As Killian was reviewing the next document, he glanced at the wall clock and suddenly stood up. It was already 9 o’clock.
“Let’s postpone the next agenda item until tomorrow.”
“What? Oh… time flew by so quickly. Understood.”
Windler, checking the wall clock as well, closed his notebook and rose from his seat. Phew, finally time to go home. I’m saved! At the thought of finally being able to leave this office, Windler’s ashen face brightened a little.
“Then have a peaceful night, Your Majesty.”
“You’ve worked hard too. Rest well.”
Leaving Windler bowing politely behind him, Killian hurried his steps.
Although he might skip dinner, he absolutely maintained his 9 o’clock departure no matter what. A more important schedule than the paperwork filling his desk was waiting for Killian.
[This is the timeline separator]“Ah… hnngh! There… it feels so good.”
“Here, you mean?”
“Yes, yes. Right there. Ah… it’s refreshing.”
Veronia was lying on her side on the bed, and Killian was gently massaging her spine and lower back.
This was the reason he strictly kept to his 9 o’clock departure no matter what. Massaging his pregnant wife was a schedule he didn’t want to give up to anyone else.
Killian’s large hands slowly pressed and moved along Veronia’s spine and the muscles beside it.
“If it hurts, don’t endure it and tell me right away.”
“Yes, it doesn’t hurt yet, so it’s fine. Ahh…”
The part Killian paid the most attention to while massaging was controlling his strength. He couldn’t use even a quarter of the strength he used to wield a sword.
Seeing Veronia’s face relax comfortably under his touch made Killian feel extremely proud.
Making his wife smile. It was no less challenging a task than creating new policies for the empire, implementing them, and managing and supervising them.
The only moment this task became easier was during massage time, so there was a good reason why Killian guarded this time so fiercely.
It was when he was continuing the massage meticulously from her waist to her calves and soles. Veronia called out to Killian in a drowsy voice.
“Killian, thank you so much for today too.”
“I’m glad I could be of help to you again today, my lady.”
Killian smiled gently as he wiped his oil-covered hands with a towel after finishing the massage. Veronia looked at Killian, blinking her sleepy eyes.
“I think I’d be happier if I received your kiss.”
“Ah, just a moment. Let me wipe my hands.”
“Hurry.”
Veronia with her sleepy eyes was usually impatient.
But even her whining appearance looked lovely in Killian’s eyes. He also felt proud of the fact that he was the only person in this world she could freely act spoiled with.
“Don’t whine and just wait a moment…”
“I think I heard that patience decreases during pregnancy.”
“Veronia…”
It was a baseless statement. It was just Veronia’s random words because she wanted to see Killian flustered.
But it was enough to move Killian. He hastily wiped his hands and cupped Veronia’s face. Soon, their lips met hotly.
It took quite a while for the couple’s entwined lips to part. Veronia, looking longingly at Killian’s retreating lips, asked.
“You have to sleep with Jediel today, right?”
“…Yes. My goal is to be a husband faithful to his wife and a father faithful to his son.”
“…Right. That’s how it should be.”
His wife’s pouting expression, with her lips turned down, was unbearably cute. Killian’s lips gently landed on Veronia’s lips once again.
[This is the timeline separator]Jediel’s gaze was fixed on the black kitten lying on a fluffy cushion. Love overflowed in the child’s eyes as he watched the kitten breathing evenly in its sleep.
According to the veterinarian, there was no special illness; it had just become weak from not eating well right after birth. He also said that if it ate well, took medicine well, and slept well from now on, it would soon become healthy.
“Jerry. I’ll make sure to make you healthy. Your mother trusted me and left you in my care, so I’ll definitely make it happen. Just trust me.”
It was when he was whispering to the sleeping kitten with a prayerful heart.
“Jediel? Are you sleeping?”
“Ah, no! Dad, I mean… Father!”
Startled by Killian’s sudden voice, Jediel jumped up from his seat. He ran over to Killian’s side and bowed his head politely in greeting.
“Father, did you have a peaceful day today as well?”
In private settings, it was possible to call him ‘Dad’. But they had decided to use the term ‘Father’ for the first greeting, thinking that practicing this way would prevent mistakes in public settings.
“Yes. It was a busy day, but I finished well without any issues. I heard you went to the clinic with your mother this afternoon?”
