‘So his name is Roxan.’
Still an unfamiliar name to her.
Roxan, so called, shrugged under the knight’s stern gaze and ordered,
“I’ll find my way later. Escort this lady first.”
“What? No. Yes, understood.”
The knight sighed, wiping his face in exasperation, then straightened up.
Meanwhile, the man bade Sephia farewell.
With a promise of meeting again.
“See you later.”
As the night deepened and the fog began to envelop the Imperial Palace, the man turned away with a smile, disappearing into the mist.
Sephia, having firmly refused the knight’s offer to escort her, made her way back.
Unexpected lights were on at the Empress’s Palace.
“Oh dear, where have you been!”
“Sorry.”
Sephia apologized repeatedly, surrounded by her maids.
They all seemed worried she might have made a wrong choice.
They were tender-hearted, but she had no intention of ending it all over such a thing.
Feeling guilty for causing unnecessary trouble, Sephia later removed the coat and handed it to a maid.
“Please keep this for me.”
“Eh? A coat? And it’s a man’s…”
Sephia evaded the question with a laugh.
Back in her bedroom, Sephia laid down on her bed.
‘I couldn’t sleep before.’
Perhaps it was the cold air.
Sleepiness overwhelmed her suddenly.
Half-conscious, she repeated his name.
‘Roxan.’
She had to return the coat.
The Victory Celebration she thought was merely a duty now held a slight anticipation.
It was going to be the grandest party of the year.
Sephia closed her eyes.
The next morning.
Breakfast with the Emperor was Sephia’s first agenda of the day.
After the first breakfast was adjourned, Demios did not appear for the second or third meetings either.
‘I thought it would be the same today.’
Naturally, she assumed he would have breakfast with Titié.
However, Sephia’s guess was wrong, and Demios was already seated in the dining hall before her.
Sephia took her place.
Soon, the courtiers served the meal.
Breakfast began. However, Demios didn’t touch his utensils.
“I didn’t expect that from you, Empress.”
Sephia’s hand, holding a spoon, froze mid-air.
‘Is this about last night?’
The lights at the Empress’s Palace were on late into the night; he might have heard about it.
As Sephia was choosing her words, Demios spoke again.
“Pushing Titié from behind?”
What? What did I just hear?
‘Did I really hear that right?’
A sinister premonition crossed her mind.
Sephia barely managed to calm herself.
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“Playing ignorant, I see.”
His red eyes scrutinized her.
Accusing eyes that left Sephia speechless.
‘Does he think I pushed Titié?’
Referring to right after they shared the carriage last night.
Surely, he doesn’t believe that her falling while getting out was intentional…
‘Unbelievable.’
Sephia, incredulously, asked back.
“Is that what she said?”
“That lady?”
“I’m talking about Lady Titié. The one with your name.”
She was just stating the facts.
Yet, Sephia felt as though her heart was plummeting.
Unaware of this, Demios nodded after a brief silence.
“Yes.”
It was a confirmation.
What conversation did they have in the Imperial Palace?
Even more, the one claiming to be a victim wasn’t present to give her side.
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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