“You all know that Prince Lucius has celebrated his adulthood a long time ago, right?”
As the empress began, the ladies nodded their heads.
Reneb, with her eyebrows lowered, pretended to listen carefully to the empress’s story.
The empress, who had been mixing pride in her son into the buildup, finally brought out the important matter.
“So, before it gets too late, we’re going to proceed with the engagement, and the lady in question is….”
She turned her head toward Reneb as she spoke.
Suddenly, Reneb, who had been languishing a little earlier, collapsed.
“……!”
“Oh my, goodness! Your Highness, are you alright?”
“Why all of a sudden… Was she ill before?”
“Someone call the palace doctor!”
Amid the sudden chaos, the ladies were in turmoil.
“Your Highness! Get a grip. Siren Your Highness.”
Reneb endured the empress’s furious slaps without opening her eyes.
“……Reneb?”
Then Patrick, who had been approaching, hearing the commotion, discovered Reneb.
“Reneb! Get a grip.”
Patrick, panicked, raised his voice and subtly pushed the empress aside to pick up Reneb.
Reneb, who was opening her eyes slightly, held back a burst of laughter.
“What is all this fuss about?”
And finally, the empress arrived. She blocked Patrick’s path, holding Reneb, and said,
“Is it Siren Countess Your Highness who has collapsed?”
In a hurry, Patrick’s voice mixed with annoyance as the empress blocked the way.
“We are in a rush; please step aside.”
“Forgive my son’s rudeness. Your Majesty, Empress.”
It was at that moment when Count Siren and the Viscount were about to hurriedly pass by the empress with Reneb.
“Hmm…….”
Reneb shivered and slowly opened her eyes.
“Reneb! Are you okay?”
“Daughter, are you alright?”
Reneb glanced past her shouting family at the empress and narrowed her eyes slightly.
‘Now, Your Majesty, Empress.’
“It seems the Countess Your Highness has been quite concerned about something.”
The empress, who had fortunately caught Reneb’s eye signal, said meaningfully.
“Your Majesty, Empress, what is it that our daughter is worried about?”
When Count Siren asked with a puzzled look, the empress covered her mouth as if she had made a mistake.
“Oh… It seems that Count Siren has not heard yet.”
With a look that asked what had happened, Count Siren looked at Reneb.
Reneb, standing on her own two feet after getting down from Patrick’s arms, answered,
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you in advance…….”
She glanced briefly at the nobles who had gathered around her sudden fainting and opened her mouth again.
The Emperor of the Basuker Empire had recommended Her Highness the Princess to study abroad in Basuker.
The eyes of the nobles who had gathered, including Count Siren and Patrick, widened in surprise.
They seemed to be unaware of the current situation where the Basuker Imperial Army was secretly stationed in the north and south.
“I happened to learn of the inner thoughts of Her Majesty the Empress, who is worried that Her Highness the Princess, who is weak, may fall ill on the long journey…”
Reneb stopped there and observed the complexion of the Empress.
The Empress had an irritated expression, as if to say, “What nonsense is she spouting now?”
Reneb suppressed a sneer that was about to emerge, and followed with her eyes another person who needed to hear this important story.
Her eyes met Lucius, who was walking this way at that moment. Reneb gave him a faint smile and continued her words.
“I volunteered to go on the study abroad journey instead of Her Highness the Princess.”
“……!”
The mouths of Count Siren and the Viscount dropped open.
The Empress also stiffened her shoulders and bulged her eyes.
Lucius’s forehead was nicely furrowed, not understanding the previous situation.
But suddenly, this thought occurred to him.
‘Perhaps the Empress and Lucius…’
Did they already know that the Princess would be taken to Basuker as a hostage?
There must have been at least one close associate around the Empress.
Reneb nodded inwardly and quickly calculated.
Of course, on the outside, she maintained a pitiable expression, like Shim Cheong who threw herself into the Indangsu for three hundred sacks of rice.
“Reneb Siren. The fact that you’ve made an effort for the weak Princess. I, as Empress Paradium, will not forget and remember.”
The Empress lightly embraced Reneb, marking the highlight of this drama.
Reneb glanced at the Empress, who was glaring at her so fiercely that she could kill someone with her eyes alone.
The Empress, who hated her plans not going as she wished, was extremely upset.
Even if she had messed up her plans, she considered it a slight revenge.
However, it was still far from payback.
And this situation also reached the Emperor’s ears, who was hastily holding a countermeasure meeting about Basuker’s proposal.
(This is a time marker.)
Inside the carriage returning to Count Siren’s residence, Reneb was feeling as if she was sitting on a bed of thorns.
Because the two men of the Siren family sitting side by side across from her were glaring at her fiercely.
“Reneb. That’s not something you should decide on your own.”
“Reneb. Why?”
Even before her regression in the original work, the 1st Princess returned to the Paradium Empire after a threeyear study abroad period.
Of course, the majority of the nobles did not think positively about her return.
This was because she had once stayed in the garden where the former Basuker Emperors’ concubines resided.
Naturally, rumors were rampant that the Princess was a wild woman who must have tended to the Emperor at night.
But the truth was different.
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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