Knock
Someone knocked on the door as if trying to snap Emily out of tearing her hair out, and the people were clergymen who had come to baptize.
Emily quickly shook her disheveled hair to straighten herself and shouted.
“Come in!”
As the door opened, two people entered, wearing long hats, clerical robes, and white masks.
One of them, perhaps an assistant priest, wore a plain robe with one belt and was holding holy water.
After a neat greeting, they called the children forward, and holy water was sprinkled on the children’s heads as they received brief blessings.
Finally, Nia’s turn was approaching, and the priest who had seen the child’s hair came to the clergyman and whispered quietly.
“Clergyman Mordo. It’s black hair.”
Clergyman Mordo was quite surprised.
Not all across the continent, but in the Empire, blackhaired children born were specially managed, and it was not easy to pass through that control network.
Of course, as many countries had gathered to become an Empire, black hair could unexpectedly appear, but the capital was not a place with small temples scattered everywhere.
He examined the child’s record that Emily had given him.
‘The parents’ name… Lucia? Could it be, referring to that black monster? If so, this black hair is hereditary.’
Clergyman Mordo recalled the temple filled with the enemies’ corpses and turned into a sea of blood during the last war five years ago.
Among the corpses spread on the pure white temple floor, Lucia, covered in thick blood, emotionless, like a killing machine.
The monster’s child was in front of him.
But for such a bloodline of Lucia, the child’s clear golden eyes were gently tapping Clergyman Mordo’s heart as if soaked in nostalgia somewhere.
He reached out to Nia unconsciously, mesmerized by that peculiar warmth, exuding divine power.
As the golden divine power pouring from his hand seemed to react and be drawn to the child in front of him,
Sliding
“Oh my, you shouldn’t come in now. Gasped! A, Black Knight’s uniform……?!”
Emily, surprised, looking at the open door, shouted, and there appeared a small boy rather than a man in uniform.
“……His!”
Nia, although not too fond of His, still ran to him with joy.
“Nia, do you know him? What’s going on?”
His hugged Nia close to him and watched the clergymen without speaking.
In that strange standoff, Clergyman Mordo spoke politely.
“This is the last class. We have to go back now.”
“Ah, I see. I apologize. We’re in the middle of a baptism, so if it’s not urgent, could you please leave?”
But His did not budge.
He slowly took out a necklace and put it on Nia.
“My my, did you barge in like this just to bring a necklace? Even if you are a royal knight, this is kindergarten. If you have no business, please leave at once!”
Emily, sensitive from worrying about her future, tried to drive him out somewhat irritably, and His rolled his eyes at her.
He then muttered gloomily.
“It’s my father’s heirloom.”
“You should thank him. Nia. You’ve bothered your older brother. The necklace is really pretty.”
The priest and clergyman who had come out of the temple coughed awkwardly, and the suddenly gentle Emily tucked Nia’s necklace inside her dress and straightened her clothing.
Having finished his business, the foxlike His left the classroom, and the baptism ceremony passed without incident.
[Star Icon]Lucia rushed to the sparrow class.
The figure of the priest leaving was seen just in time, so someone was about to go in to check on Nia, but someone grabbed her wrist.
“……His?”
“It’s over.”
“What?”
Then, something small darted out between the open doors and clung to Lucia’s skirt.
“……Mom!”
When the child peeked its head out, the bangs were damp from just having been baptized.
And the silver string visible around its neck.
“……This is.”
It was the necklace that His had shown her in the morning.
This morning, His, who was tidying up the bag, saw the notice.
He had seen there a ritual for the temple baptism, but he had fallen asleep without being aware of it, being too tired.
But His, who woke up a little later and regained his consciousness, quickly embedded the control stone into his necklace, and fortunately, it was not too late to put it on the child.
“……Sorry, Leader. I couldn’t tell you.”
His looked a little downcast.
“Thank you, His.”
Lucia hugged the boy and sighed with relief.
If there was a fault, she should blame herself, who could have prevented it in advance.
Moreover, this silver necklace was the last item of His’ father.
To be exact, it was a relic of His’ mother, but it was the last necklace left by his missing father.
Even if His had no attachment to his parents, there was no way that the meaning of the necklace he wore every day was meaningless.
Using such a necklace for a cause she didn’t even know well, Lucia felt grateful once again for her trust in herself.
However, His, who knows that the warmth that clings to Lucia now means more to him as a family than that cold necklace.
If the boy wanted something,
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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