“It’s nothing special!”
“Canaria, what you have seems to be better and more beautiful.”
“You’re right. Tsk. With her nose in the air. How could she buy good things without the Emperor giving her anything? And he even sent me the silk that came to the Empress.”
She had planned to wear a dress made of valuable silk from Shamdhir for her coronation anniversary.
The thought of wearing that dress and triumphing over Lenisha that day made her mouth water.
These days, Canaria’s only concern was one thing.
‘You’re not pregnant.’
She was regularly checking as her period approached, but she hadn’t heard good news this time either.
She was restless.
To win over Lexus and sit on the Empress’s seat, she needed a child.
How much effort had she put in for a timely pregnancy?
She took care of Canaria’s body and tried to spend many nights with Lexus.
But the child was not conceived.
‘What if you can’t have a child either?’
Lenisha’s words rose like a thorn in her heart.
‘What if Lexus has a problem, as rumored?’
Canaria bit her lip.
Even after pleading with the royal physician, she couldn’t hear about the Emperor’s condition.
When Canaria asked about Lexus’s ability to conceive, he just shook his head.
When anxious, Canaria heard only one word from the royal physician.
‘Wish with your heart, and the baby will come.’
Though it was a slim chance, wasn’t it a possibility to have a child?
The problem was in the ‘slim’.
How long could Canaria wait?
What if another woman took the Empress’s seat while Canaria failed to conceive and was floundering?
The effort Canaria put in to drive Lenisha out would be wasted.
She had told the Emperor of Lenisha’s flaws and fanned his inferiority complex.
And just in case the Emperor went to Lenisha’s bedroom, she had tried everything.
She had fainted, gone to seduce the Emperor, and even done despicable things.
She had achieved it by doing all this, and she couldn’t lose it.
Canaria let go of her lip.
“Hey, Barbara.”
“Yes, Canaria.”
Canaria swallowed her saliva.
“I need a child. You know that too, right, Barbara?”
“Of course.”
Barbara nodded vigorously.
Canaria’s glory was Barbara’s glory.
Barbara was not like a canary, possessing neither great beauty nor singing talent.
No matter what, the Emperor would not glance at Barbara.
Then, the only way for Barbara to enjoy glory.
It was to elevate the canary.
Barbara was staking her life on raising the canary.
“I must… create that child.”
“Excuse me?”
Barbara looked surprised.
A child was not something that could be created at will.
But now, Canary was saying that she would create that child.
Canary’s face had already shown that she had made up her mind.
In fact, Canary had been thinking about the child ever since she became aware of it.
For Canary, who had come to serve the Emperor, embracing another man as before was indeed a distasteful thing.
But there was no other way.
“…There’s not much time, Barbara. A week from now, the Empress will leave the imperial palace. Not long after that, someone will be sought to fill the Empress’s position. It will take at most one or two months. But I’m starting my period now.”
Barbara’s face turned cold. She understood what was being said.
It was that Barbara’s glory might be pushed further away.
Barbara’s dream was to become the palace’s poetess.
To start as a maid and become a poetess, that was the greatest luxury Barbara could enjoy.
Originally, becoming a poetess was something only a noble could do.
Becoming a poetess meant becoming a noble.
There had been a few who had started as maids and risen to the position of poetess.
To do that, Canary must become the Empress.
Barbara bowed to Canary.
“Just tell me what to do, Lady Canary.”
Canary whispered with a tearful face.
“We need someone who looks like His Majesty.”
“Silver hair with purple eyes……”
The Emperor’s purple eyes were a trait only found in the imperial bloodline.
But they couldn’t drag someone with great power and status into this matter.
There was still a way.
“That would be difficult. So, look for someone with silver hair and green eyes.”
Canary tapped her own eyes.
If the child was born with green eyes, this matter would not be discovered.
They could argue that the eye color was inherited from Canary.
Canary thought of Lexus.
This would also help Lexus.
Having a child would strengthen Lexus’s foundation.
This child would benefit both Lexus and Canary.
“Ah!”
Barbara, who understood Canary’s intention, let out an exclamation.
“We must do this secretly, without anyone finding out. You understand?”
“Yes, Lady Canary.”
Barbara and Canary nodded with grave faces.
It was a matter that could cost them their lives if discovered.
But not achieving anything and just letting time pass was not what Canary wanted.
Canary had decided to gamble with her life.
A child.
If only she could have that child.
And if that child became the Emperor without any problem.
She could even become the Emperor’s biological mother!
Canary’s heart swelled.
Becoming the most noble person of all.
That was a sweet poison.
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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