I admitted that I had underestimated Espen’s feelings.
“Hadel was right. When someone obsesses for 100 years, it’s usually not a fleeting emotion.”
Even if it didn’t start as a big deal, a long time could change things. I still couldn’t believe that Espen harbored profound emotions for me since that time. There had been no room for such emotional exchanges between us.
“Espen. No, birds.”
I called him to sort out the situation, but even the address got tangled. I was confused about what to call the person in front of me.
Whether my troubled expression was visible or not, Espen smiled blissfully.
“Call me whatever you want. Just the fact that you call me makes me happy.”
“Ha.”
It seemed like every word I uttered turned everything upside down.
‘I feel like I’m not in my right mind.’
No, I probably wasn’t. If I were in my right mind, I wouldn’t have conducted such a horrific experiment.
Originally, I wouldn’t have even thought about reviving a dead person.
‘Thanks to that, I woke up 100 years later.’
It might be a bit cruel to say this to someone who tried so hard to save me. Still, I spoke.
“Just let the past stay in the past. Is that such a difficult thing to ask?”
“……What did you say?”
He was forcing his thoughts about the past onto me.
“The present me and the Marian from that time are clearly different people. Even if you overlap them in your mind, I can’t be what you expect.”
I added a final word.
“The same goes for affection.”
Just because he went through the trouble of bringing me back to life, did it mean I had to love him? Human emotions don’t work that way.
But he was mistaken. Just because he revived me didn’t mean I had to love him.
‘Wanting to see me in a pretty dress is entirely his desire.’
It’s easy to show, but it’s not at all pleasant for his expectations to grow that way.
I couldn’t respond as he wished.
‘I already love Hadel.’
Espen’s face turned cold as he understood my response.
“I made a wrong request.”
The corners of his mouth twisted. He, who had become as cold as an ice block when he dragged me up, spoke again.
“If you don’t change your clothes, I’ll start with the person in charge of the clothes. Then maybe kill the chef. The room feels chilly, a suitable decoration would be their life. I told them to fill the room with flowers, but where did they all go?”
“……Must you be so vile?”
“You’re the one making me like this.”
Espen’s response made absolutely no sense logically. It was a typical repertoire of shifting blame onto the victim. Irritated, I retorted with a rebellious tone.
“If you want me to be the obedient one who nods along to whatever you say, just make a doll and play with it. Don’t manipulate me like this.”
In response to my sarcasm, Espen let out a soft laughter.
“Have you never tried doing that?”
“……What?”
“In the end, it’s meaningless if it’s not you.”
The level of obsession was unimaginable, sending shivers down my spine.
Even after Marian was led away by Espen, there was no significant change in Changgung. It was clear that they excessively believed in the magic circle engraved there.
Hadel, who had been carefully watching for any signs of increased vigilance, finally set foot on the secret passage Marian had first shown him, feeling relieved.
‘Marian was right. Once outside Changgung, there seems to be no constraint on manipulating flames.’
His lost strength quickly returned. Breaking through the darkness using the flames he created, Hadel thought to himself.
‘Then the magic circle engraved in the palace is likely restraining my family.’
Hadel looked at the map. Wondering where and whom he would meet first, a familiar name caught his eye.
‘Baekok Palace.’
It was exactly where Marian was taken. Hadel bit his lip.
‘I want to go right now, but let’s endure for now. I can’t disappoint Marian.’
At least Marian’s words were comforting.
[Don’t worry. He won’t lay a finger on me. He’s an ice attribute. Unless he’s determined to kill me, he won’t touch me.]As Marian said, Espen wouldn’t harm Marian.
But Hadel wasn’t entirely optimistic.
‘The other party is insane. What if he tries to kill Marian, who doesn’t move as he wants?’
It was endless this way. Hadel shook his head.
‘Instead of wasting time on useless thoughts, let’s accomplish what Marian asked for.’
Hadel looked at the map again.
‘Sibling…….’
The person Hadel thought of was his sibling, whose memories were now only faint traces. There were no pleasant memories, but he believed his sibling was less influenced by Espen than their parents.
‘Let’s go see my sibling first.’
The path to the palace where his sibling stayed was not difficult to find. Considering the infestation of insects, it seemed like no one had entered for a very long time.
‘Marian would be utterly disgusted in this situation.’
Even in this situation, thinking of Marian made him smile.
As he opened the door and ascended to the surface.
“Huh?”
As if waiting for it, Hadel could meet a child who looked exactly like himself.
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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