“Reus…?”
I couldn’t understand why Reus, who said he might be able to stop by only after a few days, was here. Startled, I looked at him, and he swiftly moved me behind him.
“What do you think you’re doing! Take your hands off my fiancée right now.”
“Your fiancée?”
Reus stared at Cassien emotionlessly, then spoke in an icy voice.
“Speak correctly. Roel is not your fiancée but my betrothed.”
The atmosphere turned heavy with just a few words. Cassien flinched for a moment, but then, seemingly driven by some thought, responded with a bit of arrogance.
“I don’t know what you said to persuade my fiancée, but Roel will eventually come back to me. So don’t waste your effort and just give her back to me.”
“To hear you talk, one might think Roel is your property.”
“We swore eternity to each other, so I don’t think it’s entirely wrong to say that.”
What is he talking about?
The vow I made alone when I was naive, what use is it now?
And even if it did matter, Cassien had no right to say such things. He had been negligent in our relationship, and it was he himself who failed to notice the change in the other’s heart.
Further arguing was meaningless.
“…Reus, let’s go.”
As I tried to leave with Reus, Cassien blocked our way.
“Where do you think you’re going, Roel! No, you can’t leave.”
“…….”
“You said you’d be by my side forever! You’re my fiancée. Where do you think you’re going? Keep talking, huh?”
I wanted to leave quietly. But seeing Cassien still behaving so selfishly, I couldn’t just let it go.
I pushed Cassien away hard.
“Please, just stop, Cassien!”
Although I didn’t use much force, Cassien was taken aback and froze a few steps backward.
I looked him straight in the eye and said firmly.
“I am not your possession. So, you have no right to treat me like this.”
“…….”
“So stop bothering me, Cassien.”
“Roel… just listen to me for a moment.”
“Don’t you get it? I’ve chosen Reus, not you.”
“….What?”
“We’re nothing to each other now.”
Cassien’s face fell as he let go of his grip in shock.
Just then, the Ibell knights appeared in the garden.
“Over there!”
The knights quickly passed Reus and me and surrounded Cassien.
“What do you think you are doing? How dare you lay hands on someone else!”
“I apologize. The Count ordered us to separate the lady and the young master.”
“Let me go! Won’t you let go? Let go, Roel!”
Cassien struggled violently, but even a tall, well-built male protagonist like him couldn’t handle a group of knights alone.
“Roel. Let’s go now.”
“…Yes.”
“Roel…! Don’t leave like this, Roel…! Let me go! Roel!!”
Desperate cries followed us, but I didn’t look back and left the garden.
I assumed Cassien had at least notified before visiting the mansion. Cassien had a long-standing engagement with me and used that as leverage to intimidate the servants and barge into the mansion.
And coincidentally, Reus also arrived at the mansion unexpectedly, just when Briella was making a scene to Peria, complaining about Cassien’s insulting remarks.
So instead of returning to my room, I ended up in Reus’s carriage.
Reus showed visible annoyance with Cassien’s intrusion, criticizing the Ibell mansion’s security, leading to my father and Peria insisting I return to Reus’s mansion right away.
Although the unexpected incident had concluded rather quickly, I felt uneasy, as if we had unnecessarily caused a scene. For some reason, I also felt a bit embarrassed…
‘I shouldn’t have been so sure there would be no problems.’
I glanced at Reus to gauge his mood. He seemed unfazed, simply focusing on his documents. It was hard to tell whether he was just busy or indifferent.
‘Come to think of it, he rushed to Ibell because he was worried about me…’
I felt more uncomfortable realizing he went out of his way for me, even though I hadn’t asked him to. After a while of pondering, I decided to speak up.
“I’m sorry for dragging you into that mess, Your Grace.”
“Roel.”
“Yes, Your Grace.”
“You’ve reverted to formalities again.”
“Ah! I’m sorry… I’ll be more careful.”
Reus, who had been looking at his documents, lifted his eyes to look at me intently.
“There’s no need to apologize for such matters.”
“But still…”
“There are only two occasions when you need to apologize to me: if you fail to bring me the Silent Forest, and if you fail to convincingly play the role of a lover in love.”
His attitude made it clear he felt my existence could not affect him in the slightest.
Despite expecting such a response, I still felt grateful to Reus for showing up, which had made things easier.
“Still, I was thankful earlier, Re… I mean, Reus.”
“Don’t mention it.”
“Um…”
The sound of papers fluttering resumed.
I wanted to talk about the Silent Forest, but seeing Reus’s disinterest, I held back.
‘Right. I’ll be staying at the Duke’s mansion for a while. I’ll talk about it later, so as not to disturb him.’
I withdrew my gaze from Reus and fixed it on the dim evening landscape outside.
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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