Rosette mumbled bashfully.
“It’s nothing. It’s really easy.”
“Let’s make some for elder brother Daniel and elder sister Isabelle too! And for Father!”
“Okay!”
The two children focused on making flower rings together. They asked Pipi to deliver the rings they made to their family members in the mansion right away.
Duke Adrian sent a note saying ‘Tell me if you want any gift’ as a reply, while Daniel sent candy with Pipi.
“Now, lastly one for elder sister Isabelle! Please deliver this well too!”
[Beep!]Pipi flew off energetically towards where Isabelle would be somewhere in the mansion.
“So, what should we do now?”
“I’m not sure.”
As the two children put their heads together to think, someone approached from behind them.
Lucas turned his head to see who it was when a shadow suddenly fell over them. Then he was startled.
“Y-Your Highness the Prince?”
Rosette was even more surprised. Her eyes grew as big as saucers as she hurriedly turned around.
Rosette observed Joshua Ernhardt standing a few steps away.
He looked much younger than she remembered, but traces of his past appearance remained.
His fine silver hair sparkled in the sunlight, and his golden eyes, the symbol of royalty, shone brilliantly. However, his expressionless face was too solemn for a twelve-year-old child.
“Your Highness, we didn’t hear you were coming?”
Lucas hurriedly bowed to Joshua, flustered. Yet Joshua’s sharp gaze was fixed on Rosette the whole time, not on him.
It was the eyes of a predator preparing to devour its prey. Rosette tensed up and stepped back. Unconsciously clenching her fist, she crumpled the white clover flower she was holding.
“Hey, kiddo. What are you doing? Hurry up and…”
Lucas whispered to her as she stood there blankly. But Rosette couldn’t move.
It wasn’t because she had never learned etiquette towards royalty. She simply couldn’t do anything because her mind went blank.
Because Joshua’s cold gaze was the same as when he condemned her in the past.
“I…”
She wanted to kneel before Joshua and beg him in tears. To tell him that she was adopted into the Adrian family and was trying to change everything, so please forgive her past.
But Joshua doesn’t remember the past. So begging like that would be meaningless.
But how…
As Rosette was at a loss for what to do.
“Lucas, could you go call Daniel for me?”
Joshua murmured quietly. Though his tone was clearly a request, it sounded like an order.
Lucas glanced at Rosette, then disappeared into the mansion at Joshua’s urging.
“I’ll go too…!”
As Rosette tried to follow Lucas, Joshua spoke first.
“You stay here.”
Why me?
Rosette unconsciously looked up at Joshua, then quickly lowered her head again in surprise. Joshua had already come right up to her. Rosette belatedly bent her knees and greeted him.
“It’s an honor to meet Your High…”
[Beep!]Coincidentally, at that moment Pipi, who had finished its delivery, flew over and perched on Rosette’s shoulder. Seeing the white bird tilting its head this way and that, sparks flew from Joshua’s eyes.
He muttered in a chilling voice.
“So it really is you.”
Then he asked sharply.
“Why are you here?”
Rosette didn’t fully understand his question. She just thought ‘Did he mistake me for a maid?’ and answered.
“I was playing here as a member of the Adrian family…”
“I’m asking why you’re in the Adrian family.”
“…Pardon?”
“How dare you, of all people.”
The moment she heard those words filled with anger, Rosette realized.
‘He knows.’
This man knows everything she had done to the Adrian family in the past.
Killing Duke Adrian and Daniel, and consequently destroying the Adrian family, everything.
How he knew wasn’t important. What mattered more was that he knew the past that should have been forgotten.
“I…”
Rosette instinctively knelt down before Joshua. Tears fell from her eyes without warning.
“So, I…”
What should she say? She didn’t know. She hadn’t prepared for this because she never thought there would be someone who remembered the past.
Should she just apologize and say she was wrong? Ask for forgiveness?
What on earth should I say?
As Rosette was crying silently, unable to say anything.
“Kiddo! What’s going on!”
Lucas, who had returned to the garden with Daniel, shouted loudly at the scene before him. Seeing Rosette kneeling and crying, he immediately realized what must have happened while he was gone.
‘His Highness must have gotten angry that she didn’t show proper respect!’
Lucas, who had thoroughly misunderstood, stood in front of Rosette with his arms spread wide, grumbling. It was to protect his beloved little sister from Joshua.
To think Rosette was kneeling and crying before Joshua! He could roughly guess what had happened while he was away.
His Highness Joshua must have bullied Rosette! He probably made her kneel down for not showing proper respect.
Lucas, who had thoroughly misunderstood, stood in front of Rosette with his arms spread wide, grumbling. It was to protect his adorable little sister from Joshua.
While Daniel, who had followed, was assessing the situation, Lucas confronted Joshua.
“I know it’s wrong that the kiddo doesn’t know proper etiquette for royalty, but making such a little one kneel is too much, Your Highness!”
