“Will this be enough?”
Khalif, with strength, embraced her waist and mumbled. The winding touch was accompanied by a voice that did not suit it at all.
Ibelia unknowingly let out a laugh. The firm touch wrapping around her waist was so affectionate. Just that alone seemed to instantly recover the mood that had been sinking all day.
“Yeah, it’s enough.”
She nodded, happily acknowledging with her head on his shoulder. In response, he increased the strength in his arms without saying a word.
Ibelia smiled brightly, closing her eyes. The heartbeat sound starting to ring in her ears was magnificent. With each beat, her entire body resonated.
Each time, an indescribable energy spread throughout her entire body. Instinctively, she leaned in to listen to that sound. The more she concentrated, the more it felt like a rewarding compensation for the exhausting day.
After holding each other for a while, he released his arms, and she looked up at him. He still gazed at her with eyes full of concern. However, Ibelia could now genuinely smile at him with a fully recovered face.
“Now, I really feel completely fine.”
“…You do seem somewhat better.”
“Yeah, my mood has improved a lot.”
Ibelia nodded. It was sincere. To an astonishing extent, her mood had improved. His worried gaze, affectionate touch, and warm embrace felt like a perfect remedy. Just being held by him effortlessly pushed away the conscience that had been weighing on her all day and left only a pleasant sensation.
It was fascinating. The fact that someone’s embrace could convey such a positive energy.
“Whenever I’m going through a tough time, if you hug me like this, it would be more than enough, really, sincerely.”
She whispered like a child, her eyes curved with a smile, a pure appearance without a trace of dust.
However, Khalif, looking at that sight, narrowed his eyebrows. Ibelia, as if she didn’t understand English, grinned.
“Why that expression?”
“Your demeanor seems too simple.”
“My demeanor?”
Ibelia looked at him with a puzzled expression. She couldn’t understand what he meant. However, it didn’t take long for her to grasp the meaning.
At first, his hostile gaze toward her faded away. His gaze toward her gradually began to boil with an indescribable persistence.
It was a familiar gaze. Occasionally, when she was with him, or rather more often than she thought, it was a gaze that she had to face.
Ibelia swallowed dry saliva unknowingly tensed. His growling voice, somewhat resembling a beast, penetrated her ears.
“If hugging you has that much effect on you, then surely something else would have a greater effect… as if I could easily devour you.”
He looked at Ibelia intensely, as if he could catch her at any moment. Yet, he couldn’t push her away willingly.
Unconsciously, he seemed to be struggling not to embrace her with an oppressive feeling, unable to handle the overwhelming emotions surging in.
At another time, she might have been scared and run away from all his too hot aspects. But strangely, at this moment, she wasn’t afraid of him.
Ibelia reached out towards him. The moment her fingertips touched his cheek, Khalif’s pupils vibrated violently. Capturing every change in his eyes, she softly whispered.
“Maybe.”
“…”
“Just by hugging, my mood has improved so much. What if something else has a greater effect?”
At the end of a somewhat monotonous tone, she smiled teasingly, locking eyes with him. It was a smile that implied permission, as if saying, “If you want something, you can do it.”
Having read that message clearly, Khalif, who had let go of the desire he forcibly held onto, affectionately held her face. Then, without any hesitation, he kissed her.
The man’s lips touching her soft ones were unexpectedly firm and rigid. The thought that even this seemed to resemble him filled Ibelia’s mind.
The heart that had barely regained stability with the strangely unfamiliar sensation once again felt irregularly turbulent. However, Ibelia tightly closed her eyelids.
For some reason, if it had been a kiss, it seemed like it would be forcefully intense, but it was unexpectedly gentle and affectionate. Perhaps even that was consideration towards her. Between the tender exchange of kisses, occasional traces of the strong man’s breath could be felt.
His efforts were conveyed deeply into her heart. Therefore, although the current kiss felt too unfamiliar and awkward, she couldn’t push him away.
Rather, she exerted even more strength in the arms that embraced him, making an effort to feel him. Unlike the unfamiliar feeling, her heart pounded as if it would burst, and her whole body felt like it was boiling with heat. The unending heat soon reached the tip of her head. It was a momentum that seemed like it could burst with a ‘bang’ at any moment.
Danger signals began to flash intensely over her tightly closed eyelids. Nevertheless, Ibelia did not push Khalif away.
He was never a person who would endanger himself. If she were in danger, he was a man who would throw his life away to protect her.
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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