As everyone’s focus shifted to the center, Sephia felt a strange gaze.
‘What’s this?’
Turning towards the source, she saw males quickly averting their gaze and clearing their throats.
Despite trying to concentrate on the auction, this odd occurrence repeated several times.
These inexplicable stares were now blatant enough for even Sephia’s maids to notice.
“What’s with them?”
“Why are they sneaking glances at our Empress like that?”
“Should I go say something?”
The angry maids stared back fiercely, causing the stares to slightly abate.
“Let it be.”
Though Sephia calmed them, she was equally puzzled about the reason.
But it was only the beginning.
“Empress, won’t you join me in the auction?”
“The hall is noisy. If it’s bothersome, let’s go to the terrace.”
“This is a wine from the Sharopa estate. Enjoy it with me, and its flavor will double.”
Male beastkin approached Sephia with endless invitations to do this or eat that.
Her maids shooed them away like peddlers.
“Go to the cold terrace alone.”
“The Empress has no interest in such cheap wine.”
Despite the maids’ barriers, the males kept approaching.
She was too busy rejecting them to properly enjoy the auction.
‘Why are they doing this?’
What started as curiosity now demanded an explanation.
Was it because she danced with Roxan on the first day of the celebration?
Even considering they were trying to gain favor with the Empress, it was excessive.
“Ugh, they’re like swarming flies.”
“Did they all take the wrong medicine?”
Tired of sending away the persistent males, the maids grumbled among themselves.
“Ah, looks like the auction is over.”
“Because of those weirdos, we couldn’t see anything except the beginning.”
Servants were clearing the center area, removing the displayed items.
The maids sighed with disappointment.
‘Can’t be helped.’
Sephia felt the same regret. Exotic auction items weren’t something seen often.
After the auction, the center area reverted back to a dance hall, and the adjacent area became a social space.
In the crowd, the Louvre Earl and his wife were visible, seemingly desperate to build connections for settling in the capital.
Around Titiye, the area remained crowded with beastkin.
By the third day, the group around her had somewhat solidified.
Most of them had opposed Sephia becoming the Empress.
She hadn’t restrained those who had been verbally active against her since her ascension, thinking she would prove herself as Empress.
However, Sephia’s assumption was half right and half wrong.
While they ceased to speak against Empress Sephia, their rejection of Sephia as a human remained unchanged.
Sephia could overhear their conversations from not too far away.
The topic around Titiye in the midst of the beastkin was humans.
“Those humans are more beast-like than beasts.”
“The king of the desert humans keeps dozens of concubines, doesn’t he?”
“As far as I know, it’s not just a particular human group; the whole race is generally like that.”
In the beastkin world, stories about humans were always interesting.
Though they became more cautious in their talk after Sephia became the Empress of the beastkin, it was unpredictable when such discussions might resurface.
And now was one of those times.
Many nobles still disapproved of the Empress, not just because she was human, but also disapproved of her political actions.
Her politics focused on the common people of the empire rather than the elite, irking them.
“Could it be due to species characteristics?”
“Aha, so that’s why she only cares about the empire’s citizens and neglects us… Truly, it’s disappointing.”
As the nobles heatedly discussed the nature of humans, a cautious voice intervened.
“Uh, could you please stop? If the Empress hears, she might feel upset.”
Titiye’s comment silenced the surroundings.
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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