Whose child is it?
That was the thought that filled my mind before any congratulations.
It had been over six months since the death of Margaret’s husband, Lord Fisher.
Considering the timing, it was time for her to be visibly pregnant.
However, Margaret’s belly was flat.
“People will think what they will. But the child who is born is not guilty.”
“……”
“No matter what you say, I’m going to have it.”
Margaret stared at me with wet eyes.
I still didn’t know what to say, and only licked my lips.
The unborn child may not be guilty, but this was not right.
Margaret was suspected of having killed her husband.
To have the child of another man in such a situation was no different from inviting suspicion.
“……Who is the child’s father?”
“That’s……”
“Someone you can’t talk about?”
“You know my situation.”
“You say you’re going to have it no matter what your situation. Then you have to take responsibility accordingly.”
You, and that man.
My voice grew stronger without my realizing it.
Margaret shrunk, watching my reactions.
“If you need my help, you have to tell me the man’s name.”
“……”
“Is it someone I know?”
“That’s……”
Margaret hesitated for a moment before nodding.
Tears hung heavily on the corners of her eyes.
She looked so miserable that my heart ached.
But I couldn’t comfort her this time.
The problem of the child wasn’t something that could be passed over so lightly.
At that moment, I thought of my young daughter.
“It’s Duke Pieren.”
“……Who did you just say?”
“Duke Pieren. He’s the father of my child.”
“What are you.”
“I’m sorry!”
Margaret hurriedly knelt in front of me.
Her hands, which gripped my hem, were shaking.
“I have been in love with the Duke for a long time!”
“What?”
“I didn’t plan it from the start! He was your fiance, and there was no room for me to interfere! Not to mention that incident!”
“……”
I stumbled backwards, but her grip prevented me from getting away.
I spat out a hollow laugh, grinding the face of a man I had tried to forget.
It felt as if I had been hit hard in the head.
“I thought I had forgotten. You know how much I loved my husband. But when he disappeared and he came back, I must have gone mad.”
Margaret wailed and pleaded with me.
But I couldn’t say a word.
I just stared blankly at the skirt crumpling weakly in her hands.
“But it wasn’t a matter of heart coming and going. We were just lonely.”
“……Lonely?”
“I couldn’t forget him, and he couldn’t forget you.”
As the skirt was pulled taut, my body swayed with the recoil.
No, maybe the swaying was something else.
I covered my mouth quickly as my stomach churned.
“He still loves you. Knowing that, I wanted to be with him, even if it was just for one night. I wanted to leave it as a memory, but I accidentally……”
“You’re telling me this now?”
“I’m sorry. But I can swear! I didn’t start out that way! It was late at night, and I was drunk……”
That couldn’t be.
The man I knew wasn’t like that.
As I reflexively chewed over the fact, I let out a cynical laugh.
The assurance that he wasn’t like that was a joke in itself.
That day too, I had no doubt that he was not that kind of person, and as a result, my family met a tragic death that day.
In the end, he was not the kind of person who would do such a thing.
I just wanted to believe that.
I closed my eyes tightly, then opened them again.
Margaret was still kneeling in front of me.
“That’s no excuse.”
There was nothing more to listen to.
I reached out to push away Margaret’s hand, but her hand, tight with tension, would not easily let go.
Instead, she clung to me more tenaciously.
“I know it’s shameless of me, who owes you a great debt, to say this. But you know. Now I have no one but you.”
“……”
“I’m begging you like this. All you have to do is promise.”
“……”
“At any moment, you’ll protect my child.”
I gave no answer to Margaret’s plea.
But I knew.
I knew I couldn’t turn away from a friend who was crying and clinging to me.
[This is the time separator]
“What are you thinking so deeply about?”
“No, nothing.”
Even if I was distracted, it was a mistake to lose my focus at the party.
Ignoring the curious looks, I took a sip of my wine.
Everyone seemed lost in thought, but none had the audacity to voice it.
Then it happened.
Suddenly, there was a commotion.
“What’s all the sudden fuss about?”
“Could something bad have happened?”
“Perhaps, a special guest has arrived.”
The inscrutable smile that played on the corners of the Duchess of Popul’s mouth spontaneously brought forth laughter.
I couldn’t help but think I’d been set up when I saw the man who entered the ballroom, drawing everyone’s attention to himself.
It was a deliberate invitation.
Everyone was eagerly anticipating when Duke Pieren and I would cross paths, and there was no room for doubt. It was a straightforward setting.
But that didn’t pose a major problem.
The party hall was spacious, and unless one purposefully approached from one side first, there was no chance for us to mingle.
“It’s been a while.”
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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