But the important part was starting now. I had to negotiate with the Duchess, using my ability as collateral.
With a regrettable face, I bowed my head and said,
“I’d love to tell you the method, ma’am, but the risk is too great. ……You’ll understand, won’t you?”
A brief glance at the Duchess’s face showed it to be somewhat frightening.
Her eyes narrowed.
There was no way the hostess of one of the empire’s four great families, and the most renowned woman in high society, wouldn’t grasp my intention.
Soon, the Duchess parted her lips.
“You’re audacious and clever, Elodie.”
“If it offended you, I’m sorry.”
“I’m not offended. I’m just curious.”
The Duchess’s blue eyes seemed to be examining me closely. I couldn’t help but be very tense under that gaze.
“Why has the timid, fearful girl in front of me suddenly changed like this…….”
Gulp.
I just swallowed dryly.
“How dare you talk about trading with me.”
Her words were harsh, but her tone was as gentle as ever.
A moment later, after brief consideration, the Duchess reached a conclusion.
“Okay. Fine. What do you want?”
“……!”
I had finally succeeded in sitting at the negotiation table. With none other than Duchess Temis Ferdia.
I calmly stated what I wanted.
“Please sell this antidote under your name, ma’am.”
“……?”
“And give me a certain percentage of the sales.”
“Why not use your name?”
“People won’t believe it anyway. That Elodie Ferdia made the antidote.”
Who would believe it?
That the Ferdia family’s illegitimate child, who only wallowed in debauchery, had suddenly made an antidote overnight.
Instead, it would only raise doubts about the antidote’s effectiveness.
“I can grasp the subject pretty well, you know.”
“Is that all?”
“And I don’t want to stand out.”
“Hmm.”
“So I’d like you to keep all this a secret.”
That Elodie Ferdia developed the antidote for the poison made by the Duchess.
With a meaningful glance, the Duchess who had been looking at me spread her fan again and nodded.
“That’s fine. I don’t see any loss for me.”
And so my terms were accepted.
Next, it was time to reveal how I made the antidote, as the Duchess demanded.
I had already prepared a plausible excuse for this.
“Tell me. How did you make the antidote?”
“Actually, my power awakened a few days ago.”
“Power?”
Although it was but a moment, the Duchess showed surprise for the first time. She had not even been surprised to see the antidote’s effects.
God’s powers usually awaken around the age of five. Awakening at an older age is rare, but it does happen.
And I had been an even rarer case, one who did not awaken at all…… and now I was claiming that it had awakened.
“Yes. It seems to be a power to ‘destroy’ the toxicity of poison.”
No.
In fact, the power I had was to ‘purify’ poison.
“What? I was just thinking about your words.”
“I understand that my words might seem sudden, but I am quite serious about this matter.”
The original Elodie tried to poison her sister Estelle, but ended up consuming the poison herself.
Having the Seberus family’s ability to purify poison, Elodie became addicted to the poison but did not die, and through this process, it was revealed that she was not from the Ferdia family.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the attempted poisoning incident was described in detail in the original, so I could easily understand my ability.
There were a few conditions needed to manifest my ability to purify poison.
First, to be poisoned directly.
Second, after some time has passed, manifesting the purifying ability in ordinary water makes it an antidote.
I couldn’t make much antidote because the amount depended on the proficiency of the ability.
If there was not enough time after being poisoned, I could also use my blood as an antidote. It seemed that this ability could only manifest externally after purifying my own blood first.
“It’s useful, but not necessarily so.”
Because I had to consume the poison to use the ability.
Though I did not die, it was agonizing enough to feel like death.
“Finally, your ability has awakened, that’s good. But why is it considered to be a dangerous burden?”
“I don’t want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.”
I said only that, but the lady seemed to understand.
I mean that, being only an illegitimate child, I absolutely do not intend to threaten your sons’ positions.
As I said before, I was good at understanding the situation.
“So you don’t have to worry.”
“…….”
For some reason, the Duchess did not speak for quite some time.
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“Yahoo. I’ve made money!”
It took time for the antidote to be thoroughly tested by the lady, approved again, and to make it since the amount of antidote was limited, but I was flying with joy at the fact that I had personal wealth.
Even though I was so exhausted that I wanted to lie down and sleep, possibly still affected by the poison, I was giggling.
“I must work hard to earn money and become independent!”
My steps were like a zombie’s, but I was heading to my bedroom with a beaming smile, holding the contract.
“Miss!”
The maid ran over from the opposite side in a hurry.
“What’s wrong?”
“A guest has arrived.”
My face paled at the words.
“A guest……? I don’t have friends……?”
There was no one to visit me, a social failure, so they came to visit?
It could not be anything other than this year’s greatest horror event.
The maid agreed with my words with a serious face.
“That’s true. You don’t have friends, Miss.”
“……Maid.”
“Anyway, we must hurry. He’s been waiting a long time.”
“Who came?”
“Prince Adenmir.”
Ah.
I stopped in my tracks, mouth agape.
I had been so engrossed in thinking about making money that I had forgotten his existence entirely.
“Right. The matter of our divorce was left unresolved.”
Though I felt physically unwell from the tension being released, I could not send Prince Adenmir away.
“There’s no helping it.”
With the remaining strength I had, I headed to the reception room.
Now, I’m going to get a divorce.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The fiancée Elodie Ferdia had gone mad.
As Adenmir, he could only think that way.
And for a good reason…….
“Do we not have something to discuss?”
Adenmir’s question was answered without hesitation by Elodie.
“The matter of our divorce is serious.”
She even added this.
“Your Highness probably didn’t want this engagement, so I apologize for my stubbornness in causing you trouble.”
Apologize? Apologize?
Elodie Ferdia apologizing to someone.
It was not normal.
Adenmir’s handsome face briefly hardened.
“Princess, is something wrong?”
Adenmir seriously considered whether he should recommend psychiatric treatment.
But Elodie, unaware of her partner’s inner turmoil, seemed interested only in divorce.
“There’s nothing wrong. Well, my father opposes the divorce, but I think he will accept it if Your Highness says so.”
“…….”
“He doesn’t listen to me at all.”
“…….”
“Your Highness?”
Adenmir stared at Elodie, who was calling him, with an innocent face.
‘Certainly, it’s incomprehensible.’
Elodie was a person who would get whatever she wanted. The position of the Crown Prince’s fiancée was one of them.
‘And she used to like me.’
But he couldn’t accept that she changed her attitude overnight.
There was no doubt that something was going on.
“Why did you suddenly decide to break off the engagement?”
At his question, Elodie hesitated for a moment and then answered with a sly smile.
“In fact, I’ve found someone I love.”
“……What?”
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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