“Um, yes.”
“Then you must admit, Lady Elodie, that your commoner escort was rude to me.”
Intentionally emphasizing the word “commoner escort,” Dorothea tried to look seriously offended.
“Who was it that showed interest in that commoner escort?”
It was funny that she had come to quarrel after failing to attract attention by scheming, particularly towards someone who had shown interest in Leian.
“My escort might have wiped off something dirty that was on his hand, but I can see how Lady Dorothea could have misunderstood.”
“Yes, so apologize quickly!”
Elodie cut her off before she could finish.
“If you misunderstood, I’ll apologize on behalf of my employee. I’m sorry.”
“…What?”
“I said I’m sorry.”
“…?!”
The Angelos mother and daughter were momentarily at a loss.
Their goal wasn’t to receive an apology. They never even thought they could get one from Elodie Ferdia.
It was a plot to spread the story that Elodie Ferdia had insulted them throughout the social circles to diminish Ferdia’s reputation.
But what’s this?
She apologized calmly and composedly.
“‘That’ Elodie Ferdia?”
It was hard to believe.
Even if they told others about this, everyone would wave it off as a lie.
“Lady Dorothea?”
“Yes, yes. I accept your apology.”
Having demanded an apology and then being met with one, there was nothing else she could say but this. It felt ridiculous.
Themis, who had been watching the situation, asked with a faint smile,
“Is that all you wanted?”
“…Yes, Themis.”
“Since you’ve finished embarrassing yourself, let’s talk over tea.”
Dolsinia couldn’t say she would leave right away, so she reluctantly nodded.
But she didn’t know this was a wrong choice.
Tea.
Themis had seen Dolsinia pick up her teacup and then put it down in shock.
Acting like a coward who can’t drink tea from a poisoner.
Themis was not so generous as to simply let go of those who had come to humiliate Elodie.
“Dolsinia. I’ve brought out some hardtoget tea especially because you and your daughter came. Won’t you drink it?”
Dolsinia looked down at the tea and answered with a smirk.
“Later. I’m not thirsty right now. I’ll drink it slowly.”
“Hmm, perhaps you fear it’s poisoned?”
The faces of the Angelos mother and daughter turned pale at that.
She hit the nail on the head.
“Poi.”
Before Dolsinia could defend herself, Elodie interjected.
“Surely not. Any sane person knows not to commit the foolish act of openly poisoning a visitor. Unless they’re an imbecile.”
“What, what? Lady Elodie, what are you saying…?”
“You? I wasn’t talking about Lady Angelos… Did you think that way?”
Is something not properly attached to your head…?
Could the voices behind me be an illusion?
“No, that’s not it.”
“Please try this tea, ma’am. The tea my mother brewed has a truly excellent taste and fragrance. Dorothea, you should try some as well.”
The Angelos mother and daughter looked down at the tea cups, which they hadn’t touched, with fearful eyes.
It was just tea.
Just tea, but they had heard countless rumors surrounding Themis.
After having tea time with Duchess Ferdia, paralysis of the entire body occurred, or a respiratory disorder was contracted, or sudden death from heart attack occurred, and so on. And other ominous rumors…
Despite Elodie’s words, it would still be possible to cover it up if the tea really was poisoned.
This was Ferdia’s territory, and there’s no way the continent’s greatest poisoner, Themis, would make a sloppy move of using a detectable poison.
They had absolutely no intention of putting it to their lips, but Themis and Elodie just watched the Angelos mother and daughter.
Like snakes eyeing their prey.
…Surprisingly, their faces looked alike.
Under the strange pressure and feeling of being overwhelmed, Dolsinia raised her tea cup.
Dorothea, who couldn’t just watch her mother drink the tea, also lifted her cup.
The two were going to pretend just to put it to their lips, but under the blatant stare, they had no choice but to sip the cooled tea.
“Slurp.”
“How is it? The tea tastes good, doesn’t it?”
Elodie asked, her eyes twinkling. Dolsinia gulped, swallowing the tea, and pulled up the corners of her mouth.
“It’s… good.”
“I’m relieved. I was worried that you misunderstood me, ma’am. Mrs. Angelos is not at all like the fool who goes around with her head as decoration.”
“……”
Dolsinia corrected her earlier thought as she looked at Elodie’s pretty, beaming smile.
For some reason, Elodie was no easy opponent.
If you add the ‘Mouth of Terror’ from Elodie’s past life, before she remembered her previous life, to the present Elodie’s extraordinary wit and cleverness?
Such a masterpiece is born.
A ‘Mouth of Hell’ that smiles like an angel, pretending to know nothing, then pours out scathing criticism the moment the other party lets down their guard.
Dolsinia opened her mouth with a somewhat cold voice as she looked at Themis and Elodie.
“Now that I see, you two really have similar personalities? Even if you say you’re mother and daughter, I’d believe it.”
It was clearly a sarcastic comment.
Since there’s no one who doesn’t know that Elodie is not the child born of Themis, it’s likely a mockery of Themis’s position, where she had no choice but to accept the illegitimate child.
However, Themis responded with a leisurely smile.
“It’s natural to resemble each other. She’s my daughter, after all.”
“……!”
Elodie was the one most surprised by those words.
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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