“?!”
For the Royal Knight Order, it was the most shocking moment of the year.
The Empress, who was so highly esteemed and unreachable, was going to train them?
The Empress, who was known for being exceptionally frail?
‘Why would she train? Why?’
However, the Empress didn’t explain her reasons.
After making her bombshell announcement, she just left.
The left-behind knights exchanged bewildered glances.
“…Hey, this. It’s like that, isn’t it?”
“Yeah. It’s like that.”
The Empress was known to be much more delicate than an average person.
It was a well-known fact that she was so frail she couldn’t even take a walk without difficulty, and was unable to attend to state affairs.
Therefore, the knights didn’t really believe that the Empress would actually partake in the training.
But the fact that she would appear at the training ground at six in the morning, a time when even most nobles wouldn’t be awake, was chilling in itself.
Not showing up every day but the fact that ‘she could show up anytime’ was even more terrifying.
‘If we show her this state again, it’s truly over for us.’
So far, they had just been partying with alcohol, including the new captain and vice-captain.
Because the current captain was chosen simply for being the oldest, and the vice-captain was selected by drawing lots.
After the current Emperor’s ascension to the throne, Valkyrie had become quite pitiful.
Their budget was cut, their honor diminished, and the year-end bonuses and gifts from the Royal Treasury on their birthdays were much less compared to what the Imperial Guard or Crusade received.
A knight’s life revolves around honor, and without it, their purpose in life seemed to vanish.
They envied their well-off colleagues who could transfer to the Imperial Guard, and were bitter about the bleak reality. The Saintess of the palace had no interest in them, and neither did the Emperor.
Both were close with the Imperial Guard or the Crusade, so it was expected.
They never had any expectations of the Empress.
What could they expect from someone so ill?
So they drowned their sorrows in alcohol, only increasing their lamentations.
“But why do I feel good?”
“Yeah, me too. I feel queasy, and I’m sweating… but why am I happy?”
“The Emperor ignores us, but the Empress is paying attention to us, right? Maybe she’s giving us a chance before kicking us out?”
Chedep, Giovanni, and Shoppen each made a comment, and the other knights soon agreed.
It seemed like the Empress was giving them a chance.
“Yeah, we’ve been living like trash, resigned to our fate. She must be trying to restore us to our former selves!”
“Oh, the Empress… to think she has such magnanimity!”
Some emotionally charged knights were so excited they even cried.
In this country, there were two rulers: the Emperor and the Empress.
The Imperial Guard pledged loyalty only to the Emperor and followed only his commands.
For the Crusade, the absolute existence was not the royal family, but their god.
But the Royal Knight Order also owed allegiance to the Empress.
‘The Empress is showing interest in us.’
For the Royal Knight Order, the reason didn’t matter.
They just wanted to seize the opportunity to soar once more.
They were going to be disbanded anyway, so clinging to the Empress’s hand was like grabbing a lifeline.
“I wouldn’t mind sacrificing my life for our lord. If only we are given the chance.”
“Right. If she needs our loyalty…”
The Emperor did not need the Royal Knight Order.
It had been so since his days as a prince.
Why would he need Valkyrie when he had the Crusade, who believed themselves superior to others because of their divine power?
It was unfortunate and distasteful, so Valkyrie had always been at odds with the Crusade.
They had sided with the first prince in the last imperial conflict not because they liked him, but because they foresaw such a future if they didn’t.
Their predicted future had unfolded exactly as they had feared.
A little different was the fact that the Empress herself extended her hand to them.
Regardless of the reason, the Empress needed them.
That was enough.
Some knights looked down at their bellies, scratching their heads.
“Ah, look at this fat.”
“I’ll die in tomorrow’s training…”
Yet, they were looking forward to tomorrow.
It had been a long time since they felt this way.
From the next day, I truly started morning training.
With my long hair neatly tied up and dressed in attire suitable for training.
The outfit I wore looked similar to the knight order’s uniform at a glance, but such a style wasn’t currently used in the royal family.
The black pants tailored to fit my body and the red jacket were made of material that allowed good mobility, and the boots were made of sturdy leather to prevent ankle injuries.
Arriving at Valkyrie’s training ground, I felt slightly exhilarated.
‘Oh, they all look pretty lively.’
Derek and the others from the Empress’ palace were taken aback by my bold move.
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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