As I frowned, Gerald gave a sly smile. The corners of his mouth, wearing a thin smile, were sharp.
“That’s not the end.”
Gerald glanced at my hand, still wrapped in bandages.
“On the last day, he also released the Eldings that were attacking other areas into your village….”
Gerald narrowed his eyes.
“It was all Prince Kirian.”
“Ah….”
The fragmented puzzle that had tormented me finally fell into place all at once.
I exhaled the breath that had been tightly bound in my chest for several days.
I hadn’t imagined how I would feel knowing the truth, even though I had sensed it. But once it came, I felt nothing but relief.
Gerald, interpreting my sigh as surprise, laughed even more deeply.
“Be careful, Princess. Before you get fooled again.”
Gerald chuckled, as if to leave some advice like a loyal servant.
“Prince Kirian, whether the village is harmed, or the villagers are hurt, or even if you, the Princess, die, he doesn’t care.”
Gerald looked into my reaction with his bloodshot eyes. But as I still showed no reaction, he bit his lip slightly.
“Did I surprise you too much?”
I shook my head.
“No, I’m fine. Thank you for telling me.”
Gerald’s eyes darkened again.
“As expected[—].”
“But it was just unnecessary information.”
“You[—]?”
Gerald stepped closer, furrowing his brows, not understanding my words.
“I already knew.”
“What do you mean…?”
Gerald, whose words trailed off, soon began to snicker.
“Ha, you were in cahoots? Is that it?”
An outraged Gerald glared at me as if to shoot daggers.
“You played with me. That’s why you did that on the last day[—].”
I sighed heavily, cutting off Gerald’s words.
“Why are you so foolish?”
“Wh, what?”
I sighed again, shaking my head.
“Isn’t it a problem you can see if you think about it a little?”
I took a large step closer with arms crossed, and Gerald took a hesitant step back.
“The only person who can hunt the Marbles in this academy is Kirian, and it’s strange not to suspect that he’s also the Prince’s roommate.”
I looked Gerald up and down.
“And the Prince doesn’t look like someone who could hunt Eldings.”
Gerald’s face turned increasingly red.
“And wasting my time making a fuss over something not even new. I’m not feeling very good about it.”
As Gerald’s breathing became dangerously rough, I decided to wrap things up here.
“I’ve heard enough now, haven’t I? Let’s never see each other again.”
As Gerald only gritted his teeth and glared at the ground without answering, I turned and walked away. After a few steps, Gerald shouted from behind.
“You’ve been betrayed, you know?!”
The noise was so loud that the surrounding students were glancing at us.
“No matter how smart you act, nothing changes. You’ve been betrayed, by a scoundrel you thought was family.”
As Kirian’s name came up, more people began to stare.
“Be quiet.”
“Ah.”
Gerald sneered.
“Family? You’re a commoner with no parents, and no matter how much of a murderous bastard Kirian is, he’s the sole heir of the Istira Ducal House.”
A few passing students even stopped in their tracks. In a hurry, I covered Gerald’s mouth.
“Shut up.”
Why the words ‘parentless commoner’ resounded less in my ears than ‘murderous bastard’ was beyond me.
Gerald struggled to shake my hand off, but I clung on, gripping his jaw tightly enough to unbandage it.
As people began to murmur, I naturally put my arm around Gerald’s shoulder and pulled him further back.
“Ahahaha. Prince Gerald’s jokes are just.”
Once out of sight of the people, I shoved Gerald against the wall and hissed.
“Stop with the nonsense.”
“I just don’t understand.”
Gerald’s mouth stretched into a grin.
“Are you trying to escape from reality?”
When I pushed him harder against the wall, Gerald flicked his tongue like a snake and licked his lips.
“You taught others how to hunt, sabotaged the State Council examination, even tried to kill me. What more do you need to suffer here to wake up?”
Looking into his angry eyes, I felt as if I was facing all the obsessions that had tormented me all this time.
Among them, there was no distrust. I didn’t know where this conviction came from, but I knew from the beginning. That at the end of all this, Kirian was there.
Disappointment, pain, confusion. Many trivial things had troubled me, but perhaps the most significant among them was a single question.
‘Why?’
“No.”
I slowly answered my own question.
“There must be a reason.”
As the strength left my hand, Gerald immediately pushed me away. I could have stopped him, but I didn’t even try. After being pushed back a few feet and losing my balance, my body slowly tilted backward.
I didn’t even reach out to grab something. I just entrusted myself to the slow fall, thinking some useless thought like ‘I’ll be confined to bed for a longer time.’
Just before hitting the ground, a cool breeze swept through, and someone embraced my back.
“Sorry I’m late, big sister.”
I knew without being told. It wasn’t just about being late.
“Forgive me.”
If it were anyone else, they would have said right away that it’s already too late, for the reason, the explanation, and all the time that had already passed that could not be taken back.
“Yes.”
After all, it seemed Kirian was not just another person to me.
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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