“Isn’t it a matter of your honor, Your Grace? What do you find lacking? Shouldn’t we turn down the likes of Julius this time?”
Tristan spat out as if irritated.
“He has a use.”
Arthur calmly continued.
“I need a base. This will be a good base.”
Tristan’s face crumbled at the undue high appraisal of Julius.
“There is the royal family and ‘Roas’, isn’t there? Rather, they are more trustworthy, trusting the likes of Julius who has arranged a fraudulent marriage, that this will be a good base…”
“Because it is the homeland of the people I trust the most.”
The impending nagging abruptly stopped.
Biting into an apple, Arthur rummaged through the fruit basket and continued.
“And my honor lies in you, not Julius. That I survived and returned with you all is my greatest honor and pride. The likes of Julius cannot tarnish that honor.”
The quiet Tristan finally turned his head and let out an annoyed sigh.
Their commander often said such things casually.
That despite having the backing of the royal family, this place, your homeland, is my most trusted homeland.
If any other noble had said that, Tristan would have thought it was a slick tongue, but Tristan, who had been with him for the past five years, could not denigrate Arthur’s words.
He was a person who proved his words through his actions.
And it was their greatest pride that such Arthur always considered Julius’s soldiers, who had always been with him in life and death, as the people he trusted the most.
“… I should be careful not to disgrace Your Grace.”
Arthur chuckled and said, “Do as you always do.”, but Tristan knew too.
The war was over.
And this place was no longer a battlefield they had conquered.
A new battlefield awaited them.
Probably a battlefield where previous bravery and martial skills would not be much help.
Annoyed but he was not entirely ignorant of what Arthur meant when he said Julius was needed.
“Try the apple. It’s good.”
Catching the apple Arthur threw, Tristan asked while rubbing it on his sleeve.
“… What are you going to do?”
At Tristan’s question, Arthur murmured, leaning against the back of the chair.
“Well. I think I’ll meet the ‘real wife’ first.”
Tristan mumbled as he polished the apple on his sleeve.
“A real wife, what? She’ll just be a woman who came in for money.”
Arthur shrugged with a smile on his face.
[This is the time separator]‘This can’t be. This can’t be. How could he become the Prince Elector? How could he get this position?’
The Duke of Julius was on the verge of going mad with anger.
The ink on the stamp marking him as the Prince Elector on the document that the emperor and the papal court had recognized him, had not yet dried.
Under the Duke of Julius’s chest, the glorious title of Princeps Elector Imperii (Prince Elector) was inscribed in a portrait that hadn’t even been completed yet.
[This is the time separator]Julius is one of the top nobles in the Empire.
The owner of the most fertile territory on the continent, and the duke of a gold power that boasts wealth surpassing the royal family.
He may have struggled in the midst of the nobles who ignored the merchant family, but no one could ignore them after they became the acknowledged richest man in the empire and even entered the ranks of the great nobility.
However, there was something that even Julius, the golden power that could get anything on the continent, had longed for but could not have, and that was the name ‘Prince Elector’.
Prince Elector is a term that means the elector who has the right to elect the emperor of the empire.
Usually, the emperor appoints an outstanding person among his children as the crown prince, and the electors respect his legitimacy, and the succession of the throne takes place.
But in case the emperor dies without a successor, or even if there is a successor, if it is difficult to succeed to the throne, the Prince Electors elect the next emperor from among them through meetings and votes.
In other words, right below the emperor.
It was a name of power given only to the most honorable and noble nobles.
A high level of justification and honor that the people would agree on was always required for the Prince Electors,
It was because the Prince Elector could produce the next great emperor.
About 40 years ago, when the previous royal family ended without a successor, Alexander Rusik II, the grandfather of the current crown prince, rose from the position of Prince Elector to the new emperor in such a way.
He was a knight beloved by the empire and a noble hero who led the war to victory and saved the empire.
All the citizens of the empire naturally expected this young hero to ascend to the throne, and Lusac and the honorable premiers responded to the call of the empire’s citizens.
The premiers elevated their honor and the support of the empire’s citizens through this decision.
The moment when Ronald Julius, the grandfather of Christina, the peerless wealthiest of the empire, began to feel ‘envy’ for the first time was then.
Such perfect alienation.
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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