“This is a trap! No matter how imperial you are, you can’t do this to me!”
“Whether it’s a trap or not, it will be clear soon.”
“Is it a trap or not? That sounds like you’re confirming that I’m the culprit, Duke?”
Bake smirked, but Calix didn’t care. In the end, it was Bake who raised both eyebrows in dissatisfaction.
“Whether you’re guilty or not will be clear after the investigation is over.”
“……”
“If this is really just a trap, I hope you’ll cooperate.”
“It seems like it’s my lawyer’s job to deal with such things, not mine.”
“Usually, it would be. But it’s an imperial summons. If you’re a loyal servant, it’s right to follow the will.”
Calix looked out the window calmly with his arms crossed.
From here, in the secondfloor reception room, a parked carriage was clearly visible.
It was a carriage sent by the Emperor himself. It had the golden lion mark of the Imperial Family and was filled with the Emperor’s elite soldiers.
This was a way to treat VIPs to the imperial palace.
Regardless of the real purpose, outwardly it appeared that Duke Craiton had received an invitation from the Emperor. Being an imperial citizen, Bake couldn’t refuse the Emperor’s summons.
“No matter the Emperor’s order, I cannot go until my wife wakes up. Checking on my wife’s condition is something I should do as the head of a family, before being a husband.”
“……”
“When my wife wakes up, I will listen to everything. Not from anyone else, but directly from her mouth.”
Bake glared at the glittering gold carriage as if it were an enemy.
Liviana, who was fine until this morning, came back fainting. It was something that could not happen without something happening at the imperial court.
“Then, I’ll wait here as well.”
“No. You, Duke, can go back. It’s not right to make a busy person wait.”
“I’m just following the Emperor’s orders.”
Bake swallowed a bitter sigh at Calix’s attitude of always using the Emperor as an excuse. The Duke Pieren didn’t seem to be thinking of going back alone.
“What a great deal you’re making out of this, Duke. It’s a socalled accusation, but it’s just a ridiculous talk by a Countess who doesn’t even look like a noble.”
“The Emperor is the father of the empire, so it’s natural to protect citizens who are like his children.”
“If you put it that way, am I not also a child of the Emperor?”
“That’s why you should show respect. Think about the honor of the Duke.”
He didn’t say the rest, but it was easy to guess what he meant. It was a threat to follow quietly if he didn’t want to let the whole world know.
Bake couldn’t argue, even though he showed his nervousness.
Right now, he didn’t have enough grounds to defy the Emperor’s command.
But going to the imperial court without a clear alternative in this situation was dangerous. As long as he didn’t know what that snake was planning, he had to protect himself as much as possible.
The problem was how long he could hold out like this.
Bake turned around with his arms crossed. His index finger was anxiously drumming on his arm.
It was then. There was suddenly a commotion outside.
“What’s happening?”
“I’m sorry, sir. The mistress just woke up.”
“Liviana woke up?”
Bake went out with a start and opened the door. It was a chaotic situation, but it was a relief that Liviana, who had fainted, had regained consciousness.
“I’m going now, so to the doctor.”
“No need for a doctor. I was just a little surprised.”
The voice was calm, but for that reason, it was spinechilling. Bake had known through experience that as Riviana became angrier, her tone became clearer.
Bake unconsciously swallowed his dry saliva in the face of his wife’s eyes he encountered unknowingly.
Riviana leaning on the door looked tired, but her blue eyes shone more vividly than ever.
“You said so. Margaret did not disappear.”
“I just.”
“You said you could explain everything. You said it was all a misunderstanding. But, why did I hear about Margaret from the palace?”
She seemed to continue her words calmly, but the faintly trembling ends of her words couldn’t completely hide her emotions. Riviana bit her lips several times and closed her eyes tightly.
“Ri, Riviana, I…”
“I just can’t understand. If His Majesty has secured Margaret’s safety, it doesn’t make sense. Just the other day, I received a letter from Margaret saying she was preparing to return to the capital to meet me, and she is doing well and we’ll see each other soon.”
“……”
“Did you lie to me? Again?”
Riviana’s trembling eyelids slowly looked up. The blue pupils visible beneath her dense eyelashes swallowed her emotions and were getting cold.
Under his wife’s accusatory gaze, Bake stepped back hesitantly.
He needed to make some excuse, but his mind wasn’t working well.
“Now it’s time to move.”
Bake’s head moved creakily like a rusty machine.
Even knowing that the atmosphere was not normal, Calix was leisurely looking out of the window.
“The raindrops are getting thicker. If we don’t hurry, it looks like it’s going to pour.”
“…Duke Pieren.”
“Didn’t you say so. After your wife regained consciousness, you would go to see His Majesty.”
“I.”
“Go and come back. After you return, let’s talk again.”
Before Bake could refuse, Riviana cut in.
Bake’s expression turned into a woeful one. With her arms folded, Riviana looking at me had the face of the past.
It was not the face of a wife looking at her husband.
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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