In a tone that didn’t seem like a mere joke, I became tense and tightly clenched the hem of my clumsy skirt.
“Don’t keep threatening me like that.”
Sicar swept back my lowered head, looked down at me again with a lowered gaze, and continued to speak.
“Threats… right. You’re right; it did start as a threat.”
“Well, what do you mean by that?”
“But now, well, I don’t know if this is still a threat.”
Sicar pushed me against the wall.
“Just sleep with me tonight, okay?”
My face heated up at his explicit gaze staring directly into my eyes.
Perhaps this guy was more intact when he had a knife strapped to his waist and was inside the duke’s mansion.
“What about your knife?”
“It’s in the carriage. Why do you ask?”
“Get it back and carry it strapped to your waist.”
“Why.”
Because you seemed more intact when you carried it!
“You can’t carry weapons in the temple. Of course, there probably isn’t a crazy person in the temple who carries a weapon, but anyway, you can’t carry weapons in this sacred place.”
Then how do they handle a crazy person in the temple? I want to report that there’s one here, taking over my bed and all.
If he continued to act recklessly, he might end up being the one to sleep in the bed instead of me.
I was completely trapped like a mouse in a cat’s paw, unable to move.
“Then I’ll give up my bed. You sleep on the bed.”
Sicar finally let go of the mouse he caught, taking a step back.
“Use the bed; I’ll judge where I sleep, considering where I sleep well.”
“……”
‘Every time he speaks, I feel it, but we really don’t understand each other.’
At that moment, a loud banging noise as if someone were running could be heard from outside, and a priest entered the room.
I was bewildered by the sudden turn of events, but Sicar, with a furrowed brow, only looked at the priest.
She closed the door, took a deep breath, then sat down on the floor, raising her index finger to her lips, gesturing for us to be quiet.
“Hush! Please hide me for a moment.”
‘Why did the priest suddenly rush in and ask us to hide her?’
I nodded as if to say I understood.
When the noisy sounds outside subsided, the priest, seemingly relieved, got up, dusted off her buttocks, and then clasped her hands towards us.
“May you be at peace in the arms of the divine.”
After finishing the Repertian greeting, she opened her eyes wide, looking surprised when she saw us.
“Oh, you’re newcomers. Welcome. Hello, priests. We’re planning to stay for a few days, so please take care of us.”
Despite her calm appearance with her long hair tied in a neat way, she seemed quite lively in personality. The priest smiled mischievously.
“I’m a low-ranking priest, so even if you ask me to take care of you, I have no power. Anyway, thank you for hiding me.”
But why is a priest hiding inside the temple?
Before I could ask, the priest began to pull something hidden in her arms.
“It’s bread I secretly took from the kitchen. They say it’s bread preserved with permanent magic, so it doesn’t spoil. Isn’t it fascinating? You won’t get a chance to see such rare bread. Since you hid me, I’ll share a bit with you.”
It was the pound cake and desserts we had brought.
‘Priests steal bread too…? I thought priests were incredibly sacred beings.’
She took out a small muffin and placed it in front of us, saying,
“I tasted it earlier, and it’s to die for. So I took a few. By the way, even though this bread is supposed to be served at lunch, they say it’s as scarce as a speck of dust. Thanks to you hiding me well, I get to enjoy it, you know.”
“Ah… I see. Thank you. We’ll enjoy it.”
Using the expression “to die for” about bread.
Both the archduke and this priest, they don’t give off the sacred and holy vibe I imagined. Perhaps they seem more innocent and pure than anyone else.
The priest, putting a piece of bread into her mouth, said,
“Mm… This bread is really delicious. Someone said they brought this bread. Ah! Right, that handsome demon duke who makes the baby cry, isn’t it?!”
So here, Sicar is called a demon duke.
‘That demon duke is here. Reverend…’
I couldn’t say it that way, so I just smiled awkwardly.
Glancing at Sicar, he had no particular expression, but my heart was pounding.
“Ah… yes…”
“And don’t misunderstand. I didn’t take this bread just to eat it alone.”
“Then who are you going to share it with…?”
She smiled widely and answered,
“Yes. I’m going to share it with someone.”
“Ah. Is it okay to ask who you’re planning to share it with?”
The priest clapped her hands, as if she had been itching to say that.
“Of course. I was itching to say that.”
“Ah. Yes…”
She’s really a peculiar and amusing person. Thanks to her, I survived.
I was intentionally engaging more in conversation with the priest.
As long as I stayed with the priest until the evening prayer, I could avoid Sicar’s strange talk.
“I’m participating in the coming-of-age ceremony this year too.”
“Oh, really? You’re turning twenty this year, right?”
“No. No. I turned twenty-two this year.”
“Ah. I see.”
She’s the same age as Sicar.
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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