It was clear that the emperor was looking for Jackal to entrust him with some important task.
Even when the empress was alive, it was the same. The most important tasks were always entrusted to Jackal.
‘Is it the same this time?’
After Jackal disappeared, he seemed to become the leader of the assassins.
Lix clenched his fist tightly, avoiding the emperor’s notice.
It was he who had betrayed the empress long ago and followed the emperor. However, even such a person was sought after by the emperor instead of Jackal.
The indelible sense of inferiority made his eyes burn.
‘I have to prove that Jackal is not a trustworthy person no matter what.’
What could it be? Something that could lower the emperor’s trust in Jackal.
While desperately trying to find Jackal’s weakness, Lix was hit by a sudden memory.
Suddenly, a scene flashed through his mind.
[It’s a bit strange. Even though you’ve been away from the empire for a long time, you don’t seem to know the location of the hideout.] […….] [Twenty years may change the landscape several times, but aren’t we always the same? Although it’s been a long time since we met, it feels like nothing has changed.]Lix recalled the recent reports he had heard from spies.
Jackal had been on a long-term mission to another empire for a long time before returning.
Although Jackal had occasionally visited the empire to meet the empress and left, he had never encountered Lix due to the mismatch in timing.
‘For a long time, I avoided meeting face to face after that incident…’
The people who greeted Jackal each time he came to the empire were always puzzled.
Something seemed different.
At first, Lix thought it was insignificant. He was a person who could not be understood, and there were a couple of strange things.
‘But does he feel different from others?’
Moreover, the words spoken by Jackal and their mutual acquaintance from the assassins, who had met him recently, were more unsettling.
Lix had also observed Jackal from a distance since he returned.
Usually, he should have approached and recognized his presence first. But when Lix secretly watched, Jackal immediately disappeared. Always on guard.
‘Yes, something has changed.’
Upon closer inspection, there were not just one or two strange things.
‘He carries a handkerchief.’
‘A handkerchief?’
‘Yes. It seemed to be for some reason. Isn’t it our principle not to carry items that reveal our identity?’
The ‘handkerchief’ that the informants talked about was in the same context. Lix, reviewing Jackal’s actions, spoke up.
“Your Majesty, I don’t think you should trust Jackal right now.”
“What are you talking about?”
Ilei, putting down the drinking glass, raised his chin as if urging him to continue.
“About twenty years ago, Jackal wandered the empire under the orders of the late Empress Mama, taking various missions, and recently returned to the empire.”
The emperor seemed to know that much, nodding his head.
“So?”
“However, the returned Jackal seemed strangely different.”
“If you meet after twenty years, it’s natural for a person to change.”
“No. It’s not that feeling. It’s like… he seemed to have become an entirely different person.”
In anguish, the emperor wiped his chin in response to Lix’s words.
“…A different person.”
Like Jackal, Lix was also a skilled assassin. Having entered the assassins’ group from a young age and undergone extensive training, he had a more acute sense than others.
The emperor, feeling uneasy about letting Lix’s words pass, responded.
“Then you go find out. Find out what happened while Jackal was missing.”
“Yes. I understand.”
With a smile of resolution, Lix bowed his head. Determined to uncover Jackal’s secret.
With that, Lix disappeared into the darkness.
In the capital, at the residence of Duke Heidern.
Rikell approached Leia, who was reading while enjoying tea after a long time.
“There is someone who wants to meet the Duchess, but their identity is not certain. What should we do?”
“Me? Who are they saying it is?”
Even for nobles, coming to a mansion without an appointment was a significant breach of etiquette.
However, the fact that someone with an uncertain identity came to the mansion, and Rikell reported it to Leia, implied there was something uncomfortable about just sending them away.
“That’s… they say it’s Sanpa.”
“Sanpa?”
Suddenly, Sanpa. In this house, there was not even a woman who had given birth, let alone someone expecting.
Leia looked at Rikell with a face as if asking what she was talking about.
Reading Leia’s expression, Rikell hesitated and continued.
“He was a midwife who… took care of Lady Ariel, the Duchess’s mother. That Sanpa.”
And the person who came to her was an unexpected figure.
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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