The ‘Marian Data Room,’ created by Espen in the royal library, was more comprehensive than I had vaguely imagined.
Entering it, I couldn’t help but make a disgusted expression.
“……Wow, pervert.”
“It’s the first time I’ve been curious about Espen’s expression. Hearing that must have been quite shocking.”
“Sorry, but I can’t think of a word worse than ‘pervert.'”
It wasn’t just a collection of records from people who knew me inside that data room.
From my early childhood to portraits drawn just before going to war, everything was there.
Not only that, but it also neatly stored my cherished necklace, the shoes and clothes I used as a baby.
‘What was he thinking when he collected these?’
Even if I tried to come up with a word worse than ‘pervert,’ it didn’t come to mind. I shook my head.
‘Let it go. It’s not good to keep recalling it, and it feels strangely familiar.’
Whether Espen thought about me or not, his actions were unforgivable.
The portrait drawn just before going to war didn’t differ much from my current appearance. Sesil, who alternately looked at the painting and me, pursed her lips in amazement.
“Really. The portrait looks exactly the same.”
“Ahaha.”
In response to Sesil’s reaction, I burst into laughter. Then, as if looking at something very distant, I muttered while looking at my portrait.
“It’s more surprising that the portraits are still here.”
There were paintings drawn of me alone, but there were also paintings drawn with my family. Because of that, I could naturally recall my family along with them.
Family.
The names I deliberately tried not to recall.
Thinking about it didn’t make my chest painfully ache as I expected. I laughed in amazement.
“They were all here.”
Royal family items or portraits are well preserved in the royal archives, so our family’s belongings must be somewhere. If I wanted to see more, I could search, but for now, this was enough.
Evelyn, who approached me as I reminisced about my family’s faces, spoke in a subdued voice.
“…After the war ended, there were unusually many sudden deaths in the royal family.”
Even without hearing the cause, I could figure it out. I nodded.
“It must be Espen’s doing.”
Didn’t Espen say it himself? He needed a place to store my broken heart, and experimenting with those connected by blood seemed more suitable.
‘I’ve expressed my anger towards my abamama several times.’
Still, they were my family, and the expression ‘sudden death’ naturally made me feel down.
Evelyn quietly explained to me about the events I didn’t know about for the past 100 years.
“So there was a rumor circulating within the country that you received punishment lightly for considering the war. In the end, Prince Leopold, the son of Princess Amalia, who eventually married into a neighboring country, ascended to the throne.”
Princess Amalia is my cousin, so now the royal family is quite distant from me. I nodded.
“Oh, I see. Anyway, looking at Hadel, I thought it was strange that we didn’t resemble each other at all.”
Although the time of 100 years feels long, in reality, a hundred years pass in about three generations. Still, there was no resemblance between Hadel and me, and it felt odd.
‘My family is all gone, and now the royal family is distant relatives.’
Now I worried about the fate of my family, which was inevitable. I sighed lightly.
‘I hope they didn’t suffer painfully.’
Sesil, who was wandering around the library as if it were fascinating, spoke with her fingers intertwined.
“I actually found it hard to believe even when I experienced it myself. The Bird Prince was a monster trying to rule this country over a hundred years. But now you’re a person from a hundred years ago.”
“It’s naturally hard to believe in common sense. I wouldn’t have believed it either if it weren’t for my own business.”
I shrugged my shoulders. I didn’t have the intention of making her believe it.
‘Anyway, I’m living a different life now.’
Princess Marian died back then. And the Marian standing here now intended to live by Hadel’s side.
‘Even though I unintentionally returned to the royal palace.’
I had truly planned to quietly live by Hadel’s side in the North, engaged in businesses like Hina-ri Tan and hot springs.
‘With the Bird Prince ending up like that, and ultimately, Hadel being the only one left to ascend the throne.’
Fate completely turned around and brought me back to the palace. It was unfortunate for me, who was excited about starting a business in the North with Hina-ri Tan and hot springs.
Still unable to believe it, Sesil kept alternating between looking at me and the portrait. Then, in great excitement, she asked.
“So, what will you do, Princess Marian? Are you going to announce this fact to everyone?”
“Huh?”
What am I going to do… I scratched my cheek.
“I won’t keep it a secret, but I won’t make a big deal out of it either.”
“Why?”
It was just a thoughtless remark, but suddenly Sesil shouted. I blinked in surprise.
“Why? Do you have to announce it?”
“Of course!”
In an unusually excited manner, Sesil rapidly poured out her words.
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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