‘……!’
There was no time to exhale, and the scorching heat that rushed in just before came to mind. It was right after the cold holy water had passed through the throat.
He thirsted for her as urgently as a parched man would seek water, as if such a thing did not matter.
Is a kiss supposed to be like that?
It seems to give a feeling that melts into a place where nothing else is visible, taking away all the nerves, only the other person and oneself.
Is it possible to do such a thing with anyone, even a stranger?
It shouldn’t be.
But Velede seemed so skilled. Furthermore.
“Didn’t it hurt?”
She muttered unwittingly. There must have been a little holy water left in her mouth.
The temple people must have thought she passed the holy water through a kiss, but the reality was different.
She deliberately changed the structure of the dining area slightly for it. So that this side’s movements were not easily seen from the clergy’s side. So that only Velede’s reaction could be seen.
The temple people must have thought that it was rather giving them a clear chance to distinguish the demon.
But the truth was different. Beril had passed the holy water she was supposed to pass to him through her own throat, and she had no intention of properly kissing Velede.
And yet.
‘Sigh…….’
He took her breath away as if there was no holy water, pushing in.
He must be a demon. Even a small amount would have caused pain.
But he appeared to have no problem at all. He swallowed the pain.
“Ah, Saint Beril. Were you waiting?”
The clergy entered the place where she had been.
It was a resting area prepared outside the banquet hall. The last place to be evacuated, and also a place considered for her to rest.
“Yes.”
The faces of the clergy were stiff as if they had come from a battlefield. Beril thought her stomach twisted strangely when she saw them.
Knowing that they would bow and scrape in front of her but sell her name at their convenience and not respect her at all.
To them, she was just a tool to catch a demon and a means to send them to heaven.
Even if Saint Beril died, another girl would receive a calling and become a new Saint, so she could also be used as disposable goods.
Beril kept her mouth shut.
“Count Vain doesn’t react to holy water.”
“What do you think of Count Vain, Saint Beril?”
The clergy asked. Only the temple people were in here as they had asked everyone else.
Depending on how Beril answered here, a battle between the temple and the demons could unfold.
Beril opened her mouth.
“I haven’t found evidence that he’s a demon yet.”
Even if she found it, she planned to pretend not to know. She had to act cautiously.
“Well, he didn’t react to holy water either.”
“But you are the chosen Saint by God. You won’t make the wrong choice.”
A clergyman said seriously.
“It seems that a demon is hiding somewhere in the Vain territory, somewhere in the Vain family.”
“Or can we find the trail of the demon here?”
They were talking as if there was no possibility that the Saint’s choice could be wrong. As if there was no possibility that the Saint would choose something else on her own will.
Beril hid a smile under her veil.
They think I hear the voice of God or something.
But God had never once spoken to Beril. Not even once, after choosing her as a Saint.
Am I really a Saint?
While Beril was thinking like that, the clergy continued their heated debate.
“We don’t know where the demon is in Vain. We should send a clergyman first.”
“If Count Vain himself is not the demon, don’t you think we won’t know where the demon is? We may be attacked inadvertently.”
“Then with sufficient combat personnel qualified as paladins…….”
At that word, Beril narrowed her eyes.
“You’re going to send combat personnel?”
“Yes. It’s natural to catch a demon.”
It was a story she had heard in her previous life. But she heard it from a different perspective then.
If she wanted to catch a demon then, now it’s the exact opposite.
But what she had to say was different.
“If so, the demons will run away.”
Beril spoke in a calm voice, and the priests looked at each other.
“Already the saint has come to Vain, so they must be on edge. If we dispatch battle forces here as well… moreover.”
Beril narrowed her eyes.
“Who would like battle forces entering my family’s territory?”
At that, the priests coughed.
“Ahem.”
“But isn’t it something we must endure for the greater cause?”
Greater cause? Beril almost chuckled but managed to hold back her words.
“In the temple, my words serve as strong evidence. Because it’s the will of God.”
Although I don’t believe in the will of God myself. Beril naturally swallowed her next words.
“But outside the temple, it’s not the case. Vainka is currently being singled out as a demon family without any evidence. If we let battle forces inside, it will harm Vainka’s reputation as well.”
She stretched out her hand.
“It might even become a sign that ‘it’s certainly a demon family.’ We can’t brand such a mark without evidence yet.”
“That is… indeed.”
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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