“She resembles a passionate empress.”
In response to his opinion, Secretary Rafael cautiously agreed.
“Didn’t Her Majesty the Empress say once that she resembled a sunflower?”
“Sunflowers during the day, red roses at night.”
After a brief contemplation, Rinel said so. Without explicitly stating it, Rinel thought that she resembled the empress, who smiled brightly at him like a sunflower during the day and blushed like a rose at night, displaying fiery passion…
Rinel refrained from explicitly stating that she, during the day, smiled brightly at him like a sunflower and, at night, blushed like a rose while displaying fiery passion. After spending a few minutes enjoying the view of a rose garden from the office window, he ordered an attendant to prepare a bouquet of roses, personally tended to it, and instructed it to be sent to the Empress’s palace.
After receiving the order, an hour later, he received a report that the Empress’s face had turned as red as the roses upon receiving the flowers. So, he distinctly remembered; the roses were red.
Rinel looked around the bedroom once again, considering the possibility that there might be flowers in another vase. However, the only vase in the bedroom was right in front of him.
“If the roses I sent are correct, why is the color…?”
Could the color of red roses change over time? He entertained a momentarily absurd question before bursting into a laugh.
While scrutinizing the white rose, he discovered a small bottle next to the flower vase.
“What is this?”
The small glass bottle was empty. Rinel opened the cork stopper and sniffed it; there was no scent. Alternating between the white rose and the small bottle, Rinel heard the sound of the bedroom door opening and quickly pocketed the bottle.
Empress’s dining table.
In the end, the location for dinner with the Shato’nil siblings was changed from the main palace to the Empress’s palace. Rinel had hoped that the dinner arrangement would be entirely canceled, but that wasn’t the case.
“I heard that Her Majesty the Empress wasn’t feeling well. Are you okay?”
Prince Tesler asked me as the meal began. I wondered how Rinel would have explained the change in the dinner location, but it seemed the excuse was my condition.
“Ah… I’m fine. I wasn’t feeling well in the morning, but I’ve improved a bit now.”
It wasn’t entirely untrue; since seeing Prince Tesler in my bedroom earlier, my whole body had felt uneasy.
“Oh, I see. Then, you might not have much of an appetite. Still, try to eat a little bit slowly.”
Prince Tesler acted coquettishly, pretending to be naive, as if seeing me for the first time today.
The sight of his annoyingly lifted corners of the mouth was more than enough to provoke the latent violence within me.
Moreover, having had my energy drained in various ways since the morning, I was in a state of hunger and was about to greedily put a well-cooked steak into my mouth when that annoying brat started talking, preventing me from showing a vigorous appetite.
There are various ways to torment people.
I had no choice but to feign a lack of appetite, cutting the steak into smaller pieces and putting it back into my mouth.
“Prince Tesler, you seem to be in a better mood than yesterday. Is there something good that happened?”
Rinel, having pre-cut several pieces of steak, served them onto my plate and asked Prince Tesler.
Surprised, I looked at him, but his gaze was fixed on the prince. Although he handed me the steak without saying a word, his actions warmed my heart.
Of course, the steak he touched was cold, but…
“With the owners of the Raphion Empire, it’s only natural to feel good about sharing a meal together.”
When Prince Tesler spat out insincere words, Princess Lesilia also chimed in.
“The food is surprisingly delicious. The Empress’s palace is… truly splendid and beautiful. I’m curious about the Empress’s bedroom; please show me around!”
Princess Lesilia said to me with sparkling eyes.
“Sure.”
I had expected her to say something like that. Since she was seeing what originally belonged to her directly, it was only natural that she would be curious.
What’s inside the Empress’s palace, what the bedroom shared with the Emperor is like…
“After the meal, we can take a tour to aid digestion.”
Seeing the princess practically making an announcement, I unintentionally furrowed my brows.
“Today…”
I was about to refuse, but realizing my position, I changed my words. However, Rinel intercepted.
“Today. Considering that the Empress isn’t feeling well, it would be better to postpone it to tomorrow, Princess Lesilia.”
“Oh, I didn’t think it through…”
Princess Lesilia responded with a slightly embarrassed expression, then widened her eyes and spoke to me.
“Then, can I explore the inside of the Empress’s palace separately? If someone among the Empress’s attendants could guide me…”
“Lesil. The Empress isn’t feeling well. If you roam around the Empress’s palace, she’ll be concerned, and she won’t be able to rest properly.”
Prince Tesler, glancing at Rinel, reprimanded his younger sister as if teasing her.
How could he speak so smoothly without even blinking an eye, with such insincere words?
If that was a skill, then it truly was a skill.
“No, it’s okay. If the princess wants to tour the inside of the Empress’s palace, she can do so with guidance from the attendants. It doesn’t matter.”
Rinel nodded in agreement with my words, and Princess Lesilia twitched one corner of her mouth.
If she had said that much, I thought she might reluctantly offer to guide herself. If I hadn’t seen Prince Tesler in my bedroom this morning, I might have accommodated her.
But today, I didn’t have the time to entertain both siblings.
“Oh, Your Majesty. I have a question. May I ask one thing?”
Princess Lesilia asked him, her eyes slightly squinted.
“A question for me? Ask away.”
After taking a sip of wine, Rinel responded to the princess.
“Among the Empress’s looks, which part do you like the most, Your Majesty?”
… What?
What’s the intention behind asking him such a question?
“Among the Empress’s looks…”
While Princess Lesilia awaited his answer with curious eyes, I also turned my gaze to him, pondering her question seriously.
And then, our eyes met.
He rested one elbow on the dining table, propped his chin on his hand, and stared intently at my face.
Whether I made a strange expression for a moment or not, he chuckled and spoke.
“Well, it’s a difficult question.”
“In my opinion…”
As if she had been waiting, Lesilia added her voice with a crisp tone.
Please don’t say it, your opinion.
I sighed quietly while watching her speak, her lips pursed forward like a new beak.
“I believe Her Majesty would probably appreciate Empress’s elegant and clear complexion the most.”
“!”
Ah, was that what you wanted to say?
I chuckled softly.
Today seems to be the day when the siblings return with matching burn scars on my face, threatening me.
Rinel’s gaze looking at me felt hot again.
I couldn’t bring myself to look at him, so I glanced at Rinel faintly reflected in the wine glass in front of me.
He raised his hand and stroked my right cheek.
It was where the burn scar used to be…
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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