“I’m exhausted from waiting for you like a fool.”
It seemed as if she was telling me to listen.
That she tumbled down the stairs because of me.
If I hadn’t gone to the palace, she wouldn’t have had to wait for me and roll down the stairs.
It seemed as if she thought all this happened because I suddenly appeared in the palace.
“Why did you wait for me like a fool?”
Rinel asked Melanie in a rather gentle tone, but there were definitely thorns in his words.
“No, it’s not Melanie’s fault, right? The fool is the stairs.”
What is she saying?
“Indeed, the stairs are also foolish. They don’t revolve like someone.”
Rinel was saying too blatantly that her head was bad.
“Stop it, I understand.”
I warned him with a glance.
“Shall we bet? Does she understand?”
He asked with a chin gesture.
“Oh my! Majesty, are there revolving stairs?”
Melanie asked in surprise.
We stared at her at the same time.
She was blabbering nonsense, completely unaware that Rinel was making fun of her head.
He glanced at me with a smug look as if to show that.
“Is there any problem with walking?”
Her expression returned to that of a seriously ill patient at Rinel’s question.
“There’s no big problem, but it seems like someone needs to support me from the side….”
As Melanie put out her arms, she sadly shook her shoulders and hands toward him.
Wow, how does she do that?
Her hands and shoulders fluttered like thin paper.
It didn’t seem like she was asking to pull her arm, but was she asking Rinel to help her get up now?
Is that gesture supposed to be the coquetry of a fragile woman?
Instead of taking her hands, Rinel opened his mouth.
“Have you already become a ghost?”
Come to think of it, Melanie’s appearance, whining with her hands raised, looked like a ghost.
Her expression turned scary like a real ghost at his remark.
“Your Majesty! A ghost? Where is there such a beautiful ghost?”
Melanie’s lower lip stretched forward like a drawbridge coming down.
“Hey!”
Hey?
She’s doing it again.
I was wondering if she was possessed by the words ‘Hey, hey’ that she had been saying since a while ago.
That shaking of her head from side to side also looked like a seizure.
Despite the goosebumps on my arm from her excessive coquetry, I tried my best to control my facial expression.
“I heard the doctor has been here?”
Rinel pointed at Melanie with his finger and asked her attendant.
“Yes, Your Majesty! The doctor had checked on mama and left just before Your Majesty arrived.”
“But why is her condition… Ah, did she hurt her head when she fell down the stairs?”
He looked back and forth between Melanie and her attendant in a very serious voice.
“My head? Is my hair messed up? I combed it well before lying down?”
Melanie quickly brushed her long hair over one shoulder and looked up at him.
Contrary to the first impression, Melanie was a very clearminded owner.
“So, if you’re in your original state… it’s surprising.”
Rinel put one hand on his forehead, let out a deep sigh, and muttered.
Right now, I wanted to run away from Melanie’s quarters to somewhere where no one was around and have a good laugh.
I prayed that at least one of the two people who kept making me laugh would have some selfcontrol.
“Get examined by the doctor again tomorrow.”
He said with sincerity.
“I think I can fall down the stairs one more time since Your Majesty is so worried about me!”
She exclaimed with a look of admiration.
“You don’t need to deliberately fall down the stairs. Unless you have something important to do.”
“Ugh.”
At Rinel’s words, I bowed my head again.
A strange sound, neither a laugh nor a cry, leaked from my mouth.
I’m going to die, really.
“It seems the Empress is very tired. Looking at you yawning while standing.”
He put his hand on my shoulder, shook it gently as if trying to wake me up, and spoke.
“But you should sleep lying down, Empress.”
“!”
Please stop it!
I nudged his waist with my elbow.
“If you’re tired, Your Majesty the Empress, why don’t you return to the palace first? I’m really fine now.”
At this moment, Melanie pretended to be concerned for me and tried to get me out of her bedroom.
“Empress, Melanie says she’s fine now, so it would be best to go back.”
Rinel agreed with her words.
“That’s right, it’s late at night.”
Looking at Melanie’s face, I replied to her.
Her previously gloomy expression brightened in an instant.
“Please return safely. Your Majesty the Empress!”
Melanie gave the most respectful greeting she had ever given me.
“Well, you are the Emperor’s harem, so I hope you always take care of yourself. Your Majesty, then I’ll go back to the Empress’s palace first.”
I left a dignified farewell to the two and turned around.
“It’s quite dark, it’s scary to walk at night alone.”
Rinel grabbed my hand.
“I’m not scared.”
“Me.”
“Yes?”
“I’m saying me. I’m scared of walking at night.”
Let go of this hand!
I silently struggled with him.
Rinel let go of my hand and grabbed my arm this time.
Inadvertently, he also grabbed the robe I had over my shoulder, causing the robe on one shoulder to slide down.
It happened to be the side where he had ripped off the entire sleeve.
“Oh my? Empress, your dress?!”
As expected, Melanie was surprised when she saw my bare right shoulder.
While I was looking at her, I also made eye contact with Rinel.
He diverted his gaze calmly as I gave him a glare.
“Your Majesty the Empress, how did your dress get like that?”
Melanie asked, frowning.
“Oh, this dress is……”
‘Your muchawaited Emperor ripped it off.’
While I was considering telling her the truth,
“This style, I think you said it was a popular design in Shatoneil, the Empress’s homeland?”
He patted my bare right shoulder brazenly and said.
“!”
What?
Who’s the fool who would believe that?
He made a very implausible excuse.
I involuntarily snorted.
“Really? It’s peculiar? It looks a bit weird to me.”
…Ah, right in front of me. A fool who believed his words.
Surprisingly, Melanie seemed to believe his absurd words as if they were true because he was the Emperor.
“Why? It looks unique and beautiful to me.”
He looked at me with a deep gaze and shut down Melanie’s opinion.
Then, her expression changed.
She stared at the dress that had one sleeve ripped off as if she was observing it.
I quickly put the robe back over my bare right shoulder.
While I was doing that, Rinel said goodbye to Melanie.
“You must have been surprised, so rest now. We should be going.”
His tone and gaze were almost commanding.
It sounded like a threat that if she didn’t rest now, she wouldn’t be able to rest even if she wanted to later.
But there was no way Melanie could figure out his nuances.
“Your Majesty! You came all this way and you’re just going to leave?”
“Well, if leaving like this is boring, maybe I’ll tumble down the stairs on my way.”
Melanie almost jumped out of bed at that moment.
“Then, when will we consummate our first night?!”
She stretched out one hand towards Rinel and wailed.
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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