He draped over her a soft blanket he had found somewhere.
Collapsed on the couch, Olivia, who had completely relaxed with the scent of the dry sunlight wrapping her body, muttered.
How much time had passed?
The lips of Cryer, which had been tightly closed, parted.
“He’s not an assassin.”
It was a nonsensical statement with no context, but Olivia accepted it as usual.
“Right. Such a poor skilled assassin couldn’t wander around the palace. The weapon was too excessive to begin with……”
Olivia nodded her head, continuing her words.
“There were no reports of a madman running around in the palace recently. I’ve never received any reports of someone going mad and trying to kill a passerby.”
Having said that far, Olivia opened her eyes thin.
“Then what’s left is.”
She gazed down at the hem of an unknown servant’s robe, a mess of grass and dust, then grabbed the end of a ribbon of a different color from the others.
“It’s personal hatred.”
It was something deep enough to charge with the intention to kill.
“It seems he was hiding there, saw this outfit and charged. Something about the ribbon.”
Playing with the end of the ribbon, Olivia opened her mouth to a question that suddenly came to mind.
“How did you find me?”
Her question was reasonable.
She did not want to be noticeable to anyone, so she wore a servant’s clothes and even hid the color of her hair.
She wouldn’t have left him a memo, let alone a message about where she was going.
To that, Cryer shrugged his shoulders lightly.
“I just happened to see you leaving.”
It was a plausible answer to anyone who heard it. But Olivia did not fall for such a plausible answer.
She, who could not put strength into her legs, slowly stood up and staggered towards Cryer.
“No, it isn’t.”
A blaze flared up in her blue eyes looking up at him.
Just a moment ago, if she had been this close to him, her heart would have thumped, but now it was still as if it were a lie.
She looked straight at him and said.
“Don’t lie to me.”
Olivia’s blue flame burned up, cutting through Cryer’s crimson swamp.
“Cryer.”
The moment his name flowed out from between her red lips.
The moment she called him.
Cryer had no choice but to open his mouth.
No, he had no choice but to carve open his chest and bring out his sincerity.
“The scent of roses……I followed their trail……”
He did not answer, stopped halfway through his words, and shut his mouth.
And Olivia also could not say anything.
Unlike him, however, she was just frozen with her mouth open.
What……Rose scent? Surely the scent coming from me……
As I unknowingly raised my arm to bring it to my nose, Cryer grabbed her arm.
The cold wind scent and faint rose scent were entangled between the two of them, who had suddenly become close enough to feel each other’s breath.
It’s……close.
The moment she felt it.
Cryer was far away in a flash.
“Rest for today. It’s not too late to find the answer tomorrow.”
He disappeared before Olivia could reply.
And she, left alone, rubbed her cheek fiercely.
Repeating that the heat in her cheek was because she was rubbing it so hard.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The day after Olivia’s fresh walk was ruined. Just as the morning sun was rising.
The emperor, buried in documents in his office as usual, received an unexpected visitor.
“Duke Hainder?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Was there an appointment?”
The confusion that rose on his tired face deepened at the Chamberlain’s answer.
“No.”
“Hmm. So, Duke Hainder came to visit without an appointment.”
His contemplation was not long. The Emperor put down his pen and nodded.
“Let him in.”
Not much later, a middleaged woman with a small build but a tough expression that wouldn’t let a needle end stand, stood before the Emperor.
“I am honored to see you, Your Majesty. Long live the glory of the Empire.”
The Emperor waved his hand towards her, who bent her waist politely.
“You have been on a long journey since dawn.”
“I apologize for this early morning.”
“Don’t worry. If you’re a Duke, you’ve surely done what’s necessary.”
With the Emperor’s words full of trust, Bonita just bowed her head deeply.
She is the leading figure who led the heyday of the Hainder Duke House, the largest force in the Empire, and yet, she is the one who serves loyally without setting up a confrontational angle with the Emperor.
Bonita Hainder.
With her visiting without an appointment, it was not impossible for the Emperor to be upset.
“So, what’s the matter this early morning? You wouldn’t have come here if it wasn’t urgent.”
It was nearly a full moon.
The meeting where the nobles who had raised their family names in the empire would gather was due.
The reason for Hainder, the Duke who was the leader of the noble faction but had been well coordinating them for the royal family, to visit here was.
“Is there something to discuss closely before the meeting?”
The Emperor, who reviewed various current issues that came to mind, put aside the document he was looking at and gestured to Duke Hainder.
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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