“You’re finally here.”
“No, why are you here…”
A calm voice and a tone soaked in confusion merged.
“I called for him.”
Kalif briefly cleared up Edith’s confusion. Then he once again turned his gaze toward someone emanating palpable hostility.
“Welcome, Count. I’ve been waiting for you.”
Jade Caroline.
Evelia’s one and only older brother, he was also the next head of the Caroline Count House.
“Your Highness, Lord Nolton sent a gift this morning. It seems to be black tea, and the aroma is quite delightful! If it’s alright, shall I prepare some for you?”
Pailin, who was tidying up the table, suddenly clapped her hands as if she had remembered something. However, no matter how long she waited, there was no response from her master.
Only then did she relax her waist and look around for her master, rolling her eyes.
Standing by the window, Evelia was deeply contemplating something, her head bowed.
“……Your Highness?”
Pailin tilted her head and took steps towards Evelia. Only then did Evelia sense her presence, lifting her head to look at Pailin.
“Hm? What, what did you say, Pailin?”
Evelia asked with a slightly flustered expression. Pailin tilted her head with a suspicious feeling, but still responded to her master’s question.
“Lord Nolton sent fragrant black tea as a gift this morning.”
“Diana?”
“Yes. Shall I bring up the tea, if that’s alright with you?”
“Ah… yes. Could you prepare it in the reception room, then?”
“In the reception room? Are we expecting guests again today?”
Pailin’s face quickly regained its color as her eyes widened in surprise. Evelia lowered her head with a slightly awkward expression.
“No, no, it’s not that.”
“So, you’re saying you’d like to have the tea alone in the reception room, Your Highness?”
A hint of confusion flickered across Pailin’s face as she asked the question. It was understandable. The reception room in the Crown Princess’s palace was one of the least-used rooms.
Evelia Caroline hesitated, her eyes darting around, before finally nodding her head.
“Uh, I just feel like it today for some reason….”
The excuse she’d come up with was rather flimsy. Pailin’s sharp gaze seemed to narrow further, as if she found it suspicious too.
Feeling guilty, Evelia quickly licked her lips.
“Then, please prepare it, Pailin!”
Though Pailin couldn’t easily dismiss her doubts, she reluctantly left the bedroom. Only then did Evelia let out a sigh of relief and hurriedly turned toward the window.
“Why did you come again?”
Her gaze was fixed on the windowsill. Specifically, it was on the hamster sitting there, calmly grooming itself.
“Can’t you hear me? Why did you come here?”
Despite continuously glancing over her shoulder, Evelia sharply scolded Felix. Still, the hamster only responded with a languid yawn.
It was quite some time later when the eagerly awaited voice finally reached her ears.
—Why are you so anxious? Did I come to a place where I shouldn’t be?
“Is that your excuse? Of course you shouldn’t be here.”
—Why? Is the Crown Prince’s palace off-limits to outsiders or something?
The hamster blinked rapidly as if it genuinely had no idea, looking utterly vexing.
Evelia furrowed her brows and raised both hands to her waist.
“Listen, this is my bedroom. I’m the wife of your friend.”
—I know that.
“You know, yet you’re still doing this?”
—What’s the problem? I merely stopped by because I was passing through and wondered how you’re doing. I visited with purely innocent intentions. Yet, listening to you, Evelia, it sounds as if I came with very impure intentions.
Evelia clenched her mouth shut and glared at Felix. She was at her wit’s end. His claim of visiting with “purely innocent intentions” didn’t make sense, given that he had taken the form of a hamster. If his intentions were so honorable, why hadn’t he followed formal procedures and come in his original form?
Words she wanted to say filled her mouth, but Evelia only let out a deep sigh instead of questioning further.
The person she was dealing with wasn’t one to listen even when confronted with sound logic. She would be fortunate if she didn’t have to hear such nonsensical responses as she was now.
Ignoring him was the best response at times like this.
“Think whatever you want. In any case, this is my bedroom, and you, who came uninvited, are nothing short of an unwelcome guest. I’d appreciate it if you left now.”
Without hesitation, Evelia turned her back. She then headed quickly towards the door, intending to go straight to the reception room.
But the sound of dainty footsteps continued to follow her from behind.
“Where are you going?”
“Didn’t you hear me say to leave?”
“An uninvited guest is still a guest, you know. Is this how you treat them?”
An uninvited guest is still a guest?
Too incredulous for words, Evelia involuntarily stopped in her tracks and turned to question him.
“Then how should I treat a rude guest who shows up without any notice?”
A visibly annoyed expression was directed at the small hamster at her feet. It was an expression of Evelia that Felix had never seen before. That alone was somewhat disconcerting, when an unexpected knock resounded clearly throughout the bedroom.
Knock Knock—
It wasn’t just Felix who was flustered. Evelia hastily turned around.
“Your Highness.”
“Fe, Felix.”
“What are you doing standing at the door?”
A startled Evelia froze stiffly, contemplating her words of explanation. Just then, she felt a faint force at the hem of her dress. She immediately understood what that meant.
“Uh, I was heading to the drawing room. I thought everything should be ready by now…….”
Evelia spat out whatever words came to mind in as convincing a tone as possible. Simultaneously, she discreetly hid both hands behind her back while watching for Faelin’s reaction.
It was a signal for Felix to climb onto her palm.
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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