Bang! Boom!
Above the imperial palace sky, splendid fireworks burst. The dark night sky began to be adorned with brilliant colored flames.
A stingy pain and peculiar heat spread from the collarbone.
The heightened senses made me feel many things.
The humid heat of summer, the weighty scent of Johan, and the clamor of the party intertwined.
His precious yet roughly sweeping touch, a sweet breath as if trying to soothe the pain. I wonder if Johan was aware of the strange atmosphere that excited me, as he pressed his lips to the mark he left.
“I can’t stay here anymore.”
When Johan moved his face away, a clear red mark was prominent on the collarbone.
My dress was designed to show my shoulders and collarbones. If I appeared in front of people like this, they would all notice something had happened between us.
“Even after I’ve marked you as mine.”
Johan stroked the mark he left with his thumb, as if pleased.
“No other guy will flirt with you now.”
I stared at Johan blankly, my eyes unknowingly tinted a rosy hue.
“…Damn.”
He, for some reason unable to hold back, pressed his lips against the bridge of my nose.
“If I had my way, I’d want to devour you right here.”
His lowered voice rumbled, carrying a faint excitement.
“I’d gouge out all the eyes of those bastards who had you in their sight.”
“…”
“I’d cut off all the limbs of those bastards who dared to touch you.”
It seemed like something Johan would really do.
‘Think about the Anton incident….’
Johan’s red eyes were intensely shining. That could have been a considerable restraint for him. But it was not entirely so.
‘But Anton and the Crown Prince are very different.’
For Johan, who is the Duke of Blanche, there would be nothing but loss if he went against the Crown Prince, who would someday inherit the throne. There was no way that what happened with the Crown Prince was a lie to deceive me.
The Crown Prince is not a man to be swayed by anyone.
‘While he plays with me and throws me away….’
I don’t understand why he protects me like a real wife, not a fake one, and is jealous. Johan asked, catching his rough breath.
“Tell me in detail what the bastard Crown Prince said to my wife. And don’t say it was nothing important like before.”
From the start, Johan had eliminated any chance for me to escape. He might have kept in mind what I hid during the Erich incident.
“His Highness the Crown Prince… asked me to be his partner for the night.”
Johan gritted his teeth. His smiling lips trembled slightly.
“…And what else?”
“Then, he said if I please him well, he would keep me as his concubine.”
Johan’s face turned expressionless, as if frozen.
“Ha.”
The man who had been keeping a hard face let out a hollow laugh.
“I should not have left that bastard alone.”
Johan… seemed really angry. To alleviate his anger even a little, I added in a calm voice.
“I was going to refuse him, saying I have a husband…”
“I believe in you. You did well.”
Johan smiled satisfactorily, his eyes crinkling in delight.
“But I regret that I couldn’t cut off at least one of his limbs.
Suddenly, the fireworks that had been popping in the sky stopped. Shortly after, more dazzling golden lights exploded in the palace ballroom.
Bathed in the light, Johan exuded an atmospherically decadent charm that felt dangerous. In the corner of his lips that did not seem to be fully controlled, one could glimpse raw emotions.
For a moment, I wondered how dazzling, splendid, and beautiful Johan would be amidst the glamorous lights of the imperial palace.
“It’s a shame.”
Certainly, Johan would have captured not only my heart but also the hearts of all women.
“I wanted to dance at the ball.”
“…Shall we go in now?”
“It’s okay.”
Today, Johan expressed his anger more violently than usual. But because I was not the target, I didn’t feel scared at all.
“Just looking at the night sky with you, my lord, is enough for me.”
Especially since it was my first time seeing a sky filled with fireworks. It was too splendid.
“Even if I were to die right now, I think I’ll never forget today. Ah, but that doesn’t mean I want to keep attending parties. I don’t need to attend any more masquerade balls.”
Crown Prince Carlos, despite being the Crown Prince, neglected his duties and was obsessed with parties and womanizing. There was always a risk of him appearing at any party.
‘It’s better not to go unless it’s absolutely necessary.’
Johan’s red eyes trembled slightly.
“Why?”
“Well, there’s no reason to repeat an experience that was a waste of time.”
Moreover, it would be stupid to do something again when you know its drawbacks.
“What could be a waste of time when I’m with my wife?”
Caught off guard by an unexpected reaction, I blinked my eyes for a moment and found an appropriate response.
“But, Duke, you’re busy. Doing a variety of things together would be less tedious for you.”
“Stop thinking about what I think, only think about what my wife wants. You think too much about me. It doesn’t make me feel bad as a 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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