“I apologize, but there was an order from His Majesty prohibiting the lady’s outing.”
Blair and Lena, who were excited about the rare outing, blinked their eyes unexpectedly in front of an unforeseen variable. Lena, who regained her composure a moment later, asked on behalf of Blair.
“Prohibited from going out? Why?”
“It’s a measure to protect the lady, Lena.”
“If that’s the case, the knights can accompany us.”
“That, too, has been disallowed by His Majesty.”
“I don’t want this kind of protection. What’s the difference between this and imprisonment if the person involved doesn’t want it? The lady is not a criminal.”
Despite Lena’s somewhat audacious remarks, Mason neither got angry nor retorted.
“Members of Delmark follow his orders if he commands them.”
With his usual calm and unchanging tone, he coldly responded.
“And you, too, are now a member of Delmark, Lena.”
Although his appearance was not significantly different from usual, it somehow felt unfamiliar.
“I…!”
Blair, who was about to refute Mason’s words, was stopped by Lena. Blair quietly raised her head, looking at Lena as if asking if she felt unjustly treated, then retreated without saying a word.
“Alright. I’ll talk to him myself.”
Blair, turning back, went up to her room with tightly pressed lips.
As soon as Hildin got on the carriage, he roughly loosened his cravat. Perhaps due to the recent rise in temperature, the cloth around his neck felt stifling.
Untying his cravat, Hildin discovered a letter placed opposite him and stiffened his expression.
A while ago, Ivan personally handed him an invitation to the upcoming national festival.
‘Attend the national festival with Blair.’
The subsequent demands were something he had anticipated enough.
‘On a day when the entire empire should celebrate and enjoy, it wouldn’t be appropriate for such an unfortunate rumor to spread, considering the ancestors who protected this land.’
‘…’
‘The judge for the trial that day, as you well know, was Marquis Bouhwan. The more the rumor spreads, the more it seems like insulting the one who conducted the trial. He doesn’t seem pleased about it.’
‘…’
‘That day, attending the national festival to dispel the groundless rumors between us seems to be the best solution. How do you feel about that?’
In the end, that was the gist.
Directly denying the rumor would only arouse suspicion. Therefore, attending the national festival and indirectly revealing that the discord between the royal family and Delmark is not true.
Ivan finally shook the leash he had caught according to his taste. Even though the appearance was quite annoying, Hildin decided to go along with it for now.
After all, Ivan is just holding his leash temporarily. Once an excuse is created to keep Blair by his side, he can easily throw away this leash.
Creating an excuse to keep Blair close and clearing Esmeralda’s false accusation will be the next steps.
If it meant saving that time, he could endure it for a short while.
Before he knew it, the carriage arrived at the Duke’s mansion.
As Hildin descended from the carriage, as always, Mason was there to greet him.
“Have you returned, Your Excellency?”
“Nothing unusual happened?”
Aware that the ‘nothing unusual’ mentioned by Hildin was related only to Blair, Mason hesitated for a moment before answering.
“Madam wished to go out. Hence, I told her it was not possible.”
Hildin’s steps into the mansion paused briefly, but it was a very fleeting moment.
It was an expected event that he and Mason would clash sooner or later.
“Is she in her room now?”
“Most likely.”
Leaving Mason behind, Hildin headed towards Blair’s bedroom.
‘Is she really angry?’
Dealing with her when she’s angry was mentally exhausting. Stubborn on a topic that seemed fragile enough to break with a touch.
It would be good if she quietly listened this time.
As he took off his leather gloves and stowed them in his pocket, a light sigh escaped him.
Finally arriving at Blair’s door, Hildin knocked and immediately entered the room.
Passing through the reception room into the bedroom, he saw Blair’s back, gazing at the scenery from the balcony.
Her posture seemed quite pitiful, as if representing her desire to go outside.
Approaching, Hildin lightly tapped on the glass door of the balcony. Blair turned to look at him as expected, her beautiful eyes filled with resentment.
Now pretending not to know anything was meaningless.
Hildin spoke first.
“I heard you were planning to go out. Where were you planning to go?”
Instead of an answer, a resentful question returned.
“…Why are you imprisoning me?”
Imprisonment.
While it was quite unpleasant for his actions for her safety to be labeled like that, he decided not to correct it. From her perspective, it could easily be accepted that way.
Hildin replied with a calm tone.
“It’s a measure taken to protect you.”
“Why not try other methods? Like assigning knights or preventing me from going to specific dangerous places.”
“That wouldn’t be enough.”
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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