“Yes! I tried to beg to stay longer with Mom, but I was a bit surprised when she readily agreed. I was happy about that.”
When Killian opened his arms wide towards Jediel, the child fell into Killian’s embrace. Killian immediately hugged the child and lifted him high into the air.
“Oh my, our son! You seem to have gotten heavier in just a day!”
“I’m eating a lot for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to grow big like you, Dad!”
“That’s right! Well done!”
Killian, who had been rubbing cheeks with the child while holding him, put him down and asked.
“Dad knocked several times, but what were you doing that you didn’t hear?”
“Ah… I’m sorry. I was trying to put Jerry to sleep, so I didn’t hear.”
“Jerry?”
“Yes. It’s a kitten I picked up on the street today. I named him Jerry. Jediel and Jerry.”
Jediel took Killian’s hand and led him to the kitten.
“The veterinarian treated him all afternoon. He said he’s a very, very young kitten, only a week old.”
“I see.”
“He’s weak now because he can’t eat well, but they said he could become strong if he eats well from now on.”
“That’s really fortunate.”
The blue eyes of father and son fixed on the sleeping kitten. Killian whispered in a concerned voice.
“But you know, Jediel.”
“Yes.”
“Since it’s still a baby kitten, I think it might be good to set up a small fence.”
“A fence? Won’t he feel cramped?”
Jediel asked, tilting his head.
“It might be a bit confining, but I think it would be safer that way.”
“…Do you think so?”
“When I was young, I once raised a puppy, and on the first day it came home, I ended up losing it in the room.”
“What? How do you lose it in a room?”
The child widened his eyes and raised his voice, as if unable to understand.
“In the moment I took my eyes off it, the puppy wandered around and got stuck between the wall and furniture. The room was so big and the puppy was so small that we had to search for quite a while. At that time, I thought the puppy had really disappeared…”
“…Did you cry?”
“Yes. I was quite a crybaby when I was young. Even now, just thinking about it makes me feel dizzy.”
A fleeting look of sympathy passed through Jediel’s eyes towards Killian. Then, the child, with his eyes wide open, spoke carefully.
“I guess we should make a fence after all.”
“You think so too, right? We’ll have the servants make a proper fence tomorrow, but for today, as a temporary measure…”
Killian looked around the child’s room, searching for something that could serve as a fence. Then his eyes fell on quite a suitable material.
“Ah! This will do!”
Killian went to the bookshelf that filled one side of the wall. Jediel trotted after his father.
“Books have many uses, and one of them is that they can be used as weapons, and another is that they can be used to build walls.”
“…I see!”
Jediel, immediately understanding Killian’s meaning, nodded vigorously with a big smile. The father and son began to take books out of the bookshelf and move them to the table where the kitten was sleeping.
“It’s fortunate that there are so many books in the room.”
“Mom said we should always keep books close by. So even if it’s a difficult book I can’t read yet, I should still keep it in my room.”
“As expected, Mom’s words are always right. Look even now. Thanks to these difficult books we can’t read yet, we can make the fence even sturdier.”
“That’s right!”
The father and son, meeting each other’s gaze, grinned at each other. Before long, a tall wall had formed around the cushion where the kitten was sleeping.
“I think this should be enough that Jerry won’t be able to climb over the wall no matter how hard he tries.”
“Yes, now we can feel at ease.”
“But seeing that Jerry didn’t wake up even though we made so much noise, he must be quite sick.”
“The vet said he would sleep soundly thanks to the medicine he took.”
“I hope he gets healthy soon.”
“He will definitely get healthy. I’ll try my best, and the vet said he would help too.”
“Yes. Dad will pray for Jerry to get healthy quickly too.”
Killian gently stroked Jediel’s head. Jediel closed his eyes halfway in response to his father’s affectionate touch.
“Well then, shall we go to sleep too? If you want to take good care of Jerry from tomorrow, our Jediel needs to sleep well too.”
“Yes.”
Jediel opened his arms wide towards Killian. Killian picked up the child and strode towards the bed.
“Sleep well.”
“You too, Dad.”
The father and son, lying side by side, kissed each other on the cheek.
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.
_____
Please help me, I want to bring you the best possible things.
If you find any chapter or novel with poor translation and editing quality, let me know by commenting directly under that novel or chapter. I will retranslate it as soon as possible.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
