While Joseph fumbled to find a water bottle, other knights crowded around Rosette, each offering her their water. Overwhelmed by the towering knights, Rosette randomly picked a bottle and opened it. As she drank, the knight who offered the chosen bottle smiled proudly.
“By the way, young lady, are you not tired?”
“Completing three laps is quite impressive!”
“How’s your knee? Is it alright?”
Rosette nodded absent-mindedly, observing Joseph who was smiling awkwardly among the knights. More specifically, she was sensing the mana around him.
She hadn’t yet created a mana core, but sensing mana was something she could easily do.
‘No signs of mana.’
Rosette felt relieved. She had worried that, like her past self, Joseph might be cursed and forced to follow Dallos’s orders.
That night, she had pondered more about the Joseph Oser she met in the past. His somber expression at the time led her to speculate that he was following Dallos under coercion.
This stirred her own traumatic memories. In Joseph, Rosette saw her past self being manipulated like a marionette to harm Duke Adrian and Daniel.
If Joseph, too, was a victim and unwillingly involved in this plan, she wanted to help him. Fortunately, the lack of a curse meant there might be ways she could assist.
‘If it’s not a curse, then perhaps his sister is being held hostage.’
If so, she would need to prevent the accident, save Joseph’s sister, and catch the mastermind behind it all.
‘But how? Can I do it alone without a mana core?’
Lost in these grave thoughts, Rosette was interrupted by Lucas, who had finally arrived with a water bottle, shouting, “What are you guys doing? If you crowd around her like that, you’ll scare the little one!”
“Ah!”
“We apologize!”
The knights quickly dispersed, revealing Rosette who had been hidden among them.
Lucas snatched the water bottle from Rosette and offered his own.
“Drink this.”
“I’ve already had enough… No, I will drink it.”
Despite having finished a bottle already, Rosette drank from Lucas’s bottle as well, filling up on water before breakfast.
“Goodnight then, miss.”
“Yep. Goodnight, Joan.”
Lying in bed, Rosette sat up abruptly as soon as the door closed. She closed her eyes and focused on the mana flowing within her, a practice she had been doing for over a month.
With sweat beading on her forehead, Rosette gathered mana. The loosely gathered mana in her belly began to compress, getting smaller.
This was the critical moment. If her concentration wavered or her stamina faltered, the compressed mana would disperse without forming a core.
For the past month, Rosette had failed at this point due to lack of stamina.
“Just a bit more…”
Struggling to maintain her focus, Rosette finally succeeded.
Opening her eyes wide with a sense of liberation, she felt for her still-flat belly. Though faint, she could feel the presence of a mana core. She had managed to create a core a year earlier than in her past life.
Though she wasn’t yet strong enough to perform significant magic, knowing how to manipulate mana had made it possible.
“I might not be able to use proper magic yet…”
Rosette hadn’t created the mana core solely for casting spells; she had another purpose in mind.
She extended her hands, infusing them with mana. Pink mana gathered in her palms, and suddenly…
[Beep!]A small, white bird materialized. It was a familiar, created from Rosette’s mana.
“Beep-beep!”
The sparrow, Beep-beep, flapped its tiny wings in response.
Although it wasn’t a living creature with consciousness, the familiar had its own awareness.
However, this Beep-beep couldn’t remember the past, so it was different from the one Rosette knew before.
Nevertheless, Rosette was delighted to see Beep-beep again, her sole friend during her lonely times in the past.
Rosette whispered affectionately to Beep-beep, who was nuzzling her cheek.
“Nice to see you.”
[Beep!]“Oh, right, you have a job to do.”
[Beep-beep!]“Go and watch a knight named Joseph Oser. He’s going to do something to the carriage. Let me know when he does. No, tell me as soon as he leaves his room in the middle of the night. Got it?”
[Beep!]Nodding, Beep-beep flew out the window. Rosette collapsed onto her bed, feeling drained.
All that was left was to wait for Beep-beep’s signal.
Three days later, at dawn, Beep-beep returned. Squeezing through the slightly open window, it pecked at the sleeping Rosette’s head.
“Ow. Who… Beep-beep?”
[Beep!]Flapping energetically, Beep-beep signaled the urgency. Rosette, now fully awake, threw on a cloak and followed Beep-beep to the carriage storage. There, in the empty space, a large figure approached a carriage.
Seeing the man, who must be Joseph Oser, nearing the carriage, Rosette sprinted towards him.
“Stop!”
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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