“The food needed immediately can be solved by sending my assistant and the village chief’s son outside the village. I’ll bring back food that you can eat comfortably without worrying about addiction.”
“I-I will go! Leave it to me!”
Ashu, who was nervously watching the confrontation, intervened at the right moment and shouted.
As the village reached a temporary calm, the village leaders began to exchange glances subtly.
The village chief glanced at his father with a hint of reproach.
“Elder, do whatever you want, whether it’s fate or whatever. I will follow the doctor’s duty as it is.”
“As if turning our village upside down wasn’t enough, are you going to keep rummaging through our village, notifying us of something?”
The wrinkles on the old man’s forehead, who stared at Sharti, became even deeper.
“If what the elder said is true, then the fact that your grandson requested my help, my entry into this village, and the discovery of the illness, all of it is fate, right?”
“…It seems talking won’t work.”
“It doesn’t matter. I simply notified them.”
Finally turning away from the old man’s gaze, Sharti’s body relaxed. Perhaps reassured by Ashu’s grandfather admitting his fault, a slight smile appeared at the end of her words.
“Notification! What kind of habit is that! First, the food you guys took away…”
“It’s just painful to hear. Get up now.”
“Yes, yes?”
When the old man stood up, the village chief followed suit with an uneasy expression.
The village leaders, with reluctant glares at Sharti, eventually left the hall.
“Master.”
As the old man, supported by the village chief, left the hall, Ren quickly approached Sharti.
The tense atmosphere filled with criticism and interrogation was now quiet in the hall.
“Are you okay?”
Ren, looking at the standing Sharti, whispered in a worried tone.
Sharti, holding a fist she had been clutching for who knows how long, was standing while trembling.
“Ma-Master.”
At that moment, Ashu approached hesitantly.
Ashu’s usual innocent smile felt awkward due to hearing Sharti’s voice for the first time.
“Th-thank you.”
Still, Ashu expressed gratitude to Sharti while maintaining proper etiquette.
Although she said it was a notification, for Ashu, Sharti’s words were all promises and commitments.
Her unwavering trust was clearly conveyed to Ashu’s heart.
“I’m very sorry. I often visited those who were unwell, but I never exchanged a word or even made eye contact. I thought you regarded me as a grandfather or father, so you kept your distance.”
Ashu bit her lip, and tears welled up.
“I wasn’t someone you could comfortably share a word about pain with. Before fighting with my father, I should have visited them, reassured them not to worry, before leaving.”
If Ashu was desperate and urgent enough to ask Sharti, an outsider, for help, how desperate and urgent must it have been?
While Ashu deeply reflected on her remorse for the patients, Sharti slightly nodded.
“No. Probably from the moment you collapsed, it would have been difficult even to move a finger. It seems you continued to sleep with difficulty opening your eyes. Even when I examined you, you were groaning unconsciously the entire time.”
“Yes…? But, earlier, you said to save you, that you didn’t want to die, Master…”
“…Hmm, seems to have worked well?”
…!”
Ashu’s mouth hung open.
It was Sharti’s trick. Sharti worried about what would happen if they didn’t believe her and added that they all must have fainted. When Ashu was about to express her worry, Sharti added that she was worried if they would believe her at all.
“Anyway, we seem to have overcome this crisis well… Ah!”
“Shaa!”
“Master!”
As Sharti, whose legs gave way, staggered, Ren quickly approached her and firmly supported her shoulders.
“It’s al-alright. I-I’m just relaxed…”
“Enough, you don’t have to say anything more. Come on, drink some water, take a deep breath.”
Ren lowered his posture and skillfully lifted Sharti in his arms. As he did so, he securely pulled her into his embrace, protecting her from the awkwardly reaching Ashu.
Ren, pretending to be concerned about Sharti’s neck, didn’t let her voice reach Ashu anymore.
Despite worrying that Sharti might be hurt by Ashu’s reaction, Sharti had the desire to monopolize the conversation with her.
“From now on, you need to rest. Leave the task of obtaining food to me.”
“No, I’ll go!”
Sharti wrote a note in Ren’s arms.
Although she wanted to get out of the awkward position, she still had no strength in her legs, and her cold body was embracing Ren’s warmth.
“Got it.”
“Yes, Master.”
Due to the hidden nature of the village, they couldn’t request help from the lower village without the village chief’s permission. Therefore, the urgently needed food had to be obtained from the village beyond the mountain or the cabins in the mountains.
‘Since the reaction of the origin stone is only near this village, there shouldn’t be a problem with distant villages. We should be able to secure more than a day’s worth of food.’
Fortunately, it was a relief to have checked the way here briefly just in case.
Ashu, who blinked at the map, sighed in embarrassment.
“What if the resistance continues tomorrow?”
If meager meals continued, the villagers’ resentment would increase. Anyway, since more than half of the village people still didn’t show symptoms of poisoning, they were likely to be resentful of Sharti, who was insisting on treatment.
“But I still don’t understand.”
Ren spoke with his tongue in cheek.
“Is the reason for using force with such strange logic only because of the so-called ‘hidden village’? There seems to be another reason.”
“Well, I also don’t really understand that…”
Ashu also wrinkled her brow, saying she didn’t understand.
“Then I’ll go first.”
“What? Going together would save time.”
Ren, who stood up with Sharti and looked at Ashu, frowned with a sharp gaze.
“So, are you telling me to leave my master alone in this village?”
“Ah, um, yes, yes.”
In response to Ren’s sharp and harsh eyes, Ashu nodded vigorously.
Ashu looked at Sharti and smiled as if embarrassed.
Ren, with a choked voice, spread the map in front of Ashu.
“Since this is the farthest place, I’ll go.”
“Ah, then I’ll go to these two places…”
“Wait.”
The village chief, who knows when he returned, intervened in the conversation.
The middle-aged man resembling Ashu, still sending a resentful gaze toward Sharti, was still present.
“Do you know what kind of trouble you might cause, sending both of them outside? I’ll send a villager as a monitor along with you.”
Ren looked at the village chief with a displeased look.
On the other hand, Ashu, despite her father’s stern permission, nodded eagerly.
The village chief turned his gaze to Sharti.
“Regardless of the intention, you acted on your own without consulting us, so you must be held accountable.”
Ren’s expression disappeared from his face in response to the unexpected hostility.
Before Ren could show a sharp reaction again, Sharti tapped his arm and calmed him down.
Whatever the case, the tone used was not formal.
“Come with me.”
“Father! Then should I…”
“Don’t make me repeat myself.”
The village chief, who had coldly turned away from his son, gestured with his chin to Sharti and left.
‘He must mean for me to follow.’
As Sharti tried to follow the village chief, Ren immediately opened his eyes wide and blocked her way.
It was a clear signal with his eyes that she shouldn’t go alone; he wanted her to take him with her.
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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