Originally, Gallio had no intention of killing Bella.
No, to be precise, he intended to keep her alive for now.
There was only one thing he needed.
Bella’s soul.
“Although the timing is a bit earlier than planned, it seems cleaner this way.”
The ‘client’ who commissioned him had recently been suspicious of Gallio. If that fearsome man caught wind that he had already discovered Bella’s soul, and if the fact that this information had been concealed for a long time came to light, Gallio would be unable to escape death.
“Once I have the princess’s soul in my hands, I’ll reconsider the conditions. The princess’s soul is more valuable than I thought.”
When Gallio first received a request from a mysterious man to find a soul, he casually dismissed it, thinking there were all sorts of strange people out there. Moreover, the man was human. A human in a rather high position in the Empire, at that. It was quite audacious for someone from the Empire to make a request to a great demon. Therefore, Gallio immediately burned the request form that contained the contents of a considerable sum of success fee.
Although Gallio was not one to use money and jewels, taking on a request from a human shook his pride as a demon. However, a while later, when he personally faced the client who crossed the boundaries, Gallio’s thoughts completely changed.
The man who came to him already had a veiled face.
“Uh, how are you… Weren’t you already dead? I saw Lord piercing through your heart with my own eyes.”
“It seems there is a god. I didn’t believe it when the head priest babbled about the grace of the goddess. It’s something to see in a long life.”
Gallio instinctively shivered at the enormous magic emitted by the man.
On the surface, he looked like an ordinary human.
How could he exude such a dense and powerful magic?
“I’ll have to entrust you with my request, Gallio. Because you’re qualified for this job.”
“…What do you want from me?”
“Find one soul for me. About twenty years old. The actual body may be younger or older than that.”
According to the man’s words, he had used unknown magic to extract the soul of a woman. He succeeded in extracting the soul before the body died but lost the soul due to some force.
“I searched all over the Empire to find that soul. But in the end, it turned out to be in vain. In that case, there’s only one answer. The soul crossed over the boundary.”
“Seeing you say that, it seems the soul belongs to a human. But isn’t it a mistake? It’s impossible for a human soul to flow into a demon’s body.”
“I also initially thought so. However, she is very special. It’s possible that she could transfer vessels with the body of another race, not human. It’s not easy to feel due to a strange disturbance, but… there’s undoubtedly something alive somewhere.”
In reality, Gallio was skeptical of the man’s opinion. He even wondered if the man in front of him had gone insane. To search every nook and cranny of the continent just to find the soul of a human woman. As a former pure-blood enthusiast himself, he found it hard to believe the man’s words.
“In my past life, I was a woman, but now I might have a different gender. It’s possible that I’m still in the womb without being born yet, or I could be an old grandmother or a young boy. Whatever it takes, find her at all costs.”
“…If you’re so desperate, wouldn’t it be better to search for her yourself? It might be better than entrusting it to me.”
“I haven’t been able to stay beyond the boundary for a long time. The magic here is too strong, making it difficult for me to maintain the form of a human.”
“A human form? That means… surely…”
“That’s right. I made a deal with a demon.”
Gallio, who quickly understood the meaning of the man’s words, recoiled with a sneer. The one who sold his soul to a demon, Pafuth.
In ancient language, the word meant fate or destiny, and it was a subject of fear and condemnation for all demons.
Was he, who was once a proud demon, corrupted to such an extent?
“As you know, Pafuth can absorb the souls of demons. You have no right to refuse this request, Gallio Turner. Try to refuse if you want. If you want to leave this place with your life intact, that is.”
“Ah, I understand. I’ll accept this request immediately.”
In the end, Gallio reluctantly accepted the man’s request. In fact, he was proficient in the dark magic system that dealt with mind control and souls, and he possessed the information network of the Dark Association. He could be considered the most suitable person for this job.
And a few months later, Gallio discovered an astonishing fact.
The soul the client was looking for and Princess Bella’s soul had almost identical conditions.
“I thought it would be closer to the hybrid side of demon and human since it’s a human soul… Could it be a fairy lineage?” The combination of fairy and demon was an extremely rare occurrence in the history of the continent. Therefore, it was difficult to find similar cases, and there was virtually no research data.
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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