Thud.
The man, who sharply and forcefully slammed down on the desk, drew everyone’s attention before he slowly opened his mouth.
“Silence, please.”
His voice was peculiar. And even more peculiar was the fact that with his single word, everyone closed their mouths.
The man, who looked down upon the now quiet crowd with eyes full of contempt as if they were bugs, spoke briefly.
“The will of the late king is documented in his will, and we will adhere to it.”
When he gestured to the back, the figure of the crown prince emerged from the shadows.
The prince, with his unfocused and bewildered eyes, obediently followed the mage’s gestures.
The man who sat the prince down in front of him reached to place his hand on the prince’s shoulder, changed direction to rest it on the chair, then opened his mouth again.
“The situation is urgent, so the coronation will be simple. However, there is no doubt that the crown prince will become the next king of Norden, and he will rule over all state affairs.”
As the man finished his words and tapped the chair with his fingertips, the prince, still with his bewildered eyes, shouted out in response.
“Let it be as he says!”
Those gathered in the royal palace conference room nodded as if mesmerized, and soon left the conference room.
The state affairs meeting being controlled by the words of one man, and this shortly after the current king’s death.
Even a threeyearold child could see this was a very strange sight, but no one present felt any discomfort.
No one knew when, where, or how the man, whose name and face were not properly known, ended up beside the king.
But, including the king himself, no one doubted him, and over time, they came to trust him more.
As if by magic.
The man with a pallid complexion who left the conference room first, looked out the window of the king’s bedroom with shining eyes.
Behind him, a figure appeared silently.
“Father.”
“You’ve come, Greta.”
“Yes. It’s really not far off now.”
The mage turned towards his daughter, spread his arms wide, and grinned ear to ear.
“Yes. Finally, the day has arrived.”
“It’s been long. If it was the Empire…. I know. If it was a little bigger country than this, it wouldn’t have been like this.”
“It was a long time. How long has it been? The day to purify this filthy world is not far off!”
“It’s a filthy world.”
Greta, with a pale face and a faint smile, took a step towards the mage.
“But there are pure beings.”
“What?”
“The man chosen by the ancient god.”
“You mean the slave?”
“A slave of the god. He died once and was purified and resurrected, isn’t he the only pure one?”
“Right. So, he will not end up setting the world on fire….”
Before his words were fully finished.
Thrust.
With the sound of skin tearing, the mage’s eyes widened as if they were about to split.
His eyes were full of only questions at the unexpected event.
Greta, without hesitation, twisted the dagger that she had thrust into his stomach to the right.
The sound of bone scraping from inside irritated his nerves, but Greta was smiling. Very satisfactorily.
“Cough… Cough!”
Blood spurted from his mouth and splattered on Greta’s face, but she did not even blink as she stared straight at him.
A groan slipped out between his lips, now foaming with blood.
“Why…?”
The mage could only stare at Greta in shock until his heart completely stopped.
“Why, you ask?”
Greta gently smiled as she slowly pulled out the dagger that had been stuck in his stomach and tossed it on the floor.
The dagger, rolling aimlessly on the white carpet, left a red trail, and Greta was at its starting point.
She sat on the pool of blood, holding the collapsing mage who was dripping blood from his abdomen in her arms.
Greta, who was staining his mouth and chin with his thick, crimson blood, whispered.
“You are also a part of the filthy world, Father. So, I’m purifying you with death….”
Greta held the mage, who was gasping for breath and vomiting blood, in her arms. Her fingers, stained red with his blood, colored his cheeks as well.
“Goodbye, Father.”
Greta’s voice, which even seemed to hold a faint ecstasy, faded into the mage’s ears.
That day, when the king of Norden was assassinated in what seemed like an accident.
The nameless mage, who had forcibly resurrected Cryer through a contract with the ancient god to purify the filthy world, and had marked him as a slave of the ancient god, passed away.
By the hand of his own daughter, no one else.
“In the world purified by the ancient gods, only he and I will remain. It will be the clean world my father wanted.”
Greta, smiling brightly, kicked her father’s corpse without hesitation.
The wizard who was already dead and rotting didn’t catch her eye.
The oddly flickering eyes of Greta were directed only at Cryer, who was likely looking down at the insects to be purified at the venue in the empire.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The death of the king of Norden was treated as a mere unfortunate accident.
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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