As long as Orphera existed, Ansi could not be free from Kardian’s grasp. Thus, she had to go through things she didn’t have to.
Even as Ansi was being exhausted, Damion closed his eyes and held onto her.
“After finding Delle, live a life that has nothing to do with Orphe anymore.”
“Damion.”
Ansi called his name in a desperate voice.
That voice couldn’t have sounded sweeter. It was too sweet and painful to see her acting as if she had lingering feelings now, as if she couldn’t let go of him because she loved him.
He reached out and gently stroked Ansi’s cheek. He also brushed her dry lips with his thumb. The reflection of himself in her eyes looked sad and painful.
But this was better. It was better now than the monster who couldn’t let her go and wanted to roll on a thorny path together.
Eventually, Damion opened his mouth.
To say what needed to be said.
“Let’s divorce.”
A calm voice flowed from Damion’s mouth.
Ansi bit her lower lip hard.
Ansi didn’t love him. Through countless experiences, Damion realized and was convinced of that fact.
But Ansi was still the purpose of Damion’s life. For that, Damion had to let her go. That was the path for her to be happy.
Nevertheless, if Ansi couldn’t let him go… If she couldn’t easily leave him who told her to leave.
The reason would be somewhere other than Damion.
The only reason she didn’t abandon him right away. Damion knew what it was.
Obsession with Orphe.
She still couldn’t give up her revenge on Orphe, so she refused to sever ties.
“…I can’t.”
Ansi slowly shook her head. She grabbed Damion with both hands. Her urgent gaze studied his face.
“I’ll find Delle and come back.”
Damion smiled bitterly at Ansi’s words.
Come back again.
Cruel woman. You won’t give up the Orphe name until the end.
Should I say it’s fortunate that you at least don’t choose the path of obtaining the Orphe name next to Kardian?
If it’s too disgusting for you to do that much, it’s rather good.
Damion wanted Ansi to forget about revenge and just live her own life. He could help with that.
“I’ll do it.”
“What…?”
“I’ll bring down Orphe. So you keep living as Luvelle.”
The strength drained from Ansi’s hands that were holding Damion. Damion stared into the eyes of the woman who was looking at him blankly.
He wanted to bring back the vitality that filled those eyes. To do that, he had to do what she had to do. So that she could put down the burden she was carrying and just be happy.
“I… I said I would be with Damion. I… I decided to give up my revenge for that.”
Ansi said, trying to hide her trembling voice. It was something she had pledged to herself many times. Because she wanted to find the happiness Damion spoke of, giving up this revenge was something she had already decided long ago.
“You were going to throw away your life to bring down Orphe. I know that doesn’t disappear in an instant. So I’ll drag Orphe to the bottom. Damn it, that’s enough.”
The emotionless and calm voice of Damion was filled with heat. He wrapped his arms around Ansi’s shoulders. As her slender shoulders came into his hands, he realized anew how huge a burden she had been carrying.
Damion’s face twisted in pain. Damion made eye contact with her and continued.
“I hated this damn Orphe anyway. I hate it too. So you just live as Luvelle. Don’t kill anyone, don’t bring anyone down. Leave me and just live happily.”
“…Damion.”
Ansi opened her mouth but couldn’t say anything.
To get Delle back, she had to abandon Damion, at least on the surface. She knew it would hurt Damion. Knowing that, she was going to make that choice.
So Ansi couldn’t ask anything more of Damion, and couldn’t insist on anything. She didn’t have the nerve.
Even if she got Delle back and returned, she wasn’t sure she wouldn’t betray Damion anymore. She might hurt him with another unexpected thing.
Damion would know that too.
So he was trying to let her go. After letting go of the hand he was holding, he wasn’t going to grab it again.
Ansi slowly nodded.
“I’m sorry.”
At the quiet apology, the strength drained from Damion’s hands that were holding her shoulders.
Ansi raised her arms and grabbed the hem of Damion’s clothes. Strangely, tears welled up. As if the dam holding back the tears had burst, moisture flowed down her cheeks.