Joshua let out a laugh of disbelief. Daniel belatedly intervened, surprised by Joshua’s actions.
“Lucas, you can’t speak to His Highness like that. Your Highness, I apologize on their behalf. My siblings are still young…”
“It’s fine. There’s no need to apologize or be surprised, since it’s not the situation you’re thinking of.”
“Then?”
Joshua glanced at Rosette as if telling her to explain quickly. Rosette, who had gotten up with Lucas’ support, wiped her tears and mumbled.
“I was just a little…”
“A little?”
“Surprised and nervous. It’s my first time meeting the Prince.”
She made up an excuse since she couldn’t think of anything else to say. But that seemed to work.
Lucas relaxed and wiped Rosette’s wet cheeks. His touch was a bit rough.
“That can happen. Why are you crying though? I was super nervous too when I first met His Highness the Prince. Come to think of it, you cry when you’re flustered, don’t you?”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Now, stop crying and greet him like I do. You bow like this, bending your knees.”
Lucas demonstrated how to greet royalty. Daniel whispered.
“Lucas, that’s how men greet.”
“Oh! Then we should call elder sister Isabelle…!”
Joshua waved his hand.
“It’s fine. I don’t particularly need a greeting anyway.”
“Then would you like to come in for some tea?”
“Might as well, since I’m already here.”
Daniel led Joshua out of the garden.
“Let’s go too.”
Rosette also followed Lucas, who was pulling her arm. She could hear Daniel and Joshua’s conversation from up ahead.
“But why did you come without notice? Have you forgotten to even send a servant 10 minutes ahead now?”
“I just came out for a stroll and…”
“It’s fortunate that Father is away. If Father had seen directly that Your Highness came secretly, even you would have been scolded, Your Highness.”
“That might have been a good experience too.”
“Your Highness.”
“No need to be so serious. I just came to see the youngest princess.”
Daniel sighed deeply.
“Such an important person shouldn’t come out with so few guards like this. What if you were to fall into danger?”
“You sound just like my teacher when you say that.”
“I’m just saying what Father would have said. And as for Rose…”
Daniel glanced back at Rosette briefly before looking ahead again.
“I’ll tell her to go to her room since she seems quite shocked today.”
“Do that. I’ve already achieved my purpose anyway.”
“Purpose?”
“I have one.”
“You probably wouldn’t tell me even if I asked, right?”
Daniel sighed once more and signaled to Lucas.
“You take Rose to her room.”
“Okay, got it.”
“And don’t cause any trouble.”
“What, you think I just go around causing trouble?”
Lucas grumbled as he took Rosette’s hand.
“Let’s go, little one.”
“Mm-hmm.”
Rosette entered the mansion first with Lucas, passing by Joshua.
Joshua’s gaze remained fixed on her until she completely disappeared.
[This is the timeline separator]“Kiddo, are you okay?”
Lucas observed Rosette’s face up close. Rosette pushed his face away with her palm.
“I’m… fine.”
“Why did you cry just from seeing His Highness the Prince? Don’t cry anymore in the future, okay?”
“…Okay. But elder brother, I want to be alone. Can I go to my room by myself?”
“Hm? Will you be alright alone?”
“Yes.”
Rosette shook off Lucas and headed to her room. She could hear Lucas shouting loudly outside, “Elder sister! The kiddo cried!”
She curled up on the sofa, even sending away Joanne’s attendance. But before she could fall into thought, Duke Adrian came to visit.
“Rose, I heard from Lucas.”
He quickly approached and hugged Rosette tightly.
“You must have been very surprised.”
“I’m fine.”
“I’ll speak well to His Highness, so don’t worry about anything.”
“Okay.”
Duke Adrian stroked Rosette’s reddened eyes with a pitying expression.
“Then rest now. Daddy has to go see His Highness.”
“I’m fine, so you can go.”
“Alright.”
After he left, Rosette fell into thought.
‘How does he remember? Did my magic go wrong?’
That couldn’t be. She had perfectly turned back time, and there had been no penalties so far. Though she didn’t know if there would be any in the future.
Then there must have been something with Joshua.
But the method wasn’t important. What really mattered was that Joshua remembered everything she had done.
‘He must have come deliberately to see me?’
Joshua, who remembered the past, probably found it strange when Duke Adrian, unlike in the past, said he was adopting a child.
And when he learned that child was a pink-haired girl named ‘Rosette’, he must have suspected it might be Rosette Dallas.
He must have kept coming to Duke Adrian’s mansion all this time to confirm that.
‘What on earth is he planning to do to me now?’
Rosette was even more afraid because she didn’t know how Joshua would react from now on.
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Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation (Female-dominant)
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.
Synopsis:
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.
He even had his eyes on another woman.
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.
Su Mu expressed her disdain.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
She also wanted to embrace Xie Yi, who had silently stayed by her side in her previous life and committed suicide by taking poison after her death.
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.”
[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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