It was awkward, but that was really it. I tried to get up following Duke Pieren, but I was quickly stopped. Just with a light press on my shoulder, he rendered me completely immobile.
“Rest. We’ll leave as soon as the sun sets.”
“Um…”
Even if I tried to continue speaking, the man didn’t wait any longer.
Just watching him walk away in a daze, the well-going Duke Pieren turned around. The returning man now had a face no different from usual.
“If it’s cold, there’s a fur inside the luggage. Take it out and put it on. And…”
After hesitating for a moment, Duke Pieren took something out of his embrace. It was a familiar container. Medicine.
“It’s okay.”
“Apply it.”
“…”
“…”
Was there never anything to say like this before? How did we even converse until now?
The air was sitting still, only my lips were moving, and the medicine bottle dropped onto my knees.
I reflexively raised my head. But this time, I was late, and the man was fast.
All I could see when I raised my head was the man’s back walking away with long strides.
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“I lit a sleep-inducing incense.”
Cheshire cast a sidelong glance at Kalix, who was absent-mindedly sharpening his sword. Despite knowing that Cheshire had arrived, Kalix didn’t even turn his head, maintaining an indifferent expression.
“It contains ingredients to aid sleep, but it’s not a real sleeping pill.”
“…”
“Weren’t you curious about that?”
“I was a little worried. Taking such medicine is probably not a good idea.”
Cheshire found it amusing that he had been exposed. He cleared the air with a few awkward fake coughs.
“Well, maybe it would be fortunate to find and take such medicine.”
“Fortunate?”
Usually, there would be a response in these situations.
Cheshire looked at Kalix, who only had things to say but kept his mouth shut, and inwardly clicked his tongue.
Cheshire, after making sure that Kalix wouldn’t respond, brought up a new topic.
“I heard from Lady. She said you would accompany me. Is that okay with you?”
“Unexpectedly received the blueprints, so if we time it accordingly, it should work out.”
“Is that the only reason?”
Cheshire’s eyes narrowed like a thread.
Even if Kalix was an uneducated mercenary, he understood that his position and Cheshire’s were different. Originally, Kalix didn’t seem to like children, especially considering he had no particular relationship with Meriel.
They hadn’t even seen each other’s faces, and if you looked at it in detail, their relationship was the worst.
It was uncomfortable to think that he had considered it as merely a consideration for Riviana.
But even this time, the man’s firmly sealed lips didn’t seem like they would open. Cheshire thought carefully about what question to ask to get an answer.
That’s when Kalix’s lips moved.
“What did you decide to receive?”
“What?”
“As a reward for assisting your master.”
Kalix was never a talkative person, and conversation with him was never smooth. After understanding Kalix’s intention for a while, Cheshire belatedly pulled out an answer.
“I already received it.”
“Already?”
“Don’t you know? I’m an orphan. If Marquis Craiton hadn’t taken me in, I would have been dead a long time ago. I’m repaying that debt now.”
“Debt?”
“Of course, it should have been done a long time ago.”
Thinking about the past made his stomach churn. Ten years ago, witnessing the tragedy in Craiton, he wanted to do something. But he couldn’t do anything.
At that time, he was a powerless child, kicked out of the usual shelter and in a state of wandering with nowhere to go. Being led around by adults and moved here and there made him uncomfortable.
In the end, the only thing he did was pick the prettiest field flowers while wandering and visit Craiton.
Of course, he couldn’t even tell Riviana, and he lingered for a long time before leaving the flowers in front of the door, although it was highly unlikely that she saw them.
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Nevertheless, he visited every day. Even though he knew that the flowers he left the day before had withered without any trace of being touched, he brought different flowers every day. Even as a child, he knew that wildflowers wouldn’t be of any help, but he still hoped she would smile.
Young boys remember Riviana liking flowers.
“……What kind of child was she?”
“What? What kind of child?”
“Meriel Craiton.”
“……. ”
What is this little guy asking about now? Meriel Craiton? The Meriel I know?
Cheshire blinked without understanding the situation. It was true that he had heard the story, but he still couldn’t grasp the true meaning behind it.
“What kind of child was she?”
The repeated question remained the same. Cheshire wrinkled his forehead more than before, unable to control the muscles.
Wasn’t it a common reaction to try to dig deeper if there was something you were curious about?
Without any lingering attachment, Cheshire probed further into Kalix, who was busy sharpening the sword. Cheshire recalled old memories. Surely, Kalix was not like this back then. The passing time had completely abandoned one healthy person.
“She was a lovely child.”
It’s uncomfortable, but what can you do? He had to be generous. Although he didn’t want to admit it, he had received significant help today.
Cheshire, making an effort to have a generous heart, put his hand in his pocket. In the deep recesses of his pocket, there was a tin case adorned with many flowers.
Meriel also liked flowers. Even though it was absurd for a young child to know and feel that way, the child who resembled Riviana so much strangely mirrored his mother’s early years.
“What’s that worth?”
“You didn’t give me a broad question in the first place. Also, there’s no better way to describe Meriel than those words.”
“Why is that?”
“Swear on my life, she was the most beautiful child I’ve ever seen.”
Cheshire’s upper body subtly leaned forward.
Perhaps because he had watched her grow up. Even though she wasn’t his child, when it came to Meriel, he felt a swelling pride. He could talk for hours just boasting about Meriel.
“Looking at the portrait, she certainly had a beautiful appearance.”
“Appearance is one thing, but what she did was even more beautiful. The word ‘adorable’ truly suited her.”
A natural smile spread across Cheshire’s lips.
Most kids of that age don’t like fuss and commotion, but Meriel was different. Despite having mischievous qualities that caused unexpected trouble for Riviana, she was still a lovely child.
“So, is that why you can’t forget her?”
“……. ”
Happiness disappears like foam in water. Cheshire, sensing the feeling of the tin case in his fingertips, withdrew his hand from his pocket.
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Now, here is the English translation of the provided Korean paragraph:
Now, when it came to Meriel’s story, it was no longer a pleasant topic. It was because the sense of loss felt even greater than the good memories.
“Yes. You can’t forget, can you? And you’ll never forget.”
Even though her own heart was in so much pain, how could Riviana, the mother, be? Riviana and Meriel had an exceptionally special mother-daughter relationship.
After contemplating for a moment whether to say the next words, Cheshire finally spoke.
In truth, there was one story he wanted to ask the most.
“I heard from my lady. It wasn’t Meriel, was it?”
“If you have something to say, say it directly without beating around the bush.”
“……It really wasn’t her?”
“……. ”
“Was it truly not Meriel?”
Kalix’s hands stopped.
Cheshire, considering it somewhat as substantial evidence, quickly lowered his body.
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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