It was precisely when I was inflated with dreams of getting rich quickly.
Deputy Chief Mario tossed aside even the quill he had been holding and came running towards us.
“Moooon! Such a joooke?! Ahahaha! Our chief is really funny, isn’t he? Hahaha! Isn’t that right, Miss Lili?”
Caught off guard by Mario’s question forcing amusement, I inadvertently nodded my head.
“Uh, um. Fu, funny…….”
“Right? It’s funny, isn’t it? Ahaha! Even though our chief is taciturn and doesn’t talk much, he occasionally throws a trivial joke! Haha! It’s fun! Really fun, Chief!”
Mario laughed heartily, draping his arm over Leian’s shoulder.
Leian, who had been expressionless, suddenly glared at Mario, looking angry.
“Let, let go.”
Whether Leian threw his arm off casually or not, Mario didn’t care and continued the lively conversation.
“Request! Right, you were talking about the request! So what request are you going to make?”
“This time, I’m asking for a background check[dash].”
“Background check, background check, good! Just leave it to our mercenary group. We’ll take full responsibility and thoroughly investigate for you!”
“Th, that’s fine.”
In an instant, the conversation topic shifted to my request.
‘……What?’
I feel like my nose has been cut while my eyes are open.
With that momentum, Mario started talking about the request in earnest.
“So who is the subject of the investigation?”
“I’d like to know about a wizard that the Duke of Angelos recently hired.”
“Do you know what he looks like?”
“I encountered him last time. He had dark purple hair tied to one side, and his eye color also seemed to be dark purple.”
Mario picked up the quill he had tossed aside earlier and took notes on what I said.
“The previous request was like finding a needle in a desert, but this time it should be a bit easier.”
“How long will it take?”
“The period may increase or decrease depending on the amount of information you want.”
“Then as detailed as possible.”
“Please give me a full week. Not only the name, age, and residence but even the color of their underwear, I’ll find everything for you!”
At Mario’s boastful promise, I awkwardly laughed and extended my hand.
“No, I’m not curious about that…….”
“Don’t worry, Miss Lili! Just trust me!”
Anyway, thanks to Mario’s enthusiasm, the conversation about the request ended quickly.
‘Is he really going to find out the color of the underwear?’
……Leaving one uneasy feeling behind.
While I was talking to Mario, Leian, who had been silently listening, suddenly opened his mouth.
“Will you spare some time?”
At the unexpected request, as I tilted my head, Mario covered his mouth with both hands.
“Kyah. Could it be, a date request?”
Despite pretending to whisper, Mario’s words were shouted, but neither Leian nor I paid attention.
“Why the time?”
“I know a way to make big money.”
“Huh?”
At Leian’s somewhat bewildering words, as my eyes blinked in surprise, Mario interjected in alarm.
“What’s that, Chief? That swindlerlike tone.”
“Shut up and leave, Mario.”
At Leian’s stern command, Mario firmly stuck to the sofa with a resolute face.
“I can’t. I must protect the mercenary group.”
Mario declared solemnly.
‘Aha……. Is he worried that Leian is going to give the mercenary group again?’
I understood what Mario was worried about, but it couldn’t be anything but an unnecessary concern.
As if I would naïvely believe that Leian would give the mercenary group like a joke. Of course, it was just a jest from Leian.
Very, very briefly, I was tempted, but…….
“Get out, Mario.”
Leian looked at Mario with an expression entirely different from when he looked at me.
It was a chill gaze that felt bonechilling just by watching.
Receiving that gaze fully, Mario, whether he had a thick skin or not, didn’t even blink.
“I’ll just be treated like air[dash].”
“Leave.”
“I’m harmless…….”
“Get lost.”
“I[dash].”
“Disappear.”
As Leian’s momentum became alarming, Mario slowly edged to the end of the sofa.
“You, surely you’re not going to use ‘that’ in front of Miss Lili?”
‘That?’
What is that?
With eyes full of curiosity, I alternately looked at Mario and Leian.
But the two left me alone and exchanged a glance between themselves.
Eventually, Mario raised the white flag to Reina’s cold gaze.
“Let’s go, let’s go! Then, you two have a pleasant office date!”
Mario, still fussing about a date, stormed out of the office.
Bang!
The door slammed shut so hard that I opened my eyes wide and looked at it. Soon the door opened again, and Mario poked his head out.
“…It’s the wind, you know?”
“Get out.”
“Yes, good ti—”
Bang!
Before Mario even finished his farewell, the door was violently closed again. I was more confused.
Did I see wrong?
‘Mario didn’t close it, and it wasn’t the wind that closed the door…?’
Surely Reina’s gaze was also towards the door, but her face was unimpressed.
But why did I recall the situation when I was falling off the cliff just now?
It felt like the speed slowed down while I was falling.
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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