While Olivia was contemplating, the reflection of the gold button caught the glimmering blue eyes.
With a slender sigh, Olivia opened her mouth.
“Yes. I understand. Please be careful.”
Thanks to the approaching fall, the palace garden was dyed in various shades of brown.
The rustling of dry leaves, caught under Aaron’s footsteps, filled the surroundings with the autumn scent they stirred. Following her, he left the palace, sipping the moist dawn mist. When he returned, the sun was high in the sky. It was a path rarely traveled, yet the trees were neatly arranged, making it beautiful. However, Aaron couldn’t find a moment to appreciate the beauty of the autumn road. A woman walking as if fleeing erased everything around her.
Why exactly hide everything under the veil and move around inconspicuously?
Throughout the time he observed her, a sense of frustration grew in one side of his chest. Eventually, Aaron called her unfamiliar name in a low voice.
“Regina, Miss.”
Regina hesitated for a moment, surprised, then resumed walking. She must have heard it. Aaron bit his lip and followed closely. As if seeking revenge on her for ignoring him, he grabbed the veil fluttering in front of her and snatched it away, dragging her out from the hidden shadows into the light where she rightfully belonged.
“It’s been a while.”
Only then did Regina turn her body to face Aaron. She squinted, her eyes showing a mixture of dazzling brilliance and finely arched eyebrows. The stimulation of seeing each other directly after a long time was too intense. Or perhaps it was the stimulus of a person standing in the light. Aaron, dressed in the attire of the Imperial palace, stood with a white veil fluttering. Even pouring wine or pushing the fountain couldn’t make the female of the Hanmi family create even a hint of grace.
Having confirmed the snatched veil, Regina raised a courtesy.
“I greet the Duke.”
Even after having her veil taken away, Regina did not say anything, bowing her head. Covering her left hand with her right, she neatly folded her hands. She lowered her eyes deeply, looking only below. The sight of her, which Aaron was accustomed to seeing, made his pupils cool.
To dispel the feeling that bugs were crawling, Aaron gently shook the end of the veil flowing from her hand.
“After not even seeing a shadow for a few days, where are you so busy going today?”
“I greet Your Grace.”
Even after Regina had her veil taken away, she remained silent, bowing her head without uttering a word. She covered her left hand with her right, neatly clasping both hands together. Her eyes were deeply lowered, focused only on the ground.
The gaze of Aaron, looking at her figure, grew cold. It was a familiar gesture to him, her tilting her head down. When facing the sole Duke of the Empire, most people behaved in this way.
Until now, he had never found it uncomfortable. However, her seemingly proper demeanor was uncomfortably eerie. To shake off the feeling of bugs crawling, Aaron gently shook the end of the veil flowing from her hand.
“After not being able to see even a shadow for a few days, where are you so busily going today?”
Regina, who had shrunk and hidden herself since their encounter in the meeting room a few days ago, was now venturing outside, as if avoiding any chance encounters.
“I am on my way to the chapel.”
“Are you so faithful that you visit from the early dawn when everyone is still asleep?”
Aaron recalled Regina’s footsteps crossing the Imperial garden from the early morning. In one hand, she held a white veil, and in the other, she grasped a lavender silk dress. Regina was heading to the chapel, a place filled with the power of God.
In a place full of divine authority, Regina, adorned with a white veil, avoided the merciful light and sat in a shadowy corner. She sat alone for a long time.
“Or perhaps you went to pray for someone’s peace.”
Regina’s small prayer, permeating the chapel, brought a wistful look to Aaron’s eyes. She must have checked the letter. After checking the letter, she, who had been hiding behind his brother, ventured out to the chapel. She must have prayed for Marand and the orphans of the orphanage.
“Still, you carry breakfast around. How can you even skip meals?”
Regina’s shoulders, seen from behind, looked as angular as bones. Unable to bring himself to touch her delicate appearance, he could only watch.
“Thank you for your concern.”
“I haven’t had my meal yet. Shall we eat together?”
Regina deeply bowed her head, pleading, “No. I must return now. Please return the veil.”
Aaron gently shook the snatched veil. The wind it created touched Regina’s cheek.
“If you dine with me, I will return it.”
“I have others waiting for me. I must go back, please.”
The veil flowing between them carried the rich scent of autumn. Last summer seemed like a dream, distant. Was that time real? How could a person change so much?
“No, I must go now. Please return the veil.”
Aaron gently shook the veil he had taken away. The wind caused by the veil touched Regina’s cheek.
“If you have a meal with me, I’ll return it.”
“There are people waiting for me. I must go back.”
The veil flowing between them carried the rich scent of autumn. Like the past summer was a dream, it seemed distant.
Was that time really a reality?
How can a person change like this?
However, thinking about her situation, it wasn’t entirely incomprehensible.
“To part like this, haven’t we many untold stories yet?”
If the woman in front of him is really Delia, there’s much he wants to say.
He promised to protect her, but he couldn’t, and he apologizes for that.
To drive out Fevere, he had to occupy Iovento.
He wanted to kill Alfredo, who sent her to Fevere, but he endured and imprisoned him.
The bodies of her parents left in the chapel were properly taken care of.
If the woman in front of him is truly Delia, there’s much he wants to ask.
Wasn’t it difficult when her parents passed away, leaving her alone?
Wasn’t it dangerous when forcibly taken to Fevere?
Why didn’t she come looking for him after safely escaping Fevere?
Why does she hide behind his brother and avoid him so much?
“There are many stories to tell, but it’s so frustrating that Regina hides away.”
Regardless of whether she’s his sister or not, he wanted to drag her away forcibly and ask.
Is she really Regina?
She couldn’t be.
He wanted to forcibly hold her until she spoke the truth.
But recalling the first day they met in the palace, he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
Her blue eyes were terrified as she looked at him, and she trembled in fear.
Her face was so pale that it was almost white, and her hands were so thin that it would be embarrassing to mention.
Feeling sorry, he couldn’t even muster the courage to touch her, fearing she might break like delicate glass.
His heart tightened as he gripped the veil tightly, as if it could alleviate the pain.
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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