She didn’t want to show such a face. Ansi leaned her head against Damion’s chest.
She didn’t think Damion could really drag Orphe to the bottom. Because he was a person who lived to possess Orphe.
In a situation where she left, a life of giving up everything for her didn’t suit Damion de Orphe.
In any case, Ansi wasn’t shameless enough to wish for that. Now, this man who told her to be happy despite her betraying him countless times was unbearably pathetic.
It was wrong to approach him in the first place.
It was a marriage destined to end in tragedy from the beginning.
So, she had to humbly accept the ending that had already been predetermined.
[This is the timeline separator]Kardian took the envelope handed by the attendant. The sender was Ansi de Orphe. What message would be inside this carefully sealed envelope? With anticipation, he tore open the envelope.
“Haha.”
Kardian burst into laughter mixed with admiration. Inside was a divorce paper. Signed by both Ansi and Damion.
I didn’t know they would really divorce right away. It seems Delle de Luvelle is a more powerful card than expected.
Gently scratching the precarious psychology of Ansi and Damion also seemed to have worked quite well.
Kardian, who folded the paper with a satisfied expression, rang the bell. Not long after, his subordinate entered the room.
“Check if Damion and Ansi’s divorce papers have been filed with Felice City Hall.”
“Yes.”
In Velgader, to get a divorce, one had to file divorce papers with the city hall. If there were signatures from both parties, most passed without any special process within a week, and once filed, the divorce papers could not be canceled midway.
If the same document Kardian received today was filed with the city hall, it was only a matter of time before they were torn apart.
Then, in the meantime, Kardian had to solve the other problem he faced.
“What about Delle de Luvelle?”
“I’m sorry. Not yet.”
“Find him as soon as possible. Let me know if there’s even a trace.”
“I understand.”
An icy cold gaze turned to the subordinate. He bowed deeply and left the room.
A few days ago, Delle escaped from prison and disappeared without a trace.
He threatened and blackmailed the guard through the iron bars they had made above in consideration of him and escaped.
It was unexpected both that he, who had been acting like a docile cat, had the will to escape and that he actually did escape.
The shameless bastard. I thought he would wait quietly to meet Ansi, but it seems he was sharpening a knife.
Irritation surged up. If they found him, they were going to break both his legs so he could never run away.
To do that, they had to find Delle quickly.
It was fine as long as Delle didn’t appear in front of Ansi. Damion and Ansi thought Delle was in Kardian’s hands.
Now that they had even written divorce papers, the goal was in sight.
Kardian turned on the gramophone and sat down. Classical music rang out loudly in the room. In the center of the music that filled the room, Kardian began to write a reply to Ansi, calming his mind.
It was a letter saying that he would let her meet Delle once the divorce went through.
[This is the timeline separator]In the corner of a noisy street, Delle moved quietly so as not to stand out. He had come quite far from where he originally was, so some of the tension was released.
Delle frowned at the pain felt in his clenched fist. It was a wound from escaping Kardian’s prison.
Escaping wasn’t that difficult. It wasn’t a professional prison in the first place.
Delle, who untied his shackles, waited for the guard by the wall next to the iron bars. Knowing that usually only one guard patrolled at that time, it was a matter that would end if he caught that one person.
The guard who glanced inside Delle’s room was surprised to see only the loose shackles and brought his head close to the iron bars on the door. Delle didn’t miss that moment.
He immediately reached his arm out through the iron bars, turned the guard around, and wrapped his elbow around his neck.
And he brought a sharp piece of glass to his neck. It was a piece of glass made by breaking the frame hanging near the door.
Generally, feet don’t reach there, so they must have hung the glass frame at ease. How complacent.
Delle knew at what depth and at what part a piece should be pressed to make a person feel the greatest fear. The guard fumbled with trembling hands to find the lock and insert the key.
As the door opened, Delle immediately took the guard’s clothes, put them on, and left the basement. Then, after taking a shared carriage far away and changing into clothes and a hat stolen from a store.
It had already been two days since he escaped like that.
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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