The room he reentered was just as Johan expected.
Estelle was clutching her blanket as if it could protect her. Johan placed his large hand on the forehead of the woman, who was breaking out in a cold sweat.
‘She should just ask for a doctor.’
He took out the Eleon allergy medicine he had brought for Estelle from his pocket. It was something he had prepared to score points if she had honestly revealed her allergy.
‘But she hid it till the end and it’s come to this.’
Johan dropped a few drops of the medicine onto Estelle’s lips.
Her ragged breathing began to calm down almost immediately as the medicine started to work.
Suddenly realizing something strange, Johan frowned and looked at his hand.
From then until now. Despite having contact with the daughter of the hated Libertan, he didn’t feel any disgust at all.
Instead, he found the soft touch somewhat pleasing.
It was an absurd occurrence.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]She felt incredibly refreshed, unlike usual. Stretching at the unfamiliar feeling of refreshment in her body, she thought,
‘Did changing my sleeping place cause this?’
Usually, after eating an Eleon fruit, she would feel weak until at least noon. But now, she felt as if she had taken some kind of elixir, not an Eleon fruit, the day before.
‘Or maybe my Eleon fruit allergy has improved a bit.’
Things like illnesses sometimes get better without you realizing it. While she was enjoying the morning sun behind the black curtain after getting up, Betty entered the room.
“Madam, did you sleep well?”
“Yes. I slept well because the bedroom is so nice.”
At my comment about the bed being nice, Betty’s brown eyes slightly trembled. Apparently, my compliment of this dark bedroom sounded strange to her.
“Oh, oh, I see. I was worried because I thought I hadn’t prepared a room that suits your standards, but I’m very relieved.”
“My standards, you say.”
This bed, contrary to its looks, alleviates allergy symptoms, making it a very good bed.
‘Although it might not be because of the bed.’
But it was a fortunate thing that the first bed she slept in was a good fit for her body.
“It’s my first time sleeping in such a nice bed.”
In the original story, the servants of the Duke of Blanchett were all very loyal. So they all conspired to put me in a difficult situation.
‘It would be good to compliment the Blanchett Duchy, right?’
After all, people tend to feel good when what they like is complimented.
“I wonder if it’s okay for me to be the hostess in such a nice family.”
“…Don’t worry, madam. I believe you will do well.”
“Thank you for seeing it that way.”
I smiled broadly with sincerity, and it seemed like Betty briefly made a sad expression.
‘Did I see it wrong?’
When I looked again, Betty was smiling brighter than before. That’s right. There would be no reason for her to suddenly look sad when I complimented the Duke of Blanchett.
“I’m sorry that I couldn’t prepare your bathwater yesterday. I’ve prepared it for you this time. How about having a light breakfast and then taking a bath?”
I was feeling a little sticky, so that sounded good.
“Sure. Can I ask what’s on the menu this morning?”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Johan said he had busy work in the morning and left.
So, I had the simple breakfast prepared for me alone. Maybe because Johan wasn’t there, I could eat more comfortably than before.
‘The cherry pie was so delicious.’
Fortunately, there was no Eleon fruit dessert today, so it was a more satisfying meal.
Eating dessert from morning was somewhat of an excessive meal, but refusing the served food would be discourteous to the cook, wouldn’t it?
After tea, I walked down the annex’s corridor, following Betty’s guidance to bathe.
The walls of the central hallway were covered with black cloth. It seemed like they were covering paintings. Betty, who happened to be passing by, noticed my gaze and asked with a smiling face.
“Are you curious about the black portraits?”
“Black portraits?”
“Yes. The Duchy of Blanchett has a tradition of hanging portraits of those who must not be forgotten, to remember them for a long time. It’s a tradition unique to Blanchett, so it might seem strange to you.”
Luckily, it wasn’t a story I was hearing for the first time.
‘Did I get scared seeing the portrait behind this black cloth in the original?’
The black cloth portraits were portraits of loyalists who had been faithful in Blanchett for a long time, enough to be called those who should not be forgotten.
The peculiar thing was that, unlike ordinary portraits, they were drawn very terrifyingly and bizarrely.
‘To honor the will of the loyalists who wanted to protect Blanchett even after death.’
Anyway, the important thing was that I had a problem because I was scared after seeing this portrait in the original.
It was because the adopted daughter from the Duke of Libertan showed disrespect to the loyalists of the Duchy of Blanchett.
‘If I knew, wouldn’t I be less surprised?’
Just then, Betty asked me with a cautious face.
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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