I suddenly don’t understand why he’s giving me such a gift. I looked at Askan with a face full of questions and asked, “Why are you giving me these? No, it’s not just one or two; it’s too many.”
“These are things I don’t need anyway. I just… I don’t know since when, but whenever I see valuable gems and jewelry, I want to have them.”
“Why?”
It was a pure question. Askan, being a man, didn’t need women’s jewelry like this.
It didn’t make sense that he collected so many without any clear purpose. It wasn’t for money, and he didn’t have anyone to give them to. Vaguely accumulating them like this was incomprehensible.
“I don’t really know either. I don’t particularly like precious things, but for some reason, I started collecting valuable gems and jewelry to give to someone. It became a hobby, collecting jewels.”
I thought, could it be that Askan wanted to give them to me…?
As soon as that thought crossed my mind, I shook my head.
“No, that’s not possible.”
While it would have been touching if Askan, who had lost his memory, unconsciously collected so many gems for me, realistically expecting that was unreasonable.
Although it wasn’t entirely impossible, it felt like too much of a hopeful wish.
Perhaps it was just overthinking.
“Askan, I appreciate your feelings, but I can’t accept so many gifts without any reason. If we get married later on, it would be more appropriate to give these to a wife.”
This almost seemed like asking him to take care of all the household chores.
Askan’s expression became strange. It was like someone hearing a word they had never thought of before.
“I only need one thing. Your tiara,” he said, looking at me.
I smiled, pointing to the tiara on my head. Even though there seemed to be more valuable things than the tiara, having Askan personally put it on me was enough for me.
For some reason, Askan looked at me with a displeased expression and said, “Are you not greedy? Or do you not really want anything special?”
“Well, it’s not like I’m in such dire straits. But right now, there’s something on my mind.”
I murmured while exploring the thick door locked with a lock.
“But, you know. In a place with so many expensive items, shouldn’t you pay more attention to security? Putting just one lock is too lax.”
Askan looked at me with an amazing expression. It seemed unexpected that someone would say such a thing in front of glittering jewels.
“Why are you giving me this?”
I looked at Askan with a bewildered expression. I had politely declined the gift a little while ago, conveying that one tiara was enough, but I couldn’t understand why he handed me the key.
Whether my feelings were conveyed without saying, Askan, with a firm gaze, said, “It’s for you. Whether you have it or not, you are the only one who will use it.”
“Give something like this to the person you’ll marry later.”
“…Are we already progressing to that extent?”
What?
I froze like ice. If my misconception was correct, it sounded like he was considering marrying me.
“…Is he crazy?”
My face suddenly became hot. Even without looking in the mirror, I could guess that my cheeks were turning bright red.
Even Askan seemed to have not expected my reaction. He soon smiled as if unable to stand it.
“If you show such a face, how am I supposed to interpret it?”
“No need to interpret anything. I just heard something unexpected, and it caught me off guard.”
“That’s not all, is it?”
“You! Are you deliberately teasing me today?”
I fanned my hot face with my hand and turned away.
His appearance, laughing at my reaction, was eerie. It seemed like a calculated strategy to mess with me.
“I never did such a thing.”
Ignoring Askan’s protest, I tried to go back the way I came.
That’s when it happened.
Casually touching the wall with my hand, a space opened suddenly, revealing an unknown area.
“Tanasia!”
Surprised, Askan quickly ran over with an astonished face.
“Oops, whoa!”
The wall I touched disappeared, and in a moment, I lost my balance and fell into an undefined space.
Splash!
Regaining consciousness, I found myself in the water.
Raising my head, the artificial pond in the outdoor area of Askan’s mansion stretched out before me.
It happened so abruptly that I lifted my head with a bewildered expression. Askan, coming over almost as if flying, embraced me. As we descended endlessly, I could feel his firm chest, and suddenly, I fell into the water.
Splash!
Regaining my senses, I found myself in the water.
Lifting my head, I realized it was an artificial pond in the outdoor area of Askan’s mansion.
Feeling dazed due to the sudden turn of events, I looked up with a puzzled face. Askan, holding my face, patted me here and there.
“Are you hurt?”
“…No.”
“Are you really okay?”
“I’m really fine.”
Despite my words, Askan, not trusting me, meticulously checked from my face to my hands and feet to see if there were any injuries before finally feeling relieved.
Looking at me with a gaze that seemed angry for some reason, he said, “Why are you so reckless? What if you got hurt?”
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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