
“Did you say Lady Relia?”
“Yes. Although she was released recently thanks to Your Highness’s favor, isn’t she the lady who has disturbed Your Highness’s mind so much? I thought it wasn’t right to let it go unnoticed, so Her Majesty the Empress called Lady Relia.”
Despite Dwayne’s kind explanation, Caliph seemed on the verge of a smile. The fact that he and Dwayne, who had been dissatisfied for not releasing Relia, were now lecturing her seemed oddly absurd.
However, apart from that, the news that Relia was entering the palace already made his nerves tense.
“If Your Highness had accompanied her, it would have been even better. Unfortunately, since you already have a prior engagement, today, I will greet Her Majesty the Empress alone.”
Dwayne’s voice, which continued without letting the tense nerves settle, made Caliph look at him with piercing eyes. The sight of him waiting for the Duke’s permission like an upright subordinate was utterly repulsive.
Although he wanted to send Dwayne away immediately, he couldn’t erase the uncomfortable feeling if he did so.
If Dwayne’s words were to be believed, even Relia, including the Empress, was gathering in one place. While it was intriguing to imagine what kind of interesting moves the three might make, knowing about the situation and not knowing were entirely different.
After a brief contemplation, Caliph turned his head towards the attendant standing behind.
“For the Crown Princess’s Palace, it would be better for you to go alone. Apologize to the Crown Princess, but convey that I might not be able to keep today’s promise.”
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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