“What exactly is our relationship?”
“Hmph.”
As Adelin brushed back his hair, the Duke’s ears turned completely red.
Feeling his hot breath, Adelin’s shoulders tensed even more.
“Uh, that’s, well…”
“A respectful relationship, you said. Go on, tell me… please.”
Adelin slowly regained her composure.
The man she was now close to was no longer the threatening Duke, just a man who had lost his memory.
Conflicted about how to describe their relationship, Adelin decided to deflect the responsibility.
“It’s up to you to remember.”
‘Maybe foes from rival successor families.’
Adelin murmured her true thoughts internally, unable to verbalize them, instead feigning a sad face.
“If I have to tell you myself… that would be too miserable.”
‘How can I tell him I nearly died at his hands?’
Adelin’s spoken words were inconsistent with her inner thoughts.
Her lingering, soft voice and downcast eyes created a pitiable atmosphere, just as she intended.
‘So shameless, but what can I do? It’s all to survive.’
‘If it weren’t for that reader’s comment in my past life, the Duke would’ve died alone here.’
Of course, Adelin had saved him to survive, but regardless, the Duke owed his life to her.
However, unaware of Adelin’s ulterior motives, confusion filled the Duke’s eyes.
“That’s… Even a small clue would help my memory.”
Adelin’s statement left the Duke visibly perplexed.
“Do we need words? You and I are inseparable.”
She was sincere.
Before losing his memory, they were foes from feuding families. After losing it, they became intimately intertwined in life-saving circumstances.
And yet,
‘I hope my memory doesn’t return.’
But she couldn’t say that out loud, so Adelin just gave a vague response with a light smile.
In truth, this extended conversation could become problematic for her.
So, she quickly changed the subject.
“Oh no, your shoulder is bleeding…”
Perhaps because of the prolonged contact with water, fresh scarlet blood slowly spread from his shoulder, down his chest, and over his well-defined abs.
‘It looks like a burn scar…’
Without realizing it, Adelin placed her hand over the scars etched across his muscular abs.
She had suspected a tumultuous life from the threats he faced…
‘Your life is as turbulent as mine.’
Whether it’s her life, destined to end at the hands of her fiancé, or the Duke, nearly dead from poisoned arrows, it was all the same.
A surge of empathy welled up in her.
Her hand moved gently, causing the Duke’s face to turn increasingly red.
Unable to bear the embarrassment any longer, he cleared his throat.
“Ahem…”
As Adelin’s gaze lifted,
“Oh!”
Snapping back to reality, Adelin quickly exited his embrace.
“I need to stop the bleeding. Hurry up and wash yourself!”
She shouted into the air before disappearing from the bathroom.
The bathroom, now empty, echoed with silence.
“Sigh… That woman.”
The Duke, feeling constricted by the towel wrapped around his head, threw it away and sighed.
What kind of relationship did they have for her to blatantly stare at his naked body?
He looked at his body, still feeling the traces of where her hands had been.
The places she touched seemed to burn with heat.
Feeling some stiffness, the Duke shook his head. He feared getting endlessly entangled with that little woman. To quell the rising heat, he doused his head with cold water.
The Duke barely managed to shower, but his right arm, injured at the shoulder, couldn’t move freely. Drying himself off thoroughly was challenging alone.
Adelin might be familiar with his nudity, but the Duke, having lost his memory, couldn’t step out of the bathroom soaking wet. He struggled to put on some pants.
Droplets of water fell from his body, leaving a trail. Adelin, fearing the carpet might get soaked, grabbed a towel and hurried to him.
“Why didn’t you ask for help? Your pants are all wet,” she said as she began to dry his hair. Adelin had to stand on tiptoe to reach his head.
“Alright. Change those wet pants.”
After drying him off, Adelin’s gaze dropped to his pants.
“Enough! I wore them wet on purpose, leave them!… please.”
Worried she might naturally proceed to undress him, the Duke frantically gestured to stop her.
A mischievous smile appeared on Adelin’s lips.
“I wasn’t planning to help you change the pants, though?”
She took the dazed Duke by the arm and led him to the sofa.
“Come sit here. I’ll rewrap your bandages.”
Adelin patted the spot next to her on the sofa, gesturing for him to sit.
While skillfully wrapping the bandage, the Duke casually asked.
“Really not going to tell me?”
“You have to remember on your own.”
Does it bother him that much?
The Duke seemed to be constantly guessing their relationship.
“I can’t remember anything. Are we that special to each other?”
Adelin responded as if it was obvious.
“Of course. We have a deep connection.”
Adelin knew the Duke was misunderstanding.
“We’ve known each other for a long time.”
Their families had been entwined even before Adelin and Cassis were born.
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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