‘If it’s hot springs, it must be good for the skin… and being good for the skin means…’
Money.
There seemed to be a strong smell of money in Bialitzkal. Akia, watching Leah with sparkling eyes, muttered.
“It’s suspicious.”
“What do you mean?”
“Your expression. It looks really ominous right now.”
That man was quite perceptive in strange situations. Feeling embarrassed for no reason, Leah let out a fake cough.
In the state council room, Ilay dropped the letter he had been reading on the table nervously.
Not only did Akia, dispatched to Bialitzkal, return safely, but he also discovered hot springs.
However, Ilay, who momentarily fixed his expression as if to say, “When did that happen?” put on a benevolent smile as if nothing had happened.
“Marquis Heidern has excellently resolved the salt mine issue.”
“…”
“All the buried miners were rescued, and during the rescue process, the Marquis and the apothecary who were trapped in the mine due to a secondary collapse also came out unharmed. It seems that the goddess Helena helped.”
The nobles sighed at Ilay’s continuing words.
“Moreover, they found hot springs flowing below the mine, and he said he would develop hot spring business. Truly remarkable, isn’t it?”
Although Ilay showed a smiling face as he added the last remark, his mouth tasted bitter.
“A secondary collapse in the salt mine.”
“Well, it’s quite miraculous that the weakened Marquis suddenly became healthy in an instant.”
“By the way, hot springs. Does it mean they’re trying to revitalize Bialitzkal’s economy?”
“It seems so. It will surely improve Marquis Heidern’s popularity with this.”
Listening to the nobles’ conversation, Ilay massaged his chin with his fingertips.
‘Popularity.’
Among the common people of the Empire, Akia’s reputation was already high. Thanks to Akia, the miners who were spared from death praised him.
Even just being directly dispatched to Bialitzkal was enough to attract public attention. Moreover, the Marquis personally jumped into the mine to rescue the buried miners.
‘Of all things, hot springs flowing below the mine.’
Ilay bit his inner lip. Instead of dying in the place he had sent him to, Akia’s position had only become stronger.
Furthermore, the letter sent by Akia mentioned that he had obtained permission from Duke Belarus for hot spring development.
Ilay recalled Duke Belarus, known as the lion of the Empire.
‘Would that meticulous Duke Belarus permit hot spring business?’
To Ilay, who had ascended to the throne after surpassing Akia, the weakened imperial power was a thorn in his side. That’s why, after the imperial ascension ceremony, he immediately sought out Duke Belarus.
“[Ilay. No, I should call you Your Majesty now.]”
“[…….]”
“[Your Majesty, this old man wishes to quietly spend the rest of his life in the Marquisate.]”
He firmly rejected Ilay’s request that had reached the Belarus Marquisate.
Staring into the emptiness, Dmitry, who now seemed devoid of the intriguing figure that once ruled the Empire, did not display the charismatic presence.
The fierce eyes that could make anyone cower lost their brilliance.
“What desires could remain for a father who sent his only daughter first?”
Ilay recalled Dmitry’s empty gaze as if he had lost the zest for life. After the death of Lady Arie, Duke Belarus withdrew from most of the Duke’s business.
He claimed to be living by continuing some businesses here and there.
‘A person like that permitted Akia for hot spring development?’
Ilay felt a sense of unease somewhere. Of course, Duke Belarus wouldn’t have been the first to permit hot spring development.
The Belarus Duke family is overflowing with wealth.
And for Dmitry, who lost his only heir, power is meaningless. There must have been Akia’s persistent efforts behind the Duke’s permission.
‘Right.’
It would be a reasonable assumption that Akia was trying to regain the power of the Heidern Duke family.
While making various speculations, Ilay glanced at Rodrigo Marquis sitting beside him. Rodrigo, reading Ilay’s gaze, cautiously stepped forward in place of the nobles.
“However, as you know, Bialitzkal hasn’t been barren for hundreds of years. What’s different about creating a hot spring resort there?”
Nobles began to stir at Rodrigo Marquis’s subtly inquiring question.
“Well, if such a tourism business could revive the local economy, it should have done so long ago.”
“Marquis Heidern seems quite adventurous. There must have been reasons why Bialitzkal wasn’t developed all these years.”
Only now did Ilay’s stiff gaze soften.
“Give it a try, Your Majesty.”
At that moment, a clear and commanding voice cut through the nobles’ murmurs. Ilay instinctively turned his head towards the source of the voice.
It was Leo Lord, the uppermost top of the Parthian family and the younger brother of the current Empress.
“Isn’t the idea of a young duke trying to revive dead land quite commendable?”
As Lord continued his words, a hushed silence fell over the surroundings.
When everyone, as if sensing the gazes of Lord and Ilay, maintained silence, a low laughter echoed in the conference room.
“Hahaha, that’s right.”
Ilay instantly grasped the meaning of Lord Leo’s words.
A puppy that has just shaken off its frailty jumping around, so what?
Indeed, when the praise for Akia was at its peak.
‘Just pull him down from the highest place.’
“Gerald, prepare to send a reply.”
Ilay’s gaze calling Rodrigo Marquis was more imposing than ever.
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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