Her thoughts soon began to overlap with others.
What should I do if I have to leave this place or get driven out?
It was unclear when leaving this place had started to feel so unsettling.
“Vejunha?”
Perhaps lost in thought, Decarabia peeked his head towards her.
Was it because of this demon who pretended not to care but was attentive to me, or was it because the demons subtly rejoiced every time their names were called?
Not all of them harbored solely positive emotions towards her.
However, at the very least, they did not maintain a distance outwardly and listened to her words for the sake of the Great Covenant.
Unlike the clergy who looked up to her as something transcendent, they did not keep their distance and yet did not treat her as a mere tool or consumable, intending to manipulate her at will.
“…….”
For Beril, just that made this place agreeable.
She hadn’t realized how starved for affection she was until she received it.
While there were those like Naberus who obeyed her commands begrudgingly, and while the motives of other demons remained unknown, being respected, even just outwardly, was a gratification she couldn’t abandon.
‘Do you really intend to shirk your duties, Saint? Once you’ve entered a noble household, you should know that you have to follow worldly duties.’
‘Don’t tell me you’ll actually shirk your responsibilities?’
Whether it was the Duke Orobas of her first life, who only saw her as an object of desire,
‘In purity, cleanly. Just live as you did in the temple. So….’
Or the Duke Ubar of her second life, who sought to ultimately sacrifice her while fulfilling another twisted desire.
Their subordinates could not have treated Beril properly.
So the comparison was inevitable.
If craving such things was not too vulgar. No, if it wasn’t wrong.
I also want to live a life where I am treated like a person.
‘I will teach you how to desire.’
As Belered had said, she found herself increasingly wanting something.
At first, she merely wanted to survive, then she wanted to live a better life, and now she wanted to live a life of respect….
Even though anyone else might have felt the same, the fact that it was happening to her weighed on her mind.
Because it felt like she was becoming too greedy.
If she became too greedy, she thought, perhaps Belered’s feelings might change.
“It’s okay if you want to look.”
Decarabia’s words interrupted her thoughts at that moment. Beril’s fingertips touched Belered’s ‘daytime duties.’
“Ah.”
If his work as a demon for the night was one thing, she had to know about his duties as a Duke.
It wouldn’t have been placed here if it wasn’t meant to be seen.
Thus concluding, Beril unfolded the documents. Not long after, she realized an important fact.
“I knew that demons gathered in Vain’s territory.”
Flipping through the papers, Beril realized there was a point she hadn’t considered.
“……Not all the residents of Vain’s territory are demons, and it seems that not even the people in Vain’s mansion are aware that they are demons.”
It was a fact easily discernable by flipping through a few documents.
“Yes, that’s correct.”
Decarabia nodded.
In a way, it was obvious.
If the number of demons, each possessing strong abilities, were as many as the subjects of Duke Vain, the landscape of the continent would have already changed.
But because they couldn’t, the demons could only hide around the mansion.
“The area around the mansion has the most frequent occurrences of monsters……”
It was as if they were surrounded by a horde of monsters. Designed to keep humans from approaching too easily.
“People think that the Duke lives among the monsters for their sake.”
Decarabia extended his hand as if to say it was a ridiculous misconception.
As if they would do such a thing for humans.
However, Beril thought differently. Regardless of the reason, the end result was the same, wasn’t it?
[Monster Extermination Records]It was evident even from these documents alone.
The residents of Duke Vain’s territory would have a high regard for a lord who efficiently deals with monsters.
Furthermore, Duke Vain had not been easily accessible to his subjects. The same was true for his knights.
When considering the cases where knights from other families abused their power because they were the lords’ knights, the subjects could only welcome this.
Of course, there was a clear reason for not approaching them.
“If the knights approach the commoners, it will only give humans a chance to find something strange.”
……Because it’s hard to pretend to be human, they just didn’t go.
But what about from the standpoint of Duke Vain’s subjects?
Knights who not only ensure safety but also avoid abusing their power and only do their jobs? What better territory could there be?
Still, there was one thing that bothered her.
“But still, it feels uneasy that Veleth does not personally patrol the territory. There would be anxious subjects……”
People tend to place more trust in someone they can see.
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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