She could feel a slight fever in her head and tried to raise her hand, but her arms and legs, frozen stiff for hours, had no strength in them.
Looking at the neatly applied bandages all over her body, it appeared that someone had treated her while she was unconscious.
Had night already fallen?
The cabin was dimly lit by the firelight seeping from the fireplace.
The warm air and the soft, plush touch of the blanket made her feel as though she were in heaven.
But Asha was soon startled to discover a man sitting by the fireplace, tending the fire.
His blue eyes were quietly ablaze as he stared at the flames.
Asha, confused, tried to sit up, but he spoke without even looking at her.
“Don’t move, just lie down. According to the doctor, your body is like a barely revived carcass.”
Asha was slightly embarrassed at his words.
Her body must have been seriously weakened from having nearly died twice.
“Where is… this place?”
“My home.”
Only then did Asha feel a sudden rush of embarrassment.
The bed she was lying in smelled of him; it might be his usual sleeping bed.
The scent was similar to the musk that came from a horse.
“Thank you for coming to get me.”
Asha pressed a hand to her chest and bowed her head politely.
He glanced at her.
Her whole being exuded elegance and dignity, a woman who really didn’t fit in this place.
“…You were calling for someone desperately in your sleep.”
Asha asked in slight confusion.
“Did I… talk in my sleep?”
“Yes. You were begging for forgiveness.”
Asha had no idea what she had said and only opened her mouth wide.
But then, he suddenly turned his head towards her, his expression fierce.
“What’s your scheme?”
“What?”
“What’s your plan approaching me? Are you the Emperor’s pawn?”
At the word ‘Emperor’ from his mouth, Asha’s eyes widened further.
His blue eyes were cold and sharp like a wellforged blade.
When she didn’t respond, stunned, he sneered as if he had expected it and said.
“What, did the Emperor promise to forgive you if you seduce me and report back?”
“I don’t… understand what you’re saying… There’s a misunderstanding…”
At that moment, he abruptly rose from his chair and walked over to the bed.
Asha, in fear, defensively pulled the blanket up, but Jackal was quicker and climbed on top of her.
He trapped her in his arms and looked down at her with a shadowed face.
It was a stance like a beast pouncing on its prey.
At his overpowering appearance, Asha recalled old memories, and her already stiff body became even stiffer.
There was no strength left to resist.
Asha did not avoid his gaze but stared back intently.
At her composed response, Wild horse Jackal slightly furrowed his brows and said in a low voice,
“The royal family has issued a bounty order for minorities in all regions, you must be well aware. Among them, Rikaion is the most troublesome group for them.”
“……”
“And the person who needs to escape has already met the emperor…… You, what are you doing? Are you a minority who was captured in the imperial palace and then released on the condition of cooperating with the emperor?”
Jackal finished speaking, examining her face with complex eyes. His blue eyes were trembling slightly for the first time.
The minorities had to hide their entire lives to avoid being detected by the emperor.
It was because the person said to have cursed his heart was a minority.
Without the emperor’s whim, it would not have been possible for her to know the emperor, and to have safely escaped from the imperial palace after meeting him.
“……Answer me. The fact that you were hiding in the snowfield to escape the bandits, it wasn’t all planned to meet me, was it?”
Asha could not answer.
It was because she thought that the incident might have been planned regardless of her intentions.
Regression happened arbitrarily, so the possibility was ample.
Watching her without an answer, Jackal’s expression hardened even more.
He did not trust people.
Even if they were of the same blood, he had learned through long experience that humans could betray others to save themselves.
However, he wanted her to be different for some reason.
He had a heavy responsibility to protect his organization members, so he spoke harshly on purpose, but inside, he only hoped that his judgment was wrong.
He felt confused by his contradictory emotions.
But then, Asha quietly opened her mouth.
“If I say I escaped from the emperor…… will you believe me?”
He looked at Asha without a word. Her eyes were bitter.
Jackal tried to suppress his emotions and spoke bluntly.
“That story means, the fact that you were taken by the emperor is true. So you told me earlier that you needed the strength to protect your body.”
“……Yes.”
He spoke with a slightly mocking smile.
“So the words that you fell for me at first sight were a lie, naive lady.”
That smile somehow felt bitter to Asha, and she was slightly surprised inside.
But then.
“……Captain! Everyone’s waiting for the feast, why are you so late……”
One of the organization members flung open the door to the hut and entered, only to freeze at the threshold.
Wild horse Jackal and Asha on the bed turned their heads simultaneously to look at him.
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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