“Hey, I even gave a gift! I may not be able to hold it soon because it’s getting big. That’s why I hurried here.”
Sioné looked at Luca with sympathetic eyes, then examined my face as if pondering.
‘Well, it’s okay for a moment.’
Although the first impression was a bit unfavorable, I had decided to win him over, so it was worth enduring that much trouble.
“Then… I’ll show you how, so would you like to hold Lady Bella? If she dislikes it, you must hand her back to me right away.”
“Yes. I’ll be careful.”
Luca picked me up with a very tense face.
“This is my sibling…….”
Thump, thump.
I felt Luca’s heartbeat speed up rapidly across our touching bodies.
It was pounding so quickly that I was worried he might collapse.
“Woob…?”
I looked up at Luca, who had turned pale beyond blushing, and scrunched up my nose.
He seemed to be having difficulty breathing, panting in a way that made everyone watching feel uneasy.
‘If I leave him like this, something serious might happen.’
I know better than anyone how cute and adorable I am, but I have no intention of sending someone to their grave because of it.
I counted one, two, three to myself, then slapped Luca powerfully on the cheek!
“Meeow!”
Smack.
With a pleasing, crisp sound, Luca’s head turned slightly to one side.
It must have been no more painful than being hit by a baby kitten’s paw, but the effect was sufficient.
Luca, who returned to his senses belatedly, murmured to himself, touching the faint handprint on his cheek.
“It’s strange. Why do I feel good even though I was hit……?”
“Woob?”
Our eyes met as Luca tilted his head, and his face quickly reddened, and he turned his head sharply.
“I’ve had enough now. Take it back! I feel weird and uncomfortable.”
“Hehe, you must have liked it, right? It’s not too surprising. Lady Bella is indeed lovely the more you see her.”
“Hmph! It’s nothing. It’s hot and slimy, just like a slime.”
This guy, look at how he talks.
‘Should I turn the other cheek red to make him come to his senses?’
As I clenched and unclenched my fist, sized like a pebble, and slowly started to engage, Luca added in a crawling voice,
“Well… it’s not like it’s not cute.”
“You don’t have to beat around the bush so much to say that.”
“I’m really not!!”
Although Luca tried hard to deny it, those who had already sensed the boy’s heart could only smile contentedly.
Belatedly realizing that the atmosphere was flowing strangely, Luca hastily prepared to leave the room.
“I’ll go for today. …Can I come again later?”
“Of course. But next time, you must come with proper permission. Don’t come here secretly like this.”
“Ugh… that might be a bit difficult.”
With a regretful face, Luka drooped his shoulders and gave me one last glance, then took the servants and returned to his palace.
(This is a time separator.)
And so a day, two days passed, and in the blink of an eye, a whole month had passed.
Receiving the active care of Sione and the maids, I quickly grew and finally succeeded in taking my first steps.
“My goodness, Miss Bella is a genius. To walk so quickly, surely your speech will follow soon!”
“That’s right. When you learn to write, you’ll quickly learn magic too, since you are the Lord’s daughter!”
To be called a genius for just learning to walk.
It’s clear that the sisters are blinded by their affection.
‘Well, they’re not entirely wrong.’
Recently, I had been feeling something else growing in me besides my physical growth.
I had realized that a tremendous magical power was growing within me.
‘Come to think of it, Luka said he felt an energy similar to Wilhelm’s from me.’
He may act like a fool at times, but surprisingly he has such an accurate sense.
Luka may have his shortcomings, but it seems he can’t hide the fact that he is of the Lord’s bloodline.
“The weather outside is nice. How about a picnic to celebrate Baby’s first steps? I’ll pack delicious snacks and lunch!”
“That’s a good idea. Since the new stroller has arrived, it might be nice to go somewhere nearby for a walk.”
As Sione gave permission, the excited maids rushed to the kitchen to fill the picnic basket.
I felt a little guilty about the mountain of luggage for a trip just outside, including my formula, snacks, water bottle, baby chair, and towels, but everyone seemed not to mind at all.
A short while later, dressed in a picnic muslin dress with a rabbit pattern and a cute ribboned hat, I sat in the luxurious stroller seat.
“Ah, I almost forgot the pacifier.”
One of the maids handed me a box containing various colored pacifiers.
I chose the yellow one that I guessed was bananaflavored and sucked on it vigorously.
“Zoop!”
Ah, yes, this is it.
Among the things a baby can eat, the most lethal and sweet taste!
“Giggle!”
As I smiled brightly, happy with my choice, radiant smiles bloomed on the faces of those around me.
We then spread a mat in the yard of the Rose Palace where I was staying and had a pleasant time.
Surrounded by people with no ill intentions towards me and basking in the warm sun, memories of the cold stone tower where I spent my previous life came to mind.
‘I was so lonely back then.’
By the time the tears of my girlhood dried and clung to the bricks, turning into the damp air of the tower, I had grown up.
A lonely and solitary adult who no longer cried.
‘Is there something more to my second life being granted… besides revenge?’
Like, perhaps, my happiness.
‘Happiness… what is that?’
Once, I thought that shedding the status of a princess and living an ordinary life with the one I loved was happiness.
But I never knew how to love or live an ordinary life.
If achieving what you really want is happiness, then for me now, it would be revenge.
But isn’t it too pitiful to describe that as happiness?
Such vague thoughts were on my mind as I weakly sucked on the pacifier.
That’s when Sione, who had been silently watching my melancholic face, stood up.
“I’ll take Miss Bella for a walk and come back. You all rest here.”
“We want to go too!”
“I think the baby is getting a little tired. I’ll take her to a quiet place to try out the stroller and come back soon.”
Leaving behind the maids with sulky faces, Sione slowly followed the walking path.
Walking and listening to the peaceful sound of birds for about ten minutes, a male figure began to flicker beyond the path we were walking on.
Whistle.
The person coming, whistling skillfully enough to be mistaken for the sound of a bird if heard briefly, was a handsome man in his early to midtwenties, the owner of a tall height with brilliant platinum blonde hair.
He looked like a knight of high rank, wearing a white uniform that fit tightly to his body, even carrying a plausible sword at his waist.
Already appearing spherical, Sione frowned as she looked at the man coming towards her, waving his hand in greeting.
“What is that guy doing here…”
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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