“Is this the corpse?”
Christine’s voice echoed in the chilly basement.
He was now in the morgue.
In the northernmost and oldest black castle of the palace, there were a charnel house, a crematorium, and a morgue.
Among them, the morgue was located on the coldest bottom floor of the basement to prevent the decay of the corpses. There was an eerie atmosphere due to rumors that it was once used as a torture chamber.
“You better prepare yourself mentally.”
The coroner warned as he folded back the yellowed cotton cloth that had covered the corpse.
“Eek!”
Jimma, who was accompanying Christine, unconsciously covered his mouth.
The state of a corpse torn by beasts was so gruesome that even Jimma, who had seen broken bones on the battlefield, had to turn his head.
But Christine approached closer and examined it closely.
“There are five claw marks.”
There were five distinct claw marks from the face, unrecognizable from the damage, to the neck.
“Yes, it’s strange. The beasts in the vicinity with five claws are bears or raccoons. But it’s too small for a bear, too big for a raccoon or a beast. Looking at the footprints with claws, and not having long fangs, it’s likely a wolf.”
“But wolves have four claws.”
“That’s why it’s strange.”
“What do you think, then?”
“That is… This is just my thought, but…”
The coroner hesitated at this point.
“Speak up.”
“Perhaps it feels like a human deed…”
“Why would you think that?”
Christine’s voice grew even colder.
“Beasts usually hunt for food, but this one just tore the body apart without eating it. And it attacked the vital points last. The prey felt all the pain until it died. It seems like it hunted for enjoyment, or to show off its power.”
Christine scowled in horror.
This was never her hunting pattern. Moreover, if Adel’s mother had been killed by the same creature, she had died in such a terrible way.
Never… it could not be forgiven!
“Understood. But His Majesty doesn’t want any more sinister rumors in the palace. Let’s treat it as a wolf attack and cremate it. Send me a detailed autopsy report.”
“Yes, Count.”
(This is a time delimiter.)
“Did you call for me, Your Majesty?”
Having left the black castle, Christine answered Yan’s summons and entered the office.
Yan, who was sitting at the desk, handed over a signed document and said.
“Here’s the schedule for the Guard Commissioning Ceremony in three days.”
Christine, who had casually read the document, frowned as she looked at Yan. The last event on the commissioning schedule was the announcement of her engagement.
So, he was going ahead with the engagement to April, unilaterally?
“Didn’t you hear anything from the princess?”
Yan waved his hand, as if too bored to think further.
“April’s talk is not important. The problem is that everyone in the country believes that girl is carrying your child.”
“Correcting a child’s wrong is the parent’s responsibility.”
Christine said, forcibly gathering her already bottomless patience.
“You said it yourself, didn’t you? You would accept any punishment for visiting April late at night. So replace that punishment by taking responsibility for her. The rumor did not start without reason.”
Yan declared sternly and then softened his posture to coax Christine.
“Think about it. Even if it’s not true, what family would take a woman rumored to have been pregnant before marriage? I cannot bear to see my daughter become the laughingstock of the nobles.”
“That’s not my problem.”
Yan finally lost his temper at Christine’s relentless refusal.
“What on earth do you hate so much about our April!”
“It’s not hatred.”
“Of course. The problem is that your heart has already gone elsewhere.”
Christine did not deny it.
Yan then clicked his tongue, mocking.
“To have the hero of the war fall for a villainous woman who poisoned her husband…”
“She was framed.”
Yan shook his head firmly.
“If I say so, then that’s how it is.”
The moment Christine realized a fact that he had been overlooking for a while. He was the emperor of the empire, someone who could kill or save anyone at will.
“How pathetic. To give your heart to a woman who will soon be executed.”
“What is that……!”
Christine scowled fiercely, but
“Get out now.”
Yan picked up his pen again and began signing the piled documents as if busy.
Swoosh!
The pen Yan was holding was cut in an instant, and black ink scattered all over the documents.
“You dare……!”
The furious emperor’s eyes twitched.
Thud!
But instead of apologizing, Christine thrust his sword deeply into his desk.
The cold silver blade quivered, reflecting the angry face of the emperor.
“What do you think you’ll do, Your Majesty?”
“Are you going to bite me here?”
Yan stared at Christine with an imperial dignity, trembling with fear.
“Of course not. Would I, a noble of Kalaim, do such a beastly thing?”
Christine grinned, and in this situation, that smile seemed so beautiful that it felt more devilish.
Soon Christine drew his sword from the desk and sheathed it.
“If that woman poisoned her husband, then I was behind it.”
“What?”
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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