Seeing the man walking alongside Idel, the maid was surprised and covered her mouth. She had found the prospective duchess to inform her of Shade’s visit, only to discover that the two were already together.
Startled by the maid’s exclamation, Idel also looked at the man beside her in surprise.
“Lord Shade… you say?”
Being called a lord meant that he was the eldest son and the future head of a ducal family.
“Ah… unfortunately, it seems time to end the play.”
Shade folded the parasol he’d been holding along with the gardener’s mask and set them down. With one hand directed towards his chest, the man bowed slightly.
“My name is Shade Hilbern. Your highness, the prospective Duchess.”
The Hilbern Ducal House…!
Idel’s eyes widened.
The Hilbern family had been leading the Empire’s diplomacy since the founding of the nation. It was a prestigious family, along with the Roman Ducal House, producing the most numerous excellent ministers.
She thought the identity of the gardener was strange… but she hadn’t considered him as the young Lord of Hilbern at all. Idel’s eyes shook with shock.
[This is the time separator]In the silent reception room, the sound of tea being poured was unusually loud.
His posture, pouring tea without any unnecessary movement, was endlessly graceful. However, an awkward smile rose on Shade’s face as he watched.
“Miss Idel… are you upset by any chance?”
“…Who knows.”
You are upset. Shade sighed quietly, watching Idel, who wouldn’t untie her heart hurt by his mischievous prank.
The woman, her face expressionless and lips tightly closed, set a cup of tea in front of him.
“Here is the ‘dish’ you so wanted. Please, have a lot.”
“Um… Haha. Thank you.”
Watching the woman serving the dish with a punitive look, Shade gave an awkward, outofplace laugh.
There were numerous ways for him to deal with women who were upset or offended, but none of them were suitable for the lady of his master.
If he were to use those methods…
‘I’d be eliminated by Caeron without anyone knowing.’
He was entirely capable of doing that. Shade rubbed his arm and shuddered.
He had visited the prospective Duchess in secret because he wanted to have a private conversation. It was a task he had undertaken with full determination.
By now, the trial would be over… and the Duke would have received the news of his visit.
Before Caeron returned to the Duke’s mansion, Shade began to think of ways to somewhat appease her.
‘Ah! I should give her that.’
His fingers, tapping on the table, stopped. He called his attendant, who was waiting on the side of the reception room, and whispered quietly.
“Bring just one of the top boxes we’ve prepared.”
“Yes, Lord.”
The attendant left briefly upon receiving the order and returned with something inside a luxurious box. Idel looked at Shade with curious eyes.
“It’s a wedding gift from me.”
With a slight squint in his eyes, Shade opened the box held by the attendant. He took out a few items from the box.
“This is…”
Idel took a sudden breath. If the item in the box had been herself or tableware, decorations, or jewelry, she would not have been so surprised…
“Is this… the original?”
“Yes, it’s the first manuscript in our house.”
As expected, she recognized it at a glance. Shade inwardly praised the prospective Crown Princess’s discernment.
With trembling hands, Idel carefully touched the ancient manuscript Shade had handed her.
“To see the first edition in person…”
It was a historical record of the beginning of the Upiteur Empire. The book was a cultural asset in itself. It was not something that could be bought with money, so the fact that she received it as a wedding gift was simply amazing.
“This is a book written by Lord Hoffman, who laid the foundation of the imperial administration. This is also the original, directly recorded first edition.”
Idel, whose face had turned bright, couldn’t hide her smile. Looking at her shining eyes as she looked at the book, Shade smiled contentedly.
As expected… she seemed to prefer this to jewels or jewelry. Since she had decided to enter the Imperial University, of course, with top admission, it was clear that she had a deep knowledge of academia.
What those obsessed with academia love the most are books. Especially the harder the book is to get, the more valuable it is, so as a wedding gift, Shade had raided the library of the Hillbern Ducal House.
“I also brought about ten boxes of hardcover books.”
There were about ten books in one box, so she had brought over a hundred books.
Idel let out a deep sigh with a happy face at the unexpected and generous gift. She expressed her gratitude with a voice that had softened greatly.
“I’m most pleased with the gift. Thank you very much.”
“I’m overjoyed to see you happy, Lady Idel.”
Shade, who had recovered his relationship with the prospective Crown Princess, smiled brightly.
‘Shade is indeed impressive.’
Seeing the two, Gregory and Marilyn nodded simultaneously.
There was some kind of chill between the two who met in the reception room. Idel seemed to be angry for some reason, and Shade seemed to be at a loss as he watched her.
However, not only did he dissolve her anger with a very appropriate gift, but Shade’s worldly wisdom, which even earned her trust, was admirable.
As they were marveling at the future Lord of Hillbern, who was skilled in diplomacy, a footman approached and delivered the news.
“The Duke has now arrived at the main gate.”
At that word, the leisure that had briefly appeared on Shade’s face disappeared in an instant.
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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