I didn’t know how long I’d slept for, but when I woke up in a daze, I saw Sicar looking down at me. Suddenly, I realized he was holding my hand and I woke up startled.
“What, what is it?”
“Are you awake?”
As if sensing that I was fully awake, Sicar finally let go of my hand with a sleepy face.
“Our Happy would fall asleep whenever she heard this music too. You really are no different from Happy.”
I think it’s stranger not to feel sleepy while listening to this music on a sunny afternoon.
“But why… why do you have dreams like that?”
“What dream? Besides, can you see dreams?”
“Of course. I can see everything you conjure in your mind. Whether it’s memories, illusions, or imagination. But because they’re not experiences you’ve had, they don’t remain in your memory and I can only see them in that moment. In other words, I can only peek into them when you’re dreaming or imagining.”
So that’s why he was holding my hand. To look into my dream…
On second thought, isn’t that kind of perverted?
“Why, why are you looking into someone’s dream like that!”
Like a pervert!
“By seeing a dream, I can see a person’s subconscious, and more importantly, I can check whether there’s a gap for the spirit of nightmares to enter.”
“Spirit of nightmares…?”
“There are various spirits here, and among them is the spirit of nightmares. The spirit of nightmares is a bastard who goes into the dreams of people who have nightmares and gnaws at their minds.”
When I heard that, I remembered. Gillian used the spirit mage to release the spirit of nightmares and tormented Kian.
“I remember too. It contaminates like a cold without knowing where it came from.”
“Nothing is better than tormenting a person’s unconscious to identify their true nature. That’s why Kian, who often had nightmares, was victimized by the spirit of nightmares so much. He didn’t reveal his identity to Gillian because he’s the protagonist, but ordinary people might have trouble in their daily lives.”
Sicar was talking quite seriously about the story in the novel. It felt strange that the villain was talking about the protagonist’s adventure.
I wonder why he said that about my dream. I couldn’t have had that dream again.
“Did I dream of hiding in a closet? Or a dream of being uneasy because the door is not locked?”
“I saw you hiding in a closet. A closet without any locking mechanism. I don’t know why you dreamed of hiding in a closet when you never hid in one when you were a child.”
“I often have that dream, but I don’t know why. In some unknown room, I always look for a closet and go inside, but I don’t know why.”
“How do you feel after dreaming? Do you feel like you had a nightmare?”
“Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.”
Sicar seemed to think for a moment, then stroked his lips with his hand.
“It’s like looking at a puzzle without pieces. I understand for now. If you’re done sleeping, let’s start again.”
‘Listen to the performance again?’
What if I fall asleep again before I can ask, Sicar snaps his fingers, and the sleepy performance rings in my ears again.
I didn’t think I’d fall asleep again because I’d just had a nap, but Sicar extended his hand to me, thinking I might sleep again.
“Usually, men ask ladies to dance first. When I reach out my hand like this, you should take my hand.”
‘I’ve been holding that hand nonstop, so it’s not hard to hold hands.’
As if to say, this is nothing, I took his hand, but Sicar did not seem satisfied.
“Don’t grab it like a determined person. Think of your hand as a butterfly and place it gently as if a butterfly is landing on a petal.”
I followed Sicar’s instructions right away, but it didn’t work in one go. After a few more tries, Sicar finally stroked my head with an indifferent face as if to say I did well.
By now, I thought I could tell. This must have been something Happy liked too.
“Did Happy like being stroked on the head?”
“Being jealous of a dog is as much of a waste as being jealous of a child.”
Huh?
“I’m not jealous, I was just curious.”
Sicar seemed to ignore my excuses and only said what he wanted to say.
“Appropriate praise greatly enhances learning ability. When I used this method to teach Happy table manners, she learned quickly.”
……I feel like I’m gradually becoming Sicar’s pet?
“The next move is this. After you raise your hand to me, I am going to pull your waist toward me. Then, you need to approach me as if you’re leaning into a hug. Remember, it’s not leaning into a hug, it’s approaching as if you’re leaning in. Don’t forget to leave enough space between us for a puppy to pass through.”
But for me, who was new to this kind of dance, it was hard to narrow that distance precisely.
So, I ended up leaning into Sicar.
And soon, I had goosebumps because he held me tightly.
Was he going to scoff at my body because I couldn’t dance? Sicar didn’t even realize I was sweating cold sweat down my spine, and he thought I hugged him tightly because I liked it.
“You’ve created an excuse to lean into me like this.”
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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