Rosette froze, looking for a way to escape. Running away wouldn’t erase the past, but she wanted to avoid everything if possible.
However, before she could stand up, Daniel spoke first.
“May I sit next to you?”
“That…”
She just had to say no, but strangely, her lips wouldn’t move.
Rosette looked up at Daniel with a near-tearful expression, then bowed her head. Unable to either accept or reject, she chose silence.
Taking it as consent, Daniel sat next to her. Startled, Rosette moved a bit to the side. Daniel, surprised for a moment, then moved a little away from her.
“Sorry. I thought it was okay to sit since you didn’t say no.”
“…”
“Do you mind me being here?”
Rosette shook her head. It wasn’t that she minded him; it was just uncomfortable.
“That’s good.”
“…”
“What were you doing here alone?”
‘Why is he doing this to me?’ She wondered, but Rosette replied quietly.
“Just watching.”
“Watching what?”
“The children playing.”
“Why aren’t you playing with them?”
“I prefer watching.”
The conversation continued, but it felt superficial.
‘Does he have something else he wants to talk about?’
Hesitating, Rosette gathered her courage to ask.
“Do you have something you want to say?”
“Why don’t you want to come to our family?”
“What?”
“I mean, usually, children are happy about being adopted, getting a new family…”
Had it been any family other than the Adrian family, she might have felt that way.
Rosette neither affirmed nor denied, simply keeping her mouth shut. Daniel didn’t seem offended by her silence.
Maybe it was because he was closer to her age. Rosette felt a bit more at ease speaking to him.
“Did the Duke send you?”
“Huh?”
“To convince me?”
“No, I came on my own.”
Daniel shrugged.
“I heard I might be getting a sister, so I wanted to see for myself.”
“But don’t you dislike it?”
“What?”
“Usually, children don’t like it when their parents adopt.”
Rosette remembered being adopted into the Dallas family. Her stepbrother, Derek Dallas, and stepsister, Elisha Dallas, didn’t welcome her.
Derek mostly ignored her, which wasn’t a problem. The issue was Elisha. She subtly tormented Rosette.
Once, Elisha hid her necklace in Rosette’s room and accused her of stealing it. Rosette was punished by being locked in the attic.
‘There are many more instances I could recount…’
Perhaps it was those memories that made Rosette assume the Adrian family’s children wouldn’t welcome her either.
And Daniel already had a younger sister. There was no apparent reason for him to welcome Rosette. Yet, he responded,
“I don’t mind it.”
“…”
“Bel and Lukas will like you too.”
“But…”
Rosette’s gaze suddenly fell on Daniel’s legs.
‘He’s unharmed.’
In the past, Daniel had an accident and lost the use of one leg. He always needed a cane and couldn’t wield a sword.
There were voices in the Adrian family against him being the heir due to this.
‘That accident happened at the Dallas house.’
Although the Adrian family never found out, Rosette knew.
Then, a realization struck her like lightning.
‘Even without me, the same future will repeat.’
Daniel would have the same accident, and Duke Dallas would still plan to kill Duke Adrian and Daniel.
In the worst case, they might die again.
Could she just run away from all this chaos and end everything by living with a sense of atonement?
Rosette tightly grasped her worn skirt.
What if she went to the Adrian family? She could change the entire future.
But it required courage she wasn’t sure she had.
Yet, could she turn a blind eye? Would she be able to live without guilt upon hearing of Duke Adrian’s death in the distant future?
Having thought this far, Rosette suddenly stood up.
“Where is the Duke?”
“My father? He’s with the director.”
“I want to see the Duke.”
“Really? Let’s go together.”
Daniel stood up and extended his hand. Rosette hesitated but then took it. His hand was rough like a child learning to wield a sword, yet very warm.
Trying to calm her pounding heart, Rosette walked with Daniel to the director’s office. When they appeared together, Duke Adrian and the director both stood up.
The director looked surprised, but Duke Adrian smiled kindly.
“Rosette, you’ve met Daniel. What brings you here?”
Rosette took a deep breath and declared,
“I’ll go.”
“Huh?”
“I’ll follow you, Duke.”
Thus, Rosette made the choice to change the fate of the Adrian family.
She swallowed the rest of 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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