“How did it look between the marquis and Lenisha? Lenisha must have despised that slave. A woman born with noble blood, she must have definitely condemned him. Right?”
Lexes rolled his eyes as if there was only one predetermined answer.
Gael lowered his head slightly.
“I haven’t had the opportunity to meet Lady Lenisha.”
This would be the most appropriate answer.
“So, I don’t know how the two of them were.”
“Oh, that’s right. Unless the deceased Calliet tells me, how could I know that answer.”
Lexes chuckled, as if the answer was already predetermined.
“The old man, he died well. To dare betray with such shameless audacity. He forgets that it was my grace that saved his grandson. I want you to succeed Viscount Calliet’s position.”
“Yes?”
Gael raised his head.
“Y-Your Majesty. Just… Please, not that… Please accept only the title!”
Gael slammed his head on the ground.
The emperor’s command weighed heavily on Gael’s heart.
He had murdered the admired Calliet with his own hands.
Under the pretext of saving his family.
Thanks to that, Viscount Calliet once again fell into confusion.
If Gael became Viscount Calliet, what would people say?
They would probably gossip that Gael plotted to kill the viscount to aim for the title.
He didn’t need to hear it to know.
Gael bowed his head.
“It’s too much for me, Your Majesty. Please, take it back.”
“No, no. Even that cunning guy Calliet defied my orders, and yet you, of all people, didn’t protect our loyalty. You have to receive the price for that.”
It was the price of betrayal.
The emperor repeated the same words twice, so there was no way to refuse.
Further meaningless rebellion would only endanger Gael.
“As you command, I will follow.”
“Good, Gael Calliet.”
Lexes chuckled.
“Tell me what else you saw.”
Gael opened his trembling lips.
“I-I saw a child there.”
Let’s avoid harm.
An alarm went off in Gael’s head.
If he mentioned the Small Marquis, the dead viscount might come back to life and kill him.
“A child?”
“Yes. Although the appearance was different, I’m sure. That child was Isabella Rothera.”
“What?”
Lexes let out a cold sigh.
Isabella Rothera?
Dead or missing.
But not either, and she’s alive and in Hiloshaein?
It seemed like all the puzzles were coming together.
The reason Lenisha didn’t return to the institution.
In this situation, Lexes could suggest hundreds of ways to gain an advantage.
Why not stake the child’s life!
Joy surged.
The opportunity to turn Lenisha into Lexes’s puppet came again.
“If there was such a precious thing, I should rightfully have it! Isn’t that right? Why hasn’t Henry said anything until now?”
“I couldn’t convey the situation as I couldn’t meet, Your Majesty. They are likely restricting letters going back and forth to Hiloshaein, aren’t they?”
“…That could be true. Gael, you have to go. Go and bring that child with Henry.”
“The child… Are you serious?”
Gael’s forced smile broke.
He had traded another child to protect his own.
Was this really the right thing to do?
“Have Henry check as well. If he seems to have betrayed us… It’s okay to use the poison meant for the viscount in the same way.”
Lexes declared slowly.
There was a determination not to miss anything, which stood out.
Gael grumbled and lowered his head.
“Yes, yes, Your Majesty…”
What he gained from selling Viscount Calliet was just this.
Trading the life of another child for his own child’s life!
A thick self-disgust twisted Gael.
“This is the time separator.”
“Barbara.”
Turiel poked Barbara’s cheek with the end of the fan.
Barbara stubbornly closed her mouth and turned her head.
It was Barbara’s only expression of rebellion.
Canary gave up Barbara as if it were nothing.
They had a complicated relationship, but…
Barbara made a malicious expression.
“What! You won’t get anything from me.”
“Do you really think that way?”
Turiel said as if expressing regret.
“I think you might spill anything soon. Don’t give her anything. Not water, not food. What’s more precious than oneself.”
“Tsk!”
Barbara spat at Turiel.
It didn’t reach Turiel and fell from the air to the ground, but Barbara didn’t give up.
“You guys are cunning and vile! Do you think I’d be swayed by that?!”
Barbara said indignantly.
“The Empress will come looking for me! You just have to endure it for a while!”
Even tied up, Barbara writhed, cursing.
“Canary will come for you? Do you really think so?”
“Th-Then! Only I sincerely think of Lady Canary!”
“Fine, then. Let’s see who’s right, shall we?”
Turiel shrugged with a confident face.
It was a face filled with certainty that Barbara would definitely lose.
“This is the time separator.”
Canary nibbled her nails.
Being taken away from Barbara was not a nightmare or a hallucination. It was real.
Canary was truly left alone.
“W-What do we do now?”
Canary was confused.
Barbara hadn’t told her how to protect the child or how to protect Canary.
‘Tell Empress…’
No, no. It was clear that she would take Lenisha’s side.
Canary absentmindedly stroked her belly.
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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