It was a rookie girlfriend’s fierce determination.
The chicken was delicious, the moon reflected in the lake was beautiful, and my boyfriend’s appearance was perfect today as well.
Kashar put the last piece of chicken bone on a napkin.
‘So much for not being able to tell whether it’s seasoned or fried by looking at the bone.’
A man with talent in footwork.
I was quite proud of him for perfectly practicing a maxim he didn’t even know.
“Amazing.”
“Hm? What?”
I was sucking on the flavor from my fingers.
“How can you make such food? And how I can taste the flavor you gave.”
I was taken aback by Kashar’s words.
‘Had I been taking it too lightly?’
For him, tasting food and smelling good scents could be far more special than I’d thought.
Like regaining color in a blackandwhite world, that kind of miracle.
I asked again what I already knew.
“Photophobia, it’s a curse, right?”
“Yes.”
The Alrubi fruit was a stopgap, only the protagonist’s holy power could remove the curse.
‘If only I could remove it.’
It was frustrating that while I could detoxify the fruit that suppresses the photophobia, I couldn’t actually remove the photophobia itself.
There was less than a year left until Elsia would awaken as a saint.
A time both short and long.
‘But, I’ve never seen Kashar eat the fruit.’
I could detoxify it with my food, but I’d never seen him actually consume the fruit.
“Kashar, are you eating the Alrubi fruit properly?”
“Well.”
Kashar just gave me an inscrutable smile.
“You wish for the curse to be lifted?”
“Of course! That would remove the thing on your back. You don’t like it, right?”
The Ring of Truth. The collar the Emperor had placed was his most loathed thing.
Then a chilling smile crept onto his lips.
A cold and cruel laugh.
“I despise it. More than anything.”
The Ring was an oath to control his photophobia.
If Kashar showed symptoms, the Emperor could inflict excruciating pain—enough to wake him from his madness.
‘It’s not even a bark collar.’
It would be abuse even for a dog, let alone his own son.
“Then we have to hurry and remove it! I’ll look into it too!”
It would be fine to meet after the protagonist awakens as a saint, but the sooner the better.
As I got worked up, Kashar spoke.
“I think I know a way.”
“Really?! What is it?”
You should have told me sooner if you had such vital information!
As I brought my face close, he pulled me even closer.
“If we kiss about ten thousand times, the curse might be lifted.”
“What are you talki—Aaah!”
I lost my balance and tilted forward.
Before I could touch the ground, I found myself atop Kashar.
“You should have said if you prefer this position.”
“You pulled me!”
I struggled, but his grip around my waist didn’t loosen.
Things were getting more sinister.
‘At this rate, I’ll complete my bucket list before I even hit a slope!’
For the record, ‘hitting a slope’ meant a great and joyous occasion.
“So why not give it a try?”
“What do you mean?”
“Ten thousand kisses.”
Before an answer could be given, their lips met.
A deep kiss that was dizzying, intoxicating.
‘I only had one can of beer.’
Was it because my breath was taken away?
I felt like someone who had just come up for air, then suddenly asked,
“Cassard, can I ask what you like about me?”
It was a question that couldn’t be asked without the courage that alcohol provided.
As Cassard tried to say something, I cut him off with a warning.
“Leave out the jokes.”
Repeating what had been said at the café would render everything meaningless.
“What?”
Even my words seemed to amuse him as he laughed, his abdomen twitching.
I shook along with him from my position on top.
“Are you laughing because you really can’t think of anything else?”
I might have to consider changing my career to a comedienne, seriously.
As my eyes narrowed, Cassard gently cupped my cheek.
“You’re unpredictable. Just when I think I have you figured out, you go in a different direction. That’s why I can’t take my eyes off you.”
“…Hmm, that’s my charm.”
I felt my resolve softening, even as I cleared my throat to stay focused.
“You’re kind to kids and always surrounded by people. But these eyes.”
His hand tenderly caressed above my eyelids.
“Follow me like the moon or sun when I turn around. This is a first for me.”
It was the first time he had been genuinely sincere.
In that moment, Cassard’s narrative blossomed in my mind.
‘My mother was said to be insane.’
She had been locked in a tower due to her mental illness and had even distanced herself from her own son.
“…I will continue to follow you.”
“Please do.”
Our lips met again, warm and inviting.
Maybe they would be swollen by tomorrow.
But right now, I wanted to hold onto this moment.
On a night when even the lovers had gone home.
Only he and Aileen remained by the lake.
Cassard watched Aileen as she slept.
‘The reason I like you.’
The first time he realized his feelings was on the balcony during the Olozé party.
‘It’s not just about the food.’
It was when she touched his forehead, asking if he had a headache.
That was when his truth serum first reacted.
Even though it wasn’t visible, he knew. The faint red moon tattoo on his back had faded ever so slightly.
After breaking free from the delusion, he would be able to escape the Emperor’s influence.
That’s when he realized.
That Aileen was more special than he had thought.
He thought that was all there was to it.
But.
The whip aiming for Aileen. While watching the scene unfold in slow motion, he realized.
That he didn’t just see Aileen as a tool.
He had almost lost himself to the madness.
For the first time, he genuinely wanted to protect someone.
On the way to deliver her to the Ice Palace.
While looking at Aileen, who thanked him for calming down the children, dozens, hundreds of emotions crossed his mind. All were new to him.
After placing Aileen in his territory, he felt fulfilled, and when she ventured outside and faced danger, he wanted to annihilate everything else but her.
Whether she knew about these feelings or not.
‘You shouldn’t skip breakfast!’
Aileen was always busy, hovering around him like a rabbit.
He found it incredibly endearing and also desirable.
She still believed he was curing her of the Aluberry fruit’s side effects.
‘It’s been a long time since I looked for that fruit.’
If Aileen was there, he had nothing to fear.
‘Perhaps when we reach our ten thousandth kiss, the curse will be lifted.’
He had long wished for the curse to be lifted.
But now another thought occurred to him.
Would you still care about me like this?
Putting aside his own wishes to focus on the other person.
He thought this must be what it’s like to have feelings for someone.
“You give me soft drinks, but you drink alcohol?”
She was even drunk.
He chuckled at the absurdity.
It was when Cassard stood up, holding the sleeping Aileen.
A faint light emanated from Aileen’s nape.
‘…What is this?’
Cassard’s face tightened.
The light that flowed in her sleep eventually disappeared.
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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