The End Of The Special Contract Marriage (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 185
“Well, it’s rather difficult for us to give you an answer.”
“Why is that? Isn’t it obvious that if it wasn’t Lord Vandermir, then the culprit must be someone else?”
“Hmm, that’s something we simply can’t confirm.”
Aracila’s vague reply—contrary to the firm stance everyone expected her to take by acknowledging the real killer’s existence—sparked a wave of murmurs.
In response, the other provocateurs she had planted began subtly stirring things up.
“Could it be possible that the young lord wasn’t actually murdered?”
“Oh my, if he wasn’t murdered, then why did he pass away?”
“There are several possibilities. I heard he was drinking alone at the time of the incident—he might have accidentally done something while intoxicated….”
Pola deliberately trailed off, leaving a lingering implication. She, too, had attended the party specifically at Aracila’s request to play this role.
The hall buzzed with excitement over this new hypothesis that it might not have been murder after all. Aracila watched as the Duke and Duchess’s faces visibly paled in real time.
It was no wonder they were flustered—the murder case was suddenly shifting toward a conclusion of suicide, despite their own past deeds.
“Given the distressing scandal back then, he might have been so troubled that, after drinking, he made a rash and tragic choice.”
“But wasn’t the bloodstained knife found in Lord Vandermir’s room?”
“Oh, come now—he’s a knight! And during the New Year’s Festival, he was in charge of external security. It wouldn’t be strange for a knight to carry a blade and see blood anywhere.”
“Maybe he got into trouble with a palace maid. That’s probably why he fathered a child out of wedlock—he never picked the right time or place!”
